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

“Must’ve been a good one,” Justin said, and Wyatt realized he was smiling like an idiot.


“It was,” he said, and then escaped to the kitchen to put his plate in the dishwasher before Justin had any follow-up questions. “Goodnight!”  12


Izzy woke up on Monday morning feeling energized from the weekend for once. He’d gotten rest on Sunday and boy had he needed it after Wyatt’s visit the previous day.


Izzy stretched in bed and smiled. They’d had sex—because Izzy thought anything including one’s genitals definitely counted as sex—and it had been so fucking good. Maybe he’d just never met a Wyatt before? Maybe that had been his problem with sex? All it seemed to take was meeting the right person, clichéd as it sounded.


Maybe he needed to research that too, once he paid off his debt to Vinny and managed to save enough for a secondhand laptop. He really wanted to be able to browse the internet, because all the trailers had a joined wi-fi and that was a luxury for sure.


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