Page 25 of To Quench Her Thirst

She jumped out of bed, ready to run to the grand marble bathroom, which had plenty of mirrors…only to be reminded by a muffled curse that Drago was still trying to kill the huge spider in her bedroom. Well, but surely the servant’s room had a bathroom too, right? Obviously the high and mighty person staying in the master suite wouldn’t want their servant using their private bathroom.

It was even dimmer in the servant’s quarters than it had been in her own bedroom. Addie felt along the wall until she found another door. She reached inside and finally found a flat wall panel which didn’t seem to match the rest of the medieval-type palace. When she ran her fingers over it, a light flickered on—not a very bright one, but it was enough for her to see that she was, indeed, in a much smaller bathroom.

Unfortunately, the only mirror she could find was fixed to the stone wall above the tiny sink. There was no way she could detach it no matter how hard she tried.

“Fine, then I’ll just look at it without a mirror,” Addie muttered to herself. Making sure the lid of the extremely low commode was down, she put her right foot up on it and lifted the long skirt of the black dress out of the way. She tucked the trailing fabric around her waist and then bent down, trying to get a look at her right inner thigh.

But the light was too dim to see any details. Itseemedlike there was a discolored spot where she felt the hard, dime-sized spot that stung and tingled when she pressed it with her fingertips, but she couldn’t see if there were bite marks or not. More importantly, she couldn’t tell if there were any dark lines spreading out from the painful spot—the tell-tale sign of blood poisoning.

“What are you doing?” Drago’s deep voice startled her so much that Addie almost fell over.

“Oh!” she gasped, looking up to see him looming in the doorway of the small bathroom. “Oh my God, you scared me!”

“What are you doing?” he repeated, nodding down to where she was looking at herself.

Addie suddenly realized the picture she made—she was standing in his bathroom with one foot hiked up and her legs spread, her dress tucked up around her waist, and her bare pussy on display.

“God!” Quickly, she put her foot down and tugged at the hem of the long black dress to cover herself. But the sudden movement caused a wave of pain from her thigh and she let out a muffled groan and stumbled, nearly losing her balance.

“Hey! Be careful!” Drago caught her before she could fall and helped her out of the bathroom. “Are you okay?” In thedim room his golden eyes were glowing with concern. “What’s wrong, baby?” he asked.

Addie was surprised by the sweet nickname—he had never called her anything but “Addison” before. (He never called her “Addie” because the Kindred refused to shorten a woman’s name—it was considered disrespectful in their culture.)

Yes he has—he called you “baby” earlier,whispered a little voice in her head. Addie frowned—but when was that? All her recent memories since the Choosing Ceremony felt jumbled in her head. Anyway, it wasn’t important—whatwasimportant was the spider bite on her thigh.

“I think one of them bit me—a spider, I mean,” she told Drago.

His face darkened.

“That little fucker! I’m going to kill it! It’s just so damn fast and now it seems to be hiding.”

Addie shook her head.

“No, not the one in my room—it happened during the Choosing Ceremony…Ithink, anyway.”

“You think? You don’t know?” he asked.

“Well, everything got kind of hazy after they made us drink this stuff from a cup—Ls Prissa called it ‘Shelash’s Bounty’ whatever that means.” She shrugged. “They made us drink it and then they had us lay down and open our legs for some reason. That’s when I felt something bite me. Only I was so high I forgot all about it until I found this spot on my leg…” She put a hand down to the affected thigh, wincing as she did so. It really was painful! “Ouch! Anyway, it hurts and I was trying to get a look at it but it’s so dim in here I can’t seeanything.”

“Yeah, I think the lights are on some kind of timer,” Drago said. “They won’t get any brighter until morning. I can?—”

“Not until morning? But I’m in painnow.And what if I have blood poisoning?” Addie demanded, interrupting him.

“If you’d let me finish, I was about to say I can see in the dark,” Drago growled. “So why don’t you let me take a look at it?”

“What?” Addie felt a rush of embarrassment. “But…but I don’t have any underpants on!”

“Yes, I could see that when I walked into the fresher and found you all spread out,” he said dryly. “Believe me, it’s not a problem. Now, come on—lay down on the bed and let me look.”

“I don’t know…” Addie pressed her thighs together and regretted it instantly. “Ouch!” she moaned again.

Drago’s frown deepened.

“Addison, youneedto let me look. Why are you being shy now after begging me to suck your nipples earlier?”

“What?” She stared at him, her heart racing. “Iwhat?”

Before he could answer, more memories rushed into her head. She remembered begging him to touch her, making him “prove” that he didn’t mind her puffy nipples, and worst of all…

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