You cut his head off. It makes it a little difficult for him to suck your cock.

He was content to wait, his bare limbs on the sheets heavy, the gold slave cuffs and collar his only adornments. He felt the warm, wonderful, impossible fact of his situation. Bed slave.

You were right about Kastor,' Damen said.It was all he said.

Order whatever punishment you like, from the coward's distance of a chain-lenght. You and Govart are two of a kind.

The dogsman said, 'Tread lightly. Your master's in a vicious mood.' Well, that was order restored.

All right,' he heard Lazar say.He'd forgotten Lazar was there. After a long moment, he took his eyes off Laurent and looked back at Lazar, who was gazing at him with a rather dry but understanding smile quirking the side of his mouth.'All right what?' said Damen.'All right, you're not fucking him,' said Lazar.

Damen now knew the precise number of arrows Laurent needed to have trained on him in order to shut him up. It was six.

You left out the part near the end, when it was so good I let myself forget what he'd done

There was a man I was supposed to meet. He’s got all these ideas about honour and fair play, and he tries to keep me from doing the wrong thing. But he’s not here right now. Unfortunately for you.

It was like watching a boar try to take on the endless blue of the sky. Damen remembered how it felt to be coerced to Laurent's will. Laurent had never needed to use force to make men obey him, just as he had never needed men to like him in order to get his way. Laurent got his way because when men tried to resist him, they found, sweetly outmanoeuvred, that they couldn’t.