He added a big-smile emoji, a winky face, and a bow-wrapped heart for good measure.
That text got no more of a response than his first one did, and once Leo started thinking that Jeff had been right and Gordy was just playing him, it became impossible not to. No matter how many times he told himself to just cut the kale, or trim the beans, or stir the tomato sauce, he couldn’t silence that little voice in his head telling him Gordy was ignoring him. Or worse, laughing at him. He tried to acknowledge the fact that doing something nice for karma’s sake, as he’d told Jeff he was doing, didn’t change if the guy wasn’t really into him, or even if the guy was trying to be a jerk. Karma couldn’t be fooled.
Pride, however, could. And annoyance was awfully skilled at enabling pride once pride got
