Most Of You (The Beginning Of Always Book 2) by E.M. Lindsey

Author:E.M. Lindsey [Lindsey, E.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-19T16:00:00+00:00

Emil: Please know I’m kidding. Though if you do know a place where I can buy already chopped wood, that would be great.

Emil jumped half a foot when his phone rang, and he saw Renzo’s name on the screen. “Uh. I can also google,” he said when he answered. “I didn’t mean to interrupt your day.”

Renzo laughed. “I’m a professor, so I get all the good holiday time off. Did I ever tell you that?”

Emil frowned. He couldn’t remember, but saying no seemed like a safe bet. “I don’t think so. What do you teach?”

“Science,” Renzo said. “All that annoying nerdy shit. But you’re not interrupting. I was sitting here debating about whether I wanted ham or roast beef for lunch.”

“Why not both?”

“Because I don’t mix lunch meats, you heathen,” Renzo said with a sniff. A beat of silence passed, and then he said, “Are you alone?”

Emil looked through the terrace door and caught a glimpse of one of the men walking through with a small drill. “Delivery guys are here with some furniture.”

“Oh. Did you need help setting it up?”

Emil flushed. “I, uh…I paid for the setup. I wouldn’t even know where to begin.”

Renzo sighed, but he didn’t sound cruel. “Fair enough. I had to learn the hard way. My parents got all my dorm furniture from IKEA, and they handed me the little baggie of tools, wished me luck, then left.”

Emil sucked in air through his teeth. “How’d you survive it?”

“Weed,” Renzo said with a laugh. “Which I’ll only admit to because I’m at my sister’s place and not on campus, where my students might overhear. My roommate and I got really stoned, ordered Pizza Hut wings, and we worked until three in the morning.”

“I bet it felt worth it,” Emil said. He wished he had something like that. Just a single, solitary memory of happiness. Nothing complicated. Just a couple of joints and some cheap bedroom furniture.

“I didn’t appreciate it until later, but yeah. Anyway, if you really want some wood, you’re more than welcome to come steal more. I have to pick up Matty this afternoon, but I’ll be home for a while.”

Emil hesitated. It felt like a dangerous offer, mostly because he wanted to read more into it, and he had no rights. Not even after what they’d done together on the phone.

“You’re overthinking it, sunshine,” Renzo said. “It’s just wood.”

“Double entendre intended?”

“I’ll think about it,” Renzo said, and Emil somehow knew he was grinning. “Want to pop by?”

He should say no. He needed to say no. “I think they’re almost done, so yeah. Need me to bring you anything?”

“Just your gorgeous face. You…do know that you don’t actually need to bring people things when you go see them, right?”

“That sounds like far too much logic for a Thursday afternoon,” Emil told him, finally smiling. He saw the delivery guys starting to pack up, and his heart sped up a few beats. “See you in twenty?”

“I’ll be waiting.”

That sounded like a promise, but before Emil

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