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121 The Strategy of Enchantment

Author: Anna Potapenko
last update Last Updated: 2026-01-01 19:44:45

Preparation for the evening of introductions…

The girls are getting ready in advance—dressing in luxurious evening gowns by Mirtel, doing their hair, and adding all sorts of frills to appear slimmer, prettier, gentler, and more alluring.

And me?

I look at my pimpled, festering mug and realize nothing will help here. May the ladies forgive me, but some fainting spells are unavoidable. Then again, I’m used to it…

Besides the participants themselves, representatives of the nobility have been invited to the event. Overfed snobs—the kind you’d have to look hard to find more of. But I need a crowd; otherwise, there would be nothing but awkward silence between me and the girls, who, I’d wager, will be in a state of sheer terror.

To keep the girls from getting too bored—and to avoid the unwanted attentions of certain nobles who wouldn’t pass up a single skirt—familiar guards will also be present at the evening.

In fact, the men who travel with me to the settlements aren’t just ordinary soldie
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  • No Escape From Fate    136 Almost Made It...

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  • No Escape From Fate    135 Almost Made It

    I wake up to warm rays of sunlight shining straight into my face. That’s rather strange, since I usually prefer near-constant twilight in my room.I open my eyes, and the first thing I notice is that my bed is empty. It couldn’t all have been a dream, could it?! I shift my gaze and see the motionless silhouette of my beloved, standing by the window with her back to me, bathed in sunlight.Something snaps inside me, and panic surges in all its force. No, no, no! Not her! It had to work!I spring out of bed and, already on the verge of hysteria, wrap my arms around my beloved’s figure. But she isn’t cold porcelain—she’s warm and soft, very much alive.“What’s wrong with you?” my prepedollie asks in surprise, turning around in my arms and giving me a charming, tender smile.If only she knew how my heart just unclenched.“I got scared,” I admit, hugging my woman tighter, breathing in her scent and savoring her warmth, repeating to myself, Alive. She’s alive.She’s wearing only one of my s

  • No Escape From Fate    134 Despair...

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  • No Escape From Fate    133 Despair

    “And since you’ve already made your choice, why delay our wonderful moment?” I looked at Iza coldly as I advanced on her. “We’ll begin right now.”For a second, I noticed fear in her eyes—but it quickly gave way to resolve.“Alright,” the wretch swallowed and agreed quietly, starting to unbutton her blouse with trembling hands.This is all so wrong. But furious demons were already ruling me, and I couldn’t stop.“You say you love me. You say you want to be with me… Then look at me and enjoy it,” I stepped closer, tearing my own clothes off in sharp, impatient movements.I didn’t hide anything—not the black stains where my karpits should be, nor the other obvious deformities that had driven more than one girl to flee my bedroom, even after they had hastily agreed.Let her look. She chose money—so she has to earn it. I had no intention of being gentle, though the very thought of being rough with her stabbed mercilessly at my chest.By the time I reached her, I was already down to my und

  • No Escape From Fate    132 Her Choice ...

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  • No Escape From Fate    131 Her Choice

    I didn’t understand Iza’s reaction. I could clearly see that Kays interested her more than enough—she melted in my hands, and the tremor with which she responded to my kisses and touches… And yet, for some reason, she denied it and fought herself. Perhaps the girl was in shock and simply couldn’t process what she had heard right away. Most likely, she needed some time—to think everything through and come to terms with the situation.But be that as it may, it upset me greatly, irritated me, and knocked me completely off balance. Anxious thoughts began to press down on me with suffocating force.And once again—a whole day with the candidates, in whom I no longer saw any meaning. Everything had become colorless and insignificant, carried out purely by inertia.Sitting at dinner with Madina on the terrace overlooking the evening city, I couldn’t focus on anything at all—not on the girl sitting opposite me, not on the conversation, not on the food—on nothing except those bottomless blue ey

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