tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52174441870059538942024-03-13T20:16:52.890-07:00Romance With A BiteWelcome to my site, Romance With A Bite. In my world vampires are not the evil creatures we've been led to believe. Here, vampires are as flesh and blood as the women who love them.Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03721556815192785649noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217444187005953894.post-58151398416589513812016-07-23T10:48:00.003-07:002016-07-24T08:06:29.952-07:00Eyes of Another<h3 class="fw-title" style="background-color: #f4f1e6; color: #a95e01; font-family: georgia, "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px;">
<span style="color: #1c1c1c;">Eyes of Another, by Brenda Dyer</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Marty Angelo tossed his heavy backpack onto the rear seat of Kirk's green Acadian, and then climbed in after it. As he leaned back, he caught a glimpse of his face in the rear view mirror. Pale skin, thin angular features, topped with dark hair. He brushed long strands off his forehead. It needed cutting, but he wore it long on purpose—to hide his eyes. He hated them. One brown, the other light blue. A red vertical line, centered above and below his blue eye, ran from his brow to the top of his cheek. A birthmark that resembled a scar. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Throughout elementary school, he'd been teased, called a freak. Scarface. The kids didn't know how right they were. As far back as Marty could remember, he'd had fits, as if a stranger would take control of his blue eye, and gaze out. His mother had taken him to doctors and psychiatrists, but they’d found nothing wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Marty turned from his reflection and glanced out the side window. He sighed, relieved his Physics exam was over.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Kirk started his car. “So, how do ya think you did on your exam.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Steven turned. “Same. Actually, I found it quite easy.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“You would,” Kirk said. He drove slowly through the campus grounds. Other students mingled, enjoying the April sunshine; a welcome reprieve from the usual rain Victoria experienced this time of year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Steven shrugged. “If you studied instead of playing video games, then you'd have found it easy, too.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Maybe if you spent less time studying I wouldn't kick your ass as often when we play,” Kirk said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Truth was, Kirk could and did kick both their asses.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“So here's the plan,” Steven said. “It's three o'clock now. When we get to my house, we'll play video games until six, then we'll study for our Chemistry exam.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Sounds good,” Marty said as he relaxed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Once off campus grounds, Marty placed his head-phones in his ears and listened to his IPOD as Kirk navigated through the busy downtown streets. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Two blocks from Steven's house, Kirk turned onto a curvy, tree-lined street.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Watch out,” Steven yelled while white-knuckling the dashboard.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">The vehicle hit a tree with a grinding force that sent the car skidding before it spun around, and then flipped onto its side. The sickening carnival ride kept going as the metal trap slid down an embankment.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Pain laced through Marty's head and chest. The smell of gas clung heavy in the cab. Disoriented, he tried to sit up. Bits of the broke windshield glittered all around him. A groan from the front seat shook the fog from his bruised brain. He looked around, trying to get his bearings. The car lay on the passenger side.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Kirk, still strapped in his seat-belt, hung suspended in his seat, his head hung down at an odd angle, but no sound had escaped his slack lips. The groan had come again. Steven.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Steven.” Marty pulled himself to his feet. A wave of nausea rolled over him. “Steven, are you all right?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Marty?” Though Steven's voice was weak it brought instant relief to Marty.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Marty climbed to the front. “Steven, can you move. We need to get out of here.” He glanced up at Kirk. Blood dripped from a deep scratch on his forehead. His face was ashen. He didn't move or appear to be breathing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Dread ate at Marty. “No. No. Kirk?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Is he . . . is Kirk all right?” Steven asked, his voice a hoarse whisper.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Steven grabbed Marty's arm. “Yes. I'm all right.” His green eyes searched Marty's face. “Kirk? Is he--”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Crawl out the windshield. I'll unbuckle Kirk; you help drag him out.” Marty kicked the remaining glass, scattering small round bits.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Hurry,” Steven pleaded.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Marty unclasped the belt and Kirk fell into his arm, taking them both down. “Grab him. Hurry.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Safely away, they laid Kirk flat on his back. Steven called for an ambulance as Marty checked Kirk over. Tears blurred his vision. He didn't need to check for a pulse, Kirk was gone; the absence of life was perceptible.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“No,” Marty whispered as Steven came over. “No! Kirk, don't you dare leave.” Marty slammed his fists beside Kirk's head. “Kirk!” Sobs choked him. In his agony he felt Steven try and pull him off Kirk's lifeless body.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Marty--”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Nooo, he's not dead.” Marty gripped Kirk's face and stared into his empty eyes. Suddenly, Marty's blue eye moved, widening, taking in the scene. With a strength of will he didn't know he had, he shut that eye.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">He began to chant, words spoken in a language he didn't know, yet were clear in his mind.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> “What the hell are you doing,” Steven asked, his voice laced with panic. “You're. . . holy shit, you're glowing.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Marty ignored him. Kirk no longer laid dead on the grass beside the road, he now walked through a</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> gray, swirling mist towards a warm white light. Marty followed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Kirk,” he called out in a deep masculine voice. “Don't go.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Kirk stopped and turned. “Marty? Is . . . that you? You look different. Where are we?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">With a violent jerk, Kirk bolted up, drawing great gulps of air into his lungs. “Marty? Steven?” He panted, his eyes wide with wonder. “I think I was . . . dead.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Marty blinked. He glanced over at Steven, then the burning car. Sirens whined in the distance. Dizziness gripped him, he sagged, then fell forward, spiraling down, down through blackness, until he fainted.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">When he came to he was lying on his side on a soft mattress.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I</i></span></span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"><i>'m home</i>. He opened his eyes. He was back in his colorless private chamber. The Sacred Dimension, or</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> Heaven as humans called it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Mordecai sat up. He was no longer, Marty, a mere human. He was Mordecai, an angel of the Lord. God</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">--The Creator of all life-- had sent Mordecai on a mission to find out if mankind was worth saving from Lucifer. But why was he back so soon? His mission wasn't complete.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Ah, yes, he had brought Kirk back from death. He'd interfered.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Sadness sliced through Mordecai's chest when he recalled the eighteen years he'd lived as a mortal.</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> He recalled the people he came to know and love. He yearned to be back. Yearned for the messy chaos life was as a mortal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Was what he'd learned going to be enough to persuade The Creator to save humans? Granted, his Sire had</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> witnessed everything Mordecai had with the use of The Creator's blue eye, but was it enough? It had to be.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">The alternative was unthinkable.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Mordecai sprang from his bed. He rushed from the chamber, and ran down a long stone hallway punctuated with</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> many arched doors. While he raced through The House of God, he stretched his cramped wings high above his head.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">He slowed as he approached the Great Hall. He checked his appearance in a silver urn sitting on a low</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> table. He stared back at himself with his own brown eyes. His angel's star shone brightly on his forehead.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Murmuring voices drifted from beyond the arched doorway. Mordecai returned the urn, and made the</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> sign of the cross over his chest. He folded his wings until they lay against his back. As he stepped into the throne room, he was struck by the silence. His brothers and sisters lined the path from the entrance to the golden </span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">throne, where The Creator sat. An unreadable expression graced His visage.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Silence pulsed through the room.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Rise,” The Creator said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">The Creator held up a hand. “I know the whys of what you did. Your love for the human is strong. I</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> feel it. Still, your interference is intolerable.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Panic brought sweat to form alone his hairline. “It wasn't his time.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">The Creator's blue eyes bored into him. “That was not your choice to make.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Silence filled the canvernous space. Finally his Sire spoke. “What say you on the plight of mankind?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Mordecai glanced up. “Don't give up on them, my Lord. They are worth saving from Lucifer's evil</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> clutches. He has turned the earth into a hard, cruel place, far from what you intended for your children.” A bead of sweat trickled down his temple. “Humankind is not altogether to blame. Lucifer's influence is</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> strong. He tempts them at every turn.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">The Creator leaned forward on his throne. “I have given my children free will. Yet what do they do with</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> this gift? They choose to listen to Lucifer's whisperings over and over. I am no longer in their hearts. Most have turned from me, shutting me out.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Sadly, tis the truth.” Shame filled his heart. “During my time on earth, even I lost faith, my Lord. In my</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> heart I didn't truly believe. Life is full of struggles. Concern for food and shelter, pain caused by sickness and death take precedence. Surviving leaves little energy for worship.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">His thoughts drifted to his mother—the woman who bore his human vessel. The hardships of life had</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> aged her before her time. Raising a child on her own, working two jobs to keep food on their table and a roof over their head, had taken all she'd had, and she did it for love. He thought of the homeless, the drug addicts,</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> the disasters that left people broken. All the hurt and pain that came with life.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Mordecai's pleading eyes met the Creator's. “They are worth saving, and if you won't, I will try. I will</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> die fighting for them.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">The Creator leaned back and studied him. “I am surprised. Not long ago you agreed with Lucifer.</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> You conceded mankind were nothing but a disappointment, a source of heartache for me. You concurred that my children should be destroyed.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Yea, tis true, and for that I will forever be ashamed. I have walked in their place. I now know what</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> they go through.” He sucked in a breath. “Lucifer must be destroyed. He has inflicted more than enough pain on your children. It is time to rid them of his blight. Give them the life you intended for them.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">The Creator bowed his head. “'Tis the truth you speak, but alas, my heart is for creation, not destruction.</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> I cannot destroy what I have created."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Nay, you may not, but I shall. Set this task to me, my Lord. I will see it done.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">The Creator rose, stretched out a glowing hand, and cupped Mordecai's chin. “My son. You bring new</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> hope to my heart. Though death shall not be the answer. I have another plan for Lucifer. One he will not see coming. Go to his hell castle and bring me back his Grace. I will send him to the earth to live as a human </span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">until I deem he is repentant of his sins.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“There in is my hope.” The Creator reached beneath his white robe and pulled forth a golden dagger. He</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> handed it to Mordecai. “Return to me the Grace I have bestowed upon him.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">His gaze followed a well-worn path in the black dust. The trail led to a dark castle far in the distance. Lucifer's home.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">He glanced upward. There was no sky, just black, scorched earth as a ceiling. He was in the center of the</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> globe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Halfway across the bridge, Mordecai glanced down at the lake of fire. Millions of human souls squirmed</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> like snakes, reaching out to him with blackened arms, and mouths wide as they screamed in agony. Mordecai tore his gaze from their suffering and continued on. Nothing deterred him as he made his way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">He followed as they led him up a winding staircase to a closed door. One knocked before they</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> departed. The door swung opened. He swallowed his fear, gripped his dagger tight beneath his white robe, and stepped inside. Across the room, sitting upon a golden throne, was Lucifer. It had been centuries since</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> Mordecai had seen his once beloved brother. Golden hair cascaded to his waist. Beauty beyond measure was his face.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Fluid as a gentle wave, Lucifer rose. A smile as dazzling as a thousand stars stretched his lips.</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> “Mordecai, my brother. It has been too long. What brings you hither?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Lucifer's smile faltered. “My treachery? It is our father who plays games. He betrayed us all. We knew</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> nothing of His plans. We blindly did His bidding, toiling, slaving, never asking questions and for what? For God to betray us with his second children and give unto them our earth that we created?” He placed a hand</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> over his heart. “It's ours. Father stole from me—us. For that I'll never forgive.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“The earth is not ours. It was made for humans.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Lucifer's smile vanished, replaced by a sneer. “Parasites, all of them. I will never bow to those</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> usurpers.” He stepped over to Mordecai, placing a hand on his shoulder. His voice when he spoke was soft, hypnotic. “You know I'm right. You felt as I did at one time.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Mordecai's head swam; he didn't know what was right anymore. An overwhelming desire to side with</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> his brother filled him. Suddenly, his Sire's voices filled his mind. “Be wary of Lucifer's voice. He will use it to dissuade you.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Looking deep into his brother's blue eyes, Mordecai stroked a finger across Lucifer's brow, right over</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> the glowing star. “I know different now as you will soon learn.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Lucifer's face grew hard and he laughed. “Learn? I know all.” His eyes traveled over Mordecai's face.</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> Disgust clear in his expression. “You're a fool if you think you can stop me. You know as well as I an angel can not kill another angel.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“Aye, but I have something else in store for you. You will become one of whom you despise.” Mordecai</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> raised his dagger and plunged it into Lucifer's chest. Before Lucifer could react, he shoved his other hand through the opening. His fingers tingled as they brushed against his essence. He seized it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Comprehension dawned on Lucifer's face as Mordecai pulled back his hand. White light, blinding in its</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> intensity, enveloped the chamber.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Lucifer stumbled, sagged to his knees, clutching his chest. “No, you can't do this.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Raw hatred and rage consumed Mordecai, torturing his mind. The hand clasped around Lucifer's grace</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> burned with white-hot pain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">In a flash, The Creator appeared before them. He held an open golden box towards Mordecai. “Place</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> what's mine inside.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">For a brief moment, Mordecai didn't want to release it. He desired it for his own.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“My son, let it go. It will destroy you.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">With his hand shaking, Mordecai slowly peeled open his fingers, then dropped the ball of light inside the box. The</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> instant it was gone from him, his mind cleared. “Father, I am sorry.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“You've done well.” The Creator straightened and turned to Lucifer. “Your reign is over. You will become</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> mortal until I deem you worthy of my gift.” With a wave of His hand, Lucifer's soul rose from his head and was gone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">The Creator closed the box, sealing it with a chant. “I and the world owe you. Whatever your heart</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> desires shall be yours.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“You owe me nothing. I did it out of love.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">A gentle hand cupped Mordecai's cheek. “Name it, my son.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">He gazed into his father's bright eyes. “I would--”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">“'Tis done.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Marty Angelo tossed his heavy backpack onto the rear seat of Kirk's green Acadian and climbed in</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> after it. He leaned back, catching a glimpse of his face in the rear view mirror. Pale skin, thin angular features, topped with dark hair. He brushed long strands out of his brown eyes. His hair needed cutting, but</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;"> he wore it long on purpose—to hide the star shaped birthmark on the center of his forehead.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-size: small;">Kirk started the car. “So, how do ya think you did on the exam?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">After years of betrayal, Julia Murphy is
starting over and attempting to leave her broken-hearted past behind. As a
waitress at The Green Tree nightclub, she’s working to save enough money to
finally take the college courses that will kick-start her new future. But fate
has other plans. When two men viciously attack her, a tall, menacing stranger
comes to Julia’s aid and thrusts her on a wild journey into a past that death
has erased and a world she didn’t know exists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As the deadliest vampire warrior in the
Surrey squad, Ace is feared and avoided, which is fine by him. He cares for
nothing and nobody, including himself. But when he rescues a pretty waitress
from a deadly attack, he can’t deny he’s drawn to her. However, this newfound
attraction comes with consequences Ace never could have foreseen. He comes face
to face with his tormented past, and Julia is the link. Now, he must decide
whether he’ll fight for a love that’s spanned the ages, or if he’ll allow
centuries old hate and betrayal to destroy their futures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03721556815192785649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217444187005953894.post-91351497045454128092015-10-18T10:22:00.000-07:002015-10-19T15:53:18.211-07:00Prophecy's Healing, Book #5 in the Prophecy SeriesChapter 1 from Prophecy's Healing, coming Spring of 2016<br />
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British Columbia, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Friday,
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ace slugged back the last few swallows
of beer then slammed the mug down. He got
up from his seat situated in a dimly lit corner of the nightclub
called The Green Tree, appropriately named for the neon sign in the shape of a green
palm tree planted on the flat roof.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“You ready to split?” Soren asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ace shot the blond, green-eyed vampire a
quick glance. “Gotta take a leak first.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Move it—the night’s wearing on.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Soren’s commanding tone and words grated
on his nerves. Instantly, a flash of anger shot his already foul mood into
lethal terrain. “Leave. No one’s stopin’ ya.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“You’re on probation, in case you’ve
forgotten. You’re to hunt with a partner until further notice. And tonight I’m
stuck with your sorry ass.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Probation. What a joke. A month ago
while hunting, Ace came across a demon and human conducting drug business in an
alley. During the fight, the human male had gotten in the way and ended up with
his throat slashed—by the demon. Wasn’t Ace’s fault. He did his job as far as
he was concerned—the demon now resided back in hell. But the Sacred Order
didn’t see it that way. The human’s death had been splashed all over the news
so the Order wanted damage control—and that meant Ace had to now hunt with a
partner. The other warriors in the squad were on babysitting duty, a fact that
sent his blood boiling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ace ground his molars. “Wanna come hold
my dick while I piss so I don’t sneak out the back door?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He didn’t bother waiting to see what the
second-in command of the Surrey’s branch of demon-slayers had to say. He didn’t
give a flying fuck about Soren, the other slayers, or the demons and the war
for human souls. And most of all, he didn’t give a flying good fuck about following
other asshole’s rules. The more others tried to enforce their bullshit on him,
the harder he fought against the invisible tethers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He weaved his way through the heavy
throng of humans. All his vampire senses were on alert for any sign of demons
or danger. Inhaling, his brain processed the scents rushing up his nostrils.
