Chapter 39: The Wanderer's Second Return

Princess Maryam was in her suite being massaged in the most delightful and intimate way by her personal eunuch when Ludmilla burst in on her.

"Princess Maryam," she exclaimed, "Princess Maryam you'll never guess who has just come back."

"Shh," admonished Princess Maryam, "Do not wake the child. Why are you interrupting me? Do you never knock before bursting in? Have you Russians no manners?"

"Forget all that, Zubeydeh is back, with a three month old baby boy called Mahmoud," came the startling reply.

"What?" yelled Princess Maryam, waking Mustapha who immediately started to cry.

"More than that," added Ludmilla, "The Chief Eunuch addressed her as Highness Zubeydeh!"

"Well, I'll soon put a stop to that," announced Maryam, storming out of the room and leaving Ludmilla to pacify the child as best she could.

When she found the Chief Eunuch he was less than helpful.

"I address her as my Master instructs," he said firmly, "I was told this morning that she would return today and that she was to be treated with all the respect due to the mother of an Emir, and quite specifically that her title is the Dowager Princess Zubeydeh and she is to be addressed as Highness."

Then he added a malicious lie as a tiny revenge for Maryam's increasing intransigence in recent months, "Even now I await instructions as to where she is to be accommodated."

He had known for months that the special suite which had been built on as an extension to the harem was intended as the Dowager Princess, Her Highness Zubeydeh's permanent home.

"Well she's not having my suite," stormed Maryam.

"With the greatest respect, Princess, I will be guided on this matter by the Emir, may he live for ever, and by no other."

"If he wants her put in my suite, refer him to me and don't do anything until I have seen him."

The Chief Eunuch looked at her with considerable pity and gently suggested, "If I were you I would not do anything which might prevent Mustapha remaining Crown Prince."

"Are you threatening me?" Maryam demanded.

"Of course not," said the Chief Eunuch as he stroked his whip handle absentmindedly, "I am merely trying to help you by reminding you that we all are here because we were purchased to do whatever our Master the Emir, may he live for ever, wishes."

His words reminded her of her origins and that her Master the Emir was an absolute ruler whose every whim was obeyed with alacrity.

'Also, ' she thought grimly, 'some whims are not reversible.'

So she returned to her suite and calmed her son, but as soon as he was asleep again she was called for preparation for the Emir's bed.

'Well that means he's not having her tonight, ' she thought as she lowered herself into the perfumed bath.

In the bedroom Princess Maryam was accorded the rare privilege of getting into bed beside the Emir, rather than crawling up from the foot of the bed. He was unusually ardent, rolling on to and into her immediately and coming in a matter of seconds deep in her vagina.

In a second session a few minutes later he was more thoughtful of her, ensuring that she had one, or possibly two orgasms before he came. Then as he deposited a second batch of semen in her womb she came again. Or at least appeared to; with Princess Maryam he was never quite sure if she was faking it now she knew he liked her to come as well.

'That, ' he thought, 'is a real contrast to Zubeydeh, whose climaxes are loud and unmistakable. Nobody could fake coming as she does.'

After their second mutual climax, Princess Maryam ventured to question the Emir, as she thought, subtly, "That was good, Master, you have again made me pregnant tonight I think. What will you do with Zubeydeh when I have given you two sons?"

"I shall do as I choose with her," was the reply, "I am the Emir, though sometimes I wonder if you think you are."

Ignoring the warning in his tone and words Maryam plunged on regardless, "I know it won't happen, but I don't want to hear of her appearing in your bed."

"Then you shall not hear it," the Emir replied coldly.

He called for the Chief Eunuch, and when he arrived the Emir ordered, "Shackle the Princess Maryam to the whipping frame, facing the bed. Gag her. Fill her ears with beeswax, since she wishes to be deaf for the rest of the night. Then have her Highness, the Dowager Princess Zubeydeh prepared and brought to me. I am minded to fill her three portals tonight."