A Fair Trade

By Odessa Lynne

In this novella length volume of the R’H’ani Chronicles, Odessa Lynne brings you a story of male/male romance set in a land where one’s status is equal only to the size and quality of one’s harem...

In the follow up to No Better Offer, Neese is trying to get comfortable in his new job inside the harem of Spencyr Ramynad. But he’s never worked in a man’s harem before, for good reason, and it has only taken him one day to realize just how much trouble he’s in.

Neese’s co-worker Stenyl infuriates him even as Stenyl’s kisses are far too tempting to ignore, and his new employer Spencyr is a little too hard to figure out—but he seems more than willing to share his new consort with Neese...

Neese just wants everybody to follow the rules—because the rules might be the only thing that can save Neese from himself...

A Fair Trade is another exciting tale in the R’H’ani Chronicles, where men love men and the rules of romance are complicated by contracts that bind!

This story can be read as a stand-alone story, but it’s going to be a lot more fun if you read the whole series!

Novella length. Approximately 25,000 words.

The R’H’ani Chronicles:
One for Himself
His One and Only
Everything He Wants
All He Needs
One of Many
His Only One
One to Love
His to Keep
His to Take
His Only Weakness
One to Tame
No Better Offer
Anything At All
A Fair Trade
Never Enough

The first six volumes are available in R'H'ani Chronicles Collection: Volumes 1–6.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Odessa Lynne
• Release date: Nov 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463385937

Odessa Lynne

Odessa Lynne is a romance author at heart, even though many of her books cross the science fiction, fantasy, and romance genres.After years of reading romance, fantasy, and science fiction novels, Odessa discovered she liked romance in her fantasy, sex in her science fiction, and love between her heroes best of all. So that’s exactly what she puts in all her own stories now, for readers who enjoy the same!Odessa lives in the southeastern United States.Visit odessalynne.com for information about current and upcoming releases or to sign up to her new releases email list.

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A FAIR TRADE

THE R’H’ANI CHRONICLES

#14

A Novella

ODESSA LYNNE

ODELYN PUBLISHING

A FAIR TRADE

Copyright © 2019 Odessa Lynne

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First Electronic Publication November 2019

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, organizations, events, and incidents portrayed in this book are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales are entirely coincidental.

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

About A Fair Trade

A FAIR TRADE

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

About The R’H’ani Chronicles

Also by Odessa Lynne

About the Author

About A Fair Trade

In this follow up to No Better Offer, Neese is trying to get comfortable in his new job inside the harem of Spencyr Ramynad. But he’s never worked in a man’s harem before, for good reason, and it has only taken him one day to realize just how much trouble he’s in.

Neese’s co-worker Stenyl infuriates him even as Stenyl’s kisses are far too tempting to ignore, and his new employer Spencyr is a little too hard to figure out—but he seems more than willing to share his new consort with Neese…

Neese just wants everybody to follow the rules—because the rules might be the only thing that can save Neese from himself…

A Fair Trade is another exciting tale in the R’H’ani Chronicles, where men love men and the rules of romance are complicated by contracts that bind!

A FAIR TRADE

"Even a fair trade can leave you wishing you’d spent less time worrying about the size of your room and more time worrying about just who your next employer might be." —Rykel Karanys, author of Negotiating Modern Harem Contracts: Don’t Bargain With Your Skirt Up, 5th Ed., 8630–

CHAPTER 1

Neese stared up at the ceiling in his dark room, watching the shadows from the single window creep across the flat surface overhead. The first night in a new bed was always the strangest. He still hadn’t gotten used to that, even though he’d moved from one harem to another five times since he’d taken his first harem job.

No, six times, he remembered. He’d almost forgotten Charyn Ryjale. He’d spent only one-fourth of a contract term in her harem, because she’d traded his contract to Pyta Kardale.

He’d thought he would spend longer in Pyta Kardale’s harem, considering how much she liked him, but today sometime between midday and evening, she had traded his employment contract to Spencyr Ramynad for who knew what value in trade, all because her husband Martyn Kardale had finally found out she was conspiring against him in the R’H’ani elections and had demanded she sacrifice her harem favorites as penance. That was the story Hamyl had given Neese, anyway. The truth of the matter was up for debate. Neese had learned a long time ago that employers couldn’t always be trusted to tell the truth to an employee on his way out of the harem.

Unfortunately, this last trade had put Neese into the most precarious position he’d found himself in since he had first gone to the agencies looking for a job. He didn’t have sex with men—for very good reason. And yet he was now in the employ of a man who only had sex with other men.

The worst of it was that Spencyr had hired the one man Neese had so desperately been trying to keep at arm’s length inside Pyta’s harem.

Spencyr Ramynad was a gray man, but Neese wasn’t about to complain about that. If he had to work in the harem of a man, he was grateful to find himself contracted in the harem of someone like Spencyr. Spencyr was still fit, far more fit than many of the bureaucrats Neese had met over his lifetime. Spencyr was powerfully built, with strong thighs and shoulders and firm buttocks that drew the eye. Neese might not fuck men, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t see the appeal.

But Stenyl—

Neese gritted his teeth, rolled to his side to beat his fluffy pillow into submission, and tried not to think about the mess he found himself in now that Pyta had traded his contract. Dinner sat in his stomach with all the weight of a paving stone and the knowledge that he was stuck performing with Stenyl for the next three months made his belly ache for reasons he didn’t want to name.

If there’d been one benefit to the move to a new harem, it was that this should have been a fresh start for him, away from Stenyl. Instead, it was now just a continuation of the conflict between him and Stenyl that had started months ago, when Stenyl had been hired into Pyta’s harem despite the black mark on his employment record.

Not that Neese was jealous that Stenyl had gotten work so easily even after being fired from a previous harem while Neese had spent far too much time feeling desperate to find new harem work after he’d been fired for the same thing—far from it.

He scoffed in the quiet of his room and readjusted his shoulder, then let out a frustrated growl, rose on one elbow, and beat at his pillow again with his fist.

The furious whump whump whump in the otherwise quiet room didn’t help his mood at all. The pillow was just as fluffy as it had ever been and his thoughts were still stuck on Stenyl.

He dropped back to the bed with a defeated sigh. How could he be jealous of Stenyl? He couldn’t be and that was all there was to it.

It was simply that Neese couldn’t lose this job; his employment history was already questionable. Another black mark could make it impossible for him to find another harem job. And working with Stenyl was going to cause him no end of trouble.

Stenyl was no better than—

A loud thump echoed from the hallway outside Neese’s room.

Neese started, his heart thumping wildly in his chest. He sat up and listened, but the quiet noises were nothing out of the ordinary—the circulation of air, a whisper of wind somewhere outside.

After a moment, his heart slowed and he started to lower himself flat to the bed again.

His door rattled. A quiet thud followed.

The sounds brought Neese fully upright in an instant. He threw back the soft, warm quilt and slipped his legs over the side of the bed.

It was much too late at night—or early in the morning—for anyone to be wandering the halls of the harem residence building. Even if it weren’t, there was only one other person sleeping in the wing of the building that belonged to Spencyr Ramynad’s harem.

Stenyl.

Neese’s heart continued to thud hard because of the unexpected jolt of adrenaline, and he put his feet on the thick carpet that stretched across the floor from below the spacious bed. Stenyl was such an ass. If Neese had to put up with pranks from him for the next three months of his contract, he was going to lodge an official complaint at every opportunity.

He didn’t bother turning up any of the lights. The shadows of his room’s furnishings were distinct enough that he didn’t have to worry about bumping into anything on the way to the door.

Another soft carpet