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He took one last look around the bathroom, stepped into the shower, and pulled the curtain closed around him. He sighed, leaning back into the scalding hot spray. The rum was warming him up and soothing his nerves, and he was finally relaxing—
There was a giggle.
A definite and very real giggle.
“What…?” Adam tensed.
The water suddenly turned ice cold.
“What the fuck?” Adam shrieked, scrambling back to get away from the frigid spray. His feet slipped and he grabbed for the shower curtain to catch himself. The plastic dolphin clips he’d bought because of their cuteness were unfortunately meant to hold a mere curtain and not sustain the weight of a full-grown man. “Oh, shi—!”
The clips snapped and down Adam went, tumbling to the bathroom floor with a hardthumpand the curtain half-wrapped around him.
“Shit!” a very surprised male voice shouted, and a young man materialized out of thin air.
He kneeled in front of Adam, his violet eyes wide with concern. His skin was nearly the same shocking shade of magenta as the bathroom rug, and his long hair was the color of an emerald, braided in a single lock that nearly touched the floor. He had purple harem pants with a jeweled waistband, but no shirt or shoes. He was slender, his skin practically sparkled, his ears were pointed, and…
He had really, really sharp canines.
And whatever the tooth was next to the canine.
Those ones too.
“Are you okay?” the young man asked. “Are you hurt?”
Adam stared at the young man in shock, stammering, “I, u-um…” He flinched as the young man scooted closer. “I think I hit my head harder than I thought.”
“Really? Shit!” The young man reached for Adam’s head, patting around his scalp. “I’m so sorry. I didn’t think you were gonna take a swan dive into the floor!”
“Well, I didn’t think I was going to have company during my shower!”
The young man flashed a toothy smile. “Uh. Surprise?”
Adam’s pulse quickened, and he tried to ignore how beautiful the young man’s smile was, big sharp teeth and all. He thought he might have been drooling and quickly closed his mouth, scrambling away from him. “Okay, what the fuck? Who the fuck…?”
“You forgot how the fuck, where the fuck, and why the fuck!”
“Huh?”
“Right. Head injury. Must be affecting your sense of humor.” The young man grinned. “So, hi, I’m Vinn the Jinn.” He offered his hand out. “Need anything? Towel? Oil massage? Tonsil inspection?”
Adam burst out laughing, and he shook Vinn’s hand. “Um, maybe all three after another drink.”
“It’s a date then! Come here.” Vinn squeezed Adam’s hand as he helped him to his feet. He grabbed a towel and then handed it over to him, but he hadn’t let go of Adam’s hand yet. “I really am sorry.”
Adam held Vinn’s hand tight, his heart fluttering unexpectedly. “It’s all right. I’ve had worse.”
“I, uh, usually trynotto hurt people.”
“Usually?” Adam scoffed. He wrapped the towel around himself before he dropped the curtain, deciding that fixing it was tomorrow’s problem. “You just what? Fuck with their shit?”
“Uh-huh.” Vinn stared openly at Adam’s muscular chest, grinning from ear to ear. “And I would love to fuck with yours. And you can fuck with mine. Because,wow, major babe alert. Definitely DTFYBO. That’sdown to fuck your brains out, just FYI.”
“Shit. You really just said all that. Out loud.” Adam laughed, and he was actually blushing from Vinn’s intense gaze.
“Sure did.”
“I’m Adam, but I guess you probably knew that already.”
