She'd expected retaliation, but in the form of a blow - the intimate hard pinch was something else altogether, an exquisitely hot pain that made her shriek a little around the finger she held doggedly between her teeth, even while her hips rose in a sharp buck, rattling the chains that held her down.<br/><br/>"'Ou 'rtht," she snarled back around the muffle of his hand, and ground her jaw slowly to one side to press home her unladylike determination - a pampered creature of Rome she was not, and he was sorely mistaken if he expected her to crumple beneath a little bit of pain.