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If I thought I wanted to be inside Summer before, it’s nothing compared to now. I stalk across the kitchen toward her, knowing my need must burn from my eyes.
She smiles wide at me but holds the cereal like a shield between us.
“Wait a second! That was just one prong! My plan has two prongs.”
“Then you better get to it because I’m ready to lick your pussy until you pass out.”
Her mouth bobs open a couple of times, and I make another move. She recovers and bats me away a second before I grab her waist.
“Prong two is Patronize!”
“I don’t know what that is.” Nor do I particularly care as I watch my T-shirt bunch up around her hips.
“Patronize. It’s a website where artists can create an account for their fans to fund them. You post bonus content, and people pay for access. But sometimes they just pay because they like your work and want you to keep making it. You can reveal yourself as The Inked Dragon. Make a Patronize account forThe Seven Siblings. Give your fans a behind-the-scenes peek at your process, maybe write a bonus scene or two each month. They’ll pay to get to know you.”
Summer’s words have me pausing in my pursuit of her.
“You think they’d pay for that?”
“I know they would. My god, Cole. Have you seen the comments on your chapters?”
The comments? “No.”
“You’ve got to be kidding me!” Summer plops the cereal box on the table and hurries back toward my bedroom.
I follow right after, unable to keep from sliding a palm over one of her ass cheeks. Is it my fault? When they’re just bobbing there?
Summer gives my stomach a gentle warning slap before scooping up her purse and pulling out her phone. After a few swipes across the screen, she offers me a triumphant grin.
“The chapter you put up yesterday? That already has over five thousand comments!”
“Really?” I lean over her shoulder to verify. She’s right.
“Imagine, Cole. If just a fraction of those people were willing to pay you a couple of dollars a month for your work.” She tosses her phone on my bed then wraps her arms around my waist, staring up at me with excitement sparking from her eyes. “I’m not saying you won’t still need a day job. But you could make some decent cash on the side.”
Cash on the side. The phrase has a spike of discomfort running through me. That was just how I thought of my money-earning techniques back before I got arrested.
But Summer would never suggest something unsavory.
“This is legit?”
Her ponytail bobs madly as she nods her head. “The website takes a small percentage for hosting your account, and you’ll have to pay taxes on whatever money you earn. But it’s all above board. What’s more, your fans are going toloveit.”
My fans. I never thought about having fans.
I knew that my chapters got comments on them, but I never read any. Truthfully, I was worried they were all going to be shitty.The Seven Siblingscame from a raw place in my soul, during the darkest time in my life. For the same reason I didn’t want to shop it around to publishers, I also didn’t want to read the feedback from strangers on the internet.
I guess I didn’t think there would be too many people out there who liked it. Which is why Summer’s initial reaction to the reveal was so surprising. And now it seems she wasn’t the only one fan-girling.
“You’ll love it?” I ask. She’s the measurement I use now.
“Let’s put it this way. If The Inked Dragon was some random person I didn’t know, and they all of a sudden announced they were starting a Patronize account with bonus content, I would sign up immediately. And I would also dance around my apartment like I was tripping on five cups of coffee. People are going to freak out.”
“Would you dance around naked?” Despite her having maybe just solved my money problems for me, my mind can’t stray too far from the fact that she’s pants-less and wrapped around me.
“Only for you.” Summer raises on her toes to kiss me.
I hold her close and set us off balance so we land on my bed with a bounce. She’s laughter and light in my arms.
