Tricks Of The Trade by Ben Tyler

Author:Ben Tyler [Tyler, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2001-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

When Jim returned to the house, he sang out, “Teatime,” in a voice loud enough to reach the office where Rod sat staring at his computer monitor.

“Christ,” Rod said softly. He cringed.

What Jim meant by “teatime” was that it was time for the first of his six or more martinis of the night. What it meant for Rod was that Jim would become disgustingly amorous. Rod would try to keep up with Jim’s drinking just to anesthetize his loathing of the sex Jim would ultimately insist on.

It was during times like these that Rod missed the diverse guys who had responded to his E-mails in the past. At least then it wasn’t the same old fart four or five times a day. Rod also conceded that there were many times when he actually missed Bart, who was both sexy and sweet. Bart never made demands. In fact, he was always the one trying to please. Jim, on the other hand, was simply a mean, selfish drunk.

However, Jim and Michael were still stringing him along. Paramount, Fox, Sterling, Disney, and Miramax were seriously considering the screenplay. This kept Rod from going out of his head and literally killing Jim during sex.

Killing Jim wouldn’t have been difficult, and Rod had come up with several plot twists in the scenario of their life together. Considering some of the sex toys Jim enjoyed playing with and the drugs he consumed along with the vast amounts of alcohol, a death would be easily accomplished. Jim could drown in the pool, for one. The games he liked could get slightly out of hand and end up wringing the air out of him.

But Rod was a writer, not a killer. Although, he thought, sometimes a person could be both, couldn’t he? Books by mass murderers had been best-sellers. But Rod could not see himself in prison, serving a life sentence and becoming some con’s bitch. He wanted to be famous, not infamous. Therefore, whatever Jim wanted, Rod was resigned to giving him—at least for the time being.

Equally difficult for Rod as sex with Jim was going out to parties with him. On this issue Bart had been mistaken. Dinners and premieres did not get easier to attend. It wasn’t comfortable to be the young stud living the high life off the spoils of an older man. Straight men could leech off their famous wives, and women had been doing it for centuries. But two men—one young and devastatingly handsome, the other older, fatter, and rich—still raised eyebrows.

However, a few people he’d met actually tried to be nice to Rod, especially old queens. Whether it was because of his extraordinary good looks or because they were being condescending in their own way, Rod could only guess. But he could sense that people were, if not talking, at least thinking thoughts about him and his relationship with Jim.

Bart’s scenario about scrutinizing other dinner-party guests for common procedures of etiquette was nothing like what Rod had to endure. Rod’s table manners had become impeccable.

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