This guy just saved her life then she realized she was shivering and her teeth began to chatter. "Oh God! I'm sorry. You must have been who I saw. You...scared me and I guess I panicked." She instinctively covered her breasts and shivered more. "I'm fucking freezing." "Well I'm cold too. Here." He slid his arms under her and lifted her like a feather against his broad, soaked chest and carried her into the cabin. He laid her on Chet's big four poster bed then covered her under a heavy, soft, warm. Joey was completely against letting the man in, but I overruled him and agreed to speak to Gladius alone in that mansion’s tiny study.Believe me, I didn’t trust Gladius any more than you would, but after having spent a week attempting to do something which I knew was beyond my understanding at the time, I was willing to hear what he had to say just to see what insight he might offer me.Gladius started out by apologizing for kidnapping Joey and I, explaining that even though my emotional. "That's what diplomacy is all about; I keep telling you, it's just applied sociology. We made peace. He even included you in that at the end, didn't he?"Igwanda shook his head in annoyance. "The man is a moron, and a mean-spirited one at that. It galled me considerably to be even courteous to him, and I found it likewise galling to watch you exert your charm on such a one as that."She laughed. "Really, darling, the world is absolutely chock-a-block with fools and scoundrels. The trick is just. When Jenny turned, she revealed a shapely and firm bottom. Intriguingly, a seam ran up the back of both legs and disappeared beneath the brief waistband. With a slight scraping sound, the cage doors at the ends of the tunnel were lifted and the lions came loping into the ring. The lion tamer gave indecipherable commands accompanied by cracks of the whip and the animals obediently arranged themselves on the round boxes. He walked to each of them and caused them to sit up on.