The Doctor's Discretion by EE Ottoman

Author:EE Ottoman
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Pronoun
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

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William didn’t like this.

He knew it was hypocritical, but he couldn’t help it. He’d slept with men he barely knew. After all, he and Hill had known each other less than twenty-four hours before they’d had each other that way. But there were lines he wasn’t willing to cross, and paying a prostitute for sex was one of those.

It wasn’t even that much to do with the Christian faith in which he’d been raised. William might not have worked in a hospital long, but he knew how most brothels were run and how most men and women came to work there. It was a system of use and desperation built on the backs of people society refused to care about or care for.

It was repulsive, to use desperate people like that. Yet at the same time, William could not altogether condemn the trade, because the answer most often on the lips of men with power and learning was to shut down the brothels and leave their occupants to starve on the streets. Or worse—and there was always worse to consider. A prostitute still got paid, after all.

There was also the fact that for men like them, prostitutes were safe. Safer than meeting a stranger in an alley at least. You’d be less likely to end up with your throat slit and your pockets picked, or turned over to the night watch, or beaten to death because some stranger felt you’d somehow impinged upon his manhood simply by existing.

William could imagine this was particularly true for men with a secret like Hill’s. A professional could be paid a little extra to keep their mouth shut, not ask too many questions, and only touch where and when they were allowed. And William knew from experience that was how Hill liked to fuck.

If anything, it made a little bit of happiness curl in his chest to think Hill had trusted him enough to go home with him that first night without being sure what William might want or demand. He trusted you to give him what he wanted without having to pay for it.

At the same time, he couldn’t help but realize the entire reason they were going to a brothel in the middle of the night was because Hill trusted at least one prostitute enough to put all their lives into his, or possibly her, hands.

That started a whole new mixture of resentment, anger, and discomfort boiling through him.

William pulled his coat tighter against the cold. It didn’t matter that there was so much of Hill’s life and past he didn’t know about. He’s not yours, he’s not yours, he told himself as fiercely as he could.

It would have been easy to stay angry if Hill had been different. If William had been able to look at him and see a woman, it would have changed things. He couldn’t, though, not in Hill, not in Moss. Both were no different from any other men he’d known.

Even if he pointed to the

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