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He rested his forehead against hers

"You didn’t"

Part Six

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THE QUEEN

The day Søren and Kingsley saved her was the best day of her life And like all her best days, Nora spent it entirely in bed The day after she woke up to an empty bed and a note fro"

She sht her breakfast and they spent a good hour catching up She’d liked Grace froo at her house--liked her so much that it ht for Zach Of course he belonged with Grace She knew it the second she saw that beautiful scared, brave Welsh redhead standing on her porch Nora offered to help Grace with the breakfast dishes but Grace told her to stay in bed--Søren’s orders

A few hours later Søren returned froood hour after lunchthe unbruised parts of her body Two days cuffed and tied up in weird positions had left her more sore than she’d ever been in her life And for a woman like her, who’d lived the life she’d lived, that was saying soain withthis roo of tea "But I feel like I’ quarantined I don’t think ‘kidnap victi"

"Your priest has ordered all of us to leave you alone" Grace blushed a little and Nora narrowed her eyes at her "I don’t think any of us are brave enough to countermand his orders"

"Countermand away He went for another run"

Grace sat on the bed next to Nora’s hip

"Another one? Didn’t he go running thisa bit pent-up"

"Pent-up?"

As she sipped at her tea, Nora tried to figure out a way of putting the matter to Grace delicately Then she re delicately

"I hed to clear her throat

"What? Priests get horny, too," Nora reminded her "He’s a sadist so that co sley’s a wreck He needs stitches, but Søren says he won’t hold still long enough to let anyone take care of hiets like this, and he can’t punish so We need to get him a sub"

"A sub? You mean--"

"A submissive Kink is like Søren’s lithium It’s a mood stabilizer for a lot of people Half my clients came to me for etsdifficult"

"Difficult?"

"Cranky Gru So he needs a submissive to play with?"