Wrists Rubbed Raw

Bonus

Here's the bonus chapter I promised. It didn't take as long as I thought to finish lol

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Third Person's P.O.V.

A few hours later, all twelve rulers were gathered in Katherine's dining room for breakfast. Though given the time, it couldn't qualify as that. Heck, it couldn't even be called brunch. The afternoon sun was already way past its peak. But no matter. Anytime is breakfast time when you partied as hard and were as hungover as the group of twelve.

Katherine glanced around at her guests from her seat at the head of the table. She smiled as memories of all the fun they had made it to the forefront of her mind. Everyone seemed so comfortable in her empire now. So comfortable around her. She also hasn't gotten any uneasy glances nor overheard any hushed whispers of her "curse" supposedly spreading to other people since the start of last night. The party was a smashing success! And by the looks of it, despite the mess left behind in her ballroom, no one got hur-

"Scott!" she gasped as her eyes caught a glimpse of his red and raw wrists poking out beneath the sleeves of his coat, "What happened to your wrists?"

All conversations around the table immediately came to a halt. Everyone's attention now on the crown princess of Glimmer Grove and the ruler of Chromia. Their faces expressing worry and terror. Worry because Scott was apparently injured and terror because not everyone remembered their actions from last night. For all they knew, they could've been the one to hurt him, or at least aid in it, whilst under the influence of alcohol. Well, all except for one. Jimmy, knowing what happened, flickered his eyes between Scott and Katherine. His cheeks and the tips of his ears a wee bit red.

"I fucked the law," Scott said casually, not even looking up from his bowl of cereal.

A few rulers let out a sigh of relief now that it was confirmed none of them hurt Scott. They then tensed up when they fully processed what Scott had said. A beat of deafening silence passed over the dining room as the other ten rulers' eyes went wide and a few jaws dropped.

"What?!?!" they all yelled. Their intonation of the word expressing shock and disbelief. Everyone's heads then whipped around to face Jimmy. The sheriff's face was a very deep shade of red. He covered his face with his hands and sunk in his seat. A barely audible flustered noise escaping his lips as the other rulers all spoke at once. Some conveyed their discomfort with knowing that Scott and Jimmy fucked, no less in one of Katherine's guest bedrooms, while others asked invasive questions and made dirty jokes about what the two men got up to last night.

Throughout the uproar, a small smile tugged at the corner of Scott's lips as he continued to eat his cereal unbothered. He felt no shame.

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Poor Jimmy can't catch a break from getting flustered like- 😆

Have a good rest of your day/night!