Rent

The apartment seemed too good to be true: beautiful, safe, and close to work. Hannah can't afford the full rent being asked for, so to make up the difference, she spends one night every month with her landlord, Jonathon, when his wife is out of town. What was at first a business transaction has become a secret pleasure for her. But now Hannah's lost her job and she can't stay any longer. In order to delay the need to move home with her parents, she decides to spend one last night with Jonathon, and he's decided to pull out all the stops to make sure that it's a memorable one...

Excerpt:
I still remember how nervous I was the first time I fucked Jonathon. Not because I was overwhelmed by his good looks or worried about the fact that he was married, but because of the reason that he was asking me to his bed.

It was, plain and simple, a business transaction. When I’d mentioned that I couldn't afford the full rent amount that he was asking for a beautiful apartment so close to my job, he'd suggested I find another way to pay him.

Something I never thought I would ever resort to in my life. More than that, I'd assumed it would be temporary. I was a mere research assistant at the time, but I had ambition and was still basking in the high praise I'd received from all of my professors throughout my college career. I figured that it would only be a short amount of time before I managed to impress the powers-that-be enough to get a promotion.

And the apartment was in a perfect place, well-maintained and in a safe building. All of which I had been unable to find combined in any other rental.

Then the project I was working on was abruptly notified that it was going to be stripped of its funding, and there was no similar enough research project going on at the university that had an opening for anyone. I had to start looking for jobs outside of my field, but so far, hadn't had any luck.

And today had been my last day.

I probably should have made plans to leave, instead of answering Jonathon's message. His 'request' for my company while his wife was away on business tonight. Not that it was completely unexpected. That was our agreement: I was to spend one night with him a month, which would cover my rent shortfall for the next thirty days.

I had just enough to pay for the money side, without my body.

I didn’t need to do this now. I could walk away.

But I still had not admitted to my mother and stepfather just what had happened to my job, and I certainly didn’t want to end up living at home again. My stepfather probably would try to demand a similar price for the roof over my head that Jonathon did, and he was much less appealing.

At least with my landlord, I could honestly say that if we had met in other circumstances, if our situations had been different, I might have really liked him. Would have found him attractive and sexy.

And that was the one thing above everything else, that helped me to get through these monthly visits.

Or so I told myself.

I had to ring his doorbell. After these six months, I did not have a key to his place. I did not want one, though he had offered.

It helped me to remember that this wasn’t an affair.

It was business.

Survival.

The door opened. “Right on time.”

I did a bit of a double-take when I saw him. I’d gotten used to him greeting me on these nights in little more than his boxer shorts.

Tonight, he was dressed much as he had on our first night together, in a well-tailored suit and tie.

The sight made my knees weak and it took everything I had to keep my reactions from showing on my face as well as to move. To walk as if my legs were not threatening to give out from under me.

And got another sense of de ja vu when I looked around me. The dining room had been set for two, with candles and flowers everywhere.

Like a date.

Again, like that first time. When he’d seduced me.

Yes, that was the only way to describe what had happened. I’d expected it to be a quick and dirty deed, my body being just a convenient place for him to relieve his lust upon, but it hadn’t been like that at all.