Heya guys (and gals!) First I'm gonna give a big shout out to the moms out there! Happy Mother's Day! (which is why we've got the big giveaway going down later in the post) It's time for my customary Snippet Sunday to promo my upcoming release,
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Anywho... In today's snippet, it's right after Jody catches Bobby—who Jody doesn't know is gay, yet—in an awkward position with Jody's mother (it's not THAT bad so stop side-eying me, thanks) and Bobby asks Jody to go have a sit down and chat to clear the air.
Bobby’s face fell, hand resumed twisting the napkin.
They sat silently for a beat before Bobby finally spoke again. “That was
awkward.”
Jody
titled his head in question.
“That.
With your… Mother.”
Jody
cringed. “Awkward is one word.”
“She’s
something.”
“She
is that. In my head I think of her like Samantha on Sex & the City. Only Samantha didn’t have all those marriages
under her belt.”
Bobby’s
face grew contemplative before he responded, “Yes. I could definitely see that.
She like that all the time?”
“Pretty
much. But she’s good people.” When she’s
not cock blocking.
“I
was thinking she seemed like a girl in charge. If I swung that way…” Bobby let
the trailed off words speak volumes. The way he pinned Jody with his warm but serious
gaze made Jody’s hopeful side become all atwitter. Gross, atwitter?
“So…
You’re…”
Bobby
chuckled and leaned back in his seat, relaxing for the first time since they’d
gotten there. “Yes, gay.”
“Oh.
Cool.”
One
of Bobby’s sexy, full brows went up. Jody couldn’t tell which incarnation of
the man he likes more, the bashful, the boyishly brash, the chic businessman,
or the guy he’d seen for months now in nothing but jeans, tees, and working
boots.
If he
was honest, he liked it all.
“So
about that, then. You don’t know me all that well. I know we talk a lot, but
you don’t know me well enough to completely trust me, but I’m asking you to
trust that I would never have done
anything like that,” he waved his hand, throwing a bit more accent to the last
few words, “to get a client.”
Jody’s
felt his eyes widen. “Oh, no. I’d never think that.” He felt Bobby was wrong.
The little bits of information over the last couple months of random, fifteen
to twenty minute conversations had made him feel like the guy was at least a
friend. He didn’t think he knew the guy well enough to loan him his car or
anything but he’d consider him a friend, even if not a very close one.
“Good,”
Bobby said, visible relief in his eyes. Bobby picked up his candied drink and
took a drink before speaking again. “About that book signing tomorrow. You were
going to say something the other day.”
Jody’s
brows lifted in surprise, pleased Bobby remembered. “I was going to talk to you
yesterday but you never showed.”
“Oh,
yes. Sorry. I got called to a job in Kip’s Bay. Emergency thing.”
“No,
don’t apologize. I just… Yeah. I was going to see if, afterwards, you wanted to
do…This,” he said with a flourish of his hands toward the coffee shop.
Bobby
quirked that full brow again. “You wanted to leave a book signing at the coffee
and book store you work at to have coffee somewhere else?”
Jody
looked away from the teasing in Bobby’s eyes. “No, well, yes.”
“Why,
Jody. Are you asking me out?”
“It’s
just coffee.”
“Well,
I accept.”
Jody’s
head snapped back in Bobby’s direction. “Really?” His whole body flushed at the
lecherous up and down Bobby gave him.
“Oh,
yes,” Bobby said, huskily. “I’d been meaning to ask you. Didn’t know if you’d
want to be seen with an old guy like me.”
Jody
shook his head. “Idiot. You’ve got like five years on me.”
“I
thought you were only twenty-five, though that doesn’t really jive what with
you and Iz....” Bobby let that trail off, awkwardly
“I
look that young?” Jody, said, ignoring the awkward pause. He hated to say he
got that age comment more often than not from men.
“Baby
face isn’t a bad thing, Joe,” Bobby said, kindly.
“Yeah,
well. How old are you?”
Bobby’s
expression shuttered a bit, but he maintained kind of you can’t hurt me if you reject me squaring of his shoulders. He
recognized the posturing of a younger sibling. Aaron was prone to it when his
brothers or Jody found a weak spot.
“Thirty-seventh
birthday in three months.”
“Well,
you look good. For such an old guy.” Bobby frowned at the tease and Jody
couldn’t help bumping Bobby’s foot with his under the table. The glow it made
in Bobby’s features was totally worth putting himself out there.
“So
we do this?” Bobby asked.
“Wouldn’t
miss it.” Jody would have said more but Bobby’s phone chimed.
“Damn.
Back to work for me.” They both rose, gathering their things and heading out
onto the sidewalk. Bobby turned to Jody. “So tomorrow. It’s a date. We’ll go to
dinner. On me.”
The
word date made something bloom in Jody’s chest. Or that could be— Holy shit Bobby’s kissing me. Just a
closed mouth touch of the lips, Bobby’s hand gently cupping Jody’s neck.
Nothing over the top, but a kiss full of more promises than any Jody had ever
felt.
Bobby
pulled back and grinned lazily. “See you tomorrow.” And with that, he was off.
Jody
stood for a moment, still shocked, but tingling from that kiss. “Well, Italian
men sure move fast.” He said out loud something his mother had said a few
times. He understood now, but he didn’t think he minded one bit.
He
touched his lips and smiled. Nope. He didn’t mind at all.
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