Mira gave a slight smile. “I thought it was weird — the speed you used to grab me in Ma’s house. I could tell you weren’t an ordinary woman because of your secure movements and the way you were holding the knife. But why did you… I mean…”
The woman completed Mira’s question. “Why did I fall so low in this City’s social ladder? Well, I always enjoyed i*********e more than any woman I ever met. I knew I was different from a young age, but I learned to live with it. Your mother was my best friend; we grew up together. I managed to achieve the Captain’s position because, unlike your mother, I wasn’t gifted with pleasure from pain. I was gifted with a hunger that only a man’s ‘prick’ could ease. At least for a few hours. I learned a lot of tricks because of my condition, and I used that to bec
