Too Many Temples (World of Love) by Erik Swill

Author:Erik Swill [Swill, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 9781635335224
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-06-28T04:00:00+00:00

IX

ADRIAN SHUT the door and locked it as Luc waved goodbye. This guy was new to the scene, having recently arrived from France. He came to Queensland to sate a fascination with tropical coastal cities and was paid under the table for picking fruit at one of the nearby orchards. According to Luc, Adrian was the first Aussie he slept with since arriving. Coincidentally, Luc had been the first French guy Adrian had fucked, but that was not information he felt necessary to share. Luc was a nice guy but nothing more than a standard one-off fuck. He probably didn’t know that, though.

Adrian slipped on the Snuggie his mother had given him for Christmas and settled on the sofa in front of the heater. Brisbane was normally comfortable in the winter, but this year had been unusually chilly. Adrian turned on the television. In his postorgasmic state, he was too tired to do anything but was not sleepy enough to go to bed. A repeat of the evening’s news was playing. Controversy over a recent mining contract with China, the prime minister is a douchebag, drought across most of the country…. Adrian got bored quickly watching the news. It was always the same variation on the same set of stories.

As he picked up the remote again to flip channels, he heard the newscaster mention Rockhampton in the report. An overnight warehouse fire resulted in two deaths. Adrian’s first reaction was to snicker at the thought that Rockhampton even had a warehouse. But he shifted his thoughts to Ketut. Could he have taken a part-time job at the warehouse and been one of those two who were killed?

He brushed off the thought. Of course he wouldn’t have been one of the two who died. Rockhampton was small, but it still had tens of thousands of people, including all of the university students. The odds were against it. While he didn’t worry about Ketut’s involvement in the fire, Adrian did start to wonder how Ketut had been doing.

How were his studies going? Did he easily adapt to Australian culture? Had he been dressing warmly enough for the cold weather? Did he already have a boyfriend? Was he happy?

Then Adrian started to wonder the same things about himself. His work was unchanging and not progressive. The scene in Brisbane was stale and unexciting. He was, as expected, no closer to having a boyfriend, as he hadn’t made any efforts to do so. And other than being glad he had a Snuggie to keep warm, he knew deep down he was not happy.

Adrian had concocted a theory to naysay the reasons he felt his time in Bali was so memorable. It wasn’t because of Ketut, and it certainly wasn’t because of the mystique of the so-called Island of the Gods. Rather, it was simply because it added variety to his normal routine in Brisbane. That one-off encounter with Ketut had been just part of his typical behavior in interacting with guys he was attracted to.

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