Cleopatra’s Nectar

An excerpt from Cleopatra's Nectar

"Sestius Venar," said the queen, "you have traveled a great distance to deliver this message to me. You must accept my hospitality tonight and sit as my honored guest at feast."

"Your Highness, it would be a most high honor," Sestius replied with a deep bow.

The queen pulled him down beside her on her couch and spoke softly. "How goes the discussion in the Senate?" she asked.

"Your Highness? I know only what—" Her slender hand traced a path up his thigh, brushing aside the hem of his toga, wending its way perilously higher.

"Tell me," she said, slipping her hand up inside and finding his thickening manhood, "will Caesar...come?"

"Y-yes," he stammered. "Oh, yes."