Ethan looked at me curiously. \u201cAre you all <\/ins>right? You\u2019re making the room buzz.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cJust thinking,\u201d I said, smiling a little.<\/p>\n \u201cAbout?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHow much things change.\u201d<\/p>\n He walked toward me and pressed a hand to my cheek, smiling slyly. \u201cYou were thinking about us.\u201d<\/p>\n I nodded. \u201cAbout what we were, and what we\u2019ve become.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd how I wooed you with my brilliance and sophistication?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOr your narcissism,\u201d I teased. \u201cI\u2019m going to change clothes.\u201d<\/p>\n Ethan lay down on the bed, one arm behind his head, ankles crossed. \u201cAll <\/ins>right,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m ready.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDirty. Old. Man,\u201d I repeated. But he had a point. There was one small room, and not much privacy.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not going to strip for you,\u201d I said, turning to the bureau and flipping through a drawer. Everything in my current clothing rotation was upstairs. The bureau held the remainder\u2014college and grad school T-shirts and slightly out-of-style numbers that I hoped would be more popular next year.<\/p>\n With minutes before the sun rose, I grabbed an old NYU T-shirt, pulled off my jeans and shirt, and slipped it on.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was hardly worth the cost of admission,\u201d Ethan commented.<\/p>\n \u201cThe cost of admission was free,\u201d I pointed out. \u201cAnd I was changing for my benefit, not yours.\u201d I gestured grandly toward the room. \u201cThe stage is yours, my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know what you expect me to do.\u201d<\/p>\n I sat down on the bed and mirrored his posture. \u201cI expect you to take it off, and I expect you to shake it. In that order.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHmmph,\u201d was all he said. As I looked on, he stood up, pulled his shirt over head, and kicked off his shoes.<\/p>\n By my calculation, that left a Master vampire in the middle of my bedroom, shirtless and staring back at me with a predictably arched eyebrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You can read the first chapter<\/a>, or preorder BITING BAD at\u00a0Amazon<\/a>,\u00a0Barnes & Noble<\/a>,\u00a0Books-A-Million<\/a>,\u00a0Indiebound<\/a>,\u00a0Apple iBookstore<\/a>, or\u00a0Penguin<\/a>!<\/p>\n In case you haven’t yet decided whether to preorder BITING BAD, here’s a wee teaser to whet your appetites. \ud83d\ude42 Ethan looked at me curiously. \u201cAre you all right? You\u2019re making the room buzz.\u201d \u201cJust thinking,\u201d I said, smiling a little. \u201cAbout?\u201d \u201cHow much things change.\u201d He walked toward me and pressed a hand to[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicagoland-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3253,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Biting](\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bb_bug-300x171.jpg\")
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