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“Control yourself, Seamus. Females like that one are for fucking, not mating. You know better.”
    “Diermont’s not about to let one of us have her, not when he’s saving her for himself. But he would have to accept the mating bond if one was formed. Don’t tell me you didn’t think to do the same thing.”
    “I didn’t even think of biting her,” Modez said as he shook his head. He saw no need to describe those things he had thought of doing to her, such as tasting her pretty pink nipples. “You clearly are in need of a good bed servant. I told Diermont that we would have trouble here without them.”
    “Rumor has it that Diermont agreed to give us some of Snotti’s ladies,” Seamus said as his eyes drifted over Kiera’s half-nude form.
    Modez let out a laugh. “Surely you did not think he meant Kiera, did you?” Her preferential treatment suggested Diermont had a personal interest in the girl. If sex became part of her duties, it would involve the prince in one way or another. “You may have noticed she was given a private room. She is the only woman of her class to be given such luxurious quarters.”
    “Once he looks past that beautiful face, so similar to Snotti, and notices her body, which is most unlike Snotti’s, his regard for her will change. Diermont hates all things that remind him of humans. For her sake, I hope she is mated by then.”
    “Diermont protests too loudly when he denies interest in human females. I suspect he secretly lusts for them. And he is not the only one.” Modez often fantasized about capturing a human and keeping her as his sex slave. He woke hard as stone many nights after dreaming of his fantasy woman. “Diermont will take Kiera to his dungeon and use her like he does his other women.” Modez felt himself harden as he pictured Kiera there. Diermont only rarely took a woman for sex. He preferred to watch others play. But when he did choose a new courtesan, he avoided green, untried girls. Modez was the one who usually readied the initiates for service. He wondered if Diermont planned to pursue that path with Kiera. If that was the case, he would have her first. The thought excited him in a way he hadn’t felt with any of the previous candidates. But the thought of eventually turning her over to the prince turned him cold.
    “Despite her poor birth, Kiera is still a lady. It wouldn’t be right to do that to a woman gently reared.”
    “She accepted those risks when she agreed to live at the palace with Snotti, and she’d hardly be the first social climbing leech to suddenly lose her position.” Modez knew that nearly all females who came to live in the palace ended up mated or ruined, but ruination claimed the vast majority. Those ruined females became whores and most served the Halloran fine. Modez had seen it happen time and time again and it had made him cynical. “She’ll end up earning her keep on her back, as most do in those circumstances.” In his opinion, virtuous females avoided the palace because they knew full well its reputation. True ladies of good breeding found mates at some of the mating balls given during the Season. Females of a different class chose a vocation if they had any skills or brains. As far as he could tell, Kiera had no special skills, only her beauty. Beautiful, useless females had only one role at the palace—that of whore. “The little usurper deserves what she gets.”
    “Some woman did a number on you,” Seamus said. “And I bet she goes by the name Gwyneth.”
    “She affects me not at all,” Modez said as he pushed the image of the beautiful brunette out of his mind. “We should leave before the lady wakes and discovers we have been leering at her naked lovelies.”
    “Right. I don’t need that kind of trouble,” Seamus said as he vanished from the room.
    Modez let his gaze linger once more over Kiera’s partially unclothed body. It was unlikely he’d have the opportunity to view it again. He’d certainly