An Ideal Marriage

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An Ideal Marriage

Helen Bianchin

When Gabbi married Benedict, it was the wedding of the decade, uniting two wealthy families. She played her role as perfect wife brilliantly. No one would have guessed her secret - that she loved Benedict, but to him she was simply an accessory. Their marriage was all about business, sex and babies! As part of the marriage bargain Benedict expected Gabbi to provide him with a son. Gabbi refused - but her glamorous stepsister was eager to fulfil the role of wife and mother! Suddenly, Gabbi had to fight to save her marriage.

Chapter 1

GABBI stopped the car in the middle of a clogging in South Head Road, near the district of called Sydney Elizabeth Bay. Miro' their nervous clock and rythmically struck the fingers in the steering wheel. In one hour it had to shower, to wash the hair, to dry it and to comb it, to make up themselves, to get dressed and to receive to the guests to the supper. Lengthy remaining ten minutes in the middle of the traffic did not comprise of its plans. It watched his painted and neat hands: it had not had lunch to go to the manicure. It had taken an apple in average afternoon, which could not consider a suitable substitute of a food. The car of ahead began to move. It followed it, but when changing the traffic light had to return to step on the brake. To that step, it would cost two to him or three attempts to pass the intersection, it thought. It must have marched before the office not to see itself affected by the hour of more traffic. But his cabezonería had not allowed it. Like she was the daughter of James Stanton, did not need to him to work. Their properties, an extensive portfolio of actions and an appreciable annual rent located it in the list of rich young women of Sydney. In addition, she was the wife of Benedict Nicols, and its position of advisory assistant of direction of the Companies Stanton-Nicols was sight often as a nepotism sample.

Gabbi tightened the accelerator with satisfaction, but it had to return to stop. The movable telephone sounded. She answered automatically. " Gabrielle. There was a single person who refused to use her diminutivo: Mónica. " you are leading? " I am retained " it answered, asking itself which would be the reason for the call of his madrastra. Mónica never called to greet it simply. " Annaliese comes late this. It would matter to you that it went to have supper tonight with us? The years last in a boarding school of an elite school made it answer courteously. " No, absolutely. We will be enchanted from which it comes. " Thanks, wanted. The voice of Monique sounded smooth when it hung. Wonderful, one said, while it called to Marie to say to him that it put another plate in the table. It sighed. It hoped that the fact that they were thirteen people was not bad luck in any sense, thought after hanging. The traffic began to move. James Stanton had married ten years ago with one divorced of twenty-nine years with a small daughter and that had filled it of joy. Monique was very sociable, just as he, and an exceptional host. The pain was that the affection of Monique had not arrived until the daughter of its husband. It had been then fifteen years old, and had felt the superficiality of his madrastra. One had spent six months asking themselves why, until a friend had said something about the characteristics of a disfuncional relation from the psychological point of view. Like answer, Gabbi had decided to emphasize in everything what did.

Since consequence had gained sport championships, the race with an insurmountable academic file in Administration of Companies had finished. It had studied languages, and it had spent a year in Paris and another one in Tokyo before returning to Sydney to work for a rival company. Soon one had appeared to the position in Stanton-Nicols, and it had gained it, thanks to his experience and efficiency. Thinking about the past had a certain danger, thought Gabbi, while it put in a street of an exclusive district, full of houses luxurious that hid behind high walls, and adorned with leafy trees. After crossing about one hundred meters, it stopped. It tightened a remote control and the forged iron doors were opened so that it happened. A way in zigzag took it until a house of Mediterranean style of two floors, nailed in a beautiful landscape, far from the highway. They had been four parcels with four houses acquired by Conrad Nicols, that had been demolished to give rise to a house of thousands of dollars with magnificent views of the port. Ten years later, rooms for guests and garages for seven cars had been added, remodelado the kitchen and roof terraces and balconies. The gardens had sport sources, tracks, pools of adornment and lands inspired by the English field, with shrubs and trees. Pain was one that Conrad and Diandra Nicols had had a car accident weeks after finished the adjustments. Nevertheless, Conrad had obtained after died what it had not obtained in his last ten years of life: his son and heir had returned from America and had taken the reins from Stanton-Nicols. Gabbi put the car between the Jaguar of Benedict and a black Bentley. It was not the car that Benedict used every day to go to the city. The doors of the garage were closed. Gabbi gathered its briefcase of the seat of back and left the car in the direction of a lateral door where it touched bellboys, activating with them the security system that gave entrance to the house. Although the word mansion was more suitable to define it, thought Gabbi. It called by the inner telephone to the kitchen. " Hello, Marie.

He is everything under control? The twenty years of work to the service of the Nicols family allowed him to answer with a drowned giggle and: " Without problems. " Thanks " Gabbi, thanked for, before running by the corridor towards stairs snail answered that raised the plant of above. Marie would be putting the last ones I touch to the supper of three plates that had prepared. His husband, Serg, would be proving the temperature of the wines that Benedict had chosen so that they used, and Sophie, the charwoman per hours, would be finishing the last ones I touch in the dining room. Everything what had to make era to go down, perfectly neat, when Serg took care of the timbre of the door and made happen to first from its guests to the hall, in about forty minutes or something less. The mother of Benedict had chosen moqueta of pale colors and smooth painting in the walls, to contrast with the mahogany furniture. In the dormitories, the painting of the walls matched with the curtains and edredones. Each room was different. The main dormitory was located in the wing this of the house. It had acristaladas doors that they gave to two balconies from which were beautiful views of the port. During the day they were panoramic views, and at night lights spectacle of and intermittent neon in the distance were transformed into a magical. Gabbi took off the shoes, the jewels and the clothes and went to a room almost as great as the dormitory. It was a marble bath luxuriously decorated color ivory with an enormous bathtub and a compartment with two showers. Ten minutes later Gabbi it left the bath with a towel surrounding his thin body and another one as a turban in the head. " Goes all good, Gabbi? " the jacket asked to Benedict, taking off and becoming loose the necktie. Benedict had a hard… and muscular body and a face whose factions denoted the origin Andalusian of their ancestros.

He had the black eyes and an intense glance that never dulcificaba neither before a man nor a woman. " What happens with "Hello, affection, I am in house"? " she joked. " Followed of a welcome kiss? " he joked, taking off the shirt and opening the rack of the trousers. It felt that its breathing was accelerated, that felt a knot in the stomach, and its body was attracted by that presence. But he was all physicist. Gabbi put a silk dressing gown. It was not more than the attraction of that powerful masculinidad, thought. The towel took off and the hair was dried. It was distracted when seeing naked Benedict walking towards the shower. The walls were covered with mirrors; and its body was reflected. It was a formed affluent body; of very attractive masculine forms. It followed it with the glance. Soon, the crystal doors were closed after him. Gabbi cepilló the hair with unnecessary force, sadness and rages sudden. A year ago, two months and three weeks since they had married, and not yet it could control the effect that it caused in her in the bed or outside her. It still had the humid hair. Its ash-gray blond color seemed darker, emphasizing its clear complexion and its blue eyes. With expert movements the hair took shelter. Soon, it began to make up itself. Minutes later, it heard that it let sound the water. It had to deliver an attack to concentrate themselves in the line of the eye and not to watch when Benedict left the marble pedestal and began to shave the beard of a day. " you have been badly? " Benedict asked.

Gabbi stopped its movements a little while. " Why it questions? " You have very expressive eyes " Benedict commented while the hand went through the cheek. Gabbi watched it after the mirror. " Annaliese is going to come to have supper. She is a guest of last moment. Benedict stopped the machine to shave and stretched the hand until the bottle of colony. " That bothers to you? " I am able to hold to me and to assassinate the monsters that I take inside. " There will be verbal swords in the dessert? " Benedict with sardonic humor said. One knew that Annaliese was incapable to lose an opportunity, and Gabbi knew that that night would not be an exception. " I will try to be civilized. Benedict watched the curves of the thin body of Gabbi. Soon he watched it, he smiled and he said: " the objective is to win another battle in a war that continues? " has presented/displayed You battle somebody sometimes, Benedict? " Gabbi left the maquillaje in the drawer of its cosmetics and bar of lips was applied. It did not answer. It was not necessary that said that he was a man feared and respected by his colleagues, and who nobody took the hair him. Gabbi put one narrow long skirt of black silk and one blouse escotada without sleeves. It completed his atuendo with heel shoes, a pendant with a diamond in pear form and slopes to game. Soon one watched the mirror and later perfume was put Him Must de Cartier. " You are ready? Gabbi heard its voice and it watched it. That image of Benedict almost cleared the breath to him. Benedict had a special force, something almost animal, that the elegant clothes as soon as she neutralized. He was something irresistible for almost any woman.

They were watched a little while. She envied that control to him, and she was wondered what thing could make to it lose it. " Yes, I am ready " she smiled and she preceded it when leaving the room. The main stairs, from marble, arrived at the ground floor covered partially by a carpet. The grounds were of marble and gave to luminosity and sensation from amplitude to the lobby from entrance to the building. The walls were painted of color ivory, whose uniformity was interrupted by upholstered doors of wood, objects of art, and some display cabinets. It sounded the timbre when Gabbi put the foot in the last step of the stairs. " It is hour of which the spectacle begins " Gabbi when seeing Serg murmured to walk towards the front doors. " the cynicism well you do not have left " Benedict said. She watched it with pride and she said to him: " I promise to You that I will behave well " he felt that its pulse was accelerated. " I am safe… " he said. Those words caused a chill in the skin of Gabbi. " Charles! Andrea! " Benedict exclaimed when Serg announced the first guests ". You come to the hall, I will serve a glass to you. The rest of the guests arrived at the few minutes, and Gabbi represented its paper of host perfectly, smiling all along, and hoping that Monique and Annaliese arrived accompanied by their father. To Monique it liked to make an entrance triunfal, and its arrival used to be carefully studied and to happen at the most opportune moment so that it caused a great impact. It did not use to arrive late excessively, but the time of arrival it was to the limit of socially accepted. The announcement of Serg agreed with the expectations of Gabbi. It asked excuses the guests with whom it was talking and went to greet his father. " James " the cheek of the man with the lips grazed and accepted the firm squeeze in its shoulder like answer.

Soon, madrastra went to his to accept of her a kiss in the air ". Monique " smiled while it watched the overwhelming woman who was next to Monique ". Annaliese, what joy verte! Benedict was united to them and she put a hand to him in the waist. A disturbing sensation that seemed a way to also instill security to him and a secret warning; aside from producing an attraction reaction to him, which at that moment was totally secondary. Benedict affectionately greeted their father, with sincere enchantment to his madrastra and good natured tolerance to Annaliese. Monique smiled sweetly in answer. Annaliese, however, responded with its feline art of seduction; an ability that seemed to delight in practicing with any man of more than twenty years, without concerning its civil state to him. " Benedict… With a single word, Annaliese managed to transmit everything a message, and that enervaba. The pressure of the fingers of Benedict increased, and Gabbi smiled to him, ignoring the fire in the depths of those dark eyes. The supper was a success. It would have been difficult until more demanding paladar to find a defect him, as much in the preparation as in the presentation of the food, and the wines that accompanied it. Benedict was an exemplary host, and its ability to remember events and numbers, combined with its photographic memory was a guarantee of which the conversation was pleasant and varied. The men looked for and valued their opinion on the businesses, and they envied it by its attractiveness with the women. These, on the other hand, looked for to call their attention and coveted the wife place who Gabbi occupied next to him. "a pair created in the Paradise", had said the magazines of cotillees at their moment. "the wedding of the decade", had titled several magazines of women, enclosing a great variety of photos. Only the romantic ones had accepted the idyllic image that had given mass media whereas the high society of the whole country had seen what it hid behind that fairy tale facade.

The marriage of Benedict Nicols and Gabrielle Stanton had been the product of the strategy of James Stanton to lay the foundations its financial empire and that dreamed up in the following generation with a heir. The reason for which Benedict had participated was clear: he wanted to obtain the total control of Stanton-Nicols. The advantage was an attractive young woman very adapted to generate prole necessary. Acceptance of Gabbi had been motivated partly by desire to satisfy to his father and by recognition realistic of that, given his enormous fortune, would have few men, if there were some, which they could reject the social and economic advantage that supposed to be the son-in-law of James Stanton and which they did not want to also marry with her by economic interest, and Benedict was one of them. " We go to the hall to take the coffee? The words of Benedict called their attention. Gabbi was put still on and said smiling: " I am sure that Marie must have it ready. "that Is a inestimable treasure chef". "a wonderful evening", said with courtesy the guests to him. It inclined the head and was thankful: " Thanks. I will say it to Marie. It will like to know it. What was truth. Marie valued its high wage and the possibility of living in a separated house. They were the advantages of that use, and its gratitude was reflected in its culinarios efforts. " been enough you have shut up in the supper, wanted. Gabbi heard the voice of Monique and the return occurred towards her. " it seems to You? " it asked smiling Gabbi. " Annaliese is a little hurt, seems to me " Monique smiled. " 0h, wanted! It seemed to enjoy so much! " Gabbi exclaimed. Monique watched it with cloudy eyes. Gabbi did not know how it did.

"it must really have been actress", thought Gabbi. " Annaliese always has considered you as a sister greater " Monique said. There was nothing of familiar affection in which Annaliese felt by Gabbi. Another very different thing was its relation with Benedict. " it flatters much to Me " Gabbi said amiably, maintaining to the glance torva of Monique. A little aside from the guests had remained, who were leaving the dining room, and could not oir them. " It appreciates much to you. She doubted it. Gabbi always had been Vista like a rival, and Annaliese was the worthy daughter of its mother. One got dressed and it fixed with care, it was perfumed, and it was sent to his mission to seduce. It played, it smiled, and it enjoyed the hunting until it found the suitable man. Gabbi got rid to give an answer because Marie offered a coffee to him when entering the hall. Been thankful, it accepted the coffee. It raised the cup with serenity and it sucked. " If you pardon to me… I must speak with James. It was almost midnight when went away the last guests, neither too much soon nor too much late for a celebration to half of week. Gabbi took off the sandals and crossed the hall. It felt a weight in the head; an accumulated tension from the nape of the neck to the neck. Sophie had gathered the cups of coffee that were and the glasses of licor. In the morning, Marie would leave the clean hall and in perfect order. " the evening has been everything a success, you do not create? " Benedict commented. " Of what another way was going to be? " she answered watching it. " You want that we seat and we criticize a little to our guests? " he with docilidad said.

" Not particularly. " Then, I propose you that you go to the dormitory and I put to you in the bed. She raised the chin a second and soon she said watching it fixedly. " and that prepares me for complacerte? Benedict watched it with a dangerous brightness in the eyes. Immediately, it was extinguished and I approach her with graceful movements of panther. " To please to me? It was closely together of her. Their mixed masculine fragrance with their colony collapsed their defenses and hit the target of their feminidad. It did not need to touch it to him. And it knew it. " Your sexual appetite is… " Gabbi made a pause, soon added ": Voracious. It raised a hand and it took the chin him, forcing it to watch it. " the nonacceptance Is privilege of the woman. She watched it carefully. She saw the small wrinkles in the end of his eyes, the fine contours of his mouth, that mouth that explored the curves of the body of her so well. " and custom of the man to use disloyal methods to convince it " Gabbi said. Benedict caressed the cheek to him, the neck, and she loosen the hair to him. They fell together to the carpet. He combed the blond hair to him with the fingers. Then he lowered the head. It closed the eyes while she felt the caress of his lips around his ear. It followed until his mouth. She shook and wanted to regain the control.

She had to say to him that she stopped, to say to him that she was tired, to invent a headache, for example. She did not want to happen at the moment of after making the love; to happen through the experience to feel happy and to know at the same time that lascivia could not never replace the love. The body of Benedict moved against the one of her. It had wanted to defend itself, but it could not fight smoothly against the force of the hips of Benedict while he seized of his mouth and he had it, in the beginning, soon enthusiastically, in such a way that it surrendered. To her it did not matter to him to feel the hands of him caressing his skirt, and less when it caressed the rumps to him and it raised it against him. It curved her legs around the hips of him and the neck with its arms surrounded to him. It took it dormitory to his. Gabbi was burning with passion, painfully wished to feel its skin, to clear the necktie to him and to undo the bellboys to him of the shirt until feeling the hair of its muscular chest. Gabbi slid its mouth by the neck of Benedict. In a while dice, she realized of which it was standing, without clothes, like it, and moaned of pleasing when it threw it in the bed. Without preliminaries, express, violently. Soon, it could take itself all along that he wanted. "Now", he thought. But no, he had said it aloud, because he ed ***reflx mng himself blatantly. It sank in her and observed the delicate factions of his face while it accepted it, and she clung to him. It remained quiet during seconds, and it felt that he returned to move, retired, returned to enter more deeply, slowly, with a rate that made it burn. Their experience, the ability of their fingers, that erótica mouth was combined to return it crazy and to make it arrive until the limit of the sexual pleasure and to make request it more… And when it arrived at the éxtasis, it did not know if it hated it or it loved it reason why it made him feel. The good sex.

He was only that, thought with sadness, while it was entered in the dream.

Chapter 2 VOGEL, by line two. The office of Gabbi was located in a high floor of an architectonic work of art of downtown and had a great panoramic Vista. It was a pretty morning of a day of summer. The sky was blue and the sun illuminated the port of Sydney. Gabbi returned grudgingly to its writing-desk and raised the earpiece to take care of the call. Five minutes more, late it returned it to hang, convinced that no woman would have to have to cross verbal wars an arrogant sexista male whose only objective in the life was to criticize the women. It desired a hot, sweet and strong coffee to him. It was put of foot to go to look for it instead of that her secretary took to it. It had to examine several files. It extracted the pertinent folders and it left them in his writing-desk. It sounded the private line. It answered with the idea that one was going away to find with the voice of James or Benedict. One more a more remote possibility would be than outside Marie, and more remote still than outside Monique. " Gabbi " its voice was unmistakable. " Annaliese… " opposed Gabbi said. " What seems to you if we had lunch together? To delay the invitation would not solve anything. A glance threw to the agenda. " I can verte to the one " Gabbi named an exclusive restaurant near the office ". Beams you it reserve, or do I? " Better it beams you, Gabbi " Annaliese answered ". I have an appointment with my agent.

It is possible that it arrives late. " I must return to my two office to and average " it noticed Gabbi to him. " In that case, dame ten minutes of courtesy. Soon, it requests, if you want. Gabbi hung the receiver, asked its secretary who made the reserve, took its coffee, and soon it focused all his attention on the work until the hour to fix themselves and to leave the building. The maquillaje was altered and left. Ten minutes later, Gabbi entered the restaurant. Maítre greeted it affectionately and it personally accompanied it until the table. It requested mineral water and it watched the letter. It chose a salad Caesar and fruit. Three quarters of hour later of the hour in which they had been, Annaliese appeared in the restaurant, leaving a perfume wake most expensive to its step. A fit dress marked the curves of its thin body. She was high, of long and thin legs; the maquillaje and the gathered dark hair heightened their exotic factions. One did not apologize to arrive late. Gabbi observed in silence how it requested a salad different from hers and fresh fruit. " When you have the next work? " You have so many desire that it marches to me? " Annaliese with a feline smile asked. " It is a courtesy question " it responded with amiable ridicule. " Followed of another one about my profession? Gabbi knew the progresses well his hermanastra in its race of model. Monique did not lose the opportunity to count the ascent of its daughter in its race. " you Were whom she loved to be to have lunch " Gabbi. said raised the glass to intention and sucked. Soon, it returned it to leave in the table.

