Valentine Rose

By Ellen Mint

SHORT STORY SEQUEL TO PSL
Scott’s given up his royal title as Prince of the autumn kingdom in order to live with Jenny in the human world. But even madly in love, not everything has been a walk in the woods for the two.

This valentine’s day, Jenny has something important to tell Scott that will change their lives forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ellen Mint
• Release date: Feb 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463233993

Ellen Mint

Ellen Mint adores the adorkable heroes who charm with their shy smiles and heroines that pack a punch. She recently won the Top Ten Handmaid's Challenge on Wattpad where hers was chosen by Margaret Atwood. Her books, Undercover Siren and Fever are available at Amazon as well as a short story in the Lucky Between The Sheets anthology. Married, she lives in Nebraska with her dog named after Granny Weatherwax. Her hobbies include gaming, painting, and halloween prop making. The basement is full of skeletons because they ran out of room in the closets.

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Valentine Rose

No flowers?

The office’s local busybody and self-appointed guardian of social norms caused me to freeze in place. Damn it, that was your first mistake, Jenny. Too late. Sharon sidled up to me, her arms around a massive bouquet with mini teddy bears impaled on sticks. That always struck me as macabre, unless the receiver preferred their stuffed animals with eviscerated intestines.

Giving up any hope of slipping away like the rest, I turned to face her and our usually post-modern office swamped in reds and pinks. A janitor gritted his teeth while trying to vacuum up the fallen petals crushed into the carpet. Sharon twisted her head, putting me in mind of a crow waiting for the chance to nick a peanut.

No. That was too mean. Crows are intelligent animals.

Don’t tell me the honeymoon’s already over, she sputtered as if I should be slinking home in shame without a Valentine’s bouquet in my arms.

Flowers aren’t…they’re not Scott’s thing, I said, hoping that’d diffuse the situation. It wasn’t a complete lie, the concept of gifts didn’t come naturally to the ex-prince of autumn. I learned that the hard way his first Christmas, on top of having to convince him that