An Uncommon Betrothal: Chapter Thirteen

Larry Kidd tries desperately to get closer to Alexos Fox, who despises the process.

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, a lot of pain, references to drug use and illness, self esteem issues.

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For several days following that night, Alexos didn’t really leave his room — his body was utterly wracked, his hips and knees so full of new aches and pains that he almost thought he was really ruined by it. Sutton kept coming to help him bathe and looking at him guiltily, which did make him laugh even as he hobbled miserably to and from the other room to bathe and see to his ablutions.