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Enjoy the previous snippet of Flowers and Fangs, Chapter 5 #2
Chapter 5. This is in Sloane’s POV.
Quick update from last week: Sloane made an attempt to flee from Derek, but he caught her. If things couldn’t get any worse, Derek’s brothers have arrived on the scene and are looking for Derek. Only Derek doesn’t seem too keen on alerting them to where he is.
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Derek murmured something under his breath, a curse she would imagine, but she didn’t have time to think about it as he managed to drag her to her feet and usher her behind the shed with his body pressed against hers, in a manner that would be deemed inappropriate. “Don’t even try to call out,” he warned her.
She rolled her eyes at him. It was a little difficult to call out with his hand clamped over her mouth, but he didn’t seem to notice.
“That’s Axel, my brother,” he said and gestured toward the back door. “You don’t want to draw his attention. Whatever you’re thinking about me, he’s ten times worse. He reacts before he takes in the whole situation, and believe me little lady, you’ll be toast.”
She didn’t understand any of this–Tim’s attack and… Derek, the boy whose kisses made her toes curl–what was he doing here? Did he remember her?
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Wait until Sloane finds out Derek does remember her. Wonder what she’ll think then? Will she trust him? Think him crazy?
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Derek Hayes and his family are preternatural hunters. Stake and dust is their motto, but Derek has a difficult time accepting his sworn duty when Sloane McBride, his ex-girlfriend from high school, is the one he’s been sent to eliminate. Once infected from a Nosferatu bite, there is no turning back. Sloane has been bitten and she will eventually change.
It proves a race against time when Derek puts aside his core beliefs and teams up with Sloane. The Nosferatu wants Sloane for his own, Derek’s brothers are hunting her, and every second brings Sloane closer to changing into the very fiend they want to kill.
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A Lamia, a sea creature worthy of John Keats’ prose, teams up with a vampire with serial tendencies. When young promising artists are found dead, the Preternatural Bureau sends Cassandra Hayes to the Hamptons to help a fellow hunter track down this lethal duo. She’s only spoken to Mr. Green once on the phone and when she meets him in person, he is not what she expects. His hunting skills are spot on, but there is something the man is hiding, and she’s determined to find out what it is despite the attraction developing between them.
Tremayne Graystone, a vampire from one of the oldest septs, is not pleased when he finds a dead hunter left on the doorstep of his pub. He should have never answered the hunter’s phone, but someone is trying to frame him and he wants answers. Surely he can masquerade as Mr. Green, the hunter Cassandra is supposed to meet, before she figures out his true identity and stakes him. She’s a Hayes, from a long line of vampire hunters, and fraternizing with the enemy is simply not done, but as they work together and follow the clues, the lines become blurred when he falls for the hunter’s charms.
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Wow, that doesn’t seem very friendly. Something is about to happen, I think.
Hmmm, not the best situation for her to be in. But I think Derek has her best interests at heart… I hope?
I hope she realizes now that he’s trying to protect her. Great snippet. (I love that his kisses made her toes curl, and wondered what happened that they didn’t stay together.)
Ya she might want to calm down. Axel sounds rough.
You have many different layers of action going on here, and they’re all working!
Scary situation! I hope she finds a way out.
I know he’s protecting her, but I think he’s probably enjoying that body-pressing stuff! 😉
So she does know him. Oh good, that’ll make this harder. 😀 Great snippet, Karen. 🙂
Her situation is getting more and more terrifying!
Hmm, she’s clearly not overly concerned about Derek. I sense she should heed his advice about Axel, though. 🙁
Ok – situation is getting worse. But i wonder whether she realises now that he’s protecting her.
I love the subtle underlying sexual tension, Karen. I guess she is going to have to trust him!
Poor Sloane is justifiably confused at this point! I like that Derek is taking care of her in his own fashion. Can’t wait to find out what’s next!
Very well done. I could literally hear the harsh whisper of his warning.
I get the distinct feeling something is going to go wrong yet with Axel. Love the description of him pressing his body against hers in what would be deemed inappropriate. Great snippet.