Partly to keep from laughing, but also because Iknew it would annoy them, I ignored the strangers and kept at my choreuntil they were so close I could...smell the rich, earthy scent of the muckcoating them from head to toe.I had forgotten how strong they could be and was surprised when theclosest one caught my ax handle in mid-swing. "Insolent boy! Do you notknow who we are?"I was tempted to argue with them about the boy comment, considering I wasreally a girl. I decided to let it slide.. One day soon your husband I'm sure will know what kind of woman you really are if he doesn't already," said William huskily."What makes you believe I'm involved?" asked Marie with an equal measure of huskiness to her voice."I saw the ring on your left hand," said William."And that doesn't bother you?" asked Maria quietly."Not if it doesn't bother you," said William as he captured her mouth with his.As he stood there he was now slowly disrobing and the young woman was helping him. And as he. They had proposed a Coalition between races, a joining of their two peoples for the benefit of both. Take back the lost colonies of the Brokers, and in turn the enigmatic strangers would protect their home.The elders had convened a great meeting, the first of its kind, in which representatives from a hundred villages had traveled to debate this proposal. In the end they had agreed, pledging kinship to the Brokers, and in doing so compelling the disparate tribes to come to their aid.The Krell. "Oh, the same old, same old. She doesn't feel like it's her place, she's trying, yadda yadda," she shrugged. "I told her I should get a piece of Will’s cock for the shit I have to go through," she chuckled drinking her tea.Liv tapped her fingers on the table, sighing. "Well, now that’s the spirit it's about time that you did something drastic." Drastic?" Pippa raised a brow."Well, just do something as some sort of, oh, I don't know...blackmail," Liv smiled devilishly."Blackmail?" Pippa raised.