Bad Boy (Naughty at Night #1) by Jamie Lake

Author:Jamie Lake [Jamie Lake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jamie Lake
Published: 2014-06-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Peter drove home in his beat-up Camry in a daze. The reality of losing half his salary had really settled in. There was no way he was going to make it. He had no family or friends to whom he could turn. Moving in with Anton had been a bust. If only my parents ... The Camry swerved sharply into the oncoming lane and a loud honk caused Peter to come out of his daze. He learned a long time ago that his parents weren’t going to be there for him. As soon as they found out he wasn’t the straight son they thought they were going to be so proud of, they started to alienate him. It didn’t happen all at once. It was slower: holiday by holiday, they stopped inviting him over; then they also stopped calling for his birthday, and it happened until they wouldn’t even return Peter’s calls. And long before that, they had stopped giving Peter any financial assistance. There was only one thing to do now, of course, seeing as he had just six more days until rent was due and his roommate made good on his promise to kick him out. He had to use some of that money that Tony had given him to cover his half of the apartment rent.

Peter pulled his beat-up car into the apartment’s assigned space for him. He popped open the door, clambered out with his briefcase and other bag of school supplies, still mulling his dire situation over. He started the long trek up to the third floor, and wished once again that he made enough money to afford to live in an apartment with an elevator, or that he could just actually afford to live in any apartment of his own at all.

The thought of actually using Tony’s charity, or whatever it was, to make ends meet made Peter feel queasy. He tried to convince himself that it wasn’t so bad. Tony had said he would have paid it to his regular masseuse anyway. Peter had reached his door and was shuffling his bags so that he could fumble around in his pocket for his keys. Why doesn’t Anton just open the door? He can hear me struggling out here. He finally got the keys out and made his way inside. Setting his things down on the dining room table, he moved to the cabinet to fix himself a glass of water. When he turned on the tap, a small bug - maybe a roach - scurried away from the water’s grasp. Peter sighed at the development and wondered when they had started getting roaches.

He tapped his fingers on his dining room table: back to thinking about money, racking his brain with what to do. He’d already been through the classifieds a million times. Every job for which he was qualified and that would still allow him time to teach was taken already, and all the rest were scummy call-center shit.

He had to do something.

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