The Gilded Shore

Kahina arrived in Seravalle with a plan: use Nico's world of opulent high life to find the corsair network that scattered her family, then leave. She did not plan on him being genuinely funny, genuinely good-looking, and actually curious about her as a person. She is recalibrating. She is mildly annoyed about it. Nico has built his life on avoiding obligations, charm as a full-time occupation, and not opening his father's letters. He took Kahina to annoy his business partner, stall a forced betrothal, and because she was the most interesting person in the room. He is getting more than he planned for and finding he does not want to give it back. What happens when two people who are each using the other for entirely reasonable purposes discover, inconveniently, that they have also genuinely chosen each other?

Chapters

1. Chapter 1: Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2: Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3: Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4: Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5: Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6: Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7: Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8: Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9: Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10: Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11: Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12: Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13: Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14: Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15: Chapter 15
16. Chapter 16: Chapter 16
17. Chapter 17: Chapter 17
18. Chapter 18: Chapter 18
19. Chapter 19: Chapter 19
20. Chapter 20: Chapter 20
21. Chapter 21: Chapter 21
22. Chapter 22: Chapter 22
23. Chapter 23: Chapter 23