Terror By Moonlight by Hank Edwards

Author:Hank Edwards [Edwards, Hank]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay Mainstream
Publisher: Wilde City Press
Published: 2015-09-05T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The TV was on, tuned to some racy comedy with a laugh track and more commercials than Demetrius could follow. He had his feet up and a cold beer close at hand, and his mind drifted. He thought back to when he and Cody had discovered the bodies of Ian McLeod and Lillian Hackett. The rank, hot smell of blood and the dark red stains of those murder scenes would stay with him forever. The memories had been popping up at the most inopportune times, like when he was about to fall asleep, standing beneath the spray of water in the shower, or spreading jelly on his breakfast toast. He was hoping they would start to fade at some point.

But then, Demetrius thought of Oliver. Attractive, polite Oliver. Demetrius had, of course, noticed Oliver prior to seeing him in the hospital after getting stitches in his chin. As two gay men in a small town, they had become instantly aware of each other, and if Demetrius might be so bold, there had been an initial attraction as well.

For the last few days, Demetrius had picked up his phone and started to dial the number for the Parson’s Hollow Herald, but each time he had reached the last number, he disconnected. He was nervous about going out with Oliver. It wasn’t that he was afraid of the man. As the moon thinned more and more, the memory of that beast in the road seemed to dim with it, even if somewhere in the back of his mind a stray thought lingered that Oliver might be a werewolf. No, he wasn’t afraid of Oliver; he was afraid of himself. It had been a while since Demetrius had gone out with someone, and he had a bad habit of embarrassing himself in front of the men he was attracted to. It wasn’t just that he might knock over a glass of water or drop his utensils on the floor of the restaurant. He would most likely tip over a baked Alaska and burn the place down. Smoke inhalation on the first date was something many couples just never came back from.

Demetrius gave up and switched off the TV. He finished his beer and got out of the recliner. In the bathroom, he brushed his teeth, washed his face then shuffled into his bedroom and dropped into bed. The queen-size mattress seemed even bigger than usual, and like every night, he lay there alone. Every night the moonlight cuddled him to sleep, and every morning he woke with the sun. Alone.

“Just like millions of other people,” Demetrius said to the shadows in the room. “Nothing special about your story, Demmy old boy.”

A yawn crept up on him, and Demetrius rolled on his side, able to see out the window at the foot of his bed. The waning moon had risen and sat like a bright apostrophe in the night sky. He had searched the Internet for information on werewolves but mostly found only movie references and Twilight fan fiction.

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