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“I thought… if you found pleasure… if I gave you pleasure in the act, it would be a balm for the other ills, however small.”
Shai’s fists loosened.
So that was why she sought to bargain with him.
She knew him so little. She would never have guessed that he’d commit countless treasons to have her.
Only her.
“I am not practiced in the pleasurable aspects of sex,” she continued, her expression fixed with determination.
“But I will try to please you. You will like it, I promise. And… and… you never have to wear the cage again. I suppose I should have removed it long ago. I wanted to. But there are so many spies everywhere in the Palace. It’s not safe. I don’t want anything to happen to you. I don’t want—”
“Heba.”
Abruptly, she stopped and snapped her mouth shut, staring up at him, a bit of shock in her gaze.
He’d never remotely spoken to her this way. Interrupting her. Addressing her by the private pet name the last Pharoah had given her.
He was about to shock her more.
“If we do this, I have conditions.”
As if the word “conditions” made her more comfortable, for they were back to bargaining, she straightened her shoulders and met his stare with her usual aplomb.
“Say them.”
“We will be man and woman in this act,” he stated clearly, enunciating every word so that there was no mistake.
“We will be equals. Not Queen and prisoner. Not Master and slave.”
“Done,” she agreed readily.
“I will not ask permission, nor will you. What we want of each other, we will take.”
Her breath hitched a little, her confidence wavering.
But still she said:
“Done.”
“If—when—this union bears fruit. When you have your male heir, you will confer with me about his rearing.”
Her eyebrows shot up at that.
He pressed on, not letting her interject as she looked like she was about to do.
“I do not mean that I get a say in decisions that concern the child; I merely wish to know. I want you to take my input into consideration. I will never forget my boundaries, that he will be the Pharoah, and I am but a slave. But… he is myson.”
She licked her lips.
“You talk as if you can see the future. That a son is inevitable through our… union.”
“It is,” he said.
“You need an heir. I will give you one. We will not stop trying until you have what you need.”
She gasped, holding her breath, her lips falling open.