The smell of human blood and sweat permeated the air, along with the sweet aroma
of different types of alcohol, but no reek of flesh rot that signified a demon
was present. Music from the club’s Friday night band throbbed and mixed with
the raucous laughter and shouts from the sloshed assortment of people packed
inside. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ace eyed a drunken human male who stumble
out from the men’s bathroom. The piece of shit tried to do up his fly with one
hand while the other clasped the handle of a beer mug. He blocked the entrance,
swaying and mumbling as he fought with his zipper. Ace needed to use the can
and he wasn’t going to wait for a dumb-shit loser to do what he should’ve done
before leaving the room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Move it, asshole.” Ace didn’t wait for
a reply. He elbowed the prick aside then kept walking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A thud followed by an explosion of thick
glass hitting the floor, and a string of curses signified the waste-of-skin had
dropped his mug of beer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The strong ammonia stench of urine and
the cloying reek of urinal cakes wafted out as Ace shoved open the bathroom
door. Before he slipped inside, a hand clamped around his arm and pulled him to
a stop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Hey, fuckhead. You owe me another
beer.” The drunk’s slurred words were clue-one the guy was hammered and not
thinking straight. Clue-two, the fact the moron dared to touch and speak to a
guy ten times bigger than he was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A slow smile took the place of Ace’s
perpetual scowl. <i>Show time. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He swirled around and wrapped his
fingers around the scrawny man’s throat. The guy’s bloodshot shit-brown eyes
widened and a strangled squawk issued from his opened mouth, pushing the smell
of rotting teeth and booze up Ace’s nostrils.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Tightening his hold, Ace bared his
teeth, careful to keep his fangs tucked up in his gums. “I owe you nothing. I
gave you fair warning to move.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Let...me...go.” The human clawed at
Ace’s fingers clamped around his throat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One sharp twist and the pus-bag’s neck would
snap—and nothing would make him happier than to see the glazed look of death in
the piece of crap’s eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Fuck, he hated humans. If it wasn’t for
the fact vampires needed their blood to survive, he’d side with the demons and
help them rid the planet of the useless garbage. And once done, he’d turn on
the demon pricks and annihilate their asses too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Fight! Fight!” A small group of young
males, eager to see blood spilled, circled around Ace, keeping a safe distance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A part of him wanted to give the fools
what they craved only because the rage building inside needed an outlet before
he exploded. But thankfully, he contained his wrath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The drunk’s face turned purple, and his
lips opened and closed like a fish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Punch ‘em, dude,” someone said from the
crowd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ace curled the fingers of his left hand
inward, making a fist. The urge to pound the holy hell out of this cocksucker
surged through him like a raging river.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But what’d be the point? One hit and the
fucker would hit the floor out cold. The fight would be over before it started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Besides, if Roarik caught wind that he’d
caused a scene at The Green Tree, his ass would be parked in one those hideous
chick chairs his squad leader liked so much, while enduring yet another lecture.
Normally he’d take the risk, but tonight it just didn’t seem worth it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Maybe he was going soft?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He smirked. Right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ace glanced at the excited crowd,
flashed a one-sided smile, then tossed the choking shit-rat toward them like a
bowling ball.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Four of the blood-thirsty humans toppled
and dropped their drinks as the rolling drunk smashed into their legs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ace laughed then waltzed into the john.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Two men dressed in jeans and crisp
button-down shirts, glanced over at him. They looked him up and down before
dismissing him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Fury flooded him. Where the hell did
these weak puke-sacks get off dismissing him like he was nothing but dirt?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Hey, fuckwads,” Ace said with a deadly
snarl. “Get the fuck out.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They both stopped talking. The tallest
of the duo glanced over at him. A frown wrinkled his forehead. “Excuse me?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Excuse me,” Ace repeated the prick’s
words in a high pitched voice. He lifted his lips and flashed his teeth. “You
heard me, now beat it before I ram you both head-first through the door.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The shorter male ran a shaky hand over
his close cropped brown hair. “Let’s go, Dan.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dan, who obviously was short a few
bricks, shook his blond head. “What’s your problem, man?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“At the moment? You assholes.” A muscle
along his jaw jumped with anticipation. Christ, he wanted to beat these two to
a bloody pulp. Didn’t they understand how close they were to getting their
asses kicked? Were they that stupid?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sure, he was always spoiling for a fight,
but tonight the need was more intense than normal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And he knew damn well why.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When he’d woken up this evening, his
mood had been at an all-time low due to a bad dream dredged up from his past.
And he couldn’t shake the strangling effects from the nightmare. The only way
he knew how to overcome his turbulent emotions was through fighting—though
demons were usually his intended target, not humans, who vampires were supposed
to protect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Why don’t <i>you</i> leave?” tall, blond and stupid said with a holier-than-thou
attitude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Blackness surrounded Ace, and his focus
narrowed on the speaker’s flapping lips. Without another word, he marched
across the white tile floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The men shrank back against a stall door
and raised their hands in surrender.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Too late. They were leaving the bathroom
through the door—head-first like he’d promised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dan, the loser man, tried to run, but
Ace snagged his shirt, jerked him back, then grabbed his buddy by the throat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Stop—we’ll leave—just let us go,”
military haircut squeaked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Blondie fought to get loose, but he
didn’t have the strength.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ace dragged them across the paper towel
strewn floor. With a violent shove, he propelled them out the swinging door. He
caught a quick glimpse of the men sliding across the short hallway before they
crashed into the crowd still milling around the entrance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The door swung closed. Ace dusted off
his hands then marched to the nearest urinal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">After he zipped up his fly and washed
his hands, he exited the bathroom. The crowd had dispersed, but a waitress squatted
down, wiping up the spilled beer with a rag. A dust pan filled with broken
glass sat next to her pink sneakers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her back was presented to him, so he
couldn’t see her face, but her lengthy blonde ponytail slipped over one
shoulder, baring her long, pale neck.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Bloodlust reared up and his fangs
slipped down. Shit, he’s quenched his blood-thirst three nights ago. He should
be fine for another week at least.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ace stared at the column of the back of
her neck, following the graceful lines as they flared out along her shoulders.
The hot pink uniform she wore sagged off one shoulder, baring it to his gaze.
Delicate bones and small muscles moved as she dragged the cloth over the floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Bloody drunken assholes,” she muttered.
“Like I don’t have enough to do?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her whispered words weren’t meant for
anyone but her, but he not only heard what she’d said, but he caught the
annoyance saturating her tone. And he found he liked her sass and anger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The thought of grabbing the little
waitress and shoving her into the bathroom so he could sink his teeth into her
throat, gripped his commonsense and wrestled it for control.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But his rational mind warned him not to
eat where he drank. Some of the other warriors fucked and fed from the
waitresses working at The Green Tree, but Ace preferred hunting his prey in the
mean streets of Surrey. He enjoyed the hunt—he didn’t want to be hand-fed like
a caged lion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He forced his canines back into his gums
and took a step around her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The crunch of glass under his hiking
boot alerted her to his presence. Her head jerked around and her eyes widened.
“Oh,” she whispered with breathless surprise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ace’s heart ground to a skidding stop
before it jumped back into racing action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sophia?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">No, this chick wasn’t Sophia, but the
waitresses’ features were similar to the whore he’d once loved—the betraying
bitch who destroyed his life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The woman’s pale blue eyes, so much like
Sophia’s, traveled over him. The rag fell from her fingers as she stood, then she
took a couple steps away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Christ. Though his logical mind told him
this wasn’t the lying, scheming slut from his past, their resemblance was
unnerving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Intense hatred drop-kicked his gut.
Blood pounded in his ears as murderous rage filled him from head to toe. The
need to wrap his fingers around her thin throat and squeeze until her eyes
bulged—until she breathed her last breath—pulled him in her direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The woman backed up until her ass hit
the wall next to the bathroom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He shadowed her movements—a low growl
rumbled from between his clenched teeth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">His sanity ripped. He fought to pull the
shredded ends together, but he lost the fight. No longer was Ace in the short
hallway at the back of the seedy nightclub. His mind transported
him back to the night his soul had died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Screams of dying humans and vampires
filled his head. Arid smoke burned his nose and throat, and the metallic scent
of blood overpowered all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In the past and present, Ace reached for
her. Her eyes turned round with terror—she knew he meant to kill her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Help,” she squeaked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“No one can help you, bitch—you deserve
to rot in hell.” Ace wasn’t sure if he’d spoken the words aloud, but they rebounded
in his skull, ramping his hate and fury to dangerous levels. For what the
calculating, murderous witch had done, death was too kind. She deserved to
suffer the way he had.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The burning reek of smoldering wet
leaves rushed up his nose. Uncertainty yanked him out of his trance. After all these
years he could still remember the smell Sophia’s terror from that night, but the
fear scent surrounding him now wasn’t it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ace shook off the last of the apparition.
The echo of people laughing and the deep thud, thud of rock music coming from
the nightclub’s sound system, drowned out the shrieks of death, pain and
battle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The waitress cowered in front of him,
but she didn’t try to get loose from the tight grip he had on one of her
shoulders. As she stared up at him, she sucked in a hissing breath and winced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ace released his hold and stumbled back
a few steps. Instantly, she rubbed her shoulder, never breaking eye-contact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Fucking hell—he’d been ready to choke an
innocent woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She sagged against the wall, still
holding her shoulder, and regarded him with a mixture of fear, confusion, and a
healthy dose of indignation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m
losing it—Sophia’s long dead. Why can’t I leave her buried?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Because
the bitch got the better of you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ace closed his eyes briefly, trying to
get himself back on an even keel.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Although the hallucination from his past
still skulked on the outskirts of his mind, he was clear-headed enough to now
note the obvious differences between the two women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Both shared the same light blond hair
color, but Sophia’s hair had been a mass of curly waves that reached her waist,
while this chick’s hair was straight and definitely not as lengthy—mid back
maybe if released from the ponytail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The waitress’ face was longer and
narrowed at the chin, while Sophia’s had been plump and round. Another glaring
variation between them was their body types. Again, now that his brain was
thinking clearer, he realized they were as different as night and day. Sophia
had been built heavier, with shorter legs, big tits and broader hips. This lady
was taller, slimmer—more athletically built—and her tits and ass were small. In
fact, her breasts hardly filled out the front of her hot pink uniform.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But their eyes...the waitress’ eyes were
carbon copies of Sophia’s: almond shaped, with pale blue irises and long
lashes. Except where Sophia’s lashes were the same fair color as her hair, the
stranger’s were coated with black mascara.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ace swallowed as he stared at her lips.
They were full and what some called pouty, and they looked soft. Sophia had
lips exactly the same size, shape and rosy color.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Eyes and lips. That’s where the
familiarities ended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But that wasn’t completely true. There
was something more about the little waitress that reminded Ace of the Sophia,
but he couldn’t put his finger on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You’re
insane. That’s what going on. The bitch is dead! She’s worm food.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Tremors started in his legs and soon
enveloped his body. His teeth chattered and sweat soaked his hair. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Blackness closed in on him. Ace sucked
in air, but he couldn’t get it to stay in his lungs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Hey, Mr. Are you okay? Are you ill?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her quiet voice slid up his spine like
icy fingers and goose bumps spread like cold fire over his skin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">No,
I’m not okay</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">. Ace nodded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Concern replaced the apprehension in her
eyes. “You look like you’re about to faint?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I’m fine,” he snarled through clenched
teeth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She looked him over then swallowed.
