Redefining Protocol: Chapter 13
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A-A+B☼☽☾↔⛶The week before publication “One million,” Charlotte said, her voice crackling through Ellie’s ancient iPhone speaker. “Plus royalties.” Ellie nearly choked on her Tesco Meal Deal sandwich, a sad triangle of egg and cress that suddenly tasted like victory. She glanced around the cramped university library carrel where she’d been attempting to salvage her PhD…
A-A+B☼☽☾↔⛶Tommy woke precisely seven minutes before his alarm was set to go off, just as he had every morning for the past twenty-two years. Force of habit, Ainsworth called it. Pathological punctuality, Augustus preferred. The medical term was probably something far more clinical, involving words like “trauma response” and “control mechanisms,” but Tommy had never…
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A-A+B☼☽☾↔⛶Content warning: Predatory behaviour by an adult alpha (Prince Arthur, 24) toward a seventeen-year-old Tommy, framed through Tommy’s oblivious teenage diary entry. The day before publication King James stalked through his private office in Buckingham Palace like a caged lion with a thorn in its paw. His mobile pinged for what felt like the four-hundredth…
A-A+B☼☽☾↔⛶Learn how to use my browser based e-reader here. Redefining Protocol is a story about a man choosing to live for himself after a lifetime of living for others. It’s also about a man finding love twice — once under difficult circumstances that grew into something real, and once on his own terms. Content-wise, this…
I have tears in my eyes. I struggled to read the chapter with all those awful comments cos i felt slightly helpless(even though they weren’t made irl. Had they been, I’d have been replying in the nastiest way possible and reporting the accounts(not like social media cares that much about these reports though).
That Tommy’s experience is relatable in 2026 is something(I don’t have the best word(s) for it).
I’m glad I got to check out your site (I’ve read and loved “that tender moment”. I came here to read the bonus content cos I needed more of them)
Thank you. I hope you get more readers (I checked goodreads and was surprised they weren’t more)