Pungeant, tangy - strange ... tingling. A nutty, sweaty, earthy scent seemed to rise from the naked bodies of these demented whores that ... that arou...ed Celeste! She could feel mounting urges building in her own body! No! She- she had to escape! Get inside, yes ... she had a plan for her father! Her father would have no choice; he'd give her what she wanted and this lunacy would end!But before she could get inside; she couldn't help catching snatches of conversation from the others." ... no,. .."There was only one way to make him understand how I felt, but thatwould have to be tempered by glaring facts that he couldn't refute, sowith nothing more to lose, I dove right in, hoping he would listen."Dad? If I'm doing everything you expect from me, then why can't I dothis? I mean, it doesn't hurt anyone, and like you just said, I alwaystake care of the house and stuff, so why not? I mean, you treat mealmost like a wife! I do the laundry, I make the dinners, I clean thehouse, I buy the. He was nearly drooling when he saw one of the five hundred steel swords and the same number of crossbows demonstrated, and nearly died from excitement when Parker had four men saddle their horses, then gallop half a mile down the beach and back.Even the empty water barrels Parker brought out to demonstrate how much gold, silver, jade, pearls, emeralds, and cacao beans he wanted for everything had impressed the noble. Placing a gold nugget, an emerald, and a pearl each atop two firkins, silver. Twenty years had passed since his last visit to the fabulous city... since that exhibition game with Montreal's then International League team, and he was satisfied that its stellar attraction had not changed... the women were still beautiful... and God, how he needed one.A half-dozen times he paused to ogle after a pair of pretty legs or a voluptuous figure wearing a piled-up, exotic coiffure... radical, ridiculous, but beautiful... slender ankles, rounded calves and curvaceous hips and.