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Leora—his glorious, naked slave—lay in her cage, not eating, but with one perfect, delicate hand between her legs

Oh, one true star of Zandia

Holy veck

He wanted to return immediately to his chamber to watch—no, to tell her she was never, ever allowed to orgase to be with her for every second of her pleasure made his body flush with heat, sweat to break out around his horns

But Prince Zander arrived behind hiht, Master Seke?”

He gulped a breath and struggled to regain his sanity He would chastise Leora for giving herself a release when he returned, and he’d make it an enjoyable punishave Zander a curt nod and motioned to the battle arts studio

Zander preceded hi to Seke, his master in this chamber

Seke bowed and then swept a foot out to drop Zander to his back on the floor before the prince registered he’d begun He’d trained the boy well, though, and Zander sprang to his feet, at once on the offensive, co for Seke

He parried the kicks and bloaiting for the righthim to his back

His pupil did a back handspring to rise This ti his ame today This wasn’t practice It was punishment

Zander proved his understanding with his nextit in Seke’s direction, he asked casually, “How goes it with Leora?”

Seke grabbed his own staff and lunged, forcing Zander back into a corner with swing after swing of the staff, whichforce each time

“That bad, eh?” Zander dodged the strike Seke aimed for his temple and dive-rolled away, out of the corner, his wooden staff c

lacking on the floor as he took it with him

It probably would’ve ended normally—he would have exercised Zander harder than usual, but they would have bowed to each other and parted with reverence, except he saw the read-out of Leora flash on his cuff How the feed activated again, he wasn’t sure As a Master Warrior, he didn’t allow such things to distract him