It seemed an age before our lips parted, and when they did it felt like I had fallen into darkness. Seconds later his mouth was on mine again, tongues...active but this time, before I knew it, his hands were on my boobs and he was touching me exactly the way I liked it. Strong and confident, his fingers kneaded my small globes firmly through my loose, long sleeved jumper and tweaked my nipples through my bra. I felt sexy and attractive and, without thinking, began to press myself harder against. ”“Well, seeing as how we’re already partners, I don’t see nothing wrong with that Cal, you’ll just have to make sure that Callie is agreeable to it.”“I will, I reckon whatever she wants I’ll try and do for her.”They rode into Osborne a couple of hours before sundown and stopped at the Sheriff’s office. He wasn’t there so they took their horses to the stable and got them settled, then went out back to wash up.The two friends walked into the Bowers Boarding house and Cal walked over to take a. Like Roxanne, she downed the shot of liquor and then shook her head from side to side as the liquor settled into her stomach. Amy followed suit with the same result and taking her swig from the shot glass as well.Rger lined up the quarter and bounced it off the table. It landed in the shot glass. He slid the shot glass towards Roxanne.“Drink, truth or dare?” he remarked.“Wait a sec,” Roxanne replied. “Is this a new rule? Are you trying to get me drunk?”“I won, so pick your poison,” Ron shot. It was possible he knew of them by name orreputation, their sources within the Usurper's kingdom were solid, ifincomplete, but he had no way of recognizing them by sight.The king, by contrast, was immediately recognizable. It wasn't just thesmall throne he sat on, though it raised him a full head over hiscompanions. It wasn't even the crown, a relatively thin circlet laidacross his brow. No, there was something about him, a sense of power, ofinnate regality. Perhaps it was something in his.