"This isn't a love story, it's a prolonged bad decision with excellent sex."
Ren's friends think she is living a double life. Nolan's friends think he is the most committed non-boyfriend in the history of human denial. Both groups are keeping score.
Ren and Nolan would like to remind everyone that the arrangement is still the arrangement.
It survived New Year's Eve. It survived the new agreement they negotiated after. It has survived the part where she got a key to his apartment and started showing up with takeout on nights nobody planned. It has survived the part where he started knowing which playlist means she had a bad day, and the part where she started making his coffee before he woke up.
It has survived her meeting his family at Easter in a dress that made him forget how to speak and she gave him a personal egg hunt. It has survived a scare that was celebrated with an adopted cat, birthday dinners neither of them wanted to make a big deal about, and holiday clearance candy runs that somehow take two hours. It has survived him learning things about her she does not tell anyone, and her letting him.
The sex is still ruinous. The domesticity is still accidental. The friendship is still the most honest thing in both of their lives.
She has his key. He has her trust. They grocery shop together on weekends and argue about movies on weeknights and neither of them has slept with anyone else since October, but nobody is counting because counting would imply something that does not apply here.
Nolan would like to point out that none of this is new information. Ren would like to point out that everyone can mind their business.
Everyone else would like to point out that these two are going to Miami together for five days and there is no way the agreement survives that.
...and Finding Out: Still Two Idiots, Still an Agreement, Still a Love Story is the second book in the F.A. & F.O. Series, more heat, more heartache, one cat with questionable loyalty, and two emotionally fluent idiots who have gotten so good at not calling it love that they might actually believe themselves. They will get their happy ending. They just need to find out what Miami does to people who are already this far gone.
