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he had ever believed it was possible to love, but there were just so many obstacles in their way, and with each passing day those obstacles seemed to grow larger and more difficult to ignore.
    Why the hell did he have to be a vampire?
    Tommy knew he should never have allowed it to get this far. He should’ve thanked Andrew for saving him from his son-of-a-bitch uncle, and run for the door. Well, maybe it was okay that he’d stayed and shown Andrew how grateful he was, had that unbelievably fantastic sex with the guy—then he should have run for the door.
    But, of course he hadn’t, because the sex had been so damned fanfuckingtastic that he’d wanted it over and over, and now look where he was. In love with a ‘mysterious boyfriend’
    as Alex called Andrew, and filled with so many conflicting thoughts that sometimes he thought he’d go nuts from the pressure.
    Maybe he should take some time off, go visit his folks in Oklahoma. Yeah, that might help clear his head. Would Andrew be pissed? Somehow he didn’t think he would be. He was always so understanding of his mortal lover’s doubts and fears that it made Tommy feel like a shithead anytime his jumbled thoughts spilled over into Andrew’s consciousness. Like yesterday when he’d been dithering about and had woken Andrew from his rest. Yeah, the sex had been as wonderful as always, for both of them, and it had allayed his qualms and uncertainty for a time, but they never really went away—and somehow he was going to have to do something about it all. If he could just figure out what.
    “Whatcha so deep in thought about, buddy?”
    Alex’s voice, though sleepy, was enough to startle Tommy out of his reverie. “Huh? Oh, nothin’ in particular. Just thinking.”
    “You’ve been doing a lot of that lately.” Alex sat up and swung his long legs off the bench. “Wanna share?”
    “Thanks, but that’s okay. Just some stuff I have to work out by myself.” Yeah, like I’m gonna share with you the fact that my walking wet dream of a boyfriend is a vampire!
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    BLOOD LUST
    J.P. Bowie
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    “Trouble in paradise?”
    Tommy gazed at Alex’s tanned, wholesome face and couldn’t help thinking how much easier it would have been if he’d fallen for this guy. Alex and Tommy were the only two openly gay members of the fire crew and they’d palled around in the beginning when they’d found out about each other two years ago. After one less than satisfying attempt to fool around—they’d started laughing in the middle of their first kiss—they had opted to be friends. And they were—good friends.
    But not that good.
    “Nothing that can’t be fixed,” Tommy replied, hoping that what he’d just said was somewhere close to the truth.
    “Well, if I can be of any help…”
    “Thanks.” Tommy couldn’t quite ignore the look of concern on Alex’s face, and it made him feel good that someone actually cared if he was happy or not. “Let me ask you something, Alex. Do you ever wonder about the future? You know, where all this is going.
    How long you might be here, that kind of thing?”
    Alex shook his head. “Can’t say I do. I’m a one-day-at-a-time kinda guy.”
    “Yeah, I used to be too, but lately I’ve been thinking about, well, the bigger picture, I guess. Know what I mean?”
    “You’re talking about your relationship with Andrew, right?”
    Tommy sighed. “It’s some of that.” God, but I wish I could open up at bit more about this …
    “We’re tight, but I wonder about the long term sometimes.”
    “So go have your fortune read or something.”
    “What?”
    “Yeah, you know, tarot cards, channelling…”
    “How the heck do you know about that?”
    Alex grinned. “My sister Lorna. She’s heavy into that stuff.”
    “Lorna is? I’d never have guessed.”
    “I told you she was a bit weird. Calls herself and her friends wiccans or something like that.”
    “Wow—”
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