“You did cut me. I’ll give you that,” she said, rolling and cracking her neck. “You would be a fool to think you can do it again now that I know not to underestimate you. You played your hand far too early in this game, and now you’ve only given me more power over you.” “I guess we’ll find out whether or not that’s true in time,” I admitted, nodding thoughtfully. The odds were not in my favor. “I’ve offered you the chance to bathe, given you some of my best wine, and offered you a dinner the likes of which you’ve never seen, I suspect. Still, you sit there and openly mock me, plotting my
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