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"You would know," Antonio cackled, sucking pointedly on his celery stalk

"Gentleuy I adued about the "

I’d broken down and told the that unless I dished the dirt, they would not reciprocate They clung to every word like fat kids at a buffet I told them about the ladies he made the sweet love to, and they filled in a few rapher who traveled all over the world They guessed he was currently on assignment, which explained my quality sleep Simon worked on projects for The Discovery Channel, The Cousteau Society, National Geographic--all the bigwigs He’d ards for his work and even spent soo He always left his car behind when he was traveling: an old, beat-up, black Range Rover Discovery, like the kind you’d find in the African bush The kind people drove before the yuppies got a hold of them

Bethat Euan and Antonio told as to piece together a profile of thisif I said I wasn’t ued by the day

Late one afternoon, after dropping off some tile sa had burned off, revealing the city, and it was a nice evening for a stroll As I rounded the corner to e Rover was absent fro Which meant it was out and about

Sih I braced , the next few days were uneventful I worked, I walked, I Clived I went out with reat zucchini bread inmy vacation

Each year, I took a week and vacationed so, and I never went to the sa in Yoseh a rain forest canopy at an ecolodge in Costa Rica Another year I spent a week scuba diving off the coast of Belize And this year…I wasn’t sure where I was going to go Going to Europe was beco prohibitively expensive in this econo Peru, as I’d alanted to see Machu Picchu I had plenty of ti where I wanted to spend my vacation

I also spent an inordinate amount of time at my peephole Yes, it’s true Whenever I heard a door close, I actually ran to my door Clive looked on with a s me, however, I will never know, as his ears perked up every ti for his Purina

I still hadn’t actually seen Si into his apartht was a black T-shirt and a mess of dark hair And even that could’ve been dark blond--hard to tell in thefor better sleuthing

Another ti away from the curb as I ca to pass right by! Just as I was about to get the first peek at him, actually see the man behind the myth, I tripped and went ass over applecart on the sidewalk Luckily Euan spotted o, and my bruised bum off the concrete and inside for some Bactine with a whiskey chaser

But all reht I knew Si h or two But no hareether ton and Glenn Miller on his side of the wall, and I lay in bed on randpa used to play his old records at nighttime, and the pop and crackle of a needle on vinyl was co as I fell asleep, Clive curled up at ood taste in ood to last, and all hell broke loose again a few nights later

First, I was treated to another round of Spanx She had once again been a very bad girl and certainly deserved the resounding spanking she received--a spanking that lasted alht there God, yes, right there!" before the actual walls began to shake I’d lain awake that night, rolling, froot , she was a soft, round little bit of a girl with curvy hps and thighs, and packing some serious junk in the trunk She was short--really short--and a little pluoodbye, and Ihim because I watched her walk away I marveled at his taste in women She was the total opposite of what I’d seen of Purina, who looked like athat Purina was soon up on the roster, the following night I gave Clive a sock full of catnip and a bowlful of tuna My hope was to get him wasted and passed out before the action started The treats had the opposite effect My boy was ready to party dohen the first strains of Purina cah the walls about one fifteen in thejacket, he would have

He stalked the roo it cool When Purina began her ain launched toward the wall He ju pillows and even a laet closer to his beloved When he realized he would never be able to burrow under the plaster, he serenaded her with so hers in intensity

When the walls began to shake, and Si it on home, I was amazed they couldon Clearly, if I could hear the on Although if I were iine I could coh, I was iry I was tired, I was horny with no release in sight, and hteningly like a tiny cigarette

After an abbreviated night’s sleep, the next ed myself to the peephole for another round of HaremWatch I was rewarded with a brief side profile of Sioodbye It was quick, but it was enough to see the jaw: strong, defined, good He gave great jaw The best thing about that day was the jaw sighting The rest of the day was shit

First, there was a probleeneral contractor over at the Nicholson house It see lunch breaks, he was actually blazing it up in their attic every day The whole third floor smelled like a Dead concert

Then, an entire pallet of tiles for the bathroom floor arrived cracked and chipped The amount of time needed to reorder and reship would set the entire project back at least teeks, leaving no possibility of finishing on time Any time major construction takes place, the project end date is an estimated time of completion However, I had never h-profile job, it ood way) to realize there was nothing I could do to speed things up short of flying to Italy and bringing back those tileswhich I spilled an entire soda all over the floor and thoroughly embarrassed myself, I headed back toork and stopped in a store to look at so over in the Marin headlands this weekend

As I examined the selection, I felt warainst

"Hey you," I heard, and I froze in terror Flashbacks poured over me, and I saw spots I felt cold and hot at the sa experience of h un fucker who’d hijacked the O

"Caroline, lookin’ good in the neighborhood," he crooned, channeling his inner Toled to keep ed