Chapter 15

Why should he think he’d be denied the gadje m’lor’?

He entered the caravan, stripped off his clothes, and climbed onto his bunk. It took him a while to fall asleep, but when he finally did, he dreamt of the young man whose virginity he’d taken that night.

He didn’t remember much about the dreams, other than that they were filled with violence and sex, and the sex was almost as arousing as the violence; when he woke, his groin sticky with semen, but that wasn’t important. As far as he was concerned, that just went to prove thegadje was his

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Syeira stared after Nicolae and shook her head. He’d been spoiled to the point of ruination, and now his belief that the world and everything in it belonged to him could well have foiled plans decades in the making.

Still, there might be one thing she could do to remedy this.

She swung up onto one of the horses—she was spryer than one might have thought given her age—and tapped the mare’s sides with her heels.