Double Standard

By J.M. Snyder

Executive Jeff Wallace has lusted after Evan Hawthorne since the moment his new employee first stepped into his office for a job interview. Evan is almost ten years Jeff's junior, fresh out of grad school, and one of the best salesmen in the office. Jeff thinks he's hot as hell and as luck would have it, he knows Evan is just as interested.

The only problem? There's a sticky little paragraph in the employee handbook that keeps Jeff from doing anything more than fantasizing about his new employee. The clause that states, in plain English, that managers and their immediate employees cannot fraternize. They can't get together, not even outside the office, just because Jeff's the boss.

Jeff has pleaded with his own supervisor, Kirk Morris, to change the rules. Why shouldn't he? Kirk owns the damn company and spends most of his time bonking Jeff's secretary. But it's a no go ... until Jeff finds himself working late one evening with no one left in the office but Evan, who decides to take matters into his own hands regardless of what the employee manual might say.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Jan 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781611520644

J.M. Snyder

An author of gay erotic romance, J.M. Snyder began self-publishing gay erotic fiction in 2002. Since then, Snyder has worked with several e-publishers, most notably Amber Allure Press and eXcessica Publishing.Snyder’s short fiction has appeared online at Ruthie’s Club, Tit-Elation, Eros Monthly, and Amazon Shorts, as well as in anthologies released by Alyson Books, Cleis Press, and others.For more book excerpts, free fiction, and purchasing information, please visit http://jmsnyder.net.

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Double Standard

By J.M. Snyder

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Copyright 2008 J.M. Snyder

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Double Standard

By J.M. Snyder

Evan, honey? my secretary Amber Hilliard asks, her voice bright and cheery. Do you have that ad report for me yet?

Through the open door to my office, I hear his quick reply. Sure. Let me get it.

There’s the faint squeal of castors as he rolls his chair away from his desk, and I glance around my monitor in time to see him back into view. Suddenly the comparable sales spreadsheet I’m working on is forgotten—nothing exists for me but the young man out in the main office area, now digging through a file cabinet.

Evan. Evan Hawthorne.

He’s almost ten years my junior, fresh out of grad school, and one of the best salesmen I’ve ever hired. But to be honest, it wasn’t his resume that convinced me to take him on. With his soulful gray-green eyes, kinked strawberry curls, the smattering of freckles so dense he looks like he’s sporting a perpetual tan, and a firm body that just won’t quit…I’ll admit it, I hired him because he’s gorgeous. My mind was made up when he walked in my office three weeks ago for the interview. I wanted to see him every single day and there was no way he didn’t have the job.

Problem is, there’s this sticky little paragraph in the employee handbook that keeps me from doing anything more than look. I’ve read it over and over again since he started working in my department, as if it’s going to rewrite itself without my knowledge. Every time he smiles my way, every time I stare at him from my desk like I’m doing now, every time he stares at me and doesn’t seem care if I notice or not, I have to come back into my office and read the paragraph again.

The one that says managers and their immediate employees cannot fraternize. The one that