Ali Dey, the ruler of Ottoman Tunis, woke up when he felt something jumping on his pillow. A silk face rubbed his jaw and started purring.
His cat Ghost must have convinced his guards to let her into his apartment. Probably by demanding that so loudly, the soldiers rather send her in than wake their lord. AGAIN. She was a huge, long haired, Turkish cat, the size of a small dog and devoted to Ali. If it was up to her she would follow him around all day.
He reached out and stroked her back. The sun was not up yet. "Shhh go to sleep," he muttered. She walked over to her favourite spot just above his hip, her long haired tail high in the air, and curled herself up in a ball and fell asleep.
Ali however was now wide awake. It did not matter how hard he tried but his sleep evaded him. It was cold in the early morning hours. He reached down to find the blanket. The cat rising to get on top of the bedding. Ali looked to his side where a milky white naked back was stretched on the bed.
Oh yes his new concubine. That Dutch woman. Sara.
She seemed fast asleep. Ali draped the sheet and blanket over her form and covered himself too. Ghost was shoved over the bed and decided she would sleep on top of the blanket instead of under it. Ali laid back down.
This woman. This slave that they had given to him as a present. But who he had never met until yesterday when he had walked into her telling stories to his children.
His eunuch had made the mistake never showing her to him thinking he would not be interested in a woman way over thirty.
But he had been curious. This woman who was telling stories from far away countries. Thia woman who spoke many languages. And who had eyes the colour of the sea and a white skin. And unlike his favourite concubine Leila who also came from Holland had an air about her of wisdom.
Or had it been the way she looked at his children that made him feel something for her? The warm smiles and the hands that grabbed toddlers about to tumble into the pool. He suddenly had felt a need for her to smile so at him. To bath in that love.
He had wives that respected him for what he was: a mighty ruler. He had concubines who knew they had to please him in bed and were grateful for the good life they got in return. But none of these women gave him such a look of love as this woman had given his children.
So he had told his head eunuch to send her to his bedchamber.
Ali looked at her sleeping form. Her face turned away from him he only saw her honey coloured hair and the white of her arm and shoulder.
She had not smiled that warm smile when she was send to him. Her eyes had been blue lakes and her face white as a sheet. He had seen a mixture of fear and curiosity on her face when he had removed her veils and slowly peeled away her cloths.
His wives had come to his marriage bed happy to have made such a good match. His slaves he had made his concubines felt honoured to be chosen into a life of luxury away from manual labour. Oh yes his head eunuch selected those girls. He would see who would like the art of bedding and pleasing his lord. Only in the case of that other Dutch virgin had Ali encountered a woman who became hysteric by the mere fact of being taken. Well he had given that one to an old gentleman who would appreciate her cooking and her company but who did not feel the need anymore to have a woman.
But this one. This Sara. He had noticed how her lower lip trembled and tried to make her comfortable. He had been gentle. After lifting her up and carrying her to his bed he had given her the treatment of the hundred kisses. Nuzzling her fingers, kissing her fingertips and the palm of her hands. Kissing his way down from her collarbones to her belly button.
He could feel her fear in the stiffness of her body so he had tried to make her laugh by suddenly telling her he was going to eat her and then blowing in her bellybutton like he did with his kids. That had worked. A giggle had escaped her.
But when he had proceeded to kissing her lips and taking her nipples in his mouth he still saw her look at him with anticipation, curiosity and fear.
"Sara," he had said. "Do not be afraid. This is what men and women do when they are alone in the bedroom. There is nothing to be afraid of. Maybe the first time hurts a bit or when a man takes a woman in her ass or in her channel and is too rough but normally this is something people like to do. I will be gentle with you. I will be good to you. Just trust me. I am a good master."
"I have never done this my Lord," she had whispered.
"Yes I know my Sweet," he had said. "I will do something most women really like. Just wait and see."