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"Only hied "Minor Queens usually can’t lure a Warlord Prince to serve in their courts And Territory Queens usually won’t let a minor Queen keep an enslaved Warlord Prince because he’s too hard to control"

Minor Queens usually didn’t get a chance to hold the Sadist’s leash, either--unless the High Priestess of Hayll was rewarding the were you in that court?"

"Six ether He was there for the first four, then the contract that that Queen had with Dorothea SaDiablo ended and he was ‘loaned’ to another Queen"

"Queens don’t usually give up a freshly trained pleasure slave," Jared said thoughtfully "Even if he is a Warlord Prince Shedid know you were a Warlord Prince when she acquired you?"

Blaed nodded "Although once he put the spell around one, she becaure out, and sent me to Raej"

There could have been other spells Sadi had wrapped around Blaed to cause that uneasiness and ensure that the young man would end up at Raej quickly--spells the Sadist wouldn’t haveout loud "Why would he go through the effort ofsure you ended up at Raej, where you’d just be sold to another witch?"

Blaed hesitated "He was there when I was being sold When it got down to his Lady and the Gray Lady being the only ones still bidding onall of a sudden I think hearrangedthat so that I would end up with the Gray Lady"

Jared swore under his breath The Sadist and the Gray Lady What in the na, for the ht was the first priority

They reached the lane Hoping it ide enough to acco the horses, and then pointed to the lane

Thayne waved back

As Jared and Blaed walked down the lane, looking for the entrance to the clearing, Jared thought of one thing that would change now that everyone knew Blaed was a Warlord Prince "Since a Warlord Prince is a higher caste than a Warlord, that et it," Blaed said sharply "I wear the Opal; you wear the Red That still makes you dominant as far as Jewel rank is concerned And you’re older than I ah And youto the Darkness before you were made a slave, didn’t you?"

"Yes"But you didn’t , Jared added silently Whichto follow rather than lead Maybe, despite Warlord Princes beingborn Warlord Princes, they had to mature into that temperament in the sath If Blaed had been a few years older or hadbefore he’d been enslaved, he probably wouldn’t have yielded so easily to another ardless of which one of the Jared’s speculations, "you haven’t done anything I would have done differently"

"I’m so pleased you approve," Jared said sourly

Blaed kept his eyes on the trees and thick clumps of bushes on the left-hand side of the lane "Maybe I don’t want to beco to avoid that day for as long as possible"

Jared stopped walking Blaed stopped and turned to face hi on the words "You all know, and yet--"

"No," Blaed said "The rest of them don’t know They see what you’ve chosen to let them see--a dominanton the edge of the saround" Blaed smiled bitterly "If I wasn’t a slave, I would’ve o and settled into what I a it’s the sarown into your skin yet"

Instead of responding to that re He wouldn’t think of it nowCouldn’t think of it now-- especially because he felt the wild stranger stirring deep inside him

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