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Under contract part 5

PART1, PART 2, PART 3, PART 4.

The moodboard is created by @zhenya71​, you should also check out this amazing cover for this fic. My lovely (and super quick) beta is werebear. Thank you!

I’m sorry it’s taken me a while to finish this chapter. Your comments and love have made things better. I really appreciate your response to this fic. This chapter is around 3,4k words. No PKane, A bit of angst, though.

It’s been four weeks and Sidney is doing great. He’s been closing more clients than the past three months before the weekend conference. He’s doing great, because he spends more time in his office than he has since he was an associate.

He only thinks about Geno when he has time to himself, or when he’s been out drinking.

So he avoids both. It’s easy.

He’s doing great.

Well, up until Sully ambushes him at the coffee machine at 11:30 p.m. on a Wednesday and Sidney is beyond frustrated, because one of his clients keep doing the exact opposite of what he tells them to do.

“We’re hosting a dinner party next Friday. Kate wants to know if you and Geno would like to come?”

“Sure,” Sidney says, before he realizes what he’s responding to.

“I’ve been worried about you,” Sully says and removes Sidney’s coffee mug from the machine. Sidney hasn’t even notices that it’s stopped brewing. “You’re here when I come in for work, and you’re still here when I leave.”

“That’s because I work more hours than you,” he points out. Sully always takes one or two meetings with clients before he comes into the office, and he likes to go home in time for dinner with his wife, except for tonight, that is. Sully is a senior partner. He doesn’t have to prove himself.

“I’ve checked your tag logs, Sid.” Sully shakes his head. “You’re here at five-thirty in the morning, and you don’t leave until after midnight.”

Sidney holds his mug in his hands until his palms hurt from the heat. “Why would you look that up?”

“Because I’m worried. Because I knew something was up and I had to get my facts straight before I came to talk to you. Because I asked you just now, and you lie to me and pretend like you’re just working long days, and not like your life only consist of work.”

Sidney sighs. “I’m sorry.”

“I thought you and Geno had broken up, but now you just agreed to come to dinner next week.”

Fuck.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

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