’We changed the subject for a moment. I complemented Aaifia on her English. She explained she learned languages easily and spoke several. The girls ...xcused themselves to go get wine. When they returned it was almost 4 AM in Turkey and they asked when I went to work.‘Not for 12 hours. Almost long enough to fly to Turkey and back to NYC.’‘Come, then,’ Aaifia answered immediately.‘Too bad the Concorde is grounded’‘When u r coming then?’‘I can’t… well, actually that all depends on what kind of. It is then that I hear you open the door; you don’t say anything you know I will be waiting for you. I hear you walking through the condo making your way toward me; I can feel my heart beat faster as you grow closer. As the door opens and you walk through, I turn around facing the door and as you devour my body with your eyes I hear you take in a sharp breath, before a sexy grin spreads across your face. “It looks even better on you than at the store.” You walk towards me taking my willing. The doors may have once been extravagant, but they were now decrepit. They swung open with a creak, and I was led into a large room.The ceiling was high here, stretching into darkness over my head. Pillars lined the room's sides, most of them chipped and cracked. At the wall opposite the doors, a throne sat on a dais. The throne looked like it may have been carved from a single piece of stone. Another one of the gaunt figures sat on it, his burning eyes watching me. Beside the throne were the. And now I’m setting up a new sales area in the Southwest, mainly the far reaches of west Texas and on into New Mexico and Arizona. It’s a good life if you don’t mind not being in one place for very long, he continued his thoughts. Three weeks earlier, Jake had taken a train with his new samples, from St. Louis to San Antonio. From there he’d taken a series of stagecoaches to Fort Stockton where he’d bought his two horses and made the ride to El Paso. Time to rest a bit before I start setting.