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[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] free with myself, and I Mar held up a hand to silence him. I ve been the King s advisor for a long time, Salvatore. I ve seen a lot of people go through transition during that period. None of them have done as well as you. Fae aren t naturally monogamous creatures. You and the King are Ravyn s Destiny 61 unique in that. That is why myself and others believe that you are his Destiny. The Demon Prince chuckled. That s what I call him. He looked once again at the door and stroked the carved surface. What s this door anyways? It s the King s private bedchambers. Mar knocked twice, and the gigantic doors swung open on their own accord. Go on in. Destin should be arriving back today, so it ll be your last chance to explore it on your own. I ll wait out here. Go on. I know you re dying to see his things. And he was. He couldn t help it. This room represented Destin s inner workings to Salvatore. He d learned that they were a lot alike over the past few months, and if they were anything alike he knew that his bedroom would be his sanctuary. Maybe it would provide the key to the Fae King s heart. Whenever Destin had been in the palace, he d studiously avoided being alone or near Salvatore. The Demon Prince wasn t stupid. He knew a part of Destin was absolutely terrified of him, but he wanted the chance to show him that he meant what he said. He wanted to cherish the other man like no other had done before. He glanced once more at Mar and then strode through the door. The heavy wood closed behind him, leaving him to his own devices in the King s bedchambers. The people of the Summer Court were very open about themselves, so it wasn t that unusual that Mar would offer to show him the inner sanctuary of someone. They had very little violence in Underhill. Even the warriors saved their fighting for arenas, entertainments, and the occasional defensive move when they were struck by outside forces. As far as Salvatore could guess, the shadows were the only truly malevolent creatures that existed here. The King s bedchamber surprised him. Unlike Salvatore s room, which had bright colors and elegant fixings, Destin s room looked like something out of a punk rock magazine. The room was a study of blacks and neons, black being the predominant color. He had a swank 62 Jana Downs neon-green carpet over dark, almost black, hardwood which ran underneath and around a huge industrial-looking bed with black, twisted posts which looked like mangled tree branches. Instead of soft linen for a canopy, chains of silver hung like curtains around the bed itself. The tops of each post were graced with fierce-looking gargoyles with rubies for eyes. From where he stood he could see a pitch-black comforter pinstriped with pink, green, and blue neon stripes. Salvatore almost smiled at that. Destin was a being of nature yet he reveled in the punk industrial scene. His piercings should ve clued him in on that, but he had expected a restraint of those things here in a Fae Kingdom. It screamed defiance, and Salvatore found that oddly appealing. Off to one side were two large wardrobes which housed all his clothes. One was what Salvatore had seen him sporting Earth side, black clothes, fishnets, chains. Everything a Goth kid would ve drooled over. The other was obviously what he wore around the palace and to Court. The clothes were the same soft, thin material that Salvatore had become familiar with as the haute fashion in Underhill. They were all rich colors and seemed oddly foreign in the space. In that wardrobe also hung a variety of circlets and crowns which were housed on the back of the door like ties in a businessman s bedroom. Those two objects seemed to sum up his soon-to-be lover nicely. Destiny was both the responsible king and the rogue, the ruler and the punk, the authority and the antiauthority all rolled into one. The Summer Darkness. It was sexy as hell. He tried to look at the rest of the room with the band posters and the other plethora of punk imagery, but he kept being drawn again and again to the bed at the center. He wanted to feel the comforter that Destin slept on, inhale his scent on the sheets. In an effort to distract himself from the encouragement of his other self telling him that it was his right to do so, he opened the bedside dresser right outside the chain curtains. Ravyn s Destiny 63 He blinked. What the hell? It wasn t what he d been expecting. He took out several tattoo and punk magazines that he d never seen before. A naked man on the cover of one gave the camera a cocky fuck-me smirk while one hand cupped an impressive erection. His hair was done up in a Mohawk that had as many colors as the rainbow, and his tight body played homage to Japanese artistry in the tattoos he was sporting. His nipples shone from the barbells that were shoved through and an odd-looking piercing ran down the center of his chest down his stomach and stopped just above his arousal. It looked like the back of a corset to Salvatore. The half loops were strung with what looked like red-and-black satin ribbon and crisscrossed his body before ending in a neat bow just above his cock. He looked like a present. If this was what Destin was wanting, Salvatore was sorely lacking. He was the picture of courtly elegance and always had been. He d fit so well into his role of Prince that he d never even had the inclination to try to cut his hair. He was a Prince. As the Prince he had a right to have it long. So he kept it that way. He d certainly never dyed it. And piercings? Why? It had never occurred to him. He bit his bottom lip. Shit. I can t exactly match up to his fantasies, can I? He looked down at his beautiful body in disgust. He fit in fine with the courtiers. They all loved him to death, but Destin wasn t like them. He liked men edgy, apparently. Salvatore didn t know how to do edgy. He growled in frustration and resisted the urge to shred the magazines for the crime of having something Destin wanted that he didn t have. Instead, he tossed them on the bed and started rummaging through the drawer again. Buried at the bottom under another set of magazines was a thick, leather-bound journal. His Ravyn, Germany, had one similar that he wrote down his thoughts and private musings in. Salvatore hesitated. It felt like an invasion of privacy to be rifling through another man s private journal but& dammit, Destin didn t want a gentleman, did he? He wanted an edgy guy like in his porn 64 Jana Downs rags. Edgy guys didn t give a shit about being gentlemen. He defiantly took out the journal and flipped to a random page and began to skim the neat scrawl that his Destiny had penned. I met someone tonight. He s new to the club and is the most beautiful creature I ve ever seen. I don t think he s human, but the way he looked at me made me shiver. I know better, but I can t stop thinking about what he said when I asked him if he was going to do body shots like his friend. He told me that he didn t want another s hands on his body. He just wanted the touch of one person in particular. It sounded like it was directed at me. I know that s stupid, but I nearly melted right then and there. Salvatore flipped to another page. Whoever this guy was that he was talking about was making him jealous as hell. Lord and Lady, why can t I get any relief? Every time he walks in [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |
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