An Ugly Love: An Ugly Duckling Retelling (Once Upon A Time Book 2) by Maya Alden

Author:Maya Alden [Alden, Maya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-12-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Hansa

"He keeps kissing me but…hasn't…you know, gone further," I confessed to Seraphina and Liesel a week after Orion and my brief encounter in my cabin.

"I say, wear some sexy lingerie and demand he make love to you," Seraphina suggested. "That's the approach I've used, and it works."

Liesel and I gaped at Seraphina. Neither of us could imagine this elegant woman having sex.

She laughed at our discomfort. "For god's sake, I'm a flesh and blood woman, and I have needs."

"No, no, no." Liesel put her hands on her ears. "I can't hear this. No sex talk from you, Seraphina."

"Why the hell not? I'll let you know I've had a string of lovers and one fiancée. And I may not advertise my companions, but I sleep alone by choice, not because my black book is light on names."

"Liesel's right. You and sex…it's weird. It's like my parents talking about sex."

"Your parents are uptight and, in all honesty, need to get laid to loosen up a little," Seraphina remarked. "Hansa, own your sexuality and seduce him."

"Easy for you to say, Miss I've Had Thousands of Men!"

Liesel cocked her head. "Did you just make a Blazing Saddles reference?"

"You got it?" Most people hardly got my movie references, which were not from the current century.

"I love Blazing Saddles," Liesel confessed. "Telegram for Mongo!"

Seraphina held up her hand and made it shake. "But I shoot with this hand."

"So, what you're saying is I just need to ask Orion if he wants to loosen his bullets, while I slip into something a little more…comfortable?" I tried my best to mimic Madeline Kahn as I adjusted the wine bottles on the rack behind the bar, so they all faced forward.

"I would," Seraphina encouraged.

"I don't have the courage," I admitted.

The fact was that I did not have the courage to do anything with Orion. Even though he'd made it plain as my fat ass that we were together, he kissed me hello in the tasting room in front of other people.

Most days, he walked me back to the cabin. He took me to dinner at Liesel and Atlas's place. He read things out loud to me and changed the font on his phone and computer to be dyslexia-friendly.

He did all that…but didn't ask me to spend the night with him. The kisses were lovely…but they weren't, you know, let me stick my tongue down your throat, baby, type of kisses. They were sweet. Nothing wrong with sweet, but I wanted a little dirty. I couldn't ask. I wanted to. But I couldn't.

"What would make you have the courage?" Seraphina wondered.

"If I had Naina's body?" I offered.

Liesel and Seraphina both sighed. "You say the most triggering shit, Hansa," Liesel complained.

"But it's true. Look at me and look at her."

"We are looking," Seraphina bore down into my eyes with her amethyst ones flashing annoyance, "but have you? Look at yourself."

I slumped. "I'm fat, Seraphina. Naina has a flat stomach. Look at my stomach?"

"It looks like a woman's stomach to me." Seraphina waved her hand.

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