Dating Rules And Pretty Fools Ch. 13
Date: 2/3/2024,
Categories:
Gay Male,
Author: bylaurasfox
... all?"
"Yeah, after a while. Maybe he was just testing me? I don't know. Probably he gets calls like that every day, and he didn't want to be taken for a dope."
"What was your mom to him?" Hudson asked, pretending to make conversation for conversation's sake and nothing else, while he continued to watch the room for signs of any wrongdoers.
"Momma didn't say, and he didn't either," Jackie replied. "But I bet that they knew each other well enough for him to pick me up from the street like that and give me a roof over my head."
"You mentioned that you worked the stage, too." Hudson didn't want to believe that Watkins would put his own kid -- if that was the relationship he had with Jackie -- up to that kind of work, but he had seen too many monsters in his life to be too surprised by anything.
"It was for a short while. I liked it, but then, you know, those boys got to serve the more generous patrons, and that was something the boss didn't think I was up for."
"Why not? I'd say you're pretty enough," Hudson said and offered Jackie a crooked smile. Yeah, the little asshole wasn't bad to look at. Hopefully, Otis didn't think the same. Damn, he really needed to get his head screwed on right or he risked losing it. Thinking of his cute neighbor out of the blue led him down a dangerous path.
"Not 'boy pretty' enough, though," Jackie explained. "I mean, I have these guns." He flexed his biceps although he had his usual suit on. "Men who pay don't like guys like ...
... me. They want the weaker type, you know, all innocent and stuff. Like my Otis."
Hudson turned his head away from Jackie so fast that he heard the bones crack.
"What? Some drunk scumbag causing trouble?" Jackie asked and moved closer to stare in the same direction.
"Nah, I just thought I saw some guy I know," Hudson offered as an explanation and moved a smidge away as a measure to control himself.
Jackie snickered. "A guy like you, I bet you've seen plenty of action. Be on the lookout for jealous exes, right?" He elbowed Hudson in a friendly gesture. The poor schmuck had no idea how close he was to getting a fat lip.
"So, you weren't fit for playing the innocent boy for the big buyers?" Hudson chose to steer the conversation back to what he considered safe ground.
"Yeah. Although I liked the attention, to give it to you straight. I mean, I even had a regular. The guy was a bit of a weirdo, but he paid." Jackie rubbed his fingers together in a suggestive manner.
"And why did the boss give up on this lucrative relationship that you had with the guy? I suppose he gets the lion's share of what you boys make."
Jackie seemed pensive for a bit. Hudson briefly examined the frown etched between those dark eyebrows. "Yeah, he does. That was why he surprised me a little when he pulled me off of doing that kind of work. I was good at it. Anyway, as I said, that guy was sort of giving me the creeps sometimes. Better off, I guess."
Hudson felt his nostrils flaring. ...