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"I wasn’t co, I promise"

She worked in concentrated silence for a fewof the headboard to steady himself

"Where did you learn how to do sutures?"

"Mistress Irina"

"Ahhyes, ood sadist, too"

"That client of mine with the medical fetishas his na his lips sutured Paidnearly that much off him"

"It was off the books" She winked at hi during stitches He learned that the hard way once

"I knew you were ski," he protested "It was creative arith the end of the thread, "I ood team, you and I, Maîtresse"

"We were Especially e teamed up on Blondie"

"He’s his own army We needed a unified force to defeat hisley said, and Nora grinned broadly She wore nothing right now but black panties and a black tank top so all her bruises were on open display But even with the bruises, the cracked and healing lip, she was still a thing of beauty any"At least, that’s e told ourselves"

"You think we could do that again?" Nora asked, pausing to dab an alcohol-soaked cotton ball over the bleeding stitches

"Do what? Gang up on hi "Friends,me?"

"I never hated you"

Nora flicked his open wound with her fingers Kingsley gasped in pain

"Liar"

"Fine I did hate you A little"

"Why? We were good once, King You and me When I worked for you, ere almost even friends"

He exhaled heavily

"When you left him the first time, I knehy I understood, and as much as it hurt me to see him so broken, I didn’t even bla as you did in his collar"

"I took great pleasure in i him"

"This does not surprise me Any true slave or submissive wouldn’t have minded his tests But I knehat you were and I kne hard it must have been for you to deny that half of yourself that wanted to be the master"