Betrayals
able to claim.
    “You’re beginning to really annoy me,” the Razas woman announced when she stopped beside the bed to look down at him. “I’ve just been told that you didn’t eat anything, but that won’t be permitted to continue. When I give you back you have to be in good condition, so after I enjoy you—thoroughly this time!—you’ll eat everything you’re brought. Do you understand me?”
    “Have we met?” Valiant asked innocently as he pretended to study her face. “I’m not havin’ luck rememberin’ things, like how I got to this place. And what was that you said we were goin’ to do?”
    “Not we, I, ” she corrected, looking more annoyed than ever. “ I’m going to enjoy myself, and whether or not you have any pleasure is entirely irrelevant. And don’t even think about asking me any questions. You can’t seem to remember the answers from one minute to the next, which I’m now told happens at times with that sedative. As if the fool couldn’t have mentioned that in the first place. Take that sheet off you.”
    As she spoke she opened her wrap and slipped out of it, then stood naked in a pose she must have considered arousing. Valiant couldn’t imagine any situation in which he would find Eltrina Razas attractive or desirable, not to mention the fact that her presence made the room even smaller. Those two factors combined to add to the woman’s displeasure when she lost patience and pulled the sheet off him herself.
    “This is beginning to be a good deal less than amusing,” she growled when she saw his lack of readiness, the look in her eyes close to fury. “I went to a great deal of trouble to have you even for this short amount of time, and early tomorrow morning they’ll be coming to take you back. I will have my enjoyment of you before then, even if you have to spend most of the intervening hours in that tiny box I had prepared. Do you really want to be put into that tiny box?”
    Valiant tried to keep the terror from touching him, but even the sedative in his system wasn’t able to do that. The mere suggestion that he’d have to face the equivalent of being buried alive was enough to set his heart pounding and his sweat to turn cold, but it did something else as well.
    “Ah, I see there’s something you do remember,” the Razas woman said with a laugh, reaching down to caress him. “We can just dispense with the rest, then, and concentrate on your only current value. Here I come!”
    Her tone had changed to a playful one as she came down onto the bed to bestride him, but not to immediately impale herself. She leaned forward first to kiss his face and lick his lips, teasing his arousal with her womanhood. The humiliation was intensely painful for Valiant and so was the revulsion he felt, but nothing seemed able to displace the terror. If he protested in any way she would have him put into that box, and he simply couldn’t bear the thought of it—
    “How dare you just walk in here!” the woman suddenly snarled as she looked toward the door. Valiant had heard the door opening, but the sound hadn’t done more than register vaguely in his awareness. “Get out this instant, and go and pack your things. You no longer have a—”
    Her words broke off as she colored even more, and then Valiant saw rage explode in her eyes. The doorway was all the way back to the right and well out of his line of sight, so Valiant had no idea about what was happening until he heard the voice.
    “I find it really amusing that all you so-called nobles tend to say the same thing,” were the words spoken, very dryly. “ ‘How dare you, how dare you’—as though any normal person needs permission to interrupt you freaks during your perversions. That pile of clothing in the corner appears to be his, so move your oversize backside away from him while this servant dresses him.”
    “You have the nerve to come into my house and try to give orders?” the Razas woman spat in response, nevertheless

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