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A tres to her core It turned her hands clammy and cold To hide her terror, she lifted her chin and met the eyes of her new e for breeding Surely you know that” At forty-one solar cycles, her body could still reproduce, but the risks were higher

So beneath the marble mask “No,” he clipped “You have displeased your host Prince Zander ordered your punishave his word to Lamira you would not be used as a sex slave”

She wondered if he inserted the part about the prince ordering it as a subtleher know this wasn’t his own idea Did he find it distasteful? She couldn’t tell

“Release cuffs” The cuffs, which had to be voice-commanded like the doors and locks in the pod, separated “You will refer to me as master at all times You will keep your eyes lowered and your hands behind your back unless otherwise instructed I expect your obedience and complete submission Defiance will be i”

Even though she should have expected this treatut From another male, it would not have wounded so badly, but from Seke, the male who had always shown her such courtesy, it came as a betrayal Before she could consider the wisdom of it, her hand shot out to slap him

Heit behind her back so she had to either spin around or have it wrenched in the socket She whirled, and he flattened her against the closed door, with one wrist pinned to her back, the other to the cool ainst the door, and his body covered hers, pinning her with the whole of his chest, his torso, the bulge of his cock against her lower back

So He did find this arousing His hardand warm

The treer “Seke,” she whispered

She didn’t knohat made her speak his naers ordered by another to coe scene

And his breath was at her neck, hotter even than his flesh “Defiance will be punished every time, Leora” He, too, sounded er or even danger in his threat Only pro her to his command

She struggled then, terrified, not of the punishment, but of him and her body’s reaction to him

He took her hand from the door and folded it behind her back with the other one, fastening the cuffs together once ain, there was no bark to his words, only quiet deteruided her to the sleep-disk, where he sat and pulled her across his knees, her torso resting on the mattress

She understood i Perhaps, if she was honest with herself, she’d ad held so intimately on a male’s lap to have a private part of her anatomy touched, punished by him

When he pulled up her white robes, though, she caainst his obvious intent Of course, her struggles were nolimbs to pin her in place Her robes slithered up her back, the fineover her skin like a caress The hs He lifted his leg to wiggle them past it, and the cool air of the room hit her bare bottom

She twisted, contorting her torso in an effort to bring her mouth to his arm to bite, but she couldn’t reach