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He tipped her chin up and to her relief, she noted he’d softened his disgruntled expression “No I don’t think you did, but your attitude remains problematic A wife of mine would kneel on the floor the moment I entered the room”
“I’m not your wife I’ her voice Kneel, debase herself? It wasn’t sonored her father when he’d co she overheard,Mason’s idea of a wife’s role was degenerate
“No,” he said softly, “you’re not my wife I don’t expect devotion, or even loyalty from you I do expect obedience and honesty My s to me without condition, because she loves s on Ixzar”
“That’s not aze and his eyelids flickered for a second “Do I get punished for this?” She cocked her head at the stasis tube
Mason released her arm “No But now that my expectations are clearer, they’ll be no more second chances Have you finished what you needed to do in here?” He stepped back when she shook her head, then watched as she moved between the icy to as she quickly completed her checks
No more second chances The man was a disciplinarian to the core, an attribute she’d encountered little on her home world Sanctions were less physical, more materialistic—the removal of personal possessions or fines had soot aith pushing her luck
She closed her toolbox “All is good Sir,” she added
He followed her out and sealed the door with his palet in here without me”
“Anywhere else out of bounds?” she asked
“My quarters Now, it’s tio to bed”
She closed her eyes and quickly counted to ten in her head, holding back the barbed re out of trouble was going to be so tough She s the corner of her lips up into her heated cheeks “Of course Sir”
Soed away in her head as she sat opposite him in the small mess and ate supper, which bore the same features as breakfast: bland and tasteless “Marshal,” she began tentatively “I get that you’ll punish irl, it has to work in my favor to obey you”
His lips twitched slightly as he considered her question “I’ you”
“Oh, no, I assugled her wrist and the hts “This?”
“The restraints? They stay, for now” He pursed his lips as she continued to offer him herher eyelashes “The ankle ones could be reood”