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alaraxia · 2 months
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terrifying armor poker night every other thursday at the stepverse rec center (bring your own deck). Featuring Akrasia, Venator @capricule, Heartbreak @dogueteeth, and Shiver @pffpth.
Mind the claws.
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clown-bait · 5 years
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Monster Family (Monster Roommate AU) Ch4
Pennywise agrees to hang out with his mate and gets LIT in an Applebees. Believe it or not this chapter is semi based on personal experience. I'll let everyone decide what part that might be.
CH4 LIT
“Oh great she brought the ball and chain.” Freddy groaned as his friend walked through the doors of the only with a bar in town the three of them weren't banned from. Trailing behind her a very uncomfortable Robert Gray groaned in annoyance when he realized they were in a family restaurant.
“Peachy there are children here!” he hissed in annoyance as the scent of delicious screaming baby assaulted his nose from the dining area.
“If I can control my self in an arcade full of street fighter virgins you can handle being in an Applebees for a couple hours. Besides we can't go to any regular bars since we have to pass Chucky off as Freddy’s kid.”
Pennywise huffed in annoyance at the mention of his tenant. “Then we could do this at our own home. You cant even partake in this anyway.” he grumbled
“Pen the point of going out is that it prevents me from getting stir crazy and doing something to piss you off again out of boredom. You better get used to atmospheres like this anyway with kids on the way.”
“I won't be bringing them to cesspits of noise and grease such as this.”
“Then you're sure in for a surprise Jingles havin’ kids is just traveling from one cesspit to another!” Chucky laughed in his booster seat while pouring another colorful mixed drink into his sippy cup.
“The fact that you've gone this far for entertainment is pathetic.” the eldritch spat as his tennant flipped him off. “Does your wife know you've started stooping so low as to play baby just to enjoy a night out?”
“Does your’s know you've been sniffin’ her panties while she’s at work like a creep?”
Leech deadpanned as she sat down “Hi Chuck I’m literally right here, also Pen that's gross.”
“Says the woman who fucked a spider.” Pennywise grunted as he tested one of the colorful drinks on the table.
Freddy groaned and took a deep drink “Aaaaand this is why we don't let you bring him.”
“Yeah Fred you're one to talk, pretty sure this whole Chris rebound thing you're going through has led to some weird rendezvous. The Bye-Bye Man comes to mind-” the vampire sneered and a clawed hand was shoved across her face.
“SHH don’t fucking say his name! Fuck now he’s gonna find me and ask why I haven’t called.”
Leech continued to tease the dream demon as her disguised clown began his second "hurricane". At least the drinks were sweet and he was able to quell some of the hunger within him with the sugary alcoholic beverages. Leech glanced over at her mate noticing the nearly empty glass.
"Woah slow down there tiger I know you’re large but that's gonna hit you fast"
"Peachy Pie I’m not human do not worry for me. Instead continue insulting Krueger I was enjoying that."
"You're my ride home you better be able to teleport while drunk."
"I’m fiiinneee"
"That response alone is suddenly filling me with so many regrets." she groaned.
"Lighten up Fangs they water the drinks down anyway." Freddy rolled his eyes and flagged down their waitress for another round of drinks. Robert let out a loud hiccup and giggled as Chucky silently observed with interest. Several moments later the eldritch began to sway slightly, barely hearing the conversation anymore and instead letting a literal wandering eye drift around the room hungrily resting on potential targets.
"Jingles is drunk" Freddy nonchalantly grunted.
"Are you shitting me?" Leech growled and glanced over to her mate who seemed normal until he turned to her his cheek split open at the side revealing a fang filled maw underneath.
"Yeess?" the eldritch attempted a suave look on his out of control face and tapped too many fingers over his chin as his hooded eyes drifted apart.
"Jesus fuck Pen control yourself."
"Im aaaaallways in control darling." He purred getting all the way into her personal space as drool fell from from his lips and onto her shirt.
