Office Dynamic by Jerry Cole

Author:Jerry Cole [Cole, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Gay & Lesbian, Literature & Fiction, Fiction, Gay, Romance, Gay Romance, Genre Fiction, Lgbt, Gay Fiction
Amazon: B01A4H9SA6
Published: 2016-01-01T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Jonas felt cheap, like a whore, but he couldn’t stop having sex with Tris. He didn’t think he could stop even if he wanted to, and the problem was: he didn’t want to.

The thing was, though – the thing was, or so he told himself, that it had to be the newness of it that had him reeled in so far. There was no other explanation for it, and it made sense, really: he was having a quarter-life crisis. He'd heard people joke about it, but like all jokes, this one had the ring of truth. Jonas was aimless, stumbling around like most millennials through a confusing post-2008 universe that didn't have much to offer for people who, like Tris, hadn't been born with silver spoons in their mouths and companies ready for them to inherit. It made sense that Jonas should wander hysterically into an unexpected gay phase to go with his unexpected administrative job, and even if he'd never exactly imagined being somebody's secretary-cum-mistress, at least it was something different, something a little bit exciting. But it wasn't the kind of thing you stuck with for long. It was the kind of thing you'd surely get sick of, and so Jonas just had to wait it out until he got sick of it, until the sheen of newness dulled and he could finally move on and get with his life.

He knew it would happen eventually.

It was why none of his relationships lasted: he got bored real quick and felt burdened by commitment. It was also why their arrangement worked so well in the beginning: all Jonas had to do was show up at Tris’s condo, work a little overtime, and then Tris would smile at him, that smile reserved for Jonas when all the paperwork was put away, and Jonas would know: it was pretty much imminent after that. Sex. With a guy, at first, it seemed like everything was just so much easier: you could get straight away to what you both actually wanted out of the arrangement without having to go through the motions of anything else first. It seemed, in many ways, to make up for the anxiety that curled in the pit of Jonas' stomach sometimes when he thought too hard about this, about what his dad would say, about whether he was (in Luke's voice), like, gay now.

But then Jonas started wanting other things too, little things, that, despite their size could change their non-relationship significantly. It only takes so little to kill a man, Jonas knew. He wanted to stay for lunch.

“You can’t. I’m going out,” Tris told him. “Meeting friends at Club Regis.”

Always the same answer. Jonas was usually out of his hair before ten.

“No you aren’t,” Jonas said, just to see if Tris could be persuaded. “I know your schedule.”

Tris smiled indulgently and combed his hair in the dressing mirror, straightening out his curls which Jonas was a little disappointed to see go.

“Clearly,” Tris said, “Not as well as you might think.

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