Now, it's time to hear Stuart's side of the story. This happens during the action of Chapter 10, in which he describes how he met Bitsy and how Tracy Bathory made her tantalizing offer. As always, please let me know what you think.
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Stuart was in a hell of his own making.
All of his adult life, he had been alpha. He had been able to plunder, rape, take, and possess whatever and whomever he wanted and damn the consequences. As alpha, there were no consequences. As king, there definitely weren't.
And now, just when he was finally getting everything he wanted, fate had to play several cruel jokes.
First, his brother had to fall for that dull stick Alyssa Mason. His brother, being the elder, being the one who should have been heir, became alpha because he felt desire for the first time in his life.
But, being a member of the royal family, Marc had no qualms about taking someone who was not his beloved.
Oddly enough, it wasn't no longer being alpha that perturbed Stuart so much, it was the thought of losing Bitsy. The threat of losing her to Marcos was real...a ready-made wolf-mate? Stuart, if he had been able to find one before first seeing Bitsy would have been, pardon the pun, over the moon.
But he had met Bitsy. He still remembered his first sight of her. As nominal leader of the family, Stuart had been the one to host his cousin's engagement party, even though he had never met the lucky lady. He thought Michael was crazy to be that so enamored of one woman when there were so many females out there willing to spread their legs (or open their mouths) to his invasions.
He had been whispering salacious images into one such female's ear when he looked up into a pair of peridot eyes that seemed to sparkle in the candlelight. Captivated, he broke away from his woman of the evening to get a closer look at her.
Her ebony tresses were up, he catalogued dispassionately, while the rest of his body sprang to attention at her loveliness. A few tendrils managed to escape as she looked around, taking in the soft glow of candlelight around her. The warm flames bathed her ivory skin to a burnished sheen.
Her dress, a shade of chiffon that exactly matched her eyes made her appear soft...vulnerable. Protective instincts, long dormant within Stuart, sprang to life at last.
She was disconcerted by the party...and trying hard not to show it. He realized that she must be a friend of Michael's fiancée—what did he call her, anyway? Barbara? Betsy? Billie? Brittany? Even while his protective instincts rose to the fore, a more familiar (and less benevolent) emotion enhanced the column of steel encased in his pants.
He wanted her. He wanted her as he had never wanted anyone before. When she shifted to glance at the chandeliers, her dressed dipped a bit. Before, it was at least slightly modest. Now, he could almost make out a pink nipple glancing out of the neckline.
Discomfited, she tugged at the dress. The predator within could hear the soft shushing of the fabric from 30 meters away as well as her muttered unladylike curse of disgust at the fit of the dress.
In his mind, he could already picture how he would make her shout and moan other unladylike words when he felt Michael's hand at his back. "Cousin? I want to introduce you to Bitsy."
Bitsy. That was the name of his paragon-of-purity cousin's fiancée. In his mind, he snorted condescendingly. Tracy Bathory had warned him about the Ice Bitch, virginal just as his cousin was, a sharp contrast to the gleaming virago who now was looking about desperately for salvation.
Too bad for his new conquest—her salvation would come from him, and he would seduce her in return.
Stuart knew that he had a reputation for seduction and leaving, and he knew this time would be no different. But why did this woman make his blood burn as no other had done before?
Michael was chattering beside him about how wonderful Bitsy was, leading him right up to his—Stuart's—new conquest, his virago. The woman who now flashed a winning smile, her eyes full of love, aimed at Michael.
The virago—his virago—was none other than Bitsy Karnackii Dracula, his cousin's fiancée?
"Stuart, I would like to introduce you to Lady Elizabeth Karnackii Dracula, my fiancée. Bitsy, my love, I would like to introduce you to my cousin, King Stuart of Romania," Michael's voice seemed to almost burst with pride.
"Your Majesty," Bitsy whispered in that same musical soprano that cursed her dress only moments before. Eyes lowered submissively, she dropped to a low curtsey. As she rose and looked into his eyes, he clasped her right hand in both of his, and brought it to his lips.
Stuart registered the look of unease, of puzzlement, even more than he did the spark that flared between them at his touch.
That night, Michael and Bitsy went to bed, separately resting on sweet dreams of their future life together, while Stuart attended and participated in an orgy to get Bitsy out of his system.
But, as the nights and years passed, he would still see her in his mind's eye as he first saw her, the burnished virago, or later that evening, submissively dropping to a curtsey in front of him. On those nights, he invariably ended up pounding away at one of the many pussies of Europe, trying, but not quite succeeding, to eradicate her image and voice from his memory.
Whenever there was an opportunity to be in the same room, he avoided her. That didn't seem to be difficult to do, as Bitsy went out of her way to avoid him, as well. Maybe she had some latent instinct that screamed at her, as prey, to flee from the predator, Stuart. The more likely explanation was that she had heard of his exploits and was sickened.
When Michael left and disappeared, Stuart had already convinced himself that she would never be bent to his regal will. He had, in fact, convinced himself that he was over those first stirrings of lust when fate, in the guise of Tracy Bathory, intervened.
Tracy, on her knees before him, gloriously nude, removed her mouth from his cock with an audible "pop."
"I've got a present for you," she sing-songed.
Stuart, so close to shooting his load down her throat or on her face, grunted. "What?" he panted, nearly out of breath.
"You know how I've always promised to give you a sex slave in return for marrying me and making me queen?" Tracy began, tracing her tongue along her lips.
Stuart grunted. "Yeah? Whatever? And your point?"