Off the Ice by Van Cole

Author:Van Cole
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay romance, Gay Sports romance, First time gay romance, MM romance, Straight to gay mm romance, Gay fiction romance, Athlete sport romance
Publisher: Van Cole
Published: 2024-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Matt

It was lovely being in the honeymoon period of a relationship – that time when every second you spent together felt like a combination of rough sexual tension and innocent fairy-tale bliss, and you couldn’t bear to be apart from one another for extended lengths of time, even when you had to be.

Like right now, as Matt sat behind a desk at the New York office of Sports Illustrated.

Just a few weeks ago, he’d been assuring himself that Chris Knoll wasn’t gay, but that it was still okay to look. Now, he was fighting the urge to google his own boyfriend just to get another look at him. Granted, he was probably allowed to do that; he was writing about Chris for this profile, after all. Still, it’d be a tough battle to win. No matter how he tried to argue that looking at Chris in his tight workout clothes and charity gala tuxedos was ‘helping’, he doubted it would fly.

Shame, though. It’d be a nice view, and a motivational one.

He drummed his fingers on the keyboard, still fleshing out a paragraph about Chris’s childhood and early introduction to the sport. It was definitely difficult to focus, but at least he was getting some things done. Slowly, yes – but still.

In fact, he was just getting into a good rhythm when the phone on his desk rang. This was a surprise to him; unlike most people in this office, Matt didn’t usually sit here. On top of that, he was only working on this one piece as a freelancer, so there was nothing he could really do to help out the other writers around him. Maybe somebody had dialed his extension by mistake? But when he picked it up, he heard the sound of the editor’s voice before he could even say ‘hello’.

“Tucker,” said Mr. Boseman. “My office ASAP, please.”

“Yes, sir.”

It wasn’t unusual to be spoken to so brusquely. Carter Boseman was notorious for being an extremely efficient man, never wasting time or words on anything. He had been good for Sports Illustrated in fiscal terms – or at least, so Matt had heard. It didn’t seem that the staff liked him very much, though.

Still, Matt couldn’t ignore a direct request, and nor did he want to keep his commissioning editor waiting. Instead, he locked his screen and packed up his notes, just hoping that he could stroll back into the same steady pace once this impromptu meeting was over.

Probably not, of course. Getting a good momentum going as a writer could be about as rare as a rainbow – but he could hope.

Matt knocked on Mr. Boseman’s door as soon as he arrived at it, absent of the nervousness that might infect some of his more twitchy colleagues. As intimidating as some people found the editor, Matt wasn’t fussed. The worst this man could do to Matt was cancel his article – and frankly, Boseman would only be hurting himself and his magazine if he did so. He was smart enough that he probably knew that.

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