Remember, this chapter incorporates a scene of great reluctance between Phaedia and Gabriel. Should you’d choose to skip that, scroll previous the 2 Gabriel POV sections, that are marked with a ## as an alternative of a # earlier than them. There will likely be a quick abstract of the plot-relevant particulars of those sections on the finish.
The remainder of the encounters within the chapter are enthusiastic, and embody female and male chastity, crossdressing, feminine masturbation, sizzling wax, whipping, cunnilingus, and the usage of a rack.
For these simply becoming a member of, this story takes place in a universe the place reverse-traditional gender roles are the norm. For the studying pleasure of adults solely.
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Sir Elizabeth lay bare on a cushioned, inclined bench on certainly one of Heartgarden Citadel’s many verandas. A roaring fireplace within the veranda’s fireside saved it nice, even because the solar set and a winter breeze rustled the treetops of the courtyard past.
Twelve aspirants have been gathered round her, the huge skirts of their robes competing for area.
Each held a big silk scarf in his delicate, gloved fingers, and fluttered it commonly over Elizabeth’s pores and skin in numerous pleasing patterns. Christopher was demurely rubbing her thigh as if he have been sprucing it, maintaining his mouth closed round his freshly pierced tongue. It appeared there have been no laborious emotions between them.
After all, it was all the time best for Christopher to behave himself in Daisy’s absence, an absence which dissatisfied Elizabeth barely. Out of all of the unclaimed aspirants within the fort, Daisy was the one she would most have anticipated to be right here for her now.
She shook her head and added Daisy to the checklist of issues to maintain out of it, together with everybody and all the things else that wasn’t presently inside a two-foot radius of her.
The consort standing at her left shoulder, Edgar, held a carafe of wine, and meticulously topped off her glass after practically each sip she took.
This made him her present favourite.
The nice and cozy intoxication already flowing via her blood, muffling her mind and rooting her to her physique, was the one factor permitting her to get pleasure from any of the remainder of it.
One other aspirant, David, swept his silk expertly throughout her collarbone and each breasts. Her nipples hardened looking for extra consideration, and with out being requested, he took them between his fingers with a exact, systematic roll. His gloves have been nearly as smooth because the scarves.
Elizabeth wasn’t certain whether or not the aspirants had been inspired to pay her additional consideration, to compensate her for having her chosen consort snatched away by Princess Phaedia, or in the event that they have been hoping to be picked for his now vacant place.
How anybody may nonetheless see her as the woman of their goals, she did not know.
At this time, she did not care.
Silk caressed her neck, her arms, her breasts, her thighs.
One of many aspirants climbed onto the bench, kneeling between her legs, and unfold his scarf over her pelvis.
With a mischievous smile, he lowered his head and licked her via the skinny layer of silk. It was technically permitted, not fairly an intimate sullying of his naked pores and skin, as long as the silk did not slip.
Elizabeth stretched out luxuriously and unfold her legs farther aside, inviting him to proceed.
The headscarf was quickly soaked together with his saliva and her fluids. She may nearly really feel the feel of his tastebuds via it, as he licked her clit with abstractly educated precision.
How curiously balanced these virgins’ coaching have to be.
She hoped he may draw it out, give her time to really feel nothing however the scarves on her pores and skin and his heat, moist tongue on her silk-covered cunt. That would not be such a horrible eternity to dwell in. However the licking aspirant’s method was refined sufficient to carry her to a fast, irresistible orgasm.
Elizabeth moaned and writhed with it, and towards it. She clung to the mind-erasing pulses of enjoyment, staving off the second after they would peter out and depart her with an insupportable second of readability.
The pulses stopped, and the second got here, stuffed with tears and wretched, mournful gasping. Elizabeth drank the total contents of her generously poured glass, to rush it previous.
When the licking aspirant started to lift his head, she pushed it again down.
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Daisy sat at her favourite desk within the rose backyard, having fun with her espresso, paging via a e-book of poetry and woodcuttings, and watching Sir Elizabeth’s pity social gathering unfold from a protected distance.
There was quite a bit that Daisy struggled to know about extra conventional ladies — the place the enjoyable was in smashing breakaway sticks into one another’s faces a full gallop, for instance, or how they might be so obsessive about the aesthetics of males’s lace and silk and paint with out ever eager to attempt these issues on themselves.
She did know a factor or two, nevertheless, about how greatest to deal with girls who weren’t presently at their greatest. They have been easy issues, issues she supposed each consort, husband, or different submissive associate would ultimately have to determine for themselves in the event that they wished to dwell peaceable, comfy lives.
