RedBedSheets

Madeline Colter despises her country, Grandor, home to the most conservative and racist people to exist, the only country to reject people of other species while having a half-vampire prince. But when the prince comes of age and every woman in the country is forced to participate in a competition for the position of queen, Madeline is dragged into it. 

She expected to be failed immediately, not that she'd meet with the so-called feared prince and realize they may not be so different after all.

Alexei, known as the fearful war monger prince, feels little affection for anyone. Ostracised among nobility with his only protector now dead he has to pick a queen to ascend the throne. What he hadn't expected was to meet a girl that would make him realize how touch-starved he truly was. 


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I stared at the people below me, all their faces enamoured with awe as they beheld me. I was a commoner moments before, but here I sat- a crown atop my head.

I felt his fingers squeeze my hand and tried to stop my flinch. His red eyes boring into the side of my face. I knew he was grinning from ear to ear. I knew he had set all this up for me. Not to show me. But… to warn me.

Thousands of eyes leered at me and I knew what was to come would be much worse than what had already happened.

“Long Live the King and his Queen!” The chants began and I could feel a prickle in the corner of my eyes.

“Do not cry”.  His cold words were warmer than the finger that brushed my eyelid. My eye stilled and slid toward him. “This is all yours now. Just as much as it is mine. A country in the hands of those who hate it. Let’s ruin it all”. The fire burning in those eyes shook my core.

“Long… live the king” I said slowly and deliberately, watching his smile stretch further.

“Long live the queen”. 

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I looked at the massacre around us. There was blood everywhere… why didn't he care for that?

"Why do you want mine?" I asked curiously, face turning pink when he lifted his intoxicated eyes towards me and his face was flushed, lips panting. It sent a strange thrill through me to see a man of such power on his knees, practically begging.


"I want all of you. Everything" he laid a kiss on my skin, breathing in the scent.

Warning: slow- burn R18

The Monsters First Love

I thought of the men who wore long robes and strange hats, decorated in vines and flowers. The flowers to portray purity and the vines… to express loyalty. 


Father had once explained that the advisors of the royal capital were men who could not indulge in themselves and solely lived to help the lord reign efficiently. They could not have children. At the time he hadn't explained why they couldn't, but I figured out later on.


"I would never- do you know what that would mean for me?" I contained my voice using the last of my self control, "I- I would have to give up my life either way!"


He didn't blink at me, simply tilting his head with a smile.


"But you will not be queen?" He said it with such indifference I almost choked him.


"They are. As an advisor you are free to give me your opinion and hold no bedroom responsibilities to me or rather anyone. As a queen your advice is not always solicited, but you owe me bedroom responsibilities" he explained it as if it needed to be, but I could see the going in his eyes. He was having fun with it. 


"H- How is one better than the other?" I balked.


"Well if you detest being chained to a man then it may be better to be an advisor, but if you seek luxury and indulgence then be queen".


"Why would I choose either?" I finally asked, feeling the last of my patience run dry.


He smiled widely at my words and somehow I could see the darkest pits of hell in his eyes.


"Because those are the choices I gave you. You can comply or you can reject them, but as I am the crown and my words are law…" he cut off the words that needn't be said and watched me with a half-smile. I could barely stand straight. I stared into those beautiful orbs. Seeing my death written into them.


"Why? Why force me into such a corner?" I was speaking the words before I had even thought them over, "I'm simply a merchants child. I hold no special knowledge, except that which has been taught to me".


His gaze darkened, eyes looking at my shoulders.


"Because you've stepped into boundaries you shouldn't have" it was all he said before he vanished in thin air.


I stared at the spot he once was with shock. I laughed.


Chapter 31