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Kiara's POV

When there was a knock on my door so early, she was the last person I would have even expected.

"Keturah?"

She smiled at me tightly and I wasn't sure how I felt about her presence.

After that fruitless argument for Damien again and touching myself, it had become even more considerably out of sorts.

I made sure to accept every and all the corrections Damien asked me to make to the treaty and I was already rounding up drawing up the treaty with Damien's input.

Sometimes it felt like he was watching me but it was possible that it was all in my head because Damien hadn't shown even a flicker of disturbance at having me so close by. He made me doubt all that Keturah had said.

And while the temperature of his office kept going up, we had not had any intimate moments.

That in itself almost felt strangely intimate.

And I couldn't help but wonder what would have happened if he had seen me touching myself. Knowing Damien, I had no delusions about what he would have done.

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