One in every of them was, when a lady gave the impression to be carefree at a time when there was no rational clarification for her to be so, it was greatest to provide her area till she began making sense once more.
A lot as Daisy would have appreciated to supply Elizabeth consolation, it wasn’t potential for her to be comforted but, and any interplay which may happen between them whereas she remained on this situation wouldn’t be actual.
Daisy turned a web page in her e-book, and a person-shaped shadow reduce into the fading daylight on it.
Instantly, Daisy set her espresso down, stood, and turned towards the presence, sinking right into a curtsy in the identical movement. She totally anticipated to search for discover herself the newest unfortunate recipient of Woman Mary’s ire. Between Sir Elizabeth all of a sudden making such a present of herself, and Princess Phaedia upending the Heartgarden together with her royal presence, Woman Mary was prone to be feeling very small and desperate to take her emotions out on any stragglers. Daisy had identified the danger when she’d chosen her studying spot.
When Daisy lifted her head, nevertheless, she discovered that the shadow belonged to not Woman Mary, however to a good-looking girl she had seen solely as soon as earlier than, on the princess’s grand entrance.
“It is all proper, sit,” the lady advised her.
Daisy organized herself cautiously again in her seat, smoothing wrinkles from her skirt.
“Do you thoughts firm?” the lady requested.
Daisy shook her head and silently pulled one other porcelain cup from the set she’d introduced. She poured a second espresso with a well-practiced flourish.
“Thanks,” stated the lady, adjusting her plate armor to sit down within the chair throughout from Daisy. She took a sip of the espresso, not troubling with the cream or sugar. “You are free to talk, by the best way. That’s, if I can provide you that permission? I have not been invited to decide on a consort of my very own, solely to get pleasure from your hospitality whereas I are inclined to her highness on her go to.”
“My responsibility contains treating all visitors with the identical respect,” Daisy assured her. “So, sure, you’ve the authority to allow me to talk.”
“Good,” stated the lady. “This may have been a really boring dialog, in any other case.”
Daisy used the entry to her voice to answer with a pleasant giggle.
“I am Sir Olivia,” stated the lady.
“Daisy,” stated Daisy.
Sir Olivia smiled together with her lips pressed collectively, the best way folks did after they have been too well mannered to level out that Daisy’s repute preceded her.
Olivia took one other sluggish sip of her espresso with out taking her eyes off Daisy, even for a second.
“You’ll be able to ask,” Daisy advised her. “I do not thoughts.”
“Ask what?” stated Olivia, with nearly convincing innocence.
“Whichever query it’s that is burning the tip of your tongue,” Daisy stated evenly. “Why would a lady need to be a girl’s consort? Aren’t males’s attire horribly uncomfortable? How do I stroll within the slippers? Did the Heartgarden must invent a brand new kind of chastity belt simply to suit me?”
“I think about the reply to all of these questions, minus the final one, is way the identical as it’s for males,” stated Olivia.
Daisy’s shoulders unburdened themselves of the load of explaining herself to a stranger. It was a weight she was used to, however its absence was euphoric.
“Nonetheless, we have simply blown previous a very powerful query of all,” stated Olivia.
“What would that be?” requested Daisy.
“Properly, males often select to vogue themselves as luxurious playthings for certainly one of two causes,” stated Olivia. “Both for the possibility to exist adjoining to a lifetime of luxurious, or for the love of being performed with. Which specific cause drives you?”
Daisy felt herself blush. She had by no means blushed as simply as the lads — one of many many variations that tended to make her really feel unattractively robust and unmasculine — however the blood flowed freely to her cheeks now.
“Each,” she answered truthfully, “however particularly being performed with.”
Amusement flickered throughout Olivia’s lips, with out breaking the aura of unflappable competence acceptable to a princess’s guard.
“In that case,” stated Olivia, “inside the bounds of honor and style, is there anyplace the 2 of us may get pleasure from some non-public frivolity?”
Daisy nodded.
“Would you want that?”
She nodded once more.
Olivia stood and supplied an arm. Daisy linked hers with it, and began again towards the fort.
She restricted herself to at least one look again at Elizabeth. Her present tantrum confirmed no signal of subsiding. The top was not one thing to carry one’s breath for, not if one was wise.
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One trembling footstep at a time, Gabriel handed via the door that Princess Phaedia held open for him, into her suite at Heartgarden Citadel.
She locked it behind them and marched ahead into the palatial area, main him via three doorways earlier than reaching the bed room.
