"A gift from General Assad, M'am."
She uncoiled her long legs and slunk over to the prisoner. "He's not the usual kind I like."
The quartermaster shrugged. "There weren't many left after the General was finished.
She nodded, circling the bedraggled man like a shark. "So, he's the only one to survive questioning... who is he?"
"No idea. All NATO pigs look alike to me.
The circles grew tighter, then suddenly stopped. "You could have cleaned him up!"
"He was hosed down, M'am."
"That I can see," she said, admiring the shapes within his wet underclothes. He wasn't a bad specimen, probably from the United Kingdom judging from his pallor and freckled skin. She had heard tales that these Northern savages had tremendous stamina.
"He will do," she said, dismissing the escort with a flick of her wrist.
She took up her crop and rested it lightly on his shoulder. "Tell me, soldier, how long have you been away from home?"
The man turned toward her voice, but said nothing.
He probably spoke no Arabic; none of these ill-educated Westerners did. She repeated the question in English, letting her full-throated voice caress each vowel.
He stood mute, but there was movement behind the blindfold.
"A very long time, no? A long time away from your home... and from your woman."
His jaw worked silently as the crop drifted down his chest. "You lay awake many nights, thinking about her, dreaming about her..." She slipped the crop into his waistband. "How good she feels in your arms, her skin so soft, her pussy so wet..."
The riding crop grazed him and he swallowed hard. "So far away in a desert land... what can a man do?" she whispered, pressing the crop into his groin. It buckled against the movement stirring there. "Restraint is so difficult..."
The bulge within his wet pants was promising. He hissed as she snatched the crop away. "And now you suffer at the hands of your captor," she laughed. "Desire is a cruel mistress, no?"
He grimaced and mumbled something unintelligible. This one hadn't been completely silenced by Assad. That pleased her.
She struck him sharply across the thighs and he fell to his knees. "If you wish to speak, it would be wise to be polite," she said calmly, tracing his jawline with the crop. She wondered what kind of devil eyes were hidden behind the fold.