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    Dark Hungers
    Dark Hungers
    Dark Hungers
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    Dark Hungers

    By Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

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    Three Tales of Dark Hungers...

    A Darker Passion:
    When Aimee is rescued from a vicious attack, she feels lucky to have escaped unharmed. Until she discovers her savior has some very dark secrets.

    Giving Up the Ghost:
    Even a ghost needs a break once in awhile. When Rhys strays from his usual haunt, he’s just trying to catch a glimpse of a beautiful brunette. Unfortunately, his lapse in concentration allows a dangerous entity to escape.

    Shadow Dancing:
    When Ralph’s shadow first goes missing, he barely notices. Until he realizes his shadow is living a much better life than he is...including romancing the girl next door.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephanie Bedwell-Grime
    Release dateApr 29, 2015
    ISBN9781987927030
    Dark Hungers
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    Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

    Stephanie Bedwell-Grime is the author of more than twenty novels and novellas and over fifty short stories. She has been nominated for the Aurora Award five times and has also been an EPIC eBook Award finalist.

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      Book preview

      Dark Hungers - Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

      Dark Hungers

      By

      Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

      Published by Feral Martian Publishing at Smashwords

      Copyright 2015 Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      Contents

      A Darker Passion

      Giving Up the Ghost

      Shadow Dancing

      Previous Publications

      A Darker Passion © 1994 by Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, originally published in Romantic Interludes, October/November 1994 issue.

      Giving Up The Ghost ©2012 by Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, originally published by Feral Martian Publishing.

      Shadow Dancing © 2001 by Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, originally published in Storyteller Magazine, Spring 2001issue.

      A Darker Passion

      Gentle hands smoothed her hair. Aimee sighed, turning her face toward that feathersoft caress. The wonderful touch glided lower, mapping the contours of her cheek, tracing the outline of her lips, leaving tendrils of desire flaming in its wake.

      Warm lips brushed her forehead, lingering tenderly over the sore spot at her temple. Strong arms enveloped her, promising shelter, sanctuary. She snuggled deeper into that embrace of velvet steel.

      Help me, she whispered.

      You’re safe, said a deep, melodic voice beside her ear. Rest now. The words rumbled through his chest. Like listening to a lion purr, she thought dimly.

      Rest, she repeated, sinking back into a mound of pillows. She nestled deep under the comforting weight of the duvet being pulled up around her chin.

      Those silky lips again, this time against hers. A weightless yet enticing kiss. Then there was only silent air where his hot mouth had been. As if from far away, she heard the window being drawn up, the slap of the heavy drapery falling back into place. For a moment she wondered fuzzily about it, then sleep rose up in gentle waves to drag her under.

      * * *

      Sunlight splashed the room in amber. By the sun’s position in the sky, it had to be past noon. Aimee sat up gingerly. The left side of her face ached between temple and jaw. She rubbed at it, questing after the hazy half-thoughts that lingered just beyond comprehension’s reach.

      The comforter fell away, revealing not her usual flannel nightshirt but the lacy bra and panties she’d put on yesterday. On the chair beside the bed, a pair of muddy jeans and an equally soiled kangaroo sweatshirt were folded neatly.

      Knitting her eyebrows together, she tried to recall how she came to be so dirty. Memories of delightful sensation swirled through her mind like a tornado, obliterating all other thought.

      Aimee… She could hear that dulcet voice as clearly as if he stood beside her still.

      Safe, he’d said. And she believed him.

      Who? she wondered desperately. Who said that?

      Of one thing she was certain, something awful happened to her last night. Someone rescued her, brought her safely home. And then vanished as surely as the shadows.

      Frowning, she wandered toward the round mirror above her dresser.

      Sapphire eyes, still heavy from sleep, stared back at her. Her dark hair was hopelessly tangled, as though it had been tossed this way and that by the wind. Radiating out from her temple was a nasty-looking purple bruise.

      Last night…

      The sun was a crimson memory by the time she reached the small park. Wind snatched at her hair with chill fingers. Grass, crisp with frost, crunched underfoot as she set out to search for the man she’d come to call the phantom.

      For months she’d tracked this newcomer. After two years with the shelter’s outreach service, Aimee knew every character in the street community. Some accepted her offers of coffee and blankets grudgingly, others had become her friends. But none stirred her sympathy more than the dark man with the haunted eyes.

      They circled on the periphery of each other’s territory. He steadfastly refused her efforts to make contact, fading into the darkness, leaving her to wonder if he was simply a trick of light and shade. Though she assured herself there were always going to be people who wouldn’t accept her help, when the mercury threatened to plummet to

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