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And this Friday on the bonus feed, Sabrina and I are doing a reading roundup of all the romance we've been enjoying outside of the podcast.

All right. When we left off, King Calli was really just internalizing how much his fated wife had been abused because of the stupid ruse no one could talk him out of.

This episode gets super gory, like deliciously gory.

So do with that what you will.

Here we go.

Love it out.

Love it out of love. So, oh, oh, oh. Oh, love it. So anyway, Puyo

So, anyway, Puyo Puyo explains all of this to him.

He's like she's been hit, she's also been whipped, and she won't tell me who did it to her.

She doesn't want to get in more trouble by telling us.

So he tries to get it out of her, and he's like, little little bird you left your shoes in my room this morning

when you ran away and she wants to correct him that she didn't run away but she can't and so he's so

sweet and she's like starting to melt and she's just got tears streaming down her face and then he's like

tell me tell me little bird. And then she

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