Even the nicest of guys can decide to cut loose at some point, especially if he's at college and a frat brother invites him to a party. Unfortunately, that can end quite badly. Luckily for Dante ap Owen, it doesn't -- until he keeps needing to piss every few minutes and he sees blood in his urine. Another stroke of luck for him is the substitute professor, also a medical doctor he’s been crushing on, who happens to be there when he passes out in class and pushes him to come to his clinic.<br><br>But Dante and his beloved, critically ill mother are under the control of his bitter uncle, who also provides health insurance. If his uncle finds out Dante is being treated for anything, let alone what Dante fears is an STD, he's ... Dante doesn't want to think about that. So he flees the clinic before he has to make a follow-up appointment.<br><br>The good doctor shows up at his uncle's farm when phone calls do nothing. And when Dante's uncle invites the doctor to dinner and serves a meal worthy of Medea, the doctor urges Dante and his mother to leave. But will they? And will Dante realize the doctor wants him as much as he wants the doctor?

So Let Us Rejoice

I couldn’t tell him just yet, I had to know the reason behind her action. “Why?”


“Galaxy was a pet, he was purely a pet!”


“None of the animals on this farm are pets. Even that damned dog has to work for its keep.”


“He had no right. Galaxy was mine.”


“He paid for that critter’s feed.”


“Dante, what is it?” Micajah demanded.


I nodded, tears streaming down my cheeks.


“Yeah. If the cats had got to him, his head wouldn’t have been severed from his body.” A cleaver—the one Elvira had used to butcher my rabbit?—was lying beside the sink, and I grabbed it up and whirled around to head toward the hallway that led to the stairs going up to John Moore’s bedroom. “I’ll kill him.”


Micajah caught me before I could leave the room. “You don’t want to give him the satisfaction.”


Elvira gave a bark of laughter, and Micajah whirled on her with a snarl. “You bitch!”


Chapter 29