The House of Ash and Guilt
I could feel it clearly—life draining out of my ravaged body.
When she'd had her fill, she climbed off me, satisfied. Her well-manicured fingers picked up a piece of silver from the table, then dropped it onto my face with disgust.
"Useless thing," she sneered. "Bones so brittle. Can't even take a little roughhousing."
The door creaked open.
Vince Benedict, the brothel's manager, waddled in with his massive gut leading the way. He pinched the silver coin between his thick fingers and blew on it. Then he gave my limp leg a hard kick with his black cloth boot.