Black & Blue: A M/M Standalone Romance by Ily Jacks

Author:Ily Jacks [Jacks, Ily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance, LBGTQ romance
Publisher: Bijou Hunter
Published: 2017-11-06T18:30:00+00:00

8

♂◈ Declan ◈♂

Adam likes to sleep. Over the next week, I learn this fact along with a few others about the young man who’s stolen my heart, not to mention my common sense.

He goes to bed before I do, and naturally sleeps for two hours after I get up. I can’t remember if I was still growing at twenty, and the thought of him still working his way through puberty makes me feel like a damn cradle robber. Still, we fall into an easy, daily routine.

I get down to the restaurant early as usual. Adam joins me around ten for prep. Once his ribs don’t bother him so much, Robin trains him to wait tables. He takes over a part of her section after lunch when the place is slower.

Adam takes to being a waiter a helluva lot easier than he did to cooking. His naturally graceful demeanor comes in handy when he eventually works a busier shift and must dodge waitresses and customers. I often find myself standing in the kitchen and watching Adam work. When he smiles, I swear there are few things in the world more beautiful than the sight. Only my kids and a sunrise I witnessed in Colorado a decade ago can compete.

Every night, we take turns picking dinner. Whoever chooses our meal has to watch the movie choice of the other guy. Last night, I made us pizza, and he picked another horror movie, Saw II. Halfway through the movie, I got so bored with the pathetic plot that I kissed Adam and kept his lips busy until the credits. I have no doubt he’ll pull the same move on me tonight when we watch High Noon.

I’ve never dated anyone besides Maura, and our dates were mostly focused on club functions. Living with Adam means every night is a date.

So far, I’ve learned his feet are always cold. I tease him how Maura had the same problem.

One night, Adam says he wants a haircut because his pimp in Indianapolis was the one to insist he have flopping bangs.

“To make me seem younger,” he adds. “I hate them, though.”

“If this Leto fucker ever shows up, you know I’ll handle him, right?”

“I can handle him.”

“I’ll handle him permanently,” I emphasize.

Adam gives me an odd look, making me suspect he thought my club was nothing more than for show.

“He won’t come all the way to Haystack for me,” Adam insists.

“If he does, you tell me, and I’ll deal with him. Not you, okay?”

Adam leans his head on my shoulder and laughs. “So fucking bossy.”

He isn’t wrong. I let Maura call the shots in our marriage because I didn’t know what the hell I was doing married. She had ideas while I was just there. With Adam, I’m the one with plans.

♂◈ Adam ◈♂

I nearly piss myself in glee when I get my first regular. Dave Elkland is probably eighty, and he knows how shit needs to be done. His baked sausage and macaroni dish needs to taste exactly the same as the last hundred Tuesdays he ate it.

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