Mark Townsend
The orgiastic cult

CHAPTER ONE

A beautiful, red-haired young woman lay naked on the carpeted floor of a strange room located in the poorer business district of downtown Los Angeles. The room itself was square; the walls and ceiling were draped with dark blue velvet; one wall was completely covered with a mirror of smoky glass. A light mist of incense made the room hazy, almost surrealistic. The only light came from seven candles which stood on a low, altar-like platform also covered with velvet, that was placed near the wall directly opposite the mirror. The dancing flames made flickering shadows play on the skin of the girl, emphasizing each ripe curve of her voluptuous body.

She lay in what appeared to be a trance-like state; her eyes were closed and the only movement came from the rhythmic heaving of her creamy young breasts that rose and fell regularly while the candle flames made pink and rosy patterns on her skin. Periodically she would twist her slender body as if in the throes of an erotic dream; her long tapering legs would thrash and writhe, exposing the glistening "vee" of her pubic hair that seemed to twitch with a pulsing life of its own.

A figure appeared from behind the drapes, a young man who was also completely naked.

"Hail Vallus!" he cried as he entered the room.

He was a slim, young man about twenty-one. He was six feet tall, with a wiry, muscular build. His skin was dark, giving him a gypsyish appearance. His black curling hair framed an exceptionally handsome, sensual face. Yet, despite his good looks, there was something evil about him, an aura of degeneracy. His thick, full lips seemed to be twisted in a cruel sneer, and his dark, heavily lashed eyes seemed to hold images of evil and perversity in them. He wore a silver earring in his left ear, and suspended from the earring was a talisman that took the shape of a long, dagger-like object, topped by two round rings, like half of a four leaf clover. It swung from his ear as he moved, and enhanced the strange air that surrounded his appearance.

He moved towards the flame-haired girl on the floor and stood before her. As he did, gazing down at the gleaming, luscious body, his penis, unusually long and thick, began to throb and rise. His large, pendulous balls, swaying below his pulsing organ, began to swell with life. He raised his arms upwards, in a sort of ritual gesture.

"Hail Vallus!" he cried. "God of the night! Protector of the creatures of Darkness! I am your slave! Hear me! Your slave Raoul surrenders himself to your commands!"

He gazed down at the girl's face, set off by the vivid redness of her hair. Her wet, gleaming lips were half open, an invitation to be kissed, or for a tonguing. Her nose curved slightly downwards, giving her an exotic, almost Arabian look. Her eyes, heavily made up, were like those of a cat; even closed, they seemed to radiate desire. The young man, Raoul, dropped to his knees and his face moved downward towards the exposed area of her pussy. As he moved closer he could smell the pungent, musky female odor that rose from her glistening, furry patch. He flicked out his long, pointed tongue and explored the warm, curling hair that surrounded her fleshy slit. The soft tendrils felt good on his oral member, and he moved in closer, while his hands roved lewdly up and down her long, curvaceous body.

His face moved downwards, and his tongue glided along the fleshy lane, running wetly along each ridge and fold of her cuntal lips.

Still in a deep trance, the girl did not open her eyes during all of this. But her body began to respond as the gypsy's hands moved over every soft, silky curve of her body. She began to undulate slowly, spreading her legs wide to give Raoul easier entry. Her tongue moved out around her lips, wetting them, exploring them in response to the tonguing she was being given down there between her quivering legs.

"Mnnnnnnnmmmmmmmm…" she moaned, in her semi-conscious state.

"Vallussss… Vallus…"

Hearing her moan, Raoul increased his tonguing, and stiffening his oral spear, suddenly plunged it deep into the warm, cuntal cave.

"Unnnnggggghhhh!" the red-haired girl cried out, "Vallusssssssss! Vaaaaaaallllllusssss!"

Suddenly, another figure appeared from within the folds of the velvet cloth; it was an older woman.

"My son!" she commanded sternly. "It is not time yet! Vallus will be displeased!"

Raoul moved quickly away from the girl on the floor and turned to the new arrival.

"Yes, Mother," he said, almost meekly, "forgive me. I was overcome with the fullness of Vallus! I felt compelled to surrender to his will immediately."

The woman's eyes narrowed.

"You must never do such a thing until I have consented to it! I am the HIgh Priestess of Vallus, you are merely a slave Prince!" she shouted at him. "Remember that!"

"Yes, Mother," he replied.

