Checking Him Out

Engineer Sol Brooks is a happily married man, so people keep telling him. He and Elise have been in Boston for eight years, he loves her, and she loves him. They€ve got a great apartment that€s kept its value, they€re both up for promotion, and he can hook up with any guy he likes - all the sex he wants, so long as it€s of the €œno strings€ variety. And that€s all fine and dandy...until a chance meeting at the checkout.

WARNING: this story contains sex acts between consenting male adults.

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First published as part of the Love's Landscapes Anthology
(DRiTC 2014, MMRomanceGroup.com), based on the prompt:

Dear Author,

When I met the love of my new life (his words not mine€¦ass), I was simply waiting in the checkout line. I might have been caught up in a conversation with my best friend/wife of X amount of years about something, I can€t remember at the moment. So anyway, we were distracted and didn€t notice that the line had moved. So after maybe 30 seconds, or a minute at the most (I€m pretty sure it wasn€t that long), Mr. Impatient, with an accent like that character on The Originals (not that I watch that show at my age), got our attention in the rudest way in my opinion, or in my wife€s heart-of-a-ho opinion, the kindest way possible for our insensitive asses. I€m pretty sure his accent, mixed with his damn charm, got him out of more trouble than it should. We had a rough start, but we had quiet moments when we weren€t all over each other or fighting, in and out of bed. Anyway, I would love a story about our first year.

P.S. I want a story with interesting secondary characters interacting with the main characters. I want it to be known that the marriage is a *lavender marriage€"no one is being fooled here. I want humor mixed in with hot-damn, slightly overwhelming sex. Alpha males with a bad case of the giggles at inappropriate moments. No BDSM please. One other request is that I wish the main characters to be in the age range of late twenties to early thirties.

*A lavender marriage is a €œbeard€ marriage of convenience.

Sincerely,
T

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Also in this series:
Checking Him Out For the Holidays - a Hanukkah/Christmas novella.