Eddy had been merciless with picking at me. He made my personal life a topic of conversation with all my uncles when they sat and drank beer in the front yard. Before I moved, it had gotten to a point I snuck out my window and walked around the back of the house when I went anywhere.

The constant jibes and hurtful remarks were too numerous to take.

I was scowling and staring at the floor when I felt Master Bane pinch a nipple. I Looked up at him shocked.

“Ciara, what are you thinking about?” he asked curiously offering me a piece of food that had obviously been delivered while I was daydreaming.

Oh God, I couldn’t tell them what I was thinking about Master Christof.

That could be really offensive here. I stammered out an answer about a creepy relative of my mother’s that this place reminded me of. That seemed to satiate them.

As we ate I took the chance to look furtively around the restaurant. I glanced at a girl at a table near ours that seemed to be human. She was sitting like I was, but she Looked up at the men that sat around her.

her eyes off of one of them. Her attention seemed odd to me. Staring at someone openly Like that, I would consider rude. Perhaps that was the right way

She didn’t look the way I thought a

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bound in a bun at the back of her head. It looked thick and

seemed to

down at my own hands I was embarrassed for some reason. Despite that strangely effective cream, I still had cracks on my palms and thick callouses on my fingers. Comparing myself to the beautiful creature at the other table I

at the men she sat with. She seemed to spend a little time

this time he also gave it a

you doing,

watching

in the direction I had been looking. They did look less angry when

is not a girl or a she,” Master Damien informed me. “That is a slave. You will notice it only

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