“Were you having a seizure?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“No.” He didn’t bothering telling her
he’d been a tweak away from snapping her neck.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ace ran a hand through his hair and
pushed the tattered mass away from his hot face. Without another word, he
stormed passed her and headed to the back exit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He hammered down on the bar and kicked
open the metal door, and then staggered out onto the grated landing. The cool
night air hit his overheated face, and a stiff breeze blew through the
sweat-soaked strands of his hair like fingers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Fog created hazy light halos around the
tops of street lamps, while tendrils of low-level clouds drifted amongst the
six cars parked in a line near a six-foot concrete divider.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Off in the distance, a foghorn bellowed,
warning any boats in the area to be on alert for hazards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The dense clouds reminded him of the
thick smoke blanketing the courtyard of his family’s castle from the many fires
burning—fires set by a clan of vampire slayers—Sophia’s father’s clan...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sophia...you
worthless slut. You manipulative whore.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Two strides propelled Ace across the
landing. He grasped the hand railing and squeezed so hard the iron groaned then
slowly bent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He smiled as he imagined it was the
betraying bitch’s neck he strangled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A picture of the waitress’s pale,
frightened face filled his head. His grin vanished, and a shot of panic tore
through his gut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> Once
more, his muscles shook. He released the handrail and shoved his trembling
hands into the pockets of his lumber jacket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Christ, he could’ve killed her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Since the night of Sophia’s death, he’d
been skating on mental thin ice, but he hadn’t fallen through yet. Or had he?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The other warriors saw it. They told him
many times he was dangerous and insane—a sadistic freak. But fuck them. They
had no idea what he lived through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He carried Sophia’s ghost and her
treachery with him for one reason: to remind himself love was nothing but a
fucking farce, designed to make a man let his guard down so a scheming slut
could ram a poison dagger through his heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> Yet,
tonight his actions had him questioning his sanity for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For
the first time? Bullshit. I’ve been sliding downhill for over three hundred
years.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pain flared in his chest as memories
crawled through the murk toward the surface of his mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He gripped the sides of his skull and
pushed, forcing them to retreated into the recesses of his brain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">No! She wouldn’t win—he wouldn’t allow
it. She’d already stolen enough from him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When he felt he had himself more under
control, Ace blinked and took in a few deep, calming breathes. A couple of
young human females walking past the back parking lot of The Green Tree caught
his attention. They giggled and one flipped blond hair over her
shoulders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The street lamp illuminated both women
as they strolled under it. The blond reminded Ace of the waitress: tall, lithe
and pretty. He followed them with his stare until they rounded the corner and
disappeared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Again, his head filled with images of
the waitress. Now that he was calmer, small details of her appearance came to
him. She was tall, the top of her head had reached his chin, and he stood about
six-foot-five. Though thin, her elegant curves were very feminine, and she had
long, shapely legs. He wondered if her pussy was as blond as the hair on her
head. Or maybe she shaved her pubic hairs like so many women today—a look he
liked a lot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">His cock moved, then lengthened. Desire
wrapped sensual ropes around him. Yeah, he’d like to get between her legs. A
vision of her hands braced against a wall with her ass bared and the skirt of
her uniform bunched around her waist sharpened his lust. His fangs slid down
and he licked his lips. While he fucked her, he’d shove her hair aside and bite
her on the shoulder, hard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He closed his eyes and allowed his
imagination to pull him down. Oh yeah, he wanted to taste her blood as he
thrust his cock in and out of her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Though, he’d screwed and fed from many
women over the years, he did so mainly out of necessity. So the fact he wanted
the waitress was a welcomed distraction. And Ace always took what he wanted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He glanced behind at the closed door. No
doubt after what happened earlier, she’d be wary of him, but that didn’t
matter. In fact, her fear would only heighten the experience for him. Besides,
she wouldn’t remember a goddamn thing because he would erase it from her mind
the moment he blew his load.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A slow smile dragged one side of his
lips upward. Tonight, after the nightclub closed, he’d be waiting for her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03721556815192785649noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217444187005953894.post-24840243387032604292015-09-18T14:09:00.001-07:002015-09-18T14:09:27.562-07:00Prophecy's Origin, book #0 of The Prophecy Series<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Prophecy's Origin</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Before humans and vampires. Before the
war and the Vampire Prophecy, The Creator made the angels. Following His
instructions, these heavenly offspring created the Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Filled with pride and love for what he
helped build, Lucifer desires ownership of this wondrous planet. But when he
learns the true meaning behind the Earth’s creation, Lucifer retaliates and
starts an evil chain reaction that threatens not only the existence of mankind,
but also the survival of the vampires sent to protect them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This is the story of Lucifer’s rebellion
and the affects that have echoed down through the ages...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Forgotten Realm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Present day…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Demons scattered as Lucifer stormed across the stone floor of his
dungeon. He stopped and glowered at the thousands of human souls locked behind
the enchanted metal bars of what he called the <i>Holding Cage</i>. The sallow faces of the spirits showed their fear. As
a group, they shrank as far back as they could from the bars.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Good. The pieces of shit understood who and what he was. He was
King, and their fate was in his hands. And he knew from experience they’d beg
for mercy. But they’d get none from him. Ever.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As he eyed the ghostly figures, hatred grew until his frame
vibrated. Humans were the bane of his existence. These sniveling, weak,
worthless creations had ruined his life—stole everything that meant anything to
him.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Because of humans, all that he held dear had been stripped away. The
joy and love that had once filled his heart and soul had turned to bitterness
and hate.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So no, they’d receive no mercy. And why should they? Did they show
mercy to their victims? Did they show mercy while raping, killing, and
stealing?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">No.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Here, in the realms of Hell, they would get what they deserved, plus
more.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But more importantly, his Father would get what He’d deserved for
lying, stealing, and cheating Lucifer out of what was his!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Take them to the Pit,” he snarled to his servants.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Yes, Lord Lucifer.” A demon bowed its blackened head before
hurrying toward the cage. Scraggly brown hair floated around its bony
shoulders. With a jerk, it came to an abrupt halt, frozen in place by invisible
restraints. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Lucifer had stopped the fucker in its tracks with his mind. He’d
warned them repeatedly to address him by his new name. No longer did he want to
use the name his Father had bestowed upon him. </span></div>
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Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03721556815192785649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217444187005953894.post-21226015005386481162015-05-24T10:38:00.001-07:002015-05-24T10:38:15.122-07:00The Prophecy Series<span style="font-size: large;">Snippets From The Prophecy Series</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love's Prophecy, book #1</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Breeana stared at Mel, appalled by his words. The gardens—the beauty
of the evening—forgotten.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He cleared his throat. “The first memory I had as a child was of my
father dragging me from the slave dungeon and locking me in the killing cage.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She jerked back. His arm slid from around her shoulders. “The what?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">His eyelids lowered as he looked at the grass. “It was an iron box
suspended from the top of the castle by a chain. The front had narrow slits,
just wide enough to allow the morning sun to shine in. He used the cage to
punish his slaves or his soldiers, hell, sometimes just for sport.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Oh my God!”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Mel's gaze drifted out over the yard. The look on his face told her
he no longer saw the gardens or smelled the perfume scented air. His mind must
have drifted back hundreds of years, reliving what sounded like a horrific
nightmare.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“When I realized what he was about to do, I panicked. I fought back
but I was young, maybe four or five. My arm snapped as he shoved me inside, but
I didn't feel the pain, it paled in comparison to the terror I felt when I
heard the lock click.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">His eyes filled with terror and bounced around like the eyes of a
trapped, frightened animal. “I knew what was coming. I'd heard the screams of
others who had burned alive.” He swallowed. A trickle of sweat coursed down his
temple. “I clawed at the bars, pleaded with my father, but he just laughed.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">His words chilled her to the bone. Nausea churned her stomach.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I tried to sift—disappear—but vampires can't sift through metal or
rock, and the spaces between the bars were too narrow. I was trapped. I…I
continued begging my father to release me. Then as the first rays touch my
skin, just when the pain began, he ordered his soldiers to pull the cage back
in.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Numbness spread through her. She opened her mouth, but shut it. What
did you say to someone who had lived through such a traumatic experience?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“That was the first, but not the last time he locked me inside,” he
said in a flat tone. “Each time he pulled me back in. I don't know why he
didn't end it there.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Katherine busied herself by unzipping her suitcase and stacking her
clothes on the bed. She sensed Kal behind her, but didn’t acknowledge him.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Katherine?” Kal cleared his throat. “I know it’s been a huge
inconvenience quitting your job and moving in here, but I hope we can at least
be civil to one another while you’re here.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Her boss’s angry face flashed through her mind. When Katherine quit
her job—with no notice—Michelle had been livid. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She walked over to the dresser, yanked open the top drawer, and
dumped her load of clothes inside. “I’ll try, but I’m not promising anything,”
she said through gritted teeth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He cursed under his breath.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She wheeled around. “What the hell more do you want from me?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“You don’t want to know.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She slammed the drawer shut. “Try me.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“You sure?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“May as well get it all out on the table.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He closed the door; the lock clicked into place. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Fear of being alone with him took the edge off her fury.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Heat from his gaze burned through her clothing. “I want you naked on
my bed. I want to see you smile, hear you laugh.” He pushed away from the door
and stalked toward her from across the room. Lifting a hand, he caressed her
cheek with the pad of his thumb. “I want you to love me again. But most of all,
I want your forgiveness.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">His fingers traced the contours of her jaw, her neck. “I know you
don’t want to hear it, but I love you—I always have.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Her mind screamed run, but her feet remained rooted to the floor.
Each word chipped away at her defenses.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Leaning closer, his lips gently brushed hers. “All I’ve ever wanted
was your happiness.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">His tongue outlined the seam of her mouth. Desire scorched her
willpower. Without thinking, she opened for him, and his tongue swept inside.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A deep groan tore from his throat as his arms tightened around her.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With both hands covering Soren’s pecs, Natalie pushed harder. “Get
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<span lang="EN-US">“What?” He placed his hands on the mattress and reared up. The
muscles in his arms shook. Sweat dampened his hairline and glistened on his
cheeks. “I don’t think I heard you correctly, ‘cause I swore you told me to get
off you.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She leveled a hard glare at him. “You heard me. Now get off.” For
emphasis, she heaved under him.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He scowled. “Why the sudden change of heart? And don’t bother saying
you weren’t into it. Believe me, sweetheart, I know you’re as hot for me as I
am for you.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I’m not!” Jesus, she sounded like a petulant child, which sparked
her anger. It irritated her he could read her so well. Whatever. She’d put an
end to any ideas he had. “I knew you couldn’t be trusted.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“What the fuck does that mean?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“You promised you wouldn’t rape me, but here you are, forcing
yourself on me.” Oh, that was low. Guilt turned her gut sour.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">His expression darkened. All traces of bewilderment evaporated. Fury
took its place. He jumped up as if he couldn’t get away from her fast
enough—and she didn’t blame him.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He paced the room, running both hands through his short hair. On his
third trip around, he stopped and a low growl grew in volume. Slowly, he
glanced sideways at her. His fierce appearance said he wanted nothing more than
to strangle her.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She gulped and slammed her knees together before scurrying into to a
sitting position.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Rape?” he asked in a deceptively calm voice. “That’s the label
you’re trying to slap on what was happening between us?” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Fear held sway, keeping her from nodding.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“So, it wasn’t my name you called out? It wasn’t me you begged to
touch you?” Turning so he faced her full on, he crossed his arms. Powerful
muscles along his shoulders bunched.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Oh, dear, God! Did she
actually say the words from her dream out loud?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Her cheeks flamed, and she glanced away, not wanting to see the
truth in his accusing glare.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dammit. She couldn’t win with this guy. But the last thing he needed
was a bigger head. In a situation like this, best course of action was to deny,
deny, deny.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She copied his folded arms motion—though his was an intimidating
gesture. Hers was more of a hope-he-doesn’t-see-my-heart-pounding gesture.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Natalie raised her chin in defiance. “No for both questions. I woke
to you shoving your tongue down my throat.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Oh shit, wrong answer. Redness crept over his face and his lips
rippled like a snarling dog’s.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She had the smarts to shrink back.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The next second, he was alongside the bed. His fingers bit into the
flesh of Natalie’s arms as he hauled her off the mattress. She hit the
unyielding wall of his chest with a teeth-jarring thump.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Barely controlled murderous rage simmered in his eyes. “I guarantee
you if I ripped off your pants, I’d find you wet and ready for me.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Although crude, his words sent more moisture to her sex. Lust
destroyed her pride and unease. If he dared take off her jeans—if he touched
her core—she’d cum for sure, then all her protests and lies would be proven
false.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He pulled her closer. “Listen to me carefully, little lady. We <i>will</i> have sex. And I promise you this,
when we do, you’ll beg me for it. There’ll be no rape involved, got it?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Soren dropped her back on the bed then stormed out of the room,
slamming the door.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Natalie sat in the dark room, gaping at the closed door.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Determined to break through Sin’s defenses, Eleanor stroked her
fingers over the soft skin above the collar of his shirt. “You heard me.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He stumbled backward, not stopping until he was across the room. As
he gripped the counter, his knuckles glowed white. “Are crazy?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“No. I want this, Sin. I want you.” She took a step then stopped
when he looked ready to bolt.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Forget it, Princess. Ain’t happening.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“But—”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“But nothing.” He stormed over to the entrance. “I’m taking you to
Breeana’s, now.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She chased him into the living room. “I know you want me, so why are
being so damn stubborn?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He whirled around. The blatant confusion and fear in his eyes almost
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<span lang="EN-US">His mouth pulled into a snarl, revealing more of his fangs. “Why are
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<span lang="EN-US">The sight of his canines boiled her blood and strengthened her
desire. With her hands clasped tightly together, she raised her head. “Because
I want you—I want this. Look, we’re two consenting adults here. And I was
married for ten years, so I’m no virgin. But I’ve also been divorced for a
quite some time, and I...” Her courage faltered, but she kept going. “I haven’t
been with a man since.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I told you. I’m not a man, Princess.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I know that, but I—”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Lady, you have no clue what you want—you’ve no clue who I am. If ya
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<span lang="EN-US">Eleanor was about to say he underestimated himself, but remembered
how angry he’d gotten when she’d said something similar earlier that morning.
“I’m not a child. I know what I want, and that’s you.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Sin narrowed his eyes, his body rigid. “You do understand you’d only
be just another fuck to me—another notch on my very lengthy belt of conquests.
There’ll be no feelings involved. I have none to give, and I ain’t interested
in any from you.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">His words took the wind out of her desire. Damn. In the face of his
direct declaration, could she go through with it?</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Yes. This is a
once-in-a-lifetime experience, so don’t stop now. You know he’ll never shower
you with love—and you don’t want his love, just mind-blowing sex.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I understand perfectly,” she whispered. “And I’m not looking for
love.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Sin didn’t move or speak, but his eyes said it all. He wanted her as
much as she wanted him.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Eleanor’s muscles vibrated, and her breasts swelled with
anticipation. Did he need her to come to him? Make the first move?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So be it. Walking on trembling legs, she slowly closed the gap
between them. Each step brought her closer to what she craved.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Princess,” he said with a groan. His dark gaze latched onto her
breasts then snapped to her face. “Are you sure about this?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Never been more sure of anything in my life.” And she hadn’t. She
needed Sin. Why, she couldn’t explain—and didn’t care to right now. All she
knew was she had to feel him next to her, inside her—holding her.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Just before she reached him, he raised a hand, signaling her to
stop. Panic flared in his eyes. His jaw snapped tight, and he moved farther
from her.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Sin?” He was ready to run; she saw it clearly in his body language.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I’m leavin’.” He grabbed his jean jacket off the floor next to the
leather chair.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Why?” The disappointment in her tone was obvious as the panic
stamped on his face.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Because I’m saving you from making the biggest mistake of your
life.” Sin shot her a look full of regret then disappeared.</span></div>
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She longs to hold him forever. He fears her hold on his heart.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Author Eleanor Donavon’s life is finally
going her way. She kicked her mentally abusive ex-husband to the curb, and her
writing career is taking off. But her contented world changes when a stranger,
who’s the spitting image of one of her fictional vampire warriors, appears in
her home on the pretense of whisking her away on a vacation. Believing him to
be a cover model sent by her agent, Eleanor takes him up on his offer in hopes
of getting to know him better. When she learns the truth about who he is, and
the reason behind her imprisonment, her existence is rocked to the core. Now
caught in the brutal politics surrounding the vampires, her only hope of
surviving is to trust Sin. To complicate matters, she’s spellbound by the
fierce warrior and falling for him hard. With her heart at stake, she must
somehow break through his icy defenses to the man inside or forever lose him to
his haunted past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for anyone and you won’t let them down. His past actions taught him that
valuable lesson. When he receives the mission to abduct Eleanor, a beautiful
author writing about the Vampire Prophecy, his heart jolts awake. For the first
time in years he yearns to go against his principles and make her his forever,
but fear won’t allow it. When she becomes a target of the Sacred Order, Sin
risks his career to save her, but the real danger lurks when he realizes he
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03721556815192785649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217444187005953894.post-54210692937034326662014-12-11T13:18:00.002-08:002014-12-15T10:48:24.198-08:00Prophecy's Language<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Prophecy's Language, Book #4 in the Prophecy Series.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Thursday,
February, 06th, 2:08pm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I’m having a little...trouble with my
latest book,” Eleanor Donavon admitted to her agent as she trapped her phone
against her shoulder and tried to rub the tension from her forehead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A
little trouble? More like woolly mammoth-sized trouble.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“You’ll figure it out. You always do,”
Jackie said. “I have complete faith in you, as does your publisher.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Eleanor nodded, listening as her agent reminded
her she didn’t need to worry. There was plenty of time before her next novel
was due to hit the stores. A year to be exact. But Jackie didn’t know Eleanor
was suffering writer’s block for the first time since she began writing five
years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Jackie’s confident voice traveled the
airwaves from her office in New York. “Take a few weeks off—do a little
traveling. Rest your brain before you burn yourself out. You’ve written three
full-length books this past year. And your new series is burning up the charts.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Eleanor shifted the phone to her other
ear, then sighed. “I hope you’re right.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The sound of a lighter rasping, then a
deep inhale told her Jackie was lighting up. From out of nowhere, the urge to
smoke blindsided Eleanor, which was strange. She’d left that filthy habit in
the cigarette butt filled ashtray years ago. And like most reformed smokers,
she hated it now. This need to smoke had to be caused by her writer’s block.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Of course I’m right,” Jackie said with
a laugh. “Have I ever steered you wrong?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“No, but—” The words she was about to
say jammed in her throat like logs down a narrow river. She couldn’t put a
voice to her worries in case that cemented the block good and tight. Forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Eleanor picked up her glass of wine and
took a sip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“But what?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Best to keep this block business to herself.
For now, anyway. But she wanted off the phone, and the quickest way to achieve
that goal was to tell Jackie what she wanted to hear. “Nothing. And you’re
right. I do need a break. Maybe I’ll take a trip to England and visit my
sister.” Wasn’t going to happen. Eleanor and Becky hadn’t spoken a word since
their father’s funeral three years ago, and before that, was their mother’s
funeral, nine years previous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“There you go. Listen, Doll, I gotta
go—have to pack for my trip to Paaaris.” Jackie let out a squeal of pure
delight. “Frank and I leave tomorrow at five in the morning. Tiffany will take
over for me while I’m away, so if you need anything, she’ll take good care of
you. Though, since you’ll be on vacation, I suspect Tiffany won’t hear from
you, right?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Right.” And Tiffany wouldn’t, even
though Eleanor had no plans for a vacation. She had to work through this bloody
writer’s block if it killed her. She’d come too far in her career to allow a
silly thing like writer’s block to destroy her dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Good. I’ll talk to you in a couple of
weeks.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Have fun in Paris. Send me a postcard.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Jackie laughed. “Who wouldn’t have fun
in Paris? Toodles, Doll.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“<i>Au
revoir</i>.” Eleanor ended the call then drained the rest of the wine in her
glass. She gazed around the modern, airy elegance of her condo living room in
hopes the beauty would help calm her nerves. She loved the sandy, neutral wall
color, the dark flooring, and the sunlight streaming through the large windows.