"Oh my god its like owning a fucking mastiff with you sometimes." Leech groaned and playfully shoved him away despite his persistent growls and chitters against her skin. “Put the teeth away honey you're in public”
“Get a damn room.” Chucky yelled and the eldritch's head snapped in his direction roaring horribly in annoyance.
“Fangs uh he's really becoming a problem someone is gonna notice this.”
“Its weird that he got fucked up so fast, he only had two watered down drinks.” Chucky said as he studied the disguised clown.
“You're right give me your water” Leech hastily grabbed the clear liquid in front of the dream demon and tipped it against her mate’s lips. Freddy moved to stop her but stopped when Robert Gray’s face opened unnaturally wide to dump the liquid down in one gulp.
“FANGS! That was pure vodka.” Freddy yelled.
“Why the FUCK do you have a cup full of vodka?”
“Why the fuck not?” he growled and popped a small chocolate into his mouth. The eldritch stopped his swaying and stitched his face back together the room becoming much more clear as his eyes aligned once more.
“Who tried to poison me?” Robert groaned rubbing his temples completely sober. Freddy and Leech both stared at him dumbfounded. “HOW?!” they both shouted. Robert cocked an eyebrow.
“Belief.” he said simply and plucked a chocolate from Freddy's hand plopping it into his mouth. “I function on belief and imagination. I am serious about the poisoning which of you was it?”
“So what you're telling me is if I believe that apple juice could make you shitfaced it’ll happen.” Chucky smirked.
Robert sighed in annoyance knowing his three companions well enough now that his question will never be answered. “In a way yes.”
“Don't even try it Chuck.” Leech snarled but stopped when she felt her mate’s hand on her shoulder.
“Tricks will not work he has to absolutely believe it will happen.”
Freddy finally spoke up waving a gloved hand to get their attention “Uh guys….What happens if I believed that there were some pretty interesting party drugs in that candy.”
The vampire and the eldritch both froze.
“Please tell me you didn't.” Leech grabbed her friends stripped sweater
“I did.”
Chucky sighed and took a long sip of his drink “We’re gonna get banned from fucking Applebees.”
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Pennywise had blinked and suddenly he was no longer at the restaurant. There was music that was loud and pulsing and sweaty bodies bumped into him from all sides. How did he get here? His limbs felt like jelly and he was holding some type of weird blue beverage. He took a large gulp of it to sooth the dryness in his throat and made his way back to the red lights that must be the bar. Despite being disoriented he did feel good, giggly even. He hadn't even realized his human disguise was part-way to “clown mode”, his face baring his trademark makeup, but he did notice that the other people around him were dancing he should probably as well. He needed to blend in after all. So he began to sway and move to the music leaping through the air dramatically like an acrobat. It felt like a full 27 years had passed as he performed but if he stopped the illusion would be ruined. Thus he had to keep dancing.  As he swayed and stumbled in euphoria he bumped into the first face he had recognized in this new location who nearly fell from the weight of the cross faded eldritch colliding with his spindly frame. “Holy shit Jingles there you are!”
“Krueger!” the clown nearly shouted and pirouetted with the grace of a ballet dancer.
“Have you been drinking more?”
“I found a pretty blue drink on a tray! Pretty and sweet!”
“You're a riot Jingles.” the dream demon laughed “Who'd have thought you'd have it in you to steal drinks.”
More of the clown's human disguise melted and he giggled uncontrollably grabbing the dream demon into a back breaking hug.
“Pennywise is glad to see you my friend yes he iss! I was so lost in this strange new place!”
“This is the cenobites nightclub idiot also put me down jesus!”
“Mmmm but you are warm and small!”
“Save it for your girlfriend bozo.” Freddy shoved his tall drugged companion back and straightened himself.
“Peachy!? She's here?"
"Man you really are messed up. She's the one who dragged your ass here after you nearly mauled someone at Applebees. Said it was my fault and put me on babysitting duty."
