A Game of Malice and Greed (A Game of Malice and Greed #1) by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti

Author:Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti [Peckham, Caroline & Valenti, Susanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0BGJLDY9Y
Goodreads: 62815080
Publisher: Dark Ink Publishing
Published: 2023-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN

I groaned loudly and obviously, swiping a hand down my face before clasping my hands before me and giving Cassius an imploring look.

“Please let that be it,” I begged. An entire afternoon of practicing royal etiquette, greetings, the proper way to address people of different stations and a whole load of further mindless bullshit besides, and I felt like my skull might crack in two from the pressure of remembering it all.

Not least because I hated most of the pomp and pageantry that the nobility wasted time on. To me it all seemed like it was just put in place to force conformity and steal any semblance of freedom or fun from the Fae who abided by it. The nobility were so suppressed that I had to wonder how they hadn’t all just died out, too afraid of saying the word cock to ever actually interact with one.

I really hoped my princess would relax her inhibitions quickly. I wasn’t the type to spend five minutes fumbling beneath the sheets in a darkened room. So if she was coming to my bed then she was going to have to get used to all forms of worship and depravity at their finest because when I indulged, I took my damn time and wrung every inch of pleasure and more from the flesh of the women who joined me. Perhaps I would warn her of that when we met and watch the way her cheeks coloured with heat and desire as she saw the truth of my claims in my eyes.

“That will do,” Cassius grunted, though I could tell he had further thoughts and corrections he wanted to make. “There are other things we need to get in order anyway.”

“Such as?”

“When entering the pageant, your identity will need to be verified. There is an application which needs to be filled out too, and of course the matter of the payment to the crown.”

“Kyra,” I asked, turning my head to look at my little goddess who had made it up into the lemon tree during the mind numbingly boring lesson on the layout of the kingdom of Carubai where I was claiming to come from. Cassius had found some old books stored in his family office and had pointed out place after place on the map, correcting my pronunciation of most of them. But then we had gotten into an argument over the pronunciation of other places within the empire and in all honesty, he was just lucky I hadn’t broken his nose.

“Yes, Master?” Kyra asked, flipping upside down and hanging from a branch of the tree by nothing more than the hooks of her knees.

I sucked in a breath, giving her a wide smile as she swung there, her dress bunching around her thighs and only keeping her undergarments concealed because it had gotten caught on the branch. Her raven hair tumbled down to brush the table before me, and I found myself forgetting what I’d been going to ask her as the desire to climb the tree and join her filled me instead.

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