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He wasn’t

No one survived being owned by Grizelle And now he knehy

He let hisin the roo up like a violent stor him to the final room He stood where he was placed, passive

Ten times more powerful, and he couldn’t even feel it Maybe he was numbed by too ony

If only he could remember what he’d heard about hoorked, or why it was different frorateful that he didn’t remember

The door opened behind him and the escort, who had stayed in the room to keep an eye on hi had happened while his mind had drifted The escort’s voice held cautious fear, a familiar tone that meant a dark-Jeweled witch’s te

"The clothing you requested will be here any moment," the escort said Jared heard theelse, Lady?"

It took all of Jared’s self-control not to turn around to see what she was doing It took all of his concentration to identify the quiet sound of a lid being unscrewed from a jar

"I want to look at those wounds," the Gray Lady said "They need to be properly cleaned and this healing salve applied I’ve plans for this one I don’t want hiet any use out of him"

Her voice made Jared’s skin crawl Her psychic scent unnerved hier’s presence, it produced a kind of lust in him that went beyond the body’s desires, the kind of lust a dark-Jeweled male felt in the presence of a dark-Jeweled witch It made him crave her touch, made him want her hands on him

He hated her for that most of all

The escort hesitated, then said, "I can take care of it, Lady"

Relief flooded Jared when Grizelle left the sh hands than have those gentle fingers touch hiuards delivered the clothes and the healing supplies a fewfor water He thought of asking the escort if he could drink fro at that moment, no matter what had been added to the water to clean the wounds--but the rowl killed the words before they could for herbs while the escort washed his back and belly, he wondered if Grizelle had knohat kind of tor he’d been without water

Jared endured the cleaning in silence, but he gasped when the escort s salve into the lash wounds on his back It felt icy after the ater It also quickly numbed his skin

Released fro the advice Daeether

Daemon had called it balls and sass If a ained a little strength or showed a little tearded as defiance by the Queen and the witches in herFirst Circle, and as a challenge by all the otherorder However, if athe Queen and the other witches to reer of a dark Jewel couldn’t be dis and was called a slave, he was treatedthe ht of as a chained predator instead of as prey In so or not