Chapter 138 Conditioned Reflexes - Two

• My mother rarely interacted with the High Lady, but in one of her memories she was summoned to the Aile Castle: the High Lady was in critical condition, her skin black with bruises, her pelvic bone shattered.
• Madness studied the flicker on my face and smiled as though he had found one of my emotional triggers.
• “Demetria was like you — mistaking defiance for power. I let her fight. I even let her believe she could save Deimos from me. I fucked her more than any of my other Lunas, because her screams gave me a boner every time.”