"Bring the sacred symbol, bring the sign of Vallus," she commanded.

"Yes, I obey you. Hail Vallus."

"Hail Vallus."

The young man slipped quickly into the opening in the drapes. The woman turned her attention to the young girl on the floor and moved towards her. Gazing down at the ripe, young beauty she thought of her own appearance. She was a woman in her early forties, but still quite desirable; she had seen to that. Her jet black hair hung down almost to the small of her back; her face was severe and, like her son, she appeared to be of gypsy origin. Her eyes seemed as black as her hair and two half-moon eyebrows were placed above them giving her the look of a sorceress. Her lips were thin and somewhat tightly drawn.

Her full body, still smooth and ripe, was perfectly revealed by the gauzy ceremonial robe she wore, barely concealing her firm, jutting breasts through the thinness of the cloth. The robe was floor length and of the sheerest black material, set off with little silver stars. It clung to her as if it were damp, revealing every ravishing feature of her mature, sleek body. And yet, gazing down at the younger girl, she seemed almost jealous.

Raoul appeared bearing a large symbol made out of heavy metal; it was an exact reproduction of the little talisman that hung from his earring.

"Place it on the altar," the woman commanded.

"Yes, Mother," he replied, doing as he was told.

"Now is the time," she said, "I can feel Vallus call to me. He wants us to surrender to him, and have others surrender to him also."

She glanced down at the girl.

"Tonight Lorraine shall be the object of surrender. But… but…" she turned to her son, "there must be others. Lorraine has been with us for two months now, and Vallus tires of her. He wishes us to bring others into the sacred circle."

"Hail Vallus!" her son cried.

"Hail Vallus!"

The older woman slowly and ceremoniously undid the clasps of her clinging gown and let it fall to the floor, revealing the glistening body beneath that she had taken such pains to keep fresh and young. Her son gasped as he saw his mother's tawny skin caressed by the candle light. Involuntarily, he felt his cock spring to life once again and his body became flushed with the first tingling excitement of what was about to take place. Without a word, his mother moved away from the young girl lying obscenely on the carpet, and Raoul took his place, positioning himself so that he could slip his hardened cock into the tempting wet pussy that pulsed nakedly before him on the floor. The older woman moved to the head of the young girl, facing her son. She watched, as he moved his cock towards the girl's trembling vaginal slit.

"Hail Vallus!" she cried.

"Hail Vallus!" her son answered, and suddenly shoved his throbbing penis deep into the girl's cuntal canal.

"Aieeeee!" the girl cried out, still semi-conscious, "Aaaaaaaannnnggggh!"

Slowly the older woman lowered herself over the mouth of the young girl on the floor, squatting so that her glistening pussy flesh was directly over the girl's mouth. Staring at his mother, his eyes glazing over with some kind of perverse inner vision, Raoul began to rock back and forth, running his hard and aching cock along the wet, hot walls of the redhead's ever-widening vaginal canal.

Suddenly the girl on the floor awoke, as if her trance was over, and seemed shocked to find herself in such a position.

"Hail Vallus!" the others cried, noticing her return to consciousness.

At the sound of that phrase, the girl relaxed and closed her eyes again, a satisfied, ecstatic smile wreathing her face. She let her tongue slip out and begin to run the length of the older woman's pussy, positioned directly above her mouth. Raoul began to move in and out with greater intensity, slamming his prick against the tender tissue of her cervix. The older woman massaged the girl's firm, young breasts, moaning as she felt the slim, hot tongue lapping and teasing at her eagerly suspended pussy.

"Aaaaahhhhhhhh!" the High Priestess cried out in ecstasy, "All praise to Vallus! All praise to Vallus!"

"All praise to Vallus," the son repeated with mounting intensity. "Hail Vallus!"

"Hail Vallus!"

Later that same evening, a car sped along the Santa Monica Freeway towards West Los Angeles. Ed Hill was driving home after a long day at the garage. It had been hectic all afternoon, with two transmission jobs that had to be finished before he left; it had been after seven when he finally closed up and headed home. He hadn't even had time to change from his work clothes and he felt grubby still wearing his greasy oil-stained dungarees and denim shirt. As he drove, he looked forward to getting home and having a good dinner; his thoughts especially centered on the beautiful wife Marion. They had been married only six months, but they had been the happiest six months of Ed's life. Married life suited him perfectly, and his beautiful Marion, only eighteen and as lush and desirable as he could want, was the perfect wife. As he thought of her he could feel his thick cock stiffen inside his dirty jeans.

