Princess Stephanie didn't know why anyone would think assigning Sir Sayen as her chaperone would be a good idea.
Whatever vows he'd taken, he made no secret of what he thought of her body. Combine that with his leanly powerful frame and notorious gambling streak and crooked leer and incessant irreverence, and Stephanie was certain that a drunkard would have been a more trustworthy chaperone than this... 'knight'.
Point in fact, she had been seduced to yet another game of blackjack, and--yet again--she was losing. Badly.
They were sitting on the floor of her royal carriage, the offending cards between them. Her pile of 'winnings' was an empty space beside her thigh while he had the heirloom jewel that she was supposed to be bringing to her potential future husband in his... along with her drawers.
Simple skirts hiked up to her hips (as per the terms of a lost bet), she sat cross-legged across from him so he had full view of everything down there (the terms of another lost bet), with the top of her shirt folded under her breasts so it bunched over the top of her corset and left her bosom spilling free (the terms of yet another lost bet), Stephanie knew she was about to lose this hand as well. Her ample chest was too cold with her nipples exposed like this, and her quim was quivering and swollen and dripping under the intensity of his gaze; it was impossible to focus.
His tunic wasn't doing much to hide the bulge in his trousers.
She had almost hoped that his scandalous requests would leave him too distracted to play properly, but she had no such luck. As soon as she put down this hand, she would find herself made a woman by that bulge, ruined for marriage, her maidenhood broken and her family--her entire country--disgraced.
Her virtue was the last thing that she had to left bet for her jewel.
(On some level, she knew that this was exactly what he'd wanted as soon as he suggested the game. She'd still fallen for it, and now she was going to pay for it.)
She couldn't bring herself to look at him as she laid down her cards with a snap; she knew he would be leering.
"...Well now," he said strangely. "Y'know, I didn't think I'd actually win."
"Must you rub it in," Stephanie snapped, and his wide mouth stretched into that crooked leer.
"Oh, I must."
The obvious relish with which he said the words made her gut squeeze in a way that she was sure was revulsion. Quite certain. "A-and I suppose you're just going to dive right in?" she demanded, voice wobbling, high and tremulous.
"What's stopping me?" he asked, innocent but for the predatory hunger on his face.
Absolutely nothing, and her tingling, empty sex knew that about as well as his twitching chub.
"Now then!" said her chaperone, looking at her with a fever brightness in his eyes and a fever flush on his cheeks. He licked his lips. "Where do we start."
He made her lay her cheek and chest on the seat, her knees on the floor and her rear up in the air, her legs spread to display her most private place. He dug his thumb into the cleft of her buttocks and spread them, uttering an appreciative noise as her wet inner folds were exposed to the elements.