“I hope you never get enough of me.” Jeff leaned into the touch, closing his eyes and sighing.
“Maybe in the next ninety or a hundred years I may reach my fill of you, but certainly not before.”
“I love you, Craig.”
In answer Craig kissed him again, holding Jeff close, relishing the warmth and comfort his lover inevitably brought whenever they were together.
“We need to get to work. We need to see if anyone paid for a profile.” Jeff panted as he opened his eyes and pulled away from Craig.
“I know, but touching you is so much more gratifying.”
“Maybe celebratory sex will be next on our agenda. In fact, I’m sure it will be. Unfortunately, we can’t find out if we get our treat if you don’t turn on that thing and check.” Jeff winked, patting the top of the monitor.
Craig huffed. “You’d better be right.” Reluctantly dropping his hand from Jeff’s toned arm, Craig turned on the computer and entered the password to log on. As the screen came to life, Jeff laced their fingers together.
“This has to be a success. It has to. We deserve it.”
“We do?”
“We’ve waited so long. Now we finally have a life together, the business should go hand in hand. I just know this was meant to be.”
“Sounds a bit overly romanticized to me.”
Jeff shook his head, but the grin remained on his face. “You’re definitely still a work in progress, Craig.”
Nodding, Craig opened up the program to check the progress of The Male Room. He hoped to find a few new additions added to the profiles Craig had submitted for Jeff and himself, now listed as a success story on the site. They had left the experimental files posted to make it seem like others had already made submissions. Jeff had coded the fake profiles to only match with other test entries to avoid customer disappointment.
“Here we go.” Clicking the accounting portion of the program, Craig’s eyes widened. In the five hours since the online company had been opened up to the world over six hundred new profiles had been added from all over the United States and Canada.
Jumping out of his chair, Jeff nearly knocked the tea all over the desk. “Holy shit! We did it. Look at all the activity.” He pointed to the screen as if Craig wasn’t already glued to it.
“It’s crazy, I can’t believe it. The numbers keep jumping up and up. Four more just submitted profiles.”
“There are a lot of lonely people out there.” Jeff sat down, his voice quiet. “I was once one of them.”
“You were never lonely. I’ve never seen anyone more popular than you.”
Jeff took Craig’s hand and placed it over his heart. The contact with his partner’s bare chest made Craig freeze. “In here. I didn’t know if I’d ever be able to fill the empty place in here.”
Craig lowered his eyes, unable to look into Jeff’s intense blues. “I think I understand.” Shaking his head, he continued. “I know I understand. I’m just slow at recognizing what I need.”
“And what’s that?” Jeff whispered and then rolled his lips inward.
“You’re fishing, but that’s okay.” Craig smiled and braved facing his partner. “It’s you, of course. It’s been you from the start.” Feeling the strong heartbeat, coupled with his own need and desire, Craig wanted to fuck Jeff right then and there—no, not fuck, he wanted to possess him and let him know how deeply and completely he was loved.
Letting go of Craig’s hand, Jeff blinked and turned, directing his attention back to the computer. Scrolling the newly added profiles from the morning, he started to chuckle.
“What’s so funny? Did someone go too far when lying on their profile?”
Jeff shook his head and pointed. “Look who signed up using the special coupon we designed for him.”
Squinting slightly, Craig read the name. “Sam! I can’t believe it.”
“I’m glad he gave it a shot. He deserves a good man.”
“With an appetite like his, he’ll need a good, hot man.” Craig snorted. “But he can’t have mine.”
“Never again.” Jeff rested his head on Craig’s shoulder as the two browsed through the activity on their site. It was riddled with more and more hits. Several new profiles were submitted in the short time they sat silently, side by side, watching the accounting log continue to update.
Craig had no idea how long they’d been watching when the phone rang. It was their landline. Sitting closest to the cordless phone, Craig picked it up. “Hello.”
“Good morning. I wanted to be the first to congratulate you on a great start.”
“How did you know it was great?”
“Because, as I’m sure you both know by now, I submitted a profile a couple of hours ago, and I already have eight responses.”
“Well, you do have all the requirements for a night to remember.” Craig snorted.
“Check out my picture; I’m fully dressed. I didn’t go for the full monty.”
“But look at your hands. Any guy worth a dime will know with hands that big you must have an equally—”
“Craig, shut the hell up.” Sam chuckled. “Remember, if I have a good experience, I’ll be recommending your business to a lot of others, so you’d better stay on my good side, or I might actually charge you for all the work we’ll be doing together to keep your business legit.”
Laughing, Craig handed the phone to Jeff. “Sam wants to congratulate us, and I think he’s bragging about all his hits too.”
“Hi, honey.”
….
“I know. You do have a beautiful and caring expression. Extremely handsome.”
….
Jeff chuckled more and more. Craig stood up, suddenly uncomfortable listening to his friend and lover talking. “Hold on a minute, Sam, Craig’s green-eyed monster is showing.”
“Why the hell did you say that?” Craig’s eyes widened.
“Because it’s true. Whenever I talk to a hot hunk who you know I may have been close with in
