She took a shuddering breath. “They tried to make me a Broodmother ... how he tried. First they gave me magebane that they stole from the templars s... I couldn’t cast. And then I wouldn’t eat, so they force-fed me, cut up one of the darkspawn we had killed and shoved it down my throat, but I didn’t change.” She closed her eyes, like it was too difficult to make eye contact when talking about it. “They did ... things to me. And I wouldn’t change. He would get so frustrated, he’d beat me, and then. I was already getting excited and she was still clothed! We paused in her den where she instructed me to remove the small matching jacket and unzip her dress. That chore done, I was now in view of her in her slip and heels...her slip clinging tightly to her every curve. I then was asked to follow her into her bedroom, our first time there, where she sat on a chair and asked my to remove her shoes and stockings. The shades were pulled and the room dim, but with white undergarments and her. This went on for years. Then one day, my last year of high school, I do not know what came over me. Mary and I were siting outside talking. Maybe I had a little too much to drink I do not know. But I came right out and told Mary that I wanted make love to her. I wanted to be her secret lover. She told me to leave. I was heart broken. We did not talk for two weeks. I did not even see her. Her husband acted normal around me but I never saw Mary. Then her husband went out of town again. He wanted. Before too long, it was he wiggling under my direction this time. Growing braver, I made my way to his neck. With the flat of my tongue, I traced a line from the bottom to the top, stopping just below his ear. I must have been doing something right, because he tipped his head toward my mouth and moaned aloud for me to do that again. So I did, to the other side. Placing my hands outside his shoulders, I raised up off his chest to look at his face. ‘Penny for your thoughts Nat?’ Coyly I pulled my.