Maybe if they have it back theywill leave me alone."I moved forward and embraced her and said, "I am going to stick with youuntil this is done. You've...made me a better person, inside and out, andwe will get through this." We hugged again, I gave her the flashlight,and I set off for the trail.I don't know how long Ted had waited, but he was clearly agitated. I toldhim I thought I heard something, and while I was listening I got cold anddecided to put on my fleece pants. He muttered something. As for taking one of the women back to the Golden Palace, that was truly preposterous. Still, the story had to have some truth in it, and it would seem that an explanation might be that the young Emir had tired of his grandfather's concubines, as was only to be expected, and wished to build a harem of his own choosing. His Magnificence, the Emir Mahmoud Abdullah had, during his first week as Emir, given one of the younger concubines to Ramzy El-Najjar as a junior wife, and very pleasant she was. Gary and Michelle waited to disembark the small shuttlecraft that nowsat on the pad at Rouston's small regional Shuttleport. Both were inshock that time had indeed run out on their orchestrated isolation. Asituation that had been complicated from the start and only became moreso as time marched on. They both reflected on a similar line ofthought. There simply wasn't much to say. Each dreaded the job athand; each carried their own particular form of guilt about theircomplicity in how they. The sex they just had was great but he didn’t think it was going to be like that, he thought she would stick to what she wanted but apparently not, he was thinking more along the lines of tying her to her bed while he teased and pleasured her, having her beg for more. Maybe she wasn’t ready for that, didn’t matter he planned on being with Riley for a life time, if he survived.He sighed trying not to think about that, he focused on her breathing as it became even. Thirteen weeks without his.