Moored Heart (Catalina Dreams Book 1) by Flippy I.M

Author:Flippy, I.M. [Flippy, I.M.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-07-16T16:00:00+00:00

13

Jason

Charlie had three full days of restocking and bike tours and boat charters at the shop, so Jason kept himself busy tinkering with the introduction to his book and listening to true crime podcasts Charlie turned him onto. But he was restless, and he and Charlie ended up texting each other so often that they might as well have been together.

Finally, on a Wednesday, Jason went down to Crescent Avenue to meet Charlie at Porpoise Pot for their day of book shopping and boba. He took the golf cart this time and more than ever; he felt stupid tooling around in a vehicle with a giant flower on the hood.

He passed Andy, who winked at him from his pedi-cab and blew him a kiss that made him chuckle.

“Hey!” Jason parked the golf cart just as Charlie came running down the sidewalk and he felt the beat of his heart quicken. He was still three blocks from the store, but here was Charlie rushing past the slow tourists, his eyes fixed on Jason, a grin on his face.

No one knows me here, Jason thought, and he felt a sense of elation as if he were walking on air. Charlie reached him and Jason grabbed his arm and pulled him aside under the awning of an ice cream shop. He pushed him gently against the pastel blue wall and laid a determined kiss on his lips. Charlie wrapped his arms around him, and they made out lazily until Jason finally pulled away, dazed and drunk.

“Hi,” Jason said.

“Hey to you too,” Charlie said. He pecked Jason’s lips and squeezed his hand. “Let’s go look at books.”

“I feel like I haven’t seen you in so long,” Jason said, surprised at himself as he turned a corner in the golf cart. Charlie sat back in his seat and turned his head to smile at him, squinting because the sun was hitting them just so.

“It’s only been three days,” Charlie pointed out. “And you text a lot more than I would expect of a man your age.”

“A man my age!” Jason huffed and pretended to be more offended than he was. “I’m only forty-two.”

“You’re ten years older than me,” Charlie pointed out. “In a culture this accelerated, that’s a lot.”

“Too many?” Jason said. He grimaced at Charlie, drumming his fingers on the steering wheel.

“Oh, no, no, no!” Charlie laughed into Jason’s shoulder. “No, I’m sorry. I’m totally joking. I don’t think of you as much older. I just think of you as having had a really different life.”

“All right.” He gripped the steering wheel harder as Charlie kissed his cheek. “That I can handle.”

Gus’s Books usually had a decent crowd, as it was the only bookstore on the island. They parked three blocks away, but the walk didn’t hurt Jason’s leg. His limp was slight, but he didn’t miss the way Charlie was probably walking more slowly than he usually would and how he had not yet let go of Jason’s hand.

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