Perfection

By Clare London

James is surprised when co-worker Vic disappears, but even more so when Vic shows up months later as James’s manager. As a single gay man with few responsibilities, James takes his fun wherever and whenever he can. He’d even played around with Vic a few times. But now something’s changed, something James can't quite put his finger on. In fact, almost everything about Vic is subtly different -- and maybe not so subtly, when it comes to them resuming their affair. James never used to think Vic was hot, but now Vic’s like a new man and he wants James. James should be flattered, shouldn’t he?

Unfortunately, things don’t develop quite the way James hopes. He’s just out for a good time, but Vic wants something more than mutually satisfactory sexual games. He’s obsessed with finding out James’s idea of a perfect man. And what’s more, Vic seems determined to do whatever’s necessary to become that person -- whether James is a willing participant or not.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Oct 31, 2012
• ISBN: 9781611523850

Clare London

Clare took the pen name London from the city where she lives, loves, and writes. A lone, brave female in a frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home, she juggles her writing with the weekly wash, waiting for the far distant day when she can afford to give up her day job as an accountant. She’s written in many genres and across many settings, with novels and short stories published both online and in print. She says she likes variety in her writing while friends say she’s just fickle, but as long as both theories spawn good fiction, she’s happy. Most of her work features male/male romance and drama with a healthy serving of physical passion, as she enjoys both reading and writing about strong, sympathetic and sexy characters.Clare currently has several novels sulking at that tricky chapter 3 stage and plenty of other projects in mind . . . she just has to find out where she left them in that frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home.All the details and free fiction are available at her website. Visit her today and say hello!Join up for her newsletter at http://bit.ly/2WpHlyK and receive a free short story!Clare also writes as Stella Shaw and launched her Love at the Haven series of rent boy romances in 2021.Website + blog: http://www.clarelondon.com / stellashawauthor.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/clarelondonTwitter: https://twitter.com/clare_londonGoodreads: http://bit.ly/2lNSfC2Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/author/clarelondonBookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/clare-londonInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/clarelondon11/Quids&Quills: http://www.quidsandquills.com (accountancy for UK authors)

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Perfection

By Clare London

Published by JMS Books LLC

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Copyright 2012 Clare London

ISBN 9781611523850

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Perfection

By Clare London

Vic Ellison had been away from work since the end of the summer, and no one knew where he’d gone or why. The office gossip ranged between him getting run over by a truck, going to jail, or being abducted by aliens. The whole speculation thing just made me laugh, of course. It’d never be anything as outrageous as that, because he just wasn’t the kind of person those things happened to. After a few weeks, I doubt many of the staff gave him any further thought.

I’d thought I was the same. But, to my surprise, I missed him.

It was a shock to us all when he came back to work months later with no prior notice, and as our new manager, too. He walked straight into the staff room in the middle of lunch break—we were putting up the Halloween decorations for the staff party at the end of the month. He had a grin that was obviously pitched at firm yet friendly management, and he shook a few hands. He took some teasing from the girls with good humour, though considering they’d been so dismissive about him before, the new respect in their manner was pretty hypocritical. Then he turned to speak to me in that