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Wyatt Whitacker, demon hunter, hates Alexander and all his kind. But one look at Mia and her pulse-stopping curves and his scarred, angry heart begins to melt and his body to rouse in ways he’s long forgotten.
The bonding has begun…
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The Art Of A Really Good Storyteller
I love the fact that Sassy is sitting in
Britain and I’m sitting in north America as I type this. And you’re sitting somewhere on the
globe reading this, miles apart from me or Sassy, yet, right now, because I
wrote these words, we’re all connected in time and space.
Just a little bit freaky, huh?
I benefited from an English education (my
editor wouldn’t call it that, as she painfully weeds out my British spelling in
all my manuscripts, and my Oxford commas), and I live close enough to the
Canadian border that I benefit from Canadian television on a regular basis,
too. All that cross-cultural
influence has a huge impact on my writing.
I think you can see that coming out in my
stories every time you pick them up.
All the Destiny’s Trinities stories have three very diverse characters at odds with each other
that much somehow form a bond with each other in order to defeat the Grimoré.
Mia’s Return
features such polar opposite characters – a vampire, a demon hunter who hates
vampires with a passion, and a Lantina woman who has no feeling for any men
save one who died ten years ago and has no idea that races other than man walk
the planet – that it’s a wonder any of them can stand to be in the same room
with each other, let alone form an emotional attachment.
But attachments, bonds and tethers can form
in the most interesting of ways.
It all starts with someone telling a little story. They begin at the beginning. It can be a simple beginning. It could start with something deceptive
like, oh, say:
“I love the fact that Sassy is sitting in
Britain....”
;)
*******************************
Ten years ago
Alexander hungered for Mia Menendez and for a single day they had indulged that
passion before tragedy struck. Now Mia is back, but she thinks Alexander died
ten years ago, and no man has been able to stir her heart since. The truth
could kill her.Wyatt Whitacker, demon hunter, hates Alexander and all his kind. But one look at Mia and her pulse-stopping curves and his scarred, angry heart begins to melt and his body to rouse in ways he’s long forgotten.
The bonding has begun…
Excerpt
He considered running down the
fire escape stairs to the foyer and avoiding the congestion in the elevators.
At this time of day it would take forever. The stairs wouldn’t tax him in the
slightest. But it might draw attention to him. So he patiently waited for the
elevator and stepped on with a dozen others and moved to the side to give them
room.
The elevator stopped on the next
floor, with more people getting on but by then his animal instinct was crowding
him, making the hair on the back of his neck stand up. He was being watched.
His heart thundered.
He made no sudden moves. Instead,
as people pushed onto the elevator, he turned so his back was to the side wall
of the car, giving him an excuse to look at everyone if he brought his head up.
He lifted his head and looked
around.
She was standing on the other
side of the car, almost completely obscured by the other riders because she was
only just over five foot.
Mia. Shamira Menendez of San Diego,
California.
His first aching thought was, You’re
so fucking beautiful, Mia.
Then reality caught him in the
chest. Mia was staring at him because she thought he was dead. She thought he
died ten years ago, in San Diego.
And now she was watching him with
tears in her eyes and all he could think about was his swelling cock and his
exploding heart and how much he wanted to take up where he had left off…bending
her over the counter, sliding his cock into her pussy and making her scream his
name.
“Are you all right, sir?”
He tore his gaze away from Mia. “Excuse
me?” he said hoarsely. He looked down at the gray-haired lady next to him.
“Your breathing is all funny,”
she said. “Are you claustrophobic?”
Others were looking at him now.
Becoming the center of attention was never a good thing for a vampire. Zack had
drilled that into him. Seaveth was even more of a sergeant about it, now
vampires were assimilating into human society. He swallowed. “I’m fine,” he
said.
But he wasn’t. He looked at Mia.
She was still watching. She knew it was him. There was no way to deny it. No
escape. No bluff he could use to fool her. The knowledge gleamed in her eyes.
“Give him room, please,” she
said. “Everyone, stand back a bit.” She was stepping closer, taking charge.
They all shuffled back, clearing
eighteen inches. Mia squeezed between them and stepped into the space. “Take a
deep breath,” she told him, her voice low.
He couldn’t tear his gaze from
her face. The tears in her eyes pooled and one fell down her cheek. Just one.
