“Don’t touch her until you are sure she left the palace” Madam Lafayette's words rang a bell in my head as I sat in my office. How dare she leave? But then watching her kneel in my room made me sort of sad. I wanted to tell her stand but I changed my mind. What was this slave doing to me? Making me all soft. Even when I recalled the night we were intimate, I always caught myself smiling. I didn’t want to sleep with her yet but witches said it was important to merge us. With a drop my blood they were able to track who was trying to get Nina. They told me they had killed. It was an old witch of a high order. When I asked who had sent her, they said they were working on it. I gave the guards warning not to let Nina leave the palace or else heads would roll. If not for this business mee

