The Boy in Gray Sweat Pants. Neighbors & Roommates, #6

Some people fall in love with fireworks. Caleb and Luca fall in love over coffee, stolen glances, and one very distracting pair of gray sweatpants. It starts with Caleb looking a little too long. Luca notices. Then comes one overnight stay. Then another. Before long, Luca is already in Caleb's kitchen when he wakes up-barefoot, making coffee without asking, and wearing the same damn gray sweatpants that started Caleb's obsession in the first place.
Caleb tells himself it's temporary. He knows better. What begins as shameless attraction slowly becomes something neither man expected. Coffee becomes routine. Walks become dates. Comfortable silence becomes intimacy. And somewhere between teasing glances, lazy mornings, family dinners, arguments, and making room for each other's lives, Caleb realizes he isn't merely falling for the gorgeous man he couldn't stop staring at.
He's building a life with him. But loving Luca means understanding the man beneath the quiet exterior-a man who learned long ago that if you never ask someone to stay, you never have to hear them say no. And Caleb has his own history to overcome before he can believe happiness doesn't always come with an expiration date.