I waited with bated breath for him to draw his sword, and end me for my insolence, but he didn’t. He dropped his head, and I saw genuine sorrow on his face. “I broke those girls, Lucilla,” Father said, “I twisted them and molded them to my liking. Over a decade of subtle manipulation, of giving and taking, of playing god with their psyches until they adored me. Do you know about Binding?” “It’s when a Creator comes out of their infancy,” I replied, “they create a reservoir of power in another person, and can draw infinitely from it.” “The Creator has to choose their Binder,” Father said, “they cannot be coerced into it; it has to be a genuine connection. They must love the person pov they bind with, so I have made the girls love me, even as I took everything from them. If what you’re saying is true, then any hope of japanese our nation acquiring the permanent allegiance of a Creator is lost. I let her slip through the cracks, and now she is too old and too warry to mold. I fear, given my reputation, that the Heat Bringer will make an enemy of us.” “What are you going to do?” I asked him. “This point of contention between Telavia and myself is what compelled her to act as she did.” Father said, “She told me I did not have the Creator, and I told her that if all else failed, I would lay pitch upon the floor of the palace keep, and light all seven-hundred of them ablaze.” “What?!” I yelled. “It is a misnomer that Heat Bringers cannot be burned,” Father said, “they are flesh and blood like the rest of us. However, their ethereal flame burns hotter than any earthly fire, so when they ignite, the blaze of other fires will not scorch them. We burned the palms of the girls when they were children, but none reacted favorably. Perhaps the threat wasn’t real enough; perhaps a mortal test is required. If it fails, then I will know definitively that you and Telavia were right.” “Father,” chinese I whispered, horrified, “even if it works, you will have killed hundreds. How will the one remaining ever bind with you after you’ve murdered all her friends?” “That is why it is a last resort,” Father said grimly, “it is a terrible thing that I do not wish to do, but increasingly, I am realizing it is a thing I must do. If I cannot bind with the Creator, I can at least break her.” JULIA I did not want another awkward morning, so I decided that ignoring pussy what happened asian probably wasn’t the best idea. Tonight, I would get Lucilla good and drunk, and then we’d bury the hatchet, and laugh the whole thing off. I selected her favorite wine from the royal cellar, and prepared her a bath to clean the sin from her skin. When Lucilla came into her quarters, her dress was intact, her face was unmarred, and her porcelain complexion was much paler than usual. She was shaking. “Lucilla?” I asked as she carefully sat on her bed, “Lucilla, what’s wrong?” She stared at the fire crackling in the hearth, and didn’t seem to hear what I said. I walked over to her and put a hand on her shoulder, and she jumped in surprise. “Your Grace?” I asked her, feeling the tension in her body, feeling the panic in my chest rise. I’d never seen her like this. She shook beneath my palm, her entire body quaking in fear. Jamie and I also did NOT attend Melissa’s real surprise party the next weekend. If a boy had suddenly been surrounded by screens at a massage parlour everyone would only imagine obvious prostitution, but this place looked respectable and there were two girls in there together so it surely couldn’t be anything naughty? I meant did you learn pov anything from the report?" “That is a turn on baby for me baby,” Roger groans as chinese I feel his hands on my arse. Or was it just a guess?” Kyle just about lost his shit. I thought asian for a moment. Erica starts with japanese one hand tugging up and down on his dick and licking his head. Maybe I was just pussy being naive. I shuddered as Alicia jammed her tongue in deep into my cunt, swirling it around inside of me. "Time for me to get mine."