The clown dramatically tapped his wet chin then grinned wide with an idea
"Krueger I wish to dance with my mate fetch her for me!" He growled puffing out his chest in a display of cockiness.
"What do I look like your servant?"
"........are you not?"
"Fetch your own woman.” Freddy grunted and left deciding the nosferatu could deal with her beloved man child herself.
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Leech sat in a private room her housemate in a stolen booster seat beside her chains hung from the ceiling as a high stakes poker game took place below. The vampire ripped off her sunglasses in annoyance.
"Seriously Pinhead turn some fucking lights on in here."
"You are the one insisting on wearing eye protection indoors."
"Its a bluffing tactic!"
"Fangs no one actually wears sun glasses outside league games except for assholes like you and Krueger."
The nosferatu snarled and ripped her glasses off. "If I lose I'm blaming all of you."
"Learn to lie better trashpire. I fold." Chucky sat back in his booster seat taking a drag off a joint much to Leech's annoyance.
"You've been folding a lot. Also Chuck, pregnant stop smoking."
"Fangs we're playing against a goat and a guy with no eyebrows. I don't think either of them has ever made an expression other than neutral in their immortal lives." The doll grumbled snuffing the joint out and putting it back in his front pocket. He turned to the growing bump under his friends shirt "Take note kids uncle Chucky is doing this for you now so you wont eat me later."
Leech rolled her eyes at him "I raise."
"You have nothing left to bet idiot." The doll shouted and Pinhead smiled at his cloven hooved companion.
"Nothing physical."
The vampire cocked her eyebrow with interest a low purr formed in her throat "Are we raising the stakes?"
"Fangs, Jingles will kill me if-" the doll was cut off quickly by a cold pale hand to his mouth.
"Quiet Chatty Cathy. Continue."
"I have a very lovely crock pot, stainless steel 4 different settings, no stick. All you have to wager is a simple IOU." The dark furred goat hissed into the air like a whisper.
"Why the hell would a vampire need a crock-"
"DEAL!" Leech slammed her fist on the table fangs gleaming in her wide smile. Chucky gasped like a fish in protest. The large black goat let out a horrible guttural hiss.
"Shake her hand hell priest and the game will continue."
"Sire I believe that crock-pot was the one you borrowed from me-"
"SHAKE HER HAND"
Leech grabbed Pinhead's hand before anything else could be said. "You have no idea how much blood pudding I'm going to make with that thing."
"Well this definitely won't come bite all of us in the ass later." Chucky sighed and slumped back in his booster seat.
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Pennywise felt amazing. Lights flashed all around him as people brushed against him from all sides. Normally this would repulse him but tonight touch felt good and the loud noise vibrated his form's bones making his muscles tingle. A woman touched his arm and his skin melted from the feeling. Why was he here again? Someone he was looking for, someone he actually liked. Then there she was, in her messy platinum wig bobbing in the ebb and flow of the dance floor. He felt his body tingle with excitement and he pushed other monstrous creatures out of his way to get to his precious queen. "Hiya gorgeous~" he purred his usual greeting to her and pulled her to him kissing her deeply. He felt like the most romantic suave person in the room and Leech felt amazing against him. Her lips were warm and soft she smelled of fresh flowers sending tingles up his spine. Then the moment was broken when a voice that definitely was not his mate's came out of her mouth and the intoxicated Pennywise realized the person he just passionately kissed was not the mother of his children. He realized it a second time when an icy cold claw pulled him back and broke his cherry red nose.
I think he might be in trouble.
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witchling13 · 5 years
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The time has come!
I am posting Chapter 1 of Her Cadre below.
You can also find it on Ao3 here or search for my name live_manon. 
