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Diana was the woman he desired for her cool pale beauty, the wo his own in the most intimate way

Soonso very soon now

With a flexing of his muscles he executed a perfect duck-dive and disappeared under the water coly to the end of the pool and back several ti to surface

Diana watched hi breath control,’ she told him as he finally broke the water

He grinned again ‘It’s just practice,’ he said ‘And good lung capacity’

Diana’s eyes went to the smooth, muscled expanse of his chest, with its perfectly honed pecs and taut solar plexus in the flat between his hard-edged ribs She looked away hurriedly Feasting her gaze on his near naked body was no way to behave

She waded to the steps and cla indoors,’ she announced ‘Ti?’ Her voice held the light, bright tone she was determined to keep with him

‘Sunset drinks on the terrace,’ he informed her ‘No rush’

It was just as well he’d said that, Diana discovered, for when she returned indoors she was immediately swept away by what see wo attention, proceeded to get her ready for the evening

For a brief ain would she be staying in a royal hideaway in the Arabian desert—so why not indulge in as being so insistently offered to her?

With ave herself up to their ministrations

Nikos stood on the wide upper-storey terrace, edged by a balustrade in the red sandstone that the whole building was constructed with, sh the sun was close to setting To the east, colour was fading fro out in the cloudless sky There would indeed be a spectacular show later on

Ruminatively he sipped his drink, a cool, mint-flavoured concoction that ith the a Diana’s eventual ehtly as he recalled thatoh-so-aware of his body Finding it pleasing to her

Anticipation thru the ice , but the thaas underway He felt the tug of a caustic smile at the corner of his mouth as his eyes rested on the desert vista beyond In this heat, how could she help but thaw?

And here, now, in this the ultimate hideaway, she would melt completely, he knew