When website designer Rick Pruitt takes his eight-year-old son Micah to see the latest Pokémon movie, he expects to be bored out of his mind. What he doesn't expect is to fall in love with the guy ahead of them in line.<br><br>Self-confessed nerd and Harry Potter look-a-like, Marty Owens runs a comic shop downtown. Marty needs a new website to help grow his business and Rick needs a guy he can eat cozy meals with, snuggle up to, and ... But no matter how many of Rick's boxes Marty checks, there's still Micah to consider. Fortunately Micah and Marty hit it off, connecting over a love of video games and all things Pokémon.<br><br>Rick starts coming by the comic shop after hours to work on Marty's website. Can they also build something long-lasting and meaningful offline, too?

Dad's Nerdy New Boyfriend

He had expected to move to testing the order process before lunch, but by two in the afternoon, he hadn’t stopped long enough to eat anything because he knew he was close to finishing, he just knew it. One more file…one more…


By six-thirty, the last of the inventory was up. Rick’s idea of lunch had been some of Micah’s sugary cereal, dry and straight out of the box, which sat empty and discarded to one side of his computer. Bottles of water littered the table and floor. He hadn’t had a chance to do any order processing yet, but he wanted to get the site moved up to the main directory before he headed over to the comic shop. Marty hadn’t texted yet to ask if Rick wanted to come over for dinner, but Rick expected to hear from him in the next hour or so. It’d become a bit of a routine of theirs, hadn’t it? Come over, let’s do dinner.The date that wasn’t a date. Rick had hoped to have something to show him, too…


Chapter 28