Jin quickly learned those talents were for hacking. The usual computer geek kind of things, but his main talent was in security systems. He was impressed to find out that Ezra was quite smart given his burly outer appearance. The scruffy face was nice, but both his beard and hair needed a good cut. Ezra has the brains for a well-paying job and decent living but chooses to go down a different path in life. Jin judged him on that fact too. He was given the choice to succeed and be something but throw it all away.
Sure he could see the appeal of a fast and loose kind of lifestyle wanting to break away from the family company bullshit that most successive alpha families have, but he had never been given a choice like that. He has always been told what to do and where to be. Knowing for a fact if he had been given the choice Ezra had he would have gone the other way with it. He wouldn't be the escort that he was. Selling his soul in hopes of making some kind of living from it all and still hoping to be left with something he could look in the mirror and recognize.
"But yeah, the other guy fucked up the timing. So it left me a sitting duck at the bank and bam. Cuffed. Booked. Charged. Bars."
Ezra had been hacking the bank's security systems cutting the cameras and rerouting the feed to appear as if nothing had changed on the inside. Cutting the motion sensors, anything that would catch them as they worked on opening the vault. He was supposed to have five minutes before the next shift change came on, but that was cut into two minutes. He could work fast but not that fast.
"How long have you been working for Heath?"
"Four years." Jin sipped his coffee, "Four years too many."
"Why don't you just leave?"
"Can't."
"Contract?"
Jin shook his head no. He wasn't legally bound to Heath or the club, sex work to some extent was legal where they are, but everyone knew Heath's places went past what the laws allowed, just no one said anything about it.
"I'm ready to go."
Jin was uncomfortable with where the conversation was leading. He wasn't a fan of talking about himself or his life. Stating he was ready to go as a form of changing the subject. Jin got a hug from Janice before they left, watching from outside as Ezra paid for their meal and chatting with Janice at the register.
"What did she say to you?"
"Nothing." Shrugged Ezra.
"Lies."
"She told me to be nice." Ezra swung his leg over his bike, "Said to be the nice guy you need in life. "
Jin let out a long sigh as he looked back at Janice before getting on the bike. She always wished the best for him. Felt as if he was nothing more than another disappointment to her. He had worked at the dinner for a few years before Heath came into his life. Foolishly whisked away by his empty promises of a better life. Janice had warned him that she had heard things about Heath from customers and told him not to go. That they could work something out here to help him more, but he couldn't ask that of her. She had already given him too much.
Ezra pulled up to the front of the club, the place booming as always. Ezra not shifting from where he sat on his bike, smiling to himself as Jin got off. The two of them shared another long look before Jin nodded his head as if to say thanks for the night, turning and headed for the door, but something caused him to turn back.
"Thanks." Jin stated, kissing Ezra on the cheek, "It was nice being able to get out of my head for a while." Turning away again, "And next time, no cutting your score to make me feel better."
"Oh, so you do want to hang out with me again." Teased Ezra.
Jin an omega pulled into a world he wasn't ready for. A world that was promised to be nothing more than what he dreamed of by a man he loved. Only to have the one thing he's ever truly cared for taken from him.
Ezra an alpha done dirty but took one for the team. Trying to find his way onto a new path in life. A better path. Maybe even one worth going back to prison for?
Heath an alpha where you don't want to fall on to his bad side. He rules what he owns. Twisting and mending everything he lays his hands on to benefit his deviant mind.
This story may contain some triggers for some readers. All parts with said "triggers" will be marked M.
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