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changed in smaller groups for a while. I took on three of them in lion form the first time. They helped me bring the others in line a few nights later. I still haven’t allowed the ringleader, Becca, to change . I’ve been regularly fucking and whipping her, and she can’t heal, can’t change , can’t run, can’t hunt. She’s miserable.” And still wasn’t sorry for her actions, but I didn’t tell him that part.
    “It’s been nearly two months. He didn’t dare shift to human and walk out, as he didn’t know where video cameras were. He had to wait until a lion shifter came, so he could push energy towards her and then hope she told the local pride leader, which she did. I was then informed of the situation, and I had to get some vampires involved so all of the zoo workers didn’t miss the lion that’d shown up out of the blue, and will destroy evidence of him if we missed something, and we had to hire a computer hacker to remove all records of him. For starters, you owe me around ten thousand dollars, and a few favors to some powerful vampires. Not to mention what you may owe Patrick for having to live in lion form for months. He’s having a hard time holding his human form, now.”
    My shoulders slumped and I looked at the floor again. His voice was soft, deadly soft, as he asked, “You realize, if he’d been outed as a werelion because of your stunt, your whole pride would’ve likely been slaughtered by the Concilio.”
    I nodded. “That’s why Becca, the ringleader, still hasn’t been allowed to change , and I’ve been fucking her raw for weeks. She sees me and drops to her knees now, Your Majesty.” But she still had a wall up, keeping me from the center of her.
    Unfortunately, the Amakhosi wasn’t likely to let me hide any part of myself from him. He’d have me dropping to my knees when I saw him, too, when he was done with me. We both knew it.
    “How many men have you killed, how many wouldn’t leave?”
    “Four, Your Majesty.”
    “Lions don’t understand murder. Humans do. Tell me, did you murder them, or do you feel it was self-defense?”
    “In a human court of law, it’d be self-defense. Some of us, probably all of us, eventually, would’ve been raped — by human standards — had we not killed them.” I took a breath and admitted, “By lion standards? We’re supposed to defer to males. Lions don’t understand rape or murder. It’s survival of the fittest. So we were partly in the wrong, for not following the rules, but then again, we proved to be more fit, and we survived.”
    “You know you aren’t supposed to be able to control the women the way you are, right?” 
    I nodded. “I’m bisexual, and we have a few lesbians. We’ve worked to try to replicate the energy of a male led pack, with my playing the part of the lead male. We have male lions come in all the time, though, Your Majesty, challenging me. I react as a male, and since I have control of our little pride’s combined energy, I’m strong enough to run most off. Some, we all have to get together and run off, as a unit. We’ve probably run off at least fifty in the past two years, but four just wouldn’t leave. Five, counting Patrick.”
    I looked up again, met his gaze a split second, and looked back down. “I think the strap-on is the secret. Just as the males want to control us with food and sex, it works for me, also.”
    He leaned forward, propped his elbows on his knees. “Eye contact.”
    I looked up, met his gaze, and wished I could crawl back down to the floor and curl into a ball again. His power pressed on me, forced me to his will.
    “You and I are going to come to our own agreement, make sure you know you’re controlled by me, in every way. Depending on how that goes, I’ll either set you up so you aren’t bothered by men constantly coming in and challenging you, or I’ll disband you and send you all to different prides.”
    “My life’s here, Your Majesty.” He could send me

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