Content tags/warnings: non-consensual sex/scenarios, humiliation, forced orgasm. Reader discretion is advised.
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Six months ago, my parents were poisoned. As king and queen, they left behind three daughters and a vast country to mourn them. While they achieved a great many things while at the helm of our people, producing an heir, otherwise known as a son, was unfortunately not one of them. The dust had barely settled on their funeral when my father's cutthroat younger brother assumed the throne. To say that it's been hell ever since is an understatement.
I struggled to cope with the death of my parents, but drinking myself to sleep in various places throughout the castle certainly helped -- on the roof beneath the stars, in the library between the bookshelves, in the kennels beside the puppies. Nobody suspected that I was the thief responsible for the kitchen's missing wine storage.
I envied my two older sisters for the way they handled the death of our parents. They dressed every day in their usual gowns and jewels, walked the halls of the castle with poise and grace, and attended to their royal duties with unwavering commitment. I was the not-so-well-adjusted sister.
This morning was particularly embarrassing. My uncle, the newly anointed king, was out for a morning stroll through the royal gardens with several members of his court. Of course, he couldn't have known that he'd find his troublesome young niece vomiting her guts into an immaculately trimmed rosebush just past the water fountain. I was a mess of tangled hair and raccoon eyes, not to mention the sizeable rip in my pantyhose from when I'd spread my legs for the barkeep the night before. The lords and ladies of my uncle's court had gasped in shock, and someone observed quite loudly that I looked as though I'd just "crawled out of a gutter".
My uncle's face had turned a shade of red that could've given any tomato a run for its money.
My uncle's assistant quickly scooped me up and hauled my sorry behind to the handmaids' quarters, where I was promptly stripped naked, scrubbed clean, and dressed in proper clothes befitting of my status as a princess of our esteemed country. The handmaids flitted around me with narrow eyes and pursed lips, holding back their judgement. I didn't let it bother me. As Bertha yanked a brush through my tangled, straw-colored hair, she hissed at me, "You've really done it this time, miss."
I ignored the handmaid's comments. After I was bathed and dressed, I attempted to sneak back to my bedchamber where I fully intended to sleep the day away but was intercepted by a pair of guards.
"The king would like a word," they informed me. I briefly considered running away, but I knew that a hundred-and-fifteen-pound girl in a corset was no match for two burly guards with orders not to let me get away. I sensed a tongue-lashing on the horizon.
We arrived at my uncle's study. A short, red-faced man with a permanent scowl living beneath his squashed nose sat patiently behind a wooden desk -- my beloved uncle.
I sat in the chair opposite of him and waited. I noticed a glass of dark liquid clutched in his right hand, half empty, which wasn't a good sign. Perhaps Betha was right, and I had really done it this time.
A vein in my uncle's forehead looked to be on the verge of bursting. I almost hoped it would. "You made me look like a fool today, Gwenyth."
"I'm sorry, uncle." Empty words, but I felt compelled to say them, nonetheless.
"Can you not at least contain your activities to your bedchamber?"
I opened my mouth to remind him of all the trauma I was currently dealing with, but he interrupted me.
"We are at war," my uncle reminded me. "Your older sisters have done the responsible thing and married powerful lords with sizeable armies. The thing we need most right now is allies. And what have you done? When you aren't drinking yourself to death, you're out flouncing around the village like some common whore."