Trailing her fingers over the white leather sectional and oak side table, she
made her way to the sliding glass doors and gazed out at the city. With the condo
situated on the fourth floor, she had a decent view of the shops below, and the
pedestrians as they enjoyed the rare sun-filled February day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> In
the distance, the tall structures of downtown Squamish filled the skyline, and
towering above all were majestic mountains, capped by the pale blue sky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She loved this city. She’d moved here after
her divorce, picking Squamish not only for its beauty, but because it was far
enough away from Abbotsford where her ex lived and worked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The thought of moving back to England had
rattled around her brain for two seconds before she’d tossed it when Thomas
ended their marriage. There was nothing left for her there. Hadn’t been since
she met and married Thomas at the ripe old age of sixteen. Against her parents’
warnings that she was making a huge mistake, she’d waved goodbye to family,
friends, and all that was familiar to her to follow him to Canada. Obviously her
Mum and Dad had seen through Thomas’ facade to his cold, money-driven, selfish
core. Not like they were any better. Guess like-minded people saw similar
traits in others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But like the love struck, immature girl
she had been, Eleanor had risked all to be with the man she had loved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And where did that love get her?
Thirty-one and divorced, staring down the rest of her life alone and childless,
parents who’d disowned her, and ten wasted years as she’d worked her guts out
at a go-nowhere office supply store—shelving her dreams of becoming a writer—so
her husband could pursue his dreams of becoming a doctor. To add more salt to
the gaping hole where her childish fantasies and pride once resided, Thomas had
booted her to the curb a month after her father’s funeral. Oh, he would never
admit the reason, but she knew damn well why he finally had the balls to end
their relationship. Her parents had written her out of their will, due to the
fact she had defied them. Her not so loving—cheap—husband finally had the proof
his wife would not inherit a substantial amount of money, no matter how many
times she had warned him of that fact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Funny part of the whole mess was neither
the divorce nor her parents’ final display of we-don’t-recognize-you-as-our-daughter
had hurt all that much. She’d filed both away in the
well-life-can-sure-be-a-bitch drawer. Her marriage had been a joke for years,
and the relationship with her parents had been strained since she could
remember.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A hummingbird hovered in front of the
patio door. Eleanor smiled and pressed a finger against the cool glass. The
little bird drew closer. The sun illuminated the shiny green feathers covering
the tiny creature’s head. Black eyes regarded her before the bird flew to the
hummingbird feeder filled with red sugar water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Birds had it made. If life sucked, they
could take off to new destinations whenever the mood struck them, unlike
humans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She sighed then faced the room. Her
home. The home she bought with her own money—money she’d made through her
writing. A sense of pride filled her chest as she stared at the three
movie-sized posters of the covers to her latest novels hanging above the gas
fireplace: Prophecy of Love. Child of the Prophecy. Power of the Prophecy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Though she had written and published ten
books to date, her latest vampire series finally made her a household name in
the romance book world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Take that, Thomas, you...Doubting
Thomas,” she said with a laugh. “You said I couldn’t do it. Well look at me
now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her sense of wellbeing evaporated. Fear
and anxiety took center stage again. Two words flashed through her mind:
Writer’s Block.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Crap.” <i>If you don’t get yourself together and leap over this hurdle, you’ll
lose everything</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I won’t lose anything,” she muttered.
“I’ll conquer the block.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Right.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
Eleanor walked into her kitchen and snagged the bottle of wine off the marble
counter, then marched back into the living room. Normally not much of a
drinker, she filled her glass to the brim. Today the effects of alcohol were
needed to keep the screaming fears and doubts at bay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Taking a large sip, she savored the
bitter yet sweet liquid before swallowing. Raising her glass, she said, “Forget
about Calgon. Wine, take me away.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her cell phone jingled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Grrr.” She pulled the phone from her
sweater pocket and checked the number. Annoyance pounded through her. Her nerves
were already strung tight, and this conversation would surely send her over the
edge. “What does he want now?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Don’t
answer</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">. Yeah, but if she didn’t, he’d just keep calling,
over and over, leaving increasingly annoying messages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She downed the wine before perching the
glass on the coffee table, then clicked talk. “What?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Well hello to you too, sweetheart,”
Thomas said on the other end. His voice was tight, and she knew full well he
was pissed at her, but was struggling to hide his anger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Eleanor closed her eyes, trying to
control her temper. She knew what he wanted, but he could go fly a kite and
hopefully get electrocuted. “What do you want, Thomas? I’m busy writing.” <i>You’re such a liar. </i>“And I don’t have
time to play games with you today—or any day.”<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Isn’t that nice. You don’t have five
minutes for your husband?” His control slipped and the true Thomas came
through. His tone was hard and edged with rage, ready to explode.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And she was buzzed enough and tired
enough of all his crap to bother trying to placate him. “I believe you have
your wives mixed up. I’m Eleanor, your <i>ex-</i>wife.
You’re looking for Tanya, your <i>current</i>
<i>wife</i>.” She smiled at his hissed curse,
picturing his face reddening, and the veins in his neck bulging.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I told you, we split up last month.
I’ve already started the divorce proceedings.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She rolled her eyes and stared at the
ceiling. Heaving a deep sigh, she added a smug smile to her voice. “Good for
Tanya. So, what do you want?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“What do you mean, what do I want?” The
edge in his voice became sharper. “Are you deaf or dense? I’ve been telling you
for the past month what I want.” He cleared his throat. “I’d like for you and I
to patch things up. I miss you, Ellie.” Now his voice was smoother than a silk
sheet, bordering on whiny.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Eleanor covered her mouth, holding back
her laugh of derision. No point sending the old boy into a rage induced cardiac
arrest. His insult bounced off her, as did his sickening sweetness. She had
been down this road with him too many times for it to bother her. And as for
his declaration of missing her, she had two words for him: Fuck off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But instead, she replied, “I told you
last night, the night before, and every day this past month that we will <i>never</i> get back together—<i>I never</i> want to get back together with
you. If you need it in writing to get it through your thick skull, then I’ll be
glad to type something up and mail it to you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A sharp draw of breath filled her ear.
“You fucking bitch!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If she had a nickel for every time,
during and after their marriage, that he’d called her a bitch, she’d be a
billionaire. But what he failed to understand was he didn’t have any power over
her anymore. “Thomas, I’m hanging—”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Who the fuck do you think you’re talk—”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Bye,” she said over his ranting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Don’t you dare hang up on me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“You forget, I don’t have to listen to
your shit anymore. Toodles, doll,” she said, mimicking her agent. She pulled
the phone from her ear, and just as she was about to click end, his shouted
demand made her pause. With the phone back against her ear, she asked, “What
did you just say?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“You owe me money.” His words were
spoken in a calm tone, but she wasn’t fooled. The more composed he became, the
more enraged he was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Shocked, she couldn’t speak for a
second.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“You still there,” he asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Finally, she found her voice. “In what
universe do you think I owe you money?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“You owe me for the two years I supported
your lazy ass after you quit working to write. You weren’t making any money. I
paid for everything. I figure twenty thousand for both years should do it—and
don’t say you can’t afford it. I know better.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Rage slowly wound through her body. Her
muscles tightened, and tremors lit off in her legs. “You’re crazier than even I
imagined. What about the years I supported you while you went to med school?
The way I figure it, you owe me money.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I paid you out after our divorce, so
don’t think of trying to get another dime from me!” The volume of his voice
rose, and his breathing became labored.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Was he serious? Even for Thomas this
conversation was out there, surfing the Outer Limits. Though as strange as it
was, it made sense why he’d been trying to get back together with her since he
split from his wife. He didn’t miss or love her. No, he must have found out how
much money Eleanor was making from her writing. And the money-driven bastard
wanted in on it. Well, not in this lifetime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Ten thousand dollars, Thomas. That’s
all you gave me after ten years of shit and abuse. And I didn’t contest it—and
my lawyer begged me too, believe me. I just wanted out. So let me make this
clear so even you’ll understand. You. Will. Not. Get. A. Cent. From. Me. Ever.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He must have heard the conviction in her
voice because his attitude changed. He sighed. “What happened to you, Ellie?
You used to be so sweet and giving. You’ve turned cold.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Because
of you, Jackass.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> “I’ve changed, Thomas. I’m not the
naive woman you married.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Yeah, I noticed.” Gone was his
playacting. The true Thomas was back in action. “I saw your picture in the back
of your last book. I must say, you looked like a whore.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Of all the crap that had fallen from his
mouth, this remark sent her anger soaring. “A whore?” She barked out a cold
laugh. “Coming from you, that’s a compliment.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Yes, a whore. You were a whore when I
met you, but I thought you’d changed. Obviously not.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">His smug, condescending tone and words
almost drove her over the cliff. Fury built inside, swirling around, looking
for a way out. The strong emotion crawled up her throat and burst through her lips.
“Fuck you, you controlling bastard.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“And now you’re talking like a slut. You
never used to swear before.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> “Oh,
I swore before, just did it behind your back. If you could have heard all the
names I called you.” She laughed again. “Whatever. The days of me listening to
you are over—thank God.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I always knew you were a worthless
slut. Even your parents knew that, and cut you from their lives and will.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If he stood in front of her, she’d
happily strangle him. Suddenly, her inner self spoke up. <i>What are you doing? Why are you allowing him to get to you? Hang up the
damn phone!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She gripped the phone tight, then
snarled, “I’m done talking to you. Oh, and just so you know, I’m shutting off
my cell and turning the ringer off on my landline.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“This isn’t over, Eleanor. You owe me—”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I owe you nothing.” With that, she
clicked end, powered down her phone, then tossed it onto the white matching
chair next to the couch. The phone bounced once then landed on the floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Eleanor stormed across the length of her
living room, down the short hallway, past her bathroom decorated in light
greens and off white, turned around, and marched back, as she tried to get
herself under control. Standing in the middle of the living room, she sighed. “Just
calm down. Stop letting him get to you. He’s mental—you know that. And more
importantly, he isn’t your problem anymore. You have bigger problems, like
writing your next novel.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She stared up at the book posters.
“Shit.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But damnit. His callous remark about her
looking like a whore in her new author photo had hurt. No, it pissed her off.
She was proud of that picture—proud of her new look.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her gaze cut to the bookshelves flanking
the fireplace. Without thinking, she moved to the tall, mahogany shelves and
scanned the book spines until she found her last novel. She pulled it from its
resting place and flipped to the inside back cover.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A black and white picture of her
standing under a large oak tree smiled back at her. She wore a knee-length,
form-fitting black skirt that hugged her slim, but rounded hips. Sexy high-heeled
pumps made her legs look long and shapely, even though she stood only five foot
three. The classy blue blouse she’d chosen brought out the blue in her eyes, though
the picture was devoid of color. Her long, auburn hair, with blonde highlights,
was cut in a seductive style. Her makeup was tasteful, enhancing eyes, lips and
cheekbones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I don’t look like a hussy, you stupid
pinhead.” She glared at her cell phone lying on the floor, thinking of Thomas.
“You’re pissed off because you can’t control me anymore.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">From the deep recesses of her mind, a
thought bubbled to the forefront. Then shame skittered up her spine before
settling like a led ball in her belly. If Thomas hadn’t ended their marriage,
she’d probably still be with him. He’d had her completely reliant on him. From
the start, he’d isolated her from family and friends while slowly destroying
her self-esteem. And she’d allowed it—all of his demands and psychological abuse—making
excuses for his bizarre behavior because she’d been too frightened to leave
him. She’d chosen to put up with his angry, insane tantrums rather than face a
life alone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Forget
it. Thoughts like this will get you nowhere. The point is, you are free of him,
and doing well on your own. And if you want to continue doing well, you better
figure out your next book.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She shoved Thomas from her mind, and then
made her way to the computer. Once seated at the desk, Eleanor opened the
document titled: <i>Working Title: Unknown.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The blank screen mocked her. The blinking
cursor seemed to say, loser, loser, loser.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">With her elbows on the sleek black
desktop, she closed her eyes and tried to get into the zone; tried to think of
possible characters, plot, conflict, but nothing formed. It truly felt like a
wall had been erected in her head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Anxiety rooted and spread its
doubt-filled fingers throughout her head. Her heart sped up, her legs felt
rubbery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Jumping up, she paced in front of the
patio doors. “What’s the matter with me? Why can’t I write?” She tunneled her
fingers through her hair and pulled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thomas. He was the reason. All his damn
phone calls. All his bullshit about loving and missing her was screwing with
her mind and motivation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or maybe this wall was created by her
disheartened view of relationships and men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It wasn’t like she didn’t believe in
love, because she did. Believing in true love was a necessity when writing
romance novels. But she didn’t trust her instincts anymore when it came to
matters of the heart. With Thomas, she’d fallen completely under the spell of
his blond good looks, brooding blue eyes, toned body, and take-charge,
controlling attitude. She’d been a terrible judge of character and was freaked
she’d repeat the same mistakes by falling for the wrong type of man again—another
alpha male.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Alpha men were fine as fictional
characters in romance novels, but not in real life. The next time she fell in
love, it would be with a beta male.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chapter 2</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Chapter 2</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">February,
06th 4:10pm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Surrey,
British Columbia, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Mel, wake up. You’re not going to
believe this.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Breeana’s urgent voice penetrated Mel’s
sleep-filled mind. He grunted, but didn’t open his eyes. Sleep still held him
in its tight grasp.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Wake up.” She whipped the covers off
his face and gave his shoulder a hard shake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He peeled open his eyelids and squinted
against the light coming from the table lamp next to the bed. His wife’s lovely
face hovered above him; her long brunette hair hung down, tickling his cheek.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Panic filled her hazel eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Christ, the baby!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Adrenaline shot through his veins. He
jerked up and seized her upper arms. “Are you okay? Is it the baby?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“No—and I’m fine. But look at this.” She
thrust a book an inch from his face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He stared at Breeana as his fear abated.
If anything happened to her or the baby, he’d...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Stop
it. She’s fine</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Once his heart ceased its wild, erratic
dance, his attention turned to the book so close to his face that his eyes
couldn’t bring it into focus. He took it from her hand and studied the glossy
red cover. Written across the top in large black lettering it read: Prophecy of
Love. Below, a black haired man kissed the throat of a beautiful brunette.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Confused, he cocked a brow at Breeana in
a silent question. “Okay. Nice...book.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She heaved a sigh, grabbed the book and
flipped it open. She shoved it back toward him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The moment he read the page header, his
heart jackknifed and plummeted to his feet. Slowly, he clasped the paperback
and read the familiar fourteen short sentences. His gaze dropped to the picture
of a crooked dagger then snapped back to his wife. He read her shock and
puzzlement easily. “What the hell? This is the Vampire Prophecy, word for
bloody word—and the symbol.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She nodded. “I know.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Where did you get it?” He flipped it
closed and stared at the author’s name. Eleanor Donavon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Breeana sat on the bed and placed her
hands over her very pregnant belly. “From Barcley’s bookstore in the mall.
Katherine and I were shopping, and I stopped in to browse the romance section.
