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“What?”
Mallise leaned in closer. “I said, did your mother share any of her partners with you?” She spoke with the same low, demanding voice.
Paskia shook her head. “I…I don’t know what you mean. What partners?”
“The guests in the house. The ones she took at your father’s bidding, and off her own back. Or should that be on her own back? The ones she took while he watched, and the ones when he was elsewhere. Did she invite you to partake? Did she offer you up to some of the young men? Or maybe some of the women?” Now the lips creased, not into a smile but a mouth ready to devour. “I bet you like that best. I can picture you getting stuck in with your b***h of a mother watching.”
onThe air was sickly sweet, and Paskia breathed in dead flowers. She looked to Fatina, who had
