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Francis W. Porretto
“What question?” she whispered.
His eyes bored into hers.
“Do you really think yourself a whore, Amelie?”
Her heart leaped in her chest. She turned once more to gaze into the mirror.
The woman whose image I see is pampered, cherished, exalted...and loved. A creature whose lover has raised her above the common earth. She need sell herself to no one. She is no one’s whore and never will be.
She is Amelie du Nord. Me.
“No,” she whispered.
He smiled and nodded. “Neither does Monsieur. Remember it.”
He pocketed his wallet, turned, and left the store.
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About The Author
Francis W. Porretto is an engineer, fictioneer, and commentator. He operates the Liberty’s Torch Website (https://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com), a hotbed of pro-freedom, pro-American, pro-Christian sentiment, where he and his Esteemed Co-Conspirators hold forth on every topic under the Sun. You can email him at [email protected]. Thank you for taking an interest in his fiction.
