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“I’m going back to bed,” he says loftily. “I was right; you’re absolutely mad.”
“Laurent.”
“I do not recall inviting you to use my given name.”
“Do not be ridiculous—Marquis, you cannot go in there. Please.” Damen cannot touch him, not even to stop him. He can, however, use his body as a blockade. He strides ahead before turning and spreading his arms. The Marquis draws up short.
“You are the one who is being ridiculous,” he informs Damen evenly, as though it is a fact.
“There is—A Man is in the entrance hall.” The Marquis rolls his eyes, but on looking down, the frown descends on his brow once more.
“What have you done?” There is something strange in his voice. “Why are you bleeding?” Damen looks down as well. Indeed, there are ribbons torn into his right leg, flowing lines of red cut along the flesh by the fingers of the ghost. He had not noticed, but the bottom of his shirt is shredded.
He will have to send to Ios for a trunk of clothes. Laundering will not mend this.
“As I have said to you, there was a Man—as there was a Boy, the night before last. He came out of the arched doorway, and clawed at me.”
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a Laurent/Damen gothic romance
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Someone was trying to murder the Prince of Vere. Drawn into a covert investigation, Damen had anticipated the dangers of the treacherous Veretian court. He wasn't prepared for Laurent.
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This is a love story. A very complicated one.
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24 Feb 2025
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Laurent finds himself in the company of a talkative group of people. That all the men and women in that group have one very specific common denominator does not sit well with Damen.
“What kind of stories were you subject to?” Damen asks, trying to parse out how exactly he should feel about this conversation. He cannot even begin to imagine the amount of detail and tall tales Laurent had extricated from the group, he had been talking to them for so long.
“Informative ones,” Laurent says. “Colourful ones.”
“Clear exaggerations.”
“Bold ones about how you have a lot of prowess. And apparently quite the repository of bedroom talents.”
“You’ve experienced it,” Damen points out gamely, and Laurent hums in a contemplation that bodes trouble.
“I have learned that I have experienced a part of it,” Laurent says, his voice laced with mild distaste. “But not all. And that wounds me.”
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31 Oct 2025
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Sex didn’t mean anything to Laurent. He liked it cheap and easy and often. No strings and no repeats. Except then there was Damen. Damen, who had a perfect boyfriend and a perfect life and would hate him if he knew what Laurent really was.
When things start to spiral and old habits start haunting him Laurent realises his comfortable apathy may not be enough anymore, but confronting reality and facing his demons just might shatter him completely. And he’s never been much good at putting himself back together.
Hypersexuality/Infidelity/Modern AU
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24 Feb 2025
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