Street Love_A contemporary standalone hurtcomfort romance by Rhys Everly

Author:Rhys Everly [Everly, Rhys]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rhys Writes Romance
Published: 2020-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

Rafe

“And there is always hot water, except for late at night, when the valve is switched off automatically, but it shouldn’t be a problem. We’ve not had any complaints so far,” the woman said.

She was short, brunette, with dark skin, wearing a black suit with blue heels that failed to make her taller, especially standing next to Pierce. She was giving them a tour of a house in the Bronx, a three-bedroom flat with no communal areas other than the kitchen and the bathroom.

“We don’t care about the water in the middle of the night. The room is great. The area is… great. Can we get to paperwork?” Pierce asked, and Rafe, who was standing a little behind him, pinched his thigh.

“Sure. Just to double check this room is only for one of you, right?”

And there it was again. As if the whole shit with finding a room by legitimate ways wasn’t hard enough, it was made even harder by the fact that no one wanted to lease a single room to two people.

It’s not like they had a choice. Everything bigger was way too expensive.

“Sure,” Pierce sighed and Rafe knew what he must be thinking. They were never catching a break.

“Perfect. We’d need a holding deposit, two forms of ID, references from two past landlords, your bank account to run a credit check on your behalf, six weeks of pay stubs, and our agency fee is a hundred and thirty-nine dollars per person, which you will need to pay before we can run the checks on you,” she said, and Rafe already knew they were walking out.

It had been the seventh or eighth house they had viewed in the past week, and they all required the same crap. Rafe was starting to lose hope that their plan would work and that he would ever be able to get help with his medication.

Even though Pierce and Rafe combined had enough money to pay for deposits and a month’s rent, everyone wanted to run a credit check, and since Rafe had no account linked to his name, that was impossible. Everyone also asked for proof of work, which again, Rafe didn’t have. No one was willing to risk letting an apartment without the security of future payments, and Rafe couldn’t blame them. He didn’t know if he’d let them stay in his place if he had one.

Pierce wasn’t giving up, though. He kept phoning people up and getting viewings, thinking he could talk his way in and score them both a place.

That was what he was trying to do now. Explaining the situation, with as little detail as possible, in hopes it would change her mind.

“I mean, if you are working, we could technically run the check on your name and do the whole contract, but if you say you’re working part-time, I don’t think you’d pass the credit check,” she told Pierce. “And if your name’s on the contract, he wouldn’t be able to live here. The landlord has been very specific.

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