When Seamus O'Donnell returns to his Massachusetts hometown for Samhain, or Halloween as his neighbors like to call it, he has a bone to pick with someone.<br><br>At twenty-six, with a career on Wall Street, life was looking up for him until cancer attacked. Now, on that night when the veil is thin between the dead and those who aren't dead, feeling he has nothing to lose, Seamus summons up the one thing nobody wants to see.<br><br>To Seamus's surprise, he doesn't get an ugly skeleton in a dark robe, but rather something quite handsome. When it misunderstands something Seamus says in anger, the being makes Seamus a proposition he just can't refuse.

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“Well, yes. You showed up for me, right?”


“I showed up because you called for me,”


“Yes, but you were coming anyway,” Seamus


“Perhaps, but now it’s not your time,


“What do you mean it’s not my time?” Seamus


“I think you understand what I mean, Seamus.


It’s not your time to be with me forever.”


“So you’re just going to be one of those


guys who takes off in the morning without leaving a note?” Seamus


asked. “C’mon, I’m okay with it now.”


“You’re more okay than you realize, Seamus.


Look, I really do need to go,” Mine said, climbing out of bed, and


grabbing his gray robe. “I’m not supposed to hang out this


“Wait, you’re leaving?” Seamus asked,


“Did you think I would stay forever? It’s


not really my style. Anyway, even brave guys like you don’t want me


around forever,” Mine said, leaning down and lightly kissing Seamus


Chapter 15