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Virgin Special
When innocence is a complication what’s a vampire to do?
When the temptation to end his misery proves too much to deny, unbeknownst to James his very existence is about to change. He thinks he’s alone with his memories when he walks too close to the sea but someone’s watching him; someone who holds his fate in his hands, and in his matchmaking skills.
Seth doesn’t want to visit Del Fantasma. He certainly doesn’t want to see Cody Warren, but Hannah certainly does, and whatever Hannah wants, Hannah gets. Seth’s dedicated what remains of his existence to trying to make her happy, but they are now two and were once three, and there’s nothing Seth can do to ease her pain…or his.
Cody may have the answer to their grief, but while Hannah is optimistic, Seth’s moods are interfering with her plan. Then there’s the complication that the human who might well save them is a virgin, in every sense of the word.
When sorrow finally gives way to despair, Cody finds the right kind of innocence to ease Seth and Hannah’s grief, if only James will let himself believe he has the right to a new kind of love.
Excerpt
“Seth will bring you dinner,” Seth parroted in a sneering voice. “What else do you want Seth to do for him, I wonder.” They’d had a long talk at Hannah’s insistence, and he’d agreed to give her a few days where he would curb his hatred for the human and his incredulousness at Hannah’s stupidity. Now he knew the truth about why they’d gone to see Cody, and despite disagreeing with Hannah, he hadn’t the heart to walk out on her. Still, Seth hadn’t expected to have to wait on the human. Of all the idiotic ideas that Hannah had conceived, and to think that Cody would pamper to her whims, give her false hope…
Seth carried James’ dinner on a tray in one hand, his anger and despair wrapped into a fist in the other.
He kicked open the door to James’ room and then forgot all the seething rage at his command as James raised his head. He’d avoided looking closely at the man since the other night—even while playing chess he’d kept his gaze firmly glued to the board—but suddenly it struck him how handsome James was. Well, why wouldn’t he be handsome? He had a passing resemblance to Edward, and Edward had been a handsome man. Seth clamped his mouth shut on a threatening growl. James stared at him, his eyes almost as wide as Hannah’s often appeared to be. The moment expanded; the two men gazed at each other.
Dithering, Seth wanted to throw the tray down and walk back out, but he had promised Hannah he would talk to the man.
“Food,” Seth grunted. He barely remembered to place the tray carefully onto the bed rather than fling it.
James hesitated and then drew it closer. He picked up a bread roll and started to nibble. “I guess food isn’t something you have to think about,” he said a moment later. “That is…” His voice trailed away and it made Seth turn his head to look at him. The man could actually blush and the vision made Seth feel strange. Longing combined with a vague delight teased at his senses. He could vaguely remember feeling those things a long time ago, but not in this vague way. He’d felt such things in abundance.
“We can eat and drink a little. Normal food, I mean. It’s not necessary, and too much disagrees with us.”
James nodded and set to the rest of the food. Seth suspected the ravenous attack was a way for James to deal with the situation rather than his hunger.
Just when Seth thought he could stand the silence no longer—silence only permeated with the quiet sounds of James eating and breathing—the other man spoke.
“So…vampires.”
Seth sat there quiet, waiting to hear an asinine comment. James didn’t disappoint.
“What’s it like to be dead?”
“I don’t know. You’d know more about that than I do. You’re the one who tried to drown himself.” When James blinked in puzzlement, Seth snapped. “We’re not dead! Do we look dead? Maybe we’re not alive in the strictest sense of the word but—”
“Okay, I’m sorry. That was stupid of me. Clearly you’re alive in some way.” James looked him up and down and Seth struggled not to squirm. “Aren’t you interested to find out more? Don’t you want to know how you exist?”
“No. Should I?”
“I would.”
“I’m sure. You sound just like…” Seth stopped speaking.
“Edward?” James asked. “Hannah said that you both lost someone. She said to talk to you…about Edward.”
Rising to his feet, Seth began to pace. His arms wrapped around his torso, Seth rolled his shoulders and then, realizing that the gestures probably made him appear very uncomfortable with the question, he sat down once again in the only available chair in the room. “I’m amazed she didn’t tell you the whole story.”
“She told me she loved Edward and that he was killed. She told me how people set fire to the house he was living in at the time.
“I’m sorry,” James added a moment later. Seth looked up. “I didn’t think. I mean, obviously Hannah and
Edward were an item but you cared for him as well. I just didn’t realize you were that close.”
“What makes you think we were close?”
“The look on your face.”
That drove all thought from Seth’s mind. Did he truly wear his emotions so close to the skin? Wanting to retaliate even if the notion was ludicrous and unreasonable, Seth said, “What do you think Edward meant to me?”
“I…don’t know. Friends? Brothers?”
Seth raised his gaze to look James in the eye. “How about lovers?”
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