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. Mårten? Lonny said. Is everything okay? Perfect, I said.Lonny couldn t cloak his thoughts, so vampireseverywhere heard his half of our conversation. What do you want for your building in New York? It s yours, he said,  if we can have Lechmont Manor.236 | Wynn WagnerI had given Lonny the Manhattan tower.Menz had gotten thehops farm in Bavaria even though he was living in Switzerland.Whatwe called Lechmont Manor had originally been Menz s farm fordozens of years, maybe hundreds of years.I was fairly sure that Menzwould be happy with the building in Bern. Let me talk to Menz, I said,  but I m sure that ll be fine. Congrats, dude, Lonny said. Ha, I said. We re living high on the javelina now. Hog, he corrected. Living high on the hog. Meh, I said. Huh? he wondered. Google it, I snipped. Goo-what? Baby drink from a drunk? I hate it when you get badblood.It makes your mouth and your brain go wonkus and in differentdirections at the same time. Meh, meh, meh, I repeated with the conviction of the King ofthe Friggin American Continent.Fangs Over America | 237FRANÇOIS was in our bedroom.He was sitting on the bed, waiting forme.As soon as I walked into the room, he jumped up to hug my neck.He gave me a very long and very wet kiss.I felt myself relax into hisembrace.If I had any cares, they melted when he hugged me.He wasno longer human, but he still seemed so warm to me.He pulled back a few centimeters, and he locked his gaze withmine.Slowly he went toward the floor.On the way down, he kissed mychest and stomach.He let his teeth play with my crotch briefly, but hedidn t linger there.(Dratz.) Your Majesty, François said,  I love you so much. I love you too, I said as one of his knees touched the floor. Would you do me the honor of allowing me to share your life asyour husband? Huh? I said, showing my grasp of the delicate situation. He s proposing to you, you bloomin dimwit, Queen Cécilesaid in my head.Oh my God.He was? He was! He did: this perfect Frenchmanwas asking me to make our bond official.Marriage.A year before, hehad been the first to use the L-word: he told me that he loved me.Heloved me, and he didn t mind telling the whole world.He loves me.Now, he was using the M-word first.Fran wanted marriage, and hewanted it with me. Wow! I heard in my head.I cried as I nodded.He started to stand.On his way back up, he let his mouth lingeragain at my crotch.This time he stayed until I was nude and drained.He then took me to our bed and made love to me until we closed oureyes at sunrise.238 | Wynn WagnerWE GOT all the real estate shuffled around.Lonny and the vampire Idon t want to mention took the papers for Lechmont Manor.Menz,Hamlet, and Pierre split the Bern building evenly.François and I gotthe high-rise in Manhattan.I Mårten from Hicksville, Texas can go strut along Broadwaywith the best of them.And now I have it, along with the most stunning French stud youcan imagine.Fran is glamour-magazine hunky, and he says he lovesme.He said it first, and he proposed marriage to me.Two guys can get married in New York City.The citizens therethink equality is just fine.All we have to do is show up at one of theofficial buildings during office hours and present our identificationpapers.That is something of a problem.The closest thing I have to identification is a piece of paper thatsays Mårten Larsson is a member of the AEF (American ExpeditionaryForce), what they called doughboys during the First World War.I comeacross as a guy in his twenties, but the papers say I am well over ahundred.The papers are right, but convincing a city official of that is aproblem.We were so tantalizingly close to being legit, but I didn t have theright papers.City offices are open only when the sun is blazing in the sky.It isa problem that has been haunting vampires for centuries.François solved it.He asked King Nopaltzin to come for a visit.The king said thetwo of us ought to come to the island, and that was what we did.Fran loved the water.He spent hour after hour diving andswimming.Vampires don t have to breathe air, so we can stay underthe water for hours at a time.When Fran explained our identification situation to KingNopaltzin, the king told us about a vampire named Devlin [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]