Slither (BoyxBoy)

Callum Reed sent me to seduce a billionaire.
Find the crack, he said. Come back in one piece.
I found something else instead.

My name is Lexus. I work for Senator Callum Reed - gathering information during the day and providing other services at night. I'm good at both. Good enough that when Callum needs leverage on Arthur Vance, the Wolf of a CEO just back from London with something to finish, I'm the one he sends in.

Arthur Vance doesn't behave like he's supposed to.

He doesn't take the bait. He doesn't fall for the performance. He looks past the bleached hair and borrowed confidence and says things like you're a genuinely uncommon mind being wasted on a genuinely small game - and then offers me a desk, a filing system, and the specific, devastating attention of a man who actually wants to know who I am.

The problem is that Callum's plan is still running. The document is already sent. The man Arthur came back to D.C. to get justice for - connected to a company called Voss, connected to a name Arthur breathed in the dark on the first night - his case has been quietly, efficiently delayed.

And the person who delayed it is sitting six feet from Arthur's office, catching spreadsheet variances and falling in love.

Both things are true. With me, it's always both things.

Slithering is a slow burn MM romance about the difference between being owned and being known. About a twenty-three-year-old who changed his name at eighteen and kept the one that meant falcon. About what it costs to tell the truth to the person who deserves it most.
The romance is real. The politics are ruthless. The mashed potatoes are legendary.

⚠️ Mature themes. Slow burn. MM Romance. Political thriller elements. This one takes its time - and it's worth it.