Meet the fake men & women in my life this fall…
It’s been a busy, hectic sort of fall as we prepare to say goodbye to Kat & Andrew (or rather, prepare to send them out into the world, where they will finally get to be happy. Yay!)
My husband often jokes that he doesn’t want to read our books because he feels like he knows everything about the characters by the time the books finally come out. And he’s not wrong…Donna & I spend insane amounts of plotting, discussing, dissecting & preparing to write these books. But you guys don’t know all about the fake men & women currently dominating our desktop computers, so I figured I’d give you a peek.
I’ll start with our 2011 folks, and maybe tomorrow I’ll hand over the first two couples of 2012. I might even make Donna play along, too!
First, of course… Kat & Andrew from Cipher.
Kat:
He stretched out on his back and grinned. “Maybe it’d be more correct to say I’m not really her type. I’m not badass enough for your roommate.”
“That’s a shame.” But easy enough to believe. The last time Sera had managed to get her hands on enough alcohol to make a shapeshifter drunk, she’d scrawled No fucking alpha bastards! across the bathroom mirror with a Sharpie. Kat had tried three different types of cleaner before giving up and repunctuating it. No, fucking alpha bastards! was a motto she could get behind, at least.
Andrew:
He needed time more than anything else, so he jumped in the shower.
A cold one, since his body didn’t seem to have gotten the memo about recovery time and how he shouldn’t have a throbbing erection right after an orgasm, even if he was relatively young and virile.
That’s what you get for dry humping an empath, dumbass, he told himself viciously as he chattered under the frigid spray. A change of clothes and a cold shower.
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Next up, Marci & Gabe from the Children of the Undying novella prequel, Demon Bait, due out in November. I like this scene for both of them:
He shuddered and closed his eyes, tasting her aura as it spun around him in dizzy circles. She was smart, but he’d known that. Cunning too—again, no surprise. She’d hidden herself amongst humans, had blended in until no one suspected she wasn’t one of them. And beneath that…
Hunger. Passion. Wild curiosity and a sensuality that was pure in a way that made him wonder if a man had ever touched her outside the network. Sex in the Global was clean. Sterile, which was the point, but it left the wildest orgies a fleeting dream that might never have happened at all.
His demon half was putty in her clumsy hands. His cock was hard as steel.
Her lips brushed his ear, so quickly he could have imagined it, and then her touch vanished entirely. “Uh, no,” she whispered huskily. “That is one hundred percent about sex.”
He took a deep breath. Another. “Did you want it to be?”
“That matters?”
If he hadn’t been turned on to the point of pain, he would have laughed. “Yes, Marci. That matters.”
She crossed her arms over her chest and took a step back. “I think I’m going to get a shower and turn in.”
It would be so easy to follow her. She’d let him. He could see it in her eyes, in the flush in her skin, the trembling in her hands. No need to lean, because she’d open for him and he could show her the sort of pleasure a man with sex in his genes could bring.
Soon, he promised himself. Knowing the advantages of a slow hunt was in his genes too. She was soft, but not melting. Not yet. “Thank you for helping.”
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I love Kat and Andrew so much. Sigh. I can’t wait for all the new characters though. It’s exciting!