tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62023802408295366872024-03-22T06:03:34.006+13:00C A HargreavesThoughts, reflections, short stories and articles from the writer Cindy Hargreaves.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604847744333755496noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6202380240829536687.post-13695989453792143492016-03-15T07:00:00.000+13:002016-03-16T10:16:57.565+13:00Heartbreak Guitar - Ed. 2 - Cindy Hargreaves - Where to buy<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Xoe is a rocking guitarist, with the world at her feet, but as tragedy strikes again she heads for the security of home. Xoe learns that by going home it teaches one to laugh again and rebuild a world away from the black spiral of depression. </span><br />
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Start the series with a bang with four stories in one book! These stories get you ready for the adventures to come in the SLICE series! Meet Jax, Jericho, Ashlynn, Lenora, and Marris!</div>
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Run, hide, and don't let them get you. Once SLICE gets their hands on you, there is
no coming back. They take your family; they kill your friends— all in the name
of some twisted scientific authority. </div>
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Jax and Jericho Masterson saw firsthand what SLICE could do
when they came for their parents. Now on the run, the two are struggling to
live in a world neither of them has ever experienced. Being raised off the grid
in the woods of the Smokey Mountains has left them without the skills needed to
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Marris Stratford only wanted to be the best big brother any
little girl could ask for. He never did anything to call attention to himself,
and always tried to do the right thing. Never would he have thought to be the
target of a government agency no one had ever even heard of. With a dead heart,
he will save his kind, even if it kills him. </div>
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SLICE- Supernatural Laboratories for the Investigation of
Chaotic Entities</div>
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Riser is a multi-genre author that writes in romance, paranormal, fantasy, and
sci-fi for both adults and young adults. When not hard at work on her next
novel, she can be found with a good read in hand or trying to convince her
puppy that she is in fact a dog and not a person. She is a wife and mother to
two girls. Her family is unabashedly geeky and enjoys sharing a good board game
or role-playing game. Cherron is happy to spend time at conventions enjoying
books and the geek life with friends, family, and fans.</div>
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Genre: New Adult Dystopian Romance</div>
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of priority. She’s convinced coffee is nectar from the gods and when blending
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dog and not a person. She is a wife and mother to two girls. Her family is
unabashedly geeky and enjoys sharing a good board game or role-playing game.
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Within these pages lies your personal invitation to the
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Angela was tired;
she had gotten up at four that morning to drive up from her Auckland flat to
Kendra. She had just finished a two day photo shoot in the city. It was perfect
timing to bring up some more of her stuff that she would probably need for her
new pad at Xoe’s.</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Her goal was to be
moved in by lunchtime so that she could have a nap in her new bed that
afternoon. That way, when she woke up, she would be able to get ready at the
beach house rather than driving in from town. That is how she found herself
driving into Kendra at six in the morning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Briefly pondering
if it was too early to head out to the beach house, then she shrugged. Toby, the
manager and accountant for Dark Autumn, had given her the keys, the codes and
other entry information on Tuesday, before she had headed off for her photo shoot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">She made up her
mind, and took the turn that would take her to the beach. She parked on the
side of the road just before the entry to Xoe’s estate. Taking in the house,
she wiggled excitedly in her seat. This was going to be home for the next six
months. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">She pinched herself
to make sure she was not dreaming; was this really happening? She was about to
start the first day of her dream. Although, to be fair, she and the other
members of Dark Autumn had a long way to go before they made it big. But damn,
this was the first BIG step.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Putting the car
into gear, she drove the rest of the way to her new home. She found her car
space and parked. It was the space that had “Angela” written on it in big white
painted letters. She popped open her boot, reaching in to grab two of her
sports bags and her practice keyboard. She hit the button on her key chain to
lock the car door, and then headed for the house.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It was only when
she got to the house did she realise that she would need the code to get in.
She was about to head back to the car when the door was enthusiastically swung
open, and she was engulfed in sweet smelling red hair.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Angela welcome.
Toby’s not going to be here for a few days, he’s got stuff back home to take
care of before he relocates, but you can contact him by phone when or if you
need him,” Xoe said as she stepped back and smiled hugely at Angela. “Here let
me help you!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Angela let the
other woman take one of her bags, but she kept a possessive hold on her
keyboard. Following Xoe into the house, she was somewhat relieved that she did
not have to find her own way up to her rooms. The entry way was beautiful
vanished wood, with a small table to the left of the door. On the table, there
was a bowl of keys and a vase with some beautifully fragrant flowers in bright
colours, possibly gerberas. Angela was not very good at identifying flower
varieties.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Through there is
the communal living entertainment room, those two doors there are the studio
and managers office. The stairs here lead down to the pool. Just be careful
when going into the pool room that you don’t fall in,” she says this last part
as if she herself had done just that at some stage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Your home is
epic,” Angela said as they headed upstairs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“It is now your
home too, Angela. Through there is the communal kitchen, but in your rooms you
have a little kitchenette. You are in flat three, this one here,” Xoe
indicated, and Angela used the key that she already had on her chain, to unlock
the door.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Angela swung the
door inwards, and looked around from where she stood. It was so similar to The
Oxford flat, that it sort of felt like home already. Well except the bed was
only a queen not a king. Directly opposite the door was a glass window with a
sliding glass door that opened out onto her private balcony. The kitchenette
was on her left wall, down from that was a desk, and she would be able to set
her keyboard up over by the desk and sliding door. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">On the right was
her bed and open closet doors. On the opposite side of the closet was another
door that was closed. When she went to explore, she found it lead to her very
own bathroom. Well shower, toilet and hand basin, epic!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Wow, Xoe, this
place is amazeballs,” she dragged out the last word.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“It is rather, I
came to Kendra to bury a friend, I found a home and a family,” Xoe revealed, as
she leaned her head sideways on the doorframe. “Oh hey, if you want your
boyfriend to spend the night, Casper needs to meet him first. He is protective
of me.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Good to know, but
no boyfriend, so no problem,” Angela grinned. They were interrupted from saying
more by a deep voice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Babe, whatcha
doing? You weren’t there when I woke up. Oh hey Angela, great to see that you
are eager,” Casper grinned, wrapping his arms around his woman, and kissing her
soundly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Hi Casper, been on
the road since four, so,” she shrugged. She went over to Xoe and took the bag
off her, and taking it to the closet, she started unpacking.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Oh, all the
kitchens are stocked with the basic utensils and pantry fillers, but from now
on, you stock them yourselves. If you have any heavy stuff, Jackson and Casper
will help; but Miranda has booked them first,” Xoe said after she and Casper
had stopped playing tonsil hockey<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Na, it is all
good, I got everything in my car. I can dart between here and town to get
anything else I need urgently,” she says from over the other side of the room.
