. exactly how many girls are in this house right now?" Including you?" I mumbled.She shook her head. "No, not including me." Uh, ten."Sasha blinked tw...ce, giving me an appraising look.I rolled my eyes and said, "I didn't fuck ALL of them last night."She arched a questioning eyebrow at me."Just ... seven of them..." I muttered.Sasha chuckled and shook her head."Overeager on the first day," I said with a shrug. "I'll slow down."Sasha outright snorted. "Yeah, right."I couldn't help but grin,. Stansen's help. Rosie had been far more sceptical but the money saving had been enough to sway her opinion. After all, if he was found guilty their marriage would be over – no sense her losing money over that."Your honour, its obvious the make up of this jury is already biased against my client", Mr. Stansen had argued. The judge, a man in his fifties, chuckled, a noise that made Mark wary,"Really? And how is that?" Your honour, this is a rape trial. I put it to the court that any member of the. You know that." Then this is the way we will do it." He swept an arm over the map. "We have three legions ready to launch an incursion according to the original plans. We commit two of those to the new plan, a thrust northward through Talrad Pass. The other legion will be held where it is, then joined by a second, and we launch the original incursion." My Lord, that will stretch our supplies. We planned for three legions to be engaged, not four." The Emperor tells me we are very close to. ‘Majesty.’ ‘Lord Vesik.’ She uttered the title quickly to be done with it. ‘I trust we can dispense with the ‘why’ of your presence?’ ‘The misunderstanding at the riding grounds, no doubt.’ She eyed him, ‘You have a singular wit, though it has always seemed mostly unintentional. Your word choice understates the spectacle greatly, but I would prefer not to discuss the reason behind your presence today so much as what we will accomplish by it.’ His brow knotted in curiosity and he touched his.