MELT: refrain [PREORDER]

re·frain /rɪˈfreɪn/

n. the burden of a song.
v. to hold back.
n, again. the burden of a man.

what you return to, again and again.

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Ichorous Innovations was founded, ostensibly, sometime in the 1900s by René Louvel, a man determined to not only research, but build, a better life for people like himself—vampires, that is. Surely the specific year is on their company logo or something, but Hector can never remember it. He’s preoccupied with other, more important things, like the next time he’s going to get laid, the shock waves up his arms when he cracks someone’s skull, or, most recently, hazy memories and the feeling of sharp glass being plucked from his forehead.

And his boss-slash-paramour sending him on indefinite holiday only to call him back in two months later like nothing ever happened.

And his boyfriend never being around because he’s busy at work.

And his boyfriend’s boss being the one who put the glass in his face.

It’s fine, though. René bankrolls his life and doesn’t ask too many questions… so long as Hector doesn’t ask any in return. The thickheaded façade is there for a reason; he can manage that, right?

Urban science-fantasy horror romance | First in a series

Stats: Novel | ~50k words | Explicit | M/M*, T4T(4T4T4T...) | Vampires in love (and other four-letter words) | Complex extended polycule

External credits: Cover by visceralhit.

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