I was excited to see new books by Eleanor—she’s one of my favorite authors,
plus she’s local. Anyway, you could imagine my shock when I checked inside and
saw the Vampire Prophecy. I...I can’t believe it.” Fear filled her eyes. “How
could this have happened? How does she know about the Prophecy? Could she
somehow know about vampires?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mel studied the author’s photo on the
back inside cover. She was a pretty, petite woman, with an engaging smile. “I
have no clue.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He tossed off the brown comforter and
placed his feet on the carpeted floor. After handing the book back to his wife,
he scraped his hair back from his face. This was trouble—big trouble. Was the
author a vampire? Somehow, he doubted it, but how the fuck did she know about
the Prophecy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Shit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mel faced Breeana. She continued
smoothing a hand over her protruding stomach. Even with the frown scrunching
her forehead, she never looked more beautiful. Her shiny brunette hair cascaded
around her shoulders in loose curls, and her front teeth worrying her full bottom
lip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Forgetting the book for a moment, he
cupped the nape of Breeana’s neck and pulled her lips to his. “I didn’t kiss
you hello.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her hazel eyes darkened to green, and
her smile grew seductive. “No you didn’t. But under the circumstances, I’ll let
it slide—this time.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As her fingers tangled in his hair, Mel
groaned, then claimed her lips with a gentle yet urgent need. Their tongues lazily danced, fueling the fire
in them both.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Although Mel sensed her desire, he also
sensed she was uncomfortable and tired. What she needed was rest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He reined in his lust, broke off the
kiss, then pressed his forehead against hers. “How are you feeling,
sweetheart?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her eyes closed, and when she opened
them, he saw how weary she truly was. “Besides my back aching, and our son or
daughter rearranging my organs, I’m fine. Just a little tired, but that’s
nothing new.” She sighed and sat back, rubbing her belly again. “Katherine said
the last few weeks would be the worst.” She chuckled. “And she was correct.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mel cupped the hard roundness of her
abdomen. He smoothed his hands up and around in hopes to help bring her some
comfort. “Three more weeks, then this little guy or girl will be born.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I know.” Her smile lit up the room.
“And I can hardly wait to meet him or her—and have my body back. I want to be
able to go ten minutes without having to pee.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mel laughed. He hugged her to his chest
and dropped a kiss on top of her head. “Is there anything I can do to help?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“You’re doing it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Doesn’t seem like much. Like I’m
getting off easy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She shifted and pulled out of his
embrace. “You are getting off easy, but just wait until our baby is born.
That’s when the hard work will start for us both.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mel’s heart soared. God, he loved her.
She was his life, and now so was their child. “I’m looking forward to it—all of
it. Dirty diapers, running on no sleep. Teething, crying...” He planted a quick
kiss on her lips. “I love you, Breeana.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I love you too.” She picked up the book
and turned it over before holding it up. “So, what should we do?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Take it to Roarik. Then go from there.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mel walked to the closet in their
bedroom. He dressed quickly in jeans and a T-shirt. He glanced over at his wife
sitting on the bed. “Wanna come with me?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Do you think I should?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Yeah. You can fill Roarik in.” Still in
bare feet, he headed to the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She stood. Her long red sweater pulled
tight over her belly. “I think it would be a good idea if I read the book—see
what it’s about. See what else she wrote about.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I agree, but first we show Roarik.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As they walked into the living room, she
placed a hand on his arm. “Mel, I forgot to mention. I noticed there were two
more books to this series. I didn’t grab them because I was so shocked once I
read the Prophecy. Should I buy the others?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mel guided her out of their suite and
down the concrete tunnel with a hand on her lower back. “Later. First, we deal
with this storm.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Christ. And this was going to be a
storm. He felt it in his bones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Chapter 3</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Chapter 3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">February,
06th 5:54pm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Surrey,
British Columbia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Buzzz.
Buzzz. Buzzz</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The annoying buzzing leaked into Sin’s
semi-conscious brain. He was awake enough to know the sound came from his cell
phone vibrating across the night stand, but asleep enough not to give a shit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He rolled over, tugged the comforter
over his head, and settled in for another couple hours of sleep. Let the
asshole leave a voice mail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Besides, his head was splitting, and his
guts heaved. Christ, didn’t the caller know he had one motherfucking bitch of a
hangover?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Buzzz.
Buzzz. Buzzz.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Come on. Can’t a vampire get any sleep
around this joint?” He lifted his head slightly; the movement sent hammers
banging in his brain. Slowly, he peeked his head out from under the covers and
squinted at the glowing green numbers on his clock-radio. Six o’clock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He had at least four hours left until he
had to get up and head out for the nightly demon hunt—and he needed every
minute of sleep he could get in hopes of dulling his hangover.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Buzzz.
Buzzz.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The phone started up again. It danced
against the wall, trapped by the radio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“This better be worth waking me up.” He
snatched up the phone and checked caller ID.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The numbers blurred together, making it
hard to see who was disturbing his beauty rest. He tried blinking, but his eyes
were drier than dirt from the desert. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Finally his eyes worked enough to see
the caller was Soren, the second in command at this base of warriors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The one person, besides Roarik, he
couldn’t ignore if he wanted to avoid another ball-busting lecture, which he
did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Second in command or not, Sin answered
with attitude. “This better be good.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Get your sorry ass outta bed and meet me
in Roarik’s office. Now, Sin. Not later.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Fucking
hell.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> “What’s the problem? Can’t be anything I’ve done. I’ve
been a good little soldier lately.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Roarik has a mission for you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sin laughed, but stopped when it caused
his head to pound. “A mission? What the fuck are we now? The Hardy Boys?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Soren chuckled. “Are you out of bed
yet?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I’m workin’ on it.” Sin shifted onto
his back. The room titled as dizziness screwed with his equilibrium. He groaned
then cleared the crap from his throat. “Do I have time for a shower?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“No. Roarik isn’t in the best of moods.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“What’s new?” He lifted an arm, sniffed,
then cringed. “Dude, I’m pretty ripe. I think it’d be better for everyone if I
take five and shower.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> “Fine, but make it quick.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sin contemplated getting to his feet,
but wasn’t looking forward to the queasiness that would follow. “Does this
mission require me to suit up in my ninja gear?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Another laugh came from Soren, which was
a good sign. If the guy could laugh, then chances were good whatever had
Roarik’s panties twisted up his ass had nothing to do with Sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I’ll tell Roarik you’re on your way.”
Soren ended the call.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sin dropped the cell phone on the bed.
Scrubbing both hands over his face, he braced himself against the inevitable
urge to spew his guts the second he sat up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“One. Two. Three.” In one motion, he sat
up. The room swayed. The walls of his bedroom seemed to rotate around him,
making his eyes ache. “Fucking tequila. Get’s me every time.” But would he
drink it again? Of course. Booze was the only way to shut up the past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He kicked the comforter to the floor.
With one hand on his head and the other pressed against his churning gut, he
stood. This time the room tilted and rolled. He lost his footing and his ass
hit the bed again. “Let’s try this one more time, shall we.” Once more he
stood, and this time the room stayed relatively stable, which helped him stay
upright, but the sour contents in his stomach boiled like a cauldron of poison.
His mouth filled with saliva, a precursor to barfing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Come on, man. Just keep it down.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The cool air in his room felt wonderful
on his over-heated skin and helped tame his urge to puke. When he felt he could
move without falling, he stumbled across the beige carpet toward the bathroom.
Thumbing the light switch to on, he caught his reflection in the mirror above
the sink.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Christ, he looked like he’d gone twenty
rounds with a prize fighter. Guess in a sense he had. The demons he’d fought
and killed last night had been seasoned fighters, not new recruits. But it
wasn’t the demons and last night’s battles that ravaged his complexion. That he
blamed solely on heavy drinking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He stepped up to the mirror and rested
his hands on the edge of the sink, assessing his face. Dark smudges stood out
like bruises under his bloodshot eyes. His black hair was a knotted mess with
long strands sticking to his cheeks. The wild mop reached below his shoulders. He
should just cut the shit off. It was a
massive pain in the ass, but the ladies seemed to like it. Personally, he’d be
happy taking clippers to it. Be a lot easier to manage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He cracked a smile. <i>Easier to manage. Listen to it. Christ, I sound like a pussy.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">After kicking a pile of dirty clothes to
the side, he stepped into the shower. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Five minutes later, and feeling a little
better, Sin dressed in a pair of jeans, long sleeved shirt, and his jean
jacket, then left his suite. The concrete tunnel was deserted. Not even the
sounds of muffled voices behind the closed doors of the other suites were
heard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Huh. Seemed odd for this time of night.
Kal and Katherine’s son, Ike, was usually getting ready for school about now.
And the kid was anything but quiet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He managed the stairs leading to the
main house above on shaky legs. As he stepped into the cavernous foyer, he
decided the long trek up to the third floor was more than he could handle at the
moment. Best to teleport. Faster and easier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">With his mind concentrating on the spot
in front of the door to Roarik’s third floor office, he dematerialized, and then
took form at his intended target.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Roarik’s deep voice blasted through the
wooden door. “Where the hell is he, Soren? This needs to be dealt with, and
fast.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“He’ll be here. Just mellow out,” Soren
said with an equally annoyed tone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Well, this was going to be fun. Just
what he needed—not. Sin thrust open the door and sauntered into the room.
“Hello, ladies.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Soren’s head whipped toward him. He
shoved a hand through his short blond hair while his green eyes flashed. “About
time.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mel and his human wife, Breeana, sat in
twin chintz chairs close to the enormous fireplace, where a cheery fire added
light and warmth to the room. Sin nodded in their direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At the far end of the room, situated
under a large window looking out over the backyard, Roarik rose from behind his
large oak desk. His brown eyes snapped with annoyance. Deep furrows between his
dark blond brows showed his anger. “What took you so long? When I give an order,
I expect it to be followed.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sin shrugged then slumped onto the
nearest chair. He cocked an elbow along the backrest and crossed his feet at
the ankles. “Had to shower. Couldn’t be helped. So, instead of reading me the
riot act, why not tell me what the hell is going on?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Roarik’s face turned stormy. He ground
his teeth and sneered, but thankfully he didn’t go off on one of his famous
tangents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thank God for small mercies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Soren shoved Sin’s shoulder as be passed
by. “Watch it,” he mumbled under his breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sin glanced up and smiled. “Watch what?
Are we here to watch a movie? Will there be popcorn?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">From over by the fireplace, Breeana
laughed, but it was short lived. “Sorry,” she murmured.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Facing her, Sin winked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She smiled back, red-faced. Her amused
eyes drifted to her husband, then back to Roarik. Mel’s silver gaze focused on
Sin, glaring a warning, but his lips twitched into a ghost of a smile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Enough,” Roarik barked. “This is
serious shit, Sin, and I advise you to treat it as such.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sin tried to school his features.
Wouldn’t be wise to piss Roarik off anymore than he was already. But sometimes
Sin’s mouth got him in trouble. Sometimes? Try all the time. “Then fill me in,
boss.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Roarik picked up a book and tossed it to
Sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He caught the paperback. The red cover
sported a man with his lips buried against the white throat of a woman. The
title read: Prophecy of Love. Confused, he directed his stare at Roarik. “I
don’t get it. Am I supposed to read this, ‘cause if so, forget it. Not my type
of literature. My taste is more...Playboy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Turn to page four.” Roarik folded his
arms over his broad chest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Glancing at Soren, Sin raised a brow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Just read it,” Soren said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He flipped the book open to page four,
then froze. Blood pounded in his ears as he read the fourteen lines. At the
bottom of the page was a picture of a crooked dagger—the prophecy’s symbol. The
mark of the chosen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All business, Sin sat straighter in his
seat. “What the hell is this?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Breeana cleared her throat. “A romance
novel.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sin turned in his seat. “A what, what?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“A vampire romance novel to be exact,
written by a local author,” she added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Closing the book, Sin glanced at the
author’s name on the cover: Eleanor Donavon. “How’d she get her hands on the prophecy?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Roarik sat on his black swivel chair.
“That’s what we need to find out.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Suspicion wormed through Sin’s
bewilderment. “As in <i>we</i>, you mean me.
Am I correct?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Give the boy a cigar,” Soren said with
a short laugh. “Now you’re getting it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sin narrowed his gaze on Roarik. “Just
how do you want me to extract this info? If you want me to interrogate this
chick, then forget it. Last I checked that wasn’t in my job description.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Roarik’s face looked carved from
granite. “Once she’s in our custody, I’ll question her.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
our custody</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">? Sin jumped to his feet. He grabbed the
back of the chair to hold himself steady. Now they were getting to the heart of
this mission, and he didn’t like where his mind was headed. He held up his
hands. “Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. You want me to kidnap her? Are you serious?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mel cleared his throat. “It’s less than
ideal, but what other choice do we have? If she’s a vampire openly writing about
the prophecy—”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Or if she’s a human who has been told
about vampires and the prophecy, she has to be stopped,” Roarik stated in a
cold voice. “This is exactly what I’ve warned you guys about. You seem to think
it’s okay to inform the human women you’re screwing about vampires and the war,
placing blind faith in them that they’ll keep their damn traps shut. But as you
can see, humans can’t be trusted.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sin turned in time to see Breeana
struggle to stand. She placed one hand on her big belly, and the other on the
back of the chair. She groaned, plunked back down, then tried again. Mel
clasped one of her hands, then slipped his arm around her expanded waist, and
hoisted her up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Standing, she planted both hands on her
hips and glowered at Roarik. “Hold on a second here. You don’t know that she’s
a human. So please, can the hate-all-humans-crap.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Soren swore. “Look, we’re getting off
course here. Whether she’s human or vampire will be determined later.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sin snorted. “Yeah, after <i>I </i>kidnap her. Why not just pay her a
visit and see what’s what?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Roarik folded his hands on top of the
desk, his face a mask of boredom. But Sin detected rage swimming just under the
surface. “The Sacred Order has to be brought up to speed. And I anticipate what
their instructions will be. I want to be one step ahead of them on this.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Fucking Order.” Sin shook his head.
“Why not get those lazy sons-of-bitches to do the dirty work for a change? We
have enough on our plates keeping the demons at bay.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Couldn’t agree more, but as you know, they
wouldn’t dare get their hands dirty,” Roarik said. His brown eyes turned black
as his lips pulled down at the corners, clearly showing his distaste over the
vampire’s government. It was common knowledge their squad leader had zero
respect for the robe-wearing assholes who governed their race.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“This will need to be handled with the
utmost secrecy, and as painlessly as possible,” Mel said, steering the
conversation back to the shit-storm at hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sin stared Mel down. “Then get someone
else to do it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“You will do it—and that’s a direct
order, Sin,” Roarik replied, his tone cold and quiet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sin spun around and frowned at his
captain. “And I said, get someone else.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A muscle ticked along Roarik’s jaw. He
slowly stood. Standing at a whopping six foot seven, he was the tallest warrior
at the base. His impressive size coupled with his hard muscular frame screamed
of the immense power housed inside—and Sin would do well to remember that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“You’re the one I chose for this
mission. Soren has other responsibilities to attend to, as do Mel and Kal.
