” Johannsen shook her head and the rest of the women around the table followed suit. Sally waved us out. As she did so, I looked across to where I h...ad put the book. I could imagine that Cara, listening in, was going to find what ever came up next fascinating.To my horror, I realised that the book I’d put down had a green binding. The one Cara had given me had been blue. I must have got them mixed up when I was in the cloakroom. The most Cara would be hearing would be people asking for their. "Get off, Kurlack! You weigh a ton!" Queen Silva stroked a hand down his heavily muscled back, before swatting him on his well-toned ass.He smiled before rolling off of her lazily. He scratched his chest as he stared up at the ceiling."Satisfied?" she asked him sharply. He stiffened next to her before rolling on his side to face her."With you, Mistress? Always." Good. I've a job for you, Kurlack. I'm sending you to Earth. You're to hunt down the chhetri and kill him."He schooled his features to. ”“You’d sell?”“For fifty million bucks? With everyone who works here getting at least a hundred grand? And me getting two million? Yeah, I would! Then I could open my own dojo, or take over from Jim when he retires. Or do just about anything else I wanted. At 7% double-tax-free, we’re talking $140,000 a year for sitting on my butt! And we’d still have Kara’s and Jessica’s income.”“Nobody would pay fifty mil for NIKA!”“Which is why I set the price so high. And actually, given how things are. "I knew what to do this time."Celery salt, garlic powder, and ground black pepper," I said."Perfect!" my character said, fetching the items.I smiled, as I felt a jolt of satisfaction and pleasure when she said,'Perfect!'.This was fun!* * *"What are you bringing to the pot-luck?" asked Ed, the guy working inthe cubicle across the hall."I'm making an Asian salad," I said."Since when did you learn to make Asian salad?" It's super easy," I responded. "Just coleslaw, sunflower seeds, crusheduncooked.