To the Ends of the Earth by Michael Gouda

Author:Michael Gouda [Gouda, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64405-233-4
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2019-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5—Ménage à Deux

I HADN’T worked long enough on the paper to qualify for my annual holiday, so we had to postpone our honeymoon, but that didn’t matter because I was so happy. Lex was happy too. He proved it in so many ways, like giving me expensive gifts, taking me out to places I wouldn’t have been able to afford, until I had to call a halt.

“You’re making me feel like a little hausfrau whose only purpose is to sit at home and be worshipped.”

“But I like giving you things.”

“No,” I said. “In the end this is going to spoil the relationship. We’re both men with jobs to do and things to aim at individually, though I think you’ve probably reached yours already, what with all this.” And I waved my hand at the expensive things around us, which included a painting by a modern artist who was even now meeting with worldwide acclaim.

“Just lucky, I guess. I bought that when he was a nobody and no one saw his potential.”

“Nobody, schmobody, you never do things on spec.”

“Even marrying you?”

“Yes, that was a bit reckless, I agree. Do you remember what you said to me—admittedly it was in the heat of passion?”

“Of course I do. ‘If you ever leave me, I’ll follow you to the ends of the world,’ and I meant it.”

“You’re such a marvelous lover.”

“I am, aren’t I?” he said complacently.

Off the marital couch, bed, dinner table, in fact anywhere the fancy took us, life went on as usual. I got occasional good assignments, not as many as I’d have liked but enough to know that the editors appreciated me. I was of course no longer on appro and my salary was commensurately raised, not quite to the level when I had to start paying the student loans back, but pretty near.

Lex, of course, had offered to pay off the loan himself, but I wouldn’t let him. I still hadn’t really found out what his job was.

Sometimes I quizzed him. “Is it illegal?”

“Not in the actual sense.”

“Tell me, honey.”

“If I told you, I’d have to kill you.”

“Is it MI5 or MI6?”

“Not even warm.”

“It is drugs, isn’t it? You wouldn’t have to go abroad so often if it wasn’t.”

“There’s lots of jobs that take people abroad.”

“Okay, tell me seventeen. And I wouldn’t want Jacob mixed up in something shady.”

“Come over here.” And he wrapped me in his arms while I did things to him and he to me until the cares of the world disappeared in a swirling vortex of desire and eventual fulfillment.

As the Bible says, “And behold, it was very good.”

Jacob seemed to enjoy his new job that, as Lex had promised, was his and his alone. I interrogated him mercilessly, until he begged me to stop, about the nature of the work and how Lex was involved. Apparently, though, Lex seldom appeared in the office, and when he did, it was just to sweep through, dispensing smiles and questions regarding the lives of the staff, about which he seemed to have a compendious knowledge.

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