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"She always favored you!"

"Nay! She only pretended to favorYou’re the one who got all the freedoht youfor the title!"

"I pray you, Cousins, this is no way to show respect Duchess Rotrudis can hear every word--"

"As if she hasn’t enjoyed every word of it, the old bitch!"

"Hah! You licked sweetly enough the honeyco half their size and having none of their shrill stridency, Sapientia was helpless to stop theer or aghast to see such a show Sanglant watched as Sapientia tried to cal, but she hadn’t the authority to do it They saw no reason to listen to her

Wich over to Zwentibold’s litter The pretty attendant shrank away, but there was no way, here at Osterburg, that she could escape the son of the reigning duchess Zwentibold had taken her, after all, with or without her consent, and Wichman clearly had decided to follohere his brother had first plunged in

Just as Wichly spark of unrestrained lust that irl’s ruot hold of Wichman’s other arm and jerked him forward to stand beside his sisters Wich away

"I would not if I were you," said Sanglant softly "I claim her, and I’ll cut off your balls if you touch her You knohat , Wichman raked his hair back from his head and shot a leer back at Zwentibold’s concubine But he stayed where he was, next to Sophie

Sanglant placed himself between Imma and Sophie Even Sapientia moved instinctively back to make room for him This close, the sht not to gag Duchess Rotrudis’ skin hung on her in folds Her once ruddy cheeks were sallow, her eyes sunken and dark Sanglant wasn’t even sure she are of as going on around her

He reh from the days when she had been healthy He’d never liked her, but no person could ever have said that Rotrudis did not rule the duchy of Saony effectively and with an iron hand

"I pray you, Cousins," he said, "answer me truly Do you hate each other more than you hate your blessed mother? Or the other way around?"

Silence crashed down, broken only by a single gasp of a whimper fro in the pain of her illness?