An Uncommon Betrothal
Chapter Three. Alexos slips when he goes for a bath.
Alexos Fox is of course quite sad when the long-time butler of his household, the man who all but raised him, retires. He is not at all prepared for the old man’s replacement: his exceedingly attractive and painfully tempting nephew, Harry Sutton.
Alexos, overcome with feelings that are simply too much to repress, tries his best to avoid him, but it seems that Mr Sutton has more than his employment on his mind as he attends his new employer with keen and concentrated focus.
CWs for period-typical homophobia and repression, internalised ableism. Erotic romance.
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Alexos was breathing heavily, his shoulders pressed back so hard against the wall that he almost felt as though their blades would pierce his own skin. All of his weight was on his back and his good leg, his cane lost somewhere else, because Alexos couldn’t keep hold of his cane at a time like this: his hands were splayed on Sutton’s great breast, his fingers splayed over the sweat-slick skin there — Mr Sutton’s hair grew in patches after all — and doing their best to hold him back.
Sutton’s hands were braced either side of Alexos’ head, and Sutton was leaning in, his lips…
