Captive Prince: Volume One

Keep the slave restrained here in the harem. The Prince’s orders. No one is to come in or out of the room. The Prince’s orders. Two guards at the door at all times. The Prince’s orders. Don’t let him off the chain. The Prince’s orders.

‘I would never ask you to do anything you found distasteful,’ said Laurent.

‘Looking at you is distasteful,’ said Nicaise.

Laurent was not the type to smuggle men into his rooms for midnight assignations.

“Not quite,” said Damen.

Erasmus bit his lip, and all his burnished curls fell over his forehead. “You’re—in love with him?”

The court sounds were muted, as though they were very distant. Louder and more intimate were the sounds of insects in the gardens below, and the slow back-and-forth of greenery.

except for the ones he had recently been staring into.

“You may hand me the leash,” said a pleasant voice, very close.

Damen looked up into a pair of limpid blue eyes.

The slaves knelt in demonstration of their willing submissiveness.

Akielos

THEOMEDES, King of Akielos

DAMIANOS (Damen), son and heir to Theomedes

KASTOR, illegitimate son of Theomedes and Damen’s half brother

JOKASTE, a lady of the Akielon court

ADRASTUS, Keeper of the Royal Slaves

LYKAIOS, a female slave in the household of Damianos

ERASMUS, a male slave

Vere

THE REGENT of Vere

LAURENT, the heir to the throne of Vere

RADEL, overseer of the Prince’s household

GUION, a member of the Veretian Council and Ambassador to Akielos

AUDIN, a member of the Veretian Council

HERODE, a member of the Veretian Council

JEURRE, a member of the Veretian Council

CHELAUT, a member of the Veretian Council

NICAISE, a pet

GOVART, a former member of the King’s Guard

JORD, a member of the Prince’s Guard

ORLANT, a member of the Prince’s Guard

VANNIS, a courtier

TALIK, her pet

ESTIENNE, a courtier

BERENGER, a courtier

ANCEL, his pet

Patras

TORGEIR, King of Patras

TORVELD, younger brother of Torgeir and Ambassador to Vere

From the past

ALERON, former King of Vere and Laurent’s father

AUGUSTE, former heir to the throne of Vere and Laurent’s older brother