Annaliese watched it draining the eyes. " we have never been friends… In prevailed, Annaliese always had demonstrated to be one arpía vindictive. " You did all the possible one to destroy any initiative as for me of being friends. " He wanted to be the center of ours shared family, wanted. Number one " Annaliese said. It struck with the nails the edge of the glass. Gabbi cut a melon piece. " What seems to you if you say the intention to me of this appointment? " Monique said to me that James more and more nervous and is worried because you do not fulfill the treatment. The melon was succulent, but suddenly it seemed to lose the flavor. " Of what treatment we are speaking? " Of the necessary heir of Stanton-Nicols. Gabbi watched it fixedly while it put the possesor in the plate. " it seems to Me that it is a subject that does not concern to you, Annaliese. " You have problems, dear? " the only problem that I have is that interest that you demonstrate by that it is not subject yours. " It is a family subject " Annaliese with deliberate emphasis responded. The respect towards the owners of the restaurant avoided that hermanastra threw a cold water glass to him to his. " Really? It costs to me to think that my father sends to you to you like messenger in a so personal subject. " you do not create to me? " Not " the price of his valentía could cost to him expensive, very expensive, Gabbi was asked. " Wanted " the paternalista tone implied the opposite of the affection ", the only difference between a daughter and one hijastra is a document of legal adoption " made a pause ". Monique could easily convince James that it initiated it… It could not believe it! Why it surprised as much that sinister plan to him? " the testament of James is very clear.

Monique inherits the main residence, works of art, jewels, and a generous annual amount. The actions of Stanton-Nicols happen directly to me. " You think that I do not know that? " Annaliese punctured the salad ". But something escapes to you… No, one had not escaped to him. " Benedict " Gabbi added. " Very intelligent, wanted. " You want to be its beloved… Annaliese was ed ***reflx mng without humor and answered: " Its wife. " You point stop. " To the maximum, affection. Gabbi felt the temptation to cause an incident with the hot coffee or the frozen water, gave him equal. " But there is a problem. He already is married " Gabbi said. " But it can be free easily. " You seem very safe " it said with serenity, although she was furious on the inside. " a rich man wants an exemplary host in hall and one prostituta in the bed " Annaliese watched the painted nails perfectly, soon watched Gabbi ". I cannot imagine that the passion is your fort. Gabbi did not blink almost. " Perhaps you are mistaken. " Really? I do not know why I do not create to you. Gabbi called to the waiter, requested the account and signed the credit card. Then, it was put of foot and the purse of the shoulder was hung. " He will be better not to return to have this type of encounter.

You do not create? " Beloved, I am without working now, and what better than to take a rest in the own city of one? " it watched it with satisfaction ". Like family that we are, we must watch the one after the other. The social events are so interesting! " and you want to be present in all the meetings and events " Gabbi responded mockingly. " Of course. It did not want to add one more a word. He was better to go away with dignity in silence. When returning they were waiting for three messages to it. Two of them were by subjects of businesses. It answered them and it made the pertinent annotations in the computer before going to his private telephone. It felt a knot in the stomach while it hoped that Benedict answered. " Nicols " its voice was deep and maintained a slight accent American that more by telephone noticed to him. " you have called when it was outside… Gabbi imagined to Benedict putting itself comfortable in its chair of skin. " What so the lunch? " There is something you do not know? " she asked tightening the telephone. " Annaliese asked for your number of extension " he, imperturbable said. Any excuse was good to put itself in contact with Benedict, thought Gabbi in relation to his hermanastra. " you have not answered my question " Benedict said. " the lunch was well. You have called for that reason? " No. For hacerte knowledge that I am not going to be to have supper. An associate of Taiwan wants to invest in properties and it has requested to me that to him a real estate agent of prestige recommends.

He would be discourteous as for me not to present/display them in a supper. " Very little courteous " she said solemnly ". I will not hope to you wakes up. " despertarte Will be a pleasure " he joked. The call finished. Gabbi felt a tremor when remembering the numerous occasions in which it the tact of its lips had waked up and how it had rejoiced in receiving it. It delivered an attack and it hung. The rest afternoon was concentrated in the work. They were almost the five and average when it left the building and, although the traffic was dense, began to lighten itself in Rushcutter's Bay. When lowering of the car it noticed that the sun was hot, and that the humidity level was high. It took a cold drink and soon it decided to make lengths in the swimming pool. That would relax it. The jacket took off and was towards the kitchen. Marie was finishing preparing a cold plate. " She is sure that more it does not want than a salad? Gabbi used a glass as apple juice and soon it seated in one of the stools of the kitchen. " Yes " Gabbi answered, and took a piece from handle of a beautifully decorated source, that contained lettuce, nuts, fresh cheese ". It is wonderful! Marie watched it. " There is fresh fruit and ice cream later. Gabbi took the juice. " I believe that I will change and I will occur a bath. The idea to swim and to remain to the sun awhile was to him decidedly attractive. " Why you do not finish with this, Marie? It is not necessary that you only remain to clarify plates and to put them in the dishwasher.

" Thanks " the master of keys answered, pleased. It was not the first night that Gabbi happened single, and would not be the last one. " She vetoes. I will see you tomorrow in the breakfast. Marie took off the apron and it doubled it. " Serg and I will be in house, if she needs to us. " I know It " Gabbi answered amiably. In the short while one went above and a black bikini was put, protective cream extended to pave and lowered with a towel and a dressing gown to the swimming pool. It left the dressing gown and the towel in a chair and was plunged. Soon it began to swim. It made lengths and it was put of backs, enjoying that calm. It was a form wonderful to relax physical and mentally, it thought. And to see the things with the sufficient objectivity. Even the lunch with Annaliese, although perhaps that outside too much. Hermanastra was not difficult to calculate the following movement of his, given the anxious social life of the sophisticated elite of the city. Stanton-Nicols was the economic support of several works of charity, and Benedict astutely followed the tradition of Diandra and Conrad Nicols, knowing that the businesses became so much in the office as in the events in which bottoms for charity works were collected. The idea to have to do Annaliese in some meeting or celebration did not do any grace to him, and less still to have to hold the hints of Monique. Damn it is! Thus it could not relax. Gabbi occurred the return and swam until the edge of the swimming pool. It left and it was dried. It decided to eat outside, next to the swimming pool. It took to the salad and a glass of water frozen to the table that was there.

The Vista of the port was spectacular. It remained observing it awhile. When it finished having supper, a coffee became. It chose some magazines and it outside returned to watch the sun putting. The orange color that was transformed into rose while the sun sank in the horizon, an opaque light soon until the dark arrived. The lights of the swimming pool ignited giving him a turquesa color. It leafed through the magazines. There was one reviews on a gurú that spoke of the superficiality of a society in which never it was possible to be sure that a friend outside truth and not by interest. Madame of high society later read an article on one that tried prostitutas to rich and famous by an astronomical price. It followed another one on cellulitis, that seemed to him too prosaic. It happened to the section of trips. Paris, a city without equal, as much by the elegance of its women, like by its food. It agreed. It remembered the moments lived in Paris. A young student who almost had taken it to the bed. He ed ***reflx mng himself on the inside. " an interesting article? Gabbi raised the glance when hearing that deep voice, and it was with Benedict shown to the hall leisure. It wore the jacket to the shoulder and the necktie and undone some bellboys of the shirt of blue cotton had become loose. " it did not know outside that so late " it said Gabbi while it saw it approach. " They are little more than the ten " it remained of foot next to her ". pleasant Memories? Gabbi watched it. " Yes.

He was long ago, and I was very young. " But the sufficiently greater thing as to accept the attentions of a young person " he deduced Benedict with cynicism and sense of the humor ". How was called? " Jacques " she without doubting it said ". very romantic Era and its kisses were wonderful. We visited together the art galleries and took coffee in numerous bars. The week ends were going to visit the vineyards of their family. He was graceful " it remembered that numerous family, the meals shared with all that people. " What you mean with "graceful"? " a very strict mother Had, whom she loved to marry it with the daughter of a vinicultor neighbor. An English like I, although outside rich girl of speech, could it have convinced to go away to live to the other end of the world. " one married with the daughter of the vinicultor? " Benedict, entertained and amused with history asked. " Yes. " you loved It? " We were good friends. Evidently it had not felt what felt by Benedict, thought she. " and you separated with sadness when you had marcharte? She smiled before answering. " We promised not to forget the one to us the other. During a time we were written very poetic letters. " and the letters went away making shorter, less and more spaced? " You are terribly cynical. " Realistic " it corrected it. Gabbi closed the magazine and it left it upon the table. With an elegant economy of movements the Albornoz rose, reached, was put it and adjusted it to the waist. " You want coffee? " Yes, please. Gabbi was towards the kitchen.

Benedict followed it. He put coffee in the coffee and he ignited it. The kitchen was equipped with all conceivable modernities. Gabbi removed two cups from coffee of the closet. " What so the supper? " it really interests to You? Or it beams to speak of something? She asked herself if Benedict would realize effect that she caused in her. In the bed, surely she noticed it. But probably outside there, no. Surely Benedict more was interested in creating an economic empire that in analyzing the relations with people. " real Interest " she answered. " We ate Asian food in one of the best restaurants of the city. The associate received a good impression, and the agent will gain a good commission. " you will have offered Him your particular jet, which will as opposed to fill you associate of prestige to the Taiwanese, that in counterpart will recommend you to its well-known ones " she said dryly. Benedict smiled with picardía. " That is called to worry about the businesses. " and the businesses are most important. " It is a that one affirmation or a complaint? She watched it and said: " one knows that the benefits have exceeded the estimations in the last years. The continuous successes of Stanton-Nicols are attributed to your untiring efforts. " you have not answered me the question. " and why it was going to complain to me? " she asked to him. " It is certain. You have interests in the company of the family. " In more of a sense.

" What you mean? " the delay in giving a heir to James seems to be subject for familiar conjectures. To Gabbi it seemed to see a brightness to him of rage in the glance of Benedict, but immediately it disappeared under an impenetrable mask. " It is a subject that Annaliese has wanted recordarte? " Benedict caressed the cheek to him. " Yes. Benedict slid the hand downwards and she caressed a chest to him, played with the edge of his bikini, soon with the hard nipple. Soon, he retired it. " We have been in agreement in which the birth control was a prerogative yours " Benedict said. It swallowed saliva, lamenting itself of the way in which its body reacted to the tact of those hands. " Your hermanastra is too pending of itself like losing the opportunity to begin a verbal game. Who won? " Both we retired with superficial wounds " Gabbi said solemnly. " I can know when will continue the game? " Who knows! " and the weapon? She smiled. " It is Annaliese. And you the prize. The legal adoption on the part of James would turn it a Stanton. Our divorce would be a mere formality so that Nicols happened to be called. Benedict raised a hand and she caressed the cheek to him. " I must deduce that it does not cheer that to you? It remained in silence, but she had shouted that no. " You think that I chose to you like wife with that intention, with the future of Stanton-Nicols in mind? " the marriages are manipulated by the rich ones for numerous reasons. The love is not a necessary requirement. Benedict remained impassible and said: " and what we shared in the bed? How you would define it? It felt a knot in the throat. " the masters of the experience.

He watched with hardness a moment. Soon, their eyes were smoothed. " You mean that you relegate me to the position of stallion? It closed the eyes "God santo", she thought. " No. Not " she said. " I am glad of which you are so merciful. It was gotten upset, was evident. Anyway, what had hoped? That it said to him that it was too important like so that another one she occupied its place? " the coffee has been made already. She delivered an attack to concentrate itself in the task of serving the coffee and of adding sugar. Benedict took one from the cups. " I will take the coffee to the office. It observed it while she moved away of the kitchen: their wide shoulders… "Damn are, Annaliese", Gabbi thought. It threw the coffee in the sink and left the cup in the dishwasher. Soon, it extinguished the coffee, the lights of the kitchen and one went away above. It raised the room, took off the bikini, it opened the shower, and one put inside. One lay down after the shower and it read awhile. It did not know to what hour Benedict had lain down, nor she felt it to leave the bed early in the morning. When one awoke, the only sign of its presence that discovered was its pillow and the track of its body in the sheet.

Chapter 3 GABBI watched the clock and gruñó. They were seven and the average one.

Hour to rise, to shower, to take the breakfast and to go into in the traffic of the city. Luckily it was Friday and it had the weekend ahead. Benedict had accepted an invitation to go to play tennis that night to house of Chris Evington, accounting director. On the following day they would go to the opening of a representation to the Center of Sydney Leisure. The possibility that Annaliese discovered its plans for the night of that day was remote, thought Gabbi while it seated to the steering wheel. And it was not very probable that Monique obtained an entrance for the opening with so little advance. It was a beautiful day and the air not yet had filled of contamination to that hour in the morning. Gabbi left the car in the parking, where the security guards saluted. Soon, they gave the welcome him in Reception when happening towards its office. When arriving, her secretary greeted it sincerely, with a coffee in a hand and a notebook of notes in the other. As she was spending the Gabbi morning tried not to think at night previous, but she did not obtain it. When finishing the day was glad to return to house. The car of Benedict was parked in the garage when it arrived. It was put nervous when entering. It went to see Marie to the kitchen. Soon, it raised to change. Benedict was taking off the necktie when she arrived at the room. " You arrive early at house " he greeted it. She watched it. " the supper will be ready to six. " That said Marie to me " Benedict began to undo the shirt. Gabbi followed its movements.

Soon it returned to watch his factions. There was nothing expressed his mood. " I have pedirte excuses " Gabbi said. He smiled weakly. " one is good education, Gabbi? " Benedict took off the shirt and a pole of dark color was put. " Simply of sincere remorse " she said. " Accepted the excuse. It breathed, after to have maintained the breathing during a good short while. " Thanks. Gabbi was towards the extensive locker that formed a small room, gathered the equipment of tennis and linen trousers and a blouse. It heard the noise of the machine shave while one got dressed. " At what time you want to go out? " To seven and quarter. They lowered together the stairs. They ate the chicken salad that had prepared Marie, drank mineral water and soon they took fresh fruit. A light food that the Seine completed with a supper after I complete tennis match. They talked on businesses and the agenda of the next meeting. Chris and Leanne Evington resided in Woollahra, in a recovered old house. It had beautiful gardens and a well-taken care of park with shrubs and fences. The tennis courts did not do more than to add perfection to the landscape. There were few cars near the tracks. Gabbi left the Bentley while Benedict removed their bags from sport of the maletero. To play tennis as social act had its own rules, in agreement with the tastes of the host and with the number of participants.

The game companions were chosen by the participants, and he assumed that two returns of double compounds would precede to two returns of feminine doubles and would finish with two returns of masculine doubles. Gabbi and the Benedicts were named in the first place to play with a pair that Gabbi did not know. The four were good players, but Benedict had the height, the force and the ability like doing what wanted with the ball, and left victorious at the end of the game, with a score from five to two. The son of Chris and Leanne, Todd, did of I arbitrate. He studied Right and he was very attractive. He had all the girls whom she loved. The rare thing was that that late there was not any to his around. Until it appeared Annaliese, with a sensational aspect, with clothes of design tennis, dazzling to all the presents. " I feel to arrive late " it smiled. " the compounds finish finishing " Leanne informed to him ". Now it touches to the girls. Annaliese occurred the return towards Gabbi. " You want to be my companion of game? It will be like in the old times. Gabbi did not know well to what it talked about. Perhaps it was speaking of some party that had played during the vacations of the school. Leanne put meetings in the second return. Gabbi accepted a cold drink. The guests became to reunite while Todd continued doing of I arbitrate. The men formed two groups, and almost immediately Annaliese obtained the attention of Gabbi. " I have passed a late wonderful one calling through telephone to friends and putting me to the current of all news. " and one of them was the tennis match in house of the Evington, is not truth? " Yes, why? " and who was going to know the list guests better than Todd? " He is a very sweet boy.

" and it is flattered to him easily. Annaliese smiled feline and asked: " they are not thus most of the men? " We go with the others? It happened half an hour until they took position in the track. Their opponents had a level similar to his, but in the end they won. They served seafood at the end of the game, followed of coffee. Gabbi supposed that Annaliese was going to try to call the attention of Benedict. What one did not imagine went that it was going to hit its arm and it was going to him to throw the coffee. " I am well " Gabbi said when Benedict was towards her. One had only stained the shoes. " You could haberte burned " Annaliese commented, apparently worried. " Luckily it has not been thus. " You are sure that well you are? " Leanne asked to him ". You want more coffee? Or something more fort? " it added with a smile. Gabbi felt attemped, but not for the reasons that her host imagined. Gabbi denied with the head and said: " Thanks, anyway. They were almost the twelve at night when one seated in the car of Benedict. " What happened in house of the Evington? Gabbi hoped that the car reached speed before answering. " To what you talk about? " You usually are not clumsy. " Ah! " It was because of Annaliese? " I do not know it. " It was standing to your side. " She would prefer not to speak of it. Gabbi entered first the house. Benedict remained putting the car in the garage. It raised the room and she undressed. Soon, one put in the shower.

To the few minutes, Benedict was united to her. Both they finished at the same time, they left together and they took a towel. To Gabbi it was to him almost impossible to ignore the presence of Benedict, mainly of naked Benedict. And it could not avoid the acceleration of the beat of its heart, nor feel the heat that was seized of her when initiating its nocturnal ritual. When a hand was turned towards the door settled in its arm and it forced it to watch it. She cursed the fragility that as opposed to felt its glance and that could not hide it. But she wished the heat of his arms, the satisfaction of his mouth. Gabbi raised a hand and it caressed the cheek to him, soon drew the contour of his lips with his finger. It took the fingers from her in his mouth, and he bit them smoothly. That gesture caused that it felt a fire in her interior. Gabbi attracted it towards himself, and enjoyed the heat of its masculine body against the one of her, her fragrance, the enthusiastic kiss that to him all thought erased. Ronroneó of pleasing when it took it to the room and threw it in the bed. If the commitments of the businesses did not prevent it, Benedict used to spend Saturdays in the track of golf while she dedicated herself to make the things that had not been able to make during the week. Some times he went to the cinema in the evening or he had lunch with friends. That day something of clothes decided to buy itself and to go to the hairdressing salon and the beauty parlor. It returned to house to six from afternoon. Benedict was entering with their car also and she followed it. It remained waiting for it. " you have had good day? " she asked while she left the car. " Yes. And you? " I have gone of purchases " she indicated the bags to him that were in the seat of back.

Benedict seemed relaxed. Its strong masculinidad woke up in her a deep answer when happening through its side to gather the bags. Perhaps someday it let feel that, thought she. They were more than the seven when they left to the Center of Leisure. To Gabbi it enchanted the show to him. The fact that Annaliese was not in favor of any site added to please to the spectacle, a pleasure that was repeated on the following day when Gabbi and the Benedicts were with friends to sail. Monday promised to be a day of much activity, thought Gabbi when arriving at the office and meeting with their secretary. The morning passed quickly putting data in its computer. It needed concentration, and not even it made a rest to take coffee. It finished after noon. Only it had left to review the work after eating. But it would not leave it go to have lunch, decided. James had requested him the data for the following day to the one. But he wanted dárselos that same afternoon. One rose of his writing-desk to take sándwich from chicken salad that her secretary had left him in the small refrigerator. He took a bottle from apple juice and returned to his seat. After having lunch, one felt again with sufficient energy. He sounded the telephone. One cleaned the hands in a paper napkin and he took care of it. " It is Francesca Angeletti " her secretary said to him. Gabbi was surprised and it was glad simultaneously. " Pásamela. Two seconds later, it exclaimed: " Francesca, where you are? " In house.

I have arrived yesterday in the morning from Rome. " When we were? Doubtlessly they would be seen. They had shared the same boarding school, the same classes and both had one madrastra. He was something that had always united them. Francesca was ed ***reflx mng. " Tonight, if Benedict and you go to the exhibition of Leon. " the exhibitions of Leon have a special place in our agenda " Gabbi laughed. " Iran James and Monique? " and Annaliese " Gabbi added. She arched an eyebrow before the robust answer of Francesca ". the good children do not curse. " This one yes. How long takes molestándote your beloved hermanastra? " One week. " It likes to go of diva " Francesca commented ". I have had the misfortune to have to share a few footbridges with her in Italy. " Graceful. " Not much. It is not at least the grace that makes you laugh. I must give haste now me. We will see ourselves tonight, in agreement? " I hope anxious that the moment arrives " it assured Gabbi to him and it hung. It remained thinking about the memories shared with Francesca, the times lived with her in vacations abroad, invited of honor in the commitments of both, and ladies of honor in the weddings of each one of them. It returned to the computer and it delivered an attack to concentrate itself in the numbers. One hour later, imprimió the work and asked its secretary who made copies for James and Benedict and that gave them. Enough it was satisfied with the result.

