Under the Covers by K.C. Wells

Author:K.C. Wells [Wells, K.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64405-804-6
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2020-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

JASE’S fingers flew over the keys. Where are you? Lunch was over and he was free until Chris’s panel. And there was no sign of Chris anywhere.

Chris’s response was swift. In my room, working. A moment later another text popped up. Actually? You might be able to help me.

Anticipation trickled through him. Whatever Chris was working on, he’d been pretty cagey about it, and Jase’s curiosity was at peak levels. He hurried to the elevator, his mind racing. When he reached Chris’s door, he noted it was open, the catch preventing it from closing.

“Come on in,” Chris called out. Jase pushed open the door and entered the room. Chris was sitting at the desk, his laptop in front of him. Chris glanced in his direction and sighed. “Hey.”

“So what is this supersecret project you’re working on?” Jase walked over to the desk and peered at the laptop. All he saw was the desktop. “Apparently too secret to show me.”

Chris pushed his chair back. “Okay. I need your help.”

Jase perched on the foot of the bed. “Hit me with it.”

“A friend in New York has offered me a one-night exhibition next May, as part of a weeklong charity event. I have until today to come up with my pitch. And it’s the pitch that’ll decide whether I get that night, so it has to be freaking awesome.”

Suddenly the desktop made sense. “You haven’t come up with a pitch yet.”

Chris sagged into his chair. “Exactly. I’ve been going over so many ideas since he called me Wednesday, but nothing leaps out at me.”

“You’ve been working on this since Wednesday, and I’m only hearing about it now?” Jase couldn’t help feeling a little hurt. “Why didn’t you say something?”

“Because you’re at your first con! You have panels. Meetings. You didn’t need me to add to all that.”

That soothed him a little. He was thinking of me. Jase folded his arms. “Then let’s put our thinking caps on and see what we can come up with. Two heads, and all that. What have you already rejected?” He listened as Chris counted off a string of ideas. They weren’t bad, but they weren’t fantastic either. Then a thought occurred to him. “You should play to your strengths.”

“I’d had the same thought.”

Jase nodded. “People. Stick with people.” Then it hit him. “Better yet… stick with men. Specifically, naked men.”

“Excuse me?” Chris blinked. “I can’t see Shane going for that.”

“It depends on how you pitch it.” The more Jase thought about it, the more he was entranced by the idea. “I’m visualizing men of all ages, all sizes, all naked, in varying moods. Pensive, jubilant, intimate….” He caught his breath. “Couples too. Throuples. Whatever. Take photos of real couples being intimate.”

“You don’t mean sex, right?”

Jase shook his head impatiently. “No, of course not. But you can capture their chemistry. How they stare at each other. How they can’t bear to take their eyes off each other.”

“And all naked,” Chris repeated. The light in his eyes told Jase he was beginning to get the picture.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.