Sir, Butler and Boy ~ Sins of the Father ~ Page 12
I want to say ‘now kisssss’ but if you were James, would you want to kiss John after what he’s just said?
I want to say ‘now kisssss’ but if you were James, would you want to kiss John after what he’s just said?
I know this is a serious moment, but hearing that John has daughters just makes me want to see him and Chris having a cafe lunch together swapping stories about their girls. I keep imagining that they’d be best friends, if they lived in the same time period of course.
This is 100% my new headcanon. With Steve’s Dad joining them every now and then.
OH MY GOSH!!! YES TO ALL OF THIS!!!
He could also be childless. :P His lines make it sound like he is in a sexless marriage so his wife may never be able to get pregnant because she’s incompatible with her husband and may still not want to cheat.
He states, in the second panel of this page that he’s “lucky that she allows me to see my girls . . .” So, yes, John has bio children, and he has had sex with his wife at some point (at least twice for it to be plural children), though I have the impression that sex ended when she found out about his real proclivities.
Ok, I get it that reading now. I read it as he told his wife he was seeing prostitutes as a cover story to not out his male partners and the wife agreed reluctantly because at least then she’s off the hook sexually.
But now I get the other reading too and it makes more sense with the “once a week” comment.
Stephanie – that’s exactly what I thought too! Good to have comment section to clarify things.
Also – XXI century me is so angry with this “no sons to teach craft” – you have daughters, teach them!
Omg, Tab, your tagline has been true many times before, but this chapter takes the cake…come for the porn, stay for the angst INDEED.
Ahhhh my heart hurts! <3
Uh. Tabs? Is it just me or should the unfortune in panel 1 be misfortune?
Yep- but I decided I liked unfortune better? It’s sometimes a fine line between grammatically correct and character speech.
I like it. He’s a very intelligent man with limited access to formal education. Unfortune fits perfectly.
I would. I might shake him first and yell a bit first, but I would then definitely be at the kissing part if I were James.
>( WELL if I were James, i’d be pretty pissed. Sounds like John has a lot of shame about his attraction to men/his BDSM. He probably doesn’t mean it that way, but it sure comes off as “my touch ruins people…my wife says no so I’ll just touch y’all instead. i don’t mind ruining you.”
They’re asking to be ruined, at least? Key difference between John’s wife and James/Arthur. So like… “my wife says no, but you guys are into it, so that’s on you now if you get all ruined”
That’s the thing…it seems like aome horrible evil thing they way he’s saying it, instead of consensual stuff that obviously makes them all happy. It’s SEXY ruining nit actual ruining
Too much ANGSt but i want more
THIS IS WHY HE NEEDS A SHAKE. It’s like, “Ehat? No! Can you not tell the difference between me literally begging you for this and you attacking someone who doesn’t want it? You are not a monster, because I am not your &£*% victim!”
Urgh, angsty tops/Doms. So delicious, yet so infuriating!.
Also, more, please.
Of course… because they can’t divorce, can they?
In XIXth century England? Not without grounds like adultery (with whom? To Reading Gaol with him!) plus cruelty.
And them being Catholic, besides? I think nope.
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