Zeke feels a wave of just like, absurd affection. Or, fuck it, call it what it is: he’s in love with this big moody asshole and his ridiculously pretty face and every horrible thing about him.
Elementary school P.E. teacher Ezekiel (Zeke) Boehm can’t believe his eyes when his favorite pro hockey player walks into his classroom with his daughter in tow. It’s no big deal, he’s taught the children of famous people plenty of times – only, no one knows Spencer McLeod even has a daughter, oh and Zeke’s had a crush on Spencer since like forever. But still, he can totally play it cool. A task that gets harder and harder to do when Spencer starts showing up to school events and leaving tickets for his games for Zeke to use. Next thing he knows. Zeke’s being invited to team outings and hanging out alone with Spencer. Soon, it feels a whole lot like Spencer McLeod is his boyfriend. Only, Spencer isn’t totally out of the closet and is in a different financial stratosphere than Zeke – would a long-term relationship between the two ever work out?
This was a cute read. The story was entirely from Zeke’s POV, and his head was a fun place to be. The narration style was unique – it felt very stream of consciousness, just kind of like rambling thoughts and observations. It made things feel like they were moving right along and was fun to read. I also felt like I got to know Zeke pretty well and I enjoyed his character. He was funny and charming and a good guy. Spencer was harder to get a read on, I still don’t feel like I got to know him very well. I liked him but if Zeke was the sunshine here, Spencer was the grump. It was cute when Zeke would break through Spencer’s grumpiness, though. Somehow a half smile and a muttered “shut up” became charming coming from Spencer. Neither guy was into big showy romantic gestures or words, but it was still sweet seeing them fall for each other in their special way.
This story was super low angst like there’s virtually none. You get to just sit back and watch these two guys quietly fall in love. I would have loved to have seen an epilogue because I think things were just getting going for them by the story ended! But overall, this was still a fun and light read.
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