Taste on my Tongue by Beth Bolden

Author:Beth Bolden [Bolden, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: m/m contemporary romance
Publisher: Beth Bolden Books
Published: 2017-08-11T16:00:00+00:00

Of course, Quentin apologizes the moment they’re alone in their green room.

“God, Landon, I’m so sorry,” he murmurs into the curve of Landon’s neck as they embrace again. Landon doesn’t think his heart has really slowed down yet, and it’s all he can do to hang on to Quentin as he holds him close and tight.

“It’s not your fault,” Landon insists, even as his heart continues to race. He can’t believe they came so close to losing it all over something as silly as a lazy Susan prep table and pancakes.

“It just was so hard to stand there and just watch, when it was my bakery on the line.”

Landon nods his head in commiseration but he can’t help but think there’s an unspoken and you can’t cook, at the end of that sentence.

It’s the plain and bitter truth, but it still hurts.

Not only does Landon desperately want Quentin to win so he can launch his own bakery, he knows that he and Quentin have yet to really talk about what’s going on between them. He doesn’t think Quentin would disappear out of his life if they were no longer dependent on Kitchen Wars to keep them together, but Landon worries anyway.

Landon will often wake up to a text from Quentin. A picture of whatever he’s baking or a cute emoji or even a simple “good morning”—and every single morning it’s enough to put a smile on Landon’s face as he drags his lazy butt to the kitchen for coffee.

They’ll text throughout the day and Landon has taken to sending him tiny little snippets of songs—though he’s always careful to make sure none of the lyrics are obviously about Quentin, even though so far the majority of the album seems Quentin-inspired. Landon regularly ignores Julian’s knowing smirk at all the blue eyes that have appeared in the lyrics he’s written over the last few weeks.

They’ve gone on less than ten dates yet somehow Quentin has claimed an undeniably permanent part of Landon’s life. So logically, Landon knows Quen isn’t going anywhere, but his heart still stutters at even the tiniest fraction of a possibility that he might. Especially if it was Landon’s fault they were eliminated.

“You’re not mad?” Landon asks when they finally pull away from each other. Landon can’t seem to unglue his gaze from Quentin’s face. He hopes if Quentin notices, he’ll chalk it up to the near miss they just experienced.

“Of course I’m not mad!” Quentin exclaims. “The pancakes were dry. That’s not even on you, that’s on me. You have nothing to feel bad about. I’m the one who should be sorry.”

Quentin leans in and rests his head back on Landon’s shoulder. He’s got inches on Landon, but he can also make himself small. Like he needs Landon’s comfort and nobody has ever needed him for that before.

“I’m going to go grab a quick shower,” Landon says after a long moment. His heart has finally stopped racing, and now he just feels vaguely sick. All that adrenaline curdling in his stomach.

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