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He laughed, the sound large in her usually silent bedroolad I don’t think I could afford you”

“You are a nut”

“So I’ve been told,” she said more soberly than she meant to

“That is not what I meant I do not think you are crazy”

Not yet anyway, but it always came Sooner or later That lack of co “norardless of what the future rateful for his attitude in the present

“Thank you”

“My pleasure”

She grinned and shook her head “Oh, I think that particular commodity is entirely mutual”

“Yes”

“Seriously If I had known sex was this wonderful, I would have taken up with one of the groupies that showed interest,” she joked, only half-kidding

“It would not have been like this”

“Because none of theiventhe pleasure I find with you What we have here, Cassandra, it is very special”

She could think of nothing to say in response to those words that would not reveal the depth of her feeling, so she remained mute, but placed a tender kiss filled with the love she could not give voice onto his shoulder

He smiled and returned the kiss, on her hed “I have to be at the office at six am for a phone call”

“Why so early?”