A small smile went over his features, a shadow of it remaining on his face."I am more for the truth. Lies are so discomforting. Why don't you tell me ...he full truth?"She swallowed. The lie was minor, she thought, but she didn't really want to tell it, but didn't feel comfortable about the truth."You would not like the truth, Mister Drake. And it might endanger my employment here as well."Again the smile wandered over his face."Try me."Cocky bastard, Beatrice thought. Her hormones were already. ” she said firmly.“No!” He shook his head, but still wouldn’t look at her. “But I want to. That’s what I wanted to talk to you about, but couldn’t, but now I have to and ... and ... I don’t know what to do!”“What do they say?” she asked on impulse.“They dragged me into this in the first place!” he moaned. “They got curious ... said I was the only boy they could ask to see, and then to touch and then the next thing I knew they were...” He stopped, flushing.“Was that why Bernadette asked me about. "At this I laughed harder, playing along with him, recognizing that he might be even drunker than I realized."No . . . I'm serious, man!" Nico responded much more seriously "She is the hottest woman here." Well . . . I appreciate that." I told him, thinking that maybe this was just his way of giving me a compliment since in fact, there were several very attractive women in attendance, all of them much younger than Andrea and who clearly had designs on Nico."You think I'm k**ding, don't you?"I. The first thing he did was buy them food and clothing.”I was glad when he finally stopped; it was embarrassing. Unless asked or unless there is a problem, clan members rarely talk about what they have done. Each person has a job they have been trained to do and is expected to do it to the best of their ability.“I have talked to King Sarikol and received his permission to make you a knight if you wish,” King Tariske said directly to me. “Knowing that you live in Congra, any obligation to respond.