Daniel Brown is a man of routine. You might even call him a control freak. So when the new Director of Marketing, Ryan Cole, starts shaking up Daniel’s routine, Daniel doesn’t know how to react. He finds Ryan intriguing, infuriating and oh so attractive, but he doesn’t mix business with pleasure. As their games start to grow kinkier, dare Daniel give in to his desire to let Ryan top him?
Delayed Gratification
by Tamryn Eradani
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Book Info
Author: Tamryn Eradani
Series: Daniel and Ryan
Release Date: January 16, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-945952-47-0
Format: ePub, Mobi, PDF
Cover Artist: Natasha Snow
Category: Erotica
Genre: Contemporary
Theme: BDSM
Word Count: 11300*
Pages: 28
Sex Content: Explicit
Pairing: MM
Orientation: Bisexual
Identity: Cisgender
Excerpt
Delayed Gratification
Tamryn Eradani © 2017
All Rights Reserved
There’s another donut on his desk the next morning.
There isn’t even the slightest bit of temptation this time as Daniel picks it up and deposits it on Tracy’s desk. She ate yesterday’s donut, and he doesn’t doubt she’ll eat this one too. Personally, he would never eat something a stranger left on his desk, but he explained the mysteriously appearing donut and she chose to eat it anyway.
He sets the donut down on Tracy’s desk and notices a light on, on the other side of the room, across three rows of cubicles. One of the driving forces behind Daniel’s desire to get promoted was the thought of having an office of his own, of not being hemmed in by cubicle walls or surrounded by people who don’t know how to focus even though that’s what they’re paid to do.
Daniel’s usually the first person in every day and one of the last to leave, and he’s curious who else is here this morning.
He winds through cubicles until he can get a good look at the occupied office.
Ah, Ryan Cole.
He’s the new Director of Marketing, hired a month or maybe two months ago. Daniel had stopped by the welcoming party in between calls. His first call had been an average sale. The second ended in one of Daniel’s best sales this quarter. He’s hoping to get a mention at the next all-company meeting.
Daniel doesn’t remember anything about the welcoming party except a vague sense of distrust, because the man has two first names. One of them, ostensibly, is a last name, and Daniel knows you don’t have control over your last name, but it’s something that bothers him. He likes neat rows of boxes and everything to fit in its box.
A person should have a clear first name and a clear last name.
Ryan’s at his desk, dark head of hair the only thing visible as he fiddles with something at his desk.
With a Krispy Kreme bag.
Coincidence, Daniel tells himself, even though there was a donut on his desk this morning, and there’s only one other person in the office here right now, and that person happens to have a bag from a donut shop.
Bribe, maybe, he thinks next. Sales and marketing have always had a tumultuous relationship at best, and maybe the new guy is trying to fix that. Daniel should tell him bribery isn’t the way to go.
Ryan looks up from what he’s doing, and he catches Daniel staring.
Ryan smirks and holds Daniel’s gaze as he pulls a glazed donut out of the bag. Daniel doesn’t know where to look. The donut is dangerous, because his self-control is stretched thin after two days of denying himself something he wants. The man is even more dangerous.
There’s a knowing look in Ryan’s brown eyes, something that suggests this isn’t a bribe either. It’s something else, something deeper, and Daniel shuts that train of thought down right away. It’s not that. He wouldn’t suggest—he couldn’t know—he…
No, Daniel tells himself firmly.
“Good morning,” he tells Ryan, as if that had been the purpose of his cross-office trip, and then he promptly returns to his own office.
He pulls the blinds to the interoffice windows and sits down in front of his laptop.
It takes him 2.4 minutes to put Ryan out of his mind.
Truus –
Daniel and Ryan
As a very neat punctual primly person Daniel is distressed when there is out of nowhere a donut on his desk.
Understandable how he reacts in his situation….it’s not his donut…
When he finds out the donut is from his colleague Ryan he is even more distressed because it takes to much valuable minutes to process this. Ryan is friendly, funny and hot. He understands Daniel fully and knows his needs. He ask him over for dinner…..
The anticipation….omg…. that was killing, what Daniel’s eyes see, what his mind is thinking, what his body wants…. and what he finally gets…..*hand fanning*
When he plays it well, the prize in front of him is his…..or not
Both endearing personalities, not softy but strong. Ryan easy going and Daniel stiff and rigid both so very lovable
Amazing smooth read, exactly written down in the way how the situation is at that specific moment, you can feel how it precisely matched. I could almost hear the background orchestra synchronously with the words, staccato when everything is clear and legato when it’s flowing.
It was a delicious read, I loved it!!
I’m thrilled …there is more coming ….because i’m so not finished with Daniel and Ryan.
“That’s the thing about his self-control. When it’s on, it’s on. And when it’s not, well…”
ARC received from Divine Magazine given by NineStar Press
MabNamer –
The erotic, seductive and fascinating primarily silent communication of needs between two men who are learning that their personalities and desires may possibly bring synergy.
Daniel is a rigid, controlled individual with every possible thing operationalized into standard work down to the second. He is tidy and compulsive. Everything is standard, even his workout route on alternating days when one day he arrived at work to find a donut on his desk. This is not scheduled for his intake for today. Who did this? Is it a joke? He is the director of sales and everyone knows that he is a creature of habit, of routine. His lunch time is sacrosanct and no one.ever. enters his office during the 20 minutes, timed, to eat his lunch. The routine is critical. Until Ryan walks into his office, without knocking, without permission. The interaction, conversation if you will call it that, broke his concentration for much longer than the lunch break.
Thus is the beginning of Daniel’s interactions with Ryan Cole, the new director of marketing.
Daniel prides himself on his self-control and while he is the master of his life at home and while at work, he does scene exclusively with two Doms at a local club. In that setting he is able to allow someone else to be in charge. His encounters with Ryan over the next few days lead him to believe that he might have something to offer Ryan and Ryan may be able to provide the mastery that he desperately needs. When they meet for dinner and conversation at Ryan’s house on a Friday evening, the conversation is awkward until Daniel makes it very clear that he “usually skips over the talking part and goes straight….to his knees. It takes everything in him to maintain his self-control as Daniel has learned from past experience that when he loses it, he loses it.
Book 1 of 5 in the Daniel and Ryan series provides the seductive introduction to the possibilities between these two men, each with needs that may possibly be answered by the other. 4.5 stars. My sincere appreciation to NineStar Press for the recommendation.
Adamness –
Daniel and Ryan’s relationships lacks the believability and maturity that I personally require to truly enjoy a tale of this sort. The erotic scenes read as something a young girl may fantasize adult men would enjoy, and I was pulled out of the fictional world time and again because of it. I wouldn’t recommend.