Chapter Twenty-Three
Pierce was brought to Seraphina’s quarters at six o’clock in the evening. He didn’t quite know what to expect. Dinner? A business-like discussion about the practicalities of a new uniform for her troops? Some amorous dalliance? All of these things? Or none?
He liked always to present a confident demeanour, secure in himself, a practical man of the world but ready for fun and games. He was unaware that the pretty girl who had enticed him into her bed two evenings ago was employed by Seraphina to sample potential s****l partners; he had supposed merely that she was one of the legion of girls who hung around the court amusing themselves with men. Seraphina therefore had the advantage of him, which was how she preferred matters to be arranged. She wasn’t a pervert like Y
