15/02/2026 10:05

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You fed the ardeur. I need blood to bind him to his grave. It took a force of will to look away from him in that shining circle of light. Isn't that a hell of a thing, my own son? Zerbrowski agreed it was a hell of a thing.

I smiled when I said it, and knew that it didn't reach my eyes, but I didn't care. I thought at first he'd missed, but he raised up enough to look down my body to Richard. I knew that Nathaniel wouldn't do that, and I also knew that truthfully if you're intent on rape you want some clothes off before you get here. His body was filling up, about to spill over and into her; riding the edge of pleasure, when she changed it,