Angela was not pleased. She ordered both of them to be flogged immediately and watched as the sentence of fifteen apiece was carried out. Both Frances...ca and Frieda were secured side by side and two of the stronger girls were told to deliver the lashes. With Angela's eyes boring into their backs, they gave of their best. As Francesca felt the whip hit her back and heard Frieda being chastised beside her, she recalled Frieda's words. "We'll be going through it together. That'll be nice!" And it. . you know ... um ... not done it, yet, then?’I blushed scarlet, and nodded confirmation of my unsullied virginity. I though she might laugh or think me childish, but my heart warmed when instead she smiled at me approvingly, patted my shoulder, and said:‘Quite right, too! – most girls give it up far too soon, to someone who doesn’t deserve it, and then wish they hadn’t!’ For just a moment, I wondered if she was speaking about herself, but it would have been just too rude to ask.A week or so. True, he had smacked Loki around, plus it was a little easier each time, it was still harder than it should be."So, warrior brother, what next? Lure more of the Valkyries to us and our side?" Thor asked, a smile on his face."No, not like we have, even as stupid and angry as Loki has been, I am sure he has caught on," Ephus said as he thought over what had happened so far. Then again, Ephus thought, Loki was just as quick to anger as he had been the first time he had angered Loki. Could he be. Tom was an unsuccessful writer of sexy novels, rejected because his sentences were unacceptable. Too long. Another reason was although his hero and heroine met in the first chapter or at least the reader learned they knew each other, Tom’s hero kept screwing lesser female characters and inevitably the heroine looked elsewhere for the man of her dreams. Not good. Almost as fatal for his literary ambitions, although he was American and lived in America he’d slept around widely in many countries,.