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Content Warning

Hi! If you’ve read the description of the book, then you know this story features a twin deceiving a sexual partner about their true identity, which means consent is dubious at best Sos that, in real life, would deserve a trip to prison — and some of us can’t Only you knoell you’ll tolerate ro that kind of scenario, so here’s the heads-up that this story does In addition, there are:

references to war and battle

violence against fantasy monsters that were once people

ea character into an environical, narcotic-like effect dampened her mental faculties

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Bane

On her deathbed, Bane’s mother had ood queen had lived to see the waste of air that Taht have let Bane rescind his vow She er into his hand and bade him to do the job well

Alas, it was not to be

Bane had been but five years old when he made that vow Over the twenty-five years that followed, eachBane awoke and hoped this would be the day that his tould die

But that was also not to be At fifteen, a fall fro a hunt broke Ta cough swept through the palace, his brother survived every plague None of his mistresses ever stabbed hiave to him a lethal pox He’d not even the courtesy to choke to death on a grape, as their royal father had when they were twenty years of age—and although grapes were banned froh wine flowed into Taht to have at least tumbled down a stairwell or fallen out a to Yet he never did And so each night, Bane went to bed disappointed

But he would not this night

This night, Bane would claim a throne But he would keep his vow, and he wouldn’t take his brother’s crown

Instead he’d take his brother’s bride