Gabriel stood together with his fingers folded diffidently in entrance of him, counting the beads embroidered into his slippers, the best way he all the time did when he was standing and ready for one thing to finish.
“Take your garments off,” Phaedia ordered with out preamble. “No should be shy. I will preserve you without end and ever.”
This was it, thought Gabriel. The top of virginity. And as soon as it was over, there was no going again. No nice woman would have him besides the princess herself. Or if they’d, they’d all the time look upon him as lower than he may have been.
He may nonetheless give up, excuse himself from consideration as a consort altogether. He doubted that even Phaedia would attempt to maintain him right here towards his will. The queen gave her practically free rein in most issues, however she would undoubtedly have one thing to say about an act that dishonorable.
Gabriel paused together with his fingers on the laces of his gown, considering the one query he’d hoped by no means to must reply.
Would he choose to dwell as a pet to a robust girl he did not belief, or go house to his mom with nothing to point out for his efforts, seek for work serving in a tavern the place he may sometime catch a typical girl’s eye, after which dwell out his days elevating her kids for a lifetime of labor in a cottage that most likely would not have a bookshelf, a lot much less a conservatory?
He had by no means been in a position to settle that debate with himself, not in all of the years he’d been making ready, and now there was an added complication.
Elizabeth.
Leaving now would clinch their separation for good.
If the 2 of them had occurred to fulfill someplace exterior the Heartgarden, there would have been nothing to cease them from being collectively. Now that that they had met right here, nevertheless, circumventing the Heartgarden’s guidelines could be thought of very dangerous type, at greatest, legal at worst. Elizabeth may relinquish her invitation and observe him away, just for them each to finish up in a jail cell, or out on the streets with none of Elizabeth’s lands and titles.
In the event that they each stayed…. There was a reckless a part of Gabriel that truly hoped Princess Phaedia would lose curiosity in him as soon as the novelty of claiming him had worn off. If she set him apart voluntarily, and Elizabeth wished to take him again, nobody would cease them.
After all, that assumed Elizabeth would need him again. She’d been speaking simply final night time with such anticipation about taking his virginity for herself. It was solely pillow discuss, however he had no concept how she really felt on the topic.
They barely knew one another, actually.
Gabriel knew how presumptuous he was being, fantasizing about Elizabeth preventing to maintain him past this second. Her energy as a knight was nothing in comparison with that of the heiress of the realm. She had executed all she may for him, and he had no proper to count on extra.
The time for decision-making ran quick, and Gabriel discovered himself undoing his laces and starting to disrobe. He stripped off his robe, footwear, and stockings, and stood earlier than the princess in solely his corset and chastity belt.
“All the best way,” Phaedia corrected him.
Gabriel’s voice began up behind his throat, however he caught himself simply in time. In contrast to Elizabeth, Phaedia had not given him permission to talk in her presence, a lot much less to specific a desire.
With resignation, he breathed in, unfastened the clasps of his corset, and added it to the pile of the remainder of his garments. He crossed his arms instinctively in entrance of him, masking his much less sleek pure waist as greatest he may.
“Not dangerous,” Phaedia assessed him, strolling a good circle round him, dragging her ceremonial driving crop over his pores and skin as she went. “I imagined you a bit leaner and softer underneath these attire, however that may be fastened. Much less wealthy meals, extra relaxation.”
Gabriel tried to disregard the starvation and restlessness that sprang up already in response to her phrases.
“I will unlock you now,” Phaedia introduced indulgently, eradicating her key necklace from round her neck and dangling it in entrance of him.
She regarded into his face, for what, Gabriel wasn’t certain. He waited in silence till she stepped round him to achieve the heavy padlock in the back of his belt.
After a second, the thick, protecting plate of steel fell away from his delicate intercourse.
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Swimming within the results of three orgasms and extra wine than she’d been in a position to preserve observe of, Elizabeth could not bear mendacity on that bench a second longer. Stillness allowed ideas to pool inside her like water in low floor.
She directed 4 of the aspirants to carry out some string devices and play one thing energetic.
Haphazardly re-dressed in her tunic and leggings, she danced frantically among the many remainder of the aspirants attending her. She shook the invisible weights out of her legs and arms, and swung herself from one associate to the subsequent, holding each shut, inhaling a bouquet of perfumes and savoring the hints of a smooth physique underneath every stiff bodice and unyielding belt.
Although she knew it was her place to steer, and to provide every man in her presence a gentle supply of power to lean upon, she discovered herself leaning upon them as an alternative, tumbling from one dwelling crutch to the subsequent to keep away from falling flat on the dance ground and staying there.
