Starved (F.I.L.T.H. Book 2) by Hannah Murray

Author:Hannah Murray [Murray, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-19T16:00:00+00:00

Thanks to a goodbye kiss that had turned into a grappling, sweaty make-out session, Evan was ten minutes late to the store. His dad was already there when he let himself in, booting up the trio of registers at the checkout desk.

He looked up when his son came in, a smile creasing his weathered face. “What, you don’t call when you’re going to be late?”

Evan shoved up the sleeves on his sweater—the same one he’d worn last night, he hadn’t had time to go home and change—and rolled his eyes. “It’s ten minutes.”

“Late is late,” Eddie countered. “I’m docking your pay.”

Evan slipped behind the counter and laid a smacking kiss on his father’s cheek. “Tyrant.”

“Freeloader,” Eddie countered and leaned back to give his son a curious once over. “Why are you dressed up?”

Evan looked down at the sweater and jeans, which thanks to Colin’s tidying, were only a little wrinkled. “I’m not dressed up.”

“A sweater instead of a t-shirt, jeans that don’t look like you picked them up off the floor.” Eddie grinned. “Got a hot date after work?”

“I’m having dinner at your house,” Evan reminded him. “So, no.”

“Oh, right.” Eddie’s brow creased for a moment, then the grin was back, along with a sparkle in the blue eyes he’d passed to his son. “Must have been last night, then. Never made it home, did you?”

Evan just sighed and keyed into the first register. He knew he should’ve gone home and changed.

“So? You gonna tell me who it is?”

Normally he would. He had a good relationship with his father, more of a friendship dynamic than a father/son one at this point, and it was rare for him to keep things from him. But with the conversation with Colin fresh in his mind, he hesitated.

“You don’t have to,” Eddie said when the silence stretched out, his voice losing its teasing quality. “Why don’t you go print up some more of those coupons for the Christmas sale? I want to make sure we hand them out to every customer, and we’re running low.”

He wasn’t going to push, Evan realized. And that was why he could tell him.

“It’s Colin,” he blurted out.

Eddie blinked. “Colin Howard?”

Evan nodded, a little bewildered to realize he was nervous. He could read surprise on his father’s face, but not much else. “Yeah.”

Eddie nodded, surprise shifting to satisfaction. “Well, it’s about damn time.”

Evan blinked. “Huh?”

“I said, it’s about damn time,” Eddie repeated, and lifted an eyebrow. “Did you think I don’t know you’ve been in love with that boy since college?”

Evan let out a half laugh and scraped a hand through his hair. “Does everybody know that?”

“Pretty much,” Eddie said cheerfully and clapped a hand on his shoulder. “I assume since you’re doing the walk of shame in yesterday’s clothes—”

“I object to that term,” Evan said with a scowl. “It’s sex-negative and degrading.”

“Okay,” his father said agreeably. “What’s the opposite of shame? Pride, right? So since you’re doing the walk of pride—”

Evan just sighed.

“—and wearing yesterday’s clothes, I assume it was a good date.

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