..”“Yes, Josh?”“Wasn’t because I don’t find you attractive,” I said. “I do have...”“Me, too,” she giggled. “‘Specially since...I’ve seen you in your drawers.”“Weren’t supposed to peek.”“You said YOU wouldn’t peek. I made no such promise.” And that giggle. “I like that you have hair on your chest. Sign of virility, don’tcha know...”“Oh yeah,” I retorted. “I need lots of virility to lounge around on the river.”Sassy gleam in her eyes. “You never know what you may need in the future. I look around. Both men were wearing the badges of a parachute-trained soldier. Wilkerson had been in the 82nd Airborne at least thirty years previously: this must have been taken then."I have been ordered to promote you, though heaven knows why I should."Promote me? My heart gave a little jump, and I managed, though with some difficulty, to hold back a smile of joy.Wilkerson noticed my poker face. "Yes. I see you agree with me. Well, we'll just have to tear it up."What he actually did though was to let the. Sanjana prepared breakfast for me and made her kid ready for the school, we both went to drop her kid in school, we returned home and Sanjana made coffee for us and we had casual talks while having coffee.She went to the kitchen and doing her work, I went to the kitchen and started talking to her about all stuff happening in the family, she asked me about how my life is going on and she knew everything happened in my life.She asked me about my girlfriend who broke up with me a few months back. ‘If I were not the caliph, would I have dinars in such abundance? Or would I have this ring, which is set with a ruby stolen from the heart of a rukh’s egg I got from a jinni? Or perhaps this brooch, that once belonged to an ancient pharaoh of the Nile and contains a portion of his soul, will convince you? Could any man but the caliph cast such treasures at your feet, and think nothing of it?’ Arram was scrambling around collecting up the gold and jewels. As he turned over a dinar it occurred.