Only a few dozen lingerers stayed to see her painfully lift her arms to feel the bloody point above her belly before dropping limply once more. He dropped his whip and ripped the now tattered remnants of her nightdress away from her shoulders and pulled her hair clear of her neck. XXX So, she thought, she was to be flung to her death from the top of the wall onto the stony ground thirty feet below, like a piece of discarded offal. Hard. But she wasn’t dead. She wished she could sit next to him at the oar to share his burden, even if she too were naked. Eloise didn’t want to show her ignorance by enquiring further. Right through the invading organ. To Ali’s surprise the Bey seemed quite taken with Eloise.




















