A Model Escort by Amanda Meuwissen

Author:Amanda Meuwissen [Meuwissen, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64080-694-8
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2019-05-04T16:00:00+00:00

OWEN should go to bed. His eyes were sore from staring at computer screens all day, and the last thing he needed was to stare at his TV until all hours of the night. Not that it was terribly late. He just didn’t want to go to bed early even if he was tired. He tended to stall going to bed on nights when Cal wasn’t with him, because the thought of getting under those covers alone sunk his heart like a stone in a pond.

He didn’t do well alone.

He’d been doing well across the board, apparently, but he didn’t feel that way.

Pausing in his Netflix queue on one of the more recent Japan-made Godzilla movies, Owen was about to press Play when he stopped himself. Cal would love this movie; he didn’t want to watch it without him.

Snagging his phone from the coffee table, Owen looked at the time again to be sure it wasn’t too late and dialed his sister in a last-ditch effort for sanity.

“Are you finally ready to tell me whatever secret you and Casey have been keeping behind my back?”

“I don’t even get a ‘hello?’” Owen deflected, despite being the one who’d called her, “or ‘how are you, brother dear, I love you and miss your face’?”

“Cute, O,” Alyssa droned, “but no, not when you’ve been conspiring with my husband.”

“It’s not conspiring, just… avoiding.” He was surprised she hadn’t pestered him sooner.

“Owen.” Her voice dropped to a more sympathetic pitch. “What did you do?”

Staring at the Netflix screen, Owen sighed at the cliché picture he painted, just like having ice cream for dinner. “I took your advice. And I think I might hate you for it.”

The truth poured out of him easier than he expected, maybe because Alyssa stayed silent while he explained how he’d hired an escort that first week in Atlas City and had been scheduling him regularly since. He told her about every late night, every event, every snuggle on the sofa or in bed, and how hard it was not to push for more when every moment with Cal was the best part of his day sometimes.

“When I said you could hire an escort to make things easier, I didn’t think you’d fall for the guy.”

“I didn’t—”

“Owen.”

She knew how hard he fell when he liked someone. He’d fallen hard for Harrison once—hard enough to give his whole self over to a man who took him for granted. Cal would never do that. Owen trusted Cal. It was himself he didn’t trust, not to find some way to screw this up, especially if it was….

“…real?”

“Huh?” Owen said, more distracted than he’d realized.

“What I said was is this something you need to put a stop to before you get in too deep… or is it real?”

“It couldn’t be real. I pay him.”

“Okay, but if money wasn’t involved, how would you feel then?”

Owen knew the answer, but he was experienced in rejection, even if it had been years since he’d been single. He could

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