Friends With Benefits by Stone Richards

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When I find a new author, usually I buy his backlist, if it’s not too long. And so it was with Stone Richards, Friends with Benefits was one of the story I bought, but I didn’t read it since there was something in the blurb that didn’t convince me, like it was not a romantic story. And it was strange since what is more romantic than a story set in Paris? Probably it was the ménages a trios thing, as usual I don’t like too much ménages, even if it is among three men. But in Friends with Benefits the ménages is not so relevant, it’s true, Ty and Hal have sex with another man, Pierre, but Pierre is more or less like a sexual toy, someone who joins the couple for a moment, but it’s not part of their story.

Ty and Hal are friends and colleagues, and also lovers. They are friends with benefits, or at least it’s what Hal is repeating inside his mind: he is in love with Ty, but he fears that, if he let come out the word “love” he will loose his friend, and so he takes all inside. But when he is preparing a project abroad, with a sojourn in Paris, maybe the city of lovers influences him, and the day before his leave, he has a misunderstanding with Ty, and he leaves alone. For all the travel he goes over and over his story with Ty, and when it’s the moment to land in Paris, he is more than sure that he loves Ty and that he wants to have Ty with him.

Reading all this, the reader understands that, when Pierre enters the scene, he is nothing important, there is no love feelings towards him, not from Hal or Ty. Pierre is nothing more than a friend who helps them to get together, and in the meantime he enjoys a detour with them. He is pretty open about it, he doesn’t expect anything more than some enjoyable hours together.

The story is less than 20 pages long, and probably the most interesting thing is to have an insight of how a ménages can be, how it’s possible to part love from sex, how sex between friends has some level of intensity, and instead sex between lovers is something completely different, more deep and satisfying.

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