The Vampire Grinch by Lacey-Anne Frye

Author:Lacey-Anne Frye [Frye, Lacey-Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press

On my way now, the text read.

Malcolm smiled to himself, placing the candy cane he’d been holding down on the coffee table so that he could text his boyfriend back. How was the party? he wrote. He sat down on the couch to wait for the reply, feeling strangely light. It was the sort of feeling that vampires didn’t get—it was all Gavin’s fault.

The response was quick, which meant that Gavin wasn’t yet driving. He was probably sitting in the driveway at Aria’s house, letting the car warm up. Interesting. How was the virgin-stalking?

Not what it used to be. Get home safe. After sending this text, he set his phone down to finish what he’d been doing.

Picking up the candy cane he’d set aside, he moved towards the tree that he’d been getting together for the past twenty minutes. A few of the branches had been bent at the ends during Gavin’s mini-fit the night before, but it was still very much usable. Malcolm had already covered it with the multicolored lights, and he’d already put the star on top. All that was left were the smaller ornaments, which went up in no time, thanks to his vampire speed.

It’d been a long while since he’d decorated a tree. It was a strangely therapeutic thing to do, and it was a lot more fun than he would have thought.

Next he hung up the stupid, tacky wreath that Gavin had. One of the little cardinals was slightly loose, so he had to be extra careful as he put it up over the TV. Then he stepped back and surveyed his work.

He’d already set up all of Gavin’s various knickknacks —that had been his first task. It probably wasn’t done the way Gavin liked it, probably nowhere near the way, but it was as good as Malcolm could manage. And it didn’t look half bad. It didn’t look like it belonged in a magazine or anything, but it was nice.

It was obvious—as it should have been the night before—that Christmas meant a lot to Gavin. Malcolm should have been a lot gentler in his Scrooge-like approach to the holiday, and he knew that. He wished he could take it back, especially since he could remember the excitement in Gavin’s eyes when he’d first started talking about Christmas. It’d been the first that either of them had mentioned it—Gavin because he’d been too busy before, and Malcolm because he simply didn’t care.

He hoped this would make up for it. He hoped that when Gavin got home, this would prove just how sorry Malcolm was.

But damn, if his vampire friends could see him now—big bad Malcolm, stringing lights and tinsel, getting into the holiday mood. Thank God they’d never know.

His cell phone started ringing and he moved to grab it, thinking it was probably one of those vampire friends now. Sometimes vampires had this uncanny ability to just know when someone was thinking about them—he couldn’t explain it.

When he looked at the caller ID, however, he found that it was Gavin.

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