“You kids can get back to ... stuff, you don’t need to entertain me.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Trust me, she has
been jumping up and down all night, because she’s so excited that you guys are
moving in,” Casper said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Ewww TMI dude, T.
M. I!” Angela covered her ears squealing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“What? ... I didn’t
mean that! Angela!” Casper blushed, making Angela chortle. Xoe too was
laughing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Oh babe, you are
so cute. Now go away, we are going to have girl time,” Xoe kissed him again,
and then pushed him away with a laugh. The females watched his butt as he walked
away, then Xoe remembered something. “Oh when you speak to Jackson let him know
that she is single.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Xoe, really, no.
No need to mention me at all,” Angela rolled her eyes, Mr Slick was sooo yummy,
but dangerous to her plans. She was not in the right mind frame to take on a
lover, let alone a boyfriend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Is she? Cool, I’ll
pass the info on,” he grinned back over his shoulder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">“He is really a nice guy, Angela,” Xoe smiled, she had a
soft spot for Jackson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Angela and Jackson have instant heat, but can they make it more? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Xoe Mackenzie's much anticipated new band, Dark Autumn, had been formed, and Angela had snagged the spot of keyboardist. Combining that with her rising modeling career, the girl was busy. So when she ran into Jackson, all she could do was fight the instant desire that built inside of her. There was no time in her life for another man, especially one who could very well break her heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jackson had thought he had everything he ever wanted, money, business, and a rocking night club. That was until he saw the most enticing figure of a woman leaning over the boot of her car. Once they finally meet, he is done for. The feisty Angela burns herself into his every thought. Nothing was going to stop him from making her his. Well, except maybe his pushy ex-fiancée. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is it possible for these two wounded souls to heal their heart with music, and each other?</span> <br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Angela sat at her kitchen bench on a bar stool, her cell phone in her hand, not that she could see it. She was in shock! All of her dreams were coming true. She had got the part. She was in Dark Autumn. She Angela Webster, model, and part time musician and photographer, had just been accepted as the keyboardist for the rock band Dark Autumn, with the ever talented, and Angela’s role model </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Xoe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">fricken</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> Mackenzie.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Holy shit!” she jumped up squeezing her phone into her </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">skintight</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> jeans, which were artfully ripped. On each leg under her panty line, there was a big tear, with three more on each leg. The jeans were almost indecent, but she did not care, they were comfortable. </span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">She rushed down to her car where there was an emergency stash of chocolate. Her feet where bare as she headed out her door, not locking it, taking the stairs two at a time, down from the landing. Popping the hood on the boot, she sighed when she realised the bag she was after, was at the bottom of the pile.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">It was only after she was bending down butt up, that she felt eyes watching her. She looked through her elbow at the flash car that had pulled into one of the penthouse car spaces. There was two very hot guy’s watching her ass. One was a </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">mohawked</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> guy an</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">d the other was a slicked back</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> haired male, with a chiselled jaw, very edible. There was something familiar about the </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">mowhawked</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> one, put she could not put her finger on it. </span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">She could not help herself; she winked. They responded with the slick guy giving her an </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">appreciative</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> smile, and the </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">mohawk</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> one an embarrassed smile. She turned her attention back to what she had been doing. With a heave, she got the handle of the bag just as she pulled it free; her eye caught on some sheet music. She forgot about the chocolate and the good news, falling into the music.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“</span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Yo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">LaLa</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">, what the f*** </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">are you doing?” her friend Roxy yelled down from their landing.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Angela grinned gratefully up at her friend, chocolate and music bags in hand, she took the wooden stairs two at a time back up to the first floor landing. With the straps over her shoulders, she had her hands free so that when she was close enough to her friend they could clasp each other’s elbows of both arms; they jumped up and down squealing.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Oh we can do better than that, </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">pina</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> coladas and later we go out to celebrate,” Roxy pulled her into the flat, right next to Angela’s. Unlike Angela, Roxy had a double bed, and a small couch, because she actually had people visit her. On the back of the kitchen wall in her living area was her art station. </span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Yes I am keeping the flats, but I won’t be living here seven days a week, just on my days off. I will in fact be moving into </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Xoe’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> estate, along with the other band mates for six months. So I will need somewhere to stay, after that period anyway. But, OH. MY. GOODNESS. I am going to be back up singer and keyboardist for Dark Autumn</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">; with the awe inspiring </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Xoe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">McKenzie</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">. This is </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">freaking</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> unbelievable,” Angela says, her voice once again shocked.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">They finish their cocktails before Angela head’s back next door to start getting ready to go out. She rolls her eyes as tries to choose between two different outfits. One, a pair of tartan red and black, pants, with a black tank, that showed off her belly piercing and flat stomach. Or a pretty black dress that was this side shy of being indecent. </span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">In nothing but her boy leg panties and crop top that she had stripped down to, she went back next door, she impatiently knocked on Roxy’s door. When her friend opened the door, Angela shoved the two garments in her face.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“The pants,” Roxy said after awhile. After Angela had spun around, she noticed that her friend was in nothing but her underwear. “Angela, for goodness sake, don’t walk around in your underwear.”</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{96339ba7-1ceb-4fa2-940c-dc14f0e17b2a}{207}" paraid="1194602438" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{96339ba7-1ceb-4fa2-940c-dc14f0e17b2a}{214}" paraid="1240501099" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">But she had a smile on her face. Even if internally she was embarrassed because, hot penthouse guy, that had been driving the car, had heard her friend and had been smirking. Angela had seen him out of the corner of her eye, leaning on </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">the </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">balcony</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> railing</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{96339ba7-1ceb-4fa2-940c-dc14f0e17b2a}{217}" paraid="509264174" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">After laying the chosen outfit on her bed, which took up most of the space in the open plan living space, she fanned herself. Because she felt flushed, the driver was </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">uber</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> hot! She had not seen him around here before, and briefly wondered who he had been visiting.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{96339ba7-1ceb-4fa2-940c-dc14f0e17b2a}{220}" paraid="234913082" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Putting him out of her mind, she stripped and clambered over her bed naked, to get to her shower slash laundry room. Once out of the shower and dried and moisturised. She stared at herself in the mirror; she did not regard herself as pretty. No, she was average, girl next door, with attitude, which is the type of modelling jobs she booked. </span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">With a shake of her head, she grabbed her hairbrush to deal with the tangles and then, once again flipping her head upside down so that she could put in her coloured hair extensions. These ones were red, a matching red to the </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">colour of her pants. With the extensions in, she did her hair up in a simple tight ponytail. Using hair spray, she set it all.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{96339ba7-1ceb-4fa2-940c-dc14f0e17b2a}{227}" paraid="267769971" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Next, she tackled her makeup, going for the </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">smokey</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> eyed look. Once her hair and makeup was done, she headed back into the main room to get dressed. Clambering back over the bed, before remembering that she would need underwear. She crawled to over the bed to the closet she opened the sliding door that revealed her shelving. She got a lacy red </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">g-string</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> and a sexy black bra. With a happy smile, she got dressed. The final touches to her outfit were a black belt, her black leather jacket, and her killer knee high boots. </span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{96339ba7-1ceb-4fa2-940c-dc14f0e17b2a}{230}" paraid="841154912" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Roxy and Angela stepped out of their flats at the same time; they looked at each other and grinned. “Can you walk in those boots or should we get a cab?” Roxy asked.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{96339ba7-1ceb-4fa2-940c-dc14f0e17b2a}{236}" paraid="801355622" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">They were still waiting for the cab when the two men from the penthouse drove back out, that was when Angela recognised the </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">mowawked</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> guy. His window was down.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Hey, </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">you’re</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> Casper, right?” she asked with a grin, when he looked around surprised at being recognised. The look on his face was </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">guarded</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Yeah?” he raised a weary eyebrow.