Shadows' Nocturne: an MM paranormal romance: Book 1 of the Shadow Song Saga by C.J. Twining & Rien Nadie

Author:C.J. Twining & Rien Nadie [Twining, C.J. & Nadie, Rien]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shadows Nocturne
Published: 2023-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

Noah didn't dare move for fear of breaking the spell. He’d heard the first strains of music coming from below as he’d picked his way through the ruin, more and more certain with each step that there was nothing to find. He’d followed the strains down like a siren-called sailor and stood just inside the open door. The room’s light was low and amber, casting Relic in warm shadows that suited him. The room was nearly empty, but somehow the starkness of it suited the scene.

After several minutes, he gave into the impulse to move closer until he stood just at arm's length behind Relic, watching the play of the muscles in his shoulders as his hands moved, carried along by the longing and sorrow in the music and a desire that was entirely his own.

Music was the thing that Relic did for himself. To which he owed no one save his love of it and how he could speak in ways that words never quite served. How could one use such unspecific things as words to express millennia of hurt? Or loves so deep that the foundations of the world were not enough? He'd tried. In a variety of languages. He hung his heart on words of praise from those he loved and yet, despite the tools at his disposal, he never felt like he could adequately express himself. In music, however, in the rise and fall of chords and scales, he came a little closer. As close as he could get.

Perhaps that was one of the things about Noah that so enthralled him. He didn't have to speak. Or even play. Noah could feel. He was an empath and Relic couldn't entirely deceive him. Couldn’t placate him with white lies that he was fine. For good or for ill, Noah could not help but know.

When his hands finally stilled, Relic was breathing hard and shaking a little, head bowed under the indirect filter of dust mote dotted light. It was silent... until he realized he could hear a heartbeat that was not his own. A tension crawled between his shoulder blades and he couldn't turn around, frozen in indecision because he wasn't sure if he was embarrassed, afraid, annoyed, or glad.

"How long have you been listening?"

Noah felt the sudden change of emotion as the music ended and Relic realized he was there. The instantaneousness of it, the unpredictable sudden chaos after what had been smooth, the emotions rising and falling with the music in a way that had drawn him. Like a moth to flame, and he hadn't even really realized that was part of what had called him.

He flushed a little and took a step back, feeling like he'd intruded on something personal. Private. It unsettled him to suddenly feel like he was… unwanted? Not that it hurt- he understood levels of intimacy, perhaps more than most. So he felt only a pang of guilt, mingling awkwardly with the fact that what he really wanted to do was kiss him.

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