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Chapter 29 : Lioren’s POV
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2026-06-14 17:08:30
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She looked at me like you look at something you weren’t expecting to see, but it didn’t scare you. She was just taking it in, trying to figure out what it was. Her eyes moved from my face to Lio’s, and then back to mine. In the moment before she spoke, smiled, or did anything, I noticed her face was open. No fear, no pretending. Just a person seeing what was there and reacting honestly.Then she smiled.It wasn’t a smile that tried too hard, the kind that shows all the right things because someone learned that’s what a smile should do. This was simpler. It just appeared, moving across her face like something that had been waiting for the right moment to show itself. And when it did, it was so real that something inside my chest did a little jump. I decided not to think too hard about it right then.I looked back at Lio, who was standing next to me, holding our bags in both hands. His face was set in that way it gets when he’s decided to act like
Crossdressing For The Emperor Chapter 30 : Carl’s POV
That night, after Pell had left, I felt a familiar quietness, like I was carrying something heavy with no place to put it down.Lio had said his piece that afternoon. It made sense, and I agreed with him, really. There was no real argument against it. She hadn’t been there. I didn’t know her name. I’d seen her just once and had made up so much in my mind. It’s like when you’re ready to feel something, and the world gives you even the smallest reason to do so.I understood all of that. I’d already thought all of it through by myself.But knowing something doesn’t make the feeling stop. I still thought about her. I kept picturing her in my mind, like turning a smooth stone over and over, feeling its shape, noticing its weight. The way she moved. How she was so lost in what she was doing that the sounds of the whole market seemed to fade away. I’ve always found that kind of deep focus very interesting. And apparently, seeing it in a stranger for jus
Crossdressing For The Emperor Chapter 29 : Lioren’s POV
I was glad she hadn’t been there.I knew how that sounded. I wasn’t proud of it. But standing at the market, watching Carl look up and down the rows of stalls with that focused, patient look he gets when he’s set on finding something, I felt a tightness in my chest loosen when it became clear she wasn’t coming. That loosening felt like relief, and the relief felt like something I needed to look at honestly, then put in a box and close the lid.So I put it in the box. And I closed the lid.When we got home, I sat in the main room while Carl moved around the kitchen doing pointless things. I thought about how to handle this without embarrassing either of us. I had already tried staying quiet about it, and the quiet wasn’t working. The silence had just given me two days of watching Carl not talk about her, while clearly thinking about her all the time. And now he had made me walk through the whole market twice, looking for a woman we had seen for only about a minute at a vegetable stall.
Crossdressing For The Emperor Chapter 28 : Carl’s POV
Lio never mentioned her again. Not that night, not the next morning, not while we ate breakfast together, and not during the long hours of the afternoon when we sat outside, watching the road with nothing better to do than talk. He just acted as if nothing had happened at the market, as if he hadn’t seen me walk toward that empty stall and stand there like a man who had just heard some bad news. He went on with his days as usual, talking about work, food, the park, and whether the roof over the back room needed fixing. The girl was never part of any of it. Which was strange. Because Lio, when he truly didn’t care about something, usually said so. He had no problem ignoring things that didn’t matter to him. He was always direct. So, his silence about this particular thing was louder to me than any words could have been. I didn’t say any of this to him. I just noticed it, tucked it away in my mind, and let the days go by. But two days passed, and I still couldn’t stop thinking
Crossdressing For The Emperor Chapter 27 : Carl’s POV
Lio was still talking about the park when we got home.Honestly, I expected it. When something gets him excited, he really gets into it, thinking about it from every angle and saying everything there is to say. It’s one of the things that makes him easy to be around. His enthusiasm is real and he’s not ashamed of it. He doesn’t pretend to be interested; he just is.“Every week,” he said, dropping onto his mat and kicking his shoes off. “We’re going every week. No matter what, we’ll make time for it.”“We’ll make time for it,” I said.“You say that now.”“I mean it now. It’s a park, Lio. It’s not going anywhere.”He pointed at me. “Neither are we, and that’s my point. We live here. We should actually live here, not just work, sleep, and eat. The park is part of that.”I couldn’t disagree with his thinking. I didn’t really want to. He was right; we had been sticking to a small area since we arrived – the house, t
Crossdressing For The Emperor Chapter 26 : Carl’s POV
The next morning, I woke up earlier because Lioren wouldn't stop coughing.It was the kind of cough that wakes you up before you're fully awake, pulling you from sleep before you're ready. I lay still for a moment, hoping it would pass. But it didn't. Then I heard Lio moving uncomfortably on his sleeping mat, so I sat up.The light coming through the window was still dim, not yet sure what kind of day it would be. I got up and went to Lio's side of the room. He was lying with his knees pulled up a little, his forehead wrinkled, and his breathing uneven."Lio."He opened his eyes and looked at me, trying hard to pretend he was okay. "I'm fine," he said right away. That told me he wasn't fine at all, because people who are really fine don't feel the need to say it before you even ask.I crouched beside him and put the back of my hand on his forehead. He was hot. More than hot, actually. He felt like he had a fever."You h
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