Chapter 41 Laughs

• ISHAQ
• My eyes followed the beautiful woman’s every sweet, graceful movement of her hands, arms, and hips. Her whole body, in fact. She was slender, with olive skin and eyes like a beautiful night, which shone whenever she smiled. Olabisi danced in front of my mistress, Queen Cleopatra.
• When her father Ptolemy XII died, my mistress became the ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, starting 51 BC. As one of her favored errand slaves, I was always close to her, even before she became the ruler. And that was how I came to know of this beautiful royal laborer that was now entertaining our mistress.