Dirty Lovely Broken by Emmy Chandler

Author:Emmy Chandler [Chandler, Emmy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Emerson Ink
Published: 2019-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

10

Jude

Jude entered his office to find Orlann already waiting for him on the leather sofa, one leg crossed over his knee. The king marched across his office and into the attached restroom without a word of apology for being late. “Fucking strawberry jelly,” he muttered as he ran water over his hands at the sink. “Stickier than the devil’s jizz.”

Orlann snorted. “Breakfast with the brats?”

“Do you think you could find a more respectful way to refer to my daughters?” Jude dried his hands and dropped the towel on the countertop on his way back into the office.

“I’ll try to come up with something,” Orlann said as Jude sank into his desk chair. “Why am I here so early in the morning?”

“The council wants an interim replacement for you, and I know you’ll want a say in who I send.”

“Why the hell would I need a replacement?”

Jude looked up from the com device, where he’d been reading the communication from the Chancellor. “Because you can’t go back to Valemont until Maari’s pregnant. The whole point of giving her to all three of us is so that no one knows who sired her children. If you’re not here fucking her when she gets pregnant, then you’ve taken yourself out of that equation.”

“I don’t want kids.”

“She’ll be the one raising them. And what you want is beside the point.”

“The hell it is. I will be in Valemont when the session starts on Monday,” Orlann said.

Jude’s gaze narrowed on him. “I don’t give a shit who you’re fucking in the capital, right now your obligation is to me. To all of Stead Camden.”

“I’m not… It’s—” Orlann took a breath, visibly recomposing himself. “Stead Delayne will have chosen a replacement for Jaarod, which will change the dynamic of the entire committee, and my absence will only further destabilize things. And I can’t trust any interim replacement to accurately report whatever the new Delayne representative has to say about his stead’s ‘mistreatment.’ Jaarod has been insisting for years that Stead Delayne didn’t start the war. That our father’s assassination was in retaliation for a first strike from Stead Camden, and I need to be there to push back against that propaganda.” Orlann shrugged. “But I could be convinced to come home and fuck her royal highness on the weekends.”

“We’re not negotiating. You’re staying here until she’s pregnant, but I’ll send an interim representative, rather than a replacement, to Valemont tomorrow. You have until tonight to give me a list of your top five choices.”

“Fine,” Orlann growled. “But I expect a daily briefing from whoever you send.”

“Agreed. And he won’t be authorized to vote or to sign anything on our stead’s behalf without consulting you.” Jude tapped out a quick reply to the Chancellor’s request, promising to have a name for him that evening.

“How long does it take to knock a woman up, anyway?”

Jude huffed. “Brother, if I had an answer for that, I’d be king of the universe, not just of Stead Camden.”

“But you’ve gotten Geneva pregnant twice.

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