The black rusted bars wouldn’t be too hard to break if he really tried but his heart wasn’t in it.All his plans had shattered after the attack. Kr...ck had died trying to get revenge, and the armies were likely hunting his goblins. It was all his fault.He should have known the hatred of humans would boil over. This was his punishment for foolishness. He would sit in a dim and dank cell until they led him out for a public execution.The lean, leather-armored woman called Dara came to him. “You have. Beyond those two relationships, I was pretty much random dating, and not very intensely either. My mother knew how upset I was at losing Terri because I had told her pretty much everything about us. She didn't seem to be as concerned for me as I expected. She was sure there would be someone out there for me somewhere, but it would be up to me to seek them out. She implied there was something lacking in the way I described the relationship.So that's where I was as I lay in my bed and wondered. "Shall we go inside?" asked the Emir."My house is not worthy to receive my Master, may he live for ever," protested the kneeling figure, but the Emir ignored him and strode into the house.When Abu Yahya had followed him in, the Emir asked, "You entered Samia in the competition for Special Concubine to the Emir?" Master, it is so. Is the Master offended at my presumption?" Only mildly so, but she cannot possibly be allowed to compete. However, it gave me some small degree of pleasure to see her. “Jack, you stop picking on Toni! She is a great bodyguard and a very nice person too. You will not be sparring with her or even teasing her, you understand me? I have seen you and that Marine lunkhead Dean sparring, and none of these people are going to be anywhere near you when you do that. That includes Gwen!” She did the fists on the hips thing again, and she was so damn cute doing it! When she looked past me at Gwen, she looked a little uncomfortable.“Sorry, Gwen, I shouldn’t have spoken.