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Youu know, there’s so your lover behind a Dumpster But, hey, at least Gloriana St Clair still had a lover to hts recently when I’d been afraid I’d have to give celibacy another shot You think a wo on a celibate va just around the corner

I adjustedated the alley inreeks" Valdez, ht Even ritzy hotels have bad garbage" I had a leash attached to hiave the Duuy with a ca out the back door in the first place

Caure out if I was "So on the end of the leash Apparently even the canine failed the test

"Forget it I’ the front door" The photographer snorted in disgust

"Good idea I heard Usher’s colanced down at Valdez "Your disguise did the trick Mine is pretty lalasses But yours is the borinned and practically dragged ot Flo and Richard with hiet used to ’s new look A Rottweiler Cute, with his pink tongue and black erous than his usual curly coated Labradoodle self Then I saw Blade, Jeremy Blade, my four-hundred-year-plus lover and the o Then he’d been known as Angus Jeremiah Campbell III, heir to Clan Cah, it didn’t look like he’d be laird anytime soon Which was fine by me It left hi eles

I stopped and checked hiood to ht he was in a Hollywood-style white silk shirt that made the most of his dark hair and eyes Add expensive trousers with loafers and no socks and I wondered if sootten hold of him

Before I could ask, he had ainst all that hard s when he kissed

"Nice to see you too, Jerry" I grinned up at him when he let oing out Let’s go back to my hotel room, Gloriana" He obviously appreciated the effort I’d taken with ot too much in the caboose like I do, you learn to play up your assets So I’d chosen a plunging neckline with blue sparkles that uarantee male eyes never went below my personal equator I’d put on a twirly skirt in black with so So no hotel roo out, Jerry I’m sure Flo is with me on this" I pushed him toward the car he’d rented

Do you wonder e’re not staying at the sa around Dumpsters? Gee, nosey, aren’t you? Okay, it’s like this I’ed to a newly turned vampire, rock star Israel Caine Since I’ hiigs You see where I’uy I just avoided by the Duether, they assumed ere an ite with it, and next thing you knoe’re pretending to be engaged

Now, I know I should have called a halt to things, but, sueI’htly chubby Glory St Clair, who is nobody, living in the fast lane? I’e-clothing shop in Austin, Texas, and a sort-of ancient vaed to a rock star How cool is that?

And Ray is totally hot, sexy and when he singsI was hooked on his music before he’d ever been duuy and--would you believe it?--into ratitude for saving his life Whatever

Itin a long-terranted after the first few centuries Anyway, Ray’s up for a Grammy And the awards are in a week So we’re here in Hollywood Israel Caine and Gloriana St Clair, the happy couple I proot back to Austin After I get to wear the fabulous dress a designer is whipping up for me as we speak For alk the red carpet You see why I couldn’t duet back to s, or rehearsals or soo out, discreetly, of course Ray knows I’ deal, darn it Except Ray had insisted on separate hotels so maybe he’s a little jealous Hmm

My best friend, Flo, and her husband, Richard, ca on Jerry’s chartered jet (yeah, Jerry’s rich) Noant to have fun And not just one-on-one in a hotel room We can do that, and have done that, many times, in Austin All over the world, for that ain--I gave Jerry a hot look--and again