Utopia X: Exploring Savage Places by K. Z. Snow

Author:K. Z. Snow [Snow, K. Z.]
Language: nld
Format: epub
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 2010-11-09T23:35:59+00:00

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K. Z. Snow

“Why did you need to get away? I thought nobody needed to get away from”—

Andrew steepled his fingers—“perfect Regenerie, the lily-white Utopian Metroplex.”

He spoke the last string of words with sneering, melodramatic reverence. “Admit it,

darling, your life is humdrum without me. Did you realize how insufferably bored you

were in Regenerie when you read my message?”

Ridley sighed. It was time for frankness. “No. I needed to get away because I‟m in

love. And I can‟t sleep with the man I love. I can‟t be faithful to the man I love. I can‟t

bring myself to entertain the possibility that the man I love loves me. There are too

many can‟ts. And he‟s the one who has to suffer for it, and I can‟t bear his suffering.”

Andrew‟s lip curled. “In love. And with a mortal human, eh? Some weak milksop

who‟ll never be capable of sharing an exquisite ecstasy with you.”

“Don‟t fucking pass judgment,” Ridley snarled, tempted to grab the arrogant prick

and throw him across the room. “Don‟t. You‟re in no position to. Just because some

quirk of fate made you a hybrid and gave you a metroplex to lord over doesn‟t mean—”

Ridley‟s admonition came to a halt. His lips remained parted. His forehead pulled

into a deep, skin-creasing frown. “Is an Exceptional Being the same thing as a hybrid?”

“What fucking difference does it make?” Andrew shouted in frustration. He spun

around and flung himself onto the couch, a pitiable, petulant sheik who wielded less

power than he thought. His hair spilled over the fat, colorful pillows like a broad scar.

“Just tell me,” Ridley said evenly. He could barely breathe.

“Yes, they‟re the same. Sometimes we‟re called „supers,‟ too. So what?”

Ridley took shallow breaths. His gaze fell away from Andrew as his thoughts

gathered around the revelation, exploring its implications.

Zee had been identified as an EB. So had the man he was with. Therefore, they

were both hybrids.

Ridley‟s mind skittered along another branch. The rich tapestry of Andrew‟s

blood, that hybrid blood—Ridley had tasted it elsewhere. He‟d tasted it when he‟d fed

from Win. And then, and then…last April, when he‟d licked those shallow scratches on

Tole‟s wrist.

“Jesus,” he whispered, trying to make sure his sensory memory wasn‟t tricking

him, trying to challenge his recollections, test them for accuracy.

There‟d been other hints of Tole‟s true nature—the natural blue streaks in his hair;

a couple of strange incidents, which Ridley had ascribed to Tole‟s mastery of magic. He

was, after all, an Alterationist. Like Win and Zee.

Ridley‟s imagination went a step further. He thought of all that work the Coven of

Three did “for the Powers,” the projects on which they worked “with the Powers.” Why

was a group of common Alterationists so heavily and continually involved in the

government of Regenerie?

Unless there weren‟t merely Alterationists.

Holy fucking damn. Could Tole actually be…?

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