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his expression.
    Leonora nodded and then picked up a sheet of paper from her desk. "I would have agreed with you, but apparently your friend Johnson has other ideas." She handed Max the typed fax. "As you can see, Mr Johnson only wants the auction to include the actual deflowering. He doesn't want her owned by one man. My instructions are that she is to be made available to anyone who wants her."
    Max pulled a face. "But she would be perfect as a slave for one of our regulars."
    "It appears that Johnson has other ideas. He wants her to be well used."
    Max snorted. "What he wants is to get his hands on Peter Howard and he thinks this is the way to do it."
    Leonora drained her glass in one mouthful. "And revenge for stealing Magenta?"
    Max nodded and offered his own glass for a refill. "Some revenge, to beat a live woman for revenge on a dead man!"
     
    In his London town house, Johnson laid the phone back in its cradle. Emily had arrived safe and sound and his instructions had been carried out to the letter.
    On the computer screen on his desk was the message that his treacherous accountant had sent into the world-wide computer net for Peter Howard. Peter was once Banyon's best friend, but now Banyon had played right into his hands. Johnson had wondered how to ensure that Peter Howard knew that Emily was at Deuvar. This way Howard would get the information from a source that he trusted implicitly.
    Johnson was convinced Peter Howard was still alive. It was too damned convenient that he had died and Magenta had been lost with him. Too neat, too easy to be true.
    The door to his office opened slowly to reveal his own personal body slave, so painfully trained to his particular tastes.
    The girl was tall; supposedly a warrior princess, who had been given to him as a gift during a business deal with an Arab prince. Johnson had no way to check her pedigree, but her natural bearing and stance certainly suggested that she had once been of some great importance.
    Her lithe muscular body bore the magical marks of ritual scarification, patterning her exquisite golden skin into complex silver and blue whorls and glyphs. The intricate designs led the connoisseur's eye back and forth across the oiled movements of the sleek muscles. Her breasts were small high peaks with large exotic nipples – and her sex…
    He smiled, a cruel smile.
    Her sex was like a wild animal, heavily covered in a rough musky pelt that extended up from the usual V shape in a narrow line up to her navel and beyond, finally fading in the hollow beneath her breast bone. She looked barely tame, dangerous – like a leopard who wore a leash only because she respected and feared the master who controlled her. Possessing her was pure illusion.
    He had seen her first at the Prince's summer palace. She had been tied into an astonishing erotic arc, thumbs clamped to her toes; a fighting snarling she-cat that obviously terrified the two men appointed as her keepers.
    Her muscular body had glistened with sweat as she fought against her bonds, breasts jutting forward, nipples bullet hard, a low threatening growl trickling from between her bared teeth. Seeing her writhing and fighting against her restraints had brought a flush of heat to his face.
    She presented the ultimate challenge – a truly untamed woman.
    He stared at her sweating tattooed body as she struggled desperately to free herself.
    The Prince lifted a hand towards her. "This creature, rather like our Arab horses, is truly the province of an expert, Mr Johnson. I will not be offended if you decline my gift. I know your tastes. My harem is full of women who would satisfy your every whim."
    Johnson smiled thinly, eyes never leaving the contours of the dark girl's straining body.
    "Rest assured, Prince Assim, she will meet my needs perfectly. I am deeply flattered by your generosity."
    The Prince smiled and gave a little bow. "Would you like my men to secure her so that you can try her?" He nodded towards the uniformed