And fucking the stuffing out of him anytime I wanted. He would be grateful for being taken out of postwar Germany and given a new life in what to him ...ould be a paradise. It was important, though, that he be grateful enough to me to open his legs to me on demand. I was a highly sexed man—I had demands.I would pass him off as the son of a sister who went to Germany before the war and was stuck there, assaulted, and died recently, leaving a son. I even had put a photograph of such a woman and boy. At the touch Khozem regained some of his senses.“Tomorrow morning, you and I shall go to the Kaa’bah, together, and pray for better times,” said Tariq.“What’s going to happen to me?”“We shall ask Allah what he thinks, and only he may fill us with ideas. Don’t be afraid. Remember, Allah does things for reasons. He steers us in directions to satisfy the greater good. Don’t be afraid. We will talk more when you are clean and better rested.”After a long bath and a penetrating look at the Kaa’bah. ‘So that’s supposed to explain how you get booze?’ John asked a little louder and more ardently than he had actually planned. Nick didn’t answer him right away and John glanced from his face to Em’s. She was looking at him with a pained looked. John switched to Mandy and she looked startled too. John realized he was coming on too strong. ‘Sorry, Nick. I guess I’m just suddenly aware how I haven’t been here for you or part of your life for these last months,’ John professed. ‘It’s okay, Dad,’. Guess that's bound to happen. Lots of hard feelings, and more than a few good men died out there." Yessir, you don't have to tell me. After what I saw them Tories do down in the Carolinas, I find it hard to talk to her father a'tall. He did better than all right, you know. Bought up some land that Maryland took when Governor Eden came back, couple of nice farms along the river including one a'Magruder's." And you don't think he's going to give you one as a wedding present, do you?"Ned laughed,.