The third installment in the Witch's Almanac Novellas, centering around Imbolc.
Edinburgh, Scotland
1998
CALLUM
Stuck in a rut of creative block and teaching as an adjunct, I'm doing little more than spinning my wheels when I meet Professor Dimitri Locke and his stunning wife, Dhalia. Funny, wicked smart, the most beautiful people I've ever set eyes on, much less been able to touch—their presence surges my world into technicolor. Suddenly, I can't stop painting them. Wanting them. After wasting five years of friendship wishing we were more, I finally get the chance to act on these feelings and it's so much more than I could have ever hoped.
I'm blissed out over them, caught up in the the secret tristes and stolen glances, but when I stumble onto a secret not meant for a mortal like me to know, my fears tear apart the careful foundation we've built. My best friends are immortal vampires, and the knowledge sends me running from the best thing that ever happened to me.
Now, years later, they're back in Scotland—but not for me.
No, they're looking for a surrogate to help them start their family, using the power of Imbolc and a few of their witchy friends to make it all work and when I find out they're here, I know it's a gamble but I have to plead my case. To let them know how much I still miss them, ache for them, and if they'll let me I want to be the one that gives them everything. It's a second chance I never thought I'd get, and this time, I'm determined not to run.
To offer myself to them, body and soul.
Because for me, it was truly love and first bite.
Edinburgh, Scotland
1998
CALLUM
Stuck in a rut of creative block and teaching as an adjunct, I'm doing little more than spinning my wheels when I meet Professor Dimitri Locke and his stunning wife, Dhalia. Funny, wicked smart, the most beautiful people I've ever set eyes on, much less been able to touch—their presence surges my world into technicolor. Suddenly, I can't stop painting them. Wanting them. After wasting five years of friendship wishing we were more, I finally get the chance to act on these feelings and it's so much more than I could have ever hoped.
I'm blissed out over them, caught up in the the secret tristes and stolen glances, but when I stumble onto a secret not meant for a mortal like me to know, my fears tear apart the careful foundation we've built. My best friends are immortal vampires, and the knowledge sends me running from the best thing that ever happened to me.
Now, years later, they're back in Scotland—but not for me.
No, they're looking for a surrogate to help them start their family, using the power of Imbolc and a few of their witchy friends to make it all work and when I find out they're here, I know it's a gamble but I have to plead my case. To let them know how much I still miss them, ache for them, and if they'll let me I want to be the one that gives them everything. It's a second chance I never thought I'd get, and this time, I'm determined not to run.
To offer myself to them, body and soul.
Because for me, it was truly love and first bite.
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