It had obtained the reduction of a point of percentage in the negotiations with the company of leasing of cars of Stanton-Nicols, saving that would be used for incentives to the personnel without an additional cost for Stanton-Nicols and losing the advantages in the taxes. It arrived at house towards the six from afternoon. " Benedict has called " Marie said to him when Gabbi appeared in the kitchen ". It will take about twenty minutes more in arriving. The sufficient time like showering and washing the hair. " It smells very well " it said to him to Marie. " Asparagus with Dutch sauce, meat with vegetables, and cake of dessert lemon. Gabbi took a glass and went to the refrigerator to look for frozen water. " several invitations by mail Arrived. They are in the study. " Thanks. Minutes later, Gabbi took off the clothes and it put in the shower. Soon, underclothes were put cleaning, cattle tenders and an ample blouse. The hair in moño took shelter. A touch of color in the lips was applied to cream in the face and and decided that she was ready. Benedict entered the room when she left. He smiled and she asked to him: " a meeting that was delayed? " Two telephone calls and a clogging " he said. " the supper will be ready in ten minutes " she commented going towards the door. " She had hopes of being able to share the shower with you. " Too much late. " What pain! " he smiled. It put itself nervous. " a cold shower will help you. " This also " he said, and he kissed it enthusiastically.

It felt that she was give inn that pleasure. She moaned smoothly. When he raised the head, he felt that the beat of its heart had been accelerated, and its skin was lukewarm. Their lips shook when it separated. " you do not play fair " it accused trembly she, while it caressed the cheek to him. " It sees see Marie " he said to him picaramente smiling ". I will go immediately. The supper was delicious. " Coffee? " Marie asked. Gabbi watched the clock. It would take half an hour in getting dressed, making up themselves and to comb themselves. " I no, thanks " it said. " Black coffee for me, please " Benedict said when Gabbi rose of the table.

Chapter 4 GABBI put red trousers of silk with a camisole to game and a jacket. It was an overwhelming set, completed with sandals at night and a purse to game, that emphasized its blond hair and its golden skin. It was made up carefully, and cepilló the hair to take it loose. One watched the mirror. In him a safe and young woman was reflected, whose clothes and jewels showed their wealth. She had an air of coldness and serenity that was far from feeling. " you have chosen the color to intention? " Benedict asked. " Why it questions? " it gives the impression Me that you mean something with it. " What perception! Benedict took a dark smoking, a white shirt and a pajarita. A man was almost a sin that radiated resemblance degree of sexual chemistry, she thought.

She had an air of dangerous predator. " To what that smile comes? " Excitation " she answered. " By the exhibition of Leon? " Naturally. " We can arrive late " Benedict suggested mockingly. She smiled. " Leon would undergo a deception. And Annaliese also, thought she. " Could fix making it a purchase exorbitant. It remained pensativa, soon denied with the head. " the jokes are paid expensive " he said. " I am Already sorry. " the repentance is losing validity with hourly that happens " it saw a brightness of doubt in the eyes of Gabbi. It caressed the cheek to him, but the kiss was repressed that it would have given him. Gabbi gathered its purse and left the room. When they left the house, one seated in the Jaguar in silence. " How reacted James to your proposal? " she asked. To speak of businesses was something that did not involve any risk. Benedict watched it. " You want to speak to speak? " I can ask it to it James " it responded. " Flight to Melbourne within a pair of weeks. Apparently, Benedict went away single. " How long you are going to be outside? " Three or four days. It had to be customary to his absences. Nevertheless, always it missed it.

It felt desire to say it to it, but to do it had been to admit something for which it was not prepared. It fixed the Vista to the highway. The light of the summer took in disappearing totally. The traffic to that hour was minimum and arrived at Double Bay without delay. There was a parking deprived next to the art gallery, and Benedict left the car there. Gabbi left the vehicle. One was one more night in the one than it had to pretend that everything was as it seemed to be: a happy pair; a happy woman. She had much practice in it, said itself. The owner of the gallery received them efusivamente. He was an falsified man, as much in his way to dress like in the jewels that took. " Loved mine, how you are? Ça goes? " it said to them when seeing them. Leon, of Italian origin, had discovered that their ancestros had emigrated from France to Italy, and from then it did not let incorporate French words to its speech. Gabbi accepted a kiss in each cheek as a greeting. " Well, thanks, Leon… " it responded calmly. " That is good " the hand took from Benedict ". There are some wonderful works. At least one of them I am sure that great interest will wake up. You I will personally show it you. But first a little champán, Oui? " it had two drinks from a tray that took a waiter. Soon it ordered a uniformed waiter to him who took a selection of entremeses ". smoked Salmon, anchovies… " indicated the waiter to him. Gabbi used a aperitive as decorated smoky salmon with cremoso cheese.

" Delicious. Pranz has been surpassed to itself. " Thanks, wanted " Leon said now ". and, mezclaos with people. You know everybody almost. I will be with you later. She moved, conscious of the interest that she caused between people. It was the moment for smiling, and saluted to the guests with innate affection, stopping to talk of frivolous subjects to each step. How much she would take in entering James with Monique and Annaliese? Fifteen minutes? Twenty? They were twenty minutes. " Hello, wanted " his father tightened the hand to him and soon he greeted his son-in-law. " Monique… " Gabbi greeted it with the kiss in the air customary ". Annaliese… Annaliese wore a fit black dress, that marked all the curves to him and that the sujetador absence left in evidence. All the men watched it. But Gabbi knew that its objective one was Benedict. " you have seen something that you like? Gabbi heard that question of Annaliese and knew immediately that it went directed to Benedict. " Yes, one or two pictures. " You are going to buy? " Monique asked. Gabbi was wondered if James would know what hijastra was maquinando his. " Possibly. Numbers five and thirty and seven " Benedict added.

" Gabbi, why you do not take to Monique and to Annaliese to give a return by the hall? " James suggested Is something of which wanted to speak with Benedict. Did not occur to account his father of which he was throwing the lions? " the girls can go " Monique said sweetly ". I want to speak with Bertrice Osterman. Gabbi smiled and it said to him to Annaliese: " We began? They arrived immediately at the picture that Benedict had chosen. " It is going to give luminosity to one of the walls of the office " Gabbi said. " you do not bother yourself, Gabbi " Annaliese with boredom tone said ". These exhibitions are horrible. " But socially stimulating, you do not create? " Monique came to be made see, and… " and you also " Gabbi added. " By Benedict " Annaliese said. Gabbi felt a knot in the stomach. " You had to suppose it, right? " it did not wait for another thing. " Then we are included/understood. Gabbi extended a hand towards a row of pictures. " We pretended that we watched the other exposed pictures? " Annaliese smiled ". That will give a conversation subject soon you. Annaliese was a completed actress, thought Gabbi. No person in that hall had imagined that there was enemistad between hermanastras. And to her she displeased to participate to him in the farce. They gave a return, pictures stopped and examined before returning where they were Benedict and James. Monique was not at sight. " a wonderful election, Benedict " Annaliese in seductive tone said ". There is a sculpture that would be wonderful in a corner of your office.

You must come to see it " the return occurred towards Gabbi ". Is very spectacular. Is not truth, wanted? " Spectacular " Gabbi repeated, taking a glass from champán of a tray that took a waiter. It watched his husband. To Benedict that situation seemed to do grace to him. " Then I will have to throw a look " Benedict said. " Why you do not talk with James, beloved, while I take to Benedict to see the sculpture? " Annaliese suggested. " Annaliese has been transformed into a very attractive girl " James said. Gabbi inclined the head. " Very attractive, yes " Gabbi repeated. " and with much success also. " Yes " Gabbi drank champán. " I have watched the report that you sent to me. He is excellent. " Thanks " Gabbi answered trying not to watch towards Benedict. " You have the integrity of your mother, and her style " James said amiably ". I am proud of you, Gabbi. And of which you have obtained. Gabbi gave a kiss him in the cheek and it said to him: " I also want to you. " James… Gabbi occurred to the return when hearing a unknown voice, smiled and it remained of foot next to his father while this one made the presentations. He was a partner, worried apparently about the next elections to the state. With an excuse, Gabbi moved away both of men and it left to the other end of the room. He stopped himself to greet some people whom he knew.

Soon, one approached to return to watch a picture that had called him the attention. " Gabbi. " Francesca! " pelirroja saluted efusivamente to the model ". I have the impression that for centuries we have not been seeing ourselves! " Long time… You pass them have been demolishing, and… the discouraging family. " We were to have lunch to talk of all this? " Tomorrow? " Wonderful! " Gabbi exclaimed. And it named a restaurant fashionable near his office ". twelve Wings and average? " Fact " answered Francesca and it took the arm him ". You want that we observe the attempt of Annaliese to tend a trap to him to Benedict? " Not " Gabbi answered. " Then we make something unexpected and we watch the art objects in case there was an hidden talent among them. It must of having some, no? " the important thing is the eye of that contemplates it. He is he whom the beauty sees " Gabbi said solemnly while they went from a picture to another one. " the prices are scandalous " thought Francesca in aside ". there has been somebody has made a supply? " Although it seems lie, yes. " Already. " one knows that some rich and famous ones of the city sometimes buy works by whim and later they conduct a good operation when the artist becomes famous. " and if one does not become famous? " They place the work in the lobby of its office and pretend that its unknown origin transforms it into a peculiar work. The additional advantage is that soon taxes by their purchase can be deduced. " OH! When you have been made so cynical? " I have grown. " And Benedict? " we are understood the one to the other. " It is an affirmation that involves many things.

I thought that Benedict was your blue prince. " That is a myth that belongs to books. " Not always " Francesca said ". I have experienced something of it. He had been very brief, yes. The marriage of Francesca with a famous Italian pilot of cars of races had lasted six months. An accident three years ago had ended with its life and the one of another conductor, a terrorífica scene that the news had immortalized for always. Gabbi had flown to Monaco to attend the funeral and he had not been able to pronounce the suitable words then; like he was not able to pronounce them now. " It is well " Francesca said calmly, as if account occurred of which her friend was thinking ". I am learning to speak of it. Gabbi had been witness of that shared love, and it had been asked if it would be possible to surpass similar loss. " Mario was… " One between million " it interrupted Francesca ". He was mine during a brief time. I had that at least " a picture with pinceladas clumsy indicated of alive colors ". Will be a work of a small boy who has mixed itself with the other pictures? " It is an abstract picture " a masculine voice said ". and you are watching the boy who happened all painting it with the hope late of which somebody valued it and paid so that I can have bread in my table. " a very expensive bread " it said to Francesca ". handmade Shoes, necktie of Hermes and a Rolex. " They could be false. " Not " Francesca with the certainty said which it knew the designs well. Gabbi watched the scene between its friend and the man of dark eyes and wide shoulders.

" Now you are going to say to me where alive and what car I also take? " I do not believe that it is what people would hope of a painter " said Francesca without thinking it ". Good looking to that an elegant district of the north, as opposed to the sea, trees in the garden, a separated study and a BMW in the garage. Gabbi felt the presence of Benedict before it put the fingers to him in the waist. It smiled and it was turned towards him. " Benedict " Francesca affectionately greeted it ". a long time ago that we did not see ourselves. " Yes " said he ". You know Dominion? " they have not presented/displayed to us formally " Francesca smiled to intention when watching at the man to its side. " Andrea Dominion. Industralist and painter in short whiles " Benedict said to him ". Francesca Angeletti. " You must come to have supper to my house. You bring to Francesca. " Gabbi? " Benedict watched Gabbi requesting to him that she was the one who made the decision. " Thanks. We will be enchanted to go. " Not " the attractive widow rejected the invitation. " We put a day " said Dominion ". With the present Benedicts and Gabbi, you will be out of danger " smiled ". not even you are not interested in seeing if you are right? Gabbi observed Francesca. " it does not interest to know to me where you live " this one answered draining the eyes and watching coldly. " Tomorrow " Dominic ".

To six insisted and average. The return occurred and it left to the other end of the gallery. " What so prepotent man! " Francesca exclaimed when it went away. " He is a very rich man and with much success " Benedict said ". she is dedicated to the art and she donates many of his works to charitable organizations. " He is friend yours? " Sometimes we have made businesses together. It spends long time outside the country. In New York, Athens, Rome. " champán, the caviar and ostras are not of my affability " Francesca said. " You have something in common " amused Benedict said. " To what its invitation is due to have supper? " Francesca asked. " your charming talent Admires. " I have not had intention to seem charming. " Perhaps it has desire to discover why no. " It must of being who the women usually do not reject it. Benedict ed ***reflx mng itself and said: " Not very often they reject it. Gabbi saw a special brightness in the eyes of its friend. It could not repress a smile and it said to him: " You will accept then? " Long ago that does not offer a so interesting evening to me " Francesca commented ". Tomorrow I will answer to you during the lunch, Gabbi. Benedict called their attention on a steel sculpture. To the few minutes, Francesca left. " You want quedarte to the celebration of Leon? " it asked to Benedict minutes later. Gabbi watched it. " I suppose that you will have given a succulent check him to calm its annoyance by our absence, it is not truth? Benedict smiled.

" pictures five and thirty and seven, in addition to the sculpture that recommended Annaliese to me. Gabbi felt a knot in the stomach. " a gift for James " Benedict added. " I am sure that it will appreciate it " said she after a long silence. " you have not answered my question " he remembered to him. " James, Monique and Annaliese have still not left " she said. " he did not know that that conditioned to you " he said. In fact, she did not pardon to him that she had let herself drag so easily by Annaliese, nor that had been let catch in a so long conversation. " If you want that we leave… " she said. " you are not going to attend? " Monique took part ", Leon will become angry if you do not attend its celebration. " Headache " Benedict said. Monique intensely watched Gabbi. " OH, wanted! Really? " it watched it with distrust. " What pain to finish the night so early! " Annaliese exclaimed. It watched Benedict " Perhaps. it does not matter to him to Gabbi that you leave it in house and you return to the celebration, you do not create? " I Am who have headache " he commented, watching Gabbi so that this one knew that it was a suffering of sexual nature. Annaliese watched it maliciously. " That you amuse yourselves " hermanastra murmured his, tightening the arm of Benedict as a caress. Gabbi wished not to put itself red. Benedict took leave of all, she took it from the hand and she began to cross the room. Leon was talking with a people group.

" OH, wanted! You go away? " it does not matter to you? " OH, I am glad so much of that you have been able to come! " Leon smiled beatifically, thanks to the check of Benedict. Gabbi hoped to that Benedict removed the Jaguar from the parking to begin the verbal attack. " he has been unforgivable! " To what you talk about exactly? It had desire to beat to him, but she remained in silence until it arrived at Vaucluse, put the car in the garage and entered the house. " You want coffee? " Benedict asked to him after activating the security system again. " Not " she said. It did not touch it. " too much you are gotten upset to take coffee, seems. " and what you hoped? " Something of gratitude perhaps, to escape to us, you do not create? She tried to control herself. " she has bothered to You that she wants to make the love with you? " he asked to him. " he did not wait for a formal announcement of your intentions " he said to him gotten upset while it took the nape of the neck and lowered the head to him to kiss it ". No! Déjame! But he kissed it and it gave itself to her hug with ferocidad. All its body wished and opened it the mouth to receive it. The passion replaced to the annoyance. It registered that treason during a second and she was wondered how it was possible. He was not right that it had that effect in her. Or that it had so little control. The sex motivated by lascivia was not bad, but the love was the true prize. She wanted to protest when it put an arm to him underneath the knees and he raised it against his chest. She knew that she had to protest. It took it by the stairs towards the room. He cleared the jacket to him and he left it in a chair. The smooth light of two lamps was reflected in a mirror and it saw two figures.

A discharge and colored person and the other small one and dressed red. Later, it was lost in the heat of the enthusiastic glance of Benedict while it cleared the clothes to him with as much avidity as the one of him when undressing it. It felt his muscles under his fingers, the tension in them, his muscular chest, its waist lasts and the push of its powerful legs. The beat of the heart of Benedict accelerated the one of her along with when it left it in the bed. She raised herself upon him, excited before which she approached myself. Quena to give as much pleasure him as knew that it was going to receive. It arrived slowly at the éxtasis, enjoying each passage of the way towards him, until it let feel that they were two, until their souls were fused in a single body. And soon, they remained thrown, with the arms and the legs interlaced, enjoying the smooth caresses in the lukewarm skin, of the lips on the skin, in "a later" full one of tenderness until the dream demanded them to both.

Chapter 5 The rays of the sun were hot after the coldness of the conditioned air of the building, and Gabbi felt the originating heat of the pavement combined with the one of the people big wave who left the offices to have lunch. Sydney was a vibrant city, with people of different cultures. Gabbi went to the encounter of Francesca. The restaurant was full, but Gabbi had reserved a table. Maítre received it efusivamente and it lead her. It requested frozen water. Francesca arrived immediately. " the traffic was terrible " her friend commented ". and to find parking he was worse even. Gabbi smiled and said: " the traffic is a hell. We requested? " Good idea. I am starving.

Francesca chose a followed soup of a Greek salad and fresh fruit. Gabbi chose just like her friend, but preferred paste instead of the soup. " How long you are going to be in Sydney? " it smiled. " Not much " Francesca raised the glass that sounded with the ice ". few weeks. Soon, I will return to Europe. " Háblame on Rome… " To the mother of Mario they diagnosed a cancer to him that could not operate. The heart of Gabbi shrank of pain. It extended the hand and it took the one from his friend. " Francesca, I feel much. " We could share some weeks before they hospitalized it, and after that was question of days " the eyes of Francesca were darkened with repressed emotions ". it bequeathed everything to Me. " Mario was its only son " Gabbi remembered to him. " Anyway, it was… " a pause did of a second ". Unexpected. The appearance of the waiter interrupted them. " What new features it has in the family? " Francesca asked when the waiter left. " None. " Benedict follows incredible, Monique follows pleasant superficially, Annaliese a vixen, and James seems not to find out anything? That description was so precise, that Gabbi did not know if to laugh or to cry. " one does not find out of which it happens selectively. " Your father is an astute man.

" and yours, Francesca? " Consumed with the businesses to be able to give to my beloved madrastra an incredible train of life, something that she insists on saying that it is important " she smiled ". While my mother continues going from a man to another one. They finished with the first plate and they followed with the salad. " Andrea Dominion… He is Greek? " It is of the second generation. Her mother is Australian. " He is an irritating man. Dominion was many things, but irritating no. " it seems to You? " an arrogant one. Perhaps it was right. Although Gabbi would have called to him "surely of itself". " You prefer not to go to have supper today? Francesca chewed the last mouthful of salad taking itself its time. Soon it left the utensil in the plate. " No. Why to reject one night interesting? Gabbi smiled. " a two fight of titanes? " It will be a challenge to defeat to a man in his own game. Gabbi was not sure that Francesca won. The waiter took a tray with fruit and requested the coffee. " You want that it gives the direction you of Dominion? " the note asked to Gabbi gathering. Francesca protested ". Or you want that we gather to you? " I will see You there " Francesca said. It removed to a pen and paper from his purse and took note from the direction ". Of six and average? " Gabbi Himself-Answered.

Once in the street, Francesca gave a kiss him in each cheek and it took him flowed it when they took leave. " It is wonderful to return to verte! Cuídate. " Yes. We will see ourselves tonight " Francesca promised to him. There were several messages in the writing-desk of Gabbi when this one returned. It gave back the calls, it dictated several letters to his secretary and worked in the reduction of general expenses of a subsidiary company. The systematic supervision made lack to discover alternative providers, who, it was convinced, could give an equal service by a more competitive price. It made a list of numbers to which it had to call. The internal telephone sounded. Gabbi pushed the button. " Yes? Find? " There is a package in reception for you. It wants that is engaged in it? " Yes, please. A minute later, her secretary appeared with a great surrounded rectangular package in brown paper. " She has on. She wants that she opens it? " No. I will take care of it. Thanks, Find. It could not be that outside… It left on in the writing-desk and began to develop the package. It smiled when seeing that it was the picture that was been watching in the gallery of Leon. He was perfect for the wall of his office. The card had a concise message: "For you". And it was signed by Benedict.

