Order of the Sun by Lila Mary

Author:Lila Mary
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, LGBT Fantasy, Political Fantasy, Spy Novel, Fantasy Romance, Queer Romance
Publisher: Lila Mary
Published: 2024-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

A NOTE COMES WITH CERRICK’S morning coffee. It’s another address in Orv’s handwriting, along with a time for that night. Orv probably paid a servant to get it to him. Cerrick hates to leave a paper trail, but he can’t do anything about it now. Orv is equal parts fool and genius. If they had more time together, Cerrick could teach him some useful stealth skills.

Njord sleeps fitfully and soundly every night, so Cerrick doesn’t have to worry about waking him up. He has a tourney coming up soon, and during the cold winter daytime, he wears himself to the bone training for it. Cerrick doesn’t know why. He hasn’t yet had the chance to see Njord fight in a high stakes setting, but Rosalia tells him Njord needs no practice wielding a sword on horseback. Between the training and Njord’s regular patrol duties, it’s no wonder he falls asleep the moment he hits the pillow.

However, none of that is true tonight.

Today, at the insistence of a very loud and very stern Rosalia, Njord has been ordered to take the day off. He only agrees after she threatens to make it a royal order and post it in the dining hall for all to see.

“You will work yourself to the grave, little brother,” Rosalia says with exasperated fondness when she finds the strength to stop yelling at him. Despite being the oldest by only a year, she treats all like children who need her. Even Brenda Hagen isn’t as fond of scolding them, hugging them, and hanging around them as Rosalia is. As crown princess and eldest sister, she is not to be disobeyed.

And so, Njord has a day off under pain of royal death. While Cerrick tries to work discreetly, Njord has been roaming their rooms, the lower floors of the palace, the courtyard, where Rosalia chases him out. Cerrick watches the debacle from his window. The soldiers Rosalia is training in Njord’s place snicker behind her back. Njord huffs and all but stomps his foot like a child. Cerrick chuckles.

He sympathizes with that restlessness. Edlyn has been his Rosalia before, and he’s been hers. Cerrick going stir crazy from doing paperwork in his office seems like an eternity ago. He certainly earned the mission he wanted, even if that mission came with an overactive husband he didn’t plan for.

Inevitably, when Cerrick prepares to sneak out that night, he has to sneak past a very restless and very talkative Njord. When Cerrick returns to their suite after dinner and a bath, Njord corners him and asks him excitedly for more details of his life in Kryos.

“No,” Cerrick says, placing a hand on his chest to walk past him. “You owe me some stories.”

Njord pouts. Cerrick tries not to stare. He’s taken his hair down, combed his beard, and he smells delectable. Pine and fresh air. His cheeks are flushed; he’s just come in from the cold. “One story, please? And then I will share one of my own, I swear.

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