An Uncommon Betrothal

Chapter Two. Mr Sutton begins to gather a sense of the Fox house.

Johannes T. Evans
19 min readFeb 22, 2021

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Cover photo credit to Lisa Fotios on Pexels.

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, some heavily implied ableism. Erotic romance.

Alexos would never get married.

He had resigned himself to this fact quite a long time ago, the first time he was eleven or twelve and sitting on the bench as the other boys played cricket, the summer heat making him feel sweaty and uncomfortable so that the leather of his braces stuck and shifted against his skin, and the metal just felt so heavy, and his legs felt even…

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Johannes T. Evans

Gay trans man writing fantasy fiction, romance, and erotica. Big on LGBTQ and disability themes, plus occasional essays and analysis. He/him.