Here's JM Frey's "Nine-Tenths."
["Colin Levesque is at loose ends. He's finished university, but has no career; he adores romance novels, but he's crap at relationships; and his prickliness is a detriment at the café where he's making ends meet. He also has a crush on his regular Dav, a homo draconis who comes in every morning to read his newspaper, sip his double-strong coffee, and stare longingly at Colin in return.
So it figures that the day Colin gets up the courage to do something about the sexual tension simmering between them, he also learns that Dav has an embarrassing habit of hiccupping fire when he's nervous. Which, in this case, destroys the fancy custom-made bean roaster. When Dav volunteers to take over the coffee roasting with his fire-breath, being squished together in the hot, cramped kitchen leads to even hotter kisses.
Everything's finally happening for Colin—until people start claiming the dragon-roasted coffee has cured their genetic ailments. As their budding relationship struggles under the scrutiny of scientists and media, the hype around the coffee leads the lovers to be inducted into a centuries-old conspiracy: dragon-roasted food has always healed humans. And the most powerful draconic nobles have been withholding this symbiotic advantage to keep themselves on top. Colin and Dav are determined to expose the truth, but if they're not careful, their objections could goad power-mad monarchs into destroying everything they hold dear.
Including each other."]
These two were adorable. Both hot fucking messes. Gay disasters. Separately, for sure. Together, sooo much worse. Good thing it makes them all the more adorable and endearing.
Which they needed. Their relationship started off...well, not easy, but it was more of a...hot-mess-express, no-you-ask-him-out, what-if-we-don't-work anxiety spiral. Once their relationship started? They got closer and their feelings got stronger, but life got harder. It tried to tear them apart. That HEA prevailed though (which real life was like that).
Trigger Warnings: discussion of the past death of a parent, grief, anxiety, panic attacks, kitchen fire, mild fantasy gore and violence, abuse of perfectly innocent coffee beans, and more.
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