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seeing a half naked little vixen tiptoeing th

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as a thie

lidded eyes as she immersed h

oset, even the bathroom. She didn't

ed me here with the intent to steal

ow, involuntary grin

burgundy dress that hugged all those luscious curves of h

her actions that amazed me. Or mayb

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she showed m

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e drinks yesterday,

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she'd pulled

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my guards to let her leave. She'd get no

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sat up, the sheets po

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control. It had been handed down through generations,

the day I became don, and his words

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carele

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er, and just like I'd

forceful current of bittern

mind racing. How ha

with her, of all people? A r

nd bitterly offered it to me l

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he was mi

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who'd I'd instructed the men at the gat

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mind, remembering th

fucking

ted, "It was s

the other end. Then

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stions. He knew better. "Wha

m. "Send men to all the usual places. Tear the fucking streets apart if yo

without complaint or emoti

tood by the window, lo

iful, and I took a mo

hance to ca

chosen this high ri

d nothing to calm the ragi

've know

. And now I was paying the price for letting

tole from me and

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to learn tha