The Bones: Chapter Seven

Fast becoming the school throat GOAT, Max runs into Chronicle editor-in-chief Ethan, his "byline" popping up out of nowhere. It all leads to the suspected Bones meeting, Max in hot pursuit, until...

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I walked through campus to the Chronicle offices, the quad mostly empty at such a late hour. As a staff member, I had special permission to work after curfew, one of the few perks of being a slave to the weekly grind.

So much had happened in the last few days that I still needed to get my bearings. I’d been thrust into a deeper mystery of the Bones and its shadowy dealings far more quickly than I’d imagined, and in doing so I’d been ensconced in more sex than I knew what to do with. Somehow, after years of living in a sexual desert, I was being presented with one hot guy after another. It was…disconcerting, to say the least.

And, somehow, despite getting more play than ever, I was no less horny. No, quite the opposite. I wanted it even more, and so I began looking at everyone I encountered differently. I once assumed that the majority of the guys I saw were off-limits,…