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    The Battle of Marlas could have brought the relationship between Vere and Akielos to a breaking point, but it didn't. As the peace treaty is finally signed, King Aleron has a very clear idea of how to ensure the agreement is truly felt.

    "Since the formal establishment of Vere and Akielos as independent reigns, there had been twelve peace treaties.
    The Peace of Marlas, signed by King Aleron and Theomedes-Exalted before the beginning of autumn, would be the thirteenth.

    The thirteenth peace would not go down in the history of the Kingdom as an abject failure. Not if Laurent could help it."

     

    [Chapter 2 contains Fanart by Momo (linecrosser), linked to explicit parts of the story]

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    “Damianos.”

    Damen looked up. Laurent’s gaze was level, and very blue.

    “Broadly,” Laurent said, “is it the pain? Or the being told what to do?”

    And suddenly Damen was finding it very hard to breathe. Laurent simply waited him out, his gaze fixed on Damen’s face. Damen couldn’t help remembering Nik’s description from last weekend. High alert.

    “Both,” he said finally. Laurent gave a short nod, like he was filing that away. “And…”

    “And what?”

    Damen licked his lips. “And you, I think.”

    This time the wash of pink over Laurent’s cheeks was unmistakable. Damen reveled in it, even as he fought the urge to squirm at his own confession.

    “Noted,” Laurent said, very evenly.

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    Damen is an elite bodyguard and SHOULD be protecting the rich and famous from harm, but his half-brother has taken over the family company and delegated Damen to menial jobs and an uncertain future...

    However, Damen is approached by an old friend-turned-enemy with an interesting job offer: 30 days of work in return for Damen's position in his family company.

    The client? His enemy's younger brother who has no intention of being guarded but is being stalked by someone with 3 previous victims...

    (TW: Sex/STALKING/Mentions of: Rape, Nicaise as a prostitute, Sexual Assault)

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    It is on a ball in Arles where Laurent feels his heart stop for the first time.
    Laurent has never been the type to try and grab the spotlight. But as his heart goes boom, he knows that this one, Prince Damianos of Akielos, is his.

    He never expected Damianos to actually like him back.

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    In which Damen is ready to propose marriage at a moment's notice, Laurent plays hard to get, and Nik doesn't get paid enough.

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    Guidance,” scoffed Ancel. “Prince Laurent doesn’t need guidance. He needs dick.

    Damen choked on his wine.

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    Auguste had made it clear that Laurent was not to make any move on his friends, especially Damen, on who Laurent had been crushing since he was only a child. The reason, to Laurent, was obvious: Auguste thought of him as something disgusting, not worth of his best friend's love. But Laurent is ready to prove his brother wrong, no matter what it takes.

    OR : Auguste has issues. Laurent has even bigger ones. Damen is just happy to be here.

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    Damen is the worst punishment Auguste could do to him, and so of course he did.
    The thought of having to live with Damen until he gets better is smothering. They will have to share a home, Laurent’s home, his safe place, and Laurent cannot say no, because having Damen here is still better than going to the hospital, where he will be at the mercy of all.

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    Freedom from his uncle, it's all he's ever wanted, and Laurent will use any means necessary to achieve it. Even if it means sacrificing his dignity and self to a sugar daddy. What Laurent doesn't expect, is to find sanctuary in the contract with NHL star Damen Akielos. And he most certainly doesn't expect to develop feelings.

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    Beautiful but cold, Prince Laurent of Arles has vowed to marry only the one to best him in a footrace. The winner will get his hand in marriage - and the power and influence that come with it - but the price of failure is death.
    The latest in a long string of suitors to attempt Laurent’s challenge and lose is Prince Kastor of Ios. Damen, desperate to save his brother’s life, travels to Arles himself to participate in the race. Once there, however, he quickly realizes that Laurent desires to marry him about as much as he desires to marry Laurent - that is to say, not at all.
    Rather than risk being trapped in a marriage that would make them both miserable, they agree to a different wager: if Damen wins the race, Laurent will let Kastor go, but if he loses, Damen will have to stay in Arles for a year, doing Laurent’s bidding.

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    In which Hennike survives a murder attempt by the Regent and runs away with her son, Laurent, in order to protect them both. They end up in Akielos.

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    When Laurent's cousin - the soon to be fiancée of King Damianos of Akielos- elopes with her lover, Laurent hatches a plan to avoid a war. Masquerading as his cousin, Laurent must be as politely unlikable as possible to make Damen decide to call off the wedding. Unfortunately, Damianos happens to be one of the most amiable men he's ever met.

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    "That's what we call-uh! La petite mort."

    "That good? Already? We've barely even stared."

    Damen enjoys the morning after with his new French lover (Laurent, duh) with a few notable interruptions. (Sex. This is just sex. Sex and humour bc I cannot take anything seriously. Besides, sex is fun and you should feel comfortable laughing and joking with your sexual partner.)

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    Damen owns a tattoo parlor that specializes in traditional Akielon tattoo designs so he's a bit shocked when an un-inked Veretian comes through the door and demands a tattoo that covers his entire back. With no design in mind and a face that should be painted reverently on canvas and admired in a museum, Laurent's simple request for an appointment takes much longer than either of them expected.

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    When ten year old Laurent sends Damen a bouquet of roses during his first diplomatic visit to Vere, Damen doesn't know what it implies according to Veretian courtship rituals.

    However, when he receives a second bouquet of roses from Laurent years later, he does.

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    Damen volunteers for his fraternity’s “slave week” charity auction, only to find himself subject to the fickle whims of Laurent DeVere, a prissy student journalist willing to ignore his moral objections to the slave auction if it means tormenting Damen, the man responsible for paralyzing Laurent’s older brother.

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    “He was—” Damen breaks off, swallows hard, pauses in the manner of a man soundly failing to find an explanation in what he is trying to explain, “—really pretty.”

    “What,” says Nikandros, “the fuck.”

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    The first time Damen meets Laurent, he mistakes him for a pet. It doesn't go well.

    No one lets him forget it.

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    Laurent de Vere, handsome, clever, and rich, with a moderately comfortable home and an immoderately bratty disposition, seemed to break up some of the worst matches in existence; and had lived nearly twenty-four years in the world with very little to distress or vex him.

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    After the death of King Aleron, Auguste is able to turn the tides at Marlas by negotiating with the Akielons. Giving up Delpha is a small price if he can provide a peaceful life for Laurent. Now that an alliance is blooming, Auguste suggests Laurent do his part and learn the language of their new ally. That shouldn't be too difficult of an ask.

    A simple exchange of culture and language between letters starts developing into something more, and Laurent finds himself progressively in denial of this fact.

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    “Marriage,” Prince Auguste bursts out and everyone stares.
    “A marriage between our royal families,” he clarifies, visibly clearing his throat and his head before he continues, “To symbolize the pact between our kingdoms, for generations to come. Not foes, not friends, but family.”

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    He imagined himself nineteen again, knowing then what he knew now, and wondered if he would let that long ago battle fall to the Veretians -- let Auguste live. If he would have ignored his father's call to arms altogether, and instead found his way to the Veretian tents and sought out Auguste to find some common ground. 

    Five years after the Truce of Marlas, Damen and Laurent meet again in Delpha. They're forced to work together to soothe the growing tension between their countries. But Laurent does not forgive easily and Damen's not that sorry.

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