Country Boy, City Man

Chapter 5

Harrison stood frozen then blinked severaltimes while trying to comprehend the situation. Carson was sitting in his deskchair with a lean blond man leaned over his back with his hands in Carson’sslacks.

“Oh,” Harrison gasped, “Oh my gosh, I’m sosorry for interrupting something. Um, I’ll go now” Harrison turned his face tothe floor and turned bright red, his heart ached a little as he closed the doorbehind him. Carson stood up to go after him, but his arm was caught by Lukas.

“Carson you hardly know the kid” Lukasstated, “Do you really have crush on him? Is he even gay?”

“I don’t know,” Carson admitted, “Lukas Ihaven’t been in the game in six years. I don’t know if I like him, but he deservesan apology for walking in on something he shouldn’t have seen. Didn’t you sayyou locked the door?”

“I guess I forgot,” Lukas shrugged butpulled Carson back to face him, “The kid will get over it. C’mon baby I haven’tseen you in like months. If you end up having a crush on him I’ll personallyapologize,” Lukas moved to pull open the button of Carson’s slacks, “Stay,please”

“We really shouldn’t” Carson breathed out,lips only millimeters away from Lukas’, “I should get back to work.”

Lukas didn’t say anything.

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Lukas ran his fingers through Carson’s messybed hair and leaned over to kiss the redhead’s temple, “come on sleeping beauty,you have to go to work today.”

Carson groaned and pushed his face furtherinto the soft pillow. After yesterday he felt like he could sleep for an entireweek. He was exhausted both mentally and physically. Lukas had closed them upin Carson’s office and then got the red head to take him back to the apartmentwhere they continued to spend time together.

Carson didn’t know if spending the nightwas originally part of Lukas’ plan, but he never really knew what to expectwith the blond, so he just let it go.

“I’m just going to call in sick” Carsonmumbled.

“Don’t you have an important meeting?”Lukas stood up straight and walked to the closet to pull one of Carson’s dressshirts from the hanger.

“Andre is going to know that’s mine,”Carson rolled over on his back and watched Lukas move around the bright room.

Lukas threw the shirt over his shouldersand began to button it up, “once again, Andre doesn’t control me,” he repeated,“he could catch us literally going at it without a care and I still wouldn’tgive a damn. He knows the second he tries to dictate what I do is the second Iwalk out the door.”

“Is he still okay with us doing thisthough?” Carson asked carefully, his stomach going tight as he thought of goingbehind one of his closest friends back and sleeping with his husband.

“Of course,” Lukas grinned, “as much as Ipreach about being free to do whatever I want, I wouldn’t cheat on him. You’rethe only person other than him a sleep with and he’s okay with that, especiallywhen we all get together,” Lukas wiggled his eye brows suggestively, “Now getup and shower, you smell like sex.”

“I don’t want to!” Carson whined, andLukas rolled his eyes at the man’s dramatics.

“If you get up right now I’ll makepancakes for breakfast,” Lukas promised.

“Have I ever told you how much I loveyou,” Carson drooled at the thought of Lukas’ perfectly fluffy pancakes.

“Yes,” Lukas shook his head in amusement,“now don’t make me whip you”.

“You couldn’t if you wanted to” Carsonretorted.

“Shut up” Lukas stuck his tongue out and Carsonsat up in bed, sheets still covering his dignity. He reached onto the bedsidetable and grabbed his phone. He had a few messages from Kate reminding himabout the meeting today and emails about the merger. He did notice a messagefrom Harrison that made his blood run cold.

Areyou alright sir? You left early yesterday.

Carson smiled at the hint of worry in thetext from his intern. Harrison reminded Carson of a younger Lukas, always eagerto please. To be fair, Harris was much less sassy than Lukas, but they sharedthe same determination to be successful. Carson drifted off in thought abouthis younger intern and he found himself reliving the Christmas kiss.

Carson shook his head and texted Harrisback – I’m fine. I have a meeting thismorning and want you to sit in on it. Please wear your best clothes, Carson J-.he finally slid out of bed just to get a phone call. Andre was calling him forapparently the second time that morning and Carson unplugged his phone from thecharger to answer it.

“Hey,” Carson answered and strode off tothe master bathroom.

“Is Lukas with you?” Andre asked quickly,worry in his panicked voice.

“Yeah, don’t worry he’s been helping menot lose my s**t since yesterday. He suggested that the three of us gettogether soon,” Carson held his phone between his chin and shoulder as hestarted his shower.

