A Cordial Agreement by Ryan Loveless

Author:Ryan Loveless [Loveless, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64405-223-5
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2019-05-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

GRANT HADN’T wanted to come into work. The unfinished massage reminded him of how tense he was, and his bed had felt like he was sleeping on stones. But the man in charge had to set an example, so he’d hauled himself up and in. Rory was making no secret of her wish that he hadn’t. He’d snapped at her first thing because she wandered in at 8:02 talking on her phone. She was currently giving him the silent treatment.

By eleven, he hadn’t heard if Bennett was in, and his fingers itched to dial Bennett’s direct supervisor to find out. Deciding he preferred the stress of not knowing over confirmation that Bennett had shirked work again, he forced himself to let it go. He did, however, call Mr. Sieber.

“I apologize for Bennett’s behavior,” Grant said.

“Not your fault,” Mr. Sieber said. “Everything go okay after I left? You don’t need help hiding a body, do you?”

Grant chuckled. “No, Bennett remains hale and hearty. There is one thing, though—” He supposed it wasn’t Mr. Sieber’s concern, but Grant had promised honesty. “I told him you’re my masseuse. I suspect he thinks you’re a bit more than that.”

A long pause and Grant could almost hear Mr. Sieber processing the news. He imagined his long brown lashes blinking slowly.

“What?” Mr. Sieber whispered.

“I told him there was nothing like that going on. I don’t think he believed me.”

“What?” Mr. Sieber said again, and this time he sounded pissed.

Grant prepared to launch into his tried-and-true “You’re a tree in a forest, unable to see the bigger picture” speech that he used when his directors came to him to complain.

Mr. Sieber interrupted before he started. “You told Bennett? He could get me fired for prostitution.”

“I’ll get you rehired,” Grant said.

“Not the point,” Mr. Sieber said. “It won’t matter if you butt in and start throwing your money around. He’s going to tell everyone. He’s probably laughing it up right now. You can’t—You didn’t think he’d be discreet, did you?” His angry tone faded into disbelief in the middle of his rant, and somehow that hit Grant even harder. Pissed-off people he could handle. Disbelief? It was a rarer reaction. He didn’t quite know how to respond. Mr. Sieber kept going, not giving him the chance. “Is it or is it not true that the reason you hired me to be your”—his voice lowered, and Grant realized there were other voices in the background—“whipping boy”—voice back to normal—“is because Bennett is indiscreet?” In the silence that followed, Grant realized the question wasn’t rhetorical. Mr. Sieber expected an answer.

“That’s why I didn’t tell him what you do!”

“You let him think I’m your whore,” Mr. Sieber spat. Grant’s cock stirred. He was tempted to wait longer, to see what Mr. Sieber would do. What a turning of the tables this was. Not that he had considered their arrangement to be of the Dominant-submissive variety. It was a business agreement, pure and simple, but this… new element… might be worth exploring.

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