Worse, she knows Tanner Sebastian, has been studying him for a year. What he wants is anything he shouldn’t have, better yet if it’s something that demeans someone else. He has two wives. He’s had others before until he doesn’t want them anymore. If now he can have three wives, why not four? Why not Asteria and her mother in his harem? Asteria doesn’t believe that Mother has thought of this, because her mother is accustomed to avoid thinking about things that might disturb her too much. But Asteria has thought of it, and although it’s so horrible that it sickens her, who in the Retreat will
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