Things always break on Fridays. The damn furnace went out during the afternoon, and every repair place I called would not promise when they could get to me, as temperatures were only in the teens. Thoroughly warned about weekend overtime charges, I left my information with nearly ten companies across the downtown Boston area. I relayed the bad news to my wife when she called from much warmer Tennessee, where she was spending a couple weeks obtaining a new surgical certification at a teaching hospital.
About midnight I bundled up near our fireplace to sleep, and just as I drifted off my phone rang.
"This is Mike with G&N Services."
We spoke for a moment about the type of furnace I had, and he asked if I was available to let him in. "When will you be here?"
"I'm in fronna your house now," he replied in the classic New England accent.
Sure enough, an unmarked white van sat at the curb in front of the townhouse. For a moment it felt a little creepy that he was already there like a late night stalker, but maybe he lived nearby. Also I guessed this far up north these guys had to work all hours. I was grateful I would at least have heat, as the house was getting chilly.
Mike was a big guy, over six feet with a linebacker build. Once in the basement, he stripped off his worn parka down to a filthy red hoodie and jeans. The removal of his ski cap revealed that his blonde hair was short, and he had a short beard as well. He must have been in his late twenties, a little older than me. I offered coffee and delivered a mug to him as he knelt by the partially disassembled furnace, his shirt and jeans plastered with soot. His large hands were equally as soiled as he gripped the mug. It seemed like I had seen him somewhere before, but dismissed the idea, since we had moved here less than a year ago. All our local acquaintances were medical staff that worked with my wife.
We made small talk as he worked, and I thanked him for coming by so late at night. He said there were other people ahead of me on the schedule, but he just happened to be nearby. We made more small talk, both mentioned being married, and he had two toddlers at home. He apologized for his phone call awaking my wife, but I disclosed that Julie was out of town. The conversation then took a strange direction as he took an electronic meter and unwrapped some wires.
"This house has that little alley in the back, doesn't it, behind the carriage house?"
"Yeah," I answered nonchalantly, while flashbacks of the many interludes I spent back there on my knees with my lips wrapped around a dick suddenly arose. I tried to suppress those indulgent memories, and frantically sought a logical reason he would know about the hidden spot. "Did you used to live on this block?"
"Nah, I only do this residential stuff part time to help my fatha out. Actually I work next door to you." Mike gestured toward the giant white building behind our townhouse. It was the heating plant for the hospital. Suddenly I felt dizzy. He must have known my secret somehow. I was a closet
cocksucker
. I also realized now where I had seen him before, a couple times at the bus stop in a maintenance uniform, a hospital security badge similar to my wife's clipped to his coat.
No need to panic, I told myself, it may have just been a coincidence. Ninety-nine percent of the time that alley was empty. But back then, I was so obsessed I had never thought about a mechanic being on the heating plant roof, watching me give blowjobs. Maybe the furnace man had an interest in historic architecture, I rationalized.
"So was that
you
I saw..." he began to ask.
So much for the architecture theory. My first instinct was right. He knew. I blushed as a sense of dread overtook me. My pulse increased.
"...um...
partyin'
with those two old guys back there? Sure looked like you guys were havin' fun." Mike looked at me with a grin. His blue eye reflected the pale shop lights above.
"That wasn't..oh...you, um saw.. that?" I replied, halting a futile denial in midstream and stuttering the only thing I could think of to say. I was now able to drop my macho male persona. I knew deep down I wanted to confess to liking
dicks
and felt the warmth on my face and my pulse thump in my ears. Caught. My fear of him blackmailing me was luckily short-lived.
"Saw it, hell, I changed my schedule to Saturday first shift so I wouldn't miss it." He unboxed a replacement part. "Timed my breaks and work on the roof so I could catch all the action. You sure took good care of those horny old bastuds. I couldn't always see everything, but it looked like you were lovin' it, weren't you?"
"Well... yeah," I said. It felt great to admit it out loud.
He turned to look at me again. "Think you're ready for the big leagues?" Mike adjusted the crotch of his dirty denim pants. He had been in a squatting position, but lowered a knee to the scrap carpet on the floor and a nice bulge was detectable along the inside of his other thigh. I was sure that move was for my benefit, and he glanced over to see me staring down at the denim hump. My own cock was rapidly hardening inside my sweatpants. Was he inviting me to suck him off?
"I guess your wife doesn't know?" His mention of Julie halted my thoughts of verbally volunteering for the 'big leagues'.
"No way."
"You have lotsa Craig's list guys you meet? With your wife away, I'm surprised you're not out somewhere right now, swallowin' some guy's load."
"No it was just those two, a crime of opportunity," I replied. "Oh, and one guy drunk in college." Just the admission and brief mental recollections sent even more blood to my cock.
"I saw the old guys moved away, too bad," he said as he hit a button and after a few clicks, the gas jets of the boiler ignited. Mike went over his repairs, the replacement of a hydrostat and limit switch. "I gotta go out to the truck to get my ticket." He stood and the mouthwatering bulge reshaped itself but remained, oriented toward and nearly reaching a side pocket, angled up like an hour hand pointing to ten on a clock face. He reached down for his packed tool bag.
The ball was clearly in my court to escalate things. The hunger for cock had returned full force in just a matter of moments. It was time to beg if required. I could only imagine the spectacular meat hiding beneath that sooty denim. "What do you mean by big leagues?" I asked, nervousness apparent in my voice.
"Do you wanna find out?" he asked, then looked down and smiled at the bulge in my sweats.
"Hell yes!" I replied.
"The problem is, I got other calls to get to, but I guess we got time for a little taste." He unwrapped his blackened fingers from the tool bag and reached toward his belt buckle.
At this point it should be explained that the access to my cluttered basement had a wooden landing that straddled a sewer pipe and some other plumbing, almost like a back porch with two stairs down to the 1700's stone floor, on which we currently stood.