I’ve got a hot, paranormal, holiday story from Lucy Felthouse today. Check out the deets on Cupid, her latest Romance on the Goβ’ from Evernight!
Cupid by Lucy Felthouse
Available: December 14, 2015
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-77233-632-0
As a postman by day, and one of Santaβs reindeer on a single very special night, Cassius Cupid eats, sleeps, and breathes deliveries. He doesnβt mind, but sometimes wishes that someone would send him something more exciting than bills and junk mail.
One cold January morning, Cassius gets his wish. A young woman arrives with a parcel. Turns out itβs for his housemate β but Cassius doesnβt care. All heβs interested in is Carina β the beautiful female courier.
Has Cupid finally met his match?
Excerpt:
Cassius Cupid woke with a start, and then sat bolt upright in his bed. Shit, Iβm going to be late! was his first thought.
Milliseconds later his brain switched on, and he remembered. He was on holiday. Flopping back onto the warm mattress and pillows with a contented sigh, he smiled. No work for fourteen whole daysβit was going to be utter bliss. He stretched, relishing the feeling it created in his sleep-softened muscles. Ahhhβ¦this is the life.
He knew he wouldnβt go back to sleepβhell, it was eight oβclock, which was practically the middle of the day for someone in his professionβso Cassius fell to thinking about how he was going to spend his day, not to mention the several others in front of him. God knew he deserved to relax and have some fun. Heβd just emerged from the busiest part of his year, and he was more than ready to do some chilling out.
He enjoyed his job as a postmanβhe really didβbut the Christmas period was a total killer. He idly wondered how many cards and presents heβd delivered over the past few weeks. It didnβt bear thinking about. Once you factored in the festive period itself, the weird few days between Christmas and New Year, and then the flurry of mail that got sent when everyone went back to work properly at the beginning of January, heβd racked up some serious deliveries. And that was before you even thought about his other jobβwhich was for just one day a year, but was arguably more important than the other 364 put together.
Cassiusβor Cupid, as he was known to his boss and colleagues in his second, but most important jobβwas not only a regular postman for the Royal Mail, but also a reindeer. For a single day of the year, Cassius had the supernatural power to transform into one of Santaβs faithful steeds and help pull that famous magical sleigh, delivering presents to excited children the world over.
Therefore, it wouldnβt be an exaggeration to say that Cassius really did eat, sleep and breathe deliveries, but not for the next fourteen days. All he planned to do was watch some TV, read some books, maybe go out hiking, meet some friendsβ¦ basically anything that wasnβt delivering something to someone. Hey, he might even receive something through the post himselfβpreferably not the usual crap; bills and junk mail. He didnβt hold out much hope.
He lounged in bed for another ten minutes before realising he was lying there just for the sake of it. Being on holiday didnβt have to equal staying in bed all dayβand certainly not for someone as active as him. He reached over to his bedside table, grabbed his glasses and put them on. Throwing off his thick duvet, he walked to his bedroom window and peeked out through the curtains, immediately glad of the effective central heating he and his housemate had forked out to have installed the previous year.
The outside world was covered in a thick layer of snow, and Cassius was mightily glad that he wasnβt out delivering letters and parcels. The stuff was treacherous enough without having to carry a heavy bag up and down driveways, paths, and pavements β most of which either hadnβt been cleared, or had been cleared badly, leaving incredibly slippery patches of ground for an unsuspecting postie to come across. God knows heβd gone down enough times, but, much to his relief, nobody had ever seen him do it. Heβd always been relatively unharmedβexcerpt for his pride, of courseβand had been able to scramble back to his feet and carry on.
The eerie silence outside was broken by the rumble of an engine, and Cassius turned his head to look up the streetβhe lived in a cul-de-sac, so he knew thatβs where the vehicle would come fromβand watched as a delivery van made its way slowly and carefully down the road. He hoped the driver was sensible enough to try and steer over the thickest parts of the snowβthe more people went over and over the same patches, packing it down, the more the road surface resembled an ice rink. And since the cul-de-sac was on a slight hill, it was easy enough to get stuck. Heβd seen it so many timesβeven going outside one time last winter to suggest the driver go down to the bottom of the road, turn around and try reversing up the hillβan almost foolproof plan for vans with rear-wheel drive. Heβd gotten a big thumbs-up for that suggestion as the driver finally got to the junction where the road became flat, and went on his merry way.
As the van drew closer to his house, he saw that the driver was a woman. That would explain her cautious drivingβheβd never admit it to one of his drinking buddies, but women were far superior when it came to driving in adverse weather conditions. He even thought heβd seen some survey containing statistics that proved it.
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About the Author:
Lucy Felthouse is a very busy woman! She writes erotica and erotic romance in a variety of subgenres and pairings, and has over 140 publications to her name, with many more in the pipeline. These include several editions of Best Bondage Erotica, Best Women’s Erotica 2013 and Best Erotic Romance 2014. Another string to her bow is editing, and she has edited and co-edited a number of anthologies, and also edits for a small publishing house. She owns Erotica For All, is book editor for Cliterati, and is one eighth of The Brit Babes. Find out more at http://www.lucyfelthouse.co.uk. Join her on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to her newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/gMQb9