Atlas
After blowing my life up over the summer I know one thing for sure. I need a change.
New city. New team. New sober life.
Easy right?
When I need to escape my thoughts, I head to the rooftop of my building for some air and find a man sitting in the shadows looking like a supervillain straight out of one of my comics. He’s irritated, looks like he might punch me, and is very, very hot.
I see an opportunity.
Gage and I make a deal.
No backstories.
No personal information.
No getting to know each other.
No feelings.
Strangers with benefits. Easy.
Except nothing about this easily annoyed man is easy.
What starts as a simple arrangement quickly becomes an affair that consumes me. He’s all I think about. The boundaries we have keep melting away. When he’s around my thoughts finally go quiet. For the first time in a long time I feel like I can breathe.
Every moment with him makes leaving him harder. I start finding reasons to see him, excuses to text, and hear his voice.
What was supposed to be a temporary arrangement with a time limit begins to feel like the only thing in my life that’s real.
Gage
While sitting on the edge of my buildings rooftop I never expected to meet the most irritating man alive.
Atlas is loud, obnoxious, and apparently incapable of keeping a single thought inside his head. He gets under my skin from the moment we meet.
Then he offers me an arrangement. Help him explore his sexuality, no strings attached.
Atlas is as irritating as he is sexy, and damn is he irritating.
How can I say no?
No backstories.
No personal information.
No feelings.
Perfect.
For the first time in a while I feel like I belong to myself again. There is power in being with him that is addicting. I’ve felt helpless for years and being with him is like rediscovering parts of myself I thought were dead. When Atlas is in my bed, it'''s easy to forget my pain. Easy to pretend the monsters waiting to snatch me don’t exist.
Only the more time we spend together, the less this feels like a stranger arrangement.
Strangers with benefits was supposed to be easy.
Only now, we’re starting to become something neither of us agreed to.
And falling for him was never part of the deal.
Genre: Gay Romance
After blowing my life up over the summer I know one thing for sure. I need a change.
New city. New team. New sober life.
Easy right?
When I need to escape my thoughts, I head to the rooftop of my building for some air and find a man sitting in the shadows looking like a supervillain straight out of one of my comics. He’s irritated, looks like he might punch me, and is very, very hot.
I see an opportunity.
Gage and I make a deal.
No backstories.
No personal information.
No getting to know each other.
No feelings.
Strangers with benefits. Easy.
Except nothing about this easily annoyed man is easy.
What starts as a simple arrangement quickly becomes an affair that consumes me. He’s all I think about. The boundaries we have keep melting away. When he’s around my thoughts finally go quiet. For the first time in a long time I feel like I can breathe.
Every moment with him makes leaving him harder. I start finding reasons to see him, excuses to text, and hear his voice.
What was supposed to be a temporary arrangement with a time limit begins to feel like the only thing in my life that’s real.
Gage
While sitting on the edge of my buildings rooftop I never expected to meet the most irritating man alive.
Atlas is loud, obnoxious, and apparently incapable of keeping a single thought inside his head. He gets under my skin from the moment we meet.
Then he offers me an arrangement. Help him explore his sexuality, no strings attached.
Atlas is as irritating as he is sexy, and damn is he irritating.
How can I say no?
No backstories.
No personal information.
No feelings.
Perfect.
For the first time in a while I feel like I belong to myself again. There is power in being with him that is addicting. I’ve felt helpless for years and being with him is like rediscovering parts of myself I thought were dead. When Atlas is in my bed, it'''s easy to forget my pain. Easy to pretend the monsters waiting to snatch me don’t exist.
Only the more time we spend together, the less this feels like a stranger arrangement.
Strangers with benefits was supposed to be easy.
Only now, we’re starting to become something neither of us agreed to.
And falling for him was never part of the deal.
Genre: Gay Romance