It was, by a significant margin, the most excruciating dinner that Laurent had ever endured.
He felt half sick with jealousy and disgust at the slave by Damen's side. A human crafted to have no thought in his head but Damen's pleasure. Designed to Damen's tastes.
A miserable part of Laurent hated that most of all, the knowledge that this was what Damen wanted, and that Laurent was the one who was only the pale, frigid interpretation of Damen's preferences.
The only way he could function at all was to utterly ignore the presence of Damen's slave. He focused his attention on his own, treating him the way that the Veretians treated their pets. They did not bother to converse, as Laurent's conversation was expected other places around the table, but he accepted the food that the slave offered him, and he offered morsels in return.
He could not entirely ignore Erasmus, and every soft murmur from him sent agony through Laurent.
When Laurent couldn't stand it any longer, he leaned in toward Damen, catching his husband's lips in a kiss and lingering there, signaling to Damen and to the rest of the world that he wanted to be taken back to their private chambers.
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He felt half sick with jealousy and disgust at the slave by Damen's side. A human crafted to have no thought in his head but Damen's pleasure. Designed to Damen's tastes.
A miserable part of Laurent hated that most of all, the knowledge that this was what Damen wanted, and that Laurent was the one who was only the pale, frigid interpretation of Damen's preferences.
The only way he could function at all was to utterly ignore the presence of Damen's slave. He focused his attention on his own, treating him the way that the Veretians treated their pets. They did not bother to converse, as Laurent's conversation was expected other places around the table, but he accepted the food that the slave offered him, and he offered morsels in return.
He could not entirely ignore Erasmus, and every soft murmur from him sent agony through Laurent.
When Laurent couldn't stand it any longer, he leaned in toward Damen, catching his husband's lips in a kiss and lingering there, signaling to Damen and to the rest of the world that he wanted to be taken back to their private chambers.