Chapter Twenty-One
Sarah watched as the ropes were cast off and Angel was cruelly dumped like a broken bird onto the floor. Angel scrambled to her feet and with an expression of pain and disbelief, she buried her face in cupped hands and limped to the far corner of the room. She crumbled in a heap against the wall, her sweaty back heaving. There were smears of blood on her thighs.
Sarah’s body jolted. Brother Jacob had pushed her from behind. “Get up there... on the altar. Now.”
With her head still reeling, Sarah climbed the steps and positioned herself on the mattress.
“No sinner! On your belly!”
Brother Jacob’s words were like a knife to her heart. She was to be humiliated. Treated like an animal. Sarah flopped over onto her stomach, stretched out her arms for the Administrator and
