The Viking and the Drag Queen (Campo Royale #1) by V.L. Locey

Author:V.L. Locey [Locey, V.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-01-04T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

ELI

As soon as the changing room door blew open, I knew who had arrived.

I didn’t even have to look over my shoulder or stop removing my makeup. The chitter-chatter in the room died off as if my fellow queens had just seen Beelzebub arrive, looking for a lap dance.

“Will you girls clear the room, please,” Mother asked. I rose. “Everyone but you, Elijah.”

“Uh-oh, looks like Mother’s precious angel has a tarnished halo,” Monique threw out with a pleased little snicker.

“Better a tarnished halo than that turkey you have shoved into your pantyhose,” I countered, motioned to her lumpy-ass padding, and then scrubbed at my lips with a removal wipe.

“Is that why her mama called her Butterball?” Clarice added. I snorted. The other girls laughed. Monique glowered, then stormed out, her snit level high.

“Go get a drink. It’s on the house.” Mother Sitka growled. The room cleared quickly.

“I’m thirsty as well, Mother,” I said hoping she would blow right back out and get me a vodka and cranberry. But no, of course not. She deposited her regal ass into the rolling seat beside me, her top hat jaunty and unmoving when she tipped her head. “I mean thirsty. Not thirsty.”

“I know what you mean, Elijah.” She sighed deeply, then placed her whip across her thighs. She was still a striking queen, even though she was now in her fifties. What a life she had lived, each year of that life showed at times, like now, when she was worried about one of her drag daughters. “Are we sure about that man?”

I rolled up the wipe and tossed it into a trash can by my feet. Then I turned on my little stool and looked her in the eye.

“I think so. I’ve not been able to clear him from my head. I know the rules! I do.” I grabbed her gloved hands and squeezed them. “And I know they’re there for our safety, but Tyr is—”

“Different, yes, I know. They’re all different, darling, until they’re not.”

I let that one go. She’d been hurt in her past, badly, by a man who’d been an admirer of her Sitka persona. That was all that I knew. Mother never went into detail and it was rude for a daughter to pry.

“He’s not a fan.” Her look told me how stupid she thought my comment had been. “No, he’s not. Well, he is, yes. He likes Gigi and finds her attractive, but he likes me, too. Me. Elijah. And I like him too, Mother. So damn much!”

“That’s obvious, pet, but…” She drew in a breath, shook her head gently, and then exhaled. “Then you best go meet him and do what it is you youngsters do. But try to go slowly. Don’t give him your heart right out of the gate. Promise me.”

“I promise.” It was a lie. My heart was already his, if he wanted it. Dangerous? Oh, hell yes, but I’d fallen fast and hard.

“You’re such a terrible liar.” She bussed my cheek so not to smear her lipstick.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.