The Pairing | Casey McQuiston

Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes.
After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other's lives once and for all.
Time apart has done them good.
Theo has found confidence as a hustling bartender by night and aspiring sommelier by day, with a long roster of casual lovers.
Kit, who never returned to America, graduated as the reigning sex god of his pastry school class and now bakes at one of the finest restaurants in Paris.
Sure, nothing really compares to what they had, and life stretches out long and lonely ahead of them, but - yeah.
It's in the past.
All that remains is the unused voucher for the European tour that never happened, good for 48 months after its original date and about to expire.
Four years later, it seems like a great idea to finally take the trip.
Solo.
Separately.
It's not until they