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I scowled at him. “What if she tells theking what we did?”

“She will not,” Court said.

“You cannot be certain of that.”

Court pushed his tablet aside. “I am.Bran, you saw the look on her face this morning at breakfast. She is moreterrified of the king finding out what happened than we are.”

Court made a good point. The human did lookpanicked that we would tell the king. Of course, she looked panicked abouteverything.

“She is afraid of us,” I said. “You needto be nicer to her.”

“Me?” Court said. “You were the one whothreatened her if she even touched Bella.”

“You yelled at her this morning,” I said.

Court took a deep breath, running his handthrough his hair with short, angry pokes. “Fine. I will be nicer to the human,as will you. But, honestly, I do not think it will make a difference. Shestartles as easily as a grundleswat.”

“She does,” I agreed. “Bella is fascinatedby her. She was in the human’s room again when I took her lunch to her.”

Court shrugged. “That is not a bad thing,is it? I am confident that the human will not hurt her. And, when we finallydo get our actual nanny, perhaps it will make the transition easier for Bella.She will already be used to a human.”

“You believe I should allow Bella to spendtime with this human?”

“I believe it will be impossible to stop her,”Court said with a wry grin. “You know how Bella is.”

“I do.” My own smile curved up my lips.

“Do you find the human attractive?” Courtasked suddenly.

“Why does that matter?”

“She liked what we were doing to her thismorning,” he said.

“She was terrified, not aroused,” I said.

“Only after I realized it was her and she believedI was angry,” Court said. “Before that she was aroused.”

“So, what?” I replied. “She was halfasleep, just like we were.”

“It has been a long time since we shared awoman,” Court said.

My mouth gaped open. “You want to sharethis human? Have you gone mad? She is our queen and not for us, Court.”

Court shrugged. “She is not queen yet. Ifshe is willing, why should we not take her to our bed? It will make the timepass faster and perhaps improve your mood.”

“You are one to talk,” I said. “You havebeen acting like a moody teenager for moons.”

Instead of getting angry, Court nodded. “Iknow.”

I sighed and stared at the table as Courtleaned back in his chair. “We could ask her. There is no harm in asking.”

“She is terrified of us,” I repeated.

Court crossed his arms over his chest, a lookof defeat on his face. “You are right. It was a stupid idea. Besides, evenif she stopped being so afraid of us, no doubt she is an innocent. The kingwould want an innocent for his queen and if we took her virginity…”

“The female who was supposed to be ournanny, this Sabrina, was an innocent,” I said.

Court blinked at me. “How do you know?”

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