Free Geek God (Forever Geek Trilogy #1) by Victoria Barbour

honestly. If you’re not going to talk to me about this, if you’re going to keep secrets and not tell me what’s going on in your head, it’s a little difficult to keep calm. So, it’s better that I go.”
    “Sit down. Please.”
    I try grabbing his bag but he’s stronger than I am. A fact I’m normally happy to live with.
    “Will you talk to me?”
    So I tell him everything. How Mom has somehow succeeded, for once in her life, at planting a suggestion in my head that just won’t go away. How I’m afraid now that he knows why I’m waiting to live with him, that he’ll propose just to get me to move in, and I’ll never know if he did it because it was what he truly wanted, or if it was a means to an end.
    “Why are you laughing?”
    “A means to an end? You think I’d propose just so we’d live together? You think the only reason I’d want to ask you to be my wife would be so that we could shack up? There are a whole other host of reasons to get married. You don’t have to worry about forcing my hand, Jillian. I’m a pretty self-sure guy. When I propose to you, you should know it will have nothing to do with ultimatums from you, or your mother. It’ll be based on my heart and nothing more.”
    “When you propose?” I think I stopped listening after that.
    He pulls me onto his lap and smothers any further comment with his lips.
    Some time later, after we’ve both dozed and I’ve accomplished no work other than helping us both feel very good about ourselves, he smoothes my hair.
    “You’re a funny creature, you know. Life with you is never dull.”
    I’ve heard that from my parents my whole life. The only difference is they never made it seem like a compliment.

Two days later.
    “Y ou’re sure about this?”
    “Yes.”
    “Really sure?”
    “Yes!”
    I take the For Sale sign that the real estate agent left behind and hang it in the window.
    “Because if your friend Nick is right, you could have this place sold in less than a week. Then that’s it. You’re stuck with me.”
    “I’m stuck with you no matter where I live,” I say, planting a kiss on his cheek. “What? Are you having second thoughts now about me living with you?”
    “No. And I’ll evict the guys in a heartbeat if you ask me.”
    “We can’t kick them out. Where would they go?”
    “They’re grown men, Jill. Not helpless puppies.”
    That might be the case, but I’ve gotten used to seeing their weirdness around the house. One of these days they might have to go, but not yet.
    “What are you going to do all day?” he asks as he pulls on his work boots. Business has picked up for him in this neighbourhood since he finished the work on my house, and he’s now working on some sort of heat conversion for the bakery.
    “I’m going to pack until the open house starts, and then Ingrid, Melanie, Liz and I are going to play a new scenario I found for Fiasco. It’s set in Rome.”
    Evan kisses my forehead, his trademark move. “Look at you, running a role-playing game and letting your friends play with you. Where’s my closet geek from last year?”
    “Selling her house and moving in with her hot geek lover.”
    I run my fingers through his hair and bring his lips to mine, nibbling on his lower lip, my trademark move I know turns him on.
    “Mmmmm. Maybe I should skip work this morning.”
    “Nope. This is just a reminder of what’s waiting for you at the end of the day.”
    “I’m going to miss your soaker tub. Mine’s not nearly big enough for the two of us.”
    “We’ll figure something out. Now walk down the street nice and slowly so I can admire the view.”
    I swear to God he knows just how to walk to make his ass look extra appealing.
    Four hours later I’m in the middle of a game with the girls when Nick calls. There are four competing offers on the house.
    “Let me call Evan and we’ll meet you at the house to look at them.”
    When I hang up Ingrid is giving me a funny look.
    “What?”
    “You’re