He cracked his knuckles, one by one. Then he looked up and smiled. ‘I know you have to go,’ he said. ‘You’re going to approach Tamina?’ ‘L...ke to. This evening, if she’s able.’ He held out a card to Sturges. ‘Any serious moral qualms?’ ‘Mine are rather beside the point,’ he said. He laughed. ‘She has all of those she needs. You’ll see. Sure, I’ll pass along the card.’ ‘Obliged,’ said Bell Sturges shoved back the chair and rose. He looked down at Bell for a few moments. Then, he said, ‘She’s. I’ve never seen her so pissed. And not just at you and Tyler. She seems to think that I must have known about you two and was helping him hide it. There’s no talking to her right now so nothing I said convinced her otherwise. Worse, now Jessie is super pissed at me too. She’s all like, defending Erica and buying into her crazy bullshit. So as you can see, you made quite the mess. And that’s a problem for both of us.’ He paused to let his words sink in. Rachel spoke. ‘Yeah, I get that she’s. Where is the justice in this Father, tell me?’ Jealile finished with a sneer. ‘I know that you have chosen to work and earn your own way through life and I am proud of you immensely for that.’ Perriolich said with a warm and glowing, proud smile before his face chilled to a cool expression. ‘Think of this logically my dear Jealile.’ Perriolich said with a sigh. ‘You met this man in prison while guarding his cell. You even risked your life to stop his execution. Then when he has an Estate to. ”.Khalim stepped in and slapped her,“You are a slave, a treacherous infidel slave sorely needing a lesson in respect from her master. You thought you could deceive me? You thought wrong.”The Galadrian queen looked him in the eyes and said nothing.Khalim calmed down and walked away,“I hoped, I prayed that Kalah would show you the wisdom of submitting to me but now I know the truth, your heart is closed to the Goddess.”.“Your goddess.”.“The Goddess, I was willing to put you on silken pillows, to.