Working It by Christine d'Abo

Author:Christine d'Abo [d’Abo, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2016-11-04T04:00:00+00:00

When Nolan arrived a bit later than usual Thursday morning, the light from Zack’s office was already on. Zack was head down, poring over a number of reports, when Nolan hung up his coat and went to the kitchenette to start the coffee. There were no “good mornings” or heated glances. Nothing to indicate that anything unusual had happened between them. That they hadn’t shared not one but two kisses, plus the exchange of a novelty plush spider. That Nolan hadn’t spent the last two days wondering what it would be like to go to bed with Zack.

He’d been worried things would change after the gym—that Zack, despite his words, would treat him differently. But Zack ignoring him was business as usual, and the tension he held in his shoulders lessened. He knew how to act professional, so if that was how Zack wanted to play things, Nolan had it covered.

He waited for the coffee to finish brewing, filled them each a cup, and went to face the dragon. “Good morning, Zack.”

“Nolan.” He didn’t look up.

“You have an eight o’clock appointment this morning with Jennings and Burk from purchasing, a conference call with the London office at ten, and it’s your mother’s birthday.”

Zack looked up at that. “No, it’s not. Her birthday is in March.”

“Just making sure you’re paying attention.” He somehow managed to not smile. It was cute to see Zack so peeved. “Is there anything I can get for you?” Blowjob? Handjob? Okay, this was going to be harder than he’d thought.

“I’m fine, thanks.”

“I’ll be at my desk if you need me. Ralph and I have reports to read over.” He did smile then, but didn’t linger any longer than usual.

With Zack not needing him to do anything urgent, Nolan set about reviewing their calendars. He had a doctor’s appointment coming up in the next week that he might have to postpone if Zack’s meeting this morning resulted in an updated production schedule. He also had lunch planned with Nancy, and he didn’t want to reschedule on her again if he could help it.

Zack’s agenda for the coming week included all the regularly scheduled meetings, one conference call, and Ryan Cooper’s termination meeting—Nolan probably wasn’t supposed to know what that meeting was about, but it hadn’t been hard to piece together.

And that was it.

Boring for a Thursday morning.

He tried not to look over at Zack, but he could see him from the corner of his eye. Nolan normally didn’t mind the mornings when it was this quiet; the silence was a rare pleasure and usually meant Zack was in a good mood.

He opened his email and looked at the first meeting request. Mr. Chopra again. Yeah, that wasn’t happening until the budget information had been reviewed and Zack had an action plan. He sent a generic response and closed the email. When Zack coughed, Nolan turned his head. For a moment he thought his boss was going to say something, but Zack didn’t look up. Nolan stared at his email, but didn’t open the next one.

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