5/28/2023 0 Comments Cleopatra's Secret by Lydia Storm![]() She had even snipped off a lock of her own golden hair, attaching it to the doll’s head and arranging it in the same manner she did her own. One she had painted to resemble herself with porcelain glazed skin and bright turquoise eyes. ![]() She held up two small figures fashioned by her own hands from the smooth clay of the Nile mud. Though, of course, he never suspected it was her, Iris, he had embraced in his straining moments of pleasure that night, that it was she whose body blossomed like a flower under his touch in the magical moonlight of the desert, it would not be long before he understood. She could not leave with him now, but in time she would find a suitable reason to quit Cleopatra's court and fly to Antony’s awaiting arms. His departure to Rome made things easier. But after once feeling the reality of Antony's body entwined with hers, bound so intimately with her virgin flesh, some line had been irrevocably crossed in her heart. How she had been driven to such madness as she was about to commit, she did not know. ![]() Quietly as a cat, she moved about her room collecting the tools she needed. ![]() Alone in her darkened chamber, Iris worked with only the light of one small candle. ![]() Cleopatra and Antony were not the only creatures astir in the midnight hours. ![]()
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