She’d live somehow, she told herself.Chad arrived at work a few minutes late. He had hoped Reina would be in Karena’s office when he got there so ...e could slip by her. However, as he walked past Karena’s door, he bumped right into Reina, practically knocking her over.“Oh my gosh, Reina, I’m so sorry. Are you ok?” Chad asked penitently. He touched her arm gently, “I didn’t mean to hurt you. I would never do so on purpose.”They both knew he wasn’t apologizing for just bumping into her now. He. Fortunately for the baby, there was a five year old orphan girl in the harem, Princess Marianne, who was going through a phase of being extremely interested in babies. She quickly annexed the new arrival and treated her as a doll to be dressed and undressed, fed, bathed, and generally mothered. As Marianne was the daughter of one of the Emir's real favourite concubines, and was also his granddaughter, she was allowed this harmless indulgence. After all, the worst that could happen was that the. They had rented a pair of Texas Hold'em table tops, but instead of using them on their legs with tall chairs around it, they'd set them atop overturned milk crates and surrounded them with sofas, recliners, cushioned chairs, and piles of throw pillows.Once every one was settled, Leena explained the rules. She breezed over the basics of poker itself, then explained the peculiarities of Texas Hold'em itself."Now, about your buy-ins," she said, reminding everyone about Tom's upcoming adventure.. Diane had on a winter coat, with a hair scarf on her head, and sunglasses, you couldn’t see her face. “Action.” We heard Jim say.We walked through the door and up to the counter, Kara is behind the counter with Jim right behind her with a video camera. I walked up to the counter and said; Hi I’m Marcy Blue, I’m here with King, for his yearly check up.”“Have a seat Marcy, I’ll be right with you.”I turned and sat down next to Diane, and King sat down next to me. I then noticed that Don was back,.