Gabbi extended the hand towards the private telephone and called to the number of Benedict. " Nicols " it answered immediately. " you realized my interest in the picture " she said warmly ". she enchants to Me. Thanks. " Why it do not give a stroll until my office and me you thank for it in person? " amused Benedict said to him. " For awhile of diversion? " Very brief " he with humor said ". a partner is hoping to me in the private hall. " In that case, you would not have to make hope it " she said picaramente. She ed ***reflx mng herself. " Tonight, Gabbi… She heard the click of the telephone when she hung he. The rest of afternoon happened quickly, and to five it extinguished the computer, it signed letters, it gathered his briefcase and it lowered to the parking. The car of Benedict was in the garage when it arrived at house. As they were going to have supper outside it did not pass by the kitchen. It raised the stairs directly. He would be pleasant to undress and to relax in jacuzzi, thought while it entered the dormitory. But it did not have time. Only twenty minutes to shower, to get dressed, to make up themselves and to comb themselves. It heard the noise of the machine shave from the bath. A silk dressing gown was put and left. Benedict was standing in front of the great mirror shaving itself, surrounded in a towel. It was evident that he finished showering. " Hello " she said almost out of breath when half-naked seeing it.

He raised the glance and he watched it. " Hello " she said, fixing his eyes to the mouth of her. She delivered an attack and the dressing gown took off; one put in the compartment of the shower, opened the water and it entered the shower. When it finished, that occurred to account of was single. In ten minutes, it was made up and it was combed. It went to the locker and it chose trousers of silk in color ivory and a camisole. Soon one put a jacket of silk, gold jewels and elegant sandals. One lay down drops of his favorite perfume and gathered his purse at night. " You are ready? " Yes, we go away? The house of Dominic was an example shining of design architecture. It was in the district of Beauty Point and had views to the port. Dominic greeted them and it made them happen. High ceilings and crystal doors of the ceiling to the ground caused that the light flooded the room. The contraventanas were of wood, and the furniture had a touch of Caribbean. Francesca was not. Gabbi was asked if her friend would have calculated her arrival with five minutes of delay. The timbre sounded to the ten minutes when it was savoring a delicious cocktail of fruits. Dominic left opened its master of keys. Al to seem, if Francesca had used a strategy, Dominic also had hers. Francesca was overwhelming. Gabbi applauded it quiet. Her friend watched a moment before going to her host. " Please, it accepts my excuses " Francesca said. " Accepted " said Dominic ". You want a glass? " frozen Water " Francesca with a sweet smile ".

With ice requested. " Mineral? With gas or without gas? " Without gas, if you have. Gabbi smiled and drank I suck more of its cocktail. Francesca went of black, to perhaps remarcar its widow's pension. It successfully had all the aspect of an international model. It took the hair gathered in moño neglected, with few curls that framed the face to him. The maquillaje was perfect, although Gabbi doubted that it had taken to him more than ten minutes to apply it to it. Its perfume had been put favorite, Hermes Caléche, and doubt that did not fit its suit was of a bought Italian designer to good price. Gabbi was wondered how much it would take in arriving Dominic at which there was underneath the protective shell of his friend, its true nature. It did not know if Francesca would leave tried it. The supper consisted of varied plates, exquisitely presented/displayed in a Chinese porcelain set of dishes. There was also a source of salads artistic adorned, with avocados, handles and nuts. It would be a concession to which Dominion suspected would be a necessary diet for a model, Gabbi was asked. Francesca, Gabbi knew it very either, ate or, and it did not have too much necessity to control his food. That night, nevertheless, had eaten little amount, it did not eat dessert and it preferred tea of grass instead of the black coffee that used to take. " District of the north, with views to the sea and trees in the garden " Francesca watching to Dominion over the edge of its cup joked. " you have guessed right in almost everything " said Dominion with humor ", You have the sufficient curiosity like wanting to discover if you are in the certain thing in which it is? " you talk about to the separated study and the BMW in the garage? " Yes. Francesca raised an eyebrow and asked with distrust and a superiority tone: " It is a subtle invitation to another thing? " Pinto in the study and I let for the dormitory the one make the love. Francesca watched it.

" How prosaic! Gabbi thought: "Déjalo, Francesca. You are playing with dynamite. In addition the BMW is a Lexus and, although the study is separate, is upon the triple garage and together with the house by a acristalado passage ". " More tea? " Dominic offered. " Thanks, no. Benedict put itself of foot with a smooth movement, watched their wife and said: " If you excuse to us, Dominion " it smiled ". the supper has been wonderful. It congratulates Louise of our part " it smiled affectionately. " it has been a wonderful evening " its purse said to Gabbi gathering. It watched Francesca briefly, but it could not draw no conclusion from his expression. Its game was a good excuse so that Francesca went away, and the interest of Gabbi increased when seeing that her friend did not have intention to leave. Perhaps Francesca did not want to go out running with the first excuse that appeared to avoid to be solo with Dominic, thought Gabbi. " Francesca can fix them very well to it single " the car to the street said to Benedict when removing. " Dominic also " the frown remembered Gabbi to him frunciendo. " That worries to you? " Yes " she answered ". I would not like that she did damage to him to Francesca. " I have not seen any sign of pressure on the part of Dominic. And she failed to take advantage of the opportunity to leave when she could " Benedict stopped the car in an intersection. " Now you are going to also say that we will dance in his boda?-said Gabbi acidly. Benedict ed ***reflx mng itself. " he would not surprise to me. " Mario…

" He is dead " Benedict said smoothly ". and Francesca is very beautiful a young woman who deserves itself to be happy. The traffic light changed and the car reached speed. Gabbi focused its attention on the lights to the other side of the port. The scene was like a postcard, and she had often admired it in the past. Nevertheless that night did not have same the attractiveness. " You think that it cannot return to fall in love? Gabbi remained shut up seconds. " As it loved Mario, no. " the affection, the stability, and the security can be a good substitute. It felt like a jab. He was that what he thought of the marriage his? The fire and the passion… they were only of her? The car crossed the Bridge of the Port, soon doubled towards the districts of the east. They would arrive immediately at house. And like other nights, she would sleep in her arms, after making the love. To deny Benedict was like refusing to itself… Gabbi raised the stairs as soon as they arrived at house. " I will change. And one would put in jacuzzi, decided as soon as it arrived at the plant from above. It would relax the tension to him of the body and it would help it to relax. It did not relax it as much. The doubts that always accompanied it in their mind left to the surface. It examined one to one. Benedict wanted it in their bed, but, she needed it? Only to her? Probably, no, it thought with sadness, knowing that there would be hundreds of ready women to occupy his place. With or without marriage of by means.

It was impossible to deny the factor of the security. With her, Benedict had a wife who someday would inherit half of a company of two million dollars, which would duplicate their part. And the stability would finish consolidating with the children. Then, why it took precautions to prevent the pregnancy? Gabbi closed the eyes to dream. It saw the shared joy of the first times of pregnancy, its belly enlarged with the boy of Benedict and soon to new born sucking his chest. But it was more than that idyllic image. Much more. New born it would be transformed into a conscious boy by which it surrounded it, of its parents. The economic security would not be no problem, but, and the emotional security? The divorce had a very traumatic effect, and to have to accept padrastro or one madrastra in the place of a dear being was worse still. It wanted that his son grew up in a happy home with two parents it emotionally jeopardize the one with the other. A marriage based on the businesses lacked the essential ingredient of a stable relation: the love. And the love on the part of one of them was not sufficient. Damn it is! The introspection did not help absolutely, thought Gabbi. " To sleep in jacuzzi is not good idea. Gabbi did not open to the eyes when hearing the voice of Benedict. " it was not sleeping. " it cheers to know it to Me. You think to be long time here? " Awhile. Benedict did not say anything, and she left. Perhaps it had been going down to see the last economic report of London, New York and Tokyo in the fax. Or perhaps one had undressed and one had lain down. The hot water and to pressure had a relajante effect, and let fly its thoughts…

Until its childhood, with pretty memories of its mother, and James. After James, it followed… Monique, and… The eyes of Gabbi opened of blow when feeling a foot touching his. One was with a pair of brown eyes, almost black, watching it with picardía. " What you are doing here? " it asked frightened, although it was not the first time that used jacuzzi together. " it disturbs my presence as much to You? I am an intruder? " Yes " she said, although it was not absolutely certain ". Not " said soon, trying to fix it, without being able to let watch those factions: wide jaw, a pronounced chin, and the sensual curvature of its lips. The mouth moved slightly, and could see its white teeth. " You seem uncertain. " Because perhaps it is it. The smooth aroma of its colony had a disturbing effect, and it expanded the pupils when he drew his lips with a finger. "Please", she in silence requested. "you do not do that to me". Benedict began to destroy their defenses slowly, breaking them one to one with the caress of their hands. The fingers slid by their neck, soon caressed their chests, they took them and they played with its nipples. It opened the lips and closed the eyes. Nobody must have as much control on another person, thought. It must have some mechanism by which such invasion could not be allowed, such possession, thought she. Strong hands settled in the waist of her, and without effort, Benedict turned it to seat it him in front of. It felt like prisoner of the force of her shoulders, of her muscular arms that touched his.

She felt heat, a heat that did not have anything to do with the temperature of the water, and when the lips of Benedict bit their neck delicately, she sighed, accepting it. It had the tact and the wisdom to excite to a woman until madness. And the control to maintain it abyss of pleasing on the brink of madness until she requested desperately that she released it of that erótica tension. It was a very sensual trip that crossed many ways, to length of which Gabbi did not love to another one but him. She knew that she had given his fortune, her life, everything… so that it felt the same. The hands of Benedict slid by their shoulders, and it made it watch it front. Soon, she took possession from his mouth. It surrounded the neck to him, sank her fingers in her hair and she embraced it strongly. There was passion in that kiss, on the part of both. She savored the dulzura of his mouth, the heat of his language. She wanted to play with him, to verify the automatic control level. And to see if he were able to break it. Gabbi slid the arms, and caressed the neck of Benedict, taking itself the time to explore the hardness of its muscular undulations, the sinuosities of its shoulders. Its chest was covered by dark hair and crespo. She played with him, threw smoothly of him. It lowered the head and it kissed shoulders to him, soon caressed centimeter to centimeter the route towards his ear, using the end of its language with picaro delights, and caressing with her the lobe before mordisquear the ear smoothly. Later, one moved to caress his eyelids before arriving at his nose. That sensual mouth was a temptation impossible to resist, and touched its lips with the end of its language; it bit them smoothly, proved them: first one, soon the other. Soon, one separated when it saw that it was arranged to take the control. Gabbi denied with the head in silence.

Later, it was put of foot and it left the bathtub. It took a towel and one became involved in her, it took another one and extended it. Benedict watched seconds. It saw in her eyes the brightness of the passion. It also put itself of foot. Its body emerged, great, magnificent, muscular, with dark shades of its black hair. It stepped on the marble ground with well-taken care of movements. One approached Gabbi without letting watch it and extended the hand so that it gave the towel him. It shook her head and took a step to the front to dry the humidity of that brown skin. She began by a shoulder, soon with the other, followed with the chest, taking itself the time to dry it slowly. She dried the waist to him, the hips, soon his powerful legs. She put herself behind him to dry the back to him. She observed the movement of his muscles when tightening itself and to relax under the tact of his hands. " a beautiful buttock " she joked when the towel slid towards the legs. " you are playing a very dangerous game " she noticed Benedict to him when it gave the return and she stopped herself in front of him. " Really? I have still not finished. " and I not even have begun. Each word had the smoothness of the silk, and seemed to caress the skin of Gabbi. She was crazy, she thought. Why she wanted to make disappear his automatic control? In order to invite it to that soon she could not handle? But she could not "throw the towel", literally, thought she laughing on the inside, while she dried those strong thighs to him. The excitation of a man was very powerful a erótico testimony of its sex, its power and its force. With wisdom and experience, it could return crazy to a woman.

Gabbi watched its sex with fascination. Spontaneously it slid a finger by his length, the end, and caressed his base. It wanted to prove it, to use his language and its mouth as if it was savoring something exotic. " You know what you are inviting to me with this? It read the thought Benedict? They were imaginations hers or its voice seemed hoarsely and slightly tense? She moved the head and found the glance intense of her eyes. " Yes. It felt in all her body a tremor of anticipation when thinking about which he could request to him, catched in that passion. Next to that exciting sensation it appeared the fear to his force when she lost the control and she left it in freedom. Gabbi swallowed saliva. It was the only gesture that expressed its nervousness. The eyes of Benedict registered the movement. " Then, to what you are hoping? " he asked to him. The quiet challenge was evident in deep the cautious one of evident Benedict and in the gesture of its mouth. It had begun that. Now she had to finish it. Without saying nothing, she extended a hand. It took it. In Gabbi silence he took it to the dormitory. When he arrived at the bed one inclined and he cleared colcha. One became towards him and he put his hands in his chest. Soon he pushed it smoothly until it fell upon sheets. That did so that it felt to please. It put itself of knees next to him.

Slowly, Gabbi began to explore centimeter to centimeter its skin, putting the end of the language in each turn. Its texture was not smooth nor hard, but pure masculinidad and flavor to musk. It felt satisfaction when seeing that the muscles of Benedict were tightened and contracted, when hearing his breathing, the smooth one moaned of Benedict while their hands caressed their sex. With extreme gentleness it explored the sensible end, caressed the rest smoothly. Soon, it lowered the head and it followed the exploration with the smoothness of the tact of a pen. It was not contented with that. It followed towards his hip, it happened through his belly, and it gave a series him of smooth kisses by all the skin until the internal part of his thigh. With deliberately slow movements it raised the head and it watched it, soon the hair loosen and shook its melena. It smiled and it was crouched passing his hair through his chest, doing to him tickle with him, soon it was towards his waist, and it caressed with his lips the most sensible part of his anatomy. Control. Benedict had it. He asked myself for how long, while he raised the head and he caressed the humid base of his masculinidad with the end of his fingers. She did not let watch it at any moment. Then one rose, and with a graceful movement, she put herself astride on him. It did not touch it. But their eyes darkened passion plenty. She wanted to kiss it, but she did not dare. That one was a game of her, but there was no doubt of whom it would do as much. The element surprise was the only weapon that had she, and it very shamelessly used it when rubbing against him, playing with the humid heart of his feminidad on his skin. Soon one bent against him, savoring the anticipation of the complete possession during seconds, before receiving totally to Benedict within his body.

It felt it to be excited within her, and enjoyed that sensation. Soon she began to move, enjoying the sensation of followed partial loss of a complete and slow capture; a circular dance that put in risk its own control. Their fingers clung strongly to shoulders of Benedict while it tried to defend itself against the demands of desire, and moaned when he held the hips to him to enter himself more deeply in her. Soon, Benedict time and time again repeated the action until she submerged in the rate and lost the sense of the reality, surrounded in a big wave of intense emotions. When she reached the top of the pleasure, it slid a hand to him below the nape of the neck and supported his head in his chest. It was quiet, thrown upon him. Its breathing was become gradually slower next to the one of him. It felt a sensation of being able, of satisfaction, that had little to do with the state in that normally it was after to have reached orgasmo. The skin of Benedict was lukewarm and humid and knew a little to salt. It savored it, and felt that it shook. Would feel a man that sensation of glory after to have taken a woman? He would be conscious that that sexual symphony that it had orchestrated and directed had arrived at its maximum point with crescendo so wonderful? " Thanks " it murmured, looking for his mouth to kiss it enthusiastically. Benedict caressed the back to him. It moaned while it rolled with her until leaving it of backs. They returned to initiate the game of the love Was a repetition that surpassed all the previous one. And she had been she who was lost the control, thought Gabbi sadly. Who had moaned desperately surrounded in the flames of the passion. It happened awhile until it was curled up in arms of him. On the brink of madness dream, said that it did not matter to him that that was not love. If the pleasure were the prize, it did not matter nothing else. It was possible to win even though was lost.

Chapter 6

Why some days were destined to being more significant that others, Gabbi was asked quiet while it entered the house and it went to the kitchen. It had been very calm in the meeting of directors when Maxwell Fremont had defied it verbally to that it explained in detail why was beneficial to return to finance to a subsidiary to increase the advantages fiscal of the company. The initial margin was narrow, considering the economic costs, but the long term project era considerably more favorable than the existing financial structure. Its investigation had been meticulous, and the carefully studied numbers. One had felt very satisfied when the proposal had accepted him. Afternoon it had finished with a folder that was not in its site and a problem with the computer. And to finish off it in the way it had had a problem with a motorist neglected who had not restrained on time. Its car had undergone scratches and the breakage of one of the lights of back. What was an annoyance, because meant that her Mercedes would be outside circulation the time that the insurance took in verifying the suffered damages and while she was in the factory. She thought that she desired to him to make a few lengths in the swimming pool, and soon to have supper in the terrace. The idea was to him enough more attractive than the one to get dressed and to fix themselves to attend an elegant dance to collect bottoms for a charity work. Anyway the dance was an annual event for which Benedict had entrances and its lack of desire would not be reason sufficient not to attend and to initiate a fight. Although the idea to cross verbal swords Annaliese during paté, entrecot and mousse of chocolate did not do any grace to him. At any time Benedict would appear in the garage, would see a broken light and would request an explanation. " He tell me, what has happened? She raised the glance when hearing the voice of Benedict and said: " Much traffic, a more kind conductor to his movable telephone that to the highway, the traffic light changed, I restrained and he no. We occurred to the names and the data of the insurance. He approached her and he touched the neck to him.

" You have headache? " Not " she answered. Was to him rewarding its preoccupation, but having it so close did not tranquilize it absolutely. " the traffic was impossible. " You want that we cancel the commitment of tonight? She watched it carefully. " and if I say yes that? " a call by telephone Would do and we would remain in house. " That simple? " an eyebrow raised ". it did not know that it had as much power. It does not worry to you that it makes a mistaken use of him? Benedict took the chin him and examined the expression of Gabbi. " it is not your style, Gabbi. Then, it did not want to deepen more in the subject and said: " At what time you want that we leave? It loosen it and went to the refrigerator. " To seven. He had one hour, he leaves from which thought to use in showering with calm. In the dormitory, one undressed, he was until the bathroom and opened the water. It was a blessing, thought she when one put in the shower. The soap refreshed it with its delicate fragrance, and she raised the hands to lie down the hair backwards. The crystal door was opened and appeared Benedict. Its naked body reactivated a fire in its interior. She tried to ignore it. " I have almost finished. Would dare it…? No, it was not moment. Unless he were determined to arrive late. Gabbi contained the breath when feeling to move it behind her. Soon, it breathed when it felt his hands in his shoulders. The firm fingers of Benedict did massages to him.

He was relajante, seated to him well. So well that it said it aloud. The head threw forwards while it to him continued making massages in his tense muscles, and it relaxed. She did not want to move. " Fremont made you badly spend a short while in the meeting. " It knew that it would request details and justifications. I anticipated him and that served me to maintain to me in my site. " you have gone well prepared. " the being family is something that some do not consider one advantage-responded she, " Would have to be it? " Evidently you do not create it. The fingers of Benedict did not remain quiet. " My father was a very powerful man. I decided not to compete with him in his territory. " Nevertheless you are where it wanted that you were. " Never there were doubts that I would possibly occupy his place. No, simply it was a question of when, Gabbi thought, and it was asked if the destiny would have played some role. Because if Conrad did not have died Benedict it would have been still living in America. And its marriage would not have taken place. She raised the head and she separated from him. " I must prepare to me " Gabbi left the compartment of the shower. Benedict did not make any threat stop it. The hair, other ten minutes took fifteen minutes to him to dry itself and to fix itself to make up itself. It chose a black dress with braces in shoulders, and black gloves that added glamour to their aspect, like the black jewels, averages and shoes of needle heel.

Drops of their favorite perfume completed the image. Benedict was incredibly attractive. He took to a black smoking and a white shirt. Gabbi watched it and felt that its pulse was accelerated. It felt a heat in the stomach that extended to all its interior. One hour ago it had been naked next to his husband in the shower, nevertheless felt more vulnerable then, in which both totally were dressed. It smiled trying to drive away that sensation. " What you think? " she with a malevolent smile asked to him. He watched it with eyes blacker than ever. Perhaps he must have left the loose hair, thought Gabbi, instead of to it to have gathered it in moño. " Incredible. Overwhelming " Benedict in fulfilling said to him. " the flattery is a good form to begin the night " Gabbi said while the return occurred to gather its purse of celebration. Half an hour later, aparcacoches took the Bentley while they entered the hotel. It was hour to smile. Hour of the representation. It knew that it did not have to be so cynical with twenty-five years. But the lived years taking active part in the social events had taught to him to represent their paper. And it had learned it well. It knew to dedicate a radiating smile to which saluted, to talk of things without importance. The dance hall was shining. He sounded music and the waiters and waiters impeccably were uniformed, hoped carry out an order, having and serving the drinks.

