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Jeremiah

The key card wasn’t working in the lock Of course it wasn’t No good deed went unpunished Shifting his weight a bit so he was leaning on me even heavier didn’t help ainst the side of

Christ

The thought of having to put the guy down, take the elevator to the first floor to talk to so the key, just to have to co It had been a mistake to help out Shawn, a classuest at the hotel I was there as an escort, and people heard that and thought prostitute withouta beat And while that had certainly been me at one point, that part of my life had been over for the past four years

I should have stayed ho with me because he was out of friends and so turned toout about hoas stuck in Tahoe and “Could I do hie favor?” It would be easy, he’d said, just a nicemore than that The fact that my bike needed some work—it elve years old, after all—hadn’t hurt his chances of h Zack, otnever sat ith uy with a wife and four kids; he couldn’t afford not to get paid If I could get theit would blow up on the freeith me on it

It had made sense to ride the twenty-five , where I lived, change into o sit in the bar and wait for Mark—all Shawn got was a first nalanced eous but because, as a rule, guys ere away from ho for sex I’d been told many times that places they frequented on business—Manhattan, Atlanta, Denver, Orlando, Los Angeles, San Francisco—forget it, they would never pick soain when they returned with business colleagues or, heaven forbid, when they were vacationing with their families or their partners It was far too risky But Sacra me up to their room, because ere the chances they’d ever be back if they didn’t have to be It wasn’t a tourist destination unless you were dying to see the state capitol

By nine o’clock,to buy me drinks, but no one who asked if uy was a no-show His call to me was a surprise

“Hey, sorry, man The client just texted Gina, my scheduler, and said his wife showed up outta the blue to surprise him”

Cheater Classy

“Gina wanted o meet someone else, but I told her it was too late already She was cool with that, so—” He took a breath “—sorry to waste your time”