My Rival Is My Anonymous Hookup novel · Chapter 5 of 24

Chapter 5: The Dark Back

Gojo hit the light switch, and the whole room went white.

Ren stood at the far end of the table with his jacket buttoned over his open trousers.

He held a marker.

Tomoya was at the whiteboard with his back to the door and his shirt hanging out, stabbing a finger at a slide number.

"No," he said loudly, "the store count is NOT a rounding error, Kisaragi!"

"It's one hundred and four stores!" Ren said. "It's an average!"

"It is a lie with a decimal point!"

Gojo stood in the doorway with a paper cup in his hand, and his whole round face lit up.

"There it is," he said. "That's what I like to hear."

Tomoya was breathing hard, which helped.

"Sorry, Director," Ren said. "We lost track of time."

"Don't apologize. Fight." Gojo glanced at the ceiling lights, at Tomoya's untucked shirt, at the tie lying ruined across the table, and his smile did not change by a hair. "Hot in here, isn't it?"

"The air conditioning," Tomoya said.

"Broken, yes. Terrible." He sipped his coffee. "Listen, you two. Daikoku's buyer, Okabe-san, rang me this afternoon. She wants to meet both of you in Osaka next Wednesday before she'll look at a single slide."

"Both of us," Ren said.

"Together. She doesn't like salesmen who can't stand in the same room. Shinkansen at eight. My secretary will send the tickets."

"Together," Tomoya repeated, in the voice of a man being offered a hanging.

"Behave," Gojo said, and left whistling.

The door shut.

Tomoya turned and looked at Ren.

Ren started laughing again, silently, with a hand over his mouth.

"He knows," Tomoya said.

"He doesn't know."

"He looked at your tie."

"He looked at it the way he looks at everything. Like it's about to make him money." Ren wiped his eyes. "Thursday."

"What?"

"Thursday, nine o'clock. The Rosario. I'll book a different room." His eyes went quiet. "If you want."

Tomoya wanted.

That was the trouble.

On Thursday the front desk gave Tomoya the key to room 412, and this time the dimmer worked.

He had brought a black satin sleep mask in his coat pocket, and he had carried it around the office all day.

Ren came in a minute after him.

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