A member of the committee indicated to Benedict its table to him. Gabbi cherished the hope of which Annaliese took pair, but when it saw the man who took his illusions alongside they came down. His hermanastra went of the arm of Andrea Dominion. There was no pair that made less pair than they. And in addition, what would have happened with Francesca? " One migraña " Dominion in low voice said like so that only she heard while she made seat to Annaliese to his right and it seated to his side ". the companion of Annaliese will arrive late. Gabbi smiled and asked: " You read the thought? " I have myself advance to your reaction. " I am so transparent? Dominion smiled and it watched it with picardía. " I am not very subtle in these questions " it said. But it had decision and firmness. It thought about Francesca and it smiled. If Dominion had decided to undertake a conquest, Francesca did not have much to do in that fight. " it intrigues to Me. Gabbi smiled. " I have realized. " you are going to wish luck to Me? " All the one that you need. James arrived with Monique and took the seats in the side opposed to them. They greeted and they asked drinks the waiters. Monique was very elegant. It wore a blue dress with a jacket to game, jewels of diamonds and sapphires in the neck and the wrist, to game with a ring of diamonds and sapphires in the right hand. Annaliese had preferred a silk dress color emerald that adjusted to its curves like one second skin. To a side, it took an almost indecente opening.

The two pairs that were seated and the disk-jockey changed music and put a welcome piece that presided over the opening speech del director. They served a cocktail as prawns with a smooth background music that made of the place an pleasant atmosphere. It followed the second plate, that consisted of pechugas of chicken roasted with a sauce of handle and fresh vegetables. Delicious, Gabbi thought, while it ate. At noon it had only eaten'sándwich, that next to that supper seemed to him very not much. It took sorbos from Chardonnay. Its effect was relajante. It listened with attention to tell to the excellence and virtues of works of charity to the host, commenting what it had been collected in that evening and thanking to several patrocinadores for that generous donation. A high man seated next to Annaliese, and, when the speech finished, Annaliese made the presentations pertinent. Although it was not necessary. Jacob was Aaron, a famous model that carried out a series of television a long time ago. Rompecorazones and a very attractive man, thought Gabbi, observing that masculine perfection. Pity that an inflated ego had a little and fame to change of girl like of socks! Of which it did not have doubt was from which on the following day the press would remove to a photo of together Annaliese and Aaron. Perhaps the that one outside reason for that encounter, thought Gabbi, while it continued sucking the wine. The disk-jockey was going to raise the volume of music at any time and to invite the assistants to go to the dance track. It would be an opportunity of which all saw and interchanged words while they danced. A good opportunity that the women of the high society shone their last model of design. " More wine? Gabbi was turned and it was with the eyes of Benedict. " No, thanks.

I prefer water. Benedict raised an eyebrow. She smiled. " I thought that you would like that I lead from return to house " Gabbi said. " Very considered by your part " he said cynically, since he did not use to drink more than a glass during the supper, and therefore the offer was unnecessary. " Yes, you do not create? " Benedict " the voice of Monique distracted Benedict ". I have obtained entrances for the Ghost of the Opera for Wednesday at night. Gabrielle and you will come, right? It would be a coincidence that Monique had entrances for the same night in which had invited to Francesca and Dominio to the theater, Gabbi was asked. " Thanks, Monique. We already have entrances " Benedict said. " Perhaps we could we reunited to have supper later. The narrow and warm familiar relations were something wonderful, but Gabbi realized of which behind that the maneuvers of Monique hid. " Lamentably we have other plans " Benedict insisted. " Annaliese and Gabrielle have a so narrow relation, and they see themselves so little " Monique commented lamenting it, and soon it followed ". It is a pain not to take advantage of all the opportunities that they have while Annaliese is here. Gabbi remained stupefied, but it disguised it. " Again he will be, Monique. " You must come to have supper. Only the family. Monday, Or Tuesday? Anyone of those days we have them free. " Gabbi? " Benedict asked. It was a good strategy the one to pass the ball to him.

To avoid the supper was impossible, so it did not have more remedy than to say: " Monday good day is. It will enchant to us to go " it lay. The courtesy lies would also consider lies? If thus she were, she would be the condemned to hell. But she felt that she was justified by his father. " We danced? " Benedict invited it to dance. To dance with Benedict was a dangerous one to please. " Thanks, wanted " it was put still on and it left took it track to the dance. The piece of Celine Dion was perfect, with a letter that woke up the dreams and hopes of any woman. Gabbi molded its forms to the body of Benedict. It felt desire to leave the conventional form to take hold itself to him to raise the arms and to surround the neck to him. Would occur to account Benedict of how felt? It was what more he wished she. Everything what wanted, everything what needed. In certain way, it was a disturbing thought. What would happen if sometimes it lost it? " You are cold? She raised the head and she watched it during seconds without including/understanding its gesture. " you are shaking. She smiled and said without giving importance him: " They are old ghosts. " You want that we return to the table? " You think that I must save my energy? " she asked to him solemnly while it removed it from the dance track. " Tomorrow it is Saturday. She watched it picaramente smiling. " You mean that we can be allowed the luxury of one hour of laziness before having breakfast very late in the terrace? " she asked. " One hour of laziness, a breakfast in the terrace and a trip to the airport.

" We are going to escape? Single? Where? No, me you do not say it. Somebody could oírnos. " You are a witch " it in his ear murmured. The dessert was served when they became to seat. Soon, it arrived the coffee and the chocolates. Annaliese went to the track of dance with Aaron and they stopped in the way so that they did a photo to them. " I can? Gabbi watched Dominic and it was put still on. Benedict let talk with James and she smiled to him. " Benedict is selective at the time of accepting the masculine company of their wife. Gabbi watched Dominic and left him took it track to the dance. " you do not create to me? How it could respond to that? It was ed ***reflx mng. They time and time again danced in circle until they approached Annaliese and Aaron, and these suggested a change of pairs. Gabbi smiled and it approached Aaron, that narrowed it strongly. " You see the series in which work? " Not " Gabbi answered pretending to lament itself. " you do not watch? It was difficult to repress the temptation to lower the smoke to him. " Ground to see many documentary and informative ones. " You are a brain. Gabbi did not know if he were fulfilling or an insult. " All we have brain. " In my profession you must take care of the body. It is what it is seen, you know? Nutrition, gymnastics, therapies of beauty, manicures, peluqueros… The worse thing is the shaving. " Very painful…

" OH, yes! " a pause did, and soon it continued speaking of itself ": I go away to the Angels the week that comes. A paper in a film has offered me. It can be the opportunity of my life. It pretended enthusiasm and said: " That you have much luck. " Thanks. " it matters to You that it interrupts? Gabbi heard the tone of voice of its husband. " No, absolutely " Aaron answered and it separated from her. " You interrupt a very interesting conversation " she said. Benedict attracted more near him. " To what you talk about with interesting? " To the shaving of the hair. Of his. " Something very personal. Mmm… It repressed an outburst of laughter. " OH, yes! " she said, imitating to Aaron. While they gave returns in the track of Gabbi dance were wondered how Benedict would react if she said to him that she felt desires to feel his skin, his mouth in the slow dance towards the sexual satisfaction. " Wanted Gabrielle, you do not think that it is hour of which it dances already with my brother-in-law? " Annaliese asked. She had said that no. And he was not really his brother-in-law, at least technically. But she did not say anything. One moved towards the arms of Dominic while Annaliese went towards Benedict. " I have not had anything to do " Dominic murmured. Gabbi smiled philosophically.

" You want that we give a return to the track and that takes part and we change of pair? " it offered Dominic to him. " No, but thanks anyway. Minutes later, there was a pause in music and returned to the table. Gabbi gathered its purse of celebration and with an excuse it was towards the service to refresh and to fix the maquillaje. There was tail, and it took certain time until being able to be the mirror in front of. There was much people who had left the dance hall to smoke in the attached lobby him, and Gabbi saluted to guests before returning to enter. " Ah, you are, dear here! " Annaliese smiled ". they have sent to Me in a rescue operation. " Who? " Benedict! Who if no? " an absence of ten minutes I do not believe that it is reason to think about a rescue operation " Gabbi said. Annaliese watched the perfection of its manicure. " To Benedict it likes to guard its possessions. The attack was the best form of defense, but Gabbi preferred less frontal tactics. " Yes. " it does not bother to you? " what exactly? " to be considered as an adornment expensive of the collection of a rich man. " You mean to a woman object? " Gabbi bent an eyebrow and smiled forzadamente ". it has never been happened to see the situation to you from the inverse point of view? In Benedict encounter to a kind husband who gives all the whims me. He is attractive, it emphasizes from social the Vista point, and is good in the bed " it smiled ". I consider that I have made an election perfect. Annaliese seemed annoying. When it could control its fury said: " You are a little pale, dear. You are with the premenstrual syndrome? " one is badly caused by a sudden brotherly affection " Gabbi corrected.

Soon it decided not to add more firewood to the fire and suggested ": We return to the dance hall? " It wanted to go to the cleanliness. " In that case… " the shoulder raised and added ": we will see ourselves soon in the table. The victory was sweet, but it knew that the war had not finished. Anyway, a weekend was would serve as rest to him as the battle. The idea cheered it and relaxed its expression until drawing a smile to him. Benedict was talking pleasantly with Dominic. Aaron and Monique maintained a conversation trivial and James seemed to be to taste with his paper of observer. Gabbi seated in the free seat next to its father. " You want more coffee? She denied with the head. " You could remove to me to dance. James smiled. " Wanted and sweet Gabbi, it is an honor for me " it was put of foot and it extended the hand to him ". We go? They left to the dance track. " you are amusing yourself? " James asked to him. Gabbi remained thinking while they danced. " and you? " it asked to him instead of answering. " Monique says that these occasions are advantageous from social the Vista point. " I suspect that she thinks that you need a rest your tasks " she joked. James ed ***reflx mng itself smoothly. " It is more probable that it is a form to be able to justify spending a small fortune in a new dress and the whole day in beauty parlors and the hairdressing salon. " the men accept it because they know that in those social events also good businesses are made.

James watched it " it seems to Me to me or you have put a note of cynicism in your commentary " James asked to him. " Perhaps. " Benedict adores to you. It could accept that they said to him that respected it and who it felt affection by her, but the word "to adore" did not seem the appropriate one to describe the feelings to him of Benedict. But with James it did not need to perpetuate the myth. " It is very good with me. " I would not have accepted the marriage if she had not known that she would take care of you and would take care of you. Music was finishing and they went again to the table. Annaliese had seated in an empty place next to Benedict: Monique talked with Dominic and Aaron was not then. Gabbi seated in an empty chair. The guests began to go away. In half an hour they would close the bar and the disk-jockey would leave. At any time, the Benedicts and she would leave, take to the elevator that would take them entrance to the main of the building and they would ask the car to him the doorman. Benedict raised the head at that moment and she watched it with curiosity, she raised an eyebrow a moment and soon she freed herself of the claws of Annaliese. Literally, because those nails painted of red had settled in the arm of Benedict and had begun persuasivamente to caress the fabric of their suit with a smile and a fall of eyes that did not disguise their deliberate desire to seduce. Gabbi tried to be convinced that it did not matter. But it was not truth. It smiled amiably all along while one went to the entrance, it followed with the routine of the kiss in the air to Monique and Annaliese, gave a smooth kiss in the cheek to its father, it good night wished to Dominic and Aaron, and soon it seated in the seat of the Bentley. Benedict took the car until the concurred main street, she stopped until she could happen with fluidity between the traffic, and soon increased the speed quickly.

Gabbi threw the head backwards and focused its attention on the views that the city offered. The luminous posters and the showcases took step to the streets of the districts of downtown and to the closed windows, some without light, other illuminated ones. And, when they began to raise the street New South Head appeared the landscape of the port, with the water darkened at night and pespunteada by a tape of lights reflected in her. " very you are shut up. She turned the head to watch Benedict. " she was enjoying the placidness of silence after several hours of noisy music and to char it " it was certain, but she doubted that she had deceived it with that explanation ". If you want that we speak of something… " added and one shrank of shoulders. " We speak of Annaliese, for example " he said. Without a doubt he went directly to the target. The Bentley turned in its street, went restraining when it arrived at the controlled doors electronically to watch the house, gave the return to the entrance and it stopped within the garage. Gabbi took off the lap belt, left the car and entered the house, knowing that Benedict was kind to their movements. He took care of the alarm and soon he entered the lobby when it already was inside. It closed with key and it accompanied it to the room. " You want a glass? She watched it carefully. " Champán. Benedict crossed the room until the bar, removed a bottle from the refrigerator, opened, served it two glasses and soon she was towards Gabbi. It had a drink and she raised it in a quiet toast. Soon, it drank the content. " Of what aspect of the character of my hermanastra you want to speak in individual? Benedict did not demonstrate anything in their expression and she did not have idea if she wanted to curse to Annaliese, to praise it cautiously or if she wanted to congratulate to his wife by his remarkable automatic control in that situation.

" Of the firm determination of Annaliese to bring problems to us. Gabbi watched it astonished and a hand in the heart was put. " OH, God santo! It had not given account me! " you are not joking. " It is obvious? " It is enough, Gabbi! " it noticed Benedict to him. " We see the different possibilities: Annaliese wants tenerte, you you want to have it. Annaliese wants tenerte, you you do not wish it… " the last one. Gabbi had not realized of which there was been containing the breathing, and began to let escape it. " Good, it is a lightening. Then I can take leave of scenes to which we threw the towels with initials at the top, I by hand spoil the finished shoes and I cut one to you to one the shirts in small pieces " she smiled coldly, of a way that was not agreed with the vulnerability which they expressed its eyes ". I think to be enough violent if you decide divorciarte. He watched it with a brightness of humor in his black eyes and he was ed ***reflx mng smoothly. " he is not graceful. " No. " Then you do not ***reflx mng yourself. I speak in serious " she said. Benedict took a long drink from champán and left their glass in a table. " and why he was going to think about divorcing to me of a young and handsome woman who delights in defying to me in different areas by a woman like Annaliese? " he cleared the glass to him of champán and he left it next to the one of her. Soon, he narrowed it in his arms. Gabbi did not have time to answer before he kissed it. She drank of the flavor of her mouth mixed with the dulzor of champán French, offering everything to him what he requested more and, until the desire spiral surrounded them to both and it put his control on the brink of madness.

" hacerte Could now mine, here " Benedict moaned seductively while she kissed the neck to him. She moved the head to allow him that she lowers until his chests. Gabbi was ed ***reflx mng of joy when it took one from his chests, released it and played with the nipple. Soon, it moaned when he raised it and he put it on a shoulder and he took it to the room. " They are tactical of the man of the caverns, is not certain? " it accused she while it raised the stairs. Benedict arrived at the floor from above and she went to the main room. When it arrived, it lowered it and it surrounded it with its arms. " You want to undress to me? " he asked to him. She watched it with picardía and she answered to him: " He would be faster if it beams you yourself. " As much haste you have? " Yes " she said, occupied in taking off the clothes. They made the love ardent, with hunger. It it followed sweet and tender a game that took them ritual to a slow that finished in mutual desire and the necessity to extinguish its ardor. Soon, Gabbi remained with the head supported in the chest of him, oyendo the beat of its heart underneath its cheek. " I believe that it could not support perderte " Gabbi said, on the brink of madness dream. And she was not safe if really it had heard his answer or it had dreamed it. " and what makes you think that you are going to lose to me? " he said.

Chapter 7 There was not more one flight hour from Sydney to the Golden Coast of Queensland. The airplane of Stanton-Nicols had access deprived to the airport, a luxurious and extensive cabin, and personnel on watch. The jet began the takeoff and quickly acquired the ascent before reaching a stable level of speed and height.

" you have not brought papers in your briefcase? " Gabbi asked to him while the belt loosen. Benedict sank in their seat and she watched it smiling. " You are going to work during the flight? " she insisted. " You want that it does it? " Not " she answered. She watched it with picardía ". he is not very habitual that you exclusively dedicate one hour to me of time to me. He raised an eyebrow. " I talk about to one hour single me, outside the dormitory " he added. Soon it extended the hands and it said like accepting that one was putting in a thorny subject ": In agreement, I do not follow; I surrender. " Very intelligent by your part. " Loves coffee, Mr. Nicols? Juice, Mrs. Nicols? " it offered the stewardess to him. " Thanks, Melanie. The interruption of the stewardess in the cabin was very opportune. The woman smiled with professionalism and left the tray. Soon, she served to coffee and juice. " I will be in the flight deck. Llámenme, if they need to me. Gabbi inclined forwards, took the glass from juice of natural orange and sucked. " Cuéntame about the treatment in that you are put James and you with Gibson Electronics. Benedict counted it, answered all the questions and discussed with her several points. " He is hard, but just " said she after one long one to char it ". You think that we would have to insist? " Gibson needs good reputation Stanton-Nicols in the Asian market.

" and in return we received a part of Gibson Electronics. The businesses were a common subject that it united them. Perhaps without them, she thought, would not be the woman of Benedict Nicols. It was a reassuring thought little, that froze the blood to him, and in that she was not wanted to regodear. The light ignited so that they fastened the belt when the airplane began its reduction to the airport of Coolangatta. A car was waiting for them. It took little minutes to them to transfer the little luggage to the maletero. Benedict did a sign to him to the pilot and interchanged brief words with the conductor while Gabbi seated in the seat of the passenger. Soon, Benedict entered the car. The Golden Coast was Mecca of the Australian tourism. It had long beaches, golden sand, surf practiced, and had high and modern buildings. Also there was a modern commercial complex and a subtropical climate that helped that outside the ideal place to take vacations. Thematic parks, a casino, hotels, boats to make cruises, and luxurious houses did that the style of life of that rich enclave was the one of and the famous ones. To Gabbi it enchanted the self-assured atmosphere to him, the enormous extension of the residential space. It was a city with few disadvantages, commented she while Benedict entered itself in the traffic. The coast was bordered of luxurious apartments. The temperature was warm, the sun shone on a blue sky and the palms balanced themselves rocked by a smooth breeze. A smile curved its mouth, and their eyes seemed to laugh. That was the paradise, thought Gabbi. And in addition it had Benedict. It would enjoy that paradise and Benedict during two days.

Conrad and Diandra Nicols had bought a great land in front of the beach and had constructed a house of vacations of three plants before its value had increased due to the construction of the Hedges Avenue. Benedict it had decided to have left it like investment, and had been left it each as much dignitaries who wished the privacy of a personal residence instead of the suite of a hotel or an apartment. To Gabbi it enchanted his location, its direct access to the beach and the design to him of the house. Gabbi sighed of pleasing when Benedict arrived at the controlled inner doors electronically and stopped the car, she pushed the button to open them, and marked the code to open the doors of the garage. The garage had three seats and a hall games to the bottom, that it gave to a terrace with a swimming pool. The ground floor had an office, a hall, a kitchen and a dining room. The plant of above had a main suite, three dormitories for guests and two baths. All the plants communicated with a spiral staircase with semicircular lobbies, which let a great space circulate in the center illuminated by suspended crystal a magnificent lamp of the ceiling of the highest plant and than it lowered until down, to a distance from which it was practically possible to be touched from the hall games of the ground floor. When it was ignited at night, it was a spectacle. " You seem a student who finishes leaving the school " Benedict commented while the stairs raised the plant of above. " she enchants east place to Me " she said simply. " What seems to you that we do today? " OH, God, what responsibility! " Gabbi commented pretending to think ". llevarte to drays to a thematic park Could. We could rent a boat and make a cruise… To take the sun on the brink of madness the swimming pool. Or to see a film in the cinema " its mouth was curved picaramente ". On the other hand, could be a comprehensive wife and decirte that you went away to play a golf party…

something of which you would really enjoy. Benedict extended the hand and she caressed the cheek to him. " and in return? " I choose where to have supper. " Fact " it crouched itself and he gave a fast and sonorous kiss him ". to a spectacle or we will see a film. " Llama to the golf club while I undo the suitcases " she said. It had a plan, and it put it into action ". You want llevarte the van of traction to the four wheels or sedán? " the van. Half an hour later, it removed sedán from the garage and she went closest to the commercial complex. It was amused to look around in boutiques, to take a capuchino, before beginning with the task of the purchase. It had made a list, and one went to the supermarket of the Commercial Center, chose a cart and it began. When it returned, it was near noon and it had five bags of purchase, whose contents drained in the refrigerator and the pantry. It had thought about a basic menu, and some sauces to accompany it. Wine, French bread, a delicious tiramisú for the dessert… Licor of coffee… And it had rented a video. To five, it put the table with a linen table cloth and embroiders, places setting of silver and porcelain set of dishes. Soon, a glance threw to the chicken that it had in the furnace and it raised to shower. After putting underclothes cleaning, at night got dressed in trousers blue silk and a blouse to game. The hair was fixed gathering it to it and it was made up hardly with a little colorete, a smooth shade in the eyelids and a touch of carmine rose in the lips. They were more than the six when it sounded the security system alerting it that the inner doors were being opened, followed of the noise of the doors of the garage.