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“I’m Angela Webster,” she said, and grinned again when he recognised the name, his face softening with a humorous smile.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Guess we will be seeing quite a bit of you around. Oh hey, do you guys need </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">a ride?” his voice was friendly</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> now that he knew who she was.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Na, here’s our cab. And yeah, be seeing you around. We get our keys this weekend. It’s epic!” She waves as Roxy pulls her into the cab.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Damn, you know them?” Roxy wiggles her eyebrows suggestively.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{8}" paraid="1591099156" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Not sure who the driver is, but that was Casper, my boss’s boyfriend,” Angela responds, and grins again when Roxy’s face falls.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Damn, all the hot ones are taken,” Roxy pouts good naturedly, as the ladies nudge each other.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{14}" paraid="695466174" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Or are total assholes and don’t deserve our time,” Angela agrees.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{19}" paraid="1784941916" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Hey Mister Driver, where is a good bar to eat an</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">d</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> dance at?” Angela asked, Roxy had already told him that they wanted to go into town, but they did not know where, normally they went to the Auckland if they wanted to dance.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{22}" paraid="349499369" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Jackson’s is very popular, and it is a safe place for two females. The boss has great security, and females get looked after good,” the cabby said.</span></span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{25}" paraid="1002147988" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Very good, we’ll go there,” Angela smiled gratefully at the cabby. The cabby pulled up outside the bar, and Roxy paid for the fair, Angela would pay on the way home. </span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{28}" paraid="2101837921" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Jackson’s front wall was glass, and they could see that it was already starting to fill up. Once out of the cab, hand in hand they made their way inside, and saw that there where low tables for those just wanting a meal. Towards the back and on one side was some high tables and stools, these where more for the drinkers. Best of all, a good chunk of the floor was for dancing.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{31}" paraid="891580801" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">They made themselves to the bar, and low and behold, there was Casper, talking to Mr Slick. “Well, it appears that we are stalking you,” Angela jokes with Casper as the two friends walk up to the bar.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Tell me what?” </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Xoe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> raises an eyebrow at her boyfriend after she pulls away she is a little breathless. Turning her head she recognises Angela, she beams. “Hey Angela, sorry I wasn’t the one to phone you.”</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{44}" paraid="1981407764" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Eh, it’s all good. Do we order food here?” Angela wondered, glad that the music was too loud for everyone to hear her tummy grumble.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{47}" paraid="935091714" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“You can do, but there are floating wait staff around,” Mr Slick spoke, and his voice was as hot a timber as he was. Inside she turned to jelly, and she discreetly closed her legs, as he did things to her with just his voice.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{50}" paraid="1556133141" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Great two burgers with the works, no chips and, </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">pina</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">coladars</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> again bub?” Angela turned her head to her friend.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{53}" paraid="1815142478" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Na, let’s go with beer. Beer goes better with burgers,” Roxy decided.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{56}" paraid="1988308476" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Good stuff, so yeah, two beers,” she turned back to Mr Slick.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{59}" paraid="1968741291" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Mr Slick nodded with a half smile, and poured their drinks after handing their food order over to the kitchen. Handing the drinks to Angela, he gave her a devilish grin. “So, do you walk around in public in just your underwear often?”</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{62}" paraid="833705760" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Good to know. Guess I’ll be seeing you out the beach house a bit then,” he looks directly at her when he says this, piercin</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">g her to the core with his eyes,</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> his dark</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">,</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> dark eyes.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“That’s nice,” she rolls her eyes as she takes the drinks. She tries not to notice the feeling that runs through her as their fingers skim in the handover. “See you on the weekend </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Xoe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">, later Casper.”</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Alexei,” he grins at her, and she gas</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">ps as recognition hits. They me</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">t at group call back auditions for Dark Autumn. He was a fellow model, and from her understanding, they had friends in common.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Shit sorry dude, my mind is like, not even on this level,” she hugs him, and offers him </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">the bar</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> stool</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> next to her,</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> with a nod of her head. At that moment, Roxy glares down at her phone, which has just beep to let her know she has a message.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{101}" paraid="1871989374" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Na, I think I will hang here for a bit. You’ll join me and eat her burger aye Alexei?” she looks over at him with a warm friendly smile. The aye sounded like the letter “A”.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{104}" paraid="1892706226" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">As Roxy headed off, Casper and </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Xoe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> came over and joined them. “Your friend could have stayed.”</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{107}" paraid="1644798528" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div class="Paragraph SCX205061752" paraeid="{11dd6cb2-a6b5-48e8-85e1-66dcee44c8af}{113}" paraid="464474331" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,Verdana,"Sans-Serif"; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“I can neither confirm nor deny the possibility that I have or have not been accepted. Nor can I confirm nor deny the possibility that I have or have not accepted the position of backup vocals and keyboardist for the highly anticipated new band Dark Autumn,” Angela grins at him, just as Mr Slick brings over the burgers, he frowns at the other man that is getting friendly with Angela. </span><span class="SpellingError SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Xoe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> seeing his expression covers a smile.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Oh, so </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">you’re</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> Alexei, you play some mean strings,” Mr Slick relaxes a little, puzzling Angela, who had not noticed his tension until it was not there.</span></span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Thanks man, oh hey Ange, are you doing that fashion shoot that James set up?” Alexei gave the other guy a knowing look, a smile playing around his </span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> mouth.</span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“Which one, the lingerie or the day</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">wear?” she grins, finally clicking on to what Alexei was playing at.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">“</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">Lingerie</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;" xml:lang="EN-NZ"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX205061752" style="background-color: inherit;">,” he scoffed, as if there was only one possible answer.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX205061752" style="font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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Within these pages lies your personal invitation to the
mystical, enchanting -- and deliciously dangerous -- realm of Faerie. Prepare
to enter a world of magic and wonder, power and deceit, as you explore the
myriad facets of the mercurial Fae Realms and a few of its denizens: a
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Filled with intrigue, passion, lust, and loss, these
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Beltane, originally one of the four great fire festivals, is
also a holiday of union. The flames of Beltane celebrate virility, sexuality,
and fertility. For each pagan holiday, there will be a corresponding volume in
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Slave in Shadows</div>
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Castle by the Sea</div>
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In a Field of Flowers</div>
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Engraved with Honeysuckle (re-released and re-edited)</div>
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Cherron Riser</h3>
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Cherron
Riser is a romance and paranormal romance author. When not hard at work on her
next novel, she can be found with a good read in hand or trying to convince her
puppy that she is in fact a dog and not a person. She is a wife and mother to
two girls. Her family is unabashedly geeky and enjoy sharing a good board game
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Cherron's
published works include three short stories: "Escaping the Beast"
appearing in the <i>Winter Paradoor 2014</i>
anthology, and "In the Heat of Escape" and "Engraved with
Honeysuckle" in the <i>Spring Paradoor
2014</i> anthology. Her first full-length novel, Defying Destiny, was released
in March 2015. Cherron can be found on the web at www.cheronriser.com and on
Facebook at. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/CherronRiserAuthor">www.facebook.com/CherronRiserAuthor</a>.</div>
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Taylor was born in a small town to parents who were by all accounts,
normal. That all changed, however, when she chose to follow Master Yoda into
the swamp. When her training was completed, she attended school at the
prestigious Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She is a makeup artist
and costumer who has already worked on two films and multiple plays in her
hometown of Dothan, Alabama. She enjoys tea parties and long walks in the cemetery.
