man than he did. But could his friend FAT WOMEN SIX ever turn on him? Possibly.though
Fenring FAT WOMEN SIX knew full well his best path FAT WOMEN SIX to power lay through Shaddam. How to
keep this ambitious friend under control, how to stay a FAT WOMEN SIX step ahead of him --
that was the challenge.
Emperor Elrood IX, aware of Hasimir Fenring's deadly skills, had made use
of him in a number of clandestine operations, all of which had been
successful. Elrood even
suspected Fenring's role in Crown Prince Fafnir's
death, but accepted it as part of Imperial politics. Over the years,
Fenring had murdered at least fifty men and a dozen women, some of whom had
been his lovers, of either sex. He took FAT WOMEN SIX a measure of pride in being a
killer who could face the victim or strike behind his FAT WOMEN SIX back, without
compunction.
There were FAT WOMEN SIX days Shaddam wished he and the pushy Fenring FAT WOMEN SIX had never formed a
boyhood relationship: Then FAT WOMEN SIX he wouldn' t be hemmed in with difficult choices
that he didn't want FAT WOMEN SIX to think about. Shaddam should have abandoned his crib-
companion as soon as FAT WOMEN SIX he could walk. It was risky to be around such an
unrelenting FAT WOMEN SIX assassin, and at times he felt tainted by the association.
Still, Fenring was his friend. There FAT WOMEN SIX was an FAT WOMEN SIX attraction between them, an
undefinable something of which they'd spoken on occasion without fully
understanding it. For the present Shaddam found it easier to accept the
friendship -- and for his own sake, he hoped it was friendship -- instead
of trying to sever it. That course of action could be extremely dangerous.
Close beside him, Shaddam heard a voice that FAT WOMEN SIX broke his train of thought.
"Your FAT WOMEN SIX favorite brandy, my Prince." Looking to one side, Shaddam saw Fenring
offering him a large snifter
of smoky-dark kirana brandy.
He FAT WOMEN SIX accepted the snifter but stared at the liquid suspiciously, swirling it
around. Was FAT WOMEN SIX there another color to it, something not quite