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wheelchair having rolled out of reach. With a little cry of dismay, he took the back steps in one jump and flung himself down beside Michael.
    "You okay? Did you fall? Were you trying to get up?"
    Michael, propped up on one hand, his useless legs bent at the knees, wasn't sitting stock-still, though. His left hand trembled like a caterpillar-laced leaf in the wind, but he reached and tugged methodically at the little shoots of chickweed cropping up between his marigolds.
    "Michael?" Zack stared, afraid to move and break the spell. Michael was weeding .
    "The lupines are coming up."
    "The… what did you say?" Zack's heart cracked just a hair more to hear that beloved voice again.
    "The lupines," Michael pointed a shaking hand toward the back of the bed. "Wasn't sure they would."
    There it was. The final crack. Zack's heart finally lay in nothing but shattered pieces in the grass. "Michael? Do you know me?"
    After three weeks of blank stares, Michael finally looked at him with those impossibly blue eyes, free of red, free of malice. "I know you. I… do. Could you help? This is hard for me."
    With tears streaming down his face, Zack helped Michael into a more comfortable position, letting him lean back against Zack's side. He kept having to wipe his eyes on his T-shirt sleeve, but it didn't matter.
    Love wasn't the answer to everything. That was a hard lesson to learn. But it was more than enough for sitting in the sun, pulling weeds. It was more than enough to start the seeds of two new, stronger hearts growing again beside the butterfly garden.

    The End

About Angel Martinez

    While Angel Martinez is the erotic fiction pen name of a writer of several genres, she writes both kinds of gay romance – Science Fiction and Fantasy. Currently living part time in the hectic sprawl of northern Delaware, (and full time inside the author's head) Angel has one husband, one son, two cats, a changing variety of other furred and scaled companions, a love of all things beautiful and a terrible addiction to the consumption of both knowledge and chocolate.
     
    For more information on Angel's work, please visit:

    Official Website:
    Erotic Fiction for the Hungry Mind

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Also by Angel Martinez

    Available from Mischief Corner Books

    Vassily the Beautiful
    Hearts & Flowers: A Tale About Hay Fever and Bad Decor
    Prisoner 374215
    No Enemy But Time
    Brimstone: Demon Owned & Operated (Omnibus)

    Mischief Corner Anthologies*

    "A Matter of Faces" in Cabin For Two: An Anthology
    "Hell for the Company: Brimstone 1" in The Horns and Halos Collection
    "Fear of Frogs: Brimstone 2" in the Hot Off the Range anthology
    "Shax's War: Brimstone 3" in the Not in the Stars anthology

    *Also available as single titles

    Available from Dreamspinner Press

    Gravitational Attraction

    Available from MLR Press

    Variant Configurations

    Rarely Pure & Never Simple: Variant Configurations 1

    The Endangered Fae Series

    Finn: Endangered Fae 1
    Diego: Endangered Fae 2
    Semper Fae: Endangered Fae 3

    Available from Amber Allure

    Sub Zero
    Boots
    Wild Rose, Silent Snow
    Canines, Crosshairs and Corpses
    A Different Breed
    Fortune's Sharp Adversity
    No Princesses Need Apply

    Available from Totally Bound

    The Line

About Mischief Corner Books

    Mischief Corner Books is an organization of superheroes… no, it's a platinum-album techno-fusion group… no, hold on a sec here…

    Ah yes. Mischief Corner Books is a diverse group of authors who met on a mountain in Tennessee and decided since they were probably too easily distracted to rule the world that they'd settle for causing a bit of mayhem instead.

    In addition to making mayhem, we publish books with a diverse range of genres and topics... we live to break molds.  

    MCB. Giving voice to LGBTQ fiction.

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