Man, oh man, he thought, I can't wait to get home and run my prick into that sweet little pussy of hers. I'm one hell of a lucky guy to have a girl like her to come home to.

As he drove he thought of her curly golden-blonde hair that danced around her face like a bright cloud; she had deep blue eyes that seemed to sparkle; her ripe, pink body was alive with youth and sexuality. How he loved to feel her soft, warm skin in his hands; her large, jutting breasts were the envy of all the women on his block, and he especially liked to bite and suck on the hardened, brownish tips. Her buttocks – and he could feel them as he thought – were smooth and resilient, and they felt so satiny beneath his hands when he grabbed them like two pillows. The thought of her so overwhelmed him that he had reached down unconsciously and begun to stroke himself. His excitement spiraled under his vigorous massage, and his rigidly erect penis strained pleadingly against the tight denim of his work pants.

Christ, he thought, if I'm not careful I'll cum right here in the car in the middle of traffic. I'd better cool off until I get home. Oh, man do I want to fuck that sweet woman tonight.

In a few minutes he had pulled into the driveway of their one-story bungalow, and moved quickly into the house. Usually Marion was in the kitchen, fixing dinner, but when Ed entered the kitchen was empty and there was no food on the table. For a moment he was panicked.

Has something happened to Marion? Oh, Jesus!

He ran into the living room and although it was neat as a pin, it was empty.

"Marion!" he called, "Marion?"

There was no answer. He rushed into the bedroom. Marion was lying on the bed in a silky nightgown, talking on the phone.

"Yes, Mother," she was saying, "I got it today! It's fabulous! I'm going to go down first thing in the morning and find out about it. Thanks so much for sending it to me!"

She turned and saw her young husband glowering at the doorway.

"Oh, Mother," she said, "Eddie's home. I've got to hang up. I'll call next week."

She hung up the phone and ran to her husband.

"Hello, darling," she cried, flinging her arms about him and kissing him. "I just had to call Mother in Philadelphia to thank her."

"Thank her for what?"

"Look," she said, running back to the bed and picking up some leaflets. "Mother wrote a letter telling me all about this new group that's just started right here in L.A.. It's called the Sign of Vallus. Somebody told her about it. She said I simply had to investigate it. Look, doesn't it look fabulous?"

"I'm not interested in any of that junk," Ed retorted angrily. "What about my dinner? I'm hungry!"

"Junk?" Marion said, looking hurt. "How can you say it's junk? Why Mother…"

"Listen," Ed said, slipping off his dirty work clothes, "I don't want to hear about anything your crazy mother is into. Ever since your father died last year she's been into one phony cult after another. I think that stuff's dangerous! And I don't like you being influenced by her like that. We can't afford all these damn long distance calls, either."

"But, Ed," she said, "you're being unfair. There's a lot of truth to what these groups teach. Don't you want to become a fuller person?"

"The only way I want to become a fuller person is to have my dinner on the table when I come home from work!"

He was fully naked now, and Marion looked lovingly at his body. He had a highly muscular build, from years of working as a mechanic and laborer; his legs and hips were hard and the muscles looked like twists of steel cable. His chest was huge and his forearms bulged from the rock-hard muscles. His face was ruggedly handsome, with light brown eyes, a straight aquiline nose, and full sensual lips. Most of all she loved his thick hair, that was always tousled lice a child's. An anchor was tattooed on his left arm, from his days in the navy. She felt a spasm of desire go through her as she watched him get ready for his shower.

"Ed," she said, "I'm sorry. Really I am. But this is important to me."

"Oh, baby," Ed replied, moving over to her completely nude, "I don't want to put you down, but you could get in real trouble with that stuff. These guys are just out to make a quick buck."

Remembering his thoughts in the car on the way home, Ed suddenly took his young wife in his arms and began to cover her with kisses. His cock became instantly hard and thick and pressed against the silky material of her nightgown. He held her tightly, crushing her to him; he was overcome with desire. After a long hard day at work he now wanted to fuck the living daylights out of her, to screw her like mad, maybe even all night long. His lips pressed hotly against hers and his tongue forced its way between her teeth into the interior of her mouth, probing wantonly into the dark vaulted oral cavity. He became doubly excited as his hands roved up and down her body, clad flimsily in the sheer nightgown, and his hand moved quickly under the thin material and explored the area between her legs, hidden by the bikini panties she wore.

