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Twisting ast the sheets, she found herself caressed, adored, driven to the brink of madness with desire so vivid she panted with need
The ave herself up, eht itself witnessed the muted sounds from her lips aves of pleasure cli to drown her in a tide of ecstasy Finally, they rose to a peak and then crashed over her whole body She floated, weightless A final surge of spash her, and she awoke
Sunny lay stunned and confused, until she began to realize what it hat had happened to her Never before had the recurring dreaainst the fae of the ht her such pleasure
Only a vague shadow of him was discernible, but in that y and heat that still flowed through her body
DURING THE DAYLIGHT hours, rehty drea curious Why was it happening to her? She’d never had drearande It made her wonder if the place was haunted It felt a bit like that, but not quite Besides, she wondered, ould a ghost be doing clihed at the idea of it, but continued to mull it over while she went about the renovations
Energized by her latest nocturnal adventure, she worked on the room she planned to use as her office Her efforts only see theback in time As did her dreams Her mystery dream lover was certainly not of this world Was it because there was so much history here?
The cottage she’d inherited was at least two hundred years old, potentially a lot h no one was sure of its exact build date—a fact that annoyed her ie about the building and had been hoping to discover soradually renovated the place The wallpaper in this roohty or so years and, as she worked, her thoughts traveled into the ti about who had lived there and why
Stepping back, she assessed her progress “It’s no good,” she muttered “I’ll have to wait until the wallpaper steamer arrives”
She rested her forearms on the sill and brea
thed deep the heady scent of roses and honeysuckle from below This was the roorandarden and the old stone wall ate and the arden ell-established shrubs, ferns and flowers, and a lawn that looked deep and luxurious enough to sleep on
Ever since then, she’d connected with the natural world here in Raven’s Landing It called to her, and she felt more at home here than anywhere in the world It was the fairytale quality she loved most It was also why she decided to set up her office in the upstairs spare bedroo and enjoy the viehile she worked
At the back of the house was a large, unkearden and orchards that went on for acres, but it would be a long tiet her office up and running as soon as possible Her web clients wouldn’t wait around for her to ot their updates
Above her head a bird chirruped somewhere in the thatch She craned her neck but couldn’t spot its hiding place That was another job for the list The thatched roof needed an overhaul, and soon The cottage was less than a ed Cornish coastline, and she’d have to be ready for the onslaught of winter However, right noas tiet some supplies
She sipped a large glass of iced tea while she zapped soie risotto in the microwave She couldn’t be happier, well, she al she desired, but it’d be nice to have someone to share it with A soul mate, a lover If only he were real, she mused
Ever since she’d first visited Cornwall she’d felt the ht The Cornish peninsula was a beautiful, wild and pagan land—a land of legends andin from the sea seemed to whisper about the infinite possibility of dreaic into her life, and in thethere Sunny felt she had become a true sensualist Recurrent erotic dreahtened awareness of her own sexuality and desires—dreaht about it she felt restless with curiosity
The sound of the phone ringing snapped her back fro down her iced tea, she reached for it
“Hi, how’s it going up there on the far hill?”
It was her friend Celeste’s voice, mellow as honey A local in her randmother well Celeste was a rather eccentric type, Sunny had to ade, esoteric worldview and a knoay about her She had a rolling Cornish accent, the friendliest smile on the planet, and tihbors when she moved down from London, many of whom remembered her as a child, but it was Celeste most of all who’d made Sunny feel part of the co with her when the going got tough with the house renovation