.. I think we can come to some... arrangement about the cost of the job – a discount or something, in view of the... extenuating circumstances!" Tha...'d be more than welcome, thank you!" she smiled, "See you tonight!"CHAPTER TWOI'd started to get ready early for Anne's visit, and decided to wear some of my sexiest stuff for her to prove I'd been telling her the truth about myself.Having bathed and shaved earlier, I now sat at my dressing-table wearing nothing other than a lacy lilac ½ cup bra,. Your actions here today were made in anger without a moment’s thought. A careless mistake of one unfit to attend to your families affairs. I don’t know a bit about your family businesses, but even a young child learns what happens when rash decisions are made. Obviously you are too stupid to comprehend that your sister or female cousin moved to the head of the line for succession because their fathers learned long ago that their daughters wouldn’t make such mistakes. Unless I have failed. I had a strong feeling that we were going to need their cooperation to do this job correctly. Aklag went off by himself to meditate while the rest of us concentrated on getting breakfast ready and posting a guard. We had to keep in mind that this was a war zone, and we could never relax our guard.Aklag returned before breakfast was ready and reported that he knew where to find the gnomes. An entrance to their tunnels was less than two miles away. We ate breakfast, and the women repacked the. The iron he offered cost only half what we usually paid for it here, so I bought all eight hundred pounds. I guess another merchant usually bought some of it in Port Zamfara and then brought it here to sell at a profit. Father suggested buying the copper, too, since it was rare to find any for sale here. The captain had five hundred pounds of copper that sold 20:1 for gold.I asked Father about slaves. “I will bring everything to your ship tomorrow morning and look at the slaves. If they are.