Her Royal Pet, Ch. 5
Chapter 5: Her Scion, Her Son I wake the following morning with a realisation that today is an auspicious one. A day where, if the Queen – Mother – is telling it true, I’m going to find myself facing a very different reality, going forwards. Today, I undergo my true betrayal, if I choose to go along with it. If I choose to get that thing which I want more than anything else in the world. The Empress of Eternity. The Witch Queen. The Mother of Mothers. I shiver, to consider it. To consider that even after a night’s sleep, waking late and alone – as if time means much, though the palace does keep to a clock, for the sake of her counsel and audiences – with a bottomless well of lusts utterly expunged from me the night before and yet in their place now resides a crystallised aspect of want . I want her. The noblest parts of me, or those best talented in the act of deception, might well view that desire through a rose-tinted lens. In becoming her child , in beco...