An Exception: Jewel Bonds, #3
By Megan Derr
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Riot faithfully served his lord for two decades, putting his mage skills fighting the beasts in the dangerous Territories and to make the lives of the castle inhabitants easier.
When that lord dies, he is replaced by a flashy young man who regards Riot as a threat and throws him out. With no home, no possessions, and no money, Riot has gone from a stable life he enjoyed to feeling like the world no longer needs nor wants him.
A chance encounter, however, brings the promise of temporary work that is certainly better than nothing. If the job comes from yet another flashy young man, well, hopefully this one won't be as bad as the last.
Megan Derr
Megan is a long-time resident of queer romance and keeps herself busy reading and writing it. She is often accused of fluff and nonsense. When she’s not involved in writing, she likes to cook, harass her wife and cats, or watch movies. She loves to hear from readers and can be found all over the internet.meganderr.compatreon.com/meganderrmeganderr.blogspot.comfacebook.com/meganaprilderrmeganaderr@gmail.com@meganaderr
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An Exception - Megan Derr
An Exception
JEWEL BONDS 3
MEGAN DERR
Riot faithfully served his lord for two decades, putting his mage skills fighting the beasts in the dangerous Territories and to make the lives of the castle inhabitants easier.
When that lord dies, he is replaced by a flashy young man who regards Riot as a threat and throws him out. With no home, no possessions, and no money, Riot has gone from a stable life he enjoyed to feeling like the world no longer needs nor wants him.
A chance encounter, however, brings the promise of temporary work that is certainly better than nothing. If the job comes from yet another flashy young man, well, hopefully this one won't be as bad as the last.
An Exception
By Megan Derr
Published by Megan Derr
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except for the purpose of reviews.
Edited by Samantha M. Derr
Cover designed by Aisha Akeju
This book is a work of fiction and as such all characters and situations are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual people, places, or events is coincidental.
Second Edition March 2020
First Edition June 2012 by Less Than Three Press
Copyright © 2020 by Megan Derr
Printed in the United States of America
Riot scowled over the ad board, downcast and painfully out of place. The last time he'd had to turn to an ad board for work, he'd been barely fourteen. This wasn't where he should be.
He was supposed to be working in the Territories with his team, or playing with the children in the back courtyard. But no. He'd made the strategically and financially unsound decision not to suck Lord Gravington's cock and so was reduced to scouring the ad board for work.
He stepped out of the way of a cluster of rude, loud, obnoxious young people. Really. Once children passed the age where they were cute they needed to be locked up until they could act like moderately civilized adults.
Adjusting the folds of his collar, he waited until they had wandered away again and then resumed his hopeless search. He just needed a job that would pay half-decent money and, preferably, get him out of town for a short while. Long enough for rumors to stop circulating, damn Gravington anyway.
He stared at the ads, miserable and frustrated. No one who needed a high-grade mage was going to leave a notice on one of the city ad boards. It chafed that he was going to have to find non-magic work, but he'd sealed his own fate when he'd refused to play the games of a mean, spoiled child. Never mind it was Gravington who was in the wrong. No, that was entirely too reasonable and logical for anyone to accept.
Tamping down on his bitterness because it would get him nowhere, Riot swallowed his pride and began to look for more mundane work. But the ads only proved discouraging; each one was worse than the one before it. Riot had never felt his age so acutely. He was forty two years old—he should have been established, settled and secure in his place.
He had been all of those things. Until the new city lord had arrived, young and vain and stupid. Had decided that he would rather fill his new castle, his new toy, with friends and toadies. Had arrogantly believed that someone like Riot would do anything to keep his position because where else did a settled mage of his years have to go?
Riot heaved a sigh and abandoned the ad board, headed back to his room at the Mute Rooster.
His room was a tiny, dusty thing in the attic, a far cry from his cozy chambers in the city castle. He sat at a scuffed, rickety table and stared out the dingy, round window.
The last time he had been in such a room he had been fresh from the academy and new to the city, bright and hopeful and eager.