Slave Wife (17 page)
Authors: Frances Gaines Bennett
After half a dozen blows, which raised satisfying bright pink stripes on the white skin, small pathetic whimpers penetrated the luxurious stillness. Delia circled and looked into the parts of Karen’s face left unobstructed by her long hair. The girl’s face was wet with tears. Even in the dimness, even with Karen’s lowered head and eyes, Delia could see resignation, perhaps acceptance, but none of Anna’s sensual pleasure. Indeed misery, evanescent but still, Delia sensed, real, seemed to rise from the girl.
Delia’s uncertainty was so compelling she wanted to scream. She still didn’t know! Or was it simply the remnants of her fanatical quest blocking her vision? Was the answer truly obvious?
She struck again and, as she felt the cat connect, caught motion in the deep shadows behind the massive gilded desk. She spun on her heel in time to see Michael step toward her. A silent scream rose within her as she looked into his beautiful opaque eyes.
He smiled and his smile was like looking into hell’s blackness. But far worse, when he spoke, his voice astonishingly hard and droll simultaneously, she felt her world crash around her. “Hello, Delia.”
Questions – questions she’d stupidly ignored in her ferment – exploded in white-hot shards into her brain. Had he been the initiator of this little interchange? How did he know who she was? And how long had he known of her plans? When his company had hired her? Or more shocking, had he somehow intuited or learned of them when he’d first taken Karen? All this time had he been watching and waiting?
Her perplexity was interrupted by turmoil at her feet. Karen had collapsed onto the floor and was straining her neck against the chain’s resistance to look upwards. In a voice so weak, plaintive and overflowing with hopelessness it plunged a knife into Delia’s heart, she moaned, “Delia? Delia?”
Also by Frances Gaines Bennett…
The Milk Bitch Trilogy
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