. when Ahmed enters!“Before her terrified eyes swam a black figure. The figure came into focus. It was a negro as muscular as Jason and as scantily ...lad, with only the white pouch about his loins. To her added horror, Julia saw that he had led a lovely naked woman on the end of a collar and chain, similar to the one about her neck.„You not kneel like that,“ said the negro. „You kneel with legs wide. So... open them, slave... „The nightmare was beginning again. How could this brute order her. This should ensure secrecy, along with limiting scrutiny by either group.”“What would this do?” asked Jason.“One, it gives both sides a ‘dog’ in this fight. Second, taken together, this would solidify the status of these grants and limit the means that can be used to declare them invalid. Also, since both sides tried to slip one past the other neither side will be very vocal when the entire truth becomes known.”“That makes excellent sense,” replied Jason. “Do you think it’ll work?”“That’s a. But even without knowing anything about you, I had fallen in love before I knew it. Is that why you’re asking me?”“I’m asking you, because in order for you to have ever felt that way about me, you had to have studied me and watched me closely. You had to have analyzed me, and because of that, you know me better than most others.” He said softly.“But I didn’t know you well enough. You rejected me, remember? You said that you were incapable to sharing my feelings. I was denied even a single. “Are you upset about them staying?” she asks me, nodding her head to the entrance of the hotel.“No, not at all. Jackie’s free to have a drink with whomever she wants,” I reply.“So that wasn’t jealousy I detected?”“No. The two of us haven’t been in that place for a long time,” I say back, intentionally leaving out Jackie’s recent declaration to me.“Good. Come up to my room with me.”My head snaps up from looking at my phone and I know my eyes must be wide. Of course, I could feel Olivia’s eyes on.