Important – My TRR MC is Viktoria Petit, and my King Liam is called King Istvan.
Rating – Have rated whole series as NSFW, as some chapters are.
Disclaimer – Characters are Pixelberry’s (except OCs). Fic is written for fun & I don’t make any money from this.
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Cassie grinned at Drake, “Oh come on grumpy, it’ll be fun…”. Drake rolled his eyes, placing his large hands on Cassie’s petite but curvy hips, pulling her closer to him, nuzzling her neck, rasping in her ear, “We could just stay here instead…? You want fun? I can do fun, baby…” Cassie let herself melt into Drake’s loving touch as his fingers gravitated to squeeze her pert backside, she reached up and twined her arms around his neck, rolling her head to the side to give him access to that tender little spot by her collarbone… She ran her fingers across his muscular shoulders before slipping her hands around to his chest and firmly pushing him away, “Drake, no. Come on, we need to finish getting organised…” Drake pulled his best puppy dog face as Cassie bit her lip, trying not laugh at him, “Drake… You always do this, then you’ll end up having a great time when we get there…” Drake conceded with a grumble that she was right, but that he would still rather spend an evening alone with Cassie than do a long car journey to Lythikos with Maxwell.
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Olivia had built a series of luxury cabins within the Nevrakis estate that had made it into Conde Naste “Traveller” magazine and they were drawing hordes of upmarket travellers to Cordonia. They were state of the art, including log burners, saunas, outdoor hot-tubs, and a master bedroom made of dimmable glass walls, with a double-height glass ceiling to sleep under the stars. Drake had to admit that it was really impressive: like some sort of ultimate luxury camping… She had booked out the weekend of her birthday for their friends to enjoy the resort themselves. Drake and Olivia seemed to have found a new level of respect for one another and to be fair to her, Olivia had been pretty pleasant to Cassie since she’d joined their little group of friends, which was something that Drake was still a bit taken aback by.
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Cassie pulled Drake’s handsome face down to her and placed a kiss on his forehead as she moved off to finish organising her travel bag. Drake sighed whistling for Thor, “Aw, come here boy, have we got everything you need for the trip?” The husky stuck his head into the duffel bag next to Drake as he ruffled his fur. ‘At least Petit will bring the corgis for you to play with, you’ll like that won’t you, Crazy Mutt??” Thor panted at his human and wagged his tail excitedly.
The door rattled as Maxwell opened it, cheerful shouting, “Knock knock!!” Thor barged towards it, recognising the voice as Max shrieked at the sixty pounds of slobber rapidly approaching, “Hello all!!” Cassie hobbled through to greet Maxwell with only one shoe on and a hairbrush in her hand, “Maxwell!! Hi!! We’re just doing a quick double-check, and we’re ready to rock!” Maxwell kissed her cheek and nodded, “Take your time, there’s no big rush! Drake and I will catch up while you finish up, right buddy?” Drake nodded at Maxwell, “Sure, thanks for picking us up by the way.” Maxwell grinned as he patted Drake’s shoulder, “No problem, it’s always fun to have a road trip! Also, so excited! Hana is actually going to make it! I feel like we haven’t seen her for so long, I love how things have taken off for her with the fashion design, but I miss her like crazy.” Drake shouted to the bedroom, “Cass? Did you hear that? Hana is coming this weekend.” Cassie ran out from their bedroom trying to fasten her necklace, “Really??” Cassie was delighted: Hana was the only one of Drake’s friends she hadn’t met yet. She’d heard the rest of the group speak so fondly of the up-and-coming designer that she felt like she knew her already. Cassie smiled brightly as Drake stood to close the clasp of her necklace for her, “Viktoria will be so excited to see her! She went away literally just after their wedding, right?” Maxwell nodded, “Yes, designing the wedding gown of the century was quite the career kickstarter! Who would have known?!” Drake chuckled as Cassie sighed dreamily giving him a squeeze, “It was a stunning dress though… I wish I’d known you then Drake, I would have had an official invite as the best man’s girlfriend rather than watching the wedding on TV… Anyway!! I’m all ready to go, Drake are you ready?” Drake looked at Cassie half exasperated, half amused, “Cassie-bear, I’ve been ready for over an hour… You’re the one who’s still… You know what? Just never mind, let’s just go!” He kissed her cheek as Maxwell grabbed his keys from the coffee table.
Drake did a swift check of windows, doors and appliances as the trio grabbed their bags and the dog, bundling into Maxwell’s very fancy new Jeep, ready to head off for Olivia’s birthday festivities!
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TBC – VP 💖
