fic: To Serve A Queen
Introduction to the Realms
Jewel Ranks and Blood Castes
Chapter One
He didn't need to look at her to know she was a Queen. Her psychic scent coiled around him like a perfume - fresh and light; taming and yet tender; and something stirred within him that he hadn't felt in years.
Chapter Two
So this Queen might treat these males with tenderness, but a slave was just a slave.
Chapter Three
She could do what she liked with him, but she couldn't make him change his nature.
Chapter Four
She had known her decision to be right from the moment he cast back at her that she could purchase his body, but his soul remained his own.
Chapter Five
They were Warlord Princes, dangerous, aggressive, and uncompromising. They would break bone if given the chance.
Chapter Six
She was the Queen, but the people who served her belonged to themselves. It was all a balance of trust.
Chapter Seven
If he looked down at the empty courtyard, he could almost see her standing down there, dark-haired, fair-skinned, proud and graceful, and with the vital, vibrant aura of a Queen.
Chapter Eight
His choice. Her loss.
Chapter Nine
Arrogant, overprotective, endearing - the males of her court caused her no end of frustration - but no end of joy. Which was, after all, the way it was supposed to be.
Chapter Ten
He allowed himself a moment's regret that he wouldn't be staying in the court. He would have enjoyed the give-and-take among the Blood of this court, familiar with each other, and yet inclusive of the stranger their Queen had brought home.
Chapter Eleven
Elizabeth was not willing to risk good relations with the Gennii on John. And she wasn't all that willing to risk John either.
Chapter Twelve
It was almost service. Not quite, but almost. It would have to be enough.
Chapter Thirteen
Warlord Prince to Warlord Prince, their natures were too brutal for them to stand each other like this. Not when the protective instincts rose too fast in their veins, ignited by spilled blood. And a lot of blood had been spilled.
Chapter Fourteen
Elizabeth wished she could have accepted him, too. She wished a lot of things.
Chapter Fifteen
There was a Queen in Gennii Territory again.
Chapter Sixteen
Elizabeth grieved.
Chapter Seventeen
He was Ronan Dex, Red-Jewelled Warlord Prince of the Blood. And he would serve with honour.
Give me a day or two and I'll have all the chapters linked to each other. I'm just a squidge tired right now!