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By: Scott Lane | Other books by Scott Lane
Categories: Erotic Romance, BDSM, Historical
Word Count: 35,000
Heat Level: SIZZLING
Published By: Melange Books LLC
Only a mysterious servant girl can sooth her master's wild bouts of violent madness. To save her from a sadistic fate, the young master pays a terrible price that tests the limits of their love
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Crimson by Choice
Available in:
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Price: $6.99
ISBN: 1612350769
Trade Paperback $12.95
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Excerpt
Chapter One
Breakfast
Home from war
Flames crackled in twin cooking ovens. Iron caldrons filled with bubbling water hung over red-hot hearth coals. Bacon strips sizzled in frying pans. Busy servant girls baked fresh biscuits and stirred hot oatmeal. The scent of breakfast filled the air.
Hyacinth waited beside the wooden kitchen table. Locks of golden hair framed her young face. Wavy tresses curled over her shoulders and draped midway to her back. The bustling servants avoided Hyacinth’s gaze, but all knew she was there.
Lilly, the head mistress, arranged a serving tray with a plate of scrambled eggs, two buttered muffins, a dish of strawberry jam, a juice-filled glass, and a crystal vase containing one fragrant red rose. Like the other servants, Lilly wore a black dress, a crisp white blouse, and a dark blue bonnet over her salt and pepper hair. She labored to arrange the tray exactly as the young master demanded. When she felt the presentation met his exacting standards, Lilly plucked a red silk ribbon from her front dress pocket. She stood behind Hyacinth and bundled the young woman’s wavy locks inside a large bow. Lilly turned Hyacinth toward a cracked dressing mirror propped in the kitchen corner. She affectionately fluffed Hyacinth’s hair and smoothed the folds in her red satin dress.
The envious servant girls stole quick glances at lovely Hyacinth while they shoveled steaming eggs on breakfast plates. Each took great care not to gaze directly into Hyacinth’s enchanting blue eyes.
“How marvelous you look,” Lilly observed with glowing pride. She whispered into Hyacinth’s ear. “Blake is waiting for you.”
Baron Edmond Creighton, lord and master of the vast estate, burst through the kitchens’ swinging door. He wore a red coat, a black satin vest, and riding pants that stretched around his rotund belly. The Baron carried a wooden walking cane in the fat fingers of his right hand that he used to assist his stiff right leg that he injured in a long ago riding accident. The servants immediately bowed to the Baron and cast their subservient gazes to the stone floor. Hyacinth alone maintained her chin held high. The Baron rapped his impatient cane on the wooden table, causing the trays to rattle and the servants to flinch. “Is my son’s breakfast ready?” he roared.
Lilly curtsied to her master. “Yes sir, Hyacinth is on her way.”
The Baron studied his son’s breakfast tray. He leaned over the food plate and inspected the steaming eggs. “Are these fresh?”
“Yes sir,” Lilly answered. “I fetched them from the henhouse this morning.”
“And this apple juice, it is fresh?”
“Yes sir.”
“Hump,” the Baron grunted. He pointed at the tray with his cane. “Are these muffins hot?”
“Yes sir,” Lilly responded.
“Very well,” the Baron replied with a satisfied nod. He shifted his focus to the crimson bow in Hyacinth’s flowing hair. She gazed at his weathered face with her soft blue eyes. The tension in the Baron’s thick shoulders relaxed, and his stern brow frowned. His commanding voice softened to a near whisper. A gentle smile formed on his lips. “You best hurry along my dear, he
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