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  “Lena.” Teacher stroked one hand through her hair gently and leaned down to place a soft kiss on her trembling lips. “The next man who loves you will be Karn the Insatiable himself. And if you please him half as well as you just pleased me, then you’ll make an excellent Sin Eater.”

  “I know.” Lena bit her lip. “But, Teacher, I’ll miss you so much!”

  “And I’ll miss you.” Suddenly he hugged her to him, pressing her smaller form against his broad chest and wrapping his muscular arms around her tightly. “Lena,” he whispered fiercely. “I told you I love you and I meant it. Now that the time has come for us to part, I find I don’t want to let you go.”

  “And I don’t want to leave you.” She looked up at him and was surprised to see that his wintry eyes were suspiciously bright. Suddenly her own eyes were stinging with tears. “I love you too, Teacher, I don’t care if it’s wrong to say it. I can’t help it. I don’t fear meeting Karn the Insatiable half as much as losing you.”

  He looked at her intently. “Is that really how you feel?”

  “Of course it is.” She swiped at her eyes, wishing she had a handkerchief. “It fills me with terror and grief to be parted from you and I don’t care if it’s blasphemy—I love you and only you.”

  Teacher cupped her cheek in his warm palm and smiled at her. “Then if you love me, why not call me by my proper name?”

  Lena sniffed. “Because I don’t know it. You’ve never told me.”

  “I’ll tell you then. Lena, my little Sin Eater, you may call me Karn.”

  “Karn?” Lena’s eyes widened and her breath caught in her throat. “You…you must be joking.”

  Teacher shook his head. “I would never joke about such a thing. I’ve known for years that you were to be my consort so I came to observe you over a year ago. You had such a mixture of innocence and wantonness I was intrigued and decided I didn’t want anyone training you but myself.”

  “I…” Lena didn’t know what to say. “Truly, my lord, I had no idea,” she murmured, bowing her head. “If I had—”

  “If you had, you would have been acting stiff and unnatural as you are now instead of opening yourself to me as you have so beautifully over the past year.” Karn smiled at her in a way that made her feel like melting. His gaze was stern but loving as it had always been.

  “Then…you’re not mad at me for falling in love with you?” she faltered at last.

  “How could I be mad when I’ve fallen in love with you too?” He bent to kiss her softly. “You passed your final trial long ago when you won my heart, little Sin Eater. From now until the end of my reign you’ll be by my side helping me make wise decisions and teaching me about love.”

  “Teacher…Karn…” Lena wet her lips and looked deeply into his warm gray eyes. “Everything I know about love I learned from you.”

  “And I, you, Lena.” He kissed her again, taking her breath with the warm rush of love and lust that flowed out of him. “And I, you.”

  About the Author

  Evangeline Anderson is a registered MRI tech who would rather be writing. And she is nerdy enough to have a bumper sticker that says “I’d rather be writing.” Honk if you see her! She is thirty-something and lives in Florida with a husband, a son and two cats. She had been writing erotic fiction for her own gratification for a number of years before it occurred to her to try to get paid for it. To her delight, she found that it was actually possible to get money for having a dirty mind and she has been writing paranormal and sci-fi erotica steadily ever since.

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