Wyatt Abbot is 19. On the outside, he lives the perfect life. He has a loving family, he’s wealthy, and he has just been given the opportunity to travel to Paris and train under one of the world’s best pastry chefs. But underneath all that, Wyatt is struggling. He’s battling anxiety, he’s scared of the future, and he’s struggling to come to terms with the fact that he’s genderfluid.<br><br>Izzy Kostas is 28, and on parole. When he gets a job at Abbot Organic Produce, it’s a chance for a new start. Izzy has his own demons he’s trying to overcome, but meeting Wyatt throws even more complications his way. Izzy has always thought of himself as straight, and certainly didn’t expect to fall for his boss’s little brother.<br><br>When Izzy is blamed for putting the Abbots at risk, it jeopardizes everything he and Wyatt have begun to build together. Izzy knows how important family is to Wyatt, and he doesn’t want him to have to take sides. But when it comes to found families, nobody is perfect, and there’s always room for another seat at the table.

Recipe for Two

He wondered if anyone would ever feel that way about him.  2


Izzy jogged up the stairs of the office building where his parole agent, Mrs. Rossi, had her small office. The terms of his release couple of months ago were weekly meetings with Mrs. Rossi and keeping away from anyone that had anything to do with his past life.


Frankly, that wasn’t a problem in the least; Izzy wanted to see those people about as much as he wanted to jump out of a plane without a parachute.


At least Mrs. Rossi had told him that smoking weed sometimes was okay, but if she found anything else in his random drug tests, he’d go back in for the full sentence. At first, she’d been keen to forbid it completely as he didn’t have a medical marijuana license, but when he’d confessed that he used it for anxiety more than anything, she’d told him to stay inside the amounts he could have on his person by law and for fuck’s sake not to use anything else or swear to God. Her words, not his.


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