Scotty Reedville has had his office job for two years, long enough to fall for Ryker Callen, head of the landscaping crews. It’s ridiculous, really. How could he fall for someone so completely his opposite in every way? Answer: he couldn’t help it. Still, Scotty would never make a move because he doesn’t think Ryker would go out with a guy who wears braces and snaps at everyone.<br><br>However, when Ryker is injured in a softball game one weekend and needs a place to live temporarily that doesn’t have steps, Scotty’s boss Gavin suggests he stay with Scotty. The time they spend together is both the best and worst thing that has ever happened to Scotty, and he doesn’t want it to end. But it must.<br><br>Thankfully, Ryker has other plans. Can the two men stumble their way to love?

The Things We Do

At work, Gavin gave me these coy glances from time to time and I flipped him off because this was all his fault. But I couldn’t really complain, could I? The man of my vivid dreams was living with me for a while, and we bickered and generally acted like a married couple. I didn’t want to get used to it—I shouldn’t—but it was hard not to.


Titus called me the first Friday night that Ryker was in the house and I told my friend I couldn’t go clubbing as I had someone staying with me. Naturally, this led to the assumption on his part that I was finally getting some action, and nothing I said could convince him otherwise. I left him to his fantasies.


Ryker didn’t always wait on me to take him home in the evenings. Sometimes, he’d get one of the crew to drop him off, and by the time I got there, he would already have food ready, despite my telling him constantly he didn’t have to do that. It was sweet, though I would never admit that aloud.


Chapter 8