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Sultana (Chapter 4 - Security)
Date: 4/25/2017, Categories: Novels, Author: megalanthropus, Rating: 0, Source: LushStories
wondered what had gone wrong with him. He was talented at reading people, and almost as shrewd as her, and yet money fled from him, and he was always looking for loans. She wondered if he had a gambling addiction, or some other more heinous addiction. “Younos,” she said, sipping some wine, and watching him wolf down a wheat cake with grilled lamb and goat cheese stuffed in it, “why are you always short of dinars?” It was a sensitive topic, but she had to broach it. If not for the topic of money, she was glad for her brother’s company. He was the one person she could confide in. She was too shrewd to confide everything to even him, and suspected that he kept many secrets from her as well, but he was her only family. His face took on a sly look. She could see his eyes darting, as he employed his imagination. She sighed. She would be hearing more lies. *** Mediha Mediha sighed. Rawer hadn’t come, and neither had he sent a message. She waited in the designated spot for an hour. He was worth waiting for. The itsy bitsy princes she was supposed to consort with were more delicate than her. She was sure she could snap their necks in unarmed combat within the first five minutes. Rawer was the one she craved, but he hadn’t come. Something was wrong. She tried to reason it out. Their last session had been lovely, and he had not changed one bit. It was true that he had been suspicious that someone had witnessed their lovemaking. She had suspected as much herself, as though some part of ...