Spam! It's What's for Christmas (Mistletoe Madness) by Lenore Black

Author:Lenore Black [Black, Lenore]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: 2009 Advent Calendar
ISBN: 9781615813285
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press LLC
Published: 2010-11-18T01:46:55+00:00

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Almost four hours later they finally peeled themselves up from the floor and got dressed. Ben was boneless and fucked out, but sadly, still susceptible to guilt.

“I have a boyfriend,” he blurted out. “Or at least I did. I’m trying to get him back. That’s why I took this job. Um. Not that you would have guessed that from what just happened.” He raked his fingers through his hair. “I don’t know what I’m saying here.”

There was just a moment’s pause before Gavin shrugged. “Hey, it was just some harmless fun, right?”

“Yeah,” Ben agreed half-heartedly. Images flashed back to him: Gavin’s legs draped over his shoulders, Gavin’s hands clenched in the comforter, his every response telegraphed on his expressive face. “It was really, really—” He made himself stop talking.

He couldn’t stop himself from trying to remember the last time he and Kai had had sex that made him feel like he’d lost brain cells in the process. Not recently, that was for sure.

“So let me give you this.” Gavin walked over to a battered old desk pushed up against the wall and came back with an envelope.

Ben held up his hands. “No, no. I couldn’t.” He’d arrived at the nude-male-model stage of desperate career options, not the man-whore stage. It was a subtle but important distinction.

“It’s for the pictures, the standard fee I pay all my models,” Gavin said firmly. “Not for the—will you just take it?”

If Ben hadn’t needed the money quite so badly, he would have drawn a line, taken a stand. Sadly, he was penniless. “Thanks.” He looked down at his feet, feeling incredibly awkward. “So, um, see you around?”

Not that he probably would. Or should, if he was at all serious about getting Kai back. It was just one of those things people said, right?

Gavin’s mouth twisted ironically. “Sure. See you around.”

Ben headed for the door, but he couldn’t help a glance back. Gavin watched him intently. Ben swallowed the lump in his throat that had no business being there. He got on the elevator and went down to the dingy lobby, climbed back on the bus and rode home.

For something that had been just a little harmless fun, he felt strangely at a loss.

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