Sleigh Duty by Brown L.M

Author:Brown, L.M. [Brown, L.M.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-12-06T16:00:00+00:00

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Dashiel collapsed onto his bed and slept through the whole of Christmas Day and well into Boxing Day. Why hadn’t anyone warned him how wiped he would be after sleigh duty?

Mid-afternoon on Boxing Day, he finally felt ready to face the world, or more to the point, ready to phone Stuart and discover just how much making up he had to do to get him to agree to a date.

“Pick up the phone, pick up the phone,” he muttered under his breath as he waited for Stuart to answer.

“Hi Dashiel,” Stuart said. “What do you want?”

Well, at least he had taken his call. “I said I’d call you to reschedule our date, remember?”

“I remember. I thought you’d be too busy with the guy who wanted you to get naked.”

“Ouch. I guess I deserved that. Sorry, but it wasn’t what you’re thinking. I’d have explained but the phone signal was really crap where I was.”

“Well, why don’t you explain now?” Stuart asked. “I’d love to know what explanation you could possibly have for some guy yelling for you to hurry up and get naked.”

“Er…” Dashiel had hoped the bad line would have prevented Stuart from hearing Fred’s remark.

“Yeah, that’s what I thought. I hope he was worth it.”

“I swear I wasn’t having sex with him. He’s not even gay.”

“Do you have a lot of straight men asking you to get naked?”

“No. Not many gay ones either for that matter. Look, I can’t explain what was going on, but I want a second chance.”

Stuart gave a loud sigh at the other end of the phone. “Look, this isn’t a good time right now. I have some family stuff going on.”

“Is everything okay?”

“It’s fine, but I won’t have time for dating for a while.”

“Maybe lunch one day in the new year. I mean, you still have to go to work, right?”

“I don’t know. You’re not the man I thought you were, so maybe it’s best we both look elsewhere.”

The phone went dead before Dashiel could even formulate an argument. “No way am I giving up on you,” he muttered.

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