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Re-read '25

I couldn’t believe it. I had wished my whole life for a fairytale ending. For my prince to come save me from my life, and I got so much more than a prince or a knight, I got the king.

I stood, the charm no longer binding me. Austin was staring in horror, fear turning his skin the color of ash. The skeletons standing in their crypts gave an ovation of clattering jaws, the lids of the Thrall jars warbled as their bases shook. “Let go,” I spoke with a voice dipped in death. “Of my fucking vampire.”

Austin let go of my fucking vampire.

He also pissed his pants,
which I felt a little bad for.

Anton's found Jude's "buttons"

“Much as I’m enjoying that, unless you actually want a shag in the next five minutes, you might want to stop it.”

“Wh—?”

“Your hand.”

Anton's hand was still massaging Jude’s chest. “Okay but I’m making a note of that.”

“If you attack my nipples at school, I’ll end you. You’re an evil sod touching up my nipples.”

“Next time I attack your nipples, you better have a condom.”

"You can’t avoid relationships forever because this is hard.”

“I could.”

“No, honey, you couldn’t. And you shouldn’t. Yes, you will always have to have more awkward conversations with your partners than other people, but that’s no reason to hide from the prospect. You don’t have some kind of horrendous contagious disease, you know. You have the right to lead a normal life, and that includes relationships.”

How was Jude able to walk and talk at the same time when Anton’s brain was melting into a puddle of goo between his ears just because they were holding hands? Nobody had ever even liked him before, never mind wanted to hold his hand and walk down the street doing so. Nobody had ever wanted anything to do with Anton before, until Jude turned up with his freckle collection and his big, stupid, genuine smile.

Time to re-read this gem! 😁

“Fuck,” he says, taking a step or two closer, then sinking onto his knees behind me. “Holy fuck.”

“Yeah, less admiring, more pounding. Let’s go.”

“Felix, I⁠—”

I cut off whatever he’s about to say with a laugh. “I don’t need fancy words. It’s okay for you to just use me.”

“You might not need them, but I want to give them to you anyway. You’re beautiful, Fe. And there are no words for how much I want you.”

"Zane, what did you take?”

“I didn’t take anything. I feel great.”

“Obviously. What the hell is with the pillow fort?”

“I read about them in a book. Did you know kids make these and sit inside them to read?” He lifted his eyebrows.

“Kay. You didn’t find something here and swallow it? Little pink pills or some powder maybe?” I quizzed. “You didn’t eat any of the cookies, right?”

“Do you want more cookies?”

🤣😆🤣

“Jesus, Will,” Daniel whispers through his smile. “I swear,” Will says slowly, trying to come back to himself. “You called out for Jesus so much, I half expected him to show up.”

“You make me go stupid, Daniel. I don’t know how to be around you. I don’t know what to be for you.” He pauses at that. “But I sure as hell can’t seem to leave you alone —the one thing I could do to benefit you at this point.”

“Really?” Daniel says, throwing his hands up. “You really think the solution to this is to ignore it?”

“And what alternative would you suggest?”

Will had let himself think, before the dreams started, that his life was going to continue on normally. That he’d landed a nice little job at a nice little school, and he could forget about the mistake he’d made with Daniel Rhodes. But when the dreams started, Will finally realized the enormity of his mistake, the expansive aftermath of his decision that night in the bar.

This was the very first M/M book I ever read. I've read many, many since. So let's see how it hits now. 😏

“So, we’re going into a club, relying only on some homemade glamour tech you buy off a black-market dealer that barely tolerates you based on intel you bought with human flesh from a wendigo diner cook?”

“You forgot that I fucked the club owner’s boyfriend while high in his other club.”

Zane sighed. “How could I forget that?”

I slapped him on the arm. “Chin up, vampire. We have more fuckery to accomplish.”