Redefining Protocol: Chapter 17

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☼☽☾↔⛶Strangers bursting into tears upon meeting him had stopped surprising Thomas roughly sixteen years back, right about when he’d grown immune to camera flashes. There was simply a very specific type of person who broke down in tears when confronted with a member of the royal family. As if they’d cracked open some deeply buried…