I split it into three chapters because I’m forcing myself to stop editing it and just live and let live. Chapter 1 is primarily build-up because I got a little carried away with the storyline, but I think it makes the whole fic more enjoyable in the long run. Chapter 2 (and chapter 3 if I finish it) are exclusively sex and it gets very lemon. I will be posting those soon. Guys, when I typed the whole thing out on Word it’s over 36 pages long....and chapter 1 is the smallest part! *fans face
xo
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Fenrys chuckled as he entered the main bed chamber of the suite and spied the largest bed he’d ever seen lining the back wall. The ridiculous amount of fanciful throw pillows and fluffy duvet cover had been removed and placed neatly on the adjacent decorative chairs.
As promised, there was ale and fairy wine with plates of fruits, meats, and cheeses on the three large ottomans in front of the oversized fireplace. A roaring fire crackled in the grate.
He examined the bed again. It was wide enough to sleep six grown men across.
If Rowan and Aelin had a similar one in their chambers, why the hell did they ever leave? In this weather, he’d bury himself in the mounds of covers and sleep or read all day— preferably not alone…with breaks for other pleasurable activities.
So this was the Stag Suite.
It was one of those palace secret compartments very few knew existed and even fewer knew how to access. Designed as a getaway chamber primarily for the King and Queen of Terrasan, the suite was at the top of the West Tower and outfitted with an excess of luxury comforts.
Rowan stood on the balcony overlooking the forest. There was eleven feet of snow on the ground not including the two feet of fresh powder that had fallen overnight. A big storm had moved in nearly two weeks ago, the remnants of which still feathering the countryside in a constant blanket of white. All of their latest attempts at regular travel and communication had proved futile.
Fenrys slid a hand along the soft white sheets of the bed. He was tired of playing chess and easily besting the Queen’s guard in competitive wrestling matches. And wandering around the castle in his wolf form. Although Aelin or Evangeline came to accompany him often. The little girl had taken a liking to exploring the castle while riding atop his wolf’s back.
The quiet feet of a female escort reached his side, inquiring if Fenrys wanted to begin with a massage. She smiled and he eyed her appreciatively. Her long gauzy tunic did little to hide her shapely figure and intricate undergarments underneath.
She was pretty. Very pretty.
Fenrys hauled his wool-lined tunic over his shoulders. The chamber was warm and he was tired and his limbs a bit frozen from scouting the countryside. He and Rowan had shifted and left the castle grounds during a brief respite of snowfall to check on nearby towns and villages.
He stretched his neck sideways. Infinite points of approval for Aelin’s idea of relaxation ”preparation.”
Of course, the few women in attendance had volunteered and would be paid well beyond what they charged for their services. Ever since they had returned from their latest visit to the Kaghan’s court on the Southern Continent, Aelin had discreetly removed the ban on escort services in Orynth. It was a trial, of sorts, to allow those who chose the profession willingly to make money under consensual circumstances but included strictly enforced laws on safety and fair treatment. The law also banned brothels or pleasure houses in hopes they wouldn’t pop up in the rebuilding city.
Fenrys wouldn’t be able to stomach it otherwise.
He shoved the thoughts away, declining the linen breeches she offered him, opting to lounge naked on a chair in front of the fire to sip on some ale and thaw himself.
Rowan returned to observing the sunset over the treeline, a cup of wine in one hand. He drank to ease his brooding.
The truth was, the whole inner court had become intimate—friends. Or at least, that’s what they told themselves.
Several years had passed since the war against Maeve and Erawan and Aelin’s blood-sworn cadre including Lysandra and Elide had become a devoted family. The demands on the inner court for decision making and coveted attention from nobility kept them consistently convening together in Orynth.
But the winters in Terrasen were long and hard. During bad weather, such as this godsforsaken blizzard, they were often confined to the castle grounds.
The result being they spent a lot of time together. It was easy to go a little stir crazy, the Fae in particular. But the pranks made that bearable.
