When Darkness Falls

Description

Aidan Foster is an elf doing his best to fit into the human world. Other elves seemed to have settled just fine, but he wants more. Elves mate for life, but he has yet to find the one. Until he meets Shannon Maddox, the owner of the city’s industrial dance club, The Den. But Shannon has secrets… a lot. Can they make this work? Or will Shannon’s past tear everything apart?

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A brisk breeze blew across the lawn, and Aidan tugged his jacket closer. He hunched down inside it, mumbling various curses he had acquired over the years. If anyone in his clan had heard him, they would have died of shock. Aidan chuckled. What did they expect? For him to just settle into a normal life in the human world without picking up the annoying bad habits of humans? Aidan knew better. Hell, his sister was worse, having gone through several legal hoops to marry a human Marine.

It was late autumn, and despite having lived in the outdoors for so long, Aidan was never this cold. Then again, trees had always provided the warmth his people sought in the colder months. Now he was stuck simply trying to exist once winter set in. Sure, he had an apartment with all its usual amenities, but there were no trees. No evergreens to climb and sleep in; no evergreens to provide energy for an elf in the dead of winter.

Here, he had only scant, somewhat stunted elms that stood sentinel along the walkway leading the way from the Liberal Arts building to the parking lot. He had a car, too, and he was getting better with it. He could drive like any adult human, but getting used to moving without walking was another matter. As he neared the parking lot, the green top of his truck loomed over the smaller cars in its row. At least he had been able to find green; it was a nice compromise.

Once the truck was running, Aidan turned up the heater full blast. He hadn’t been gone long enough for the engine to go cold, so the heat was a blessed relief from the chill of November outside. As he buckled up, Aidan looked up and watched as a group of students crossed in front of his truck. One of the young men looked his way, and Aidan swore he caught a wink. He smiled, but the man kept on walking.

Aidan sighed as he put the truck into drive and pulled out. Being an elf in a human world wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. Sure, some guys winked at him, getting his hopes up for the possibility of not having to sleep alone, but they never came through. Aidan grumbled. Nothing had changed by moving to the city. Nothing.