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Custodian · Chapter 6

The Heat

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Content Warnings 5 listed
  • Explicit sexual content
  • captivity
  • dubious consent
  • power imbalance
  • and religious themes / blasphemy.
Excerpt

The heat came in the third spring.

I had noted the antler regrowth. The velvet phase. The filing that lasted longer than any schedule could justify. I did not expect what occurred after the velvet hardened.

The first sign was the eyes.

Not brighter.

Hotter.

Author’s Note

Custodian is a story in the Letters Between Sex and Violence anthology. If you like your romance with teeth, try my other serials: Victoria, Taming Malice, and Nobody Came Looking.