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his thumbs over her nipples. “Maybe in a little while.”
    Her eyes fluttered shut and she made a quiet
noise of pleasure, arching into his touch. The movement rubbed her
cunt against his leg, and he could feel her slowly awakening
arousal as she rocked down against him.
    She’d come hard before; he’d kept enough of
wits about him to make sure of it. But now was his chance to tease
her, to take her slowly and watch her pleasure build to a fever
pitch. “Can I have you again?”
    “ Yes.” Her hand dropped and
she curled her fingers around his cock as she opened her eyes, her
smile turning teasing. “Are you going to spank me if I misbehave
again? Because it’s very tempting.”
    “ You like it too much,” he
teased back. “Vixen.”
    She stroked her hand up the length of his
cock, her grip still feather-light, but her expression had turned
serious. “That’s why I’m still in gold bands, isn’t it?”
    He could guess, but he merely shrugged one
shoulder. “Have you asked Celine why?”
    “ She says my job is to give
a warrior what he needs, not give him license to take whatever he
wants.”
    He felt his eyebrows go up. “And if either
is at odds with what you need or want?”
    “ You mean if he hurts me?”
She dropped her hand to his thigh. “There are protocols in place.
Spells that would trigger before he could do permanent physical
damage. I might get a little bruised, but I’d heal. There’s always
some risk in what we do, Rais, but nothing as dangerous as fighting
on the front lines.”
    That all depended on the submission those
warriors demanded, and the toll it might take on Avani’s mind and
heart before it hurt her body. “Nothing as dangerous as that,” he
agreed, “but more insidious.”
    She studied him with a tiny frown. “You
think I should leave.”
    He tucked one arm behind his head and
sighed. He couldn’t tell her Celine planned to have her leave after
her next birthday, not before he’d given her his own proposal.
Doing so would be tantamount to emotional blackmail. “What I think
is that you should consider me.”
    “ Consider you for...” Her
voice faded and he felt the prick of her fingernails as her hand
tightened on his leg. “Do you want me? Or do you pity
me?”
    “ Why do you ask when only
an idiot would answer that in any way but one?”
    “ Because only an idiot
would lie to a woman with her knee this close to his
cock.”
    Rais easily flipped her over on her back and
sat up beside her. “Are you going to rant and scream and throw
things at me if I say it’s a little of both?”
    Her cheeks flushed, probably at the reminder
that Rais had been witness to one or two of her more spectacular
bouts of temper. “No. But I’m not going to run off with you,
either.”
    “ That’s the last thing I’d
ask, especially considering my remaining months of
service.”
    “ So what do you want?” She reached
out and stroked her fingers up his side, the touch feather-light.
“You want no one else to touch me?”
    He caught her hand. “Will you wait for me?”
The words seemed so innocuous, but it was a question that couldn’t
be asked--or answered--lightly. “It’s not long now, Avani.”
    She didn’t reply at once. Her hand felt
delicate until she curled her fingers around his in a surprisingly
firm grasp. “I could be convinced to consider it.”
    No, she wasn’t the kind of woman who’d thank
the Goddess and her lucky stars that he’d chosen to focus his
attentions on her. “Convinced how?”
    “ Call me when you can.
Learn to know me as a woman. Fall in love with me. Make me fall in
love with you.”
    A courtship. Rais had never thought of it,
had never had to. Kings didn’t court women; they simply chose whom
they pleased when they pleased. “I don’t have the luxury of
courting you, Avani. I’ll be on the front, in the midst of heavy
fighting, and I don’t know how much reliable communications contact
I’ll have.”
    Avani closed her eyes as a