There were hate in their eyes. 'Good, ' she thought as she sent one man down with a slash across his face and the other she pivoted to thrust her weap...on into his side. The dying man stood there amazed then fell face first in the grass. This almost identical that Penelope encountered in her home in Rome.None of the Romans were killed. Two had minor cuts as they watched the rest retreat and disappear into the woods. Attia herself had slain five of the barbarians. Lucius ran to her seeing tears in. I would be so thrilled ifyou'd accept an invitation to join me."I said yes, immediately."The real you," he added, ``in all her beauty.`` I said yes again, immediately."The real you is beautiful, and something to be celebrated. I can't waitto get to know you so much more better. More intimately, perhaps?"I said yes a third time, immediately.Then he brought his face down, close to mine. Very close. With my headturned up, our lips were almost touching. Just a few micro-inches apart.I could. Another quick flick of the whipcompleted the "X" on the girl's back. Kim controlled her screamsbut moaned and cried almost convulsively as her mother cut her eightmore times with the vicious instrument. Her back was marked in awaffle pattern from the tops of her ass cheeks to her neck. Theskin had been broken slightly in a couple of areas and smalltrickles of blood ran down the deep hollow of her back made evendeeper by her stretched position. CHAPTER 3Bill watched. Nonetheless it was a reminder that behind all her power, she was still a woman underneath. I did not get to enjoy Artemisia’s enslavement as much as I ought to have. Desperate to prove that she was more of a man, she had charged her fleet recklessly into the narrow straits of Salamis. Her behavior was even more outrageous when the tide turned to defeat. My brother was captaining the Trireme fighting at her side. In her desperation, she cruelly rammed her ship into her Persian allies. My.