Lukas gave her a half-smile and shook his head. ‘Not in Maharia. Kasimira was the first born, and we don’t discriminate based on sex. I happen to ...now the princess is in no hurry to marry, save for the gain of her people, before she sets the country to rights.’ ‘Oh, are you so intimately acquainted with her then?’ Clara felt the stirrings of something – jealousy perhaps? – as she thought of Lukas and the princess. Surely not, why should it matter to her what the Maharian princess and this. My intestines feel like they're imploding." You do look ill," agreed Lardo."Hey-maybe we oughtta stop here at this clinic and get you something for that," offered Chet, steering the 4-by-4 into a tree-lined parking lot."God, I hope I don't need surgery or nothing," I groaned. "That wouldn't be good considering the whiskey we just drank."The clinic occupied a modest concrete building with small windows and scarcely lit from the boulevard's streetlights. I stumbled in increasing discomfort,. He was supposed to stop these three from getting back out."Well, well," came Dawns voice from the other side of the room. "We've got prominent visitors. Having a hard time finding the doorbell?" Aure," Gail said and raised her sword."Fuck!" Keshet raised her sword too."I'm gonna fucking kill you," Gail continued."No," Keshet said but neither Gail nor Phoenix listened to her as they charged at Dawn.Konrad got on his feet, and while leaning his hands on his desk he riveted his eyes on Dawn,. She had some issues regarding her appearance. I placed a hand lightly on her shoulder and looked deeply into her eyes smiling all the while as I said …“Oh, I think this “Raman guy” is “lucky” to be promised to an attractive girl like you Laila. I saw color rush into her cinnamon colored cheeks and Laila blushed and slightly turned her head away from me.“Thank you very much sir.” She punctuated her statement by reaching out and squeezing my bicep with her fingertips. I simply nodded in her.