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  “So tell me now,” she said, shifting a little to get him settled more comfortably in her pussy. “How did this happen?” She nodded down to where their bodies were joined.

  Vrox sighed. “My body makes a special compound to help a female I want to bond with stretch for me. It’s in my saliva and even more concentrated in my precum—which I was leaking all over you just before I slipped inside.”

  Tandy frowned. “If you knew this, why didn’t you tell me before? Were you afraid if I knew you’d be able to penetrate me, I’d feel free to penetrate you during the Test of Mastery?”

  “That’s part of it—or it was at first,” he admitted. “But there’s also the fact that I knew I couldn’t bond you to me. This…” He nodded to where they were joined. “Doesn’t matter. Even if I went all the way inside you—mating fist too—and bit you while I came in you, I still couldn’t bond you to me.”

  “Why is this bond you’re talking about so important?” Tandy demanded. “Why should I care if you can bond me to you or not?”

  “Because I can’t get you pregnant if I can’t bond you, little girl,” he explained patiently. “I can’t give you kids and you’re young enough to want them. You’d be unhappy, just like my ex was.”

  “I don’t need kids to feel complete, Vrox—the only thing that would make me unhappy is being without you,” Tandy told him honestly. She bit her lip. “Or am I crazy to be saying this? I know we haven’t known each other very long…”

  “I’d say we know each other a hell of a lot better now,” Vrox said dryly. “No, little girl—you’re not crazy. I just…didn’t want to ask you to give up your life of luxury here in Opulex to go running off with me to the far corners of the universe when you’re about to become a full-fledged Mistress.”

  “I don’t care about that,” Tandy told him recklessly. “This life is a lonely one now that Aunt Zora is gone. I’d go with you tonight if I didn’t need the money for my little brother’s operations so badly.”

  Vrox seemed to consider her words.

  “You saying you wanna run off together after you pass the test tomorrow and get your affairs settled?”

  “Yes.” Tandy nodded decisively and then rolled her hips, to take him deeper inside her. “That’s exactly what I’m saying. I want you, Vrox. Want to be with you,” she murmured, looking into his eyes.

  He groaned softly. “Goddess, little girl—you better be careful or you’re going to get a second load of my cum in your tight little pussy.”

  “I don’t mind.” Boldly, she rolled her hips again, thrusting out her bare breasts and tight nipples as she moved erotically against him. “You can come in me all night, Vrox. As long as you promise to take me with you when you go.”

  Reaching up, he cupped her cheek.

  “Gods, little girl—I hope you don’t regret this. But I want you too. Yes, I’ll take you with me. After you pass your test tomorrow and get your affairs settled, we’ll find my partner Dannen and get the Seven Hells out of here together.”

  “Yes!” It was half excitement, half desire Tandy heard in her own voice. And maybe…love too? Or maybe just a connection so deep it didn’t have a name. All she knew was that she felt drawn to the big Kindred—felt like her life would never be complete without him.

  She rolled her hips again, riding him, showing him how much she wanted him and Vrox responded by pumping up into her, his mismatched eyes glowing as he filled her for a second time.

  Tandy threw back her head and moaned his name. Tomorrow as soon as she passed the Test of Mastery and insta-transferred the money to her family, they would leave this place and never look back. She would leave with Vrox and never think of her old life again.

  She couldn’t imagine anything better.

  Seventeen

  “Now then—if you’re ready my dear, the Test of Mastery can commence.” Mistress Sinda smiled at her encouragingly and Tandy took a deep breath.

  “Thank you, Judge of the Change. Thank you, Sacred Seven, for this opportunity to prove myself today,” she said, nodding at all the women who sat in a row behind the tall white podium in front of her and Vrox. She pointedly excluded her Aunt Deelee, who was sitting in a folding chair off to the left of the podium. She was allowed to observe because of her relation to Tandy and the late Zora, but she was most certainly not part of the ruling body of Yonnie Six and her lower seating arrangement plainly showed that.

  “I still don’t see why she’s allowed to keep that dangerous slave,” she said loudly, glaring at Tandy. “I heard how he killed another slave yesterday—he ought to be destroyed!”

  “Mistress Deelee, we have been over this.” Mistress Sinda frowned down at her from her high seat behind the broad white podium. “Lady Sweetbottom’s slave was simply protecting her from an attack. We all agreed that he was justified in his actions.”

  “Although it does make one nervous to think that he was able to defend her even with his pain collar turned to maximum,” Mistress Yodledandy, one of the other Sacred Seven, murmured. “How can one possibly control such a slave if the pain collar is no deterrent?”

  “He was only able to defy the pain collar because he is Kindred and his Mistress was threatened,” Mistress Sinda assured her. “The Kindred are the most loyal of slaves—they will face any danger or even death in order to save the female they are devoted to.”

  “He’s too devoted if you ask me,” Deelee said nastily. “How do we know she doesn’t have his half-breed baby in her belly this very minute?”

  “Deelee, please!” Mistress Sinda rapped a large round crystal she held in one hand sharply against the podium. “I must ask you not to speculate about obscenities while this Council is in session!”

  Deelee subsided in her folding chair, an ugly look on her narrow face. It was clear she had a lot more to say but Mistress Sinda had shut her up—for now, anyway, Tandy thought.

  She couldn’t help feeling guilty in a way, as she faced the Sacred Seven. After all, if only Deelee knew it, she was absolutely right. Tandy was still deliciously sore between her legs from spending most of the night with her slave’s shaft buried deep in her pussy. He had come in her again and again, filling her with his seed. Then, after they’d cleaned up, he had held her in his arms and she had dozed off to the sound of his deep heartbeat under her cheek.

  Tandy couldn’t remember ever feeling so blissfully happy. In fact, she was trying not to smile right now because she knew she had to look serious for this test. But it was a struggle not to let the grin inside her rise to the surface or the lighter-than-air feeling that filled her make her giddy with joy.

  As soon as she passed the test, all of her late aunt’s assets would pass automatically to her. Just a moment alone with a viewscreen and a secure connection and she could transfer as much as she wanted to her mother. She would only keep a little for herself, she decided. Just enough to buy Vrox’s friend, whom she knew he was worried about, from Mistress Tornflesh. Then they would leave Opulex behind forever and start their new life together.

  They just had to get through the next hour and they could have it all.

  “Very well now,” Mistress Gladbag said to her. “Mistress Sinda was appointed the Judge of the Change for you, Lady Sweetbottom, and she has given us a very positive report so far. All we really need to do is watch you put your slave through his paces. If he obeys you at once and without hesitation or complaint, we will consider him well trained and you will pass the Test of Mastery.”

  “Thank you, Mistress Gladbag.” Tandy nodded respectfully. “I and my slave, Vrox, are ready.”

  “Very good,” one of the other Mistresses nodded. “Then let us see you order him to fetch your handbag.”

  “Vrox—please get my bag.” Tandy pointed to the small black bag she had brought and left on the other side of the room, especially for this purpose.

  Vrox got it at once and then dropped to his knees and offered it to her in both hands as a sign of respect.

  “Here you are, my