Ardeur - 14 Writers on the Anita Blake Vampire Slayer by Ardeur- 14 Writers on the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series (mobi)

Author:Ardeur- 14 Writers on the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series (mobi)
Language: eng
Format: mobi

Anita protects everyone around her, but she never seems to notice the one who most protects her: Nathaniel. Protecting her is something he does without consideration for himself; he is so submissive that he would be happy to die for her. In Narcissus in Chains, he offers her the touch that brings her back from Belle’s power: “Then Nathaniel was there, and the world was solid again.” When Anita almost dies trying to bring Damian, her vampire servant and part of her triumvirate, back from the dead to undo the damage caused by her time away wrestling her moral demons in Obsidian Butterfly, it is Nathaniel who offers himself as food for Damian, no matter the risk to his own life. When their triumvirate’s power is not fed, it is Nathaniel whose energy is drained to keep Damian’s heart beating. When Ulysses is about to kill her, it is Nathaniel who fires the gun that kills Ulysses and saves Anita’s life. When Belle Morte attacks her in Cerulean Sins, Nathaniel is the one to wrap himself around her and warm her back to normal. Nathaniel is always there for Anita when she needs him.

While the other men in Anita’s life may clash, strut their dominance, and test the order of power, Nathaniel rarely complicates her life. He is content to play wife to her and to Micah, to putter in the kitchen and make sure that she eats. He is content to be the submissive one amongst all the dominant and more demanding men in Anita’s life; he does not add more posturing to her already complicated love life. She can count on him to always be there when she asks, to always obey her when she needs him, and to always give her support, even if it means giving up his life. The strength he gives her with his submissiveness is given quietly, patiently, and without demand.

It is this quiet and patient approach that ultimately domesticates Anita. Without her realizing it, Nathaniel makes a home for her and Micah. She looks up and there he is, happily puttering in her—his— kitchen. Unlike with Richard, she is not freaked out by this; Nathaniel has earned it. Up until that point, she’d always assumed that when the ardeur went away, she would no longer need Nathaniel. She often wondered about getting him an apartment and setting him up with a life of his own.

All the while, he was building a home around her.

Even Jean-Claude acknowledges that it is Nathaniel who can make these little headways into her unease with intimacy and domestication. Of all her men, Nathaniel is the first one to go on an anniversary date and celebrate a special day with her. Jean-Claude sees this and hopes that Nathaniel will make Anita more amenable to anniversaries and expressions of love.

Nathaniel may be the most submissive of all her men, but he is also the most important factor in her domestication. In protecting him, she learns to touch. In being

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