Rowan tried to suppress his smile as he remembered last Mid-Winter’s Eve when Fenrys and Aedion had somehow dressed a piss drunk Lorcan in a tutu and tights and dumped his incoherent ass in a pile of hay in the royal stables.
He inhaled. But this.
This was a whole new level of “intimate.”
Why couldn’t it have stayed a simple game of strip poker.
He sighed in slight amusement remembering just how well that had played out last night. Drunken words, naked bodies, and playful touches. The males had become experts at dancing around the feelings and desires that pushed the boundaries of devotion to their queen.
 Rowan looked towards the chamber entry way. Aelin had arrived, Lorcan, Elide, and Manon in tow. Followed by two lovely escorts in long sheer tunics and a servant bearing a small trunk, a few books, and a mysteriously sealed black box.
Rowan kissed her on the forehead, “how long are you planning to be here?”
“I thought I’d come prepared. You males may be comfortable walking around naked whenever it suits you, but I prefer my silky adornments to appease my inner goddess,” she batted her eyelashes, “don’t worry, I didn’t bring the gold one.”
He suppressed the urge to roll his eyes.
Truth was, he didn’t care what she wore. Nothing made him happier than Aelin’s pleasure after all she had sacrificed.
He drew her into his side and bent to murmur in her ear, “presumptuous of you to think you’ll have a chance to dress up at all…or that you get to decide when to put your clothes back on.”
It was like a weight dropped straight to her mound. A thrill of desire wound tight in her core from the anticipation that had been building since their group “discussion.” They’d come to an arrangement with a few stipulations and she’d be damned if she didn’t allow them to pleasure her and take their fill until the satisfaction drowned them all.
Manon had come from the Wastes for a trade agreement meeting over a week ago when the snow storm hit. She and Abraxos had the misfortune of being cooped up, drunk under the table, and even serenaded from this lot over their stay.
Fortunately, for Aelin, Manon’s “evolving friendship” with Elide had been enticing enough to prompt the witch to accompany her beloved friend tonight.
They’d all observed the two women’s suppressed attraction to each other over the past few years, even Lorcan, and wondered when on earth either one of them would get a clue and make a move. Not that Manon and Elide would want their other respective relationships to be affected long-term, it seemed. They just enjoyed each other’s company, and Lorcan thought there was little reason for them to hold back when they happened to be visiting and spending some quality time together.
Whatever made Elide happy made Lorcan very happy. There was no issue, only pleasure.
Elide was surprised with herself at how eager she was to come here with them both. She’d teased Lorcan as they shared breath amongst their pillows the night before, “I know you hold back with me sometimes so don’t think I won’t thoroughly enjoy seeing you come undone.” She meant his tendency to be dominant and make love to her until she was incoherent didn’t afford her as many opportunities to see him in such a state.
Aelin asked the servant to diffuse some jasmine and lavender oils in all the suite’s rooms for relaxation as she, procured a large piece of cheese and shoved it into her mouth.
Rowan chuckled as her cheeks bulged with the large bite.
“I didfnt havfe lunch.”
“Why not, my love?”
She swallowed. “I was too busy concocting lies about my inner court’s absence from meetings tonight to remember.”
Rowan drew her close and laid broad hands on her shoulders, kneading away some of the tension.
She sighed in contentment, continuing to stuff her mouth with food. Fenrys glanced up at her from the chair.
“I see you’re quite comfortable already.”
“My balls are quite toasty now, thanks for asking.” He smiled and reached up, undoubtedly asking for a chunk of cheese. She swatted his hand away.
“There’s a full platter right in front of your lazy ass.”
He chuckled and she reached a hand to run her fingers through his short hair.
“And what did I do to earn this petting?”
“Simply being my favorite Moonbeam.”
He smiled again, “I’m your only Moonbeam,” and winked up at her, “but I thank you, my Queen, lover of such fine things—like myself.”
Rowan hid his amusement.  
“Unbutton me?”
She half turned to the male behind her, placing a hand on his chest before angling her head so he could claim a soft kiss.
