Blossom (The Blossom Trilogy Book 1) by Christopher Lentz

Author:Christopher Lentz [Lentz, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christopher Lentz
Published: 2015-04-11T23:00:00+00:00

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A brisk pull on his elbow forced Austin to swing around to face a new partygoer: Faye Huntington. She’d come to a party that she was neither invited to nor welcome at.

“Well don’t you put the hell in hello!” she said too loudly for their proximity.

Equally loud, he added, “Well, don’t you put the good in goodbye!” He tried to back away. “Now get your damned claws off me,” he said in response to being woman-handled and at having the bride’s best friend at a bachelor party. “Get yourself out of here, now! Shoo! Scat!”

Austin stared into Faye’s eyes. “There’s something about you that always pisses me off whenever you’re around me. You’re like an un-locatable itch that makes my skin crawl!”

“Oh no, my pet. This may not be the most respectable thing I’ve ever done, but that’s never stopped me in the past, now has it?” Faye offered a paper cut of a smile. “I have every right to enjoy some refreshment at this dump if I wish to. In fact, I just knocked back—as you boys would say—a shot of Devil’s Spit and it burned like hell fire all the way down.”

She cleared her throat and went on, “I’m just keeping an eye on your dear brother so I can report anything unseemly to Clarissa who, by the way, doesn’t know that I’m here. My driver is right outside waiting to whisk me away to Clarissa whenever I wish.”

“You sure know how to spoil a party, don’t you?”

“Austin, my alley cat, you have no idea!” said Faye, almost purring.

She added, as if stating a fact, “You and I are alike, you know.”

“I have to disagree with that pile of horse shit you just shoveled at me. But, if I was a conniving, manipulative, frigid shell of a woman, then I’d agree,” retorted Austin with a sense of pride in his word choices given his inebriated state.

Faye seethed. She pulled him in close and replied, “Nicely played. On second thought, we’re not that much alike at all.” A verbal swordfight had begun. “If I was a puny, lost boy who lived with both hands in his mother’s wallet, then we’d be alike. So, you’re correct.”

She paused. “I have a feeling—a strong feeling—that I’ll be battling with you until hell freezes over. And then I’ll fight you on the ice,” predicted Faye. She turned with a flourish and headed for the saloon’s front door, displaying her finest high-and-mighty strut.

Austin grabbed her by the elbow and swung her around. “I’m going to try something.” He planted a boozy kiss on her lips and forced his tongue into Faye’s mouth so that it could dance with Faye’s. He abruptly stopped and she slapped him across the face with every ounce of strength she possessed.

“Hey, hold on there, young lady! They say opposites attract. But I just proved they’re wrong. No attraction. Just opposites. What a relief!”

Austin went on and announced loudly to Prickly Pete at the bar, “Pour me something stronger than

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