Sofiya opened her eyes, feeling a bit disoriented as she looked at an unfamiliar room. Memories of where she was flooded her mind and then she blushed beet red, remembering what had happened last night.
Ali had been a beast … a gentle one, but a beast nonetheless.
After the initial pain, she had been swept away by the intense emotions that Ali invoked within her. Never, in her wildest dreams, did she imagine it could have been like that.
The way Ali had carefully, and tenderly, loved her in many ways made her gulp and her face go red as she remembered last night.
Her body truly ached right now and she wondered whether the times he had suppressed himself when they had been together turned him into that seemingly high-stamina man that lasted almost the whole night.
She said almost, because she got so exhausted that she had fallen asleep after the fourth round.
* Dhikr / zikir / zikr are devotional acts in which short phrases or prayers are repeatedly recited silently within the mind or aloud.
[1] The Kopan monastery does offer such 10 day courses. This was based on that.
https://kopanmonastery.com/courses-retreats/courses/discover-buddhism/discovering-buddhism-10-days