Sparkling New Year: Picture This, #1

By Megan Slayer

New year, new relationship?

Dating and Aydin Madison haven't been good friends. He's shy, bookish and would rather be with his set designs than most people. He knows his way around the theater, but his love life is non-existent. He knows whom he'd like to date--Brandon Kidd, the boy du jour of the art school. He'd love to rub Brandon the right way. It's too bad Brandon doesn't seem to know Aydin exists.

 

When freak circumstances throw these two together, they'll have to decide if the sizzling connection is the key to their happy new year or just a fluke.

 

This book has been re-edited for this reissue edition.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Megan Slayer
• Release date: Apr 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201102449

Megan Slayer

Megan Slayer, aka Wendi Zwaduk, is a multi-published, award-winning author of more than one-hundred short stories and novels. She’s been writing since 2008 and published since 2009. Her stories range from the contemporary and paranormal to LGBTQ and BDSM themes. No matter what the length, her works are always hot, but with a lot of heart. She enjoys giving her characters a second chance at love, no matter what the form. She’s been the runner up in the Kink Category at Love Romances Café as well as nominated at the LRC for best author, best contemporary, best ménage and best anthology. Her books have made it to the bestseller lists on Amazon.com. When she’s not writing, Megan spends time with her husband and son as well as three dogs and three cats. She enjoys art, music and racing, but football is her sport of choice.

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Sparkling New Year

Picture This, book 1

By

Megan Slayer

Sparkling New Year by Megan Slayer

Copyright © 2022, Megan Slayer

Edited by Kris Jacen

Cover Art by WZDesigns

Published by Megan Slayer Publishing

Warning: All rights reserved. The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.

Electronic Release: APRIL 2022

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and occurrences are a product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, places or occurrences, is purely coincidental.

NOTE: This book has been reedited for this reissued version.

TRADEMARK: Prince Charming

New year, new relationship?

Dating and Aydin Madison haven’t been good friends. He’s shy, bookish and would rather be with his set designs than most people. He knows his way around the theater, but his love life is non-existent. He knows whom he’d like to date―Brandon Kidd, the boy du jour of the art school. He’d love to rub Brandon the right way. It’s too bad Brandon doesn’t seem to know Aydin exists.

When freak circumstances throw these two together, they’ll have to decide if the sizzling connection is the key to their happy new year or just a fluke.

This book has been re-edited for this reissue edition

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

About Megan Slayer

More from Megan Slayer

For the Lucky Ducks

For JPZ

Chapter One

Aydin plopped onto his stool at the counter and stared out at the snow falling on the sidewalks in front of the dorm. He hated being one of the last few people on campus. Almost everyone else had gone home for the winter break. Not him. He had nowhere else to go.

He tapped his fingers on the glass shielding the counter. The quad of buildings he was in charge of was empty—save for Xi, the artist-in-residence who hailed from Japan and hadn’t wanted to fly home, and Dorn, the resident assistant who lived permanently in the lone all-male dorm. If Aydin called Dorn and offered to hang out, Dorn would probably accept, but he had a boyfriend, Milo, who wasn’t fond of Aydin. Yeah, a get-together wasn’t going to happen.

Aydin sighed. He hated being alone for the holidays. Hell, he hated being alone during the school year, too. Christmas had been rough. Just Aydin, a pizza and two gifts he’d purchased for himself. Even his best friend, Darcy, wasn’t around. She’d gone home to Oklahoma City for the winter. She said a package was coming for him in the mail, but he hadn’t gotten anything yet. She’d squealed when he’d given her the bracelet he’d made in his jewelry class. Not terribly expensive, but he’d stamped her name on the plate and had woven the links himself.

Sometimes he wished school didn’t break for the holidays or the summer so that he wouldn’t be on his own. At least then he’d have the hustle and bustle of students in and out of the dorm to occupy him. He loved his job at the desk, assisting students who’d locked themselves out of their rooms, writing up parking passes for weekend guests, divvying up the mail and the camaraderie of his coworkers.

Still, he hated being one of the three desk workers who hadn’t gone home for the holidays. Nathan lived off campus, and Morgan was a resident in the upperclass dorm, so she didn’t have to leave. Between the three of them, they traded six-hour shifts and left the desk closed from midnight to six in the morning. That didn’t mean his time at the desk wasn’t boring. He’d swiped through the news articles four times and finished organizing the photos on his phone. He’d written out journal entries for the days he’d missed over the semester, too.

God, was he bored. He sorted through his e-mail and stared at the empty box of snail mail. Even the postal worker hadn’t come to visit him. No calls pinged on the main phone or his cell.

He wasn’t sure why he’d thought his mother might call. He was her son, but that didn’t mean much. She hadn’t contacted him in over a year and only then because one of his college bills had gone to her home