Happy Saturday! It’s been a rough go around here, but it’s spring, and warm weather is coming. Today, the sun is shining, so it feels warmer than it is.
I’m slowly making my way through my backlist with snippets of my various books, starting with the stand-alones, before my next release in September. Today, I’m going back to the only book of mine that I’d classify as romance (and even then, it’s not very traditional): An Act of Devotion.
This was written as a companion story to a friend’s book. A lot of the main characters’ experiences as graduate students came from my own. Time to meet one of our heroes, Adam. He’s bisexual, and I can never resist the chance to let my bi guys enjoy being with people of more than one gender on page. Feel free to ask me why.
In the morning, Adam stretched, his arm brushing against the hair half-hidden under the blanket. Renee had stayed the night, which had turned out to be fun for both of them. At first, Adam had been a little annoyed—the man in the health center had clearly wanted to mess with his head. He’d given Adam an assortment of condoms ranging from glow-in-the-dark to neon colors to decorated varieties. Adam had worried how Renee would take it. Other than the one marked with a ruler, he didn’t mind, but it wasn’t like they’d had a big conversation about weird condoms before making out on his couch.
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Good thing Renee wasn’t bothered by the weird condoms. I have to say, I would love to see a glow in the dark one! Clearly I haven’t lived 😀
LOL. I remember researching for this, and I think the actual thing I put into Google was “weird condom varieties.” That turned up a whole lotta strange, including a pack with former US Presidents’ faces on them.
Heh, love the last line! Fun snippet!
Ha, this reminds me of the time when a very sheltered friend of mine reached into a bowl of condoms out for free at the student health center and said ‘Jolly ranchers!’ because they were so brightly colored. I’m like nope.
Bright condoms… fun. But late presidents’ faces, nope. There’s something perhaps morally wrong with that one. Stay safe with Abe? Caution with Washington?
Ugh.
Nice snippet!
I love that last line.