Sébastien had grown up in a loveless environment, where survival was the most important lesson in ensuring another day that he wakes up. When he was old enough to leave the people who had borne him, he took that opportunity without another thought, looking towards the Volary and its promise of safety and comfort and luxury as a goal, as his raison d'être.
Cultivating relationships only went so far as to provide benefit for both parties, and he'd treated each one of them like a trade or a business deal. Matters of the heart were a distraction, a weakness. Margo had initially been just another means to an end, his final steps towards being a Cardinal, but like something taken right out of a story, she was different too. Fascinating, smart, beautiful. She understood what he wanted and why he wanted it, and to his surprise, she was willing to help him. He found himself opening up to her in a way he never allowed himself to before, found the sex to be better because it meant something.
And now hidden in the shadows of the garden during a very formal event — with the skirts of her dress hiked up around her hips, Sébastien's fingers slipping back towards the place between her legs to feel the slickness of her arousal when he slides them into her, he only seeks the thrill of her desire, wanting to be the one who makes her feel that way. Being made Cardinal doesn't even cross his thoughts. ]
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Sébastien had grown up in a loveless environment, where survival was the most important lesson in ensuring another day that he wakes up. When he was old enough to leave the people who had borne him, he took that opportunity without another thought, looking towards the Volary and its promise of safety and comfort and luxury as a goal, as his raison d'être.
Cultivating relationships only went so far as to provide benefit for both parties, and he'd treated each one of them like a trade or a business deal. Matters of the heart were a distraction, a weakness. Margo had initially been just another means to an end, his final steps towards being a Cardinal, but like something taken right out of a story, she was different too. Fascinating, smart, beautiful. She understood what he wanted and why he wanted it, and to his surprise, she was willing to help him. He found himself opening up to her in a way he never allowed himself to before, found the sex to be better because it meant something.
And now hidden in the shadows of the garden during a very formal event — with the skirts of her dress hiked up around her hips, Sébastien's fingers slipping back towards the place between her legs to feel the slickness of her arousal when he slides them into her, he only seeks the thrill of her desire, wanting to be the one who makes her feel that way. Being made Cardinal doesn't even cross his thoughts. ]
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