Her influences are drawn from Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King and other icons in
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Ashley Nicole Davis grew up in Headland, AL. She began acting at 17 and
was a co-founder of the Featured Players theater troupe until 2013. Ashley
discovered her love of writing in high school where she spent much of her class
time writing instead of doing her work. She majored in English literature at
Wallace community college in 2002. Ashley currently lives in Enterprise, AL
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Within these pages lies your personal invitation to the
mystical, enchanting -- and deliciously dangerous -- realm of Faerie. Prepare
to enter a world of magic and wonder, power and deceit, as you explore the
myriad facets of the mercurial Fae Realms and a few of its denizens: a
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Filled with intrigue, passion, lust, and loss, these
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Beltane, originally one of the four great fire festivals, is
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Slave in Shadows</div>
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Castle by the Sea</div>
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In a Field of Flowers</div>
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Cherron
Riser is a romance and paranormal romance author. When not hard at work on her
next novel, she can be found with a good read in hand or trying to convince her
puppy that she is in fact a dog and not a person. She is a wife and mother to
two girls. Her family is unabashedly geeky and enjoy sharing a good board game
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published works include three short stories: "Escaping the Beast"
appearing in the <i>Winter Paradoor 2014</i>
anthology, and "In the Heat of Escape" and "Engraved with
Honeysuckle" in the <i>Spring Paradoor
2014</i> anthology. Her first full-length novel, Defying Destiny, was released
in March 2015. Cherron can be found on the web at www.cheronriser.com and on
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Taylor was born in a small town to parents who were by all accounts,
normal. That all changed, however, when she chose to follow Master Yoda into
the swamp. When her training was completed, she attended school at the
prestigious Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She is a makeup artist
and costumer who has already worked on two films and multiple plays in her
hometown of Dothan, Alabama. She enjoys tea parties and long walks in the cemetery.
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Ashley Nicole Davis grew up in Headland, AL. She began acting at 17 and
was a co-founder of the Featured Players theater troupe until 2013. Ashley
discovered her love of writing in high school where she spent much of her class
time writing instead of doing her work. She majored in English literature at
Wallace community college in 2002. Ashley currently lives in Enterprise, AL
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can not believe that it is the middle of April already. Time is going so very quickly. Already the cooler weather is on us, and in some parts of New Zealand there is already snow. Does the fact that it is already cold, mean that it is going to be a long cold winter? </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As some of you may know, I do not have my licence to drive a car yet, that means I walk everywhere. It can become interesting when the weather is miserable outside. But this winter I have an attack plan: I will use the woolly hat my good friend in Australia sent me, that she loomed. The arm warmers that I crocheted, and I am going to crochet some full covered finger mittens as well. Also I am working on a scarf pattern as well. I have also just bought a heavy duty umbrella, that will hopefully last longer than normal standard umbrellas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other ways I stay warm when walk, take my mind off the weather by listening to music. Wearing warm insulated coats. Spraying my shoes with this spray that helps them be water resistant. Rotating the shoes that I wear, so that I am not wearing the same shoes, two days in a row.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Least of all wearing layers. Many, many layers!</span></div>
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throughout the beach house. The many ears that heard it just smiled and thought
to themselves, “Alexies at it again!”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Xoe shook of the ice cold water that had
come over the balcony. She glared up at the offender, who sheepishly poked her
head over the side. At Xoes scowl, she just giggled and covered her mouth. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“How about you look before hiffing next
time?” Xoe suggested.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But Xoxo what fun is that? You never know
who is going to unexpectedly do the ice bucket challenge?” and she poked her
tongue out at Xoe before disappearing out of view.</span></span></div>
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wet dog. With narrowed eyes, she started to smile, evilly. She reversed
direction and headed back inside, after pausing at the beach side kitchen to
grab a towel, she made her way further into the room to the sound system that
was piped into all of the room in the house. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With a determined look she searched through
all the flash drives with their various music pieces on them, until she found
the one that she was looking for. With the evil smile firmly in place she
plugged the usb drive in, set the timer on the sound system. Made sure that the
remote was inside the cabinet, she then locked said cabinet, before pocketing the
key.</span></span></div>
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headed for her motorbike deciding now would be a good time to go for a ride, a
very long ride. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did not go away. But we did have family time, me an my boys. And now I am back at work, and still feel like it is lazy Sunday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do you get yourself back into gear after a holiday? Is there a specific routine you follow? Do you have a great way to turn holiday brain off and work brain on? I would love to hear from you, please leave your thoughts in the comments below.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Want to read Cindy Hargreaves books? http://cahargreaves.blogspot.co.nz/p/books-by-cindy.html</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604847744333755496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6202380240829536687.post-68257204905156988392015-04-02T11:41:00.002+13:002015-04-02T11:41:40.472+13:00The story of writing a story<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a creative fiction writer, I go through stages of writing stories, and often the stories get put away for a long time. Then inspiration strikes and you virtually dust off the folder and read over notes and bits of the story you previously wrote.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But what do you do when, gasp, you can not find the notes that your wrote outlining how you want the story to go? That somehow since writing, and putting away, till now, it has disappeared. Is this a blessing or a curse? Do you try to re-create what was in the outline? Or do you start from scratch?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This happened to me this week with Heartbreak Chords, not the first 8 chapters, but what I had written for the outline had disappeared. I have decided that this was actually a blessing because the outline I had written sounded whiny and not something I would like to read. So this week I have been reading over those 8 chapters and I think I now know where I am going.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So now I just need to well, write. Then re-write what I wrote, then edit, then review, then re-write again. I seriously need to get my A into G to get this thing ready to be published on 26 May 2015. Eeep!!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Want to read Cindy Hargreaves books? http://cahargreaves.blogspot.co.nz/p/books-by-cindy.html</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604847744333755496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6202380240829536687.post-89705046454992821872015-04-01T13:56:00.002+13:002015-05-11T10:43:52.494+12:00Heartbreak Chords PREORDER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">COMING 16 June 2015</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Angela and Jackson have instant heat, but can they make it
