Fighting For You: An MM Contemporary Romance (Fighting For Love Book 1) by J.P. Oliver

Author:J.P. Oliver [Oliver, J.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-22T16:00:00+00:00

9

Luke could practically see Adam’s resolve crumbling. He could have yelled in triumph. Hell yes. It wouldn’t be the relationship that Luke wanted, but he knew when he was setting his sights too high. He knew that in this case, he was the five and Adam was the ten. He’d take what he could get.

Adam looked like he’d lost his breath. Luke liked the idea that he’d been the one to take it from him, to make Adam look this overwhelmed. He let his smile grow, wishing like anything that they weren’t in public and didn’t have a meeting in half an hour, and he could just lean in and kiss Adam until the taste of him stayed with Luke all fucking week.

This wasn’t the time or the place though, so Luke stowed all of that away. They could have that later.

They ate quickly, Adam going over the points for the meeting as they did so. The more he talked, the more Luke could feel his stomach knotting up. What had been relief about Seth, and arousal about Adam, was now turning into full-on terror.

He hadn’t ever gotten to the point of getting comfortable with investors and all of that. He’d planned on getting a job at a small business, a manager or assistant manager position at a restaurant, so that he could get experience. He’d wanted it to be an actual, family-run kind of place, not a chain restaurant, so he could learn how to handle that sort of thing, and investors, and all of that.

Then the crash, and… well. Those years of experience and training had just vanished. He was in the deep end of the pool, and had nothing but his faded memory of his college classes to rely on... which, really, were all about writing papers and shit like that. None of it prepared him for actually going to investors who were probably a lot higher up than anyone Luke could have had access to, even if he had gotten the experience and connections that he’d wanted to and planned on making after college.

What was he supposed to say? How was he supposed to prepare for this, in any way?

“Breathe,” Adam reminded him. “Come on, we can walk there. I’ll coach you through it.”

Luke stood up out of the booth, almost in a daze. This was all happening so fast that it hadn’t really felt real until this moment. “I still can’t believe you got all of this arranged in a single day,” he said, hearing how faint his voice sounded.

“It’s why people keep me around, even if they don’t like my personality,” Adam replied, and Luke hated how Adam seemed to think that—or he hated how it was true, and obviously Adam was surrounded by a bunch of assholes who needed to appreciate him more. His lips quirked upwards, like he was joking, but Luke knew that he wasn’t. “I’m terrifyingly efficient.”

“If they don’t like your personality,” Luke said, even though he knew it wasn’t his place to say anything, “then you need new coworkers.

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