The Prince's Vessel (Duty & Magic: MM Modern Day Regency) by Rodman S

Author:Rodman, S.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Angst Publishing
Published: 2023-07-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter sixteen

Will

I’m staring at this newspaper but the words are just not going in. Jem has been gone for one entire night and I can’t stand it. His exam is starting soon, so I can’t even call or text him. All I can do is pine like a lost puppy.

I bring the coffee cup to my lips. Ugh, it’s cold. How long have I been sitting here at the breakfast table?

“Let me pour you a fresh coffee, Your Highness,” says Jeeves smoothly.

He efficiently removes my neglected cup and replaces it with a steaming one that smells fantastic.

“Thank you, Jeeves.”

The butler bows his head and moves discreetly back.

“Jeeves, may I ask you something?”

“Of course, Your Highness.”

My stomach is in knots, and my heart is racing. I’ve gone back and forth over this and I feel vile for doing it. But I have to know.

What did Jem do that he now regrets so much? I’m not being nosy, I swear I’m not. At least I bloody well hope so. I hope what I am telling myself is true. That I want to understand Jem. I want to put his puzzle pieces together. And I definitely don’t want to do anything that might ignite bad memories for him.

I don’t want him to regret me.

“How was Jem disgraced?”

Staff always know these things, and even if they didn’t, Jeeves would know. I have a feeling Jeeves knows everything. Including the very secrets of how the universe works.

The butler serenely steps into my line of sight, so I don’t have to crick my neck. His dark eyes glint at me in silence for a moment.

“The gossips say he seduced his trainer.”

My body freezes. My lungs stutter to a halt. What ludicrous nonsense is this? The man who was supposed to teach Jem the sixty-nine positions a vessel may assume for his master, would have been a professional. An adult. Jem would have been young, if his family followed the English tradition.

His trainer was supposed to teach him positions and how to draw summoning circles as well as how to do basic incantations. Very old-fashioned and barbaric trainers use dildos too, as they claim to ‘teach vessels how to take a cock.’

But even if that vileness takes place, vessels remain a virgin. It’s imperative. No teenager would have the ability to make a professional forget that.

I try to swallow but my throat has seized up.

Jem was abused. Jem was abused and blamed for it. Jem was abused and blamed for it and is still being punished for it.

The coffee cup explodes into a million pieces, sending scalding hot coffee up in the air like a fountain. I manage to move out of the way for its descent and the dark liquid spreads all over the crisp white linen tablecloth. I stare aghast at the destruction I have wrought.

“Oh, please forgive me, Jeeves!” I exclaim.

Such a loss of control is shocking. I’m absolutely mortified.

“There is nothing to forgive, Your Highness. The topic of conversation is emotive.”

Jeeves calmly steps forward and begins dealing with the mess I inadvertently made.

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