Rent

By Victoria Eastlake

Carrie quits her office manager job but cannot afford the rent on her Chicago apartment. She’s also frustrated because her boyfriend, Jonah, won’t touch her. But the apartment superintendent, Milos, cuts a deal with her to take care of her rent. Will she accept?

Rent is a 7,000 word short story exploring strong sexual themes. Only for readers 18 and older.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vivian Eastwood
• Release date: Sep 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005274825

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Rent

by

Victoria Eastlake

copyright 2021 by Victoria Eastlake

Chapter 1

After taking a shower, Carrie put on a pantsuit and hoop earrings as if she were headed into the dental office, where she worked as the office manager. In reality, she had quit her job in a huff on Friday.

Her boss, Micah, had accused her of being late on a project, when he had actually given her the wrong deadline. This was only one of countless hassles and insults Carried had endured over the years, and she had walked out at her lunch break. She was supposed to tell Jonah that she quit over the weekend. But now it was Monday, and she had pretended to get dressed as if she still had a job.

Once her boyfriend Jonah left the apartment in the morning, Carrie got undressed and slipped into her yoga pants. She then walked down the street to buy a chai latte at Starbucks, which she couldn’t really afford. Carrie’s $2,400 a month salary went to pay the rent on their absurdly priced loft apartment in Chicago’s Lincoln Park. The rent ate up her entire check, and she could barely make minimum monthly payments on her massive credit card balance.

She really should go into her job, make some excuse for leaving on Friday. As she took her first sip of the latte, she realized it was not too late. She could claim an emergency kept her at home—a pipe burst—or that the bus was late.

When she got back to the apartment, however, she didn’t jump back into her pantsuit. Instead, she masturbated.

Jonah hadn’t touched her in months because he was so stressed by his studies. He was a third-year graduate student in an engineering program, practically guaranteed a six figure salary when he finally graduated. But he still had several years left on his course of study and needed to write a dissertation on something involving aerodynamics. Right now, Carrie’s salary supported the two of them; naturally, she was incredibly stressed.

Two stressed people should have sex. Instead,