Black’s dealing with family issues, and no way in hell would I send Ace. So
that leaves you.” Roarik walked around his desk and leaned a hip against one
corner, then crossed his arms. “Besides, this will go a long way in clearing
the black mark on your record, or have you forgotten about that fiasco?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Heat flushed Sin’s cheeks. Oh, he hadn’t
forgotten, but he was sick of being reminded of it. He’d made a mistake, one
that would never happen again. Six years ago, he’d gotten so damn plastered at
the biker bar he’d loved to frequent that he’d dematerialized out in the
parking lot. Right in front of human onlookers. Shit, his little stunt not only
landed his ass in vampire jail for seven months, but the people who witnessed
his vanishing act had yapped to the local news. Thank God Black had been with
him and had smoothed things over as much as he could. He’d planted thoughts in
a few heads that Sin’s disappearing act was due to a bad patch of drugs on the
street. In other words, the humans were hallucinating. Lucky, that excuse
seemed to have worked, although many from that night swore they weren’t using.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Sacred Order, on the other hand,
weren’t as easy to mollify. After a two week hearing, his sentence was jail
time, which was sufficient punishment as far as he was concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But yeah, no denying it. He’d pulled a
boneheaded move for sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sin rubbed the back of his neck and
sighed. Looked like he was now in the kidnapping business. “Fine. When do you
want this done?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Tonight.” Roarik folded a slip of paper
and handed it to Sin. “That’s her address. Study her picture in the back of the
book to make sure you grab the right woman.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sin opened the book to the back inside
cover. A petite yet very curvy woman smiled back at him. As his eyes traveled
over the black and white photo, his cock hardened. Damn, but she was a pretty
little thing. Her eyes seemed to sparkle with life, and her smile was wide and
genuine. Her hair appeared soft. The strands flowed around her oval face, past
her shoulders, in a sensual cloud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She looked sweet, innocent, and sexy as
hell. Not his normal type. The women he usually went for were lacking the sweet
and innocent parts. He liked his women experienced in the arts of seduction
with no emotional expectations. This little miss wasn’t the love ‘em and leave
‘em type. She was the marrying kind, which he avoided. But for her, he’d make
an exception. He’d love to take her for a test ride. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He scanned her short bio. Perfect. No
mention of a husband, roommate, or pets. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Suddenly, this mission didn’t seem so
bad. In fact, he looked forward to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Prophecy's Language coming Spring 2015</b>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03721556815192785649noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217444187005953894.post-50170261674818261842014-08-17T09:04:00.003-07:002014-08-17T09:05:52.969-07:00Sale! Sale!Prophecy's Child, book #2 in the Prophecy series is on sale for the ultra low price of .99<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Katherine Colby’s life splintered ten years ago when
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Prophecy's Language, book #4 in the Prophecy series will be available July 2015Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03721556815192785649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217444187005953894.post-41914251645708724352014-07-09T11:21:00.002-07:002014-07-09T11:21:30.777-07:00A Blog About...Well, Nothing Really<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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blogging today because I have something to say. The real question is, do you
want to read it, lol? Ah, sure ya do. You never know what tomfoolery may come
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jist of what I mean. I detest those
temporary bathrooms—outhouses. I can’t even step in them. The very air you
breathe is a poisonous fume, full of waste particles. LOL, a little Lord of the Rings humor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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excited. I will be back! I will write another book! See if you can stop me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Have to step up to the plate and take care of a few things—like helping keep
the family biz afloat. LOL, yeah, like whether or not the biz stays afloat
really rests on my shoulders. Hehehehe, makes me feel good thinking it does.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hacking writing out of my life. I like it—it makes me happy. So you know what? I decided there will be
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Prophecy series is back on. I’ve even got the black moment almost figured out.
See? Painting and writing can fit into my life. I do a lot of thinking and book
plotting while I’m slapping paint on the walls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to my friend—who just so happens to be one heck of a talented author—Lisa
Kumar. Thanks for your friendship and support—and for letting me rant your ear
off on occasion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Prophecy's Power, book #3 in the Prophecy series is finally here. Phew, took me long enough. I was beginning to think this day would never come.<br />
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I won't take up your time with a bunch of my rambling--and man, I can ramble if given the opportunity, lol.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">For
Natalie Tortelli, everything comes down to a hard-won fight. She’s survived an
insane mother and a cold, indifferent foster care system. To stand apart from
everyone and everything is to trust only in herself—and that suits her fine.
But all that changes one night when she happens upon a handsome stranger,
murdering another. To make matters worse, the killer takes her captive and
claims he’s part of a vampire race that protects humans from demons. Caught in
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demons to fight, and willing women to share his bed, why wouldn’t he? Love is
an emotion he cares nothing about. But the foundations of his philosophies are
shaken to the core after he has to detain Natalie. She’s unlike any
woman—vampire or human—he’s ever come across. When it comes time to let her go,
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Soren and Natalie attempt to unravel the secrets that haunt her past—which
might tie both of them to the vampire prophecy. Though their passionate
relationship is more than either had expected, both hesitate to fully entrust
themselves to one another. But if they don’t, death may be the only thing that
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Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03721556815192785649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217444187005953894.post-15962916791520160472014-05-08T10:29:00.000-07:002014-05-08T10:29:16.150-07:00Prophecy's Power, book #3 in the Prophecy series<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Another light clicked on as they entered a
smaller room—a bedroom judging by the dresser. The kidnapper dropped her onto a
bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Natalie squirmed, trying to roll off, but he
placed a large hand on her chest and forced her down. The fact he held her so
effortlessly pissed her off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He glared down at her. For the first time, she
noticed his eyes. They were a deep green, clear and sharp like emeralds. Long,
dark blond lashes surrounded them. His nose was a little too big, but it did
nothing to detract from his handsomeness. Stubble, a couple shades darker than
his short blond hair, covered his square jaw.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Anger ripped through her fright. She’d always
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straightened and walked out of the room. The sound of the door closing and the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hello. Been quite some time since last I blogged. I
have no excuse for being absent so long...well except for the fact I have been
hard at work writing book #3 in the Prophecy series. But more on that later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I read my first paranormal years ago. I
think it was roughly twelve, thirteen years ago. I can’t remember the title of
the book, but the hero was a vampire rock star. And man, oh man, I was hooked
from there. I searched the local bookstore for other books under this new
genre: paranormal romance. It was like a new world was opened up for me and I
loved it. My favorite paranormal romance author is J.R Ward. She’s the freaking
BOMB!</span></div>
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talented, Natasza Waters to participate in the MWP blog tour. I’m to answer
four questions about my writing process. I thought, hey, why not? Sounds like
fun. So here I am, talking to you all about how I write.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I met Natasza Waters last summer through a mutual
friend, Tonya Smalley. Both of these fantastic ladies review for InD’Tale
Magazine. I had heard about Natasza’s book, Code Name: Ghost, through the
facebook grapevine. Natasza writes military romance. Now as some of you may
know, I’m a lover of paranormal romances, but decided to give her book a try.
Step out of my comfort genre, lol. And holy moly, I’m so glad I did. I sped
through her first book, then waited on pins and needles for the second in the
Warrior’s Challenge series, Code Name: Kayla’s Fire. Ooooh, baby, this book was
sick—in a good way! I loved it. The tension, the twists, the feels. Here’s a
link to Natasza’s blog site:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://voicebetweenthelines.com/mwp-blog-tour">http://voicebetweenthelines.com/mwp-blog-tour</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Question 1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> For the last few months I have been furiously—well,
maybe not furiously—working on book #3 in the Prophecy series. Wait, didn’t I
say this already? Yeah I did, above. Told ya it has been a long time since I’ve
blogged, lol. *takes a sip of coffee.* Ahhhh, much better. So, where was I?
Right, furiously writing book #3. This book is called Prophecy’s Power. Nice
title, huh? Book #1 in the series is called Love’s Prophecy. Book #2 is called
Prophecy’s Child. Do you see a pattern here? All the titles are two words. Oh,
and they all have prophecy in them. Huh, I just noticed that. LOL, that was
just a joke. I’m really not that weird. Well....lol. Prophecy’s Power is to be
released in July 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My work differs from other paranormal romances in
many ways, but I think the biggest way it differs is the history behind
vampires and why they exist. Before I started writing Love’s Prophecy, I had
the history behind my vampires all mapped out. I wanted a plausible reason—one
that could actually be true—for why vampires roam the earth. Another difference
is my vampires are not... Not sure what word I’m looking for. Let’s go with
typical. And what I mean by typical is the well-known legends surrounding
vampires: they are dead, immortal, drink a human dry. Son’s of Lucifer, etc,
etc. My vampires were created by an angel. They were exactly like humans at one
time, but The Creator gave them long life, awesome healing abilities, plus a
few more tricks so they could fight the demons sent to earth by Lucifer to
destroy humans and take the earth back for himself. I have also created a cool
reason for why vampires drink human blood, but I won’t post it here. LOL, don’t
want to give away all my secrets.</span></div>
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how my writing process works, it just does, lol. I’ll try to explain it as best
I can. My writing process is not really a process. Well, I guess it is. I’m
what I call a plotsner. This is a combination of a plotter and a pantser. For
those of you who don’t know what these terms mean, I’ll explain. A plotter is a
writer who plots out his/her story before he/she writes. A panster is a writer
who has an idea for story, a couple of characters rattling around in his/her
head, but doesn’t plot the story out first. This type of writer allows the
story to develop as he/she writers. I will have an idea for the story—I know
how it starts and ends with a few ideas for the middle. I know my characters
and some of their backstory before I begin. The holes fill in as I write. I’m also
not a fast writer, and the reason for that is because I have to write in order
and I can’t move on to the next chapter until I am completely satisfied with
the last one. So that means I can spend days and days on one chapter, trying to
get it right. Some writers will skip scenes, simply inserting a quick note like
this: Insert fight scene here* and then come back to it later. LOL, I wish I
could do that, but I can’t. I also can’t force myself to write. If I’m not
feeling it, then I don’t write because all I’m doing is wasting my time. I end
up deleting all the crap—and it always is crap—later. So, there ya have it.
That’s me and my writing process in a nutshell. Not very glamorous, but hey.</span></div>
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and next Monday she will have a post on her writing process up on her blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The author I’m tagging is one of the most talented
authors I have had the good fortune to meet. We have become wonderful friends,
which thrills me to no end because I have learned so much from her vast store
of knowledge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Without further yapping from me, I’d like to
introduce you all to the insanely talented, kind and generous Lisa Kumar.
*stands up and claps and whistles*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lisa writes fantasy romance, featuring elves. You
thought the elves in Lord of the Rings were hot? Well wait until you meet
Lisa’s elves. Both Lisa’s books are available at all retailers. Lisa also
writes regency romance as well. You can find out all about her on her website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bound by the Mist is book #1 in her Mists of Eria
series, and Bound to the Elvin King is book #2. I DEVOURED both books and can’t
wait for the next one. We get a taste of book #3 at the end of Bound to the
Elvin King.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mel is a vampire warrior sworn to hunt and kill
demons in the dark streets of Vancouver. But he's burdened with a new
assignment: find the meaning behind the Vampire Prophecy. Having no faith in
the gods and their empty words, he believes there's no truth to the ancient
legend until he meets Breeana, a human woman who bears the mark of the prophecy
and resembles the mysterious woman haunting his dreams. When a vengeful demon
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world she knows until he can eliminate the threat. But the real danger is the
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secret will shatter her world.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Katherine Colby’s life splintered ten years ago when
her lover suddenly vanished, leaving her with more than a broken heart. But when
Kal unexpectedly makes an appearance, her safe, dependable existence is
shattered once more. Drawn into Kal’s deadly world of vampires and demons, she
must now put aside her hurt and anger and learn to trust him. Can she forgive
past deceptions and find the courage to love again? Or will she turn away the
one man who owns her heart and soul?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Powerful, and lethal, Kal is a vampire warrior,
sworn to protect humans from demons. Loving Katherine too much to pull her into
his dangerous world, Kal deserted her, believing his decision was best for them
both. But not even time could assuage his yearning for the woman who has
captured his heart. As fate tosses them together once again, Kal must fight to
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Excerpt:</span></span></i></span></span></b></div>
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busied herself by unzipping her suitcase and stacking her clothes on the bed.
She sensed Kal behind her, but didn’t acknowledge him.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Katherine?”
Kal cleared his throat. “I know it’s been a huge inconvenience quitting your
job and moving in here, but I hope we can at least be civil to one another
while you’re here.”</span></div>
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walked over to the dresser, yanked open the top drawer and dumped her load of
clothes inside. “I’ll try, but I’m not promising anything,” she said through
gritted teeth.</span>
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A high-pitched scream ripped through the clearing and through Soren’s ears as gray demon dust exploded all around him. He spun around with his dagger raised for attack.</div>
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A woman wearing a red toque and a green and black Mac jacket belted out another shriek.</div>
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<i>What the flying hell? </i>He hadn’t heard her approach. But then again, he was kinda busy fighting three demons.</div>
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“Ah, fuck.” Soren sheathed his dagger. He needed to scrub what she’d witnessed from her mind.</div>
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Before he could take a step, she bolted. He swore again, then dematerialized. </div>
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He took form a few feet a head of her. When she saw him, she slid to stop then stumbled backward with her hands out in front, a warning gesture for him to stay away. The scent of her fear was like burning plastic. Her deep brown eyes flew wide, her complexion flushed from exertion.</div>
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“Hey, I’m not going to hurt ya,” Soren held out his hands, palms up.</div>
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She continued to back away. “I just witnessed you murder a man, and you expect me to believe you won’t kill me too? Yeah, sorry if I don’t take your word for it.”</div>
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Her shaky tone made a mockery of her brave words. “It’s not what ya think, trust me.” <i>Trust me?</i> He almost laughed at how absurd that sounded.</div>
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The woman's lips curled into a smirk. She crouched lower with her fists raised, all the while slowly making a wide circle toward the parking lot and safety. “I don’t think so, Asshole. And just so you know, I can scream really loud—the parking lot is crawling with people. If you kill me—which won’t be easy—you won’t get away with it.”</div>
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Well, wasn’t this interesting. She definitely had spunk. Soren flashed a smile at her bravado, then took another step in her direction. He stood close enough to catch her scent. Ivory soap with a hint of something fruity, mixed with the arid aroma of her fear. No cloying perfumes. <i>Nice.</i> A gust of wind caught the ends of her long curls and swirled them around her stiff shoulders. Although her terror was ripe, she exuded strength. This woman was no shrinking violet. He sensed she’d fight if she had to.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">MAKE
MINE A MINI</span></div>
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</span>“Oh, how cute!” the woman said, petting Kiwi, our miniature horse's
head. “Does he live in the</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">house with you?”</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I
glanced at my husband, trying not to laugh. A horse in the house? Now I've
heard everything. That</span>
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list.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>“Ah... no,” I replied. “He lives outside in a paddock with a barn.”</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>“But, he's so small,” she said, shooting me a look like I was a cruel
monster. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Miniature horses, though small in stature, are without a doubt, big on
the adorable scale. But none-</span><span lang="EN-US">the-less, they are horses. And being horses,
they should be treated as such.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Throughout the past eight years that we've been miniature horse owners,
my husband and I have</span>
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and about with our two minis. Most stop to run</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">their hands over our horses' soft coats, and
comment on how cute they are. But we've also encountered </span><span lang="EN-US">those whose comments and questions have left
me baffled. One that comes to mind is, “I guess <i>its</i></span><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US">cheaper than a lawnmower.”</span> </div>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>If only! Since the lawnmower in question is a living creature and not a
machine, he needs a lot more</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">than gas and the occasional tune up to stay
healthy and happy. He needs good quality feed and hay,</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">along with his yearly visits to our friendly
neighborhood veterinarian; not to mention the inevitable late </span><span lang="EN-US">night medical emergencies. His hooves need
to be trimmed every eight weeks, and an annual trip to the </span><span lang="EN-US">dentist keeps his teeth in good shape. And
unlike a lawnmower that can be loaded into the back of your </span><span lang="EN-US">vehicle after purchase, a mini, even though
small, needs a proper horse trailer to transport him safely.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US">Please do not try to bring him home in the
back of a van. He may fit, but it's dangerous for you and</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">your horse, and it's illegal. Also, while
your garage may make a good home for your lawnmower, it's</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">not suited for a horse. He needs room to run
and kick up his heels when the mood strikes, which leads</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">me to the next question.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>“Do you tie him up in your back yard?”</span>
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<span lang="EN-US">Not only dangerous to the horse, it's beyond cruel. A horse, no matter
the size, needs room to roam.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">To keep your four-legged friend happy and
safe, you should have a good sized paddock and a barn or</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">run-in shed to keep him dry and out of the
elements. But before you run out to purchase a miniature</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">horse because you feel you have room and a
old shed you can convert into a barn, please check to make </span><span lang="EN-US">sure your property is zoned for livestock,
because even though they may be small, they're are still </span><span lang="EN-US">considered livestock. Also, check with your
neighbors, because with every horse, big or small, comes, </span><span lang="EN-US">yes, you guessed it, manure. And with manure
comes flies. For me, the smell of horses is more </span><span lang="EN-US">delightful than the most expensive perfume,
and I worry more about keeping flies off my horses than </span><span lang="EN-US">myself. But it's not all fun and games when
your neighbors are barbecuing outside and the smell of </span><span lang="EN-US">manure wafts over and flies land on their food.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Another popular question I've been asked is, “what good are they? What
can you do with them?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My answer is, “what can't you do with them?”</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Everything a big horse can do, a mini can. Well... Okay, you got me.