But she didn’t wipe it, or show any sign of emotion. Cool, calm, controlled. “We’re
nearly there,” she added, speaking for the others in the car, maintaining the illusion
of a claustrophobe in full panic mode. She knew as well as he did it was
nothing of the sort.
As the doors opened, the others
stood back, letting them exit first. She grabbed his lapels and hauled him from
the car. He let her, for he stood a foot higher than her and outweighed her by
nearly a hundred pounds. But her scent alone was wreathing his head and making
his senses reel. Something with vanilla and…grapefruit? He could feel his
incisors trying to descend and his mouth filling with vampire saliva to deaden
her flesh so she wouldn’t feel the first piercing of his teeth. His cock was
pounding with the agonizing need to slam her against the walls of the foyer and
fuck her senseless.
He was almost hyperventilating
with the dilemma.
Her hand rested on his chest.
God, he could feel her heat through her hand. He swallowed.
“You’re supposed to be dead,” she
whispered. No hello. No attempt to confirm who he was. She was that sure of him
despite ten years.
He couldn’t afford to answer her,
to even start the conversation. Instead, he stared at her, soaking up details.
She had been eighteen when he left and even at that age, infinitely dangerous
to his pulse. Now she was a mature woman and beyond dangerous. He could feel it
in his heart, his mind, his cock. His whole body was responding to her like a
nuclear magnet. She wore her dark hair down to her shoulder blades but styled
in some mysterious fashion that just brushed over one eye and framed her high
cheekbones and pointed chin. Her black eyes, still gleaming with tears, with
their arched strong brows, were staring at him, giving him no quarter. They
never had. And her lips…full, the top one like a cupid’s bow. He had dreamed
about kissing those lips and woken sweating in his lonely bed all those years
ago when he could sweat. Those lips still looked sweet, the teeth behind them white and
beckoning.
Mia was wearing a dress. He had
no way to describe it, except to say it wrapped her in roses and made the most
of her figure. And she had a figure. Even at eighteen she’d had a figure. He
had lusted after it. And in ten years, it had changed very little. Her breasts
had not sagged. Her hips had not spread. And her waist was still as tiny as
ever. It was that tiny waist he had grabbed as he bent her over the counter…
He realized his heart was
thundering in his ears. With her hand on his chest, she must surely feel it
too.
She was frowning, staring at him.
“You haven’t changed,” she said. “Not at all.” And she stepped back, her hand falling
away.
Alexander realized she had seen,
then, he had not aged. This was one of the reasons that Zachariah and Diego had
insisted he move to New York once Zack had made him.
Mia took another step backward
and he could see her doing the mental math.
“Mia,” he began and stopped,
mentally cursing. He’d just confirmed he was who she thought he was. Until that
moment there had remained the possibility of pretending she’d made an
embarrassing mistake. It would have killed him to do it but it would have been
a way out. That chance was gone now. He closed his eyes. What a fucking
disaster. He opened them again and took a last look at her. Beautiful Mia. She
was starting to realize there was something dreadfully wrong. Horror was
creeping into her expression. He needed to leave before she began to look at
him like the monster he was.
__________
GIVEAWAY!
To win a copy of BETH’S ACCEPTANCE, the first in the series, all you need to do is: (The same as normal!)
1) please follow this blog with "Google follow"
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3) come back here to say you have done so, leaving your email so I can contact you should you be the winner.
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Re: “I love the fact that Sassy is sitting in Britain....”
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great story prompt to me! LOL
Interesting article. Thank you!
Hi Sassy:
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting me today. It's great to be here.
Teal.
You're welcome. Although, as you know, Blogger nearly didn't let it happen.
ReplyDeleteIt was touch and go for a moment, I tell you! :)
Great post, Teal, and the excerpt from 'Mia's Return' was smokin' hot. Can't wait to read it.
ReplyDeleteHi Teal and Sassy, storytelling is definitely an art, and I love that a great story will grab me from the first chapter and suck me in to the end.
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Hi Michael -- thanks for dropping by. Glad you enjoyed the excerpt. I actually had to pick and chose a bit to avoid the more extreme portions!
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I'm glad I could introduce you to another great blog. Take care of her, Sassy. Cathy is one of the last great devoted readers left in the world.
Teal.
Hi Sassy,
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