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She blinked at his?” At his look of astonishe, soeon with shackles, role and cosplay Spankings and repeated orgasm denial You know, typical BDSM But don’t worry, they were doing it before it became cool”
“BD what?” Thronos’s expression was priceless—part confusion over the lingo, part horror, part helpless fascination She’d bet this angel had an untapped wicked streak
“Look, it’s not for us to understand It worked for them” The whole truth was muchthe kingdo control of the mysterious, demonic Well of Souls in Castle Tornin No one had ever expected Sabine to fall for Rydstrom—least of all Sabine
Thronos helped Lanthe over a resin pit “Answer the question”
“Fine Rydstroe Everything she did to him, he did to her”
“The parallel would be for me to bed scores of other women Which is iiveness I’m happy to have experience and to knowhiscoin In a hundred years or so, do you think she’ll iine what it’s like to know another male? Maybe she will, maybe she won’t But do you think Rydstro it?” She continued, “All those virgin females out there will always have to wonder I won’t I aence, and now I’ haul of eternity”
“That is soether “By that logic, in a hundred years you’ll wonder if I’ about other females”
In a throaty voice, she said, “Thronos, understand me: if I ever decided to bed you, there would be no doubt You’d be completely undone, absolutely taken, forever mine If you were ever inside me, you would be broken down at a molecular level—altered irretrievably”
His expression told her he very uarantee this because of yourexperience?”
When she ed, she expected hiain, he held off
Yet she didn’t think this was because he’d had a change of heart Heher a harlot, but he still had to think of her as one
Lanthe had a theory about his turnaround Before, he’d seen her as a sexual object for other males; after Inferno, he noed her as a sexual object for himself to enjoy—and, sadly, she believed he’d learned his first lesson as a potential sexual partner: Act like an assle and you won’t get any
Which ue until he could get what he wanted
Just like every other male she’d been with
TWENTY-FIVE
Oh, look! Pitha fruit” Melanthe stretched for a black gourd above her, just out of her reach She scratched at the bottom of it like a little kitten
He pulled the fruit down for her, scenting it “This could be poisonous”
“It grows in Rothkalina”
He cracked open the gourd for her The inside was succulent and smelled sweet
When he handed the halves to her, she scooped soht
“You’re certain of that?” he asked “Though Sorceri are vulnerable to poisons?”
She was already finished with one half “Poisons and venoms” Between chews, she said, “But I’et cured of that morsus anyway?”
“When O in the Basement—delivered the antidotes to us Otherould’ve died”
Yet another tiht’ve perished when she’d been outside his protection “This hag did so despite the fact that you called her that?”
Melanthe shrugged, taking another bite, chewing happily
Dragging his gaze froh he’d scented water nearby, he still hadn’t found the source, and it was growing darker Dusk was abnorun its lazy descent, the dragons had retreated fro over the treetops
He and Melanthe had decided to return to the deht, but they remained without water And he hadn’t recuperated whatsoever
Plus, he had plans for the all the flowers, she set down her finished fruit “It’s beautiful here”
Her black, black hair matched the petals of those flowers Gaze still on her, he muttered, “Yes Beautiful”
Since Melanthe had described what copulation between the except her When he took her home to his Bed of Troth, would he not want to hear her keen with ecstasy? Would Thronos not want to es as he e over his decision to clai words to hi could stop him All he needed was a secure place to coet her nakd and in his arms? His skin flushed when he realized that would mean he too would have to be unclothed
Naked In front of her
He’d figure it out
Finding another pitha, he used his claw to stab a hole in the bottoary, but welcoourd to drink
When sorinned rin affected hily He wanted the kiss he’d almost taken
Whatever she saw in his expression made her murmur, “Thronos?”
Before he could stop hi in closer to her
“Whoa, tiger!” She pushed against him “You promised me water Even I can so As he bit back his disappointht movement out of the corner of his eye
A bubble filled ater was floating through the air between the Without a word, they both hastened in the direction it’d coed in front of her “I lead the way” He pushed past so, bordered by moonraker trees The htly woven branchesabove them Countless water-filled bubbles floated up like heliuainst the ilade like a cool suain