Erika sat at a luxurious table on a sunbathed terrace waiting for Xenia, “Where is she?! How uncouth to make a Master wait this long. The title of Warlord hardly gives her the right to treat a Master as such.”

Erika had been waiting for what seemed like forever as the time went on thirty minutes. Finally, as Erika was just about to lose her patience entirely, Xenia walked through the door and out on to the terrace, “Erika! So good to see you dear. How have you been? I must say things have been going just great for me.”

Xenia walked up to the table in her short black silk robe with flowing sleeves and took a seat across from Erika beaming a bright smile towards her as if she hadn’t just cut someone in two less than an hour ago.

Attendants scurried to set the table with tea as the two settled in. Having already waited long enough, Erika spoke past the attendants setting up between them, “So glad to hear you are doing well Xenia. Enjoy it while it lasts. Enjoy this terrace and your tea time and indeed all of your finer things. I daresay they won’t last much longer.”

Xenia maintained her wide smile as she feigned a sarcastic shock, “Erika! Goodness. You are just dripping with jealousy as always. It’s hardly becoming of you.”

Erika returned her smile, “Jealous? Hardly Xenia. I have a great deal many things you don’t have. Integrity, humanity, and empathy to name a few.”

Xenia frowned, “That’s funny. I’m not jealous of any of those things.” Xenia waved her hand playfully, “But you keep those things. Keep them all for yourself in fact. Just look where it’s gotten you. Second to me in every way.”

The tea had been poured, and the attendant leaned over the table towards Xenia with a knife in his hand, “May I Warlord?”

“Please do.” Xenia leaned back in her chair as the attendant cut his hand and dripped several drops of blood into her tea.

The attendant then turned to Erika, “Master Sage? Would you care for-“

Erika cut him off, “No! Get out of here! Leave us!”

The attendant scurried off, and Erika leaned forward, “Things are changing Xenia. Your delusions will soon come to a screeching halt colliding with reality. Jarek and I are here to expedite that.”

Xenia took a slow sip of her blood tea and savored it before responding, “I think you mean to say Jarek is here. Including yourself amongst the likes of Jarek only detracts from the point you are attempting to make. And make no mistake, I understand reality. You are here because I have Jacek. You are here because I am winning this war. Or is there something I don’t know that you would like to tell me?”

Erika calmed herself by taking a sip of her own tea, “I would like to tell you something Xenia. We are giving you a chance. You are in the middle of my ally’s territory blatantly killing and disregarding demands and negotiations at every step of the way. Jarek would rather have simply blasted this entire citadel from the face of the Earth; however, we are here to give you a chance. One last chance.”

Xenia put her tea down, “I am not one to pass over a good opportunity. What is it you are here to offer?”

“Go home. Take your army, leave your prisoners. And go home.” Both girls took a calm sip of tea before Erika continued, “Your entire premise of invading the United States has been shattered now that Arthur Davis has disavowed your cause. You are now fighting a lost cause.”

Xenia’s eyes perked up over her cup, “So Arthur is alive. I wondered if he made it out before my battle began with Karasu and Jacek. I hope to see him again one day. So many great times with him.” Xenia sat her cup down and sighed, “Anyways, I am amenable to leaving these lands. But not before I have an heir secured. Jacek is mine until then I’m afraid. You would do best to leave us alone.”

“He isn’t yours. He never has been and never will be.” Erika eyed Xenia like a wolf protecting her prey.

“Even if that were true. He isn’t exactly yours either. If you could only hear the things he tells me while we are together. And yes. We spend a lot of time together.” Xenia shot a devilish smile to Erika.

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Erika abruptly placed her cup back on the table clanking it against the small plate, “Allow me to spell things out for you Xenia. You will return Jacek to me and Jarek. Or we will rescue him forcefully.”

“Rescue?” Xenia put her hand up to her chest feigning a sarcastic shock once again, “He is hardly prisoner here.” One of the many doors leading on to the terrace then creaked open. It was the door from Xenia’s master suite. Xenia looked over, “Oh here comes Jacek now. Let’s just ask him, shall we?”

Erika whipped her head around to see Jacek walk through the door, and she softly called out to him, “Jacek. Jacek!”

She outstretched her hand; however, Jacek walked right by her merely nodding, “Master Sage. Welcome to the BloodStar Citadel.”

