The Punishment of a Vixen by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782132110
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
Published: 2013-02-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

Swaying in the litter on top of the camel’s back, Nevada wondered if she could sleep.

She was feeling exceedingly tired as she had been unable to rest during the night, but had tossed and turned, feeling that every sound from the other women in the room was an irritant.

Perpetually in front of her eyes she seemed to see the dancer performing her exotic gyrations as she danced la Guedra.

Never had Nevada imagined that any dance could be so sensuous, so provocative and at the same time so hypnotic.

Long after she and the women had returned to their quarters she saw how emotionally they had been aroused and affected by the music and the passionate climax of la Guedra.

Besides this, the youngest wife of the Sheik was in tears and the woman who spoke French explained that it was because she was jealous.

“She loves our master,” she whispered to Nevada, “and, after the dancers come, he will not send for her for perhaps two or three days.”

It seemed strange, Nevada thought, that the Sheik’s fourth wife who was very attractive and could not have been more than eighteen years of age should love him so much.

Then she remembered that, as he was in fact the only man the woman ever knew, she had no other choice.

It was impossible, once they were all settled down for the night, for Nevada not to think of Tyrone Strome and the way he had smiled at the dancer.

It seemed almost as if his face was sketched on the darkness and she could see only too clearly the movement of his lips and what she thought was a glimmer of fire in his eyes.

The Sheik’s mother had made Nevada as comfortable as possible, giving her a place of honour on the matelas, a low sofa that consisted of velvet-covered mattresses resting on long wooden supports.

It was actually very comfortable, but sleep eluded her and, when the morning came, she felt hollow-eyed and exhausted in a way she had never known before.

They were aroused early, being informed by a slave that Tyrone Strome wished to leave soon after dawn.

Nevada was touched by the manner in which the Sheik’s mother and the other women bade her farewell almost affectionately.

Their good wishes for the journey and the hope that she would visit them again were all conveyed to her by the woman who spoke French.

Then, with many salaams and hands pressed together, touching first the forehead, then the lips and the breast, Nevada followed a servant down the twisting passages to the room where the Sheik had received them on arrival.

When she arrived there, she was ignored, as indeed she had expected, both by the Sheik and by Tyrone Strome.

Only by a glance in her direction did he direct her to follow him when he went outside the house to where a horse and a camel were waiting for them.

The rest of the caravan joined them at the outer gate of the Kasbah and they left amongst a

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