Meet the bad guys from For Her Only. In this scene, Empress Rheyn Destoiya had been planning a pleasant evening but her twin brother, Pietas, instigated a riot among her Praetorian Guard and took her assistant hostage. She disarmed Pietas, sent everyone else away and is now alone with him. The scene takes place in her palace office.
Meet the Bad Guys
"Why the drama, Pietas?"
"Your assistant wouldn't let me see you without an appointment."
"You insufferable..." She palmed the weapon fastened beneath her desk, then withdrew it and aimed at his head.
Pietas laughed, but he raised his hands. "I should've known you'd be armed."
With her other hand, she picked up his weapon and aimed it at him. "Ambidextrous, remember?"
He started to put his hands down and she thumbed his weapon to full. He lifted his hands back up. "Fine, Dessy. But I had to see you, and he wouldn't let me in. You know how I hate waiting."
"For that, you made my favorite your hostage and instigated a riot among my Praetorian?"
He lifted one eyebrow.
She sighed and clicked the safeties into place on both weapons. "What do you want?"
"I haven't seen you in twenty years, and that's all you have to say to me?"
"It's been eleven, and I shouldn't have seen you for at least ten more. And you had no right to interfere with anyone I claim as mine. Don't you ever touch Alitus again. If you do, I'll kill you in every way you hate." She tapped the desk. "And I know them all, my dear brother. Is that clear?"
He twisted his mouth. "Fine. I won't touch your pet."
"Or allow anyone within your control or influence to do so. So help me, Pietas, promise me or I'll—"
"Yes, yes. I promise. Don't be tedious." He dropped his lean frame into a wingback chair. "Besides, you're impossibly nasty when anyone touches your pets."
She scoffed. "Fine. Tell me what you want."
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My characters may be found in multiple books in my story universe. Pietas images Nik Nitsvetov as Pietas cosplay.