An Uncommon Betrothal: Chapter Four

Alexos, overwhelmed, attempts to distance himself from the house’s butler.

Johannes T. Evans
22 min readJul 15, 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, internalised ableism. Erotic romance.

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In the weeks he had been working for the Foxes, Harry had been watching Alexos more and more closely. He recalled when his uncle had first suggested that he take over from him, that he come to the Foxes in his stead, as such a time as he had retired.

Uncle Reg had wanted for him to receive a good promotion, of course, had wanted Harry to have command over a household of his own, to be able to move forward in his career with more experience, but he had wanted also to entrust his position here to…

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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.