An Uncommon Betrothal: Chapter Fourteen

Harry comes home to find that Alexos and Larry have disappeared; Alexos tentatively considers a friendship.

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. In this chapter, various ableism, a lot of anxiety, nightmares and some past trauma.

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Chapter Fourteen

It had been a difficult night.

Nightmares were not uncommon for Harry, were something he’d been very used to even before he’d been shipped off to the frontlines to have the peaceful nights shelled out of him, but there were nights when he simply had uneasy dreams, and there were other nights when his dreams were vivid and his…