“With pleasure.”
She let her gown slip to the floor in a heap and kissed him again in thanks before striding away to the bed, claiming a large piece of fruit on her way.
Fenrys watched her intently. Prancing around in her lacy undergarments in front of them all like it was the easiest thing in the world. He’d seen her naked many times before, but the more he watched her happiness grow as Queen, the less the horrific memories plagued him. Aelin was whole and healing now and being in her court had redeemed his own sense of comfort. Of home.
His mind drifted while he watched her stretch her torso and lean arms over her head. There were still parts of her he hadn’t seen. Her soft blond hair had concealed them at the time. The opening in her mound…the delicate lay of her folds that probably peaked out from the slit. He wondered if they were just a deeper shade of pink than the peaks of her breasts. His cock began to harden.
A hand interrupted his thoughts and he welcomed the escort’s skilled ministrations to his neck and shoulders. With a gentle tug, he pulled her into his lap and a smile lit her eyes as she used deft thumbs to press along his neck muscles.
The sun had set fully now. The relaxing smells of lavender and jasmine, fragrant in the air, were accompanied by something else. Something that hinted at spice and stirred up desire.
Lorcan hadn’t even bothered with a hello before stripping bare and lying face down on the bed. His head was in Elide’s lap and she toyed with his jet black hair and points of his ears as a pretty escort rubbed hands along his oil soaked back.
Except for the crackle of the large fire, it was quiet, but the air was charged with anticipation and the scents of their arousal.
Aelin stopped at the side of the bed and dragged a lazy finger up the back of Lorcan’s massive hamstring until it halted below his ass. He growled low. “Lorcan dear, in our rush to get here, you didn’t say hello.”
He waited a moment. On his own time then.
“Hello.” He ground out into Elide’s trousers.
Aelin’s finger hovered, drawing small circles on his war-toned muscle.
“It’s nice to see you too grumpy face.”
Despite the tumultuous nature of their relationship, Lorcan had softened to Aelin while being in her court, and she to him. She imagined he was like that teenage older brother she’d never had as a child. Except he wasn’t. He was dark and menacing with a bravado and sultry eyes that mesmerized even her.  
“You keep drawing circles like that and I’ll bite that finger off. And it will never grow back.”
It was Elide who suppressed a chuckle.
Aelin scowled. “I haven’t seen you for days and your literal first voluntary words to me are a threat to maim my royal hand.”
His hurumph was muffled, but he turned his head to look up at her as she moved to hover over his shoulder, “royal hand, royal pain in my ass,” he sighed. Then roamed her body with his eyes, narrowing on her undergarments.
“Those look expensive.” She saw the glint of desire in his expression and heard the unspoken words. Better take them off before we get to them first.
Her skin prickled under the intensity of his attention. She squeezed his hand and brushed his shoulder as she leaned in to kiss Elide lightly on her cheeks. The girl smiled amused and returned the gesture.
“Care to join me in the birchin, Manon?”
Manon sat observing behind them, both arms splayed across the back of chair.
“What’s a birchin?”
“The small chamber in the bathing room heated by a stove with hot rocks. It’ll make you sweat your worries away.” She wiggled her eyebrows and Manon stared at her confused.
Aelin shrugged. “I read about it in a book and it sounded exotic, so I had it installed.”
She had indeed, been reading her new favorite series A Court of Thorns and Roses and several scenes conjured up delightful images of her cadre all piled in a birchin sweating their asses off. She had yet to convince them to try it out, but the few occasions she’d used it herself after training sessions had been extremely relaxing.
Manon sighed and rose, arching her back in a stretch. “What can it hurt. Better than sitting here stewing in all your scents.”
Rowan had taken a big chair by the fire next to Fenrys and stripped except for the linen pants offered by an escort. He closed his eyes as the shapely brunette rolled up his pants to the knee and worked his tight calves and shins. Her hands were firm, but skilled and her long hair hung loose, tantalizing his skin as she worked.
