Ecstasy and a Choice
This is not a major plot chapter, more like an addition to the previous two.
Two years, two years she spent making sure that when the time came her father would be willing, yet all was for naught. Soon after she realized Bourgeoisie felt a love for her she began her regimen. She fulfilled every need her father had. She cooked, cleaned, and made every attempt to earn more of his favor. Even so far as to avoid all other suitors so that one day Bourgeoisie could be hers. But it was still useless, when he finally made his move her father put him away with a checkmate. They could always elope, but with the power and control her father had they would have to stay out of Warfang for years until he was gone and she didn't want that. As Kaja thought these things the front door opened and Kaja could see her father, Titan, entering from where she sat in the kitchen. Like usual he held himself as though he was perfect and no one could dare contradict him. Yet he also seemed a little different, like he also had a great pain on his heart, but Kaja knew that he had little heart for anything but her.
"Kaja, where are you?," Titan asks, "I need to ask you about someone."
'I'm over here, the one with the broken heart.,' Kaja thinks, then she says, "I'm in the kitchen eating, father."
"Good, give me a moment.," Kaja hears her father remove his satchel, it sounds like it is heavier than when he left which meant he was either going to spend all night working, or won poker. He walks into the kitchen. "Tonight I found a new agent.," he says, "It would seem that he knows you. I think his name was... Bourgeoisie. Does that name seem familiar?"
Kaja gasps at the name before saying, "Yes, we went to the academy together, I think I met him... three years ago."
"Well, I was at my usual Friday night poker game eating some poorly prepared goat meat and started choking on a bone. I was trying to get it out when some drunken fool comes up behind me and starts shoving into my stomach. While I'm glad he did that I'll have to mention that I don't let anyone touch me, ever. Anyways, I took him into my office and we talked a bit. I convinced him after what I usually do, I offered him anything he wanted."
"Um," Kaja interrupts, "what did he ask for?," The last three new agents asked for money or a place to live, so Kaja wanted to know how Bourg had reacted.
"I'm getting to that!," her father growls, "He's already been initiated so there's not much chance of him quitting which is why I'm unsure whether to grant his request.," Titan walks around behind her and whispers into her ear, "He wants you to be his mate, so I'm going to let you choose. You can be his wife, or you can stay here. If you go, there is no coming back.," He walks into the other room, picks up his satchel, and goes up the stairs.
'He...was willing to go through the pain of initiation for me?' she remains seated in the chair for several minutes before she begins shaking in joy, and in the memory of when she was forced to have the mark of her father's "business" put upon her.
