The young woman, panting, struggles with her drunken husband. She drags, pushes, cajoles him across the courtyard and on into the house. She helps him into bed. “Tea!” he moans. The woman goes into the kitchen. A fire crackles; the tea hisses and it steams. It is poured into a ...
Everybody goes Dutch in Shanghai; even at a grand party, but in Beijing it' s usually the men' s treat.And it is also impossible to invite a female friend who already has a boyfriend or a young married woman out, even if you promise to see her home that night, ...
men would chose the latter in almost every scenario. The reason for this surprising response is that most men are looking for three things: excitement, mystery and a bit of teasing from the woman. The idea of the naked woman may be exciting, but it holds no mystery. ...
Of course. The woman had been from the Cat House—likely Cleo Thelasis. The man was almost certainly the one known as the Skeleton, head assassin of the tiny but esteemed splinter calling itself the Downward Ladder. Fine craftsman both; he’d been lucky to survive either encounter, let alo...