“You look like you’ve been starved,” she said sitting beside me as the Keeper fed me.

I just shrugged. With this man sitting here I couldn’t reasonably remind her the women had wanted me to look half dead. Apparently they had done quite a good job. Everyone that saw me said I looked awful.

That evening I waited patiently for my family. There was a gnawing sense that something was going to happen. Part of me hoped Bane had forgotten our midday banter; I was never that lucky, though.

My men came, took me home, and then we went down to the bathhouse. Damien and his Brothers were keeping a secret, I could see it. They smiled and looked at each other like they were bursting, but they didn’t say anything. It would come out whenever it came out, I decided. No use worrying what it would be.

I was resting on a chaise in the sitting room in the early evening. When I heard a knock indicating our food was here, I slipped down to rest on my kneeling place. My family liked me to use the furniture, the rest of the world would not understand.

The man delivering the tray set it on the table. He removed the lid and I heard his breath catch.

this to the kitchen for us to cook for you!”

Damien said with a smile and I heard the

to the table. I was escorted to it and they sat me down with a flourish. I watched Bane’s happy smile with a reserved expression; he was up to

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the lid off the platter and I screamed as I fell out of my chair. It was one of those nasty, gigantic spider creatures that Nu-reeh had showed me. I squealed like a typical girl

in the apartment. I cursed them in every Language I knew. My men were roaring with Laughter. My reaction had apparently been

my new vantage point I noted the thing wasn’t moving. It also appeared charred.

are worms, Ciara,” Bane offered once he had regained some measure of

not enjoy them. Like worms, these creatures are quite high

Evan said still grinning

out the eyes, but we felt sure you would enjoy them. We killed it by stabbing the back. It was harder that way, but we

mischievous. This extra effort was certainly not

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