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How does Jean-Claude talk to me? Quietly. He’s strangely never pushy. The loudest he’s ever been in my head was when I first wrote A KISS OF SHADOWS. Jean-Claude popped into my head from nowhere, and said, “You had this, and didn’t offer me any?” He was referring to Merry. This was back when Anita was not doing sex, at all. I knew Jean-Claude was frustrated with Anita, but that loud interruption in the middle of a different book, let me know just how frustrated he was. Not just about the sex, or lack thereof, but about Anita’s constant arguing about nearly everything. Jean-Claude doesn’t mind Micah and Nathaniel as much as he did Richard. Partly, Micah and Nathaniel have been okay with being closer to him physically from the beginning. Not sex, but just less hung up about Jean-Claude being around. Micah and Nathaniel have never seen it as a competition. Richard definitely sees it as a competition with Jean-Claude for Anita. Micah and Nathaniel are fine with sharing. They don’t try to force Jean-Claude out. As for a domestic arrangement, I’m still not sure that Jean-Claude would thrive in a more traditional situation with Anita. I know that he had a brief marriage as a human, a wife that died in childbirth, but it was not a love match. He married for status, wealth, and privilege. A common goal, an almost unattainable one for someone who was born a peasant. You might say it was a Cinderella story, except with the prince a low level noble woman, and Jean-Claude as Cinderella. Then he was in turn seduced by the vampire that brought him over. Then Belle Morte sort of collected him. Neither was a particularly typical domestic arrangement. His time with Asher and Julianna was the closest to domestic for him, but even there it was not typical. At his happiest he was sharing the woman he loved with another man. Or, he was sharing the man he loved with a woman. In a true menage a trois, it’s all about the sharing. I just don’t think Jean-Claude’s idea of domestic bliss is typical. Anita averages at least two nights a week with him, often more, if she’s not on a case.
Part of the problem is you guys never see Anita unless she is in the middle of a case. So what would be an ‘ordinary’ week for her, you never see. The reason you don’t see it, is if nothing happens it’s not a book. It might be interesting, but it would just be a series of events making up her week, not a plot. She tends to split her time between the two houses. Her own, and Jean-Claude’s.