Baron's Last Hunt
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After he released Charles’s relaxed lips, Sean smiled down at the panting Baron. Ha, this fling was going to be a blast, yeah, much better than staying home in London and slaving for the boring family law empire. “Yep, handsome dude, I think you bloody well owe me for stealing my Daddy away from me and forcing me to find my own way in life. Don’t worry; I can think of many delicious ways for you to make the family trauma up to me.”
Charles smiled in open satisfaction. Yes, so could he.
Lovely.
Both men thought they knew the sexual score.
They were both wrong, yet so right.
TWO years later, the classic old Rolls parked across from the imposing train station. Light snow spilling from the sky softened life’s harsh reality. The flakes gathered and streamed against the heated windshield.
A pained Derek glanced back at the brooding Sean. He worried about his young charge. Mere years parted them in age, but now poor Sean seemed so young and frail, like a crushed hummingbird. His pale face held care lines befitting a far older man.
Six months ago, Derek suggested this unusual cure to Sean. At first the younger man cursed and raged. A month later Sean shrugged and agreed. “The usual, sir?”
The shattered Sean sighed in bleak agreement. He wondered why he bothered to come here. He wondered if sitting down with a bottle of pills and a fifth of vodka offered him a sweeter option. He wondered.
No. Never. His determined Charles had never tolerated failure. He fluttered his fingers toward the window. “Derek, just bring me blessed oblivion.” And a temporary cure for a broken heart.
If only Derek could perform the requested miracle. Charles’s untimely death had ruined too many lives. The determined Derek exited the Rolls and stalked through the snow toward the station. He searched for a handsome, older businessman displaying a sweet, shy smile.
And a dimple.
Derek knew the dimple meant all.
The dimple meant love.
The dimple might save Sean.
Derek hoped.
He hoped.
About the Author
S.A. GARCIA can never decide between red or white. Nor can she decide between creating visual art or word art, so over the decades a career in visual design, music journalism, and technical writing blossomed. Ten years of running an indie music magazine certainly provided plenty of wild characters and curious situations for fiction.
Even when traveling to interview bands, writing fiction always percolated in the background, and writing male romantic fiction ruled above all. Reading Gordon Merrick at age nineteen sounded a wonderful wake-up call. There's thirty years of male/male romance hidden away in her notebooks and on the computer. Now it is time to release the stories into the free air.
When not obsessing over different ways to describe romantic encounters, S.A. enjoys cooking for her beloved of twenty-five years; she endures the endless experiments with grace. Gardening, traveling, arguing politics, and teaching the house bunnies new tricks provide more fun. Unfortunately the furry furies refuse to learn how to type.
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Copyright
Baron’s Last Hunt ©Copyright S.A. Garcia, 2011
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Released in the United States of America
July 2011
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