The gifts heaped on Jassyn just made him feel even more defiled. Like riches were any consolation for the transaction of using his body. But Farine didn’t care about producing offspring. Her contract with him wasn’t about that. No, she wanted to exploit and degrade him because of who he was and the line he belonged to—the Raellyns. Farine inflicted pain and humiliation on him for his mother’s transgression, that’s what it came down to. Jassyn doubted his family even paid attention to the Vallendes’ retaliation; his servitude was their doing, and the hardships he endured were his own. He hadn’t
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