" Joric's smug voice continued. "Allow me to show you sweet Aricia."Aricia's azure blue eyes went as wide, as the image changed to her bent over some ...sort of chair almost completely naked, Joric behind her gripping her hips. She watched as he leaned over her naked body and pulled back on her long lustrous hair."Louder Aricia! Tell me you choose me as your mate Aricia. Isn't that what you want more than anything! More than the King! Tell me you want me more than your precious King Aricia!" YES!". It was the last thing he saw, as everything immediately faded to black.There was a rhythmic noise, and it seemed to come from nowhere in particular. Everything was black, and when he tried to force his eyes open, everything stayed black. His right hand was warm, the only part of him that felt warm, and as the rhythmic noise began to fade away something touched his right cheek.The rhythmic noise seemed to come from nowhere, very quietly at first, but getting louder. It was on his left ... maybe.. Right purtiest woman in this corner of creation and she falls for the world's biggest bozo. Falls hard, too. Had to be the token, now, din't it?"That damn token. It was just an urban legend, right? A myth. A friggin fairy tale. So why did all the guys talk about it as if it were real? And, how otherwise to explain all those weird happenings? All those classy women with repulsive slugs for boyfriends?Down on his luck, Dave was. Since Marianne had dumped him a year or so back, he'd had a long and. Probably for at least the next two or three hours. You will come to realize that this is the closest I will ever come to mercy.”Freddie's big blue eyes glazed over and his shoulders slumped. He had returned to his shell shocked state. Good. I wanted him to obey automatically, no matter how degrading and painful things became. It would make him easier to sell, if things came to that.The idea of selling him, leaving him caged, and his never being with a woman really turned me on. But I'd made a.