The Daddy Arrangement by Jesse H Reign

Author:Jesse H Reign [Reign, Jesse H]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-10-18T18:30:00+00:00

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Stuart

Elliot has set the table with the basketweave placemats I like best. There’s a little bowl with grated parmesan on the table, and he’s poured us each a glass of merlot. Everything looks perfect, though I did have to stifle a laugh when I saw him kick an errant sneaker under the sofa when he thought I wasn’t looking. He starts talking as we eat our Bolognese. He starts talking for real. He tells me how his friends are without filtering out what he thinks I don’t want to hear. He has me chuckling at his many, many misadventures at work. He tells me about his past relationships too. It seems there have been plenty of them, all of which seem to have ended disastrously.

“So yeah,” he says, “Maddie dumped me right after I took her to the Caribbean for Spring Break. I was bleak. Broke and bleak. She said she loved my dick and didn’t know how she’d live without it…”

“She didn’t say that.”

“She did!” His eyes dance, and for a quick, disorienting moment, I feel like I’m treading water in a river of molten milk chocolate. “She said she’d miss all this.” He motions broadly to his muscular chest and down to his groin. His eyes darken. Milk chocolate morphs into dark chocolate. Ninety-five percent cacao, at least. “She said she’d miss this too.” He tilts his head back and parts his lips, giving me a sultry view of his tongue flicking up and down so fast I lose my train of thought entirely. When I come back to myself, I give him the chuckle he deserves, as well as a brisk little kick under the table to remind him to behave.

I expect him to buckle and move his leg out of my way. He doesn’t. He holds firm. His ankle is hard and bony against mine. The warmth of his skin makes tinder of the fabric between us. “She said that despite all the good shit I’ve got going on, she simply could not stand the sound of my voice.”

“What? No. There’s no way she said that!?”

“Swear to God.”

“That’s awful! What a thing to say to someone.”

He shrugs deeply. “I know, right? It’s definitely in my top five of shitty breakups.”

“You have five others that compete with that?”

“Yeah, well, you know I’ve got the whole ‘don’t want to be with you because you’re probably going to end up with a wife and kids,’ and then, of course, there’s the ‘don’t want to be with you because you’ll probably cheat with a dude’ thing going on. So, I can’t really win, can I?”

“I’m sorry,” I say. “I’m sorry that it’s 2023 and you’re still dealing with that kind of shit.”

“Right?”

He gives me a sad smile that turns into a big, goofy grin as he stops merely holding firm and starts rubbing his socked foot firmly against my shin. Tiny embers light and singe the hair on my leg. The last bite of my salad goes down the wrong way, tickling my throat viciously, leaving me coughing and spluttering.

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