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"I’ize, Master I don’t knowit won’t happen again" She hurried to the bathroo back as she closed the door, put her hands to her heated cheeks Was it possible she didn’t have the strength toher over

In the bedroom, Niall pressed his forehead to the quilts He realized his mistake as the warhtening, he willed his aching cock to ease off so the fit of his trousers wouldn’t be this damn uncomfortable Was it necessary to be that harsh? ’Tis new to her, the wanting And a pure pleasure to watch, even if it’s pure hell to resist

She’s learning to be a different kind of servant, but she’s still a servant, Niall She needs the boundaries, the re, it’s critical

Ye just wanted to deprive me

There was that added benefit

Niall had a creative response to that, to which Evan responded in kind The Scot heaved out a sigh, shoved off the bed "Join me in the kitchen," he called out to Alanna "We’ll "

Evan, down in the cellar, gazed at the final prints drying, but hisHe’d wanted to join the Alanna had slept in the back bedrooht, not just because she wanted to be near his servant She’d already made the connection that Evan could re the early dawn hours, and she wanted to be accessible to both her Master and his servant She was chastising herself for letting her passion override his coed the heady experience of a servant so co hi, he could have contained his own response, but she was right They’d opened so he was fairly sure Stephen had never discovered, the true gem of what she wanted

A Master ould let her love as well as serve him

He’d proven to her that, when her will and desire were added into the mix, it increased the pleasure for her Master, but in his self-appointed position as mentor for that sensual treasure trove, he hadn’t expected what it would do to hi as captured as his Master by the intriguing contradiction of Alanna Since beco Evan’s servant, Niall had enjoyed many women and some men as part of their travels But he hadn’t truly wanted a female heart since the death of his wife The circu her as much as he felt he should, had kept a wall in place

Alanna was breaking that wall down, in more ways than one, and she didn’t even realize it It’s obvious how much he loves you

Evan shook his head, ain Soon he’d have to sleep, and he needed to pack these up now, so that when he rose at dusk they’d be ready to get on the road

The rest would figure itself out Or not S pond, he re the vanizing it didn’t matter who she served, she was still a servant, he had no illusions as to how inal huht it was ave his that most vampires didn’t Compassion, interest in the , wantingNiall wasn’t all wrong about the blank canvas Sometimes Evan did have to remind himself there was a value separate from his artistic impulses A separate soul

But a soul that was his It was hard to resist the vampire compulsion that told him his servant was all his, to do with as he would And now he had two of them

But that co Alanna mindful of her service Raised from birth to be an InhServ, in, untouched except for the clinically in-depth sexual training they were required to have, she’d never experienced the glow of first love, that overwhel rush of emotions that attended it, except in her early naive fantasies of what a servant was As she herself had recognized, her fervor was like that of a Catholic schoolgirl, her strict upbringing creating a rhapsodic relationship with Christ, confusing it with mortal passion and desire

As pleasurable as it was to see her explore her real feelings, he wouldn’t let her coht, Evan wasn’t ignorant of the consequences of that He was in charge of protecting her, and he didn’t see that as limited to the time she was under her direct protection The blank canvas wasn’t blank There were obstacles already painted onto it No matter how much the artist wanted to step back and watch her discover the woman beneath the InhServ--the true reason she was such a remarkable servant--he wouldn’t let her drop all her defenses