Grind: gay romance (Wrong Side of the Tracks Book 4) by K.A. Merikan

Author:K.A. Merikan [Merikan, K.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Acerbi & Villani Ltd.
Published: 2023-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Ezra

Ezra was running out of his PrEP. There was another bottle in his apartment, but he couldn’t take his car out of the shed and drive home as if that whole thing with Paul being a murderous psycho had never happened.

It was kind of important, because he and Frank skipped rubbers altogether, and it wasn’t like he could ask for Frank to get tested while not doing so himself. It would have been rude. Not to mention that with Frank already doing so much for him, Ezra didn’t want to be ungrateful, which left him worried each time he checked the number of pills in his bottle. He was down to three.

Frank didn’t seem like the type to get angry over being asked about his health status, and he never seemed to have an issue with condoms either, but one never knew. Ezra wanted to believe Frank when he claimed to have only been with him in the past year, but people lied about these things, as Ezra had found out early in his career, when an STI took him out of commission.

And it wasn’t like Frank was around all the time. His mysterious job demanded attention at odd hours of day and night, and for all Ezra knew, he might be hooking up with someone rather than working. Then again, what right did Ezra have to demand any form of fidelity? He’d been an escort for almost all of his adult life, and many of his clients were cheating on their partners, whom they apparently loved and had good relationships with. Humans were a selfish species, and even the kindest man might distort reality for his own gain.

A voice from deep in his chest reassured him that Frank had proved himself as reliable, responsible, and kind even in circumstances when he had to let go of his own wants for Ezra’s sake. But life was a harsh teacher, and it had punished Ezra for having faith in people too many times to count.

He was afraid that the man who made him feel so very safe, so wanted, might not be the real Frank.

And what then?

Ezra’s throat tightened, and he put down the cover of the old scanner he was using to transfer all the neglected papers onto a hard drive. He tried to return to the spreadsheet he created, but his thoughts kept drifting off to the man who’d offered him help when he’d needed it most.

Maybe Ezra was fooling himself, because he’d grown so fond of Frank, but he liked to think that the relationship they’d developed over the past year was real, even if forged in controlled conditions, and that Frank really was the person he seemed to be.

Ezra was blindsided when Frank first told him he wanted their relationship to be more than an arrangement, or friends fucking. But while it might have been a ploy to take advantage of a man in an impossible situation, Frank had always showed his affection for Ezra with actions rather than words and money.

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