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Ross jumped up, grabbed his shorts and hurried through the door to the bedroom.

Tony’s room was small and tidy, offering little in the way of concealment. Ross dismissed the bathroom as too risky and the bed as too low to the ground, which left only one option. With a quick glance back at the half-open door to the living room, Ross slid back the closet door and slipped inside.

The closet was filled with high-end shirts, hanging neatly in a row and lightly perfumed with a citrusy, masculine scent. Ross wrinkled his nose, squirming in search of a more comfortable position..

It’s true: in one section of The Cupid Caper, Cupid is forced to hide naked in Tony’s closet. But it didn’t start out that way. In the original draft of the story, Cupid hid under Tony’s bed, which was not listed as too low at all. But one of my beta readers pointed out that she doubted she could get under her bed or even her futon.

Which is how I wound up lying on the floor of my room, trying to wiggle myself under my bed. I have a nice old-fashioned four-poster, scads of pillows, a dust ruffle (yes really) and it’s relatively high off the floor.

Or so I thought.

I mean, my ass is not...well it’s not small, darlings, but it’s not like, epic either, but I really had to work to get a cheek under there, and there was this kind of twisting floor-hump that I had to do to get my shoulders in, and I’ve got kind of narrow, girly shoulders, nothing like Cupid’s broad, buffed well muscled set.

But I was determined! I wanted Cupid under Tony’s bed, dagnabbit!

So I kept at it, inch by inch.

By the way, if you try this at home, I would totally recommend shutting the door so that your dog doesn’t try to join the fabulous new game you’re playing.

So finally I had most of myself under there, with like, a calf hanging out, when I remembered that in the draft, Cupid winds up staring up at the underside of the bed.

Uh oh.

A couple of sweaty minutes later the bed spat me back out and I tried again, this time face up. I had the twisting maneuver *down* I’ll tell you, and I humped that floor like a pro to pop my shoulders in, and viola, girl under bed. Girl basically completely compressed by bed with precious little room to breathe, but Girl 1, Bed 0!

And then, way down in the front pocket of my jeans, my phone started ringing.

Yeah. In the end it seemed much easier to simply stuff a naked Cupid in the closet, where he finds out all kinds of interesting things about his target...

So. If you were in a strange boy’s apartment and had to hide suddenly, would you hit the bed or the closet?

My latest novellette is out today!

The Cupid Caper:

Eros Omnia -- Ross to his friends and Cupid to the rest of the known world – is having a bad day. With just one more set of arrows to shoot before he can move up to Mercury’s vacant position, Ross loses one of the arrows and worse yet, uncovers a plot implicating two of the oldest gods on Olympus. At the same time, one of those arrows shot true in the finest ass Ross has seen in an eternity. With a little cunning, some bravado and the most beautiful mortal he’s ever laid eyes on, Cupid’s aiming to make his worst day turn out to be the best yet...

The Cupid Caper was great fun to write, and I hope you're gonna have just as much fun reading :)