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Secret of the Sands

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2018
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‘If ever I was to …’ he starts, moved by the display momentarily before he catches hold of himself and suspends the sentence, hanging in the air. ‘You are very beautiful,’ he finishes. ‘For a woman.’

‘Do you think,’ Zena asks him, ‘that they will take me away if you don’t want to …?’

The master shrugs his shoulders. ‘I don’t know what they are going to do. All my slaves are employed elsewhere tonight so that I will come back to you here and we will be alone. I almost slept downstairs. They want me to marry, but if I do they fear I will disgrace the family. When there are no children a wife can insist on a divorce.’

There is an earnestness in his tone, a crack of emotion too. Zena feels sorry for him.

‘I can sleep here tonight,’ she says, ‘if you would like it. No one will know what has or has not happened.’


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