Mistletoe Moments: An MM Holiday Duology by Everly Rhys

Author:Everly, Rhys
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rhys Writes Romance
Published: 2023-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

4 Carson

So Enzo was back.

I didn’t know why I cared. Or why that was all I could think about when I should be focusing on the invoices in front of me.

Or the boxes full of holiday decorations that should have gone up last week but hadn’t taking up all my booth space.

Or the fact I was fully booked today, and one of my bartenders had called in sick.

But no. Instead of focusing on all the important things, I was thinking about my brother’s best friend, who was half my age.

I didn’t even know why he was dominating my mind or why his joke about kissing under the mistletoe was still running circles in my head.

It was clearly a joke. Both Cole and Enzo were—or had been—pranksters. Made even worse by the fact that they never really had many friends outside of each other, so I’d had to take the brunt of most of their adolescent stupidity.

And yet every time I closed my eyes, all I saw were his beautiful blue ones, and my body felt…tight. Constricted. I didn’t know how to describe it. I may not have kissed him, but he’d still managed to steal the air from my lungs.

Which was weird because I’d never thought of Enzo as a grown man before. He’d always been the slightly odd but funny as hell friend of my brother and the son of the hippiest woman in town.

“Good morning, boss,” one of my chefs said as he walked into the restaurant carrying not one but two napkin boxes from Hwan’s.

“Morning, Enzo,” I said before I caught myself. “Erm. I mean Kinsley. Morning, Kinsley. Sorry. I don’t know—”

Kinsley shrugged and put the boxes on the bar.

Where did that come from?

“Don’t worry, Bob,” he replied.

I squinted and glared at him.

“See? I can do it too,” he said before he laughed out loud.

“Very clever. Did they teach you that in college?” I asked him.

God, when had I started being surrounded by kids? Just what I needed less than a month before my birthday.

“No. That’s just natural talent, boss,” he replied.

“You’re a natural idiot, is what you are. Get to work,” I told him, rolling my eyes, and he laughed again.

He did get to work, however, and I tried to do the same. I heard panting and pattering from the door, and I looked up to find three dogs with their tongues out and tails wagging.

Penelope, one of my waitresses, followed suit, trying to keep up with the canines ahead of her and carrying another box.

“Penny! You didn’t have to. You’re not even working today,” I told her. “And you’ve got your hands full, I see.”

The dogs pulled her in my direction and sniffed my hands, vying for my attention before Kinsley noticed them and came out to play with them.

They all but abandoned me for the younger, shinier model.

Typical.

“Oh, it’s okay. It was on my walking route anyway,” she said.

“You mean two miles from the very spacious and beautiful sanctuary your brother is running is on your walking route?”

“Oh, shut up, Carson.

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