the meeting. Just for the two of us-a private erotic warm-up session, but I don't think you need any “warming-up.” He laughed. “You seem to be able to perform without any aphrodisiacs. You, my young Christian Crusader lover, are the male reincarnation of that Greek goddess, Aphrodite,” he said lifting the phone and calling down to cook telling her to prepare the evening meal.

They cleaned up and went down to eat. On the way there Fazzi told Joseph to go on to the dinning room by himself while he stopped to give some last minute instructions to his chauffer- valet about what he would need for Worthington's meeting the next day. He rejoined Joseph at the table, where the cook set before them a feast, which Joseph ate like a pig.

“Mmmm, this is delicious.” Joseph said. “I see you have a new cook. Wasn’t she the maid?”

“Yes she was. Mary and Kassie took the old cook with them and I promoted the maid to cook. It looks like you like her cooking.”

“Yes this is great food.” He said between mouthfuls.

“Easy my love. You keep shoveling that couscous in like that and you will get as fat as a cow. I'm not too sure I would relish a fat lover on top of me.” Fazzi said. “Good food should be savored, not treated like garbage to be disposed of as quickly as possible.”

“You are right, but unfortunately I have become used to eating Army cooking and that slop I tend to want to get rid of quickly.” Joseph said. “If it pleases you, I will try to develop my table manners more. After all we are going to live together and I do not want anything to harm that relationship.

Fazzi looked into Joseph's eyes, smiled and then said as he took Joseph's palm to his lips, “Yussef nothing is going to harm our, relationship. Anyone or anything that comes between it will be pushed aside. Just like I got rid of Kassie and Mary, it will always be just you and I-together.”

“I hope you know that I have been talking to Kassie almost everyday. She tells me that both of them are doing well and she is going back to school.”

“Yes I know that, I too, spoke with them and things are going well there. It costs me a fortune but this way everyone is happy except Kassie and perhaps you, habibi? Do you miss her?”

Putting down his eating utensils, Joseph reached under the table and ran his fingers along the Arab's leg between his thighs and let his hand rest on the man's basket. With his other hand he picked up his coffee cup and said, “I think you can see that, I am happy here with you. Now tell me everything that might happen at this meeting tomorrow. I want to be sure that there are no surprises or anything that would embarrass Mr. Worthington.”

“Well there is one person, perhaps two, that might cause a bit of trouble. You remember that man at the meeting that did not trust 'Wall Street' types. He keeps trying to sabotage this project and I don't know what questions he might ask.” Fazzi said raising his palms upwards. “I just hope Richard can think on his feet. The last thing I want is for something to get screwed up. I want us to earn a lot of money. That money