Chapters tagged male

by Opps-Thats-Mine

Chapter 26

The portress does not wait. She enters and puts a wooden box on the blanket as if it might bite her and she is already backing out when Brin tips the lid. Inside is a bottle the color of cheap glass, stoppered in wax, and a contract written in a hand that has never had to raise i...

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Chapter 27

She does not stop. The second wipe is already a slide, palm flat in the white-slick on your stomach, and the bottle’s heat takes her the rest of the way while she is still trying to convince herself she is merely washing. Her breath goes ragged. She stands up too fast, hits the...

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Chapter 28

You are breathless and dazed enough that the ceiling ribs swim, and she leans down anyway. The kiss is short, and eager in the same breath, steel cups pressing your chest, and when she pulls back she smiles as if she has already started to break again. She climbs off y...

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Chapter 29

The sandals move on. Whoever was listening decides its not worthwhile meeting yet and the passage goes back to water-sounds and a distant bell. You have a minute in this body on the blanket-edge that is finally yours. Reflecting on your experiences. You are stuck here in this wo...

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Chapter 32

 When the last coat-hem clears the green curtain you collapse inward on the coverlet, and the enchanted strands finally stop performing. They slacken as if the room has used up its stamina on y...

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Chapter 33

 You wake on the ruined bed a man, and you stay one long enough to cut the first glove. Hemm lets you take a strip of never-worn hide from the end of a bolt he would have thrown in the scrap, and you stitch it on th...