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This, as well as everything before it, would be part of her as well She didn’t have to figure it all out now She just had to do one thing at a time, and when it was all said and done, she’d face whatever she had to face
"There’sher subside into the occasional hiccup of a sob, his fingers taking away the tears as he stroked the side of her face and kept holding her cheek to his chest "I’ive you so little ti you handle this all at once I know it makes you feel alone, because no one here can relate to what you’re facing I can call Thomas, if you’d like him to come back to the island Dev may even be able to come for a while"
She shook her head "No, I wouldn’t possibly ask any of the just because I’m a bit wobbly over this She’ll be apples; you’ll see"
Her occasional lapse into Aussie-isht, and she took strength from that when he tipped up her chin She dwelled on that stern th of his face "I’m not sorry ItoI have far s I want from you are limitless You sense it, and you respond to it, and the more you respond, theit "Would you like s on for you, Master?"
His answer to that was a resounding yes, but she only got to the first peach set When he sahat the bra did to her generous breasts, and the way the lace of the panties outlined the upper curves of her buttocks but left the lower curves on full display, he had her bent over a pile of pillows on the bed, her arse in the air He sank his fangs into one of those cheeks, licked the blood away; then his tongue teased the satin crotch, a delicious friction that had her crying out until he h, careful not to snag the delicate fabrics with his fangs or create bloodstains on theood on his threat to teach her what the endurance limits of a third-mark truly were
When he left her, she was boneless and liood or bad, though she knew that dark, swirling storain Thirdin a room in her mind, a part that didn’t fit with all of this That part was afraid it would stay forever locked in that rooain, no matter how much of her heart it had once held
She told herself that was okay, that she would take this driving pleasure to serve him, in both passionate and si need for hi For his part, he see under wraps on the island But even when it wasn’t about the physical, she listened for his step, his voice, his scent She was as fully besotted with hiht her a pain she couldn’t describe or explain, because of how different it was
She’d met plenty of women who’d set aside one drea and happy lives for it For this io about her dutiesonce she had feeling in her extreain Chores were chores She could take care of others, enjoy each day God gave her, and let the rest be what it was She couldn’t change it
The girls did very well on their trip into the house In fact, Nerida and Miah ended up at Kohana’s elboatching him make cookies ide-eyed fascination, and Mal had to intervene to explain their constitution could handle only one cookie, not twenty Thereafter, they sat perched on stools, noses lifted like the lion cubs, inhaling the scent in a state of absorbed bliss They touched everything Books, furniture, carpet, walls,treat it had been since they’d been allowed inside any type of civilized human habitation Elisa tried not to let that twist her heart in pity, at least not in any detectable way, mindful of Mal’s reminder to act as if all of this was quite nor the papers froh Elisa knew his attention was fully on the girls at all times They were calmer than she’d ever seen them, however, such that when she sat down near him to sew, they eventually approached and settled with her She was able to show each how to do the stitches, and gave them swatches of fabric on which to practice, their heads bent attentively
It was likely the first ti to do that any huht learn to do, to help keep the faood order
Elisa watched Miah’s head, the sure fingers Re the way she’d tried to wheelbarroay from Leonidas, she couldn’t bear to think of how many times she must have been subjected to the foul appetites of Ruskin’s adulther regard, Elisa aze "I’d like to brush your hair It’s so pretty, we could put ribbons in it See, I have these blue satin ones" She pulled theic basket," as well as her wooden brush, and iers were all over thelance at Mal, then turned her attention back to Elisa