"Ed…" Marion murmured, "I should be getting your dinner…"

"The hell with that," he said, and slipped his middle finger deftly inside the tight elastic crotchband of her panties and worked its way down until he found the soft fleshy slit hidden in the warm, furry pubic hair. The tip of his finger probed at her clitoris which hardened and stood up defiantly under his touch.

Despite her husband's ardor, Marion felt herself curiously resisting his hot advances. Although she had always enjoyed making love to him, indeed he had been the first and only man she had ever slept with, she had lately begun to have misgivings about the wanton way he liked to fuck her. In all the books her mother had been sending her; there had been stern warnings about the perils of the flesh about being bound to the material world. She began to feel guilty, as his insistent middle finger slid hotly into her pussy; despite the fact that she had always enjoyed making love with Ed, she now felt she should be putting a rein on those obscene desires.

"Ed… no… no…" she murmured as his hungrily searching middle finger slid in and out of her taut vaginal passage like a little imitation penis.

"Oh, baby, I want to fuck you so bad," Ed whispered in her ear. "I've been waiting all day to get my cock into your juicy little cunt…"

Suddenly Marion pulled away from him.

"Ed, we've got to stop. This is wrong."

Ed was astounded.

"Wrong? What the hell are you talking about?"

"This is just gross bodily passion… it's the things of the spirit that are important…"

"What?"

He was infuriated!

"Oh, Ed, I know it seems strange, but we have to go beyond what we are into new realms. All the books say so, and these pamphlets…"

She picked up the pamphlets on the bed and tried to show them to him, but he pushed them away violently.

"That's all a bunch of crap!"

"Don't say that," she screamed. "Don't say that!"

"I've been letting you read that mumbo jumbo long enough without saying anything! But no more!" he screamed back. "What's the matter? Don't you want me to fuck you anymore?"

Her husband's crude words made her recoil in disgust.

"Don't you talk to me that way," she screamed.

"I'lltalk to you any way I want!" he shouted back. "And I don't want you reading any more of these goddam books. They're ruining our marriage!"

Marion turned petulantly away as if to stamp out of the room but Ed's anger had reached the boiling point. He felt he was being made a fool of by his young wife and after his long arduous day at work he was in no mood to fool around. He grabbed her roughly by the arm.

"Where are you going?" he demanded.

"Let me go," she cried, struggling to free herself from his iron grip. "Let go!"

Suddenly Ed's fury overwhelmed him; the desire he had pent up all day suddenly exploded and the mixed feelings of anger and lust suddenly turned him into a raging, seething animal.

"Goddam you! I want you and I want you now, you fucking bitch!"

He hurled his wife down on the bed harshly.

"Ed!" she screamed, completely shocked by her husband's rough behavior. "Stop!"

But there was no stopping him. He could sense that her involvement with weird cults had been pulling her slowly away from him, taking the excitement out of what had been a potent and thrilling sex life. He resented her, and resented her mother for meddling in their marriage. His penis shot up angrily erect, hard as steel and aching for cruel and violent release.

"I'll show you!" he shouted, completely off balance now by the relentless power of his anger and lust. With one stroke he ripped the flimsy nightgown from Marion's body.

"Nooooo!" she shouted, terrified at the intensity of her husband's explosion.

"Please… please…"

She struggled to get away from him, and tried to crawl across the bed, clutching at the blankets, but he reached out and yanked her back with his strong hands.

"No you don't baby. You're not going anywhere until I've finished with you. UNDERSTAND?"

He reached down and ripped her panties off her legs, and the tight elastic stung her skin as he pulled them roughly over her thighs and down her legs.

"You're hurting me!" she shouted.

"Shut up!" he screamed back, lost completely in the overwhelming passion that consumed him. He brutally spread her legs wide and jammed his middle finger harshly up into her tightly constricted vaginal canal.

"Aaaaaieeeee!" Marion screamed. The cruelty of his gesture had sent a searing flash of pain coursing through her loins, and she tightened her muscles in defiance. "Nooooo! Edddd!"

In answer, Ed jammed his finger even more cruelly up into his wife's defenseless flesh with a knife-like gesture, and the blunt tip of his finger pressed roughly into the soft cervix.

"Oooooohhhhhh! Ed you're hurting me!" she screamed.

