Free The Magic Broom by Teegan Loy Page B

Kira had ordered him to come
back with pizza, and she wouldn’t eat pizza with green
things. Once he had tried to pick them off, but she had
known what he’d done and he got a lap full of pizza for his
trouble. His cock had not appreciated the hot tomato sauce
that soaked his pants. “Do you have one piece left? You can
have this whole pizza for one slice of pepperoni.”
The guy turned around and shouted at three other guys
sitting at a table made out of cardboard boxes. Obviously,
these were his new neighbors. Cody couldn’t help inspecting
the other guys. They were all decent-looking, but he decided
the brown-eyed guy standing in front of him won the prize
for the hottest guy in the room, the building, possibly the
city.
“Tell you what, why don’t you and your friend come
over? We’ll order more pizza. It’ll irritate the shit out of that
pizza guy. He was a fucking jerk.”
Cody laughed and handed the guy the box. “Get used to
him. This is his territory. He’s an okay guy, but his girlfriend
just dumped him today, so he’s a little pissy. It happens a
lot.”
The guy shrugged.
“I’m Cody.”
“Shane,” the guy said, holding out his hand. Cody shook
his hand and managed to let go after a socially acceptable
amount of time. “That’s Pete, Jay, and Robbie shoveling your
pizza down. Go get your friend, and we’ll order another pie or
two.”
Before the guy could change his mind, Cody bolted
down the hallway. He knew he looked like an idiot. The guy
probably thought Cody was starving to death, but he needed
to talk to Kira. He needed Kira to come with him so she
could offer up an opinion on Shane. Unlike all the rumors
that swirled around about gay men having some innate skill
that enabled them to pick out a fellow gay man, Cody didn’t
have any sort of gaydar.
Everyone who he thought might be gay always turned
out to be straight. The signals Kira talked about never made
sense to him. Cody didn’t think he gave off any signals. Kira
had laughed at him and tried to explain about things like the
lilt of his voice or the way he gestured. He figured it was all a
bunch of bullshit.
She even tried to make a list for him once, but he lost it
and struck up a conversation with the only straight person
in the entire gay bar. The guy had smiled politely and told
him he was here to support his brother, and his girlfriend
would have his balls for breakfast if he stepped out on her.
Cody had been mortified and had called Kira to come get
him. That bar had been off-limits for an entire month. “About time,” Kira said when he slammed open the
door. She carefully laid a napkin in her lap. “Hey, where’s
the pizza?”
“No time to talk. You have got to meet Shane,” Cody
said, tugging on her arm.
She fought him and frowned when her napkin fluttered
to the floor. “Who’s Shane?”
“New guy. Brown eyes, broad shoulders. Totally hot,”
Cody panted. “And there’s three more. But I can’t tell.
They’re probably all straight, so this might be your lucky
night.”
Kira abruptly jumped to her feet and dragged Cody into
the hall. He barely had time to point out the correct
apartment to her before she was banging on the door. When Shane answered, Kira squealed so loud in Cody’s
ear that all he heard was a loud ringing noise. Did that
squeal mean she thought Shane was gay, or was she just
excited to see a room full of nice-looking guys? Obviously,
Kira and Cody needed to come up with their own signals. Kira bounced into the room and pulled up a box, sitting
down between two of the guys. Cody shook his head. He
didn’t think any of these guys were gay, judging by the way
they were leering at Kira’s legs and boobs. He sighed, but it
would be good for one of them to be happy.
“Hi,” Pete said. “Nice to bump into you again.” Again? Did Kira know these guys? He was going to
strangle her for not mentioning hot guys moving into the
building. Wait, she had said something about new
neighbors, and he had blown