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Xoe Mackenzie's much anticipated new band, Dark Autumn, had
been formed, and Angela had snagged the spot of keyboardist. Combining that
with her rising modeling career, the girl was busy. So when she ran into
Jackson, all she could do was fight the instant desire that built inside of
her. There was no time in her life for another man, especially one who could
very well break her heart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Jackson had thought he had everything he ever wanted, money,
business, and a rocking night club. That was until he saw the most enticing
figure of a woman leaning over the boot of her car. Once they finally meet, he
is done for. The feisty Angela burns herself into his every thought. Nothing
was going to stop him from making her his. Well, except maybe his pushy
ex-fiancée. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Is it possible for these two wounded souls to heal their
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Heartbreak Chords</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Cindy Hargreaves</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Book 2 Heartbreak Notes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>COMING SOON </b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-NZ"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Angela and Jackson have an instant
attraction, can they make it more?</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Angela has just become a member of Dark
Autumn. She needs to focus on her career with the band and her modelling. Can
she stop herself from being sidetracked by this powerful man? Can she trust him
to be faithful?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-NZ">Jackson has everything he ever wanted, and
then he sees an enticing figure across the car park.</span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="background: rgb(247, 247, 247); color: #3e454c; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-NZ">Once he meets her in person, he
cannot get her out of his mind. The only problem is, he cannot get rid of his
ex-fiancée.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can these two wounded souls heal their
hearts with music, and each other?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, twelve years ago today I was in a huge amount of pain. Labour pain that is. My youngest son was born at 1.25 in the afternoon, in the same room and with the same mid-wife as my first child. It is crazy to think how quickly time has gone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12 years ago I was just dabbling in writing, just doing it for personal pleasure. I was unemployed full time solo mum. My mother would have been dead two years. And I felt all alone in the big bad world. My oldest boy would have only been 1 and a half years old, and still in nappies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since then my two boys have grown into fantastic young men in training, and I have 1 novel, 1 collection of short stories, and 1 novella published. Oh and also my father died as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am currently working on three novels, studying part time, raising my boys, the three cats and the bunny. I have a part time job, and I am slowly building my fan base. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It would be nice to think that in the next twelve years my boys become self-sufficient, my writing starts to pay me a small weekly wage, and I have a tonne more novels written.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's to the next 12 years!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Want to read Cindy Hargreaves books? http://cahargreaves.blogspot.co.nz/p/books-by-cindy.html</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604847744333755496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6202380240829536687.post-61409732535022853312015-03-14T10:58:00.002+13:002015-03-14T10:58:49.587+13:00Elfin Blood Cover Reveal by Gracen Miller<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Elfin Blood Cover Reveal by Gracen Miller</span></b></div>
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Scorned by her own kind for her mixed-breed elf status,
Julija lives a lonely existence as an outcast among her Ivory elf kin. When a
magical book in elfin lore is stolen, she’s directed by her King to retrieve
the book. Little of the heist goes as planned, and nothing about the vampire is
as it appears. <o:p></o:p></div>
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When truths are revealed, Julija and Landau must decide
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gracen is a
hopeless daydreamer masquerading as a “normal” person in southern society. When
not writing, she’s a full-time basketball/lacrosse/guitar mom for her two sons
and a devoted wife to her real-life hero-husband of over twenty years. She has an
unusual relationship with her muse, Dom, but credits all her creative success
to his brilliant mind. She’s addicted to writing, paranormal romance novels and
movies, Alabama football, and coffee...addictions are not necessarily in order
of priority. She’s convinced coffee is nectar from the gods and when blending
coffee and writing together it generates the perfect creative merger. Many of
her creative worlds are spawned from coffee highs and Dom’s aggressive demands.
Gracen writes is multiple genres—paranormal romance, paranormal erotic romance,
and contemporary romance. To learn more about Gracen or to leave her a comment,
visit her website at <a href="http://www.gracen-miller.com/">www.gracen-miller.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cameron Burk has just broken up with his long-time
girlfriend. But, determined not to miss out on the biggest event of the year,
he flies solo to the senior prom. Rhyanna Paramore is onstage providing the
entertainment along with her up-and-coming rock band, Defying Destiny. Cameron
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After graduation, Cameron is off to law school while Rhyanna
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When not hard at work on her next novel, she can be found with a good read in
hand or trying to convince her puppy that she is in fact a dog and not a
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stories: "Escaping the Beast" appearing in the <u>Winter 2014
Paradoor</u> anthology, and "In the Heat of Escape" and "Engraved
