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"Vrekeners take pains not to getoverly excited"

"I don’t understand What about horny young needs? And what about you, Thronos? I’ve discovered you hardly have ice in your veins"

"Avoiding the truly licentious acts is supposed to help" Gazing to one side of her, he said, "I’ve seen males with bite marks on their arms, froh practice"

She knew she looked gobs "What’s the point if you’re not getting overly excited? I guess you’ve never heard the phrase ‘bellow to the rafters’?" Especially since they didn’t have rafters

At his blank look, she said, "When you throw back your head and roar with pleasure? Co fury in a tempest

"In a sexual situation, that would indicatea significant loss of control"

She’d begun to recognize the expression he wore now, the one that said, This goes against everything I know But, gods, tell me inning," she explained "Next would cory at our clothes for getting in the way and our hips h and your fingers grip the curves ofinto the muscles of yours"

"And then?" he said hoarsely

"Then coht up in this, savoring her virginal Vrekener’s reaction: utter enthrall, mindless, animalistic, about to explode/erupt/die with ecstasy part"

A sharp breath escaped his lips She loved the puh sound he made "Next?"

"The last part’s difficult to put into words Better explained by exa but quiet"

When he tried to speak, his roughened voice dropped an octave He coughed into his fist, then finally ed: "I see"

She expected hi the lines of "Howwith? Did they all make you erupt with pleasure?" But he didn’t, so she asked, "What about flyovers?"

"Huh? Oh It’s bad etiquette to fly over another’s hos look the same and all the walls are white, with no color to be seen"

"They are unifora a floating, ashed, sterilized, stifled, ed these things about his home, even as he kne much she would dislike it "What would you expectothers Or even studious conteain "You could read about our culture, studying Vrekener history"

She’d used to enjoy reading about history, but only if it wasn’t lame

"Would those pursuits be so bad?"

Yes, yes, a thousand tied the question: How exactly did he plan to get her to stay there? Once her poas replenished, no one could hold her

She skated away froroup up there with its own agenda, then what’s to prevent so me now?" She expected him to deny, to bluster

Instead, he said, "If someone disobeyed my order and tried to hurt you, or your sister, he will pay"

"Anyone? Absolutely anyone?"

Curt nod "I give you otten himself into

And this hy Lanthe rarely kept her pro to believe me?"

"I’ve learned your tells I knohen you speak untruthfully"

Her eyes darted That could prove disastrous! Damn it, ere her tells?

If he noticed her distress, he let it go "There’s water ahead But I also scent resin pits" Seconds later, he pointed out a shallow depression filled with soel "Resin will trap you like an ith tar Step where I step"

In a pit farther ahead was a dead anis caught Predators had eaten its guts

Lanthe shivered What if an iot trapped? Those predators would choenerate for subsequent feedings

Potentially for eternity

Being an i," Thronos said "How did Rydstro his mind toward a pardon for Lanthe? With his new tenuous trust of her, he was starting to look for ured he could shed soer if he absolved her

One proble that needed absolution

Especially not from him

Did she wish Thronos hadn’t found her with Marco? Sure Did she want Thronos’s forgiveness for sleeping with that vampire?

Hell No "Why do you ask?"

"Rumor holds that Sabine trapped hireed to wed her Then he made a slave of her"

She blinked at his?" At his look of astonishe, soeon with shackles, role and cosplay Spankings and repeated orgasm denial You know, typical BDSM But don’t worry, they were doing it before it became cool"

"BD what?" Thronos’s expression was priceless--part confusion over the lingo, part horror, part helpless fascination She’d bet this angel had an untapped wicked streak

"Look, it’s not for us to understand It worked for them" The whole truth was muchthe kingdo control of the mysterious, demonic Well of Souls in Castle Tornin No one had ever expected Sabine to fall for Rydstrom--least of all Sabine

Thronos helped Lanthe over a resin pit "Answer the question"

"Fine Rydstroe Everything she did to him, he did to her"