Shave & Shimmer by Alex Carreras

Author:Alex Carreras
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: M/M Vampire Romance
Publisher: Luminosity Publishing
Published: 2018-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

The entire night at work, Tory was a shambles. He colored a blonde client mahogany, almost shaved a woman who was growing out her short hair, and he’d practically waxed the left eyebrow off one of Jerrod’s best customers. If he kept this up, he would be suffering from more than a broken heart and bruised ego. He blamed Asher.

Tory would’ve been happy to slink home in pre-dawn darkness to a heaping bowl of black cherry ice cream with an extra serving of synthetic blood drizzled on top, but no, now he had to hear the gory details of why Ray found him so repulsive that he felt compelled to kick him out of his loft while Tory had his dick out. As if that wasn’t humiliating enough, now he had to have a play-by-play of last night’s mortifying events.

Tory knew Ray was outside waiting for him before he peeked out the window. There was enough static and friction in the air to create the storm of all storms. Tory was surprised that a rogue lightning bolt hadn’t shot down the street in a blast of blinding orange and gold.

Collecting his man-purse and finger combing his spikes that could withstand a nuclear explosion, Tory squared his shoulders, pushed through the door and jogged down the few steps to where Ray was waiting before he could change his mind and run out the back emergency exit of Everlasting.

“Hi,” Tory said, smiling tightly, trying his best to ignore Ray’s handsome face and musky scent.

“Glad you decided to meet up.” Ray’s voice was silky smooth as usual.

“Are you?” Tory couldn’t help himself.

“What I did was wrong, but I was drunk, and you made me feel something I thought was long dead inside me.”

Tory couldn’t be mad at that. “And what did I make you feel?” He shifted his bag’s strap higher onto his shoulder, counting the seconds before Ray answered his question.

One.

Two.

Three.

“Love . . . or the possibility of falling in love.”

Tory’s heart leaped into his throat, and his thigh muscles felt like melting rubber. Did he hear him correctly? Tory thought. Love. He swallowed in an attempt to clear his Sahara dry throat. “I did that?”

“Yes,” Ray replied. “You did that.”

“You’re not feeding me a line of BS to make me feel better? Because if you are, please don’t. I’d rather have honesty above anything else.”

“See it’s when you say things like that, you make me like you just that much more.”

Tory looked around for the vehicle responsible for the sound of screeching brakes that rattled his molars, but there was no car or truck in sight. The unnerving sound was coming from his head. “W–w–what did you say?” Troy stuttered.

“Bottom line is, you’re a good guy, one of the best. You’re the perfect package, smart, handsome, intrinsically kind. I don’t deserve you.”

“You don’t have me.” Tory’s smile widened. “Yet.”

Ray smiled, too. He placed his hands in his back jeans pocket and rocked on his boot heels. “Let’s say we go for a stroll on the beach.

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