The Fitting

Some things fit better than you expect.

Reuben Madden is nineteen, a computer science student at Liverpool John Moores, and spending his summer filing paperwork for his grandfather's interior design firm. His days are predictable. Safe. He rides the same bus, drinks the same coffee, and avoids thinking too much about the girlfriend who's perfectly nice and the future that's already been mapped out for him.

Then he meets Enzo Calvetti in a slow lift on a Tuesday morning.

Enzo is fifty-something, Italian, impeccably dressed, and runs an import consulting business two floors up. He's charming in a way that makes Reuben nervous. The kind of man who notices things. Who looks at you like he's reading something interesting.

When Enzo offers Reuben a hundred quid to try on a pair of designer swim briefs during his lunch break, Reuben thinks it's a modeling gig. Easy money for fifteen minutes of awkwardness. He's wrong.

What happens in Enzo's office isn't modeling. It's an education.

Reuben discovers that being looked at by a man who wants him is completely different from being looked at by anyone else. That his body responds to things he didn't know it could respond to. That the version of himself he's been living as is only one possibility, and there are others he's never considered.

A tender, explicit, coming-of-age erotica about a young man's first summer of desire, and the older man who teaches him that sometimes the most important fitting is the one that helps you discover who you really are.