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    Accidentally His
    Accidentally His
    Accidentally His
    Ebook66 pages50 minutes

    Accidentally His

    By Shawn Lane

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    Kirk Matheson rides the bus to work several times a week, intrigued by the attractive and quiet bespectacled man he typically sits behind. One day when the bus crashes during a storm, Kirk finally meets the shy stranger, Elijah Cartwright. Kirk stays with a seriously injured Elijah until the rescuers arrive.

    After Elijah’s recovery, Kirk makes a date with Elijah. Though an unfortunate event brought them together, can they find their way to happiness?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJMS Books LLC
    Release dateAug 13, 2016
    ISBN9781634862417
    Accidentally His
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    Shawn Lane

    Shawn Lane is a multi-published author of gay romance. She lives and works in Southern California. She has been published by Loose Id, Amber Quill Press, Evernight Publishing, MLR Press, JMS Books, and Ellora’s Cave. For more information, visit smlgr8.blogspot.com.

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      2.5 stars I didn't really like Kirk. You can't like someone for months, finally ask them out, take them to dinner, invite yourself into their apartment, tell them you've been watching them and interested in them for months, talk them into having sex, go to work with a promise to call, and NOT mention that you have a date set up for later that week. Yeah it was set up before you even knew you'd be going out with the person you've been watching on the bus, but you have to at least tell the guy about it, and in all reality, if you really liked the guy from the bus for months and you had a date and you got sex from him... then you should have cancelled the date with the random guy you met at some business thing a few weeks ago. And then when the guy that you "supposedly" really like calls, and you're on a date with someone else and he asks if it's a business dinner... you can't just gloss over it with a no and ask him out for the weekend. I don't trust Kirk at all, and I think Elijah was too quick in forgiving him. I know they didn't talk about being exclusive, but what Kirk did was really shady, and he knew it was shady, which is why he DIDN'T tell Elijah about it!

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    Accidentally His - Shawn Lane

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    Chapter 1

    Kirk Matheson tapped on his steering wheel in time to the music blaring from his car radio. He pulled into a parking space and turned off the engine. The time on the car digital clock read 6:18 A.M. He turned off the radio and got out of his car to wait for the bus with the rest of the passengers. A handful stood near the curb waiting for the commuter bus to arrive.

    He’d been riding the bus into work for a few months now, hoping to make his little compact car last for another year before he’d have to get a new one. It had hit one hundred thousand miles earlier that year. Unfortunately, he couldn’t ride the bus every day due to the demands of his job, but he managed two or three times a week if he didn’t have to travel with his boss.

    Kirk was starting to find his job somewhat tedious. He was only twenty-eight and had little time for any sort of social life. He hadn’t wanted to be someone’s assistant as a career, even a decent paid one.

    On the other hand, he wasn’t exactly ambitious enough to go back to school and learn what he needed to become somebody else’s boss. It was all so irritating.

    The bus had just crossed the railroad tracks up ahead and would be stopping in front of them in just a couple of minutes. He eyed the others gathered waiting. He’d become familiar enough with them to know where on the bus they usually chose to sit and so they were no threat to his own chosen seat. But there was a middle-aged woman he didn’t recognize, also waiting in the group.

    If she sat where Kirk liked to sit, he supposed he’d have to live with it and make sure he arrived earlier the next time. The bus stopped and he allowed the others to enter through the doors ahead of him, watching the woman and hoping she would bypass the second seat on the left.

    He tried not to exhale too loudly when she passed his coveted seat and kept going to the back of the bus. Stupid, really. But he did like that seat and looking at the back of the head of the rather nerdy-looking guy in the first seat. Kirk passed the guy, noticing he had his little notebook computer on his lap as usual. He slid into the seat behind him.

    Kirk didn’t know his nerd’s name. Or even when he had started to think of him as his. Hell, the dude never even glanced his way when Kirk got on the bus or walked by him. He just sat there, punching keys on the laptop, black ear buds stuck firmly into his little pale pink ears.

    Shaking his head, Kirk reached for his own distraction from the drive, his iPod. Eventually, he’d doze on the forty minute ride into work—should only take about thirty minutes but the bus was slow and made stops. First, he took a moment to stare at his nerd’s creamy neck. It was perfection, really. Not a flaw to be found, at least that Kirk could see. He kept his chocolate brown hair trimmed quite short in a straight line, revealing much of that peaches and cream skin.

    Kirk sighed. He only wished the guy didn’t grease back his hair. He had this feeling the nerd’s hair was a mass of curls if it hadn’t been straightened and slicked back. Before noticing this guy on the bus, Kirk didn’t even know guys still greased their hair.

    Moving his gaze reluctantly from the perfect neck, he glanced at his nerd’s ears. And really, he did feel bad about thinking of him as his nerd. But what was he supposed to call him? When he mentioned him to his best friend he referred to him as MN, my nerd. He wondered what the man would look like without the wire-rimmed glasses. Kirk didn’t even know his eye color.

    Kirk stuck his ear buds in his ears, turned on his iPod and looked out the window. It had started to rain in the ten minutes or so since the bus left the stop. Which made Kirk very glad his boss would be working from home today and he could take the bus in. Southern California freeways in a rainstorm were just a nightmare.

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