Luck, Laughter and Love by Willa Okati

Author:Willa Okati [Okati, Willa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIN 009373-03036
Publisher: Changeling Press LLC
Published: 2020-05-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

There were certain things Gavin often found hard to get out of his head. A knock on the door in the middle of the night that’d sent him racing out of bed only to find his neighbor’s boyfriend had come home sloshed drunk and hammering at the wrong apartment. The state of the stock market. Bad poetry.

Therefore, being unable to pry a certain bright-eyed, blinding-smiled bike messenger out of his thoughts for longer than five seconds made Gavin… “Irritated” might not be the right word. Testy. On edge. Gavin paused in his data entry to weigh and measure each choice, seeing which one fit best.

Ford…

Kind. Intensely sensual. Ford, who Gavin had promptly shown his worst side to, then fled from.

Gavin groaned. No, stop. It’s for the best. A can of worms sealed before any could escape.

If he doubted that, even for a second, all Gavin had to do was look at the glossy, framed photo-shoot image he kept tucked in a desk drawer. Donny. His ex-fiancé. He could have been Ford’s twin in looks if not in size, and definitely in madcap enthusiasm and lack of sense. And, most importantly, in his belief in luck. Donny took every crazy chance there was and almost always came out on top.

No matter who he squashed by climbing over them.

Gavin weighed the photo in his hands, stubbornly refusing to hide it away again yet. He needed a timely reminder of the man who’d ditched him at the altar and vanished into the world of traveling theater. Needed to remember exactly why he didn’t let his heart get tangled up. Ever.

And why he was not a believer. In anything.

As his luck generally ran, the pause in Gavin’s work coincided perfectly with the arrival of the person he least wanted to see. He swiveled his chair around to face down Roger, a fellow archivist and professional pain in the ass. The one upside to Roger’s showing his face was that it at least pushed Ford out of center mental stage to allow room for annoyance to surge in as a replacement.

Roger. When would he give it up? He and Gavin had been at loggerheads since they’d been hired and offered a choice of work spaces.

Gavin hadn’t wanted the corner office with its prominence and proximity to the main drag. He’d seen this poky little nook, barely larger than a remodeled janitor’s closet, found the old smokers’ terrace mere yards away, down a deliberately bleak service hallway, and settled in with a sigh of satisfaction.

Roger, on the other hand, was the sort of man who viewed Gavin’s willing surrender of prime real estate with great suspicion and lived in anticipation of the day when Gavin “paid him back for winning.” Idiot.

“I’m busy,” Gavin said when it became apparent Roger had no other plans except lounging in the doorway and smirking at him all day long. Short and terse worked well enough for talks with this one. “Need something?”

“Who, me? Not really, no. Just passing the time of day.

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