“In a normal way or a Lukas way? Also, hisPA called and told me to tell him his meeting is canceled so he can take theday off if he wants” Andre said.

“I have no idea what he’s thinking aboutand alright, I’ll relay the message to him” Carson said, “now I got to showerand get to work so I’ll talk to you later.”

“Alright, bye, keep Lukas out of trouble”Andre joked.

“No promises big guy, bye!” Carson endedthe call and stepped into the warm shower, happily easing into the heat.

"Was that my very clingy husband?" Lukas called from the kitchen.

"Yeah, your meeting today is canceled, come hang out at the office withme,” Carson yelled over the thrum of water.

"Sounds nice,” Lukas responded.

"Kay" Carson finished the conversation with a short but meaningfulanswer, he grabbed his towel and dried himself off. He slipped a three-piecesuit on and left his tie undone. When he walked into the kitchen Lukas was in apair of his slacks, a gray button up and an undone blue tie.

Carson wrapped his arms around the man and tucked his chin into the crook ofLukas neck, "you look hot in my clothes"

"I look hot in anything" Lukas teased, "c'mon eat up then wehave to go"

"Okie dokie!" Carson mocked, and Lukas frowned.

They ate in a snarky air and they teased each other the whole time, theybrushed their teeth together and Carson called his driver, telling him to bethere in 5 minutes.

"Think we could f**k in the car?" Lukas wiggled his eyebrows.

"Lukas no, I have work to do and someone to introduce you to,” Carsonchuckled, the thought did cross his mind, but he was cleaned up and would be inbig trouble if he ended up missing his meeting because he decided to play hookywith the blond.

"ugh meeting people,” Lukas rolled his eyes and waved his hand in mockdismissal.

"Says the marketing mastermind" Carson rolled his eyes knowingthat Lukas met with hundreds of new people daily and loved it. The blondthrived on social attention.

They arrived at Carson's office just in time, Kate smiled when she saw Lukasthey held a minute long ‘nice to see you’ conversation before Carson draggedhim into his office. Lukas went over the agreement that Carson would bepresenting to the Chinese business man coming to meet with him.

"You're too tense" Lukas said sitting on Carson's desk and pullingCarson between his legs, running his fingers through the read head’s hair,"calm down baby" Lukas kissed Carson's jaw before his lips metCarson's, Carson happily took control, grabbing the back of Lukas neck andturning his head to get a better angle.

"Sir I made your coffee for you..." Harris walked in and Carsonremoved his lips from Lukas.

"Thank you Harris" he smiled, and Harrison blushed, he couldn'tstop the slight tingles that spread through his body after seeing his bosskissing another man…again.

"Would you like another cup for your guest?" Harris smiled properlybut felt a twinge of annoyance in his heart.

"I don't drink coffee" Lukas said turning to see Harrison,"I'm Lukas by the way, I'm a marketing director for Feather Publishing, andwas just reviewing the agreement that Carson is proposing today"

"I'm happy to see Sir in a relationship with someone who seems to haveit all in hand"

"Relationship, ha!" Lukas laughed.

"Wow way to hurt a guy,” Carson rolled his eyes and crossed his armsover his chest.

"Andre would kill you if I left him for you, you know he would too"

"Yeah the damn guy was raised in the streets of queens,” Carson said,“I wouldn’t mess with him if my company depended on it”

"I'm sorry I'm a bit confused,” Harris interjected.

"Carson is a free man kid, feel free to take a swing,” Lukas smirked,trying to push the situation into motion.

"Lukas!" Carson snapped, and Harrison blushed frantically.

"I-I have something to check" he scurried out of the room and intothe storage closet, desperately looking for something to do. He found a booklabeled 2010 and opened it, hoping it was mess and not organized, god must havebeen on his side because sure enough, the box was a mess, and he happily sighedand started to sort the paper by date and relevance to each other.

When the door swung open he looked at Carson who just frowned at him, “whatare you doing?"

"Filing" Harrison said surprisingly calm when facing his boss.

"You and I have a meeting to go to, and by the way, don't take anythingLukas says to heart, he and I have been friends for over 20 years, he's a prickbut he means well"

"I understand sir" Harrison stood up and smoothed out his blazer,Carson looked him up and down and bit his lip slightly, "sir?"

"You look good, nice suits look good on you"