The Green's Hill Novellas by Amy Lane

Author:Amy Lane [Lane, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy
ISBN: 978-1-63476-019-5
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-06-14T04:00:00+00:00

IT NEVER went away. They did the rounds with Adrian that night, and after that, every night. Phillip continued to help Green with the finances, and Marcus would spend that time tutoring the young shape-shifters or vampires so they could gain skills that would help the collective, but they always, girl or no girl, other errands or no other errands, spent at least a couple of hours a night in each other’s company.

It started to feel like sunset to Marcus. It was the time he was truly alive.

True to his word, Phillip kept dating little Beverly, and Marcus took up with Gina again. Marcus wasn’t sure how Beverly felt, but in her room one early morning, Gina looked at him as their bodies lay still on the sheets and said, “Who the hell are you pining for, Marcus? Because the only thing engaged in what we just did was your dick.”

Marcus tried a smile and kissed her cheek. “Sorry. I was distracted.”

“No shit.” Gina stood and stretched, comfortable in her nakedness, and threw on a T-shirt for form. When Marcus had known her alive, her hair had been hacked and spiked and dyed and a general disaster. In death, her hair was shoulder length, dark blonde, and curly. She didn’t do anything to it—no dye, no spray—and Marcus liked that. He liked the smell of her skin just after she’d fed. He liked that she cared for the new vampires and shape-shifters like he did, and that together, they were Adrian’s backup line when he was bringing new ones over.

He liked many things about her—enough to maybe be mated to her for many years.

But she wasn’t Phillip, and that wasn’t anything they could fix.

“I was….” He floundered for words. “Imprudent. I was imprudent, and I got… I don’t know. Supernaturally attached.”

“Bullshit,” Gina said flatly.

“I’m sorry?” Gina was not usually that forthright. She’d been timid as a human and was quiet as a vampire.

“Adrian says he’s got the maker’s connection. The fact is, you were attached to the guy before he was changed. It’s not ‘supernatural attachment,’ you moron—it’s love!”

Marcus shook his head and shrugged. “It’s going to go away,” he insisted. “It’s not….” He couldn’t make himself say it.

Gina came and sat down next to him as he struggled to sit up in bed and find his jeans and boxers. “We’re not the elves, you know,” she said gently. “We’re perfectly capable of lying, even to ourselves.”

Marcus swallowed and for some reason remembered that moment outside his family’s house, right after he’d been turned. How easy would it have been to tell himself that he just wanted to go visit them to say hello? That he wasn’t dying to taste their lifeblood as it flowed hot over his mouth?

“Goddess,” he swore, resting his forehead on his knees. “It is real.”

“You guys are roommates,” Gina told him unnecessarily. “Something is bound to happen. Don’t lose hope, baby.”

“What am I going to do in the meantime?”

Gina shrugged, the gesture surprisingly grown-up for someone who would never age past twenty-three.

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