His Breeding Farm: New Blood: Book 6

Two letters change everything. Odette, the baker's daughter, writes of her hunger to be kept. Sable, the bold ranch hand, appears at the north fence at dawn and says it aloud: "I want to be kept." Damion's interviews are hard — Sable strips unasked and kneels; Odette trembles and speaks her desire aloud — and both are accepted. The farm expands to the north pasture. Sable's initiation at the claiming post is brutal and triumphant; Odette's is gentle, with Elena holding her hand. When Mara fears there is only so much of Damion to go around, he settles it in the hayloft: "I am not a pie... Not instead. Too." Seven nights of devotion tested, an eight-woman Claiming Circle, and Elena last at twenty weeks, lantern-lit and anointed. Ten chapters. The farm has room for more.