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Chapters (44)
  1. The Rising
  2. Table of Contents
  3. The Work
  4. The New
  5. The Miracle
  6. The Battle of the Heights
  7. The Losses
  8. The Rejection
  9. The Grieving
  10. The Brother
  11. The Legends
  12. The Women
  13. The Ink
  14. The Vengeance
  15. The Report
  16. The New Airen
  17. The Introduction
  18. The Adrift
  19. The Finding
  20. The Training
  21. The Assignments
  22. The Shimmering
  23. The Interrogation
  24. The Drawing
  25. The Revelation
  26. The Escape
  27. The Rainbow
  28. The Discussion
  29. The Deep
  30. The Dragons
  31. The Visit
  32. The Reckoning
  33. The Twist
  34. The Examination
  35. The Tomes
  36. The Feint
  37. The Pursuit
  38. The Rising
  39. The Aftermath
  40. Chapter One Hundred & Fifty-Five
  41. The Epilogue
  42. About the Author
  43. Books by Kristen Ashley
  44. Connect with Kristen Ashley

“She is skittish as a doe around you,” Faunus retorted. “You terrify her, and yet she’s so desirous of falling on your cock, she can barely function. She nearly fell into the gorge, for watching how you would react to seeing it, she so hoped you’d like it. She does not wish to cook for Teddy and me, she wishes to cook for you and for you to think she does well at it. And she is Dellish and this is Dellish,” he swung his hand out, “and she wishes you to like this for liking this, and the bloody cheese she enjoys so damned much that her mother bought for their festival, is akin to liking her. But are you indicating any of this, amico? Fuck…no.”

Saturn appeared thunderstruck.

“He is right,” Teddy put in a lot less irately, and Saturn looked to him. “Faunus told her you fancied her. And although that conversation was rife with a number of other things, since then, a woman I have not known long, but in the time I’ve known her, she is rarely unsure of herself, has been oftentimes awkward. Other times jumpy as a cat. And others, so hesitant in her manner, it is difficult to witness.”

“Why is she these things if she wants my cock?” Saturn asked.

Teddy stared at him.

Faunus answered.

“She is not a bold Firenz female who is raised to understand her desires…and communicate them. She is Dellish, Saturn. And not long ago, she witnessed woman after woman violated before they were put to death. But look about you,” he urged. “In all our time here, have you seen a single man as tall as you, or as built, save me?”

Saturn looked about him, even though it was the middle of the day, and there were not many around to look at.

Teddy still felt certain he’d take Faunus’s point.

“You are handsome, or I would not fuck you,” Faunus went on. “Nyx would not enjoy watching you get fucked. And all the varied males and females you take would not relish the same. But Moira might actually be virgin. And as the act she witnessed has naught to do with the beauty shared in intimacy, she might now be confused about it and in turn terrified of you, at the same time attracted to you, and along with your manner, you are causing her confusion and shaking her assurance.”

“I knew this, this was why, at first, I kept my distance,” Saturn stated. “But she is most affectionate, in her playful way with Teddy, and now also you, but not me.”

“This is because she wants Teddy and my affection, but she wants that and more from you,” Faunus returned.

Saturn slowly sat back in his chair.