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The guys and Taylor where sitting around the bar shooting the breeze with each other. Tyler started singing the song that Taylor had written the other day. Madison picked up his guitar and started to play the tune from Tyler’s notebook. Parker had just joined them when Max strolled in.<br /><br />“Oh, Taylors song sounds good,” he says to Curtis, who is leaning against the bar with his elbows on the surface.<br /><br />“You mean Tyler’s song, right?” Curtis quizzed.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />“Yes, that’s what he means,” Taylor said, hitting Max over the back of the head with her drum stick as she moved past him to go to her kit.<br /><br />“Ow, jeez. Don’t do that!” he rubbed the spot.<br /><br />She ignored him as she picked up the beat for their impromptu band practice. By the time they where fifteen minutes in Taylor had stripped down to her cropped sports bra type top with sweat running down her spine.<br /><br />She gave a head nod when a water bottle was put in the holder attached to her drum set. Keeping the beat going with the base drum, using her foot pedal, she drank some water and cooled down by squirting some over her head and down her back.<br /><br />She then threw the empty bottle at her twins head when he gave her the stink eye, which translated to ‘put your shirt back on’. Picking the beat back up with her sticks, she bobbed her head as she rocked out.<br /><br />“Bah! Parker, you came in too late on the base, let’s start from the second section,” and she counted them in by clacking her sticks together over her head. “Dude, you suck.”<br /><br />“Bite me, Tay,” Parker shot back, before quickly fending her off as she launched herself at him, teeth snapping. “Ty, help me!”<br /><br />“Well, I can see why you like hanging here Max,” a male’s voice drawled through the racket that Taylor, Parker and the other bandmates, who where egging her on, were making. <br /><br />The new male distracted Taylor, and instead of dodging Parker’s fist, it connected with her nose. She saw red, and would have started attacking him for real, if Tyler hadn’t lifted her off her feet, his arms around her waist. He dragged her kicking and screaming over to the bar, putting her on one of the bar stools. “Stay!” Tyler said to his twin.<br /><br />Max took the ice pack that Curtis had put together and handed it to Taylor, who snarled at him. He was well used to her mannerism, that he ignored her and put the ice pack directly on the wound on her nose.<br /><br />“At least it’s not broken or bleeding this time,” he said mildly, before turning to his friend. “Whatcha doing here, Blaine? Tay, punch him later.”<br /><br />“He the friend who ripped his pants at the work function?” Taylor squinted her eyes at the friend before tapping the bar to signal to her cousin that she would like a beer.<br /><br />Max laughed, “he’s the one.”<br /><br />“Ha! So is he going to help you get out of your funk?” Taylor asked.<br /><br />“What funk?” Gavin, another of her cousins, wanted to know.<br /><br />“The funk that has him living with Aunt Facility,” Taylor said before taking a sip of the beer.<br /><br />“He’s living with Aunt Facility?” Gavin looked at her blankly like he couldn’t comprehend what he was hearing.<br /><br />“Why’s he living with Aunt Felicity?” Curtis wanted to know.<br /><br />“Because out of all the family, she has the most space at the moment,” Taylor replied reasonably.<br /><br />“How do you know this?” Parker asked.<br /><br />“Because that’s how I roll?” she fired back.<br /><br />“I knew he was coming back for a while, but... oh, because with you backing him, the rest of the family will leave him alone?” Parker came to the conclusion after he thought and talked.<br /><br />She raised an eyebrow before finishing her beer. “Great talk! I’m outta. Things to do, people to annoy.”<br /><br /> <br /><br />With that, she got down from the bar stool and headed for the door.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Want to read Cindy Hargreaves books? http://cahargreaves.blogspot.co.nz/p/books-by-cindy.html</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604847744333755496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6202380240829536687.post-29920406781316183102014-12-11T12:18:00.003+13:002014-12-13T17:28:23.700+13:00Albino Monkeys Short Story 1<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-NZ"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taylor sat up on the roof terrace strumming the stolen guitar, Madison would kill her if he knew she was using it. It was her own little guilty pleasure, being able to play the guitar; it was something not even her twin, Tyler, knew that she played. She hummed along as she strummed, imprinting the tune into her memory bank to jot down later in Tyler’s notebook, their hand writing was close enough, that he wouldn’t know that he hadn’t written the song in one of his creative hazes.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />She was so engrossed in her own world that she startled when a shadow fell over her. Looking up with deer in headlight eyes, she promptly narrowed them when she saw Max. Putting down the guitar, she picked the beat up with her sticks.<br /><br />She eyed him, but did not say anything. Tap tap tap, went her sticks, always moving, helping her deal with him. She was, offhandedly, surprised to see him here today. Shouldn’t he be in the big city, at his big city job with his floozies? Internally she shrugged.<br /><br />“I’m in the shit. Can you help me?” Max pleaded with her, his face taught with worry.<br /><br />“Me! What do you need me for?” Her eyebrows where up in her fringe and her voice actually squeaked.<br /><br />“Can I stay with the family?” Max seemed to hold his breath, waiting for her answer.<br /><br />“Were you dumped on your head recently? Of course you can stay with the family, do you just need a bed for a few days? Or do you need a room for a... longer stay?” so many questions raced through her head, but she held them back.<br /><br />“Umm, a room, or just a bed if there aren’t any rooms...” he trailed off when she held up her hand to stop him, and made a call.<br /><br /> “Hey Aunt Felicity? Maximus needs a room, can he board with you until he works out his next step?” she listened to her aunt for a while, exchanging some back and forth, then she hung up and turned back to Max.<br /><br />“Aunt said for you to bring your stuff over when you are ready and she can get the boys to move out any of the furniture you don’t need. Oh and you cook every other night until someone else moves in, and then it will be every third night. Is that all?”<br /><br />“Umm, isn’t that enough?” he asked, he lip cocking up in a half smile.<br /><br /> She just shrugged and went back to playing the beat. “Oh hey, do you have a spare notebook?”<br /><br /> With another half smile, he dug out his notebook and a pen and walked closer to her so that he could hand it to her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Thanks dude,” she said, taking the offering and then seemingly forgetting he was there as she got lost in her music.<br /><br />“Been a great talk as usual, Tay. I’ll see you around,” and with that he started back the way he had come.<br /><br />Only after he was out of sight did she raise the notebook up and sniff it, rolling her eyes she was in heaven, because it smelled like him. And finally, with a small smile, she truly did get lost in her music.<br /><br /><br /><br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">After being given the day off she made her way to the bar
where her “brothers” sometimes hung out. She used the term brothers loosely as
she only shared a fraction of their DNA. But when you had hundreds of brothers
and sisters you choose who you would call brother. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The bar was inside one of the first trees, there was enough
room for fifty average human sized faeries. The floors and the walls where
covered in the soft green moss, with the furniture created from natural wood.