She suspected she would fall anyway, eventually. She solely hoped that, when she did, she could be drained sufficient to slide straight into unconsciousness, earlier than the ideas had time to pool once more.
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Daisy walked Olivia overtly down into the dungeons.
“No matter may we be doing right here?” Olivia requested slyly. “I did not see your title on the disciplinary schedule for immediately.”
“You checked the schedule?” Daisy responded with a daintier type of slyness.
“With the princess protected behind fort partitions, I believed I would provide up my spare time to help our hosts,” Olivia reasoned.
Half of her mouth had pulled up right into a smile.
“How gallant,” stated Daisy. “Had been you hoping to search out any specific names on the schedule, in want of a volunteer to punish them?”
“Should you’d identified I might be checking,” stated Olivia, “would you’ve dedicated an infraction so as to add your title?”
“By no means,” Daisy declared, skipping and twirling down the aisles of the dungeon’s tack room. “I might by no means shirk my duties on objective.”
“And but…” Olivia prompted, watching her with rapt curiosity.
“And but I’ve all the time been fascinated with this place,” Daisy admitted. “Bit thrilling, is not it?”
“That should make issues simpler for you,” stated Olivia. “If you do break a rule.”
“I want it did,” stated Daisy. “The difficulty is, I am often too ashamed of breaking the rule to even discover the place I’m.”
She ran her fingers alongside a set of correction gags, a rack of whips.
“Inform me what you are considering,” Olivia prompted.
“It appears such a waste, to maintain all this tools readily available, however reserve it for moments reminiscent of that. I need to be an excellent consort. I need to be excellent, if I can. Does that imply I ought to by no means be permitted to really feel any of those units at work on me?”
“That might be a tragic injustice,” Olivia agreed. “One we may put to rights.”
“May we?” Daisy requested, nearly painfully hopeful.
Olivia’s eyes assessed the room, the rows upon rows of apparatus, and Daisy herself.
“I would not need to destroy that pretty gown of yours,” she stated. “I like to recommend eradicating it and the rest that would tear or stain.”
Daisy joyfully did as she was advised, struggling to not rush or look extra keen than was correct. She folded her garments neatly onto one of many cabinets and stood in solely her chastity belt together with her fingers at her sides, thrumming with pleasure for what Olivia would do subsequent.
“Lie on the rack,” Olivia directed her, pointing to one of many room’s bigger contraptions.
Daisy virtually threw herself onto the horizontal wrought iron framework and raised her fingers over her head for Olivia to shackle in place.
The thought crossed Daisy’s thoughts, because it all the time did whereas she was being restrained, that there could be nothing in any respect she may do if her captor turned out to imply her true hurt. The thought was fiercer than typical, together with her captor being a virtually excellent stranger, and this encounter between them being unscheduled and unknown to Headmistress Jane.
As typical, the depth of Daisy’s pleasure rose to match her fright, quieting any severe ideas of escape.
Olivia completed securing the shackles round Daisy’s wrists and ankles, after which set about lighting the partially melted candles on the iron cover above her. In a couple of minutes, they’d start to drip their wax onto Daisy’s bare, defenseless physique. Solely the world round her face was protected, that and what her chastity belt coated.
“You’ve got been an excellent little aspirant,” Olivia cooed reassuringly, petting Daisy alongside the naked pores and skin between her breasts.
If Daisy had been a cat, she would have purred. No human sound appeared ample to seize her delight on the contact.
“It is so unfair, what occurs if you’re that good,” Olivia went on. “It is simple to disregard the one who causes no hassle. Everybody else wants correction, however not you, you may be left alone, trusted, taken as a right. And when somebody does have a scrap of consideration to spare for you, they by no means guess the way you prefer it greatest, do they?”
Daisy shook her head, eyes closed, reveling within the phrases as a lot because the stroking on her pores and skin.
“How would you wish to be rewarded for all of your endurance, and thoughtfulness, and laborious work?” Olivia requested.
“Flip the crank,” Daisy whispered reverently.
“Manners,” Olivia reminded her. “Do not go and overlook them now, in any case you have been via.”
“Flip the crank, please, my woman,” Daisy corrected herself.
“Very good,” stated Olivia, reaching for the crank.
With a number of intimidating thunks, the chains connected to Daisy’s wrists and ankles shortened, pulling in reverse instructions. Olivia stopped them proper on the finish of Daisy’s attain, leaving her comfy however fairly motionless.