Luxuria (Shades of Sin, #1)

by Colette Rhodes

This section of the palace looks a lot newer. Have you been renovating?” “No.” Cool, cool, cool.

I’d been promised monster fucking, and I wasn’t getting any damn monster fucking.

Were they flirting? It seemed kind of flirty. The kind of flirting you did when someone pissed you off most of the time but you still had sex dreams about them and woke up hating yourself a little bit.

Stay positive, Ophelia. You’re going to make the best goddamn lemonade out of these lemons.

“When did you even give it to her?” I demanded. “You can’t give my wife gifts. I haven’t even given her gifts.” “It’s not my fault you’re a terrible husband,”

He didn’t get to have horny Ophelia. Rude kings who probably had a harem of monster side chicks didn’t get to have horny wives.

“Oh, and we’ll discuss that smart mouth of yours later,” I told Ophelia mildly. She blinked at me. “Ah, yes. When we do all that talking we spend so much time doing. That sounds just like us.”

I was already failing in my attempts to not smell like an eager beaver. Like my beaver was literally eager.

I would wear her down and make her love me. I was going to grow all over Levana like shadow fungus.

The sweet, unguarded look on her face did something strange to my chest. That happened a lot around Ophelia—strange, inexplicable sensations in my chest that I should probably have examined by a healer. But then they might fix them, and I wasn’t sure I wanted these strange sensations to go away.

“Good morning,” I greeted Levana, pasting my most unbothered expression on my face. I was totally bothered.

I was beginning to think my wife had zero safety instincts.

I was completely underqualified for any kind of leadership position, and I’d only gotten here because I was a horny little hornbag and just talented enough to draw those horny hornbag thoughts onto paper.

We’d left plenty of evidence of our joining on the throne room floor too. It had been a fucking slip hazard in there by the time we were done. Were we bad royals? I kind of felt like we were bad royals.