My goal this weekend is to try to catch up on all of the new recent (and not so recent) releases that I keep putting aside for one reason or another. Here's Saxon James's "Employing Patience." It's the fourth book in her Divorced Men's Club series.
["Art
When it comes to regrets, I have none. My life is perfect. I own a bar, work hard, party harder, and smother my niblings in all the love they deserve. I don’t need to settle down, as much as my sister might want me to.
But then Joey Manning walks into my office and leaves me all but begging to give him a job … and wanting to give him so much more.
The self-professed straight man is in my head and while I know that I need to move on from him, my body isn’t getting that message. It doesn’t help that Joey is a grade A flirt who can banter with the best of them.
I’ve never had regrets. Not until Joey Manning.
The bills keep piling up and the pressure to get my sisters through college before we’re evicted is always on the back of my mind. Whoever said life was for living, clearly forgot that living’s expensive.
My default mode is stressed AF and working myself to the bone, and there’s only one person who gives me a break from all that.
Art de Almeida.
My boss.
The one man I shouldn’t flirt with, but I can’t seem to stop. I want to get under his skin. To leave him panting for me. Which wouldn’t be such a bad thing except that he thinks I’m straight, and I’ve never bothered to correct him.
I need this job.
But some days I worry that I need Art more."]
This book took me for a loop. I just...after reading all of the other DMC books in this series, I assumed that Joey wanted Art, but Art kept saying no. I. had. it. fucking. backwards. God. Art wanted Joey all along, but Joey wasn't entirely sure about what his feelings meant, except that he loved flirting with, messing with, and challenging Art. And Art thrived on it just as much as Joey did.
I love the one quote in here: "'Sexuality is a fuckhead, huh?'" Which is so. fucking. accurate. So accurate, it's scary and relatable and...Happy Pride Month, y'all.
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