They are too small to ride, so if</span><div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">that's why you want to purchase one then
maybe a larger horse would be better suited. But minis are</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">strong. Most can easily pull a small cart
and two average sized adults. Carting can be a fun and</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">exhilarating experience. There's nothing
like sitting behind your little horse as he pulls you along a</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">quiet country road on a summer's evening. If
you want more thrills, try showing. There are many</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">different categories for showing your mini.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">Talking to most owners of larger horses, they will tell you that after
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find the time to ride. Some even pay others to ride their </span><span lang="EN-US">horses for them.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>On one occasion, I've had someone say to me, “he's like a big dog, uh.”</span>
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<span lang="EN-US">Well, since one is a herbivore, and the other is a carnivore, I'd say
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teeth. And if you still have doubts, offer your horse a</span>
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his nose up and look at you as if you're out of your mind. </span><span lang="EN-US">Next, try offering a dog a handful of hay
and guaranteed he'll give you the same look. So please, do not </span><span lang="EN-US">treat a horse of any size like a dog.</span>
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to stand idle, eating with no exercise, they will quickly </span><span lang="EN-US">become over weight, which as you know isn't
healthy for any living creature. Also I believe horses get </span><span lang="EN-US">bored. Exercise and trying new things keeps
their minds sharp and their bodies toned. This will help </span><span lang="EN-US">keep your vet bills low. But if carting or
showing your mini is not to your liking, take them for regular </span><span lang="EN-US">walks. They will enjoy the change of scenery
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her it would be cruel for me to keep him in the house, and that </span><span lang="EN-US">Kiwi is happiest outside with his horse
buddy, Ebony and his goat friend, Cody, I just say, “yes, but he</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
scent of laundry detergent and fabric softener clung heavy in the small space.
She opened the dryer and piled the clothes on top of the white appliance.
Shifting through the jumble of socks, towels, Kal’s T-shirts, Ike’s sweat
shirts, and her yoga pants, she realized this wasn’t simply a bunch of laundry.
This pile of clothes represented her, Kal and Ike. They were a family.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her
heart opened, and love poured out. Kal may be hiding something from her again,
but he deserved a chance to explain. She now understood why he was reluctant.
He feared losing her.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Filled
with resolve, Katherine vowed she’d do whatever it took to make their
relationship work.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As
soon as she dropped Ike off at school, her and Kal would sit down, hash this
out, and move on. Besides, after learning about demons, Lucifer, and the war,
she could handle anything.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
phone in the kitchen rang.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
was probably Kal. A thrill of excitement threaded through her as she raced for
the cordless sitting on the counter.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She
smiled then pressed talk. “Hello?”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Silence
met her greeting.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Hello?”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">No
answer.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Ah,
too bad,” she said with a sensual purr. “I was hoping my sexy vampire lover
called to talk dirty to me.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Is
my son, Kal there please?” a woman replied with a deep French accent. Her tone
was hard, cold.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Oh,
sweet Jesus! His mother.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Embarrassment
didn’t come close to how she felt. Heat of humiliation flushed her body. She
gripped the phone tight and closed her eyes, calling herself all sorts of
names.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Clearing
her throat, she fought to find the right words to say. “I’m so sorry. Um…Kal…he
isn’t here right now—he’s at a meeting with Roarik, his captain.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I
know who Roarik is.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Yikes.
“Um, can I take a message, Mrs…I’m sorry, I don’t know your last name.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
occurred to her she didn’t know Kal’s last name.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Of
course you don’t, my dear. It is Cataronia from the Fifth Clan of vampires.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her
heavy accent made it hard for Katherine to understand her. “What a beautiful
name.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Thank
you.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">More
silence.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I’ll
tell Kal you called the moment he returns.” Her heart beat so hard she wondered
if Cataronia heard it.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Actually,
it is you I would like to speak with. Kal told me tonight about you and your
son.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Whoa,
she did not sound pleased about this news.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Oh…okay,”
Katherine said. “I just want to say I love your son very much. He is a
wonderful vampire.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Idiot!</i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I
truly hope you mean that, my dear. And I truly hope you decide to do the right
thing. You see, there are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">traditions</i>
you may not understand about vampires. Kal is a respected warrior, high up in
the clans of the fifty first families. He has a duty to our race to marry a
female vampire of impeccable breeding, and produce future warriors for this never-ending
war to keep your…<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">species</i> alive.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Stunned,
Katherine couldn’t reply.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Before
you came along, Kal had agreed to marry a female of my choosing. One who is
worthy of his station. Yet, he has informed me tonight, he is no longer
willing, which will put him in a very precarious position with our higher
order.”</span></div>
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Mia hides behind her computer, designing popular computer games. And though she
knows just what to do to keep men coming back for more on the other end of the
modem, she doesn’t seem to have the same knack in person.<br />
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Gavin hides behind numbers. Since his wife left him, the only thing he cares
about is his son and his job. One failed relationship was enough, but if the
right curvaceous woman came into the picture he just might manipulate the
numbers a bit.<br />
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Can two meddling sisters enlist Madame Eve to bring Mia and Gavin together and
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or champagne?” He popped the cork.<br />
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“I, um....” She slowed her breathing, trying hard to concentrate on his words.
“I’ve never had champagne and strawberries.”<br />
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“Really?” As he smiled, the first real smile she’d seen on his face was
breathtaking, She could only nod since somewhere between her mouth and her
brain she’d lost the ability to form simple words.<br />
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Pouring one glass of the bubbly wine, he took a sip, smiled then grabbed
another plump berry. He rubbed it slightly on her lower lip. “Take a bite.”<br />
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He didn’t have to tell her twice. She bit, then savored, as he raised the flute
and tilted it just enough for her to get a swallow of the liquid. Her eyes
widened as the tastes of the fruit and champagne fused in her mouth.<br />
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“Another bite then?” He didn’t wait for her answer, giving her another piece
and let her enjoy the fruit for what it was, savoring and treasuring as some of
the best she’d ever had.<br />
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She opened her eyes just in time to see his close, and his mouth settle over
hers. Her lips parted and a rush of champagne from his mouth filled her own.
The fizzy liquid overwhelmed her senses. If she could have let out an <i>ooh,</i> she
would have. But all she could think about was his tongue dancing with hers. His
left hand still holding the flute, he wrapped it around her waist, pulling her
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told to read TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD in high school. A book that opened her eyes
to the joys of reading and entering into the world of the author. To this day
she ranks this book as her favorite. She writes erotic romance, heavy on the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Day with Sheri Fredricks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda sets two steaming mugs of coffee on the
table, beside paperback copies of Remedy Maker and Troll-y Yours. She surveys
the coffee table. “Hmm, maybe not coffee. How about wine? A glass of red for
Sheri, and a glass of white for me. *Smiles* “Yeah, I want to get this chick
good and drunk. Maybe then I can get her to spill some secrets about her
Centaur series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda rushes off and comes back with two glasses, a
bottle of red wine and a bottle of white. She sits down, making sure the
spotlights aren’t going to blind her special guest. “Good. All’s perfect. Now
if Sheri would hurry her ass up, we could get down to business.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The sound of a car pulling up the driveway alerts
Brenda of Sheri’s arrival. “Let the interrogation—I mean, questioning begin.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda opens the door before the first knock sounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri jumps back, then laughs. “Shit, Hoser. You
scared me.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Just excited you agreed to an interview, dude. You
look awesome as usual.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri smooths a hand over her long dark hair and
then straightens her skirt. “Well, I wasn’t sure what to wear. Didn’t know what
to expect. Last time we talked, you said something about conducting this
interview on horseback.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda laughs. “I changed my mind.” She steps back
and gestures for Sheri to come in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri gazes around Brenda’s home. “Nice place,
Hoser. You sure have a lot of chicken stuff.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“What can I say? I like chickens. Can I take your
coat?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Sure.” Sheri hands Brenda her coat. “So, where do
you want me to sit?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“In the living room. I have it all set up.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A look of pure joy flashes across Sheri’s face.
“Thanks.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda smiles and raises her glass in a toast.
“Shall we begin?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Interview:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I only planned
the one, Remedy Maker. Next thing I know, Aleksander is kicking his hooves
wanting a story of his own. Now that he has his own book (Troll-y Yours), the
other characters are screaming for attention. Aye-ya-yie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To answer your Hoser question, at least three more
books, possibly four. But don’t quote me on that.</span></div>
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LOL, oh I’m quoting you on that. So, four it is.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I know you love
horses, so was that one of the reasons you decided to write about Centaurs? And
how does your knowledge of horses help with writing your characters?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I didn’t start
off with the intention of writing a Centaur book series. See? This is what too
much gin and too little tonic will get you, but I do love muscular men who can
give a girl a galloping good time. *sigh*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Having had horses all my life, I can sometimes
predict how they’ll react. They’re all unique and individual with personalities
to match. Knowing their physical limitations, expectations, and various health
problems can really add a depth to a Centaur’s character. At least I hope my
writing does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*Sheri refills her wine
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda’s reply:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
*Laughs inside. Good, she’s getting buzzed.* Well, you did an awesome job with
your characters. They’re very life-like. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> How has writing
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I used to be a
size 6 with a flat stomach.</span></div>
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LOL. Whatever, dude. I’ve seen recent pictures of you, and you look good, so
don’t try and feed me that shit n’ shinola.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Was there ever a time
since you began writing that you felt like quitting? If so, why? And how or
what changed your mind?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Holy crap, what
a question. I’ve only felt like throwing in the towel every other chapter! Like
many authors, I’m plagued by a lack of self-confidence. And then along comes a fantastic
book review and suddenly I’m back in the game. Even a short note from a happy reader
can make my day. Luckily I have a close group of writing friends that always
have my back. Like YOU, Hoser!</span></div>
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What is it with us writers and having low self-confidence? *Shakes head.* I’m
glad I have you in my circle too. And for the record. You are an amazing
talent. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I adore your
series—love your characters and your world building. My question to you is the
setting—or certain parts of the setting—to your books a description of places
you know personally? Or can we chalk it up to your awesome imagination?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> The Boronda
Forest is a fictional place somewhere in the wilds of Pennsylvania, a state on
the east coast of the U.S. I’ve never been there. I live in the drought ravaged
state of California on the west coast, where everything is a perpetual brown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My imagination dreams of a green forest with streams
filled with cool running water. Starved for it, really. Maybe if I write about
a lush green and moist world, it’ll come true. *pours herself another glass of
wine* Oh, and where Centaur men are hot to trot. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Besides your Centaur
series, what other stories do you have swirling around in your brain?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Oh boy. My
brain…now that’s a scary place. I have the whole Troll series, and a Wood Nymph
series, too. And because I’m into self-punishment, I’m reworking a time-travel
western romance I started years ago. I love Boronda and all things mythical,
but sometimes I need me a dusty cowboy with tight Wranglers who says, “yes,
ma’am.”</span></div>
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Oh...I love time travels and cowboys!</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Can you tell your
readers what they can expect from book #3 in the Centaur Series? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I’ll tell you
what to expect. However I won’t tell you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">who</i>
the character is. My readers, whom I adore, can expect an old-fashioned Centaur
who doesn’t feel like he’s part of the modern world. He’s stuck in time…like a
few centuries backward in time! He fights his hatred of the Centaur’s old
enemy, the Nymphs. Too bad the female he’s been ordered to protect shares his bitter
distrust, except she’s his enemy and doesn’t trust him. In order to survive,
the two battle-worn mythics must bury the hatchet, learn to trust, and start
life anew.</span></div>
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Man, this story sounds like a goodie.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As a fellow
writer, all my characters are near and dear to me, but I do have a favorite. Do
you have a favorite out of your characters? If so, who and why?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I think the
hero of every book I write is my favorite. But one Centaur stands out for me,
maybe because I’ve only scratched the surface of his character. This would be my
unpredictable, black market kingpin, Nubbs. He has a secret. A secret so big,
it’s going to knock the Centaur kingdom off their hooves. But you, dear
readers, will have to wait for Nubbs’s book to come out. Hehehe. *Sheri drains
her glass*</span></div>
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I love Nubbs. I for one can hardly wait to read his story. And damn you, lol.
Your hint has left me with even more questions!</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Okay, enough with the
serious stuff. Let’s get a little crazy. *Brenda holds up another bottle of red
wine.* Would you like a refill before we get started? Do you need to use the
bathroom?</span></div>
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more? I’ve been refilling my glass and now the damn bottle’s empty! And no to
the restroom. Don’t you know romance writers never have to go potty? </span></div>
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LOL, that’s just a myth about romance writers not needing to use the potty.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever smelled mothballs?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I fell for that
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Right, I did tell you this joke before. Damn, I need some new victums,
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> What is the grosses
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> At first I was
going to say a centipede. I can still feel that thing squirming under my foot.
But that’s on, not in. The grossest has to be a cold, wet, squishy hairball in
the middle of the night, compliments of the now deceased Captain Kitty-Cat. He
was 14 when he finally left this world. </span></div>
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Yuk! Now that is gross. But the centipede is pretty sick too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I ate the worm
at the bottom of the tequila bottle already. Nobody paid me a million bucks,
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Tell your readers
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I didn’t have
my first date until college. No senior prom, no school dances. I’ve always felt
like I missed out on those special high school days.</span></div>
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Hey, I didn’t have my first date until I was 18. And I didn’t go to my prom.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> You’ve been a great
sport and a wonderful guest. *Shakes Sheri’s hand.* Thanks for doing this
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Knock on wood!
Oh wait, in my mythic world a Wood Nymph might answer. Thank you for the
awesome wine and the good time. I can always count on you to make me laugh,
Hoser. And, just so you know—I’m looking forward to YOUR next book in the
Prophecy series. Fan-girl here! Squee!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uh, Brenda? Why is your dog lying on my
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Shit, sorry about that. Bones! Get off Sheri’s coat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">*Bones heaves his old bones off Sheri’s coat and
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheri is generously offering a copy of her fantasy
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">All the rules and how the hop will work it
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Suite song<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: Hot summer nights. Storms
clouds in the air. My eyes felt so heeeeavy</i>...LOL, I can’t remember any
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, enough of this crap. Let’s move on and get down
to business—to why you’re here. You are busy and have a lot of stops to make to
ensure you win the grand prizes—which I are listed above. I’ll leave a list of
other daily prizes to be won at the end of this post.</span></div>
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novel, Love’s Prophecy. It takes place in the summer, and man, some of the
scenes are definitely sultry!</span></div>
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excerpt. I kept the scene clean—no sex, lol. I decided to showcase a scene
where the two main characters—Mel and Breeana—take a stroll through the
beautiful gardens at the Base on a sultry summer evening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Breeana
stepped out onto the veranda and her breath caught. “Oh, my God! The gardens
belong in a fairytale.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mel
stood beside her. He had seen the gardens a million times, but had never given
much thought to them. Flowers bloomed everywhere, filling the night with a riot
of color and sweet perfume. Pots filled with large ferns adorned every corner
on the veranda and two urns, overflowing with brightly colored petunias, were
placed on either side of the opening to the stairs leading down to the yard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
let Breeana take the lead. She stopped, standing on the circular driveway and
glanced over her shoulder. “The house is beautiful, but this,” she held her
arms out wide, twirling in a circle, “is exquisite.”</span></div>
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tried to imagine seeing the grounds through her eyes. He was struck by how
picturesque it all was. The driveway meandered down until it came to a wrought
iron gate standing twelve feet high with tall spikes gracing the top. Beyond
the manicured lawns and many flower gardens, the wrought iron fence proceeded,
surrounding the half-acre property. A dense forest made up of pine, cedar, fir,
and maple trees went on for miles until it met the gravel road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They
wandered down a brick path flanked with LED lights, and glowing white daisies.
