Tales of the Odalisque by Josie Litton

Author:Josie Litton [Litton, Josie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“Ladies,” Arabella Hamilton called out, “calm yourselves! I realize this is all very exciting but I really must have your attention. There is a great deal to be accomplished before you make your first appearance in the club this evening.”

Sitting off to one side of the parlor, to which they had been summoned for tea and instruction, Natalia did her best to listen. Six days after beginning her “practice” sessions with Lucius, her mind was a blur. She, who had always prided herself on the clarity of her thoughts was now scarcely capable of thinking at all.

Feeling was an entirely different matter. That seemed to be all she did--continually, endlessly, vividly, her body roiled by need, her mind a tempest.

Each day, his summons had resulted in new and enticing forms of torment. Truly, the man’s imagination appeared to have no limits. Worse yet, drawn by the seduction of her traitorous senses, she had begun to look forward to their time together.

This despite the growing risk that had her tossing and turning at night, unable to find more than the briefest rest. Each session, he had posed questions, waiting until her most vulnerable moments to do so. Each time, she feared she would reveal too much.

Her only comfort was that in order to draw her out, he had revealed tantalizing glimpses of himself: He had grown up in Shanghai, the son of a British accountant and his wife. He had dropped out of Oxford. He had a taste for ginger beer, developed while in India. Small but not insignificant insights into the man he was.

Above all, one fact she had gleaned; his control over his magnificent body was truly remarkable. Not once did he again succumb to her or allow her to touch him in any way that might have given her an advantage. Instead, he focused entirely on wresting from her paroxysms of release that left her feeling no more than putty in his hands.

She had the sinking feeling that he had learned rather more about her than she had of him, no matter how careful she had tried to be. Nothing of importance, she hoped. Nothing that could disprove her carefully crafted legend. But still--

Little by little, she could feel her resistance eroding. No closer to finding Naomi, she was pinning all her hopes on what she could discover once she was inside the Odalisque.

Surely, among the crowd of members and whatever else went on there, she would find an opportunity to slip away. She had to because despite everything that Lucius had done to undermine her, she finally possessed concrete hope that she really could succeed.

Two days before, during a brief period of respite that he granted her, she had managed to watch as he keyed in the password on his computer. The movement of his fingers was wicked fast. An untrained observer would never have been able to recall the sequence. But she possessed a memory rigorously trained to do exactly that. Access codes of every sort were child’s play for her.

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