{"id":27014,"date":"2026-05-17T22:01:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=27014"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:01:52","slug":"love-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/27014","title":{"rendered":"Love Language"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love Language<\/em> (2024) Jax Calder<\/p>\n

\"Love<\/p>\n

Dominic and Ashton have shared an office for three-and-a-half years. Despite the fact that much of their conversation consists of insults and griping, all of Ash’s friends insist he has a crush on Dominic.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou must be the most annoying person on the planet,\u201d Dominic says. I ignore him. Because Dominic says something along those lines at least twice a day. I once had a tally chart running to track his most frequent insults until he caught wind of it and started coming up with the weirdest insults just to skew the data. On the plus side, I\u2019m sure not many people have been called a malevolent aardvark by their colleague.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I liked the back-and-forth and insults.<\/p>\n

“Apparently, you\u2019re my liaison for the product launch, and I\u2019m supposed to come to you with my issues?\u201d He quirks an eyebrow. <\/p>\n

\u201cYes, it was decided you needed a minder, and I volunteered as tribute,\u201d<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

He snorts. \u201cI can totally turn it into a dystopian experience if you want me to.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day I spend in an office with you is a dystopian experience,\u201d I counter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, that’s pretty much all I enjoyed about it.<\/p>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Dominic, Ashton<\/p>\n

Rating: 4\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love Language (2024) Jax Calder Dominic and Ashton have shared an office for three-and-a-half years. Despite the fact that much of their conversation consists of insults and griping, all of Ash’s friends insist he has a crush on Dominic. \u201cYou must be the most annoying person on the planet,\u201d Dominic says. I ignore him. 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