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    The French Have a Word for It
    The French Have a Word for It
    The French Have a Word for It
    Ebook49 pages37 minutes

    The French Have a Word for It

    By Josh Lanyon

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    It's been ten years since Colin Lambert last saw Thomas Sullivan, his former bodyguard. Now Colin's all grown up and Thomas is in Paris for one evening. A sweet short story about second chances.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJosh Lanyon
    Release dateDec 6, 2011
    ISBN9780984766956
    The French Have a Word for It
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    Josh Lanyon

    Author of 100+ titles of Gay Mystery and M/M Romance, Josh Lanyon has built a literary legacy on twisty mystery, kickass adventure, and unapologetic man-on-man romance. Her work has been translated into twelve languages. She is an EPIC Award winner, a four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist (twice for Gay Mystery), an Edgar nominee, and the first ever recipient of the Goodreads All Time Favorite M/M Author award.

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      It's short and simple, not dwelling deep enough into the main characters, but it was pleasantly, nicely written about the possibility of meeting back your first love, many years later. Nice.

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    Can one night in Paris change everything?

    It's been ten years since Colin Lambert last saw his former bodyguard, Thomas Sullivan. Now Colin is all grown-up and they're meeting on equal terms for the first time in the City of Lights. Mais oui! There's a reason they call French The language of Love.

    The French Have a Word for It

    Josh Lanyon

    "Colin?"

    Something about the deep voice was familiar. Colin Lambert looked up from his sketch pad, squinting at the tall silhouette blocking the blanched Parisian sun. It was a golden autumn afternoon and the last of the tourists were crowding the cafés and narrow streets of the village of Montmartre. The background babble of French voices, the comfortable scents of warm stone and auto exhaust and Gauloises and something good cooking — always something good cooking in Paris — and the old world colors: the reds of street signs and awnings and the greens of ivy and window shutters and the yellow of the turning leaves and fruit in the grocer stands…all of it faded away as Colin gazed up, frowning a little.

    It is Colin, isn’t it?

    Gradually the black bulk resolved itself into broad shoulders, lean hips, black hair and gray eyes. Colin blinked but the mirage didn’t vanish, in fact it smiled — an easy, rueful flash of white. You probably don’t remember me.

    Thomas?

    Not remember Thomas Sullivan? Did anyone forget their first love?

    Colin was on his feet, sketch pad tossed away, chair scraping back on cement. He moved to hug Thomas and Thomas grabbed him back in a rough, brief hug, laughing. They were both laughing — and then self-consciousness kicked in. Colin recalled that he wasn’t seventeen anymore, and that Thomas wasn’t —

    And never had been.

    He stepped back, Thomas let him go, saying, I can’t believe how long it’s been. You look… Words seemed to fail him.

    Colin knew how he looked. He looked grown up. Ten years was pretty much a lifetime in puppy years, and he had been such a puppy back when Thomas knew him.

    Knew him? Back when Thomas had been his bodyguard.

    How are you? Are things going right for you? There it was: The Look. That keen, searching gaze — wow, Thomas’s eyes really were gray. Not just something Colin had imagined or remembered incorrectly.

    Gray eyes. Like cobbled streets after rain or smoke or November skies.

    And Thomas’s smile conveyed a certain…er…je ne sais quoi as they said over here. A friendly understanding. Like Thomas had been there, done that, and made no judgments — but nothing surprised him anymore either. It was almost weird how little he’d changed. A few faint lines around his eyes, a little touch of silver at his temple. What was he now? Forty-something?

    Every woman in the café was looking at him. A lot of les

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