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Nathan tip-toed and stretched his arm out trying in vain to ignore the sweat running into his light brown eyes. He was determined to get the fake cobwebs on the sign just right. The rickety, old step ladder creaked threateningly as he shifted his muscular frame. Nathan felt it wobble as he took another step. Damned Halloween decorations would be the death of him.
Well, not really, being half vampire did have its advantages. Nathan could heal almost any injury; he was strong, fast and he could extend his life just by taking in a little blood now and then. Part of him wondered if he would still be running the old bookstore and putting up Halloween decorations fifty or a hundred years down the road. He could see it happening. Hopefully he would get around to getting a new ladder by then.
The ladder creaked again and tilted dangerously. Nathan grabbed onto the wooden sign hanging over the door to balance himself, dropping his fake spider webs in the process.
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?orry , I? Nathan blinked at the young man, who was now wearing most of his sign decorations, and almost fell off his ladder. He was the prettiest young man. Nathan had ever seen.
Leaf green eyes glanced at him from a fine boned, almost elven face as slender fingers pulled the filmy webbing from silky, blue-black hair. ?m, a little help here?
?ure thing, are you okay? Nathan hopped down to help untangle the gorgeous boy from his webbing.
The more predatory part of his brain found humor in that and the clean and slightly spicy-sweet scent the boy had didn? help things. He smelled and looked good enough to eat Nathan pushed that last though away quickly and busied himself with rescuing his cobwebs from the boy? shoulder-length hair.
?? fine, just a little startled, that? all. The young man smiled brightly at Nathan. ?t? not everyday I have fake spider webs dropped on me.