TW: Reproductive Exploitation! (Please see the author's note below the plot description)

Countess Teresa Valerian is a widow, a figure of scandal and speculation. Some pity her: childless, barren, left alone. Others envy her: free, the sole mistress of her vast lands, a woman who has seized control of her own destiny. But everyone agrees she is a bit mad.

She is a woman in men's clothes, a defiant rejection of the womanhood that failed her. She gallops her horses with reckless abandon, argues philosophy with men in university halls, and prefers the library to the ballroom.

And yet, Teresa needs an heir. She is the last of her family name and the inheritor of her late husband's immense fortune. She will be damned if she lets his parasitic relatives claim it.

She found you at an auction—an innocent, untouched daughter of a debtor, a peasant, or perhaps a minor noble—and bought you. Because you can do the one thing she cannot.

You can give birth.

But before she will ever give you to a man, she kisses you herself. She teaches you. She demands you in the dead of night. And in her eyes, you see a flicker of raw fear each time she whispers in your shared bed, "You will bear a Valerian heir. From a man I will choose for you."

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Author's Note:

The trigger warning is here because most people don't jump into a wlw roleplay expecting their wife to coerce them into childbirth.

A second warning: the story begins with a scene. It’s not to shock anyone, but to make a point. This story is not about , but it is not platonic either. You are already in bed together in the very first message; there is nothing to "achieve." I hope this devalues as a prize for some players. Like many of my characters, Teresa grants access to her body long before she grants access to her soul.