The furniture and interior of the bar changed from time to time, according to
how the tree felt. Fire fly's and glow worms provided the lighting.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Commander made her way through the crowd, dodging wings and
tails as she went. The bar came up to her chest, and today there where bar
stools, for those who wanted to sit at the bar. She was about to order a drink,
when she looked down the bar, and their staring into his glass was none other
than Lord. From the barman she ordered her drink, she also ordered a refill for
Lord. She smiled her thanks as her glass was put down in front of her, taking a
sip of the nectar, she let the flavour coat her tongue and throat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">With glass in hand she turned her back to the bar and gazed
out into the room, she nodded to those she knew. Narrowed her eyes when she saw
a man, who in human terms she guessed she could call him her ex. She quickly
forgot about him when she saw her brother, then she saw who was with him. When
her brother Foster spotted her she raised her eyebrow, meaning ‘what are you
doing hanging with him?’ His response was to smirk at her, the ass had known
him all along.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Kitten, you are here,” a male’s voice boomed through the
bar, she recognised the voice as belonging to her brother Warren.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I am? Are you sure? It could be like that time you drank
some of Sam’s spiced nectar?” she wondered, trying to contain the smile that
wanted to escape her lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“No, I have not had that much to drink,” Warren told the
room rather loudly, as he started to make his way through the crowd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“You have had too much to drink brother, Sister Kitten is
not here,” Foster played along, she was sure Foster was part pixie, he was
always pulling pranks on people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Sister Kitten? That doesn’t even make sense,” she mocked,
as siblings where want to do. She smiled at Foster as he took the stool next to
her, and inclined her head at the male faerie that was with him. “Master.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Commander, I did not know that you were a sibling of Foster
and Warren,” there was no censure in his voice, just interest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Well now you do,” was her response. And she startled a
little bit when there was a deep chuckle form next to her. She had not felt
Lord move, this was a problem. She could not afford to be that comfortable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Commander,” he nodded his head at her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Lord,” she in turn inclined her head at him. The smile that
was playing around his lips was doing wicked tingly things to her, and yet
again she was wet for him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">By this time Warren had ambled through the bar and was right
in front of her. He poked her on the forehead, to see if she was an illusion
like they had been trying to make out. Just as quickly she grabbed the finger
and twisted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Owe, owe, owe, nope I wasn’t seeing things, it is Kitten,”
Warren whimpered. “Let go please?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Stop poking me,” she growled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Then don’t pretend that you are an illusion,” he
complained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Want me to kick your butt?” her voice was kickass series,
but the small smile playing at her mouth let him know she was being playful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“No jeeze, that hurts. Foster, she’s so mean to me,” since
she was not giving him any compassion, he turned to their brother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Then stop poking her,” at this statement from Foster,
Master chocked on the mouthful of drink he had just taken.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Careful there brother, you don’t want your fluids going
down the wrong way,” the way Lord said that, made Commander think that there
was a hidden meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Sometimes fluids have to be forced down the throat, nothing
you can do, but relax,” Master shot back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“It is better if you don’t choke on the fluids then,” this
from Foster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Anyway, moving on, Warren, can you fix my dagger if I get
it to you?” she changed the subject.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“What happened to it,” he looked at her, waiting for her response.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"It broke, the blade snapped off?" she suggested.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"You asking me? What were you doing that made it
break?" now Warren was curious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies," now
she giggled and with an upward sweep of her wings, she evaded her brother as he
lunged forward, she was sure he would have ticked her. Instead she flipped over
his head and gave him a light kick to his behind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Kitten!" Warren protested.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"So can ya? Can ya? Can you fix it? ha? Ha?" with
an exuberant leap she jumped onto his back, putting her arms and legs around
him, and licking the side of his face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Ewww, kitten stop!" he tried to shake her off at
the same time he tried wiping his face. "Yes, I can, just stop licking
me."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">With his agreement, she kissed his check that she had
licked, and hopped down from his back. After that the males decided to grab a
back booth so that they could all sit down. Somehow in the shuffling she found
herself seated between Master and Lord. There thighs wedged up against hers, as
they made room for a couple of other friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Food and more drinks where ordered. Every time the males she
was mashed against moved, they brushed against her. A few times one or the
other brushed against her breast, it could have been by accident. But on the
fourth time, she was certain that they were doing it on purpose, to torment and
arouse her. This was confirmed when they both dropped a hand to a thigh each
and moved it up wards. Close but not touching the junction between her legs.
They were playfully teasing her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The merriment flowered around them, as other friends and
family fluttered by. Some like Foster and Warren were constants, but others where
only there briefly. Commander did her best to ignore the males on both sides of
her, and their playful hands, with fingers that where getting very close to her
core. She needed time to process this new lot of information, that the two
males she had secretly been desiring, also desired her. On the one hand, she
could give in to her base desire, on the other it could complicate her working relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Towards the end of the morning, when the faeries started to
drift off Masters Personal Guard arrived to escort him back to the court. Lord
surprised her by not getting up when Master did. "I will escort Commander
back!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She stood to the left and a foot back from the throne, her
red wings like massive butterflies were still, as she was at rest. Bored, but
at rest. The lesser faeries where squabbling among themselves. The throne was
currently empty, and had been for some time. To pass the time she called a fire
ball into being in her left palm. She watched the fire in her hand with a
detached fascination. She started it spinning faster and faster, the colours in
the fireball swirling and forming new patterns with each spin.</span><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A throat cleared behind her, causing her to lose her grip on
the fire. It shot out of her hand, skimming some of the underlings atop their
heads before crashing into the far wall, at the other end of the throne room.
She grimaced internally, and would have apologised except it was above her
station to do so, and she would get reprimanded for doing so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She slowly, in a controlled manner, brought both of her
hands down to her hips and her swords that where there, in the on guard resting
position. She refused to give him the satisfaction of looking at him. He may be
the right hand, and the masters childhood friend, but he was still an ass, well
both of the males were.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She stayed in that position, as first the right hand Lord,
took his place of pride to the right and behind the throne, and took a stance
similar to hers. Then the Master took his place first in front of his throne,
before taking an elegant seat on his throne.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">While all of this played out the underlings quietened and
then rose when they realised the Master was with Lord. They remained standing
even after Master had taken a seat. And they would stay that way until Master
gave them permission to be at ease. After a while he gave that permission and
normal activity resumed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She cringed internally when she saw one of the pleasure
faeries slink herself this way. She did not have a problem with pleasure
faeries, but this one in particular just was not a pleasant faerie to be
around. But it was common knowledge that she was favoured by Master for her
services. But in the short time she had been Commander he had not bedded any
but those he had to for power reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The change in power was one of the reasons she was the left
hand and called Commander, and the first female to ever hold this position.
When the previous left hand had been slain, of which the details where still
unclear, she had been promoted. Her full skill set had not been fully used and
explored yet. And the promotion was still new enough that people still treated
her how they used to. And she was still learning what she could and could not
do, authority wise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">By this stage Carling the pleasure faerie had slithered her
way up to the throne and was about to perch herself on the Masters knee. When
the Lord stopped her abruptly with his sword in front of Master. Unsure of the
situation, Commander mirrored Lord's actions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"What is the meaning of this?" Carling demanded,
as she took a step back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"You forget yourself," Commander was prompt to
answer, finally having an inking as to what was going on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"I forget myself, you are the one that thinks she is
better than she really is, standing there, behind the throne," Carling
spat the words, seemingly to have forgotten that she stood before Master.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That is, until he straightened in his throne, his Lord and
Commander stepping up, to be directly by his sides. There sword still forming
an x guarding Master. Their postures on full alert. Unintentionally their
movements where in sync.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Be gone," Masters voice was firm and commanding.
