I had not been better than them, after all, it had not been a fair fight, I had not been able to give him a fair warning.I stepped back, away from him... until my back was against the wall, opposite the small door, and tried to understand, why had I killed him, and since when had I known that I would? He had been the Khan since before I had been born. I knew, as everyone knew, that thousands had perished in his dungeons, and hundreds of thousands had perished in his wars, bled to death on the. A very pretty lady met him the moment we arrived. She made sure he had everything he could possibly want. She sat us at a table and made sure we had drinks. ‘Service with a smile,’ I said, shaking my head as the pretty woman went to set up dinner for us. ‘I take it you gamble here a lot?’ ‘Here, there, everywhere,’ he shrugged. ‘But only a few times a year. I gamble big so the hotels make sure I’m taken care of. Celia for this hotel, Jennifer the one next door and Teresa the one after that.’. She said goodbye, went into the hotel, paid her bill and went back to London and work.NEW YEAR IN PARADISEKatie lay stretched out, naked on the white-sanded beach listening to the ceaseless roar of the surf. Beside her lay Fred Underwood and Jim Akenside, two fellow financial scribblers sent out by their bosses, like Katie, to cover a secret meeting of world central bankers in this Indian Ocean Island paradise.What a total waste of time! The local police had the whole conference so well wrapped. Though it was somewhat embarrassing it was also very sexually stimulating.Ken, who was wearing shorts with a very snug t - shirt came over and kissed us on the cheek."Welcome girls, make yourselves at home."Barbie wore a yellow crop top that did little to cover the lower half of her breasts. Her erect nipples were very visible, begging to be sucked. Looking at Ken over at the grill Beth and I could not believe the bulge growing inside his shorts.Ken asked us to help Barbie get the lanterns from.