The Peppermint Schnapps Predicament by Clare London

Author:Clare London [London, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64080-290-2
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-12-03T05:00:00+00:00

FRANKIE

SO, BILL Mason has confessed he’s gay. Who would’ve guessed? Well, me, actually. Even though I refused to contribute to the secret staff poll last Christmas on who was and who wasn’t. Apart from being appalled at the basic crudeness of the whole game, I was told I’d have an unfair advantage with my gaydar.

But the day Bill wore that glorious rose-pink tie into work, I suspected. Built like Thor, but with the sly glances of a Tab Hunter; that may have been when I first started lusting after him. Now he has his arm around me. All the way around. I take a moment just to savor that. He hasn’t put his shirt back on, and I’m certainly not reminding him to. His muscles can ripple away to my heart’s content.

Yet he’s more than just a gym bunny, right? And he isn’t the disciplinarian boss I’d thought he was. I’m still chuckling over his dreadful closet joke.

Amazing, how these things work out after some face-to-face time. And thigh-to-thigh. And mouth-to-mouth. Another shiver of pleasure makes me jerk. Bill gathers me closer as if he thinks I may be cold. How thoughtful is that? When he nuzzles against my neck, I arch to give him more skin to play with.

“Frankie, what made you join up so eagerly for the annual inventory? Most sales assistants try to avoid it at all costs.”

I hesitate. Yet he’s been honest with me, right? “Well, mainly it was to get extra time close to my biggest and bonniest man crush.”

“Who…?” Then his face clears and he flushes all the way down to his neck. “Really?”

Adorable.

“But also, I’m interested in business. In how it works, in the strategy and management.”

“You are?”

Good God, not him too. “I know, it’s not like I look the part, is it? Even when I wear a suit, the nail varnish and the highlights give me away. And I know I swish rather than stride across the shop floor.”

Bill has the grace to look sorry. He’s thought the same himself, I can see.

“But I’m not changing myself just to conform, you hear me?”

Bill’s eyes narrow. “I hear you, Frankie.”

“I have a lot to offer this company, and I have strong ideas of how things can be improved. Not just qualitative changes, to make this the one place where all staff aspire to be, and are proud to work. But also ways to improve profitability and shareholder returns. You should reconsider how some of the floors are set out, the reach and target of your marketing campaigns, the stock rotation….” God. I’m being so pushy, yet I refuse to apologize. “I never did very well at school. But I’m studying in my own time, Bill. I will get qualifications. I will be taken seriously. One day.”

I wait for Bill’s laugh or maybe a pitying platitude. But it’s not forthcoming. He’s nodding instead.

“We have an internship scheme here, don’t we?” he says. “What you were telling me, about the work you did for the

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