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No si female here She'd never say, "'Tis fine for you to do so, e" Never

But then, just to throw hi until his head swaods,ht loud and clear You know it'sfor"

She'd read his ain "And you?" he snapped "Have you 'waited' for in when you were out furiously attedom?"

"How many males have coination Does it bother you? The idea of otherit?" He felt a muscle tic in his scarred cheek, and she saw it "Oh, it does!"

"Just finishhi you want me to How ht of our ritted his teeth to stifle the voas te his resistance were nearly overwhelht of his fantasies? When unsatisfied need had built for weeks even before he'd met her? The air seethed with tension

"And then there's your bondage fetish to explore-"

"I don't have a fetish!"

"Why do you deny it-or me? What male could be expected to resist this?"

Chin raised, he bit out, "J would be Others would count on ood"

"To what end? How does denying yourself help any­one else?"

"The sooner I do this, the sooner I die"

"What if I told you I wouldn't kill you-I'd keep you as my pet?"

"I'd opt for death"

"Then I need to make it so that you want ood, Sabine," he rasped, trying to catch his breath as she expertly stroked hiood"

Her eyes narrowed The chamber seemed to rock once more, and wind from nowhere blew her hair "Then you won't oes away"

She re this every night I'll do it until you lose your ht have an indoed in fire! You'll find it'sto leave me like this!" He swore once e on her Each second that passed, he hated herin pain, his shaft thick with sen, his claws biting into his palames over and over, demon As a ht, too

Once I turn the tables

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" You still look unsullied," Lanthe said when she and Sabine met upstairs, Sabine hated that word She hated that it was never used to describe h "Yes, Lanthe, I'm still pure"