Sometimes the dentist can be a real pain in the neck.
Blurb:
Justin’s dental practice is going broke, until the night he rescues Kendrick, his mouth a bloody pulp, the victim of a gang attack. To staunch the bleeding, Justin has to perform emergency surgery on his mouth only to discover his patient has fangs. Although he believes them to be a Goth affectation, Justin goes beyond the call of duty to help the mysterious young man who hints that he is a real vampire. The two men begin for fall for each other but can they overcome their distrust and their scepticism enough to embark on a relationship?
Ebook ID: 5112_1101
lyd Category: His and His Kisses
Length: 72 pdf Pages / 11694 words
Rating: 3
Formats Available: pdf, prc, lit, zipped html,
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Ebook Cover Price: $2.99
Excerpt:
He must have seen me examine him almost forensically for he smiled and, in that moment, I was quite giddy with desire. I never allowed myself this sort of familiarity with my patients, it was highly unprofessional, but it was almost as if I were hypnotised by this succulent stranger.
I managed to drag my professional face back with great difficulty.
“I don’t know what happened but your teeth are fine. I pity the other guy; it must have been his blood. Were you attacked?”
He nodded. “A group of them. They bashed me with a metal bar.” He lifted his shirt and I saw the red slash across his stomach which was threatening to become a nasty bruise.
“Would you like me to call the police?”
“No, that won’t be necessary. The people who attacked me will be long gone. I managed to bite one of them in the neck before they fled; otherwise I believe they would have killed me.”
“Look,” I said kindly. “You’re probably a bit shaken. Would you like me to make you a coffee or tea? Or something stronger. I have brandy in my drawer.” Shit, I suppose I shouldn’t have offered alcohol without knowing the extent of his injuries.
“That’s very kind,” he said. He had a peculiar old-fashioned manner of speaking which probably attracted unwarranted attention. I watched as he seemed to struggle with something that was bothering him. “You seem like a kind man, and I have to trust someone or I will die.”
“I like to think I’m a nice man as you put it,” although I was glad he couldn’t read my mind and see what I would like to do to his body while he lay in my chair.
“I can, you know,” he said.
“Can what?”
“Read your mind.”
Oh no, I had a crazy in my chair. This was bound to end badly.
He smiled. “No, I’m not crazy.”
That was just a fluke.
“It wasn’t a fluke.”
I’m actually home in bed dreaming or I’ve been the victim of a mugging and I’m lying in the gutter hallucinating.
“Neither dreaming nor hallucinating.” He put his hand up to stop me. “Look we can keep this up all night but you’re never going to believe me. But please believe this. I am in incredible pain and if you can’t help me I will surely die.”
I switched my brain off to concentrate on his needs.
“Okay, doc. Thanks for that at least.”
“I’m not a doctor, I’m a dentist, so if there’s anything medical you need that’s not to do with your teeth I’m afraid I won’t be able to help. You need to go to a hospital.”
“It’s to do with my teeth,” he mumbled.
The way he flinched and fingered his jaw as he spoke convinced me there was indeed a problem – unlike me to miss something.
“I guess we were destined to meet because I’ve been driving around looking for help when I noticed your light on. Providence.”
I wish we’d met under better circumstances. A gay bar or something.
“Me, too,” he said.
I shook my head, bemused by the stranger’s ability to second guess my thoughts.
“I think I’m perilously close to passing out from the pain. I will have to trust you. Either way, you are my last resort. I ask that you keep my presence here a secret until I can explain. You are in no danger.”
“I promise. Now, lie back, so I can take another look.”
“You will be surprised but I reiterate you are in no danger. Please believe me.”
“Open.”
He opened his mouth. I watched as he reluctantly concentrated and revealed all. It took me a few seconds to work out that the volume of blood gushing into his mouth came from a broken tooth that he had retracted into the roof of his mouth. I was so shocked I reeled back. My chair skidded across the highly polished vinyl flooring, crashing against the cupboard on the other side of the room.
Holy fuck!
I heard it in my mind for he could no longer speak, Help me.
My professionalism kicked in. I wheeled the chair back beside him and staunched the flow as best I could. The bleeding slowed to a trickle after the first onslaught although the bib I had placed around his neck was soaked and the blood would surely leech further into his clothes.
I spoke calmly. “I’ll need to inject you with anaesthetic. You’ll feel a pin prick but it will help with the pain. Okay?”
I didn’t dare try anything without explaining in case he proved violent.
“Do what you have to; I am in your hands. I trust you.”
I swabbed his gums as best I could then gave him the maximum dosage permitted to assuage the pain which must have been intense. As I waited for it to take effect, I wiped my brow attempting not to stare into his mouth even though it was my job. What had scared me so much was his two retractable teeth. Or should I say fangs. One of them had been shattered, probably from a blow to the face, and it was oozing blood. Whether it was his own or someone else’s I couldn’t be sure.
Author Bio:
Barry Lowe’s dreams of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature faded about thirty years ago when he realised what he wrote best was about the wild, whacky, wonderful world of sex and that his vocabulary would never rival Patrick White’s or even Evelyn Waugh’s. Since then he’s been happily churning out the odd gay sex comedy for stage as well as a mountain of newspaper columns and an avalanche of erotica for print and eBooks. He is also the author of Atomic Blonde, a biography of 1950s sex goddess, Mamie Van Doren. He lives in Sydney, Australia, with his long-term partner, Wally.
Check out his website at www.barrylowe.net.
