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Slither (BoyxBoy)

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Summary

Lexus has three rules. Don't get attached. Don't get caught. Don't mistake the work for anything real. He's kept all three for two years working under Senator Callum Reed — gathering information by day and providing other services at night. It's a system. It works. He's very good at it. Then Callum sends him to The Obsidian to find the crack in Arthur Vance, a billionaire CEO just returned from London with something unfinished, and the system breaks. Arthur doesn't see leverage when he looks at Lexus. He sees someone operating several floors below their capacity. He offers a desk, a sight line, and the most dangerous thing Lexus has ever encountered: the patient, genuine attention of a man who wants to know who he actually is. But Lexus is still Callum's. And Callum's plan is already in motion. A document forwarded on a Thursday afternoon. A legal case delayed. A dead man named Kieran whose justice has been quietly, methodically pushed back — and the person responsible is sitting six feet from Arthur's office, reorganizing the filing system and discovering, against every survival instinct he's spent years sharpening, that he might want something real. Slithering is a slow burn literary romance set in the overlapping world of Washington politics and private capital. It's about the distance between being built and being given room. Between a man who loves what you'll do for him and a man who wants to know who you are. Between the person you perform and the person you become. It's about two powerful men and the twenty-three-year-old between them who is, slowly and without permission, becoming someone worth being. Content advisory: Mature themes, morally complex characters, political manipulation, slow burn romance (the payoff is real, and it's earned). First person POV. MM Romance. Literary fiction elements. Updated regularly.

Genre
Romance
Author
IanBleu
Status
Ongoing
Chapters
6
Rating
n/a
Age Rating
18+

Author's Note ♡

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Hey guys! Thank you for clicking on this story. All sorts of engagement really helps us authors. Hope you can do your big one and also vote and add to your library if you think you like this one. No pressure, loves!

Just for context, this book really tested my ability to curate complex characters that reacts to the world thrusted upon them. It’s my most ambitious project yet and I’ve spent years building and experiencing moments of life that I can pour to this project. It’s also one of the most mature projects I have ever created so far.

Ultimately, this book explores themes of having the agency to choose which path to take when abandonment was the only thing that was familiar your whole life. Then suddenly, someone comes in your life and roots for you and you barely know how to accept it or not take it suspiciously. It’s about reacting to the things that you thought was a privilege but should have been the bare minimum and learning how to own that as something that you deserve.

It’s also a romantic novel, of course. Ian Bleu is a romantic novelist through and through. It’s a slow burn, it takes awhile, but the payoff is gonna be so worth it. So I hope you hang in there, or not, no pressure.

I am sure you will love Lexus, Arthur, and Callum. ✿˚ ༘ ⋆。♡˚

Let’s go!

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