At first Carling smirked, because she thought he was talking to Commander. That
is until the three of them stared at her, then her expression turned to shock,
and then fake tears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"You can't send me away, you want me," and she
truly believed that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Lord snapped his fingers and a couple of the Masters
Personal Guard came and took Carling away. Commander had a good idea where she
was bound for, and in her opinion, even that place was too good for the female.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"At ease you two," Master said softly to the two
of them, for they were still in guard position. After she sheathed her sword
she did as she was instructed. Easing back into rest position she started
scanning the crowd. She noticed her escaped fireball had scorched the back
wall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"I suppose it was inevitable," Master mused. It
wasn't her place to ask questions, as much as she wondered what was inevitable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"What's that?" Lord asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Sending the sucker away, she had become... clingy of
late," at these words, Commander let out an undignified snort, and could
have kicked herself for it. "Something you find amusing?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Just that she is going to find life harder now that
she can't use the position as your favoured fuck to get her what she wants,
Master," she spoke without thinking and then bit the inside of her mouth
to stop herself saying more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Explain!" this from Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Surely you know that since everyone knows that she is
favoured, she get's special treatment. Not quite of guard status, but still
special none the less," she scoffed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Well, this should have been brought to my attention sooner,
as she is of no importance to Master and she should not have been receiving
special treatment. Master I told you to stop using the same one repeatedly,”
Lord rebuffed Master in a very informal sort of way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Yes, yes Lord, now stop before you scare the poor
Commander, for your familiar behaviour,” Master said, and it sounded like he
had a smile on his face. Her eyes would have boggled if she were not on duty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“If she scares that easily, how is it that she got the job
in the first place?” Lord scoffed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"By skill?" Master suggested. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Are you asking me?" Lord shot back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Plus she was the youngest Major in the last 1000
years," Master pointed out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"She doesn't say much though does she?" Lord
observed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"That's because you are too busy talking for anyone
else to get a word in," Commander drawled, before promptly closing her
mouth again. And raised an eyebrow at a small commotion that was playing out in
the room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Ouch, she bites," Lord drawled, Commander could
hear the amusement in his voice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Only to bruise not draw blood," she said this
with such a dry tone of voice that the two males would have to guess at her
meaning, or if she was even joking. She thought she heard then inhale sharply
at this. Which made her wonder if they were as unaffected by her as they
projected?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Master, do you want the Guards to deal with
that?" Lord indicated the ruckus out in the room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Leave it for now," Master instructed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Give them long enough and they will knock each other
out," Commander observed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"For someone new, you sure do seem confident,"
Lord said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"I may be new to the position of Commander, but I am
not new to the Darklands, and those two are always fighting the other,"
she bit her lip after that, and swore to herself that she would not let this
ingrate get to her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As she had predicted the two that had been arguing knocked
each other out, and they were dragged off by their friends. After that the rest
of the night was uneventful. She did not have the easy banter with Master and Lord
that they had with each other. So she remained mostly quiet, and Lord nor
Master seemed inclined to make conversation with her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She stood to attention when Master rose, and turned on her
feet, leading the way out of the throne room. Master was in the middle, with
Lord bringing up the rear. She let her wings flutter peacefully as they
pleased, observing the going on's around them. She thought, but was not
certain, that Master and Lord both checked her out as she walked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The skirt of her uniform was loose panels that where only
sewn at the waist, and they went to just below her buttocks. So there was
plenty for the two males to look at, and maybe she did not use her magick to
modestly keep her skirt in place. And they may wonder about if she had on any
underwear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Without being given instructions, she led the way to Masters
suite of rooms, that Lord shared for the most part. Although Lord did have his
own rooms, to the right of Masters, and she to the left. Masters personal
guards where lined up three on either side of his doorway. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"All quiet?" she asked, as was required of her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"All quiet Commander," the first guard on the
left, directly by the doorway responded. She gave one nod of her head, before
entering the room to give it a sweep before Master could enter. After a thorough
inspection she made her way back to the door, holding it open she nodded to let
Master know that it was safe to enter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Once Master and Lord where in the main room, she closed the
door behind her, bolting it locked as well as charming it. She took up her
normal position leaning against the wall, with Master in sight. Then she
remembered that she would be training with her brothers after she was dismissed
for the night, well morning. So she got her sharpening stone out, and started
sharpening her knives one at a time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Once she was done with the knives and her two swords, she
snapped her fingers to clean up her mess. Once she was done with that she
started to juggle three balls of fire, a contented smile on her face, fire made
her happy. Then she combined them to make one ball, this one she held in her
hand and watched the different patterns form and swirl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">While she was playing with her fire, she felt the male’s
eyes on her. She ignored them, because really, she was here to protect Master,
not to worry whether they wanted her or not. But all the same, since becoming
the Commander she had done an extra workout a day. Not including the training
she did with her brothers when she caught up with them. She wanted to look the
best that she could, plus guarding Master was a very important job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">With a twirl of her hand she retracted her fire. Once again
she leaned back against the wall. She may look as if she was not doing much,
but she was actively listening for any possible danger or problems. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Where you expecting company?” she asked, when she felt a
disturbance at the front door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Send them away, deal with it if it is urgent,” Master waved
her off. With a nod she strolled out of the room to answer the door before one
of the guards knocked on it. She arched a brow at the faerie that was there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“How did you get here?” she demanded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“What do you mean how did I get here?” Carling challenged
back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Commander snapped her fingers. “Remove her, bar her
admittance in future. Master has already given this order, if this happens
again punishment will be dealt out.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">With that said she shut the door and headed back to Masters
main room. The males had been deep in discussion, but when they saw her they
stopped talking. This was not unusual. She did notice that they had changed to their
faerie forms, this was the first time that they had since she had become
Commander. She had of course seen them from a distance in their natural forms,
but up close. Well they were simply magnificent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Master had beautiful blue, aqua and white wings, like hers
they were similar to a butterfly's. The colours of his wings were also present
in his hair, which made her wonder about his other hair, that she had not seen,
for all that faeries where not modest. She noted that he had a hint of fang
when he smiled at Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lord on the other hand was dark, his predominated colour was
black, with streaks of red and orange, and hints of white. What surprised her,
and not necessary in a bad way, was that he had a tail. His skin was black too,
and more like hide than human skin, it was thicker, his veins where red and
orange. He too had fangs, and his eyes where black instead of white, with red
pupils and orange irises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She would not mind at all if these two fine looking faeries
happened to accidently lose their clothing. Even if Lord was an arse, it came
with his position as Masters right hand and immediate protection. She got wet
every time they flexed their muscles, and now that they were in their true
forms, she had to use a spell so the moisture would not run down her legs.
Since she was in a skirt with no underwear, well she never wore a bra because
of her wings, and her bodice was like a corset, but breathable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Commander,” Master said after a while and the males having
another quiet conversation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Yes Master?” she straightened from the wall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“You may go off duty now, Lord and the guards will be with
me,” Master commanded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“As you like Master,” she bowed before departing. She nodded
to the few guards that she knew from her previous position in the Guardians
Force. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rather than going to her quarters, she decided that she
would go and see one of her regular bed mates, since the males had made her all
wet. Once she had taken care of her needs, she would prepare for the next day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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