by Anna Martin
June stopped and smiled at him. Max reached up and carefully smoothed her shoulder, setting a smudge of the inked flower back into place with his thumb.
“How would you feel if I adopted you?” he asked in a rush. Tyler held back a smile. Max was nervous.
“Me and Max are going to get married,” Tyler said gently.
June’s jaw dropped. “Really?”
“Yeah,” Max said.
“Then you’ll be my stepdad.”
“Not if I adopt you. If we do that, I’ll just be your dad. If you want that, of course.”
June looked to Tyler, then back to Max, then nodded almost shyly. “You’ll be my proper dad?”
“Yeah, June.”
She threw herself into his arms.
Tyler fought back a lump in his throat and wrapped them both up in a hug, feeling content that this was his whole world. And, in Max’s words, it was pretty awesome.
About the author:
Anna Martin is from a picturesque seaside village in the south west of England and now lives in Bristol. After spending most of her childhood making up stories, she studied English Literature at university before turning her hand as a professional writer.
Apart from being physically dependent on her laptop, Anna is enthusiastic about writing and producing local grassroots theatre (especially at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she can be found every summer), visiting friends who live in other countries, Marvel Comics, learning new things, and Ben & Jerry’s New York Super Fudge Chunk.
Although her most recent work is in the LGBT Fiction genre, in the past Anna has worked on a variety of different projects including short stories, drabbles, flash fiction, fan fiction, plays for both children and adults, and poetry. She has written novels in the Teen/ Young Adult genre, Romance, and Fantasy novels.
Anna is, by her own admission, almost unhealthily obsessed with books. The library she has amassed is both large and diverse; "My favourite books," she says, "are The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood." She also several well-read copies of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park books and re-reads the Harry Potter novels with almost startling regularity.
Anna claims her entire career is due to the love, support, pre-reading and creative ass-kicking provided by her closest friend Jennifer. Jennifer refuses to accept any responsibility for anything Anna has written.
Anna’s website: www.annamartin-fiction.com
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