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    Professor Emmrich Volkarin is lonely. His usual company, his son Manfred, is away on tour with his band and not due back any time soon, and now Emmrich has no choice but to be alone with himself as he rattles around the balmy city of Treviso. He’s uninterested in romance, having sworn off love after watching his father lose his mother. He has his son, there’s no need to ever tie his heart to another person.

    Meanwhile, Rook Mercar is looking for a patient, diligent lover who doesn’t mind him setting the pace on their no-strings-attached relationship. He doesn’t want love, he wants help getting over his own issues. In essence, he wants a pair of training wheels on his journey of the intimate arts.

    A friends-with-benefits arrangement might be the exact solution to both of their problems. Or the beginning of the end of their self-imposed forsaking of the heart.

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  2. Public Bookmark 49

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    Before he was Mercury Ingellvar, Rook’s foster parents arranged an academic marriage with one of the Watch’s senior researchers: a professor Rook has never met—until now. He’s sure Emmrich Volkarin doesn’t like him, and he’s not sure he likes Emmrich, either... until a disagreement reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of their relationship.

    A comedy of errors and a romance of erudition.

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  3. Public Bookmark 25

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    “Why do you assume I’m not attracted to you?” Emmrich demanded, sounding offended and hurt, “what gave you that impression?”

    “You always pull away,” Rook appreciated the tea, it gave him something else to look at, “you kiss me like you want me and then stop before it ever turns into more. We’ve been courting for a while now, and while there isn’t a time limit on these types of things, normally there is something of a conversation.”

    “I do want you.”

    “So, is it the horns, the eye, the scar?”

    “It’s me,” Emmrich snapped, “honestly, for such an intelligent man you can certainly be obtuse at times. It’s nothing to do with you, or the horns, or the scars. Did it occur to you that as a man in his older years that it may be intimidating to court someone so much younger? Never mind when that man is built like you?”

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    12 Dec 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 17

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    "I wish you had been the one to find me," Mirnan murmurs out of nowhere, and despite Emmrich’s heart skipping a beat at the sudden admission, Mirnan's mouth continues it’s descent as if he had said nothing out of the ordinary.

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  5. Public Bookmark 4

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    Rook wakes to find his partner and is surprised to discover Solas in his wolf form.

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