Exhausted was the right word. Em treated him warily, even with some hostility at first. I took her to one side and explained that Ed and I had shared ...trength as well as weakness. In the good old bad old days indulgence has been the name of the game, but he had never pressured me into anything I hadn't been willing to try, which included the sexual excesses."Hmmpphh." She grunted "I suppose you know best." But after that, she made an effort to lighten up."Listen," he said over dinner, "Here's. She doesn’t inform him of this bet. Doing so might place too much pressure on him. Master Chen places a bet of 50 gold on his student to win. He believes that his deceptive actions will carry the day and earn him some money and put that bitch in her place. The odds are Peng to win 2:1, Pak to win 15:1, and a tie at 12:1. After the trouncing the bookies took in the previous match, they were not going to be so bold with the odds this time.The two combatants are introduced, and the forms are. He provided security that would chase off trespassers, gossip columnists, and kooks who would hurt him. He bought up the property around Benny’s place to provide a buffer between him and neighbors. There were also people who wanted to dig up the dirt on Benny thinking they could blackmail him for money. Even though there was nothing about Benny that could be used that way, Tim made sure all efforts to manufacture charges of that kind came to nothing.There was one other constant in Benny’s life. The second group was a middle-aged couple, they didn’t see me until it was nearly too late and I don’t think it had time to register with them. Well there wasn’t any reaction at all. When we got back to the campsite I cooked us some food and then told Jon I was going for a shower. This time I wasn’t going to miss out and went to the men’s showers. There was no one in there when I went in so I went into the shower cubicle and started my shower. The cubicles were very small and the coat hooks.