I’d had to park at the curb, which pissed me off. She knew she wasn’t supposed to have boys over during the day when no one was home. I entered th...e back door intending to rake her over the coals, and froze as I heard moaning from the living room. My bl**d ran cold. I put my lunchbox on the counter and walked into the living room. My feet made almost no sound because I’d taken my workboots off at the door. I rounded the corner and my heart nearly stopped. Erica was on the sofa, kneeling on the. Where the few roads passed from one country into the other, of course, there were border posts and fencing for up to a mile in each direction, but there were many large desert areas where the border was literally unknown.What the Khan knew, but did not understand was that oil deposits lay beneath the now Kobekistani part of the desert. Oil which would make Kobekistan the place it became by the early part of the twenty-first century, and provided the wealth it enjoyed in the third decade of the. The last real war had been fought between Candra and Mandora nearly sixty years ago, back when the Kingdom of Candra still called themselves the Candran Empire. Their imperialistic aspirations were quickly dashed as Mandora proved to be a small but hard nut to crack, and the two kingdoms signed a peace treaty after three years of hard fighting. Nowadays only Salka remained as a supplier on the continent for the slave trade, as it continued to launch repeated expeditions against the barbarian. " It doesn't really do you justice" he said "You are much more beautiful in the flesh."I gave a little laugh and asked him if this approach generally worked with the other women he'd tried it on? He smiled and asked mewhat made me think he'd used this approach before. "If it's true that I'm the first, then I am even more flattered." I said."Well if it should happen to work then perhaps I stumbled onto something, No?" He said with a grin."Thank you for the drawing and now I have to get back.