The doors of the car were closed. And then she appeared Benedict. Gabbi was excited and left to greet it. He was magnificent with that dark hair messed up hair hardly by the smooth breeze, those wide shoulders and their magnificent musculatura emphasized by an opened pole navy blue in the neck… With those factions pronounced and bronzed by the exhibition to the sun during several hours. " Hello! What so was the game? Benedict had a very masculine aspect, of which an aggressive air emanated slightly, product of the satisfaction to have overcome the opponent. Benedict arrived at the landing and she approached her, stopping to give a kiss him. " I go to the shower. " you do not bother yourself in vestirte. Benedict raised an eyebrow and smiled. " My dear Gabbi. You want to kidnap to me? " We go to had supper here " it said said she. After having itself bold to make a decision one felt uncertain of the reaction of him ". I have prepared the supper. He watched, realizing it intensely insecurity in the gesture of Gabbi, its nervousness and the effort that was making to disguise it. " Dame ten minutes. To the nine minutes he was ready. One had showered and shaved and one had gotten dressed in informal clothes: trousers and a shirt of short sleeve. " You want a glass? Gabbi denied with the head. " Taking one wins you, if you want. I will wait for the supper. It followed it the kitchen and saw the numerous mopped casseroles. " It seems the work of a professional.

He smells wonderfully. He did not know that you hid these talents. It frunció the nose and cleared the hand of Benedict who was going to prove the sauce. " it is not possible to be proven before time. Nothing of that. She opens the wine. She must air. Gabbi served the first plate: champiñones with sauce, that undid in the mouth. The French bread was hot and crujiente. The second plate was a so tender fillet that it was cut without the knife. In order to accompany they took it asparagus with Dutch sauce, roasted, greased small potatoes of mantequilla, and small carrots. When they finished, Benedict hit the glass the one of her in a quiet toast. " In no restaurant I have eaten better. " For the French, the food is a passion. The meals that I shared with the family of Jacques were celebrations from the gastronomical point of view, and works of art for the Vista " their eyes shone with the memories of those pleasures ". I made a deal with its mother " Gabbi said solemnly. " the treatment went that you left his son if she taught to you to cook? " Almost " Gabbi began to laugh. " Only with mirarte any mother would fear for the mental health of her son " Benedict said. She watched it. What would happen with their mental health? So no woman was controlled that could disturb it, Gabbi was asked. " I will bring the dessert " Gabbi was put still on and gathered plates. Soon, it took them to the kitchen. It took the dessert in two plates.

The tiramisú had a wonderful aspect, with its cream and its chocolate covering that sponge cake soaked in licor. He was good, delicious even, would have said she. Benedict seated right and left the napkin to a side. " Wonderful, Gabbi. " We eat outside so often that I thought that would be good idea to change and we were in house. " I will help You to mop plates. " It is all fact. I will make coffee. There is a videotape in the apparatus. When it was finished making the coffee, Gabbi served it, added drops of licor and a spoonful of cream. Soon, it took the glasses to the hall. Benedict had seated in one of both skin sofas and she did signs to him so that she seated to her side. The film was a comedy. She was amused, and the actors were very good. Gabbi drank the coffee slowly. Soon, when she finished, Benedict gathered the glasses and she left them in a table next to the sofa. It relaxed and supported the head in the quilted endorsement. To be there of that way was something almost magician. Without guests, intrusiones of any type. Benedict surrounded shoulders to him and she attracted it towards himself. She did not protest. She felt his breathing in his hair.

Benedict extinguished the light with a control. The only light was the one of the television. When it caressed it, it shook. And it remained quiets when feeling the hand of Benedict in his chest. He kissed it on the neck, behind the ears… It supported the hand in the thigh of him, but she did not continue exploring. Each as much it caressed it and to her the heart was accelerated to him and felt-a intense heat in all its body. He was crescendo that would arrive at its enthusiastic top… And it arrived. When she thought that no longer it had left more ways to cross in arms of Benedict, it took it by one different one, controlling his rate so that it could acompasar her pleasure to the one of him, before making it arrive at the abyss to please. Almost slept, he murmured with the head supported in his chest: " Je't'aime, Mon amour. And it was asked if he would have heard it. They rose early and they gave a stroll by the beach. Soon, they took off the clothes and they put to the sea. The water was cold, the smooth waves. Later, they returned to house and they showered to take off the tracks of the sea in the hair and the skin, they put informal clothes and they took the breakfast in the terrace. " What seems to you if we give a stroll by mountains? Gabbi took I suck of coffee, soon maintained the cup with both hands. The idea to eat outdoors and to enjoy panoramic views was exciting. " What happens with the call that you are hoping? " I have passed the calls to the moving body, I have left the briefcase in the seat of back of the car, in addition. A free weekend did not use to take itself habitually everything. Too much time in its office went in front of the computer, sailing by Internet to be to as much of the economic news worldwide.

The time of leisure was relegated to the social life, and then the businesses even made their appearance although only outside in conversations. " We go " she said determined ". I will do'sándwiches. It put a hand to him in the arm and he said to him: " We will buy something of way. It sounded the telephone. Gabbi felt panic when Benedict went to take care of the call. It felt a great disappointment when she heard it speak with that professional tone, saw it take notes in a paper and soon to double it before putting it in the pocket of her shirt. Pain was one that they had to leave those so placenteros plans, thought she while it gathered plates of the breakfast and it took them to the kitchen. But she was determined not to demonstrate his deception. " I take coffee to You to the office? It watched it very serious. " I need one hour. Perhaps less. And soon we will leave. " I can help? It agreed and it followed it the office. The fax machine had paper, and Benedict gathered it. In the little short while, the machine began to work. They worked together shoulder to shoulder. When the document was finished and verified that it was well, they imprimieron it and soon they sent it by fax to the United States. " Well. Vayámonos of here. To the five minutes, Benedict was removing the car to traction from the garage and going to the west, by the mountain highway of Mount Tamborino. " Thanks.

" Why? The landscape was green after tropical rain. There were farms, meadows, hills with forests… " For the weekend " she said. By those pleasures that supposed a time dedicated exclusively to her, a very valuable time that the money of the world could not be bought yet. " the weekend has still not been finished. No. The sun shone more than ever and the sky was immensely blue. When being ascending by the mountain they enjoyed a spectacular landscape the ocean to the bottom, like a sapphire jewel heightening all the others. They crossed the highway that bordered the top, passing through houses of several times and designs, by a hotel of English style and a very colorful cafeteria. The town was a mixture of stores and terraces. They stopped to buy a cold mineral water bottle, jamón, rolls and fruit. Soon, they returned to the van and they lead towards a meadow from which the wonderful views of the valley were seen. It was an isolated and colorful site, and Gabbi had the impression that they were in the top of the world, moved away of everything and of all. It was an intoxicating sensation, more than the wine. Benedict opened a blanket and she extended it in the grass, underneath the shade of a near tree. They ate until being satiated and soon they lay down comfortably, enjoying the landscape and silence. That was true picnic. To Gabbi it brought memories to him of many that had shared with Jacques, when the laughter showed with facility to its lips and the only preoccupations that it had were the one to study and to approve with good notices the examinations. " I would like to know about what you think " Benedict said to him. Gabbi turned when hearing its voice and it smiled to him.

" We would have to more often do this. " You thought about that? " You want that my confesses to you deeper thoughts? " Something is something. Saying to him "I love to You" was very easy, but very difficult to retractar itself soon. A thing was to whisper it in the delayed times of the night, and very different other to say it in the evening, in the top of a mountain. " she was thinking that this is a trocito of sky " she ". Far from the city said, of the pressures of the businesses, people. " you talk about to the place or the fact that we are sharing it? She smiled with the mouth and the glance, with those as alive blue eyes as the ocean to the distance. " By the two things, of course. He would not be so placentero if she were single. Benedict passed an arm to him below the neck and she kissed it tenderly, provocatively, and she stopped when she was on the verge of losing the control. " You are a witch " murmured he later a second, behind its ear ". You want quedarte here or to explore plus the mountain? It gave a kiss him in the neck and savored the smooth taste that only it had: masculine heat taste mixed with cleaning and expensive eau de cologne. " We are near a public highway. It is a public park, and it would not be well scandalizing to whatever it happens " she joked, tickling to him with the edge of her teeth ". In addition, is an airplane waiting for us for we took from return to that horrible place. " Tomorrow morning. To the dawn " he commented. They had the night. " we would not have to fail to take advantage of a single minute " Gabbi with a mocking reverence said, and pushed smoothly the chest of Benedict ". When we arrive at the coast, we can fish prawns and clams so that soon you do them to the barbecue while I prepare a salad.

We will open a wine bottle, we will eat and see the dusk. It loosen it, he observed it to put itself of foot, and took the hand that it offered to him so that she rose. When they returned to the house, they were more than the five, and by tacit agreement they gave a long stroll by the wet sand and compacts that it had left the tide. Soon they returned obstinate on its steps. It took it of the hand. The smooth breeze raised its blouse and played with the loose tufts of its hair. Its skin shone by the exhibition to the sun and the fresh air of the sea, and their eyes had a depth that had to the pleasure that that day had experienced, and to the excitation to a great extent that to him the anticipation feeling produced at night to arrive. After preparing the food, they had time to change and to put the bathing suits and to make lengths in the swimming pool before curing. The aroma of the barbecue of seafood woke up its appetite, and after preparing the terrace to have supper, Gabbi proved a prawn; soon another one. Also it proved the salad. " You have a spot of prawns in the chin " Benedict said to him. She smiled to him. " What negligence! " she exclaimed, eating a clam. Monique would have been scandalized if it had seen them. There was no earthen bowl with lemon in the table. And the paper napkins never could be a substitute of fine mantelería. The sun began to hide and the light was disappearing, leaving a part of the sky pink, that slowly was transformed into orange. That color went away extinguishing, and disappeared behind leaving an opaque brilliance. The lights of the swimming pool, and the terrace ignited. Gabbi heard the telephone, and observed Benedict to rise of the chair to take care of it. It gathered the seafood, she put plates in a tray, and she took them inside.

Soon, it closed the doors that they gave to the terrace and activated the security system. It went to the kitchen and it placed plates and set of dishes in the dishwasher, and ordered the kitchen. Its hair was dry already, but it needed to rinse it to clear chlorine to him of the swimming pool. It raised the plant of above occurring a shower. After putting underclothes cleaning, ahead wore white trousers and an open blouse to game. The hair was dried and small change was left it, brightness in the lips was put and lowered to the kitchen. It had desire to take coffee, fort, single, with drops of licor. The coffee finished becoming when she appeared Benedict. She watched it inquisitively. " Some problem? " Nothing that cannot be solved. She did not doubt it. It served the coffee and was reached it. " I need to You? He watched it with an intense brightness in the eyes and answered: " Yes. It felt that its heart was accelerated " But right now I must make calls telephone " the head lowered and it gave a smooth kiss him that left it with desire of more Soon, Benedict left to the Gabbi study took his coffee to the hall, it complied in a seat and it ignited the television. Surely she would find something entertained in the television by cable. She changed of chain until she found a program that it liked. She saw a program behind another one, and delivered an attack not to remain slept. But she did not obtain it absolutely. Later, she had the vague sensation to be surrounded by strong arms, the sensation of which somebody undressed it, soon the smoothness of the pillow underneath the cheek, and a warm body that was conformed to his against its back.

Chapter 8 The airplane separated from the track and landed slowly in a deprived parking of the domestic airport of Sydney.

Serg was waiting for them with the Bentley. After putting the handbags in the maletero, Serg was put to the steering wheel and it went to the districts of the east of Sydney. Gabbi sank in the seat and watched the landscape after the window. The traffic began to increase, mainly in the main streets, to one hour in which people went to her work. In one hour, Gabbi would be one of them. The shirt of informal cotton was watched that took putting, the trousers and the slippers. It would not take in changing and putting a suit, averages and heels. At that moment it even had the sensation of which Benedict was thinking about the businesses that waited for it throughout the day. Marie served the breakfast to the few minutes from its arrival to the house, and shortly after the eight, Gabbi was put to the steering wheel and followed the car of Benedict towards the exit of the mansion. It would be a day of enough work. Gabbi requested that they took the lunch to him to his office. In the evening, it had to wait for a confirmation by fax, reason why the six were done to him from afternoon returning to house and leaving their car. When Monique was guest took the freedom of not arriving precise, but when she was the host of some supper or meeting insisted much on the puntualidad. That supposed that Gabbi had twenty minutes to shower, to get dressed, to make up itself and to fix the hair. The jacket of the suit began to undo while it raised running the plant of above. One took off the heel shoes, so that when it arrived at the room only it it had left to open to the rack of his skirt and some that another button of its shirt still. Benedict raised the Vista while an eyebrow was shaved and was nauseated when it saw it enter the dormitory. " you do not ask to me " Gabbi said to him while it went to the shower and it opened it. One would put black trousers of silk with top and a jacket to game, shoes of heel and gold jewels.

The gathered hair, a little maquillaje to emphasize its eyes, and already would be ready. Gabbi at least did not stop to think, but that it followed with his tasks great speed, until finished, obtaining an acceptable result, thought, watching themselves at the mirror. It gathered the purse at night and it watched Benedict, who was observing it with curiosity and a certain degree of picardía. " Nobody would say that you have obtained that result in so just a short time " he commented while they lowered the stairs and they went to the garage. " I will breathe deeply and think about something pretty " she said. She tried to do it, but she did not serve to him as much. On the contrary, as they were moved away of the mansion and approaching the house of James and Monique, to him she was become a knot in the stomach. It was a triviality, because Annaliese would not do anything outside place in the presence of Monique and of James. " Wanted… " Annaliese with a kiss in both cheeks saluted ". Two of my favorite people… " said with a shining smile while it put between Gabbi and Benedict and took hold of the arm them ". You come to the hall. It watched at Gabbi with his suit of black celebration, and its fit dress was watched black. " He is peculiar, beloved, it seems that we have the same taste in clothes " it commented with a smile. "the difference is that I pay my clothes, whereas you buy clothes of Calvin Klein and Alaia with the credit card of James", thought Gabbi. But one said that he did not have to follow with those thoughts. The house of its father was beautiful, decorated with taste and money. But it felt uncomfortable whenever she visited it.

Would be by Monique, that had been the one who had decorated it, and had changed to the things and the colors, so that all the memories of their mother disappeared practically? And why was not going to impose Monique its own pleasure? James had wanted to be obliging with her consciously. And the past, although he had beautiful memories, he did not have space in the reality of that moment. " Gabbi, Benedict… " Monique approached them with the extended hands ". I feared that you arrived late. James gave a hug to his daughter and put a hand in the arm of Benedict. " You come and sentaos. I will bring a glass to you. They talked of intrascendentes things. They were expert in it, the smiles, the laughter in the meetings. To the eyes of somebody of outside they would seem a happy family, reflected Gabbi while it took seat next to Benedict in the table. The cook of Monique had prepared several plates with a magnificent presentation. They had begun with one vichyssoise verte. " Last night we organized a tennis match " Monique said to them while they finished the soup ". I called You for invitaros, with the hope of which you were united to us, but Marie said to me that there are been outside the week end. Monique had the ability to make affirmations so that they seemed a question. Gabbi passed the finger through the edge of its glass and soon took it to the lips. " We went to the coast " Benedict said. " Really? " Annaliese with a smile directed to Gabbi asked ". it surprises to Me that you have been able to remove to Benedict de Sydney " then directed its attention to Benedict and smiled coquetamente ", I thought that to entertain itself single it was a requirement of an independent and comprehensive wife. Gabbi left the glass carefully.

" you will not think that that excludes to spend a time with its husband, right? The cook served poulet you border with vegetables. " Of course that no, wanted " Annaliese said ". complacerte has been very amiable on the part of Benedict. Gabbi raised the places setting and began to cut the chicken. " Yes, you do not create? " the mouthful in the mouth put, it savored it, and soon it flattered the cook ". Delicious, Monique. " Thanks, Gabrielle. Gabbi counted mentally up to three. At any time, Monique was going to return to try to remove information subtly. " you have passed It well? " He was very relajante. " You have been in the Casino? " Not " Benedict said ". Gabbi cooked and we remained in house " turned itself towards Gabbi smiling with complicity, which caused that it melted of satisfaction. "Wonderful", he thought. He had been able to control the game of Monique, and had given the opportunity to Annaliese to make more questions. " You never cooked in house, dear " Annaliese without humor was ed ***reflx mng some. " it was not necessary. We always had a cook to prepare the food. In addition, Monique never had wanted that it entered the kitchen, not even when the cook took a free day. " We could it have fixed, and haberte given the opportunity to make the food someday, Gabbi " James said to him. She watched it and responded: " she did not have as much importance. " We would have we allowed to prove your culinario art, Gabrielle. "After all these years, Monique", Gabbi thought.

" I would not like to hurt the feelings of Marie being suggested to usurp his place in the kitchen. " Marie frees one night, dear " Annaliese commented. " Yes, the nights in which Benedict and I had supper outside. His hermanastra perfectly watched the painted nails, soon it smiled forzadamente to Gabbi and it said: " you are avoiding an invitation. Annaliese was a surrounded poisonous viper in pseudo-sincerity. " Absolutely. What night comes to you well? It was a battle of courtesy, but a battle after all. " Monique? James? " Annaliese asked. " I can watch my agenda, beloved, and contestarte? " Of course " Gabbi answered. " it intrigues to know to Me what you will serve to us. " With Marie always we have guaranteed a food excellent-said Gabbi. Monique drained the eyes, like its daughter. The men realized existing tension in the atmosphere and changed totally of subject. As dessert, they served to Bombe au chocolat. Later they retired to the hall to take coffee. " I have thought that we could play letters. Poker? " Monique suggested. " While we do not bet until which we wore… " Annaliese said provocatively ". It could lose all the clothes… And surely it would enjoy much, thought Gabbi, furious. " We closed the eleven table to and average. The hand that wins takes everything " James said to Benedict ". In agreement? " In agreement. It gave equal to the luck or ability that was had in the game, to win or to lose.

The bets were very small. It was only an excuse to entertain a pair of hours. Annaliese seemed to delight in inclining deliberately to show its chests. Apparently, it did not take sujetador. Whenever it watched Benedict smiled maliciously and provocatively. When the night finished, Gabbi did not hold more. " you do not have any commentary that to do? " Benedict asked while she lead through the iron door by which she went out myself. Gabbi sighed and threw the air slowly. " By where you want that it begins? He watched it with curiosity, soon concentrated the traffic. " By where you want, whenever you let leave a little that rage. " you have realized. " Probably I have been the unique one that it has noticed it. " It is a lightening to know it… It was furious. She had wanted to strike something! " you do not do it " Benedict with amiability said to him. It occurred the return towards him and she asked to him: " That does not do what? " To give puñetazo against the window. You would only obtain hacerte damage. " Perhaps it had pegarte you then. " You want to do it right now or you can hope at that we arrive at house? " you do not become the graceful one, Benedict " she said, concentrating the glance in the moon of the car. She saw the lights of the cars that came front, the fluorescent lights of the lampposts and the shades that formed in the dark. As soon as Benedict disconnected the alarm system, Gabbi entered the house. He was on the verge of raising the stairs when a hand stopped it. Benedict made it occur returned and she embraced it.