Moonlight bathed the path in a soft gray light. The large trees lining the
fence sparkled with thousands of twinkling lights, like stars that had fallen
and gotten tangled in their branches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Breeana
bent and picked a daisy. She plucked the petals off one by one. “He loves me,
he loves me not.” She laughed as she glanced at him. “Did you ever play this
game when you were a child?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“You
pick the petals off a daisy saying, he loves me, he loves me not. When you come
to the last petal, it tells you whether or not he cares about you.”</span></div>
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<i>love</i> <i>her</i>. <i>How</i> <i>can</i> <i>I</i> <i>let</i> <i>her</i> <i>go</i>?
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day she left would be the day his heart would wither up and die. Yet, she was
too good for the likes of him and his world was no good for her. And because he
loved her, he would let her go.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My
question to you all is, have you ever taken a moonlit stroll through a garden? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sept. 11th. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Swag Pack: Dianne Duvall </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Crush by Alan Jacobson </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: The Look of Love By Bella Andre </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Coming Clean by Sue Margolis </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Murder Most Foul by JoAnne Myer </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Pre-Made Book Cover: Carey Abbott </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Release Me by J. Kenner </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sept. 12th. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Rack Card: Bobby Romans </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Sleep With The Lights On By
Maggie Shayne </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Blood Destiny by Tessa Dawn </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: The Rancher She Loved by Ann
Roth </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Singed Book: Love’s Prophecy by Brenda Dyer </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Billion-Dollar Cowboy by Carolyn
Brown </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Against the Mark by Kat Martin </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sept. 13th. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Five-Dollar Gift Card to Are: Dynese Bridger </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Perfect Mate by Mina Carter </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Ruthless by Debra Webb </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Coming Clean by Sue Margolis </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Five-Dollar Gift Card: Carey Abbot/Tabitha
Blake </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Coming Clean by Sue Margolis </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sept. 14th. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Swag Pack: TG Ayer </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Darker After Midnight by Lara
Adrian </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Darkness Rises by Dianne Duvall </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Skin Deep T.G. Ayer </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Three Bookmarks: Lara Adrian </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Pre-Made Book Cover: Carey Abbott </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Poems by JoAnne Myers </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sept. 15th. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Three Book Marks: Lara Adrian </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Sleep With The Lights On By
Maggie Shayne </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed ARC Copy: Born in Blood by Alexandra
Ivy </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Like Humans Do by Daryn Cross </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Pre-Made Book Cover: Carey Abbott </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Signed Book: Coming Clean by Sue Margolis </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sept. 16th. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Kindle Giveaway Plus E-Books </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">100.00 Gift Card </span><br />
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Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03721556815192785649noreply@blogger.com65tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217444187005953894.post-75673278990088379592013-08-30T12:19:00.000-07:002013-08-30T12:19:01.537-07:00Prophecy Series inspired and influenced by J.R.R Tolkien<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">Would you like to know how and why fantasy author J.R.R Tolkien has inspired and influenced my paranormal romance series?<br />Stop by Rosanna's blog and find out.</span></b></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l/JAQGHHHOe/rosannaleo.blogspot.com/2013/08/brenda-dyerprophecys-child.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://rosannaleo.blogspot.com/2013/08/brenda-dyerprophecys-child.html</a>"<br />
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Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03721556815192785649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217444187005953894.post-10516095206377873482013-08-11T12:29:00.001-07:002013-08-11T12:29:04.814-07:00Love’s Prophecy won First Place Honorable Mention.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">August, 10th, 2013, I found out my paranormal novel,
<span style="color: red;"><b>Love’s Prophecy</b></span> won first place honorable mention in the 2012 <b>RONE</b> <b>Awards</b> in
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Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03721556815192785649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217444187005953894.post-71235735429946783852013-07-18T18:52:00.002-07:002013-07-18T18:52:24.139-07:00Prophecy's Child is here!The time has finally come. Prophecy's Child, book 2 in the Prophecy Series is here.<br />
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Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E0R4230<br />
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Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/337666<br />
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Prophecy's Child will be available soon on Barnes and Noble, Apple, and Sony<br />
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I'll be working on a printed version of Prophecy's Child soon.<br />
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captured his heart. As fate tosses them together once again, Kal must fight to
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Feeling
like the biggest fool alive, Katherine scrambled off Kal's lap.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> The
walls guarding her heart slammed back into place. “I want you out of my house
and never come back.”</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kal
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her
eyes narrowed, and she leaned forward slightly. “Let me make this crystal
clear. I may despise my parents, but I hate you with a passion so intense I’m
afraid I’ll explode. As sick and twisted as they are, at least my parents
discarded me because they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thought</i>
they were doing God’s will. You abandoned me because you’re a worthless
coward!”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“For
Christ’s sakes, Katherine. There’s more to it than that.” He grasped her arms.
“If you’ll stop insulting me, I’ll explain everything.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Let me go,” she said through gritted teeth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Not
until you hear me out.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Let
me go right now, or so help me.” She tried to jerk her arms out of his clasp,
but he tugged her closer.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
stared down at her, his blue eyes dark with anger. “You’ll what? Tell me how
much you hate me? You’ve done that—repeatedly. I need you to sit down and
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">With
a violent tug, she yanked free. “How dare you demand anything from me? And if
you think you have any rights where Ike is concerned, then you are more
deranged than I thought. Now leave before I call the cops.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Let’s
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Or
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I’d
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<span lang="EN-US">A Little Canadian Fun on Canada Day</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">HAPPY CANADA DAY –we're 146 yrs young!</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">In honour of that, fellow author and Canadian, Daryl
Devore, and I decided to <i>meet</i>. She threw a donut at the map and picked a
Tim Horton's in Saskatchewan </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Why Saskatchewan? Daryl lives in the center of the universe
– a.k.a Ontario. Brenda lives in Lotusland - a.k.a BC – a.k.a – British
Columbia – see map </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Sask is in the middle (the green one). And why Tim's? Cause
there is one on every other street corner in this country. We love our Timmies.
We might be addicted to them.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">She gets in her dogsled (we call them cars here) and drives
east. I get in mine and go west. Days later I arrive at our chosen location and
plop down in a chair and wait. Brenda walks in the door. I recognize her - her
photo is up on FB. She recognizes me by the crazy red head who's waving
hysterically across the room.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Momentarily debating whether to drive back to BC or stay,
Brenda orders a Double double and collapses in the seat across from me.
Conversation starts off brilliantly.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Hey," I say.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Hey," she says. (We are writers – not talkers!)</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Brenda tosses a loonie and toonie on the table and takes a
sip of her coffee. She closes her eyes and sighs. "Ahhhh, I needed this.
Been an hour since my last one and was having withdrawals." She takes a
bite of her double chocolate donut and smiles at Daryl with chocolate in her
teeth. "Want a bite?"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Daryl rolls her eyes and cringes. "Ah, no. No I
don't."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Brenda shrugs. "Your loss." After swallowing the
last bit, she sits back. "How was the drive?"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Not too bad. It's July 1st so the snow is almost
melted. How was yours, eh?"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Basically uneventful. Well, except for the bloody gas
prices. A buck forty a freaking litre." Shakes head. "I heard by the
end of summer gas should be aboot a buck fifty a litre."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Daryl takes the top off her hot chocolate and blows across
the steamy liquid. "Bullshit, all of it, eh."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Brenda eyes Daryl. "This'll be a stupid question since
this is the first time we've met in person, but you seem tired."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">With a wide yawn, Daryl crosses her legs. "I am. We've
been renovating the igloo. Finally finished after months of chaos. Global warm
is wreaking havoc on the roof."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Brenda nods and smiles. "I know what ya mean. We
re-painted our igloo last summer. So, what did ya think of the Stanley Cup
playoffs? I was choked the Vancouver Canucks didn't get far. Still pissed they
lost to..." Gags. "Boston last year. That still stings."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Daryl shrugs. "I don't really care for hockey."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Brenda sits up straight and narrows her eyes. "What do
you mean, you don't care for hockey?"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Just what I said. I don't really watch it."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Suddenly, Brenda stands up with her hands balled into tight
fists, knocking the chair to the floor. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">"WHAT? How can you say that? Are
you sick or something?"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Look,not ALL Canadians like hockey, eh!"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Gasps from the other customers fill the room. A
pimpled-faced teen, wearing the Tim Horton's uniform rushes over. "Hey,
what all the shouting aboot, eh?"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Daryl crosses her arms over her chest and crosses her legs.
"Nothing."</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">"Nothing?" Brenda's frown deepens. "She said
she didn't care for hockey!"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"That's no reas--wait, what did you say?" the
Timmie's employee asked.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Oh for shit sakes," Daryl said under her breath.
"So I don't like hockey. Is that a national crime?"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Maybe?" Brenda narrows her eyes and crosses her
arms.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">"Look, I stopped watching it when they changed the
Hockey Night in Canada theme song. Hockey's just never been the same for me. I
feel hurt, crushed, aggrieved, cut to the quick, discommoded." Daryl
lowers her head and tear drips off her cheek.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Everyone in the Timmie's stands – places their hand over
their heart and bellows – du du du du du, du du du du du, DU NAAAAAAAAAA.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwpqiaWKPkQ&feature=related">To
hear real version - click here</a> (hope this works?!?!)</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Brenda places a comforting hand on Daryl's shoulder.
"Yes, you know you're Canadian when a hockey theme is better known than
our national anthem."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">A retiree sitting with his buddies leans over and says,
"Yea, you know you're Canadian when - you drink pop, not soda."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">A voice shouts across the Tim's "You get milk in
bags."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"You dismiss all beers under <i>6% as for children and
the elderly</i>."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Like any international assassin/terrorist/spy in the
world, you possess a Canadian Passport."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Brenda stands on her chair and yells - "You're not
sure if the leader of your nation has EVER had sex and you don't WANT to know
if he has!"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Back bacon and Kraft Dinner are two of your favourite
food groups."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Your snow blower gets stuck on the roof."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"You clean the grease off your BBQ so the bears won't
prowl on your deck."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"You find <b>-40</b> a little chilly."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Daryl jumps up on the counter raises her fist and yells -
"You know the 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter and Road
Construction."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Brenda wipes a tear away. "I remember when the TV show
The Beachcombers was taken off the air. I still miss old Relic."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">She grabs her Tim Horton's coffee and raises it high.
"I'm proud to live in a country that actually knows what a touque is. My
favorite store to shop in is Canadian Tire. That store has everything!"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Daryl flashes Brenda the thumbs up sign. "Canada is
aboot the best dang country in the world, eh?"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">The room erupts with cheers and the National Anthem is
belted out in French and English. Ooooooooooooooooooooooh Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaanada.
Our home and native land. Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Brenda and Daryl hug and step outside. Both walk over to a
park and sit under a maple tree. A warm breeze blows through the large leaves,
making them dance, while the Canadian flag set on the peak of the Timmie's roof
snaps crisply in the wind, proudly displaying her colours.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">As Daryl sits on the thick grass she looks up at Brenda.
"I guess we should probably talk writing or aboot our books, eh?"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Brenda sits by Daryl and plucks a blade of grass. "Nah,
I'm sick of yapping aboot my book Love's Prophecy and how spectacularly awesome
it is. If people are interested they can check it out on Amazon. If they aren't
interested – they should still check it out anyway. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Loves-Prophecy-Book-Series-ebook/dp/B00702YWF0">Click
here to check it out.</a>Do you want to talk aboot your books?"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Daryl shrugs. "Not really. I'm sick of talking aboot
how excellent my erotic contemporary fantasy, Capri's Fate is. Or how wonderful
erotic my medieval romance Black Dorn is and how A Kept Woman is filled with
spanking goodness or how Sexy Red Hood is a twisted Fairy Tale with a sexy spin
that'll leave you hot and bothered. And that all my books are available on
Amazon, Smashwords, All Romance Ebooks, Kobo, Reader Store, BookStrand…."
Daryl puts a finger to her lips and looks at the sky. "Oh yea and All Book
Stories if you want print versions."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Your books are really good though," Brenda said.
"What are ya working on right now?"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Daryl blushes at Brenda's praise. "I'm writing an
erotic medieval fantasy where a prince meets a mysterious woman and a dragon.
Well I'm writing it when I'm not answering emails, Facebooking, Twittering,
promoting, Triberring, Pinteresting, Blogging, Blog hopping."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Brenda sighs and shakes her head. "I hear ya. Don't
forget rewrites, critiques and edits, plotting, POVs and GMCs."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"General Motor Corporation???"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Goals, motiviation and conflict."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Ah, yes, I knew that." </span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">A car drives past with the windows open and the music
blarring - Baby, baby, baby, oh Like baby, baby, baby, no Like baby, baby,
baby, oh…..</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Brenda and Daryl chuckle. "Gotta love our Biebs."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"So Brenda, Mel, the vampire in your wickedly
wonderful, hot, awesome book – Love's Prophecy – now available in paperback – is
he based on any one you know? Anyone you might be married to?"</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">"I wish--not sayin' my husband isn't hot and sexy, but
Mel is in a league of his own. But now that I think about it, Mel and Paul
share a few personality traits. Mel and I also share a few quirks. But really,
Mel isn't based on anyone in my real life. He is strictly part of my
imagination.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">"And is there another book in the works? Details. The
juicier the better. I need something to think about on the long drive back to
Ontario."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Yep, book #2 in The Prophecy Series. Book 2 is Kal's
story. The title is Prophecy's Child. It’s scheduled for release the 2nd week
of July. I can give you all a few hints of what you can expect to find, but
they will be vague so as not to give anything away. Kal was in love--real
love--with a human woman named Katherine ten years ago. But he left her because
of their differences: he is a vampire, she is a human. He didn't think it was
possible for the two to have a lasting relationship until Mel and Breeana
showed him the error of his ways. Anyway, he and Katherine literally bump onto
each other. Kal is elated, but Katherine's hatred toward him puts the brakes on
his thoughts of maybe them reuniting. But destiny is a funny bitch. She has
other ideas. Kal is going to come face to face with his fate and he will have
to fight to win all he desires.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">This book will be filled with humor, anger, love, hot sex,
and twists you didn't see coming."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Oooh, I love twists. Can't wait to read it."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Daryl looks at her watch. "Guess it's aboot time to
hitch up the sled and head home. Gonna be havin' a feed of Beaver Tails."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Brenda rubs her tummy. "With maple syrup -- that comes
from a tree."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"You know it. It's the only way to eat a
beaver…...tail that is." Snicker Snicker. </span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Hey," Brenda asks. "Ever been to Zexwzaxw
Glacier?"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Naw, but I did make it to Come by Chance once. Wanted
to go to Dildo, but the fog got thicker than 3 day old pea soup." </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Husband and I were thinking of taking the kids
camping at Ass Hill or Billy Butts Pond."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Daryl nods. "Fun places. Good times, eh. Well, Brenda
it's been an <b>honour</b> to meet one of my <b>favourite</b> authors and did I
mention I love the <b>colour</b> of your hair it's almost the same as my <b>neighbour's</b>?"</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"G'won wit 'cha." Brenda hops on her sled/car and
heads towards the drive thru. "Going to need an x-large double double to
make it back to BC."</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">Daryl stands and stretches. "Yes, I'd best get a move
on. If I'm late I'll get a right good tongue banging." </span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">And that dear visitor is a peek into the warped minds of
authors exxxtrodinaire Brenda Dyer and Daryl Devore. For more fun and wackiness
– head north of the 49th parallel where we sing the "Great White
North" theme song with pride ... coo-ooh-coocoo-coo-ooh-coocoo
coo-ooh-coocoo-coo-ooh-coocoo <a href="http://www.hark.com/clips/bhpytqdpbn-great-white-north-theme">To hear
song - click here</a></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">If you'd like to see a fascinating segment about the
relationship between Canada and the US – watch – Tom Brokaw Explains Canada to
Americans –</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV_041oYDjg&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV_041oYDjg&feature=related</a></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">If you've made it this far - if you have any questions
about Canada - ask away.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Take it easy, hosers.</span><br />
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