Title: After Hours
Series: After Hours, Book One
Author: Emjay Haze
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Length: 90300
Genre: Contemporary, LGBT, Contemporary,romance,waiter,nightclub,businessman,chef
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Synopsis
Alex Michaels is a successful manager for a Wall-Street financial firm and lives in a beautiful hi-rise apartment overlooking Central Park. Anyone looking in from the outside would say Alex has it made, especially his working-class parents who wanted more for their only son.
Nick is working his way through graduate school with dreams of becoming a teacher so he can help kids like himself. With his parents cutting him off and leaving him with nothing but a student apartment and low self-esteem, he’s determined to make something of himself in spite of them.
Even Nick’s club friends think Alex is too good for him, but Alex keeps showing Nick how worthy he is. Alex learns a lot from Nick, too—how not to give up on his dreams.
The women, who’d finished ordering were staring at him, as well as the waiter, who wore a sexy-as-fuck smirk on his face. Alex quickly recovered. “Can you recommend something?” Alex flirted. Seriously? He cringed, hoping that the floor would swallow him up at that moment, and no one would notice the raging hard-on he now sported, perving over the waiter. Fuck, he was hot.
“I’ve got just the thing, sexy.” The waiter flirted right back. He thinks I’m sexy? Nah. He probably says that to everyone.
The flirting waiter shook his ass as he walked away. Alex thought he might come in his pants, but Belinda and the girls’ hysterical gawking diffused his situation and he hoped they would let the moment pass.
No such luck. “Oh, my God, you have the hots for the waiter, don’t you?” Barb blurted, her hand flying to her face.
Great. Alex shrugged, trying to recover a small part of his dignity. “He seems nice, I guess.”
Hannah and Jill snickered. “Well, I think he’s gorgeous.” Belinda patted Alex’s thigh. So did Alex, but he didn’t want to give them the satisfaction of nailing his type. It was none of their busybody business.
“We’ll find you someone,” Belinda said, tapping his knee.
“Is that what tonight’s about?”
“Of course not, boss.” She didn’t sound convincing. “I thought it would be nice for you to get out. I’m pretty sure you work late every night, am I right?” She was right. “Besides, we wanted to check it out.”
Alex was sure she meant check out the hot guys, but that’s why he was here too, so who was he to judge?
He did stay late every night to get work done, which was much easier without the constant distractions he endured all day long between his staff and his boss. But Belinda was right; he was lonely. He wouldn’t admit it to this bunch, though. They’d probably take it as a mission to get him laid. He could do that on his own, thank you very much. He could… Okay, so he hadn’t dated much in the last five years—hardly at all. God, he was pathetic.
The waiter brought their drinks over. Barb and Jill ordered white wine, Hannah a Tequila Sunrise and Belinda a Mango Mojito. Cutie served the women’s drinks first then stood next to Alex, handing him the prettiest cocktail he’d ever seen, with an even prettier smile.
“What is this?” Alex asked, picking up the tall hi-ball glass while eyeing the reddish pink concoction.
“It’s an After Hours specialty,” he answered in a sexy whisper. “Absolut Vodka, watermelon liquor, cranberry juice—and something extra I can’t mention.”
Fuck, his voice is sexy.
Alex took a sip and moaned. “God, that’s good.”
The waiter came a little closer. “I call it a Tight Puckered Anus.” He emphasized each syllable of the three-worded name. Alex shivered at the proximity to the hot waiter, wondering what the secret ingredient was.
After nearly choking, he looked the little minx in the eye and smirked. “I like it.”
“I knew you would,” he replied with a wink. “You all let me know if you need anything else. I’m Nick,” he added, then glided away, leaving Alex horny and satisfied at the same time.
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Emjay Haze is a pen name for a wife, mother, and writer of gay romance. She resides in Northern Virginia with her husband, two teenagers, a new puppy, cat, gecko, and several fish. She always loved writing and fell in love with the genre seven years ago after discovering the world of fanfiction. She went back to school to pursue a Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing from SNHU where she graduated in April, 2015, with a renewed desire of making her dreams of becoming a published author come true.
She has a wide and diverse work history in the fields of travel, hotel management, high-tech communications, web development, real estate, and the nonprofit health care industry where she has held positions such as travel agent, hotel concierge, web programmer, Realtor, account manager, and many, many others, giving her a varied and unique set of experiences that she draws upon in her stories and characters. Her interests include music and pop culture, and she is an advocate for the LGBT community.
Her stories delve into all types of romantic relationships, regardless of sexuality, with a focus on first times and new encounters in a lighthearted style with a goal to gain a diverse readership and broaden the minds of those who might not normally pick up an LGBTQ romance because it’s more about the person than the sexuality. She’ll take you on a roller-coaster journey, but you’ll always get a happy ending.
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