It could not avoid that she kissed it enthusiastically. It was a hungry kiss, almost did damage to him. And she had desired effect: it caused that its rage disappeared. The body of Gabbi softened against the one of him, and then Benedict deepened that kiss and she clung to him. Gabbi moaned of pleasing when he raised it and he took it in arms. To her nothing was happened to him what to say while it took it in arms by the stairs. It was not either happened to him to make nothing stop it, to prevent that it left it in the bed. There was one long exploration of the places that produced to them to please. He kissed his pantorrillas, the internal part of his knees, the one of his thighs… It felt that its body melted, like the wax, under that flame of pleasing, until hers felt totally, so that he did with her what wanted. They shared an exquisite time of privacy until the mutual sexual satisfaction. Was that the unique thing that it found Benedict in the relation with her? Love. It was a word that its heart requested to shouts, but its head was obstinate in saying to him that it had to be contented without him. The entrances for the Ghost of the Opera had been sold long beforehand. Surely Benedict had used their influence to obtain them in the last moment, thought Gabbi when she was seating to his side. " a privileged place " Francesca commented when the orchestra began to touch the first subject that introduced the first act. " Yes, right? " You are overwhelming with that color. It knew that the fulfilled one of Francesca was sincere, and Gabbi smiled pleased. " Thanks. It took to a blue suit pie that emphasized the color of its skin and the blond hair. " You also are very handsome " she said to him to Francesca. Francesca wore a red velvet dress that exceptional it had left, marking the curves of its perfect body.

It sounded music, the drop curtain rose and began the Act First. To Gabbi they enchanted the live representations to him, the presence of the actors, the suits, the smooth aroma of the maquillaje, the sounds. It was a experience totally different from the one from a film. Entreacto gave sufficient time so that people could take something, smoke a cigarette and talk. Gabbi hoped to see James, Monique and to Annaliese between people. What it did not hope was that Annaliese quickly separated of Monique and James and it go to throughout chat the interval with Francesca, Dominic and Benedict. To part of a formal greeting, to Gabbi it did not pay any attention to him. " the cleanliness? " Francesca asked. Gabbi indicated to him with the head that would accompany it, and then Annaliese was united to them. " One night fabulous " hermanastra with a smile said his. " Yes, right? " Gabbi responded ". If you excuse a little while to Fran and me… " Of course " satisfied Annaliese answered ", I will be in charge to entertain to Benedict and Dominic. " one does not occur by won, right? " Francesca asked to him while it followed Gabbi between the multitude ". you have said to Him that it disappears of your Vista? " Yes " they entered the cleanliness and they were put to the tail. " In the version educated or in less the most controlled to remove the nails? " Civilizadamente, we say " Gabbi with a smile said. " A little fire would not come to you bad. The Italians are very good for that " he watched it with a brightness in the eyes ". we shouted themselves, we threw things… " I have not seen you in action never " Gabbi, amused by the commentary of its friend said. " Because never I have been furious with you.

" God does not allow it " gave few steps ". I can preguntarte what happens between Dominic and you? " Soon time I will throw something to him to him. Gabbi was ed ***reflx mng. " You think that I am due to warn? " It leaves is a surprise. Dominic was a man of the caliber of Benedict: dynamic, decided, very active. And it used to be untiring in the persecution of what it believed unattainable. Gabbi was wondered how long more would allow that Francesca directed the game. The result would be interesting, thought Gabbi. The timbre that announced the beginning of the following act sounded when already they had refreshed and altered the maquillaje in the cleanliness. They returned to its seats when the lights began to extinguish themselves. It was an impeccable representation. The singers had excellent voices. When the drop curtain at the end of the last act fell, there was a strong applause of the public who caused that they returned to raise it. The theater was crowded of people and took certain time in leaving. " We are going to have supper to some site? " Dominic asked when they arrived at the parking. " it would enchant to Me " said Gabbi ". In what site you are thinking? " Benedict? " you Choose, Sunday " Benedict answered. " There is an excellent place in Double Bay " Dominic said ". we will see You there. " Relájate " Benedict said to him to Gabbi when the Bentley passed by the Botanical Garden ". I doubt that Annaliese is dedicated to cross the restaurants of the city to try we found. " How ready! " she said mockingly ". But you will surely not have ignored the enthusiasm that put Annaliese when it was with you. " But you know that I do not encourage nothing of which supposedly she wants of me.

" Loved Benedict, it do not give account you of which that is not necessary? " You seem a jealous wife. " Good, of course. He watched it and soon he said: " you do not joke… She smiled maliciously. " One must develop certain of sense of humor in these cases. " darte Could whips. " Hazlo and you will see my revenge. He ed ***reflx mng himself provocatively. " the pain Will be worth. " I believe that you would have to pay attention to the highway. The restaurant was located in a block of stores in the main stroll of Double Bay. The ambient authentically Greek era, and immediately was made evident that Dominic was not only a privileged client, but personal friend of the owner. Gabbi did not want to take coffee and preferred a tea cup, accompanied by pastes that had served. Dominic had a great sense of humor and Gabbi was ed ***reflx mng much with him When they took leave were the twelve at night and the one of the dawn when Gabbi slid between sheets and Benedict extended the hand to extinguish the light.

Chapter 9 STANTON-NICOLS economically supported several charitable organizations and that night they had an annual supper in a luxurious hotel. One was an important event from the social point of view, and therefore the attendance was concurred. The high seam emphasized between the women of the high society, and Gabbi thought that with those jewels it would be possible to have been fed a whole country on the Third World the men were more discreet. They took black smoking, white shirt and a black pajarita.

Clear that the suit used to be of Armani, or Zegna, the handmade shoes and the shirt of pure and expensive cotton. Gabbi had chosen a dress without braces in a silk of many colors that imitated the colorful one of the spring. Behind, it had a great decollete, and in the neck it took to fular to game. It had decided to take the loose hair, and the little formal style of its hairdo embellished its factions. People arrived between the six and the seven. She chatted with the assistants and she had a drink while she waited for dinner time. To seven they opened the dining room. " a glass of champán? " Juice of orange, please " Gabbi said to him to the waiter who took a full tray of glasses. The glass used and watched Benedict, who was observing it with a brightness pícaro in the eyes. " You need to be lúcida? " it asked to him. She smiled. " How you have guessed it? James, Monique and Annaliese would seat to the same table, with other five guests more. " Always I read the mind to you, dear " he made fun of. It was astonished when hearing that affective treatment this in Spanish. Would occur to account Benedict of which the use of the language of its mother to her made shake? Gabbi disguised that disagreement when seeing that Benedict greeted a businessman. It on the other hand, put itself to talk with the wife during minutes, until Benedict said to him that they had to go to the table reserved for them. Stanton-Nicols was one of the patrocinadores of the event. The director of the charity work was already in the table, with his wife, a dignitary, his woman and her son. The five minutes before the supper were a little while crucial, that centered all the attention of the guests towards whom they finished arriving. James, Monique and Annaliese made their appearance then.

They interchanged kisses in the air, as usual, and the touch in the hand, like was to anticipate. "Perfect", Gabbi thought. Monique had obtained it again: that they were the last ones in arriving and that all noticed their presence, dedicating to them greetings from all the tables, calling the attention of the whole hall. When the waiters distributed first of three plates, the entertainer thanked for to the guests his attendance and spoke of the program of that evening. He sounded the background music. Gabbi took the places setting and began to eat delicious prawns and a cocktail of seafood. Somebody had put to Annaliese next to Benedict. It would have been Monique that had suggested it? The son of the dignitary was to the right of Gabbi. During the first plate, Annaliese put the hand in the thigh of Benedict. It could have been accidental, but Gabbi doubted it. " a very pleasant evening " the son of the dignitary said. It was not a beginning of very interesting conversation, but he would serve to him at least as distraction. " an interesting mixture. A professional singer and a parade of models " he continued his companion of table. " and the speeches of always. The boy smiled to him. " You go to many sites like this one, right? " Yes " she smiled. " I can take the audacity from decirte that you are charming? " Thanks " she said to him watching it. They changed plates to them, and Gabbi smiled to Benedict when it filled his water glass. It watched it with enigmatic eyes. Then, she tightened the right thigh smoothly to him. " Thanks, wanted " she said to him.

" It is a pleasure. She watched it challenging. The organizer announced that there would be a number of two songs interpreted by an invited singer. Gabbi listened with attention. They served the second plate: chicken the fresh Kievs, potatoes small round and vegetables. " a wonderful food " the son of the dignitary commented. Gabbi tried not to put attention in the put nails of Annaliese in the arm of Benedict. The singer interpreted another song, which she followed the dessert. Soon, the director of the charitable organization raised podio. Then, Annaliese was put still on and disappeared discreetly going towards a side of the scene. While the organizer announced the parade of models served the coffee. They appeared three masculine models and three feminine models in the footbridge, showing models of famous designers of Sydney, with a great variety of styles that went from appropriate clothes for professionals, to celebration clothes. " He is impressive, you do not create? " the son of the dignitary commented. Gabbi followed the Vista of the man and discovered that its attention was put in Annaliese, that marched past by the footbridge. " Yes " it answered. It was certain. His hermanastra had all the essential qualities to be a success model: the body, the height, the face. Most of the men they remained extasiados. However the women seemed to recognize the artificialidad underneath those exquisite factions, of that perfect image. Annaliese participated several times, smiling with serenity and studied gesture. Although as the parade was happening, it became evident that Annaliese dedicated its parade to a single table, to a single man, to whom dedicated a very seductive smile to him.

Gabbi went away more and more putting tense, and it felt impotent when seeing that it could not do nothing that situation as opposed to. Except smiling. Benedict, damn is, one was interested in each model and each article. There was sport clothes and of leisure, that included suits of bath, bikinis and bodys very escotados. Annaliese was overwhelming with a very small bikini, and knew the effect very well that it caused. Gabbi felt desire to kill it, but it had to control itself. It did not have to demonstrate his misfortune to Annaliese by his provocative behavior, because she would have interpreted it like a victory, and she refused to give him to that satisfaction to his hermanastra. The celebration clothes gave another opportunity him to Annaliese to dazzle. It appeared with a dress with the discovered back and without braces, that it was fitted to his body like one second skin. In the end they appeared all the participant models in the scene to give a last return to the footbridge. " you are watching something in special? " Benedict asked to him. " the blond and high model " Gabbi with a deliberate smile responded, and account occurred of which Benedict watched with a brightness pícaro in the eyes. " you talk about the clothes that take, clear. Gabbi was on the awares astonished, and it watched it maliciously. " Of course. Although really he is impressive in bath suit. " you are taking revenge yourself? " Why you say it, Benedict? To what you talk about? " you already understand to me. " Really? " We can leave the conversation and continue it in private. " you do not think that they would watch to us bad If we go away? " But in return it would obtain llevarte to house " the hand of Gabbi took to the lips and it kissed it ".

I am very lucky " soon kissed all its fingers and it interlaced them with his before leaving the hands resting upon the table. It felt a heat in all the body. However Benedict had not changed the expression unless she had a somewhat malevolent smile, and that was caressing with the thumb the wrist of her. " That would be like a consolation prize. " No, it would be the first prize. It wished desperately that outside truth everything what he said, but knew very well that it was only part of the game. " Ah! " she with cynicism exclaimed ". You say very sweet things. " Thanks " he in Spanish said. The waiters served another round as coffee while the guests moved from a table to another one, stopping to talk with friends while they left slowly towards the entrance of the building. " I have enjoyed much your company " the son of the dignitary said to him. " Thanks " it murmured and smiled overwhelmingly when seeing that Annaliese approached them. " Some we go to go to a discoteca " said Annaliese and watched at Benedict before touching the shoulder to him ". Why you do not come? Gabbi had not realized of which it had contained the breath until Benedict answered: " In another occasion. " We must be to eat for lunch, Gabrielle " Monique said when it went to take leave and to wish good nights them ". Already I will call to you. Gabbi felt a certain position of conscience to wish to reject that invitation. He was not very habitual that his madrastra suggested the idea to be to have lunch solo with her. " Llámame " Gabbi said finally.

It passed one half an hour until other thirty minutes arrived at the car and until it left it in the garage. " an attendance record " Benedict commented when they entered the house ". the committee will be contented. " Yes. " you do not seem excited very. " I am disappointed. " Why? " Benedict asked while she returned to put the security alarm. " He is that he died to me to go to the discoteca. It occurred the return and he approached her. He watched it challenging while he put a hand underneath his hair and held his head by the nape of the neck. " Really? Benedict was too much close. Its perfume embriagaba its sense of the sense of smell and was mixed with its particular fragrance of man, that fragrance that only had he. " Yes. She could very be amused to see Annaliese trying seducirte " she raised a hand and passed the fingers through the lapel of her suit. " you are removing the nails. " and I who I thought that he was being very subtle… " You want that we make a debate on the behavior of Annaliese? She watched it with rage and she said to him: " I do not believe that it is possible to be spoken of "debate". " It is very late for a tennis match. In addition, probably it would win " the breath of Benedict smoothly moved the curly tufts that it had near the ear ", and that one would not be the objective of the exercise. She wanted to generate a reaction that allowed him to relieve its indignation. " she would at least give the satisfaction me to strike the ball with a racket. He watched it.

" another more productive way is happened to me to spend all that energy. Benedict caressed the cheek to him with the thumb, soon slid it downwards, slowly by the neck. Gabbi felt the insidioso heat that extended by its veins. And it began to shake when thinking about the caresses that would arrive. " you do not play fair " Gabbi said to him. It lowered the head and he caressed the part to him of back of the ear with the lips. " I am not playing. Gabbi closed the eyes and absorbed the intoxicating sensation to feel it close. Benedict kissed it. Their fingers sank in their blond melena and the kiss became more enthusiastic, intensifying the slow ardor of its excitation until this one threatened make lose it the control. Its body was tightened as much against the one of him, yearning for it, wishing it that hardly he was conscious of the small ones moaned that they left his mouth. Slowly, smoothly, it lay down backwards and broke away from the enemy with her. Soon he put an arm to him underneath the knees and crossed the lobby with her in arms to take arrives it. " the bed is a place very civilized… " Gabbi said while it caressed the lobe to him of the ear with the language and bit smoothly it. When they arrived at its suite, they closed the door. " You want something civilized less, Gabbi? " he asked, lowering it. Those words evoked very eróticas images, and she had to control the excitation who produced in their body. " This one is a very expensive dress. I would like to return to use it " she said she, provocatively. A special brightness illuminated the glance of Benedict. A primitive brightness that accelerated the beat to him of its heart.

It remained out of breath when it put the hand in the rack and he opened it, so that the dress fell in the carpet. Fascinated, she left the article. Benedict threw the dress upon a chair, without letting watch Gabbi. He stopped the eyes in his chests. He caressed them, he played with the nipples, and soon he slid slowly the fingers underneath the elastic of his braguitas and one took off them. Later, they followed its sandals. It observed it to take off the jacket and to throw it upon the gallant at night. Soon Benedict took off the pajarita, the shirt, the shoes and socks. Their trousers landed upon their jacket. Then, it took the face him and lowered it to kiss it. With that kiss Benedict it took possession from her and it seemed to demand surrender to him. One was not seduction. It was a ferocious hunger the one that demanded it, the necessity to devour it. She did not defend herself. She did not want. She wanted to ride in the top of his passion, and to let themselves take by those arrasadoras sensations. One became a sacking of the mind and the body, of the one of her, and surrendered. It caressed it and savored and sucked tormenting it of pleasing, until returning it crazy. It did not exert control on her trembly body, nor on the convulsion at which that storm of passion ended. And account of the moaned ones did not occur that that emotion expressed by its mouth, while it requested Benedict to him who did not stop. It was a beautiful form to die, thought Gabbi embriagada by those sensations, while it took it to the bed. Then it did not feel more than the quiet pleasure.

It penetrated it, time and time again, more and more deeply, with a rate that showed them to the abyss of the satisfaction. After making the love, it was tended in the bed in a sheet mess, with the legs interlaced to those of him, without desire to move. She did not have forces nor to raise a hand, and remained with the closed eyes, because to open she required them too much effort. " I have made You damage? It moaned on the inside. How much she moaned! But era of pleasing, not of pain. " Not " she smiled ". Although I do not believe that she is ready for one second time. It inclined and he gave a kiss him in the hollow of the base of the neck, soon slid towards its mouth. " Relájate, wanted " he in Spanish said ". he is not something that can do so soon. She felt it to move, and the sheets to descend on her skin. She sighed and she supported the head in shoulders of Benedict. The paradise could not be better than that. Gabbi awoke when feeling lips grazing its cheeks. One stretched and it was nauseated like a cat, contents under the caresses of his master. It smiled and it was on the awares. " It is late? " Enough afternoon, wanted. He had gotten dressed and shaved, and if it were not mistaken, he was ready to leave. It felt pain. " It was going to go with you to the airport " Gabbi said to him. " But you can be relaxed in jaccuzzi, be enjoyed a delicious breakfast and be thrown one leafed through to the newspaper before irte to the office. " You had to wake up to me " she protested, seeing that he watched it with picardía.

" I finish doing it " it indicated a tray to him in the small table ". and I have brought juice of orange and coffee. It seated in the bed and she embraced the knees. He watched it with malicia. " In that case, you are pardoned. " You can locate to me in the moving body. She watched it. Benedict had put one of the executive suits whom she had, and with that act she had left his paper of lover and had assumed the responsibility of his position and its paper of businessman. Surely its mind was in first of the meetings which it had to attend in Melboume. It took the juice from orange and drank. She thanked for that fresh flavor. It would have liked to awake early, to make the love with him, to bathe together in jacuzzi and to remolonear in the breakfast. Now she had to be satisfied to a sweet kiss and to see it disappear by the door. The kiss was more ardent of which it had waited for, but less than what she had wished. They were only four days and three nights. Very just a short time. He I know had marched more time other times. Then, why it felt so deeply its absence? It finished drinking the orange juice, one rose and it went to the bathroom. Half an hour later, it lowered the stairs and one went to the kitchen. " Good morning, Marie. " Good morning. It wants to have breakfast inside or in the terrace? " the master of keys with a sincere smile asked. " In the terrace " Gabbi answered.

" Cereals and fruit, toasted with coffee? Or it prefers something warms up? " Cereals, thanks. I will take it " an earthen bowl removed from the closet of kitchen, put cereals, added a banana, removed to him milk from the refrigerator and crossed the crystal large window that it gave to the terrace. The sun was lukewarm, although it was early. It had been easy to forget the work that day, to remain in house and to spend several hours reading underneath a parasol…

Chapter 10 SERG requested to me that it remembered to him that took to the Bentley this morning. Gabbi raised the Vista of the newspaper and left the cup in the plate. It smiled to It flows and it asked: " the XJ220 no? " it would give an attack Him to the heart " Marie responded bruptly. Gabbi was ed ***reflx mng. " No, we do not allow it. The powerful sport car era of Benedict, but was the pride of Serg. He was in charge of which he was always impeccable, like it made with the Mercedes and the Bentley. If the motor did not sound as it had, it was in charge of which they did a mechanical revision to him. During the following days the Mercedes would be in the factory so that they repaired to the scratches and the light of back. She sounded the telephone. Marie went to answer. " It calls to account of the Nicols… Seconds later, Marie covered the earpiece and said: " It is for you, Mrs. Stanton. Gabbi put the eyes in target and it rose to take care of the call. " Monique, cómo.estás? " Well, Gabrielle.