"That's nothing, baby, that's nothing," he sneered. He jammed his finger in as far as he could, twisting it and turning it cruelly. Marion felt as if her pussy were on fire; hot searing pain ripped through her body and she twisted and squirmed, helplessly impaled on her husband's torturing middle finger.

"Pleeeaaasssssseeeee!" she cried, tears coming to her eyes.

Ed then began fucking his finger roughly in and out of Marion's nakedly trapped pussy, ripping and tearing at the tender flesh of her desperately straining cuntal passage. Marion tossed her blonde head from side to side, wailing, her eyes glazed with pain, scarcely believing what her own husband was doing to her. Ed had never done such a thing before and she hated him now for his cruelty. Her helplessly trapped body was shuddering with sharp twinges and she began to thrash her legs, trying to kick her husband to keep him away, to stop the terrible, burning torture!

"Noooooo! Nooooo!!" she shouted kicking and screaming, her arms pinned helplessly to the bed by one of her husband's powerful hands. Her violent resistance only drove Ed further into his momentary madness. His eyes were burning savagely and flecks of saliva appeared at the corner of his mouth. His body was shaking with outrage and lust. Suddenly, he pulled his middle finger out of his wife's brutally violated vagina and stood up. At first Marion thought he had finished with her and began to relax, but Ed grabbed her and pulled her from the bed to a standing position.

"Spread your legs, bitch," he shouted angrily, as he turned her around and forced her to bend down over the bed.

Scarcely believing what was happening to her, Marion found herself standing before her husband, her legs spread apart. He stood like a raging madman, manipulating his enormous tool with his hand, exciting it to full erection. Then he grabbed her roughly by the buttocks, and with one hard, ramming motion shoved his huge cock right up into her nakedly ravaged pussy, with a motion so violent that she was nearly raised off the floor as if a cannon had been suddenly rammed into her as she stood with her legs apart.

"Unnngggggh!" she groaned, "Ed, nooooooooo!"

Then Marion felt something very strange. With his shaft already filling her like a huge iron rod, she now felt him pulling her buttocks apart with the palms of his hands. His cock-moistened fingers began to explore her anal passage!

What is he doing? she thought in blind panic. This is horrible!! Horrible! What's come over him?

He began to explore her anal crack with the same roughness that he had when finger fucking her pussy. He jammed his mouth against her and kissed her so harshly that she thought she would faint from the smothering intensity of it. She grew dizzy and almost blacked out!

Oh God, she thought, Oh God what's happening to me?

Ed probed the entrance to her anal canal with the tip of his middle finger sending sharp little stings through her nether flesh. At the same time, he began to swing his pelvis back and forth so that his hugely swollen cock began to move like a piston up and down inside her tightened, bruised cuntal passage. The pain from her still smarting pussy and from his new explorations of her rectal area sent cold shivers through Marion's body. She bitterly resented what her husband was doing to her. She could see no justification for his actions and his behavior only reinforced what she had felt after reading all those books. He was being brutish and only wanted to satisfy his gross bodily senses. With each searing, stinging cringe of pain she grew more and more resistant to him, resenting him and rejecting him completely.

Sensing her response, her handsome husband simply increased his cruel attack. His cock rammed up into her now like a burning sword, widening the hot channel against its will, ripping along the interior of her pussy and slamming like a sledge hammer into the sensitive tip of her cervix. Brutally he shoved his middle finger all the way into her tight rectal sheath, and Marion's body was convulsed with torturous pain.

"Aaaeeeieeeeee!" she screamed. "Oh God I can't stand it! I can't stand it!"

Ed's excitement mounted as his finger probed barbarously in his young wife's anus, while his lust-hardened penis slid up and down the inner folds of her pussy, separated from his plunging middle finger by only a thin membrane. He kissed her neck so hard that he raised an angry red welt and sent more pain rippling through Marion's nakedly besieged body.

"Uuuunnnngggghhh!" he grunted as he increased the brutal temp of his cock and finger fucking. He was getting exactly the release he had wanted after his long day's work, and even though he vaguely regretted being so harsh with his wife, he was completely immune to all tender or forgiving feelings. Instead he twisted his body and drove even harder up into her, forcing his brutally probing middle finger deeply into her tight, burning back passage.

