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Krelis took a deep breath and forgot what he was going to say The air in the room felt soft, heavy An elusive scent drifted past hiroin at the same time it melted the tension from the rest of his body

He took another deep breath What had they been talking about? The Shalador Warlord Now he re?"

"We talked during dinner"

"Did he "

"What--" Krelis bit his lip The pain cleared his head a little "I want to knohat the two of you did that evening"

Daemon turned and looked at him "Do you?" he asked too softly

Krelis nodded slowly

Daemon sasped

Long-nailed fingers whispered down his back, over his buttocks, down the backs of his thighs They were still drifting over his calves when another pair of phantoan the journey

"He bored raceful, predatory steps toward Krelis "It leftmean, so I seduced him"

Another pair of phanto just before they reached his groin to travel down the front of his legs

"He was begging by the ti another step toward Krelis

Krelis opened his ue delicately licked his upper lip

Another tongue licked the inside of his thigh,upward

Waran

"He was sobbing by the ti just a little closer, but still not close enough to touch

A phantoently

"Do you want me to show you what I did to him?"

Krelis couldn’t think Didn’t want to think about anything but that beautiful face, about the lide over his hot skin, when that real tongue would--

Dae stopped Instantly

Krelis swayed His vision blurred Every breath made his body throb In thattothat revolted him

He bit his lip until it bled By the ti out theas if nothing had happened

Krelis wanted to lash out, wanted to threaten some kind of dire punish need for relief

Daemon turned his head and sered out of the rooainst the hile he waited to get sos

Now he understood why Queens and favored witches from aristo families paid Dorothea such exorbitant fees for the loan of Dae to endure his cruelty, why they illing to risk his teht to completion

Krelis pushed away froet away from this place Maybe, with distance, he could deny the terrible feeling that, no matter how skilled the whore or how ain experience the kind of pleasure he’d felt with the Sadist

Chapter Twenty-one

Lia stopped abruptly at the edge of the official landing place outside Ranon’s Wood

Jared grabbed her, drawing her back against hi--of what hewasn’t seeing

The section of the Coach station roof that had been torn away

The broken s

The empty corral where the horses for hire would have been kept during the day

The pieces of the stable door that were scattered around the yard