Finding Figaro by Penny Hudson

Author:Penny Hudson [Hudson, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2015-03-23T04:00:00+00:00

YOU CAN’T get a better job, or you’d’ve quit already. Mr. Mott’s careless words rattled around in Jasper’s mind as he drove home on the empty streets. What was the point? He’d finished his degree at twenty-two, and now his twenties were half over. What did he have to show for it? A dozen short stories in magazines? A pile of rejection e-mails? A steady job as a waiter with an occasional cash bonus on the side when he helped commit fraud? How was Lily going to manage with an infant if he couldn’t even manage with just himself to look after?

He was so lost in his misery that he didn’t notice they had company until he stumbled in and disturbed Miles in the living room with a young couple, both women. Everyone was fully dressed, a pleasant contrast to the last time Jasper had interrupted Miles “entertaining” his guests.

The shorter brunette had a pixie bob, green V-neck, and jeans with rhinestones on the front pockets in the shape of a stylized cross. Lily called them bling-Jesus jeans. She held a small coil of rope while Miles guided her hands in forming a complicated shibari-style rope harness around the T-shirt of her lover. She blushed when she saw him in the kitchen doorway. Her girlfriend stood up a little straighter. Ah, those dynamics were clear to anyone who lived with a self-appointed sexual educator.

Maybe he should’ve introduced Miles to Lily. He was also an expert on birth control since so many of the common methods had side effects that affected libido. Jasper winced and tried not to visualize Miles showing his little sister how to roll a condom onto a banana. Unlike himself, Miles had mastered the trick of doing it with his mouth.

Miles caught his odd expression and, misinterpreting, hurried to introduce them. “Ladies, this is my roommate, Jasper. Jasper, Megan and Delia are my first students for my private ropes class.”

By the way the brunette, Megan, gazed at the ceiling and at the doorframe over his right shoulder, she wasn’t comfortable with any of this. But instead of buying a book or watching some videos on the Internet, Miles had talked her and her girlfriend into letting him do a little hands-on explaining.

Discouragement washed over him. Even Miles, the biggest fuck-up in the universe, found a way to do what he loved.

“Nice to meet you.” Jasper went on to his room before Miles asked him to help demonstrate some kinky three-way bondage. His manuscript, covered with sticky tabs, rested on his laptop. He trailed his fingers over the title page, almost the only page to escape Isaac’s pen, and then picked it up.

It was a sad story. It was meant to be a sad story. But he didn’t need sad right now; he needed happy—or he’d be overwhelmed with the weight of disappointment in himself that had been building for ages. He sniffled, about to break down and cry. He did everything right, he’d gone to school and got a degree.

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