He continued right by her and stood behind Xenia as he began to massage her soldiers, “Masterful performance in the stadium today, Xenia.”

Xenia closed her eyes and raised her shoulders from the excitement and joy of having a shoulder massage from Jacek, “Thank you darling. I heard you cheering me on. I just loved it.”

Erika steeled her voice, “Jacek. If there were ever a time to stop this charade, it is now.”

Xenia looked to Erika with a confused look, “Charade? Your doubt is unattractive.” She then looked up at Jacek over her shoulder, and he leaned down to kiss her as he continued to rub her shoulders.

Erika was fuming as she watched them kiss. Xenia then looked to Erika from the corner of her eye and said, “Jacek darling. Why don’t you tell Erika just one thing you like better about me than her.”

Jacek thought for a moment before saying, “Your power, dominance, beauty, charm, intelligence, humor, confidence, leadership, kisses-“

Xenia laughed and turned around to slap her hand against Jacek’s chest playfully, “Jacek! I said just one thing! Not to mentally ruin her!” She then turned back around and said, “But please keep rubbing my shoulders. That felt so good.”

Erika grit her teeth and finally lost her composure as she slammed her fist on the table, “I know you are bloodbending him Xenia! You should be ashamed of yourself. At least men willingly come to me. Unafraid of being made in to some kind of sick puppet.”

“You think this is bloodbending? Oh Erika, you poor thing.” Xenia sipped the last bit of her tea and let out a breath of refreshment.

Erika continued to fume, “You have one week. Just one! To return Jacek to Jarek and I. If you fail to return him by then, you will regret it. You aren’t even in the same league as Master Heraklinos. He would destroy you on the battlefield.”

Xenia looked up at Jacek, “Did you hear that darling? Just one week. We had better get to work. We are going to be so busy with just one week to ourselves.”

Jacek reached down and picked her up in his arms, and Xenia gave a playful yelp of surprise. Jacek then walked over to the entrance of the master suite and turned around for Xenia to have one last word with Erika, “You are welcome to stay and watch Erika. Or even join, but something tells me you aren’t that kind of girl. Are you? No? Didn’t think so. Run along then.”

Xenia and Jacek disappeared into the master suite leaving Erika to herself muttering, “I’ll kill her. I’ll kill her!”

She stood up and several soldiers jumped to attention to escort her back to the citadel gates. She soon arrived at the gates to find Katya waiting for her in a wheelchair. Katya nodded to Erika, and Erika assumed a solemn face, “I am very very sorry Katya. Let’s get you back to our camp and out of this dystopian hellscape.”

Erika looked back as she exited and muttered to herself, “I will see you in one week, bitch.”

Meanwhile, in the master suite, Jacek threw Xenia on to the bed and crawled up on top of her as the two began to kiss. Xenia rolled him over and straddled him, “You can have your free will back now Jacek. Sorry to bloodbend you in front of her your girlfriend, but I just couldn’t resist toying with her. Do you think she bought it?”

Xenia rubbed her hands along her body awaiting his response. After watching her, he finally said, “I’m not sure, my attention was elsewhere the whole time.”

“Oh Jacek, I didn’t even need to bloodbend you did I?” She began to untie her silk robe allowing it to fall off her shoulder revealing her big boobs, “We have just one week until our fun together starts to have a few more interruptions, so I am going to heal you back to full power right now.”

She gathered a healing ball of ki in her hand and slammed it into Jacek’s chest. She began to infuse massive amounts of healing ki into his body. Healing a powerful ki user such as Jacek required an equally impressive amount of ki to bring him back to full strength.

As his body reached full power, he began to glow a brilliant white until finally a flash of light blinded them both before dissipating. She looked down at him, “Now don’t make me regret this. If you do, I promise to kill her slowly and painfully. You wouldn’t want that would you?”

Jacek reached up and put his hand around her throat and put a significant amount of pressure to her neck preventing her from talking, “The only thing you are going to regret, Xenia… is not healing me to full power sooner.”

Xenia’s eyes went wide with excitement as she felt a shiver of pleasure down her spine from his words alone. The last thing she thought to herself before being absolutely ravaged by Jacek was, “God he’s right. Why didn’t I do this earlier. He’s so strong. Dominating him is going to give me the best orgasm ever!”