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They looked at each other, and there, within the silence, acknowledged a man’s betrayal of hi else?" Saetan finally asked

Lucivar stared into the goblet Easy enough to shrug it off, let it pass After all, they were both feeling a little raw But…

"I don’t re those early years, and your passion and honor were the forge thatthat came after I don’t knohat I would have become without that, but I’ Witch So I thank you for that, too, and…I’m proud to have you as my father"

"As I am proud to have you as a son," Saetan replied softly

Tiet weepyHe used Craft to float the goblet back to the tray, then stood up and stretched "Well I’d better get back If the little beast wakes up and Marian has to deal with him on her own…" He frowned

"What?" Saetan asked

Lucivar rubbed the back of his neck "I have the nagging feeling that I’ve forgotten so"

"Hmm Well, you’ll either remember it on your own, or you’ll reotten couess that’s soe of the street, Surreal studied the three-story house that looked like it had seen better years Better decades, actually There was a shabbiness to it that felt like neglect rather than the decline that coe But it e at one tinificantly larger than its neighbors

She didn’t know , but the whole thing struck her as being off-balance, as if the right side of the land were about to tip up froht of the house on the left side And ould anyone surround property with a waist-high wrought-iron fence that followed the property line at least on the two sides but split the front yard in half between house and street, ht have been attractive at one ti to keep the doubt out of her voice

"You mean before it was built?" Rainier replied

She huffed out a laugh

"There are plenty of Blood mansions that have a tower," Rainier said "But the tower attached to the right side of this building…"

"Looks like a fat penis with pretensions"

Rainier choked And because he choked, she couldn’t resist

"Really," Surreal said "It re that was done in a Terreillean Territory a few decades ago Didn’t stay in fashion for long, but it was a"

She couldn’t tell if he was amused or appalled But he didn’t sound suspicious "Feathers, ribbons, netting that acted as a sleeve so that seed pearls and sequins could be added"

"I can’t iine any of that would be comfortable, and I also don’t see the point"

"Well, it’s not like they kept it stuffed in their pants" She bit the inside of her cheek

"But…In a social gathering, it’s ot rather than actuallyshow it"

Did arments that enhanced their cocks the omen sometimes used corsets or specially constructed brassieres to enhance their breasts? She’d have to ask him sometime

"Besides, a ," Rainier said

"That’s true And there was an ebb and flow to the festivities for a while" Oh, he was definitely appalled now "That’s whyover their asset and decorating that"

"How could you tell it was a covering?"

"Has your cock ever turned purple?"

"No"

"Well, then" She grinned Couldn’t stop herself Besides, he sounded like he was being lightly strangled, so it was ti "Now that you’re war’s horrors?"

"Surreal"