Passing them on the way to the bathing room, Aelin halted. She inspected the beauty in Fenrys lap, the gentle eyed woman winding her fingers through his hair and grinning wide at his flirtatious whispers, no doubt, promising and skillful. Aelin was surprised at the possessive twinge that hit her heart.
He was fine. He was in good hands. Even if she felt she had every right to be just as protective of the male as he was her.
She squeezed Rowan’s shoulder, sliding her hand down his chest until it drifted lower on his bare abdomen and the tips of her fingers slid under his loose waistband. She leaned down and kissed his neck.
“Be good. I’ll be done soon.” She inclined her head towards the bathing room.
He growled and the fingers of his hand reaching around the back of her thigh dug into her soft skin.
“Soon is quite a promise considering your bathing habits.”
There was need in his grip.
“Pushy, pushy,” she smirked into his lips as she kissed him one more time. “This one,” Aelin pointed at Rowan as she rose and spoke to the escort, “is all talk. If you want him to be quiet, tickle the back of his knees.”
“Aelin--,” he growled again.
“Or lick up the lines of his war-honed abs. Whatever seems best to you.” She waived a hand in the air dismissively, scampering out of the way as he reached for her. His eyes followed her into the bathing room, hips swaying, until she was out of sight and Manon followed, unceremoniously stripping as she walked.
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 A half hour later, Aelin emerged, hair towel dried from the quick dip in the bath they’d taken to wash off the sweat from the birchin. Manon had donned a plush white robe, but Aelin had simply wrapped a short towel around her torso.
She strode to the oversized chase lounge where Rowan’s strong, sinewy body lay face down in the pillows, dozing after surrendering to a fully body massage.
Aelin climbed up his back and kissed his tan face. “Enjoy your nap?” As he stirred, she moved to sit on his backside so she could sweep her hands from his shoulder blades down the groove of his spine.
“You smell good,” he mumbled.
“Thank you. I used your soap because I forgot we ran out of mine last time we were here.”
Rowan grunted. With no hesitation, he shifted, toppling her into the blankets and rolling so he hovered over her face on his forearms. His lips were an inch from hers and the weight of his abdomen and legs pressed fully into her body. The heat radiating from his skin and breath made her heart pound.
“Use it always.”
He kissed her deeply and she opened for him, melting into the pillows as his tongue tasted her own.
Aelin’s hand clutched his back as the other drifted into his hair. He slid a hand down her curves until he found her thigh and pulled it to the side so he could settle between her legs.
She sucked in a breath.
He was naked and his cock was fully erect brushing against her towel. With one shift, he could push up the edge of the flimsy fabric and slide into her welcoming heat.
But he had something else in mind; something they needed to prepare for later.
And it was time to play.
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jolie-guerrier · 4 years
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British Prime Minister Gambling's Latest Antichrist? Oh Please
As a journalist with respected website Poker Pages and co-presenter of a display on Holdem Radio, Amy Calistri is virtually no mug however her current assessment of Gordon Brown's U-turn on supercasinos indicates that she is aware of Vegas rather higher than she does the shires of Britain  cach tinh lo de mien nam One of Prime Minister Brown's first acts upon succeeding Tony Blair ultimate month turned into to correctly consign to the scrapheap the Labour authorities's proposals for a wave of British supercasinos. In Ms Calistri's eyes, this places the Scotsman firmly alongside US Senator Bill Frist in the playing corridor of shame. Frist it turned into who drove the debatable Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act into life in 2006, correctly imposing a ban upon on-line poker.
