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

Izzy pulled him back, and put an arm around him. “But not before I try one more cupcake.”


Wyatt laughed and picked one for him.  22


Izzy was so fucking in love with his boyfriend who was occasionally his girlfriend and sometimes somewhere in between.


He’d realized that being with Wyatt made him a better person, and Wyatt had told him being with Izzy made him a braver one. He couldn’t fault either of them for that, now could he.


Since he was making money and not using much of it, Izzy went online to find something nice to get for Wyatt. He’d always been like that, getting his loved ones presents, because for him, it was a way to show how much he cared and paid attention. He’d bought his mom and dad things with his allowance back when he was little, and sometimes he got candy for a friend instead of himself.


Now that he had a new family—of sorts, Justin was still…Justin, the others were more welcoming though—his brain was getting to that mindset again.


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