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  He looked sober. “As to that, I had no idea you might really be completely untried in the ways of sex. All the girls they have brought to me lately have been professional prostitutes. And the way you touched me and took me in your mouth, I just assumed…”

  Gisella felt like her cheeks might catch fire, her face was so hot. “Ah, well, you see, I had never actually done anything like that, but I had seen it done.” Twisting her fingers together nervously, she explained about the porn vids she had found and the secret fantasies she had indulged in during the darkest part of the night.

  “So you dreamed of this? Of being held and taken? Of being fucked?” Tristan murmured, looking into her eyes.

  “I did,” Gisella confessed softly. “I…I longed to feel a man inside me, my lord. I didn’t want to live my entire life never feeling a man’s hands explore my body or his cock thrust deep inside my sex. I…I think it was one reason I was so willing to be of help to you before. I had always wondered what it would be like…”

  “To suck cock?” he finished for her and she nodded. Tristan smiled. “I never should have guessed that it was your first time doing so,” he murmured, stroking her face. “You were very good at it, you know. Did you enjoy it then, your first taste of cock?”

  “Very much, my lord,” Gisella admitted. “And…and I enjoyed the feel of you thrusting inside me as well, although I was frightened at first, I must admit. The way you filled me…it was like nothing I had ever imagined and yet everything I had dreamed it might be.”

  “I am glad I didn’t harm you in the fulfillment of your dream,” Tristan said softly. “When I first saw you standing there before me, so slender and frail, I was frightened that I might break you with the beast’s animal lusts. I never dreamed that so frail a vessel could hold desire every bit as heated and demanding as my own.”

  Gisella blushed and nodded. “All that you say is true. So I guess I wasn’t really fit to be a priestess of The Goddess of Light, after all,” she murmured in a low voice. “But…but I never wanted to be a whore either. When my uncle sold me, I thought it was a punishment of some kind—for my dreams of desire and need. For my wish to be taken.”

  “Your punishment has been my salvation,” Tristan said seriously. “And I see yet another part of the prophesy in what you have told me—in you, Gisella, chastity does indeed meet lust. The more I talk to you, the more I realize that you and you alone could be the woman I have waited for all these long years.”

  “I was glad to be able to help you.” Gisella risked looking up into his face and found herself caught up in the dark eyes that were no longer tormented.

  “You did more than help me—you saved me.” Tristan smiled at her. “So tell me, where would you like to go now?”

  Gisella felt her heart sink. She didn’t know what she had been expecting but it wasn’t a sudden offer to be sent away to any destination she chose. Come to think of it, though, she did remember Tristan saying that he sent the women who had tried and

  failed to break the curse away with a generous reward. So maybe she was to be included in that group.

  “Well,” she murmured, biting her lip. “I cannot go to the convent now since they won’t take me without my virginity intact. And I have no wish to go back to Beta Six with my uncle—”

  “What? No, I’m not sending you away!” Tristan gave her an incredulous look. “I never want to let you out of my sight again. What I meant was, where do you want to go in the palace? I thought maybe a bath first and then some clothing and a decent meal. Unless of course, you have something else in mind.” He gave her a slow, lazy smile that made Gisella’s stomach turn flip-flops.

  “Oh, I thought—”

  “Didn’t I just tell you that you were the woman I have been searching for all these years?”

  “The woman to break your curse?” Gisella asked.

  “No.” He took her hands in his and stared solemnly down at her. “The woman of beauty and courage to reign over all of Rigel Nine with me. I want you to be with me for always, Gisella, and to ascend your rightful place to the throne at my side.”

  “Really?” Hardly daring to believe him, Gisella searched the dark eyes now full of promises.

  “Really.” Tristan gave her that slow, lazy smile again. “But I think the first order of business is to get you cleaned up. Why don’t you lie back on the bed so I can bathe you with my tongue?”

  Blushing, Gisella did as he asked. And when he pressed between her thighs and lapped at her well-fucked pussy she twined her small fingers in his dark hair and gasped her pleasure.

  “Oh Tristan,” she moaned as he entered her with his tongue. “That feels so…so good. I am so glad we were able to banish the beast and set you free.”

  He looked up from between her legs, a golden light of desire shining in his dark eyes. “As to that, my lady, you may find that there is some beast in me yet. Spread your sweet cunt for me and I will prove it with my cock.”

  With a soft moan, Gisella did as her new lord commanded. Tristan might be free of his chains but the animal lusts inside him might never completely leave. Not that she minded. She was more than willing to try her hand again at taming the beast.

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