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When Leora emerged clean and fresh from the washtube the following morning, she found Seke had returned to his chamber.
“Are you ready to apologize to Zander? Show you have accepted your punishment and training?”
Her jaw dropped. A heaviness pressed against her chest.
Was he serious? Every time she thought she might understand Seke, might forgive his high-handedness, even be able to surrender to him as her master, he did or said something that made her want to kick him in the teeth again.
She’d been furious—vecking furious he’d kept her from speaking with Lily earlier, and having Rok demand to know whether they were slaves or not had been humiliating. Clearly, he didn’t think they should be.
She agreed. If Zander loved her daughter enough to mate her, he had to treat her as an equa
