Dream Trysts: A Sleeping Beauty Story (Passion-Filled FairyTales Book 4)
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“Then you will not have to,” he said. “No one can force you to lead. We will seek a ruler from among the populace. But know that the ruler may, like Maurelle, fear your claim to the throne. So, if you wish to truly be free of danger, you should forfeit your powers and your claim so you can live a happy, untethered life.”
A happy, untethered life. Dwennon’s eyes were sorrowful. A deep mourning seemed to be behind them. “Have you had a vision?” she asked.
He shrugged his shoulder, but looked weary. “I see the streams of possibilities, the things that could be, not what will be. You know that. What happens, what comes to be, depends on the actions people take, the decisions they make.”
He had told her as much before, but the way he repeated it now made her nervous. He had seen something. “And based on the stream, what decision would be best to make?”
“I think you will make the best decision with James at your side. We should leave you, so you can talk.”
Dwennon turned and headed out of the room, with Hilly following. Rose’s mother and father left, too. She turned to see James, standing in the light. “You’ve been so quiet,” she said.
“I know,” he admitted. “This is all just new to me. It’s a surprise. I’ve always been normal, and now I’m a fairy.”
She walked over to him and wrapped her arms around him. “I’m sorry,” she said. “I didn’t expect this.”
He patted her gently and said, “It’s not something bad. It’s just unexpected.”
“And what do you think?” she asked. “King and queen of a realm we know nothing about, or go back to your home, the way I’d expected? Go back and be prince and princess, and eventually king and queen.” She leaned into him and rested her head on his chest.
“I think we should do it,” he said.
Rose lifted her head, leaned back and look at him. She squinted at him in the light. “Become rulers of the fairy realm?”
“Yes,” he said.
“But why? We don’t know anything about fairies, about our powers.”
He closed his eyes, took a deep breath and opened them. “That’s just it,” he said. “I don’t know much about my powers, but I know that I want to explore them, with you in this new realm. And I feel that we should.”
She stared into his eyes, and saw the excitement, the wonder. “You really think we should? I mean, we were happy when we were both normal.”
He chuckled lightly. “Were we ever really both normal? You sucked me into your dreams, and I came. I thought nothing of the magic of it. I accepted it gladly because it meant I was with you. And you accepted it gladly because you were with me. I think maybe we’ve always had magic in our lives, only we were too foolish to notice.”
She couldn’t help but smile at that. It had always been there, she realized. She sighed. “I wish we saw the future, as Dwennon does.”
He squeezed her close and kissed Rose’s cheek. “But we do see the future. We just see much less of it. We see only the decisions we are about to make, and from that we can guess at their consequences. For me, I see us together, being happy, learning our kingdom, loving our kingdom, yet still embracing the humanity that we started with. Maurelle hated humanity, and it brought her only misery. Dwennon said the Sacred Pool grants fairy magic to those who are just. We should remind our kingdom how to be just so we can keep the joys of this magic.”
Rose pulled away from him, startled. She wondered for a moment who he was. Was this the same boy from her dreams? Just, righteous, brave, wanting good for the world. And she smiled. But of course it was. Isn’t that what their years of dream companionship had taught her about him? He was a good man, and he would be a good fairy. They both would. “I think you’re right. We shall rule together.”
Epilogue
James and Briar Rose were married the following week in the fairy realm, at a wedding attended by humans and fairies alike. Their reign was the beginning of a hundred years of peace in their realm. And, of course, they lived happily ever after.
About Rosetta Bloom
Rosetta Bloom loves a good love story. She also likes a steamy tale with two characters who find solace in each other’s arms. So, she writes romance and erotic romances, and all of them end happily, because Rosetta hates sad endings. If you want a story that has a few surprises, and lots of heart, then she’s writing for you.
Rosetta Bloom’s primary novels and novellas are sexy retellings of classic fairy tales. They include The Princess, the Pea and the Night of Passion; Beauty and Her Beastly Love; Cinders and Ash: A Cinderella Story; and Dream Trysts: A Sleeping Beauty Story. Rosetta loves adding new life to these classic tales and hopes you enjoy the tweaked versions, too. Rosetta also has a series of really short erotic love stories called the Romance: Trysts series. You can read the first one, Dr. Carter & Mrs. Sinn, FREE. There are four in the series, and if you like the first, you can grab the rest individually or pick up the boxed set, Romance: Trysts Volumes 1-4.
