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Erotic Fiction — Romance

My Affair With My Manager — Chapter 1

Erotic Romance F/M

Warnings: Cheating, themes of domestic abuse and neglect.

I had been working at the shop for a while now, and had fallen head over heels for my manager. Ethan was a tall, dark and handsome man in his earlier years of middle-age, and he was fit. I remember watching him change shirts one day. He had left the door to his office ajar and I was sticking price tags on items in the backstore. His pecs were just the right amount of taut and his arms strong enough to protect.

I often wondered if he had noticed the times I complimented him, the way I blushed when he complimented me. I would get lost in his gaze and melt. He always made me flustered when we were alone. We joked, I tried to hint, and my heart would skip beats when he offered me his wide beautiful smile.

But what could he do? I was spoken for, trapped in a relationship I stayed in out of habit and out of fear, committed to a man who was as physically absent as he was emotionally distant.

Try as I may to get my boyfriend, Brent, to show me affection, he only did when it suited him. He would sometimes get verbally nasty when he was drunk, which happened a lot, and he had not shown me any form of real affection or intimacy in…