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"The UK has its very own gambling Dark Ages' poster boy..." Calistri rages in a Poker News article on July twenty fourth. "The UK's gaming reform experiment was seven years inside the making and became poised to be an interesting counterpoint to modern US policy. But what took seven years to plot took one guy only 4 months to resolve. And in that context, the United Kingdom's gaming policy revel in is beginning to replicate our own; the workout of 1 guy's will." At least Calistri sets out her own schedule early within the report, mentioning that, pre-Brown, "The global envy of US playing minded residents and loose market philosophers was heightened through the United Kingdom's apparent rational reaction to on line gaming; looking for to legislate and regulate the terrain." Okay, so in case you're a laissez-faire capitalist, Brown's intervention is heavy-passed and regrettable. People far greater qualified than me in economics, however, could debate both aspects of the unfastened market hot potato all night.
Where Calistri simply wanders from truth, however, is in lumping Brown together with Frist as the villains of the piece and painting a image of the British Premier as a dinosaur out of step with the Society around him.
Amy, you need to visit Britain for a while. If I inform you that protecting my u . S . A .'s present day Government comes as without problems to me as advocating the abolition of Christmas, you may get an idea of how extensive of the mark I think you have got strayed.
Far from Gordon Brown isolating himself with his decision to sideline the supercasinos, I doubt that there was any better way he should have ingratiated himself along with his electorate. The simplest humans captivated with the casino growth within the UK were people who stood to pocket maximum of the income. Even as online gambling booms this side of the Atlantic, the impetus for supercasinos right here has been generated solely by way of Labour politicians, disturbing to ingratiate their celebration with all people with money to spend, regardless of how it is able to be generated.
We have already got modest however successful casinos inside the UK, you notice, along side criminal sportsbooks ('bookmakers', we decide upon to name them in Britain) and felony online gaming. So properly catered for are we, indeed, that the most effective issue that comes close to irking your regular Brit gambler proper now is the prison minefield he enters with the aid of gambling poker in his local bar. Even there, compromise is being reached and development made.
So with their playing urges already sorted, there has in no way been any high-quality clamour for supercasinos amongst Britons. On the contrary, in fact. At coronary heart, most of the people this side of the Pond, I suspect, sense extra cozy with playing as a sideline activity in our cities than as one of the cornerstones of that buzz phrase 'urban regeneration'.
Forgive us if we're cynical in the direction of the perception of towns being revitalised with the aid of playing. It's just that we read about protest marches in Macau, whose own casino boom has supposed difficulty for the poorer sections of the populace, who locate rents and property costs spiralling beyond their way. Or is not 'regeneration' intended to use to them?
Then we read the censure of Louisiana's civic leaders inside the leader column of a neighborhood newspaper, when they too sought the 'regeneration' dollar:
"Louisiana officers frittered away the Nineteen Nineties by means of specializing in expansion of diverse styles of playing as a therapy for Louisiana's monetary woes. Alas, playing has now not delivered the promised pot of gold on the quit of the rainbow, and Louisiana keeps to lag tons of the united states in economic development. "Louisiana could be tons higher off today if we had spent the beyond decade taking note of more fundamental reforms to develop enterprise, which includes investing in training, reforming our tax laws, streamlining state government and dramatically tightening our ethics code."
We examine, we contemplate and we suppose "no thanks". In our Old Country gamblers' hearts, we realize that even as Las Vegas may call us like Mecca, it isn't dubbed 'Sin City' for nothing - "the flashiest, blackest hollow inside the universe," poker blogger Pauly calls it. When its promoters inform us that there is only one Vegas, we utter a subconscious 'Amen'. All Gordon Brown has performed is trap this temper and supply it voice; some thing of which his wretched predecessor (yes, America: you have him totally incorrect, too) become singularly incapable.
He has not piggy-backed sick-conceived rules on the shoulders of port security measures he knew were guaranteed safe passage. He has not ushered in his whims under the nostril of a snoozing nation within the dead of night time. He could no longer have us accept as true with that whilst a few varieties of online gambling are the paintings of Satan, others - which simply show up to be followed via lobbying muscle or the whiff of vested pursuits - are as natural as the pushed snow.
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