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nothing will change that.”   He touched her again, and looked over at the man.  “Do what you will, and then her bring straight to me.  I have important matters to attend to that cannot wait.”


    “ Yes, My Lord.”  The man nodded to him as he left.


    Anna watched him close the door.  “I will do as I promised no matter what you may do to me, Sir.”  She raised her voice and kept her eyes on him.


    “ You stand here after that show of blatant disobedience and call me Sir?”  He walked towards her and she sank down into one of the chairs.  He leaned his hands on either side of hers.


    “ You knew what happened to me.  You came to my village and you knew the whole time!  You are exactly what I said that you were at the beginning of our journey.”  Anna glared up at him.
    “ You have forgotten everything that I have said to you.”  He shook his head.  “Your lord will not teach you anything.  He would rather throw you to his men to have you in whatever fashion they seek!”

    Anna fumed.  “He is not my Lord no matter what he does or says to me!”


    The man raised his hand and she cowered.  “Is that all that you believe of me?  You truly think that low of me that I would strike you for no other reason than raising your voice to me alone?”


    “ I think, Sir, that raising my voice to you is a sign of disrespect.”  Anna lowered her head.


    He titled her chin up to meet his eyes.  “Then tell me why are you deliberately causing me such grief?”


    “ I trusted you, Sir, and you have thrown my story back at me.  You wear that tabard as if it is a medal of honor instead of a rag too dirty to wipe a horse’s arse!”  Anna could not stop the angry tears that were now pouring down her face.  It was the first time she had ever raised her voice to anyone.  
    “ I have never met a child who demanded such attention as you.”  He shook his head as he studied her, but said nothing else.


    “ I have told you several times that I am not a child.”  Anna was locked in such an odd struggle in her mind.  She was still under the impression that he had brought her here for an awful reason but certainly he was still paying much attention to her.  She blinked as she noticed he had pulled her up.  “Oh!”  She held a hand to her mouth as he wrapped his arm around her waist.
    “ You are acting like one.”  He sat on the bed and flipped her over his lap in one quick motion.  He laid one hand across the small of her back.  “Is this the sort of position that you want to be in?”


    Anna went still.  She took several breaths and tried to calm her frantic heart.  She had pushed him again; that much rang true, but could he mean to spank her again like the night in the woods?  “I did not think, Sir that I would ever again be held like this again.”


    He rested his other hand on top of her dress just above her right buttock.  “Your lord will not tolerate your mouth nor will he have patience with you.”


    Anna was breathing heav ily now.  She wanted to hate this man.  She wanted to kick her legs and tell him again that he was the worst piece of filth that she had ever met and yet he was still paying her mind.  She liked being held this way even if it meant that she were about to be taught a lesson.  She had back-talked him yet again.  Where had that spark of fire gone?  Could being held this way extinguish it that quickly?  
    “ I am sorry, Sir.”  She resigned her fight.  If he was planning on another lesson than how could his purpose only be to ransom her to Lord Wendell?


    “ Are you going to do what I have asked of you?”


    Anna began to cry.  “I am very angry with you, Sir.”  She was having a very hard time putting respect behind such a title.  She had started to feel safe with him.  He had pointed out that no one in her village respected her at all so surely there must be another