A Kiss From a Faerie King by Charlotte Swan EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Charlotte Swan
- Language: English
- Genre: Erotic Science Fiction
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LAURELLE
This dress was made to torture its wearer.
There is no other explanation for its construction. If it was not
built for punishment, the designer definitely had a twisted sense of
humor. Every breath pushes my ribs painfully against the unyielding fabric.
My head pounds from the lack of breath. It’s as if this thing is drowning me
on dry land.
It’s a slow, tortuous death, and yet it pales in comparison to what awaits
me at the end of this journey.
Despite my protests, my mother had deemed my discomfort wholly
necessary given who was about to receive me. It eradicates the curves my
mother considers unbecoming of a respectable young woman, as if my
maturing was a personal affront to her constitution.
The purple fabric of the gown is stiff and far too thick for this weather.
The hot sun leaks through the carriage windows as we roll along. Sweat
slips down my neck, and I know the curls framing my face that my mother
had so carefully placed are damp and rapidly losing their perfect coils.
She would be most displeased if she saw the state of me.
As would my father, though nothing seems to please him these days
beyond an elevation in status. Apparently, the payment for this elevation
comes in the form of this satin prison and a few thousand gold coins.
I swallow. The high neck of my gown obstructs even that movement. I
go to lift my hair from my neck, but the sleeves of my gown won’t allow
my arms to rise higher than my chest.
This journey to the palace will be unbearably long. Even my companion
doesn’t know where to look or what to do. I can’t say I blame Caryssa. If
my upbringing was hard, hers was unbearable, especially with a brother like
hers.
Her brother…my intended.
Our engagement will not be finalized until I am received at court and
my father ships over the dowry owed to my soon-to-be husband. What my
father lacks in station, he makes up for in wealth. Our deficiency of
connection has always been a thorn in his side.
It was clear to me from an early age that he would earn a title by any
means necessary. His children were mere pawns in his game. My siblings
had been quite a bit older than me and were already married off to various
noblemen by the time I was ten.
Unluckily for me, I had the rare opportunity of marrying a prince.
My mother falling pregnant a few years after the prince’s birth was no
coincidence. Even if she had been older—the risks higher—none of it
mattered so long as my father had a chance at infiltrating royalty. For all of
her faults, my mother is a pawn in all of this as well.
I should be happy to have a title and security within my husband’s
household, but I cannot find it within myself to do anything but sit in quiet
contemplation. To be the meek and silent girl my parents cultivated as soon
as I was young enough to be paraded in front of suitors. My dreams and
desires are worthless in the face of my father’s ambitions.
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