I desperately tried to climb out of my stupor but I was still sleep-muddled and fuzzy. Deep male tones came next, full of explanation, defensiveness a...d just a hint of annoyance. I was still trying to blink the sleep from my eyes when the female voice rose several octaves in accusation. My cloudy mind began to clear as I realised I knew that voice. At the end of the female’s diatribe the male voice rose sharply, calling out a name, only to be followed by the slamming of a door. ‘Becky!’ My eyes. Lakshmi smiled and hugged me when I gave her the gift. Then she backed off and said sorry. I then said no problem, it’s good to see you smile like that. So our day continued she did her work and I ventured around the town. I came back to the apartment a little drunk but not too drunk. I sat down on the couch and fell asleep. Lakshmi noticed that I had come in and she found me in the couch sleeping and placed a sheet over me and took off my shoes. During my sleep Lakshmi heard me calling out her. “Why the hell did you lore me in, if you had no intention of being mated?”“As first daughter of the village head, I have the right to remain virgin!” She said with a laugh. “You know that only a childless female can become leader! If I take a mate, that mate would then be in line to be leader! Now, I am next in line! I will not jeopardize that just so you can rut on me like an animal, and sire a foal in my belly!”“So you treat me like a damn mindless horse?” Ash shook a fist at her as he left. We took Patty with us when we met Keppel at the American Chancery in Grosvenor Square, we couldn’t possibly leave her alone all day, but she stayed outside with Jock where the armed guards at the Embassy directed him to park the car.While Mary had been playing plain “Mrs Jones” for the past couple of days, with the smart clothes that Milly packed and Jock picked up from Hettie’s the previous evening, she was now dressed to intimidate every mortal man in existence and looked every inch the.