Chapter 8

Fordham goes home to. They don’t know him outside of work, this

quiet man who sits in a doctor’s office with odd pains and holds

onto his young lover like he’s clinging to life itself.

When he comes home, the first

thing he does is glance down the hall and he’ll see Wesley, skin

glistening where the wet clothes touched him, bare ass and long

legs and bleached blonde hair. Mr. Fordham would close the door

behind him gently, so the kid doesn’t hear. He’d shrug off his coat

and let it fall to the floor. Step out of his shoes as he makes his

way down the hall. Undo the top few buttons of his shirt, loosen

his belt, tug the bottom of his shirt out of his work pants. Wesley

catches sight of him from the corner of his eye as Mr. Fordham

leans against the wall, arms crossed, to watch his lover struggle

with the laundry. “Hey, baby,” Wesley says. In Jason’s mind, he

isn’t as strident as he is in person.

“Hey yourself,