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Nora sh Europe they’d taken together An anniversary gift froium And as her name?"

"Odette" Søren opened the box that held her collar

"Oh yes That was it She was fun, wasn’t she?" While in Belgium, she and Søren had toured a little brewery and hadthe tasting, Odette had flirted shamelessly with them both--she and Søren had dueled over who knew es Søren won, but just barely After the tour, Odette had come back with them to their hotel roo then, only twenty-four, and had never been that intimate with a woman Søren hadn’t touched Odette, but he’d certainly enjoyed watching the two of the, Little One" Søren brought her collar around her neck and locked it on While his fingers were at her throat he toyed with the necklace she wore always these days It had three char and Forever and a siven her as a token of his adoration Theysound like tiny wind chioodof "

"You don’t have to giveher eyes low, respectful, subance she’d always loved and loathed in equal ave you this"

He held up the bundle still covered in its fabric wrapping

"What is it?"

"You’ll find out But you have to earn your gift first"

"It’s not a gift if I have to earn it," she reminded him

"Then we’ll call it a ‘prize’"

"How do I earn ht, aren’t you?" she asked "Sir?"

"Do you accept the challenge?" he asked, his eyebrow cocked, his sht years old, and she had loved Søren since she was fifteenand yetafter all this time he could still scare the shit out of her

God, she loved him