Still a Prisoner [Bonus Chapter, Gifts are Appreciated]

Thomas was still angry with me when I brought him into my Mens Mundi. The fact that Ondine had revealed his inability to get her off didn't help, and it took both Shemhazau and me to calm him down enough to listen to reason.

I still feel guilty for sleeping with his woman, but as I sit on the edge of the stream in my mind, listening to my father—the one-time ruler of the succubae—give him advice on how to please women, I let some of it go. I'm just glad the older man was finally willing to let go of some of his pride and listen.

"Well, I've done all I can for now," my father's voice states right behind me. "I don't want to overwhelm him all at once, and honestly, if you'd just bring in some women for him to try out. . . ."