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Nevertheless, he crossed the floor to her, cah that he could have reached out, drawn her to him

Setting the knife aside, she threaded the whip through her fingers, re a whip as well, bushainst hi it settle around his throat

Watching him all the while, she slowly drew in the slack with both hands until it cinched against his windpipe, until his breath registered the restriction and his heart rate began to speed up

“Are you prepared to accept pain froaze was on the quickened pulse in her own throat

Soen deprivation, he wondered if it was excitement

“I can handle anything you’ve got, love”

Alistair’s lips curved Nina’s doe brown eyes got wider Lyssa and Thoine Tho he was a coree

“New servants are such a delight,” Alistair observed, and asked for ht in

“Go stand over there,” Danny ordered, yanking none-too-gently to bring the whip slithering off him and back to the floor

The chains had been unraveled, and fourfrom the iron wheel With the spokes, the erslightly in the sea breeze that was filtering through the screens, for Alistair had ordered the s opened

He ot there and turned, she was standing in the same place “Raise your arms over your head” When he complied, Thoaze uided Dev’s hands into the manacles and locked them into place There was a switch panel in this corner, and when Thomas flipped one, aup the slack, so that Dev felt his heels leave the floor Quelling the sudden clutch of panic, he watched Thomas then kneel to clamp a soldered pair of cuffs around his ankles He also wrapped a strap around his thighs, cinching in tight so his legs were held together, ankles to crotch,cock Since Tho this without any verbal instruction, he deteruidance When he looked toward Lyssa, she was appreciating the stretch and strain of his body

Danny hadhis bonds She tilted her head toward Thoet his mind wrapped around that, Thomas had flipped two more switches, ether, which put his weight against the wristpoints on the dia it so his arms were stretched out, almost four feet between them God, this hurt the shoulders

He suspected the vampire queen had done some time with the Spanish Inquisitors

Then Danny h to touch, only he couldn’t touch her Instead, she ran her palm up his chest, over the raven mark, then back down, slow He noticed then she’d set aside the whip and held the knife, the blade catching the candlelight While Alistair had electricity, like ht, which made Dev wonder if their eyes preferred darkness entirely Which also explained why there’d been no torchlight around the covered tent where they’d played chess

“I’d be worried about a servant who used knives like that” Alistair chuckled “Heyou could use later”

“He’s very careful about his knives Takes good care of theood care of me” Dev turned his attention to her still face at those words He wished so damned much she would talk to him

What would you have me say, bushman?

He closed his eyes Anything, my lady

She caressed his chest again, only this ti it down his sternum When he opened his eyes, she still hadn’t taken her eyes off his face But she drew the knife down, down, sliding left to follow the pectoral to the nipple, bore down as she cut hied in his throat as she bent and teased the nub with her tongue, taking the blood away

“He didn’t even flinch,” Lyssahim, Danny?”

“No No warnings”

“He is fearless,” Alistair said

No o to that still place in your head I forbid it Stay with me

You only have to ask, ht now, though he knew that ht have helped keep some sense of an equal connection between them, even if it was only an illusion The title see swirl of emotions

Her blue eyes were very close when the blade sliced across the other nipple He shuddered at it, but again, didn’t flinch Wherever she ith that knife, he was ready for it He just wasn’t sure he could withstand the eer with every pain, with the contrasting gentle touch of her hands He wanted to disobey, needed to go to that still place before they all spilled out and he couldn’t control them