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Hex and the City by Nazri Noor
Stolen Hearts, Book 1
Leon Alcantara is a real son of a witch.
The last in a proud line of witches, he’s come to test his small magic in the big city. Stealing enchanted artifacts pays the rent, but the competition is fierce. And handsome. And great at magic, too.
But Maximilian Drake and his dark, brooding glances are the least of Leon’s problems. A chain of anomalies surges through the city, strange distortions in reality that threaten both Dos Lunas and its people.
Suspected by the arcane authorities, Leon is forced to work with his nemesis to clear his name. But Max is so secretive over his shrouded past. Can he even be trusted? Leon must decide before the anomalies destroy the city — and his entire life.
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The bed frame squeaked, then snapped, two of the legs giving under my weight, the mattress forming a slope. I fell onto the ground. My head just narrowly missed the side table. I groaned at the ceiling with one hand vaguely hovering above my crotch. If getting ejected by a squeaky bed didn’t kill my boner, nothing would.
“That’s tough,” Leon said, standing between our beds, looking down at me with a barely restrained grin. “Well, g’night.”
I propped myself up on my elbows. “Are you serious? I can’t sleep down here.”
“Hey, sucks to be you.” Leon shrugged. “There’s always the back seat of your car.”
“No way. Not happening. The whole point was to come here so we could get up and spot the plaza from this window.” I clambered up to my feet, gripping the edge of his mattress for support. “I paid for the room, so I’m sleeping in this bed.”
His mouth fell open. “No fair! We’re paying for this room together, remember?”
I crossed my arms and smirked, triumphant. “It’s on my card. The whole amount.”
“Fuck that.” Leon rummaged through his backpack, fished out his wallet, and pulled out some bills. He slammed them on the nightstand. “There. My share of the room. You can stop shoving it in my face, now.”
I kneaded my face with my fingers. This couldn’t be happening. Professional. I had to keep things professional, even if my partner was a junk food-swilling chaos goblin with an annoyingly flirtatious bent.
“Fine! Fine. Then I guess we’ll just have to share this stupid bed and hope it doesn’t fall apart in the night.”
Leon screwed his face up as he pulled a pair of boxers on under his towel, hating the idea as much as I did. Or maybe part of him was pretending like I was, too. He stomped his way to his side of the bed, closer to the window. He flung his towel over another chair, then got into bed. His frame did not squeak. Small mercies.
“Don’t get any funny ideas,” he said, wagging a finger in my face in warning.
“Me?” I stared him down as I got under the scratchy covers, angrily trying to get comfortable. “You keep your hands and eyes to yourself, and we won’t have any problems.”
Leon sat upright. “I’ll look wherever I damn want, thank you very much.”
I resisted the compulsion to flex my biceps, to pull up my shirt and show him my stomach and taunt him. Way too childish. Why should I stoop to his level? Instead I settled my head against the pillow and glowered at the ceiling.
The way Leon beat up his pillow to fluff it almost made me laugh. I knew he was imagining my face in its place. “Honestly, I can’t imagine why Vera trusts you so much when you’re such a pain in the ass to deal with.”
I placed my hands behind my head and chuckled. “I can be charming as fuck when I want to be. And I’ve got friends. There’s Johnny and Roscoe. And there’s always Tina. She’s always there for me.”
“Johnny. Roscoe. Sure.” Leon flopped backward onto his pillow. “Oh, and Tina. I can list all the names of my imaginary friends, too.”
“Excuse you? Tina is my very best friend in the world.”
Leon scoffed. “Kind of immature to still think of someone as your bestie, don’t you think?”
“You’re immature.” I wrinkled my nose. “Prick.”
He rolled onto his side, away from me and toward the window. “Kiss my entire ass, Drake.”
As angry as that last remark made me, I was almost tempted, too.
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About the Author:
Nazri Noor is a California-based author of Filipino and Malaysian descent. He can curse fluently in three languages, but only writes in English. He also speaks just enough Sindarin and Valyrian to impress absolutely no one. Nazri loves writing urban fantasy heroes who use wits, style, and their wildly unpredictable magic to save the day. They often fall in love, too.
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