Chapters tagged royalty

by Opps-Thats-Mine

Chapter 14

A man comes in off the pavement with coin already in his fist and points at you, not at Sela, because you are the one he watched finish, and Hemm takes the money while his mouth is still doing prices. He unbuckles the wine-red off your straps without taking the straps off your wr...

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Chapter 15

 The crowd does not thin. It packs the stones until the men at the front are against the glass, and some of them stop pretending they came to buy a hem. A few of them get a hand inside their own trousers and work thems...

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Chapter 16

 You stay on the floor. Your knees find the rug because the bed is offlimits, and you sit back on your heels in the worn ivory-and-black with Sera’s chest still heavy in the lace and the slap-heat still sitting in your cheek. The chair of...

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Chapter 17

You do not put the robe on, because the latch goes before you have decided to, and it is not the king. Another man comes in with a tray that does not have bread on it. Metal laid out in a cloth: rings, a collar, two small capped weights, a third even smaller, wire so fine it look...

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Chapter 18

You pull the robe on before the key finishes turning, worn wool over the lace and the new rings, Sera’s winter smell shutting around you, and you drop back onto the rug with the tray because that was the first order, even if a second mouth already put you on the bed. The beads ar...

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Chapter 19

You get the question out before the hall goes quiet, a full quiet sentence in her voice because a whisper will make him ask again. "Is supper a table I sit at, or a display I stand in, so I know how to stand when you come back." He stops with the key still in his fingers, and t...

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Chapter 20

( Author's note: If you're just continuing, it may be worthwhile to have a look through the previous chapters, have added a bunch of images and gifs, don't forget to click like on chapters you like ;) ) He pulls out of you with no warning worth using, and the lead goes slack onl...

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Chapter 21

He climbs onto the table from your head-end, boots and all, and the wood complains under two adults and what is left of supper. A dish goes off the edge and breaks. He does not look at it. He takes your knees and keeps them open toward the envoy so that when he turns and settles...

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Chapter 22

The king smirks at the mess he left and snaps his fingers once, not at you, at the kitchen door. The head chef comes out with a cloth and a fried pastry as long as a forearm, dark and blistered, twisted so that both ends are thick enough to hold, and nobody in the hall has to be...

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Chapter 23

A steward brings the dish and the ribbon and the little iron, and they press the wax onto your stomach because that is the only clean-enough skin left that is not a breast or a bruise. It is hot. You flinch and the lead ticks, and the steward waits until the pool settles into a r...

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Chapter 30

"Fine," you say, perhaps wishing your hadn't. "It is not ideal. If that is what is needed, I will do it." Hemm’s mouth ticks. He jerks his chin at the back passage. "Room behind the green curtain. Outfit on the bed. Put it on and do not come out at all unless I tell you. Got it...

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Chapter 31

 The green curtain pulls back and the room gets six more bodies in it, all men, all adults, all dressed like they have houses near the palace. They stop before you, and they look at the ivory-and-black, at the long blo...