Unfair Game: A Gay Sports Romance Novel by Cecelia Storm

Author:Cecelia Storm [Storm, Cecelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Royal Court Publishing
Published: 2017-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

The night before Cade’s birthday, Kyle was in a fever of anticipation. He didn’t know why he was always more excited about Cade’s birthday than Cade himself was. As far as Kyle could remember, he’d always been the one counting down to his best friend’s birthday, but Cade seemed either blissfully unaware or just mostly amused at Kyle’s enthusiasm.

Cade didn’t often celebrate his birthdays. He was low-key about most things in life, but this was one of the things that baffled Kyle. So Kyle took it upon himself to make every single one of Cade’s birthdays special. And for Cade, special was the small things. He didn’t like big to-dos, preferring instead to spend time with his loved ones and enjoying life’s small pleasures. And so Kyle always tried to tone down his natural tendencies towards exuberance, trying instead to give him a quietly happy day.

During the last World Cup, he’d gotten Cade a very expensive watch and generously allowed Cade to kick his ass at Mario Kart all night. He was pretty sure Cade had enjoyed the latter more than the former.

Kyle never worried about getting Cade a good gift because Cade just didn’t care - he accepted everything with a smile and later couldn’t even identify who’d given him what. So usually Kyle got his assistant to buy something suitably expensive and instead tried to make the day special in different ways.

But things were different this time around. Now they were… well, something, and you couldn’t just throw an expensive gift at a person you were making out with, could you?

Kyle had come to the Championship with the same mindset he’d always had and, tucked in his suitcase, was a pricey boring gift. He didn’t even know what it was this time because his assistant had packed it for him.

But whatever it was, it wouldn’t do. Because what the hell do you buy your something? The only things Cade truly wanted were things money couldn’t buy, so surely Kyle didn’t have to worry, right?

But he'd been feeling a nervous excitement in the pit of his stomach all day. Lost in thought, he caught Cade looking at him, smiling drowsily in amusement, but he just grinned back.

“You’re going to be so old.”

Cade rolled his eyes. “Just a year older than you.”

Kyle widened his eyes earnestly. “So old.”

Cade didn’t respond. He was lying on his stomach, already drowsing and ready to fall asleep. He was only awake because Kyle had determinedly kept talking, ignoring Cade’s unsubtle comments about being sleepy.

Kyle watched Cade’s eyes flutter shut again and, from his perch on his own bed, sang happily, “Cade!”

Cade’s eyes snapped open. He looked irritated and rolled on his back, groaning. “Kyle, let me sleep. I don’t care about midnight birthday wishes.”

Kyle grinned. “Come on. It’s just another forty-five minutes! What kind of an idiot falls asleep less than one hour before their birthday?”

Cade had covered his face with a pillow. He hated sleeping with the lights on and it was one of their constant fights, though this time Kyle had tried to be as considerate as possible.

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