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She nods, her blue gaze locked on olden-pink She looks well-vecked

Content, even

I vecking love that look on her, and I vow to put it on her face every vecking planet rotation

If I can keep her, that is

I’ll have to petition King Zander for permission to mate her He may refuse me She’s very valuable He may wish her to be enes enerations

That thought makes me want to punch the ship wall

The king h if Kailani’s body provides the answers to heal Princess Kaylar and the other sick halflings, I feel certain he’ll be grateful

“Did you eat sory?”

She shakes her head “No, Master”

Veck Every time she callshas ever sounded more perfect to my ears

“Good, because now I’e her wrists gently, then press the, little warrior You thought about leaving without me back there, didn’t you?”

Her pupils shrink, and her breath catches I lean down and do what I’ve been dying to do since the moment I first saw her at the auction—take one of her perky brown nipples into ue around it then nip it with my teeth

“Hured out how to start the ship One command, and you could’ve left me behind”

“But I didn’t,” she whispers

I give her a slow, feral smile “No, you didn’t Do you knohy?”