Chapter 1: Double Chocolate Meringue CookiesEven though it wasn’t quite nine A.M., Connor Murphy had already been at work for three hours. Why not? As the CFO of Dougherty, Murphy, and Family, the construction company his great-grandfathers had started, he could pretty much set his own hours, especially since he worked from home. After all, what else was there for him to do? Spend those early morning hours in bed with his boyfriend? He couldn’t help a bitter laugh. Not f*****g likely. It seemed his relationship was one more casualty of this goddamned pandemic. Just before Valentine’s Day, Jordan had declared Connor too wrapped up in the family business to be any fun and had moved out.
Happy Valentine’s Day, Connor.
Of course, it hadn’t always been like that. Jordan hadn’t known him when