I have thought that perhaps we could be to have lunch today. It comes to you well? The frivolous conversation with his madrastra while they pecked a salad was not one of its favourite pastimes. It had of having a reason so that it invited it to have lunch, and surely soon it would find out it. " Of course. At what time and where we will see ourselves? Monique not very named an exclusive restaurant far from the Towers of Stanton-Nicols. " To twelve and the average one? It comes to you well? " Wonderful. I am glad of which we see ourselves " it lay. In fact it was not an absolute lie. The life was full of interesting experiences, and its relation with Monique was one of them. The traffic was dense. The conductors seemed more impatient than ever, and an accident maintained retained to the cars in an intersection. Consequently, Gabbi arrived late. There was a message of his secretary to warn to him that one was ill and that would not go to the office, at least in the morning, and the private mail had not arrived with the engaged documentation. It was not a good beginning for that day, thought, while it did first of the calls. To mid-morning, they promised to him that they would send the documentation in the evening. It supposed the loss of several hours, and if it had to analyze the numbers, to supervise them and to collate them for the meeting of the following day, it would have to work until late, to take work to house or to arrive early at the office in the morning on the following day. Lunch time with Monique approached. Reluctantly, it sighed and it extinguished the computer. It went to the cleanliness and the maquillaje was altered. Ten minutes later, it left the building. A minute arrived at the restaurant before the decided thing.

Gabbi followed maítre to the table of Monique and it seated. " Gabrielle… " Monique… Since always there were an interchange of calidez and artificial affection. After ten years, Gabbi had been resigned to it. It would never change. Monique was perfectly neat, like was customary, with the accessories combined perfectly with the clothes: A purse of Chanel, shoes of Magli, and a few expensive jewels. It had taste, but she was not ostentosa. " Annaliese will come to have lunch with us. I hope that does not matter to you "Wonderful", Gabbi with irony thought. " Of course that not " it responded with courtesy and it asked mineral water the waiter. " Annaliese said that surely you would now thank for the company and the support of the family who Benedict is outside. Gabbi doubted it. To the only person whom it considered Annaliese it was to itself. " considered What! " the banquet of was very pleasant yesterday. One was a conversation that did not jeopardize it to anything. " the menu was very well presented/displayed. And the parade of models was magnificent " Gabbi commented. " We requested the first plate? Perhaps Annaliese arrives late. Annaliese never arrived precise. Gabbi decided to take avocado with handle on a bed from lettuce. After asking it the waiter it took I suck of mineral water. " I have convinced James that one takes vacations " began to say Monique while they waited for the first plate. " How good idea! When? " the month that comes.

We will make a cruise. We will take it in New York. The cruise would be relajante for its father, and would suppose an opportunity of social relations for Monique. " How long you glide to be outside? " Almost three weeks, including the flights and the shutdowns. " It will be a good rest for both. His father deserved it. Its dedication to Stanton-Nicols exceeded enough the schedule from nine to five of afternoon. The first plates arrived. They were waiting for the second plate when Annaliese surrounded arrived in I pull ahead of perfume. " the parade lasted more of the predicted thing " it said while it sank in front of in a chair his mother. They appeared two waiters solícitos while she chose the menu. As soon as these moved away, said to Gabbi: " What so you fix yourself without Benedict? The temptation to say some lie to him was very strong. " Enough badly. Annaliese drained the eyes. " If you were… so desperate " it said with emphasis ". You could it have accompanied. Gabbi decided to follow. " it is not easy to organize a time to pass it outside together. Annaliese raised the water glass and said: " Really, wanted? Why? " the glass left ". Everybody knows that you have a work for distraerte, and that the company pays a high wage to you by a service that considers superfluous. It was a too low blow.

And it did not want to fight itself with Annaliese in the presence of Monique. " My qualifications deserve that work and the wage that collection. You do not forget that I left chosen between twenty people who appeared to the position. It knew that it did not have necessity to justify nothing, but one had felt too much bothers. " At his moment, James left well clear that the election was done being based on the efficiency and result-added them. " You want that it believes to me that there was no influence on the other hand? It was hour to leave that subject. " the board of directors never would approve to squander the money in a fictitious position " it watched it disguising the fury. It wished to rise and to leave, but the courtesy norms prevented it. And it had to wait for to the dessert and the coffee. The food had been magnificent, but it was lost the appetite, and began to feel headache. As soon as the coffee finished, removed the credit card of the purse. " that Leaves, Gabrielle " Monique insisted ". I have invited to you. " Thanks. You excuse to me? I have a meeting to two. Annaliese raised an eyebrow. " What dedication! " one is consideration " Gabbi corrected while it put of foot ". a representative of a company client that is very precise. It was a phrase that bad as was not dismissed and finishing touch. Pain was one that Monique had been present, thought Gabbi while it returned to the office. In a face to face with Annaliese it would have been different. When returning it found a rose in a florero of crystal in his writing-desk, next to on target. Gabbi opened and removed it the card. "I miss to You.

Benedict ", put. But surely he would not throw it as much of less as she to him. He smelled the fragrance of the rose. Tomorrow he would return to house. He would consult with Marie and he would organize a special supper for two. With candles, he came, smooth music, and later… He heard the sound of the internal telephone, which gave back it to the reality. One inclined upon the writing-desk and he pushed the button. " Michelle Bouchet is waiting for it in Reception. " Thanks, Find. Dígale to Katherine that makes it happen. Gabbi hung the receiver. It watched the clock and it smiled. It would take one hour to him at least to watch the information, and another one half an hour to put them in the computer. It had two options. To take the work to house or to remain working in the office. But, why it had to leave running to his house? In addition, the hirientes words of Annaliese had left track him. It would continue demonstrating his was worth in the company. It made the decision to remain and called to Marie to say to him that it would arrive late. Soon, it requested that they took a coffee to him with two tablets for the headache. And it was put to work. They were almost the seven when Gabbi extinguished the computer. It as opposed to had himself the printed leaves. One felt satisfied with his work and knowledge that the meeting would be thankful to be able to count on its analysis of the data.

It gathered his purse and one left the office. It greeted the watchman of security of the building and one went to the underground parking. It would swim in the swimming pool, thought while the elevator lowered in silence to the parking. Soon, a hot shower would occur. It would take a plate from chicken salad and would watch television. Later, one would go away to read to the bed. The elevator stopped. Gabbi left as soon as the doors were opened. They were left cars in the parking still. They had of being of executives who would be in meetings that had extended more of the predicted thing. That attitude of dedication to the company on the part of the high positions, would be dedication? Or it covets? Perhaps outside it covets, thought Gabbi while one went to the Bentley. It deactivated the alarm system and it tightened the mechanism that opened the car. " Slowly, young lady " it ordered a masculine voice to him. It felt something it last against her ribs at the same moment in which she felt that a hand took hold the arm to him. " it does not shout, one does not resist, and I will not do damage to him. " my purse Takes " she with serenity said to him, although the heart left to him by the mouth ". It takes the car. The door back was opened. " Between " the man said to him. He would go it to kidnap? " No. " It hears, affection… " the voice against its ear whispered to him coldly ". we do not want more than photos.

" We want? " it repeated. That is that was more than a person. That limited its possibilities of escaping. " it Can cooperate and make us easy, or can resist and that we do damage to him. The hands pushed it the seat of back of the car. It moaned when the man lay down upon her. " Quítese of above! The hands found the blouse and they opened it. Gabbi was defended like a wild cat, and shouted when the man held the wrists strongly to him. The desperation seized of her when the stranger loosen the sujetador to him. The man tried to kiss it, but she twisted the head and was prevented it. Gabbi did not have the force sufficient to defend itself. Suddenly, it felt that the man cleared the lips to him with his teeth, and then dazzled the light of a flash of a camera of photos. It emitted a complaint of misfortune and loathing towards him and revolvió. When the attacker loosen the hands to him, she reached the head of the stranger and she nailed the nails to him in the hairy leather and the neck. " You, vixen! The man returned to lower the mouth, that time towards his chests, and he bit them strongly. That hurt to him terribly, but the rage and the desperation gave the force him sufficient to raise a knee and to strike it between the legs. The accurate blow took moaning of pain to stranger and one retahíla of epítetos against her. Then, Gabbi heard that the door of the car of the opposite side was opened, and that two hands dragged to their attacker outside the car. " It comes. Vayámonos of here. We have already obtained what wanted. " Damn wild cat! I am going to catch it! " they have said to You that you scared a little.

Nothing else, you remember? The door of the car was closed and Gabbi tightened the mechanism that closed the car with key. Soon, it was put to the steering wheel. The keys. Where they were his keys? OH, God! Probably they were in the door still. Both men left running. It saw them put in a van, and after hearing the noise of the motor she saw them flee quickly towards the exit. Until they did not go away, one did not dare to lower the window of the car and to take hold the keys. Still he had the open blouse. Everything was closed what could. It was shaking, as much that it had to twice turn the key of the car to put it in march. Once in the street, Gabbi was concentrated in the traffic. By once, that was glad of were so many cars, buses, noise, people… made it feel out of danger. When it arrived at house, it thanked for the safety measures. Marie and Serg would be in their house, and it did not want to alarm them. It raised the stairs and it went directly to his dormitory. All the clothes took off: the skirt, the spoiled blouse, the underclothes. It separated them to throw them to the sweepings. It did not want to return to see them. Soon it went to the bathroom of the dormitory and opened the shower. It did not know how long it had remained underneath the shower. It only knew that each centimeter of its skin had rubbed twice, and that had put three times champú. Soon, it had remained it quiets and it had left fell the water to him like a cascade.

Who were? Why they would have done it? The questions did not let torment it. Photos… It would be a blackmail? The idea seemed ridiculous. Who was going to want to threaten it? What would win with it? Then, it remembered the words that the accomplice of that man had said: "they said to You that you scared a little. Nothing else. You remember ". Who could want to scare it, but not to do damage to him? Who had said to them that they did not dare to do damage to him? Gabbi shook the head like wanting to clarify itself. Taken photos to intention… It could be Annaliese? It could have arrived at those ends? It could not be. Gabbi closed the faucet. The presence of somebody in the room felt panic when having a feeling. " Gabbi? She was Benedict. But it could not be of return. It would not return until the following day. Desperate, it extended a hand towards a towel. Then it saw it. She was Benedict, who watched it with their dark eyes, and a smile in the lips. " you have arrived before… " it murmured. Gabbi was pale, trembly, felt weak. It remained in silence, a tense silence that almost gave fear. When Benedict spoke finally, she did it in a cold and calm tone, that froze the blood. " What happened? " Benedict without introductions asked. It was so transparent who just by to watch already knew it that passed something to him, Gabbi was asked.

Gabbi subjected the towel and fixed the Vista to the impeccable knot of its necktie. " What so the trip? " the trip does not have importance. He tell me what happened " he with tension in the voice said. " I remained in the office to work with a report… " Why you did that if you could haberte brought the diskette to house? It was a good question. Why he had done it? He swallowed saliva and he saw that it realized it. " men put in the parking, in spite of the safety measures. " has done You damage? " he asked, watching it at great length. She raised a hand and soon she dropped it. " Only scratches. Benedict had seen them, evidently. " Calm, Gabbi " he said to him smoothly. He from the beginning caressed the cheek with the palm of the hand ". Cuéntame everything to him. And you do not forget any detail. The fury of Benedict was evident, and it felt fear. Not through her, but reason why she could happen if that rage left outside. " I opened the door of the car… Then somebody held to me behind, it pushed me the car and it put to me in the seat of back. " He follows… " he said severely. " Soon one lay down to me above… " he touched to You? " he with tense gesture asked. She shook when remembering those fingers holding to him the wrists while she opened the blouse to him. " Not of the way about which you think.

The eyes of Benedict hardened the glance. " You called to the police? She denied with the head. " they did not rob anything. The car did not suffer damages. And me they did not attack to me. Benedict put the hands to him in shoulders and soon she slid them by its arms. " the word "to attack" has many meaning " he said, and continued caressing the arms to him. It felt panic when Benedict touched the wrists to him. He was examined them and soon he took them to the lips and he kissed them. Later, she lowered the towel to him. It felt fear, because she knew that it would see the reddened part him of his chests. Benedict put itself furious and tightened the hands in form of fists. She remembered that often she had wanted that he lost the control, but not of that way. " I scratched It enough "" it explained ". and she lay down back. There was something primitive in the expression of Benedict who gave fear him. " Its intention was not to do damage to me. It had an accomplice who took a camera of photos. A predator brightness seemed to illuminate the glance of Benedict. It was a signal of the alert. The sound of the telephone did that it will be frightened. It watched the telephone of the petrified bath. " Descuélgalo when I raise the telephone of the dormitory " Benedict said to him. She did that what she ordered to him. She observed it to cross the door of the bathroom and to go to the telephone of the dormitory.

It offed-hook the earpiece. " Gabbi Nicols… " she said. " Gabrielle… Gabbi knew well who called it, and tightened the earpiece. " Annaliese… " she with caution saluted. " I have in my power photos that show to you in a considerably embarrassing situation, Mon enfant… Gabbi imagined the cruel smile of Annaliese to the other side of the telephone, the tone of its voice exposed it. " Tomorrow they will send copies to Benedict by private mail one hour to him after it arrives. It will receive them as soon as it arrives from Melbourne; along with the photos will go a card with the professional data of Tony, gigoló " a pause did, and soon it added with delicate emphasis ". Also is a list of other services that can offer and its price. Gabbi could not outside think that the target of as much hatred. " you have remained without words, wanted? " Without speech. A guffaw to the other side of the telephone was heard. " If you had taken me in serious, there would not have been necessity to arrive at this… " it said Annaliese. Gabbi tightened the telephone. " you are not surprised of which Tony requests more money to you by danger. It received rodillazo in its parts, and a few scratches. " the photos are worth it. It demonstrates that you have a little intelligence, and begins to make the suitcases " it suggested Annaliese with false dulzura. " Benedict…

" a shock with the tests Will suffer. " Yes. There was a thick silence. " You can give the photos me and the card personally, Annaliese " Benedict with smooth voice said from the other side of the telephone ". If you are ready, you will be hoping to me in the door of your house with them in the hand within ten minutes. After which, you will explain to Monique and James to him who you have received an urgent call of your agent who demands your presence. Very urgent " he continued he ". That you must reserve a flight for morning. I will take care of the airplane ticket… If you dare to put a foot in Sydney again, I will denounce by attack and extorsion to you. And it is not happened to you to make a call of warning to your Tony. There is no place where it cannot find it. You have included/understood? Benedict left the telephone. It also hung. He was incapable to pronounce a single word when it was to his side again and he kissed it. " I return immediately " Benedict said. And then one went away. It remained shaking. To the few minutes, she heard the motor of the car. Gabbi took off the towel and a pajamas of satén was put color ivory. It was towards the bed and it raised colcha. Soon one seated in the armchair in front of the mirror of the dressing table and began to cepillar the hair. Benedict returned to the twenty minutes.

She watched it. " Where they are the photos? " she as soon as it recognized its own voice. Hardly it could speak. " I have destroyed Them " Benedict said smoothly. " you have seen Them? " she asked. " Yes " he said to him, putting the hands to him in shoulders. It could not repress the weeping. " I suppose that they were… " a sweepings. " you would have believed…? " Not " it caressed the cheek to him with a finger ". the intention was hacerte a blackmail with them " drew the lips to him ". Which was the price, Gabbi? " I. That it left you " said she sincerely. The hand of Benedict caressed the neck to him. " and you thought that I went to dejarte to march? " Annaliese counted on it. The fingers of Benedict slid towards the button of above of the pajamas and it undid it, soon followed with the other. And with the third and last one. Smoothly it cleared satén to him. Gabbi watched it. He was watching the red shades of his chests. " I hope that the wretch that one of Tony has received enough money, because the doctors are expensive. It opened the mouth, soon she returned it to close and she passed the lips smoothly through those of him. It shook when feeling the power that radiated of Benedict, and how it extended around to his. " you have returned before…

" whispered Gabbi ". Why? " Because he did not want to spend another night without you " he answered. It dropped tears. She felt the fingers of Benedict in the chin, soon a smooth kiss in a cheek, soon in the other. In the eyelids… " you do not cry " he said. She had wished to say to him that she loved it, but she shut up herself. " Tomorrow we go away to Hawaii " Benedict said. She was going to protest and began to say: " the office… " you without us Can fix to it " it assured he to him while it embraced it. " the business with Gibson… " James will take care of him. " Benedict… " you do not say anything " he ordered to him, he knocked down it in the bed and he embraced it. It felt that its pulse accelerated when feeling the mouth of Benedict behind the ear, near sien it… One felt safe, prote'ge'e. So far that was enough to him. Gabbi extended the hand towards the knot of its necktie, soon undid the bellboys of the shirt. " I need to feel your skin against mine. Benedict placed the pillows to him and she was put still on. It observed each one of her movements while the clothes took off slowly. Soon he lay down to his side. One leaned in an elbow and it watched its blue eyes, its mouth… " You want that we speak? Gabbi thought that perhaps he would be better to speak on the following day.

That night, she needed to feel safe in her arms, her body intimately together with the one of him. She raised an arm and she caressed the cheek to him. She watched it intensely, until it did not hold more, inclined and she kissed it. She crossed with his mouth centimeter to centimeter, until arriving at his wrist. Then she loosen the hand to him and one inclined towards his chest to caress the wounds to him with his lips. " Benedict… He raised the Vista. " I need to You… said Gabbi to him. And it saw in its eyes the flame of desire in its glance. It surrounded the neck to him, and its mouth shook under the one of him. The language of Benedict invaded its mouth and explored all its parts, even those that Tony had damaged. When kissing the reddened zone, Benedict put and gruñó of rage tense. She caressed it to calm it. That night they made the love with reverence. She had shouted of happiness. Later, one fell asleep in his arms, with the head resting in the chest of him.

Chapter 11 The BEACH of Waikiki was a wonderful landscape. The ocean was blue dark, the white sand. There were hotels and buildings of apartments aligned in the coast. Although there were beaches in Australia that equaled it. Much people thought that the Golden Coast of Queensland was comparable to Honolulu.

The climate was similar. Boutiques of design were many and very varied, but she was the people of Hawaii, his hospitality and amiability, which had fascinated to Gabbi. First visit was not his there, nor would be the last one, wished Gabbi. Benedict had chosen the hotel Royal Hawaian, known by "the pink palace", due to their outside of pink color. Originally, it had been a real house and he kept a certain dawn from place outside the traditional time and, that made only in comparison with other hotels of the coast. There were crystal lamps in the lobby, and an abundance of luxurious Eastern carpets. Gabbi seated in a chair and asked a strained fragmentation hand grenade the waiter. Five days of relaxation had built wonders and had restored their mental serenity, thought she, watching the sea. The sun had gilded its skin. By tacit agreement, they had avoided the typical attractions for tourists, and however they had rented a limousine with conductor so that it gave a return them by the island. The purchases had not been a priority either, although it had visited some of boutiques and made some purchases. " she desires to You to share it? Gabbi took off the sun glasses and watched Benedict. " you talk about my strained fragmentation hand grenade? " No, I talk about your thoughts. There are been very pensativa these days " he said to him. Gabbi watched a young woman, of proportionate body and miraculous curves that the sun in bikini was taking. " it was only observing the scene " Gabbi-.Y said thinking where you are going to take to me to have supper. " You are hungry? "Hunger of you, only of you", thought she. He would be sinned that a woman wished so much to a man? It wanted so much to it that had happened to be practically the air that breathed. " Yes, I am hungry " she frunció the nose ". It must of being the air of sea and to the sun that hunger gives me.

He smiled. " You choose… " he said to him. " I would like to go to eat to some exotic site, I create. " He defines "exotic". " smooth Lights, music of dream, food with an exquisite presentation… and… " she made a pause and she watched with picardía ". and waiters of black suit, attractive as cinema stars. " is happened to you some site in individual? She ed ***reflx mng herself. " Yes. He would be interesting to discover if she continues working a waiter in individual there. He was so attractive, that she made you sigh! " and he sighed by you? " As much as that attractive colored person when he watches to you. Gabbi did not ignore that the girl him had thrown the eye while exposed its perfect body. Benedict watched the woman at issue, soon she returned to watch Gabbi and she said to him. " She is handsome. " you do not have more to say? " She is not you. " the words are said easily " she said after a silence. " Good, always one says that the actions express more than the words " he said and he watched it bravely. " Perhaps I need words and facts. It inclined and he watched it. " a verbal expression of