Happy Saturday! What a long, disgustingly hot week. Our house is not air conditioned, plus we were having some work done on it, so I was stuck here wilting and trying to write. The goal is to have the first draft done by Friday, which is looking pretty likely.
Now for the snippet. I’ve been posting from my current WIP, Nightsong. I also post bits of it on Wednesdays for the WIPpet blog hop, which anyone is welcome to join—authors there write in many genres. Today’s bit follows immediately from last week’s, as I’ve been doing.
Not that Nate should be talking. He’d wasted a lot of years on the wrong people himself. If he were making a list, he might as well start with his first boyfriend and end with the unrequited crush he’d had on his best friend, Trevor. The result of his own bad decisions had been losing one of them and nearly losing the other. Del didn’t know any of that, however, and it left Nate free to needle him a little.
“You could have said no,” he pointed out.
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What they don’t know… Nice snippet.
Heh, yeah. Nate definitely uses that to his advantage.
Interesting…
This is a sequel, which I’m aiming for being fine as a stand-alone, but the “unrequited” bit is from the last novel. Nate recaps the drama he created later in the story. The other part…well, that becomes relevant as well.
Nate does have his regrets doesn’t he?
He definitely does!
Perfect example of “What he doesn’t know won’t hurt me.” (As well as “Do as I say, not as I do.”)
Ha, pretty much!
To which Del says…
(Can I hold my breath until next time?)
Have I said I really like Nate?
Ha! Well, it’s 50/50 whether what Del says will make people love him or hate him.
I’m glad you like Nate! He was a first-rate jerk in the last book, but he’s pretty self-aware these days.
Very interesting snippet.