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“Let’s distribute the regular stuff first, so the villagers can see hoorks They are not quick to trust After that, we can sneak you into various areas in the village to see the sickest patients”

I didn’t h sound

He glanced back with an arched eyebrow

“I’ his tense shoulders

“You nursed hly” His tone held innuendo, and I kneas thinking about theafter he took the crowded elixir, plus our encounter in the washing shed that afternoon…

Heat worain, stopping one where his shoulderup the front of his throat and applying a little pressure I s, his head just under my breasts Now I pushedhis scars, lingering on a nipple

“That was different,” I murmured

“How?” he whispered, allowing me to lided a thu in a circle

My core tightened, and I leaned over to run the edge ofthe shell of his ear Goosebuh his body

I sh the bond, I could feel hi the sa at attention He was not bashful in the least about his body, so I appreciated I was not bashful in the least about staring at it

“I don’t kno, to be honest” I tightened the ar closer to his body I licked and kissed down his jaw line, ht I could barely stand it “I would say that I cared about you getting better, or that I worried I’d lose you, but I cared about those things with Father, and yet I couldn’t bear to be the one nursing him”

“Maybe you could…bear it if I died, and so it didn’t matter whether you nursed me” He tilted his head a little, his eyes closed, and I noticed his hands gripping the edge of the bench hite knuckles

He was referring tomistake in our letters

He was thinking aboutbare