Birthday memory – I was not only turning 30, but 8 months pregnant, feeling like a bloated whale with Fred Flintstone feet and grumpy as all hell. I waddled into work to find my office filled with black balloons, huge signs, streamers and black confetti freakin’ everywhere. To say I was not pleased was an understatement. To this day, I still apologize for being such a brat about it. It took *mumble* years before my coworkers tried any sort of decorating again. They braved it for my last birthday, and the sign is still taped to my wall complete with very droopy and shriveled balloons that I refuse to let the cleaning crew even get near.
Book – His Client. M/M BDSM Regency erotic romance
Mr. Nathaniel Travers has been visiting Madame Delacroix’s brothel for five years. On every visit, he requests the same man. Stunningly handsome and highly skilled, Jasper not only shares Nate’s fondness for wickedly erotic games and black leather corsets, but he’s become a friend. Someone he can talk to. Someone he can share a supper with. And Jasper’s the only person who knows Nate secretly harbors a love for his old childhood friend, Peter Edmonton.
Mr. Jasper Reed has been working at the house for a decade. He’s saved enough to retire, yet he remains at the decadent London brothel. Retiring would mean leaving Nate and the hope perhaps someday the rugged gentleman would stop pining for his best friend and realize he loves Jasper, just as Jasper loves him.
It takes Edmonton’s marriage for Jasper to see he’s been just as blind as Nate. Stubbornly hoping for something that cannot be. Convinced a gentleman like Nate can never be more than his client, Jasper retires.
Life in the country may be lonely, but with no one to please but himself, it’s calm and peaceful…until Nate shows up on his doorstep.
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We did something similar for a co-workers 30th birthday once. Mostly because from a month before he turned 29 till his 30th birthday, he was in a really pissy mood about turning 30 – for over a year! Though I think we may have gone a little far with the funeral arrangment that said “Beloved Youth” on it! LOL
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We did that last year for a coworker who turned 60. We decorated her desk & chair w/ caution tape, hung black & white streamers on her window, & hung a HUGE banner in her office that most of the practice signed. She LOVED it!
This book sounds good! I really liked the Bound “series”, so I look forward to this one.
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Lol…we just did the black balloons and funeral type decor for a lady at work who turned 30…made a big deal of her birthday…she was really happy with it though and we had a really good time and it was a good bonding experience for the dept.
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I was working one day at a bakery and a gentleman came up and wanted to order a cake for his wife’s 30th birthday and when I finally got done getting the basics ( cake flavor what type of icing things like that) he began to describe the design he wanted and all I could do was stare at him. He wanted half the cake to be a graveyard with a fresh grave and a marker with his wife’s name on it and youth is fleeting and figures of people standing around it with a hearse sitting next to the graveyard and the message saying (in black writing) I’ll Love You No Matter What Even If You Are Old Now
Happy 3Oth Birthday then the name. And black roses around the message. I just couldn’t believe it. I made it even though I thought it was no a great idea especially the message. The other girls in the bakery were shocked too. To this day we wonder if he ended up in the dog house for that cake. But he loved it when he came and picked it up.
I would have hated a birthday like that as well. I don’t think you were a brat at all. Humor is definitely in the ear/eye of the beholder and I’ll never understand why people think poking at a sore spot is funny. Which could explain why I have very few friends LOL. The book sounds fabulous and it very definitely is going on the TBB list.
A coworker asked me to make a b-day cake for her daughter who was turning 30. She wanted a cake in the shape of a tombstone!
I make it, with chocoloate frosting (I didn’t have the heart to use black frosting) and her daughter got a kick out of it.
I’m adding His Client to my “must have” list.
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Love the post! Book sounds awesome!
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This book looks really good. I think you were totally justified to act like a brat. I probably would have done the same thing.
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When I worked in the deli at a store we fixed a lot of black cakes. I hope you enjoy future birthday parties better than that one. I’ve read a few of your books and loved them and I’m looking forward to reading more.
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Wow. That is one reason I refuse to throw anyone a surprise party:)
Glad the last one went well.
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Doesn’t anyone know that pregnant women do not have a sense of humor at the end of their pregnancy? You were turning 30 not 80…why the black balloons?
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His Client sounds great.Adding it to my TBR list.
I would have been a total brat is my coworkers had done that to me. I was also pregnant and huge on my 30th and everyone knew to keep a respectable distance. The cover of the book is really beautiful. Of course, now I want to know how they solve the conflict.
If I was in your shoes, I probably wouldn’t have been pleased either (especially with being pregnant & only turning 30, w/that type of decor).
Lea Ellen {night owl in IL}
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I’m glad no one threw me a party with black balloons. Book sounds great.
Well that would definitely be memorable, lol. Very happy to say I ‘ve never had that kind of a work party.
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Awww at least you kept the decorations and it was the preggo emotions taking over!
LOL That certainly is a memory! HA but sounds like you made up for it. 😀 Thanks for sharing
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I know that feeling all too well. thanks for sharing, hope your birthdays are better now.
My family did a big ‘thingy’ for my 50th bd at my job, conspiring with my best friend. They had black balloons, black roses, and a cake with the grim reaper on it-and all the gifts had something to do with ‘over the hill’ or old age.
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Thanks for commiserating with me, everyone! Fortunately there was no tombstone or gravestone cake involved. That would have likely sent me over the edge. lol
Thanks for sharing. Book looks good.
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I actually like when people decorate. It really makes me feel like it’s my day. The book blurb sounds good too. Nice and steamy.
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Office birthday stories… We all have some of those, don’t we! Thanks for sharing the excerpts.
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Ava –
Thanks for sharing the pics of you! lol
The ‘eye candy’ pics weren’t bad either!
Lea Ellen {night owl in IL}
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Sorry about my last post – I’d clicked onto the wrong comments (meant that one for Cecile).
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book sounds great! look forward to reading!
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Hmm this book sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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You were preggers….means you can get away with almost anything. LOL. gotta be some payment for the waddling. LOL
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Why the black balloons? That would of put me in a crappy mood too
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i only recently read my first m/m book and love it. so glad i picked it up
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book sounds great thanks
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I know you were feeling like sh** that birthday but I bet the next year was so much better. I love spending my birthday with kids…their outlook always makes me smile
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OMG did they never meet a pregnant woman before!!!
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Balloons usually make for a festive party but not certain black would be my first or second choice.
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LOL, Ava! Quite a birthday! 😉 And thanks for the blurb–quite an intriguing story!!
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