Marion was consumed by pain now. Her husband had never been so cruel to her. In the past, she had always been excited by the rough, sometimes crude way he made love to her. But he had always taken care to prepare her for whatever he wanted to do so that she was more than ready and anxious to do whatever he desired. Indeed, he had taken her to heights of passion and ecstasy she had never known possible. But now, she felt disgusted and repelled by his cruel raping behavior. Pain surged through her trembling body from all directions. His finger was ramming up into her rectum like a sharp-edged knife and it seemed like a raging fire was burning her rectal sheath and shooting flashes of hot pain up her back. Her nakedly abused vagina convulsed around his desire-swollen penis. But she could only twist and scream in response to the horrible pain. The torture increased as he sucked and bit hard on her nipples and the soft spongy flesh of her breasts.

"Oooohhhhhhnoooooooooo!" she sobbed, tears splashing down her cheeks. "Nooooooooo!"

Ed grunted and sawed his lust-hardened shaft in and out of her like a hulking, sweating demon. His entire body was aflame with passion and his muscles bulged and rippled as he stood fucking her in their bedroom. Squatting slightly to give himself better control, he swung his hips with machine-like precision, all finer sensibilities driven totally out of him by the monumental anger that consumed him.

I'll show this bitch who's boss! I'm going to put a stop to this goddam voodoo crap once and for all!

Marion felt almost as if she was being submerged in boiling water, so horrible was the torture for her now. "Nooooooooooo!" she groaned as his huge, throbbing cock tore into her.

Then, strangely, out of the pain, another feeling seemed to come over her. Despite the horror, she felt an erotic excitement begin to overtake her. So incredible was this new feeling that it soon began to transcend the burning punishment her husband was inflicting on her and began to take on an exciting life of its own. It was almost as if, at the other end of this painful experience, was a thrilling rapture that she had known when they had made love together in the earlier days of their marriage. Yes! Yes! There was no doubt about it! She began to feel wildly excited, and her body began to shake involuntarily with new passion and tingling excitement. Rather than resisting her husband's cruel blows, she surrendered to them and found herself being washed away in a wildly thrilling rush of warmth. Her muscles relaxed and she began to shimmer with erotic delight.

"Mmmmm…" she mewled excitedly, "mmmmmmm…"

Perhaps, she thought, he's right! Maybe I am being foolish! This feels so good. Sooooooo Gooooooooood!

She began to return the intensity of her husband's fucking, her hips lewdly twisting and swinging to allow him to fully explore both of her passages with his finger and penis.

Ed immediately sensed the change in Marion's behavior and a sense of triumph flushed through him.

I've gotten to her! I've fucked this nonsense right out her system!

The intensity of his revelation suddenly charged his body with an entirely new level of excitement. He could feel his balls, shaking and bouncing beneath his hammering cock, begin to grow and swell with sperm.

"I'm cu… cu… cummmiinnngg!" he shouted. "III'mmmm cuuummmmiinnggg! Cuuuuummmmmmmiiiiinnnggg!"

The scalding hot fluid wound through his balls with an incredible rush of aching release and suddenly spurted up the length of his hard fucking cock and into her warmly welcoming pussy like a gushing oil well. Explosion after explosion of hot male cum shot up into Marion's clasping, frenzied cunt.

"Uuuuuuuuugggggggh!!! Ooooohhhhh!" Marion screamed, as he shot his hot load into her. She could feel her own female fluids pouring forth in sweet steaming response. She was cumming too! Cumming as never before! Her entire body trembled and quivered and if her husband hadn't been holding her she would have slumped backwards on the bed, overwhelmed by the thrilling sensations that consumed her. Her rectal passage and cuntal sheath were convulsed with mad, twitching excitement as her husband shot what seemed like a never-ending stream of his hot cum into her nakedly writhing body.

Finally, after what seemed like hours of turbulent ecstasy, their passion drained away. Ed slipped his finger and softening prick out of her and looked at her closely.

At first Marion had a radiant smile on her face, from the incredible delight she had experienced. But then suddenly, she became awash with guilt, realizing the cruelty of the vile act her husband had just performed without preparing her in the slightest. As if she was a prostitute or a slave! A bitter, cold expression flashed across her face.

Seeing it, Ed turned on his heels and went into the bathroom slamming the door behind him with a loud bang. Completely torn from the happy feelings she had felt only moments ago, Marion's resentment now completely took hold of her once again and she resolved to continue her investigation of the Sign of Vallus.