"It would have been a lot easier if they had pinged the window vibrations. I guess we really are in the back woods of planets if they, whoever they ar..., had to actually draw near to eavesdrop," Mista said.Jorie sat, saying nothing.Mista gave Dothan a look. "If I let Dothan out, he will run down our peeping tom in a matter of minutes and slice the spy's throat. Of course, then we would have a corpse on our hands and Dothan would be a gory mess. As a royal, there would be no ramifications, yet. The one constant in my dream world was the unrelenting burning pain I felt in my right arm and side. From underneath my arm, down to my hip, it felt as if someone had flayed the skin from my body. I think that laudanum in great quantities was all that kept me from screaming.I regained full consciousness while lying on a narrow cot in the same cell in which I’d visited Pedro Diaz the first time I met him. It was deja vu all over again that Pedro was sitting on the bunk across the cell from me,. Always complimenting her about how good and pretty she looked and that meant something to Ann because her father was the fantasy of all her friends. Tall, very well built and an ex-marine, he was a dreamboat. How jealous Ann used to get of her mom when on the rare occasion she could take advantage of her parents carelessness and peek through an open door at her mom and dad make mad passionate love. How she adored his body and longed to run her slender fingers down his bare chest gleaming in his. Julia, Mark and I spend almost three hours discussing business plans and I was almost falling off my chair by the time it was finished. Working through dinner wasn't normal for me and I had missed all the appointments I had for the day due to the meeting overrunning. I sat in my office alone on the love seat across from my desk. Being alone was total bliss. I brought my legs up, closed my eyes, and then sleep over took me.******* I awoke a few hours later, rubbing my eyes and checking my watch..