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The Princess, the Pea and the Night of Passion. If you love royal romances, and princesses in distress, you’ll love this story!
In this grown-up version of the famous fairy tale, Princess Adara is running from her old life and a forced betrothal. Adara wants love and passion, but knows she can’t get them back home. When a raging storm halts her escape, Adara seeks refuge in the first dwelling she sees.
Prince Richard is tired of the trite, vain, frigid princesses his mother introduces him to in hopes he’ll marry. On this stormy night, he’s in the mood to love a woman, but he’s all alone. Then, Adara arrives on the castle doorstep, saying she’s a princess in need of help. The queen is doubtful and decides to lock Adara in a room with a pea to determine if the girl is a real princess. Richard believes the beautiful, charming stranger, but he wants her locked in a bedroom for other reasons.
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Beauty and Her Beastly Love. In this grown up version of Beauty and the Beast, we meet Beauty, a sheltered young girl living in the French countryside with her father. She doesn’t get out much, but her tutor has given her books that she is supposed to read privately. The books all have a rose imprinted on the cover and describe the ways in which men and women love each other. The books give Beauty ideas about pleasures of the flesh.
Just like in the traditional tale, Beauty’s father, Pierre, sets off on a journey and ends up taking refuge in an enchanted dwelling. Pierre takes a rose-covered book, like the ones his daughter reads, and is caught by the beast who lives in the manor. Pierre agrees to send his daughter in exchange for the Beast not killing him.
When Beauty arrives, she feels disappointed that she will spend a lifetime imprisoned with this beast, rather than experiencing the type of relationship between a man and a woman described in her books. Only, as she gets to know Beast, she develops an attraction to him. Later, Beauty discovers that she and Beast can take pleasure in each other’s company in more ways than she’d ever imagined.
Cinders & Ash: A Cinderella Story. Ella would like nothing more than to leave her wicked stepmother and spoiled stepsisters behind. Only, she needs money to do so. The young lass has been secretly working for a local shopkeeper to earn some cash, but when her stepmother, Lady Kenna, finds out, she gets her stepdaughter fired, and takes all the cash. Ella's friend suggest she head to the castle for a job that pays well and requires not a ton of effort. Desperate to get away, Ella consents.
Ash is a prince confined to a castle. The queen is convinced magic fairies are real and are out to do her son harm. That doesn't stop the young prince from having companionship delivered. When a beautiful maiden is brought to him one evening, he's completely intrigued. By her beauty, by her demeanor, by the fact that she'll only give her name as Cinders.
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Romance: Trysts Short Story Series
No. 1. Dr. Carter & Mrs. Sinn. Mrs. Sinn has been having heart palpitations and is in need of advice, so she seeks out the muscular, handsome Dr. Carter. The very forward Mrs. Sinn implores the good doctor to figure out the cause of her problems.
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No. 2. Nikki & Mike. Nikki is a good girl who tries to follow the straight and narrow path.
When a breakup turns her life haywire, Nikki realizes it isn’t enough just to be good. She needs to be good to herself.
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In this hot and steamy tale, Mike and Nikki find each other and a little something else, too.
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No. 3. Tristan & Blair. Can a person know when they first meet someone that it’s love? Can they know they're destined to be together?
Tristan met a girl when he was just a boy — a girl who changed everything about him. He knew she was the one, but she disappeared from his life.
When Tristan, now a painter, meets a girl from his past, he feels an instant connection to the sexy redhead. She’s not quite who he imagined, but that doesn’t mean he won’t take this second chance to make this girl his.
Do second chances at first love really exist? Tristan gets a lesson in life’s quirks in this red-hot, sexy tale.
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No. 4. Jack & Brenda. Jack is a firefighter, who’s a man down at his station due to a massive snow storm. Alone, pondering the evening when he hears a knock on the fire house door.
Brenda is a nurse trying to get to her shift whose car goes kaput outside the fire station.
Jack offers to warm Brenda up and things smoke for the firefighter who has a thing for pretty feet and the nurse who’s in need of some TLC.
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