Partners in Love by Rebecca Brochu

Author:Rebecca Brochu [Brochu, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

They make it through officially living together for roughly a week before the marriage talk starts up again in earnest.

Only this time, it’s at the precinct.

The other cops on duty call them “the lovebirds” or “The Wilkys” and only occasionally “The Vancarrs”.

Dylan’s kind of insulted that they automatically assume he’s the wife. When he brings it up to Tyler, the bastard just smiles and tells Dylan it’s because he’s obviously the delicate one out of the two of them. That of course, sets Dylan on the quest to show Tyler just how far from delicate he really is, but since Tyler mostly just smiles at him in amusement he isn’t sure it’s working.

Dylan eventually switches tactics by loudly declaring that they would, at the very least, hyphenate.

Still, Dylan can actually fully understand where the jokes are coming from this time around. It’s not like they’ve been making an effort of any kind to disguise the fact that they’re living together or that they’re almost disgustingly familiar with each other’s likes and dislikes. They share food and drinks, know each other’s alternating lunch orders and allergies by heart. Living together has made it all worse on top of helping them to develop the ability to have entire conversations without ever saying a single word.

Plus, since Tyler’s become rather fond of some of Dylan’s more outlandish ties and Dylan’s in lust with Tyler’s massive collection of quality leather belts and high-end cuff links, they’re now openly wearing each other’s clothes.

Overall, they’re comfortable and relaxed in their new routine but none of this actually helps to quell the gossip any. If anything, the further in they settle the more the rumors and gossip seem to grow.

If Dylan’s being honest with himself he knows that it’s not a new thing either, this closeness between them. They’d clicked almost immediately from the moment they met. Hell, they’ve been each other’s next of kin contacts since three months into being assigned to each other.

Still, he has no complaints because they’re happy enough together in their own strange type of domestic bliss. So happy, in fact, that neither of them is actually willing to look too closely even with all of the jokes floating around the department about them.

Again, Dylan has no desire to rock the boat he’s somehow found himself sitting in with Tyler. Not when it could mean the destruction of the best thing in his life at the moment.

****

Things shift in their arrangement one night a few months later.

They’re on Tyler’s back porch, slumped together side by side on the stone patio and determinedly working their way towards drunk, after a particularly bad day on the job. They’re leaning against the house, shoulders brushing and bodies pressed together from hip to knee, too tired and depressed to even begin to bother with the normally comfortable lawn chairs.

Dylan knows that they both need the comfort of contact with another person, the reassurance that comes with feeling someone else in your personal space. It’s the kind of thing that both of them always need after cases like this one, cases that involve kids.

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