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Strange that she had been so frustrated and worried when she had arrived Travel was difficult Building a new life was hard

Trying not to remember what she had left behind was harder still But it would be all right

It was all so beautiful here Truly, there was nothing like it Her sense of well-being, derived just from the air and her view of theof… almost a dreamlike euphoria that seemed to have settled over her Tomorrow, she was certain, all would be well After all…

It was Italy

She closed her eyes And the sense of being enfolded and almost sensuously cradled by the air remained as she drifted…

Gema could hear the sound of knocks on the door when she turned off the water For aexpected him back so quickly Then, she flew into action, afraid that he would think she had fallen asleep and go away

She quickly slipped into a silk wrap and caught a glimpse of herself in theto every curve on her wet body, enhancing the fullness of her breasts and clearly delineating her nipples Sexy, she deter free around her shoulders Not at all bad

She raced down the stairs and threw the door open

And stood there, herinto a round O shape

She started to close the door

But didn’t

Her limbs felt like lead A state of excitean to rush through her body And yet…

She backed away as her visitor entered

She wanted to speak, even screaauze she earing suddenly seehter sounded The voice that spoke was deep and still, like air, with a raspy quality

"Geuely aware that the door slaether

None of that mattered

Darkness encompassed her The silk drifted froertips danced down upon her flesh, delicately breezed over her breasts

They were long… the knuckles felt like fire as they brushed her nipples

He was closer, and there was a whisper in her ear, and a burst of liquid heat His ainst her throat while his hands created a flow of lava, sliding down the length of her body, finding the center of her sex and the apex of the lava-like stream of arousal that didn’t just fill her, but seared into every pore of her flesh

The tongue

Moving against her ear, her throat… her lips Then reat a blaze she was certain that she would collapse, but she would not, could not; she was frozen, cast into a stillness of total acquiescence, as if he had to be, and power her to his will

Liquid fire

The teeth… nibbled, played, pro down

All the sensation she s that were done…

And done…

And her own body moved at last, as he willed it, until she was laid upon the floor, and the delirious rush of need and hunger was suddenly fulfilled and she was soaring… feeling so very …

And then

She could feel no

Chapter 2

Maria Britto shivered slightly as she stepped outside the little house where she lived with her , and the sun had yet to so much as touch the horizon And yet, if she was to o now

She sain, but with anticipation She felt a touch of guilt; she shared so much with her mama But this… well, her irl She had hout her school years, but there wouldn’t be any o to university, and she knew it Since her father had been sick and died, otten jobs in the States, and her rateful Maybe when they made money, they would send for her and her mother Or maybe the area would pick up, as so in to co on well-off foreign visitors That tiled daily to take in laundry, to clean houses, to make them the money they needed to survive She was lucky, so lucky, to have the job at the shop

And she had Roberto

They were the saether on the saood boy He worked hard for his father, doing construction and repair He was saving et married, and everyone understood that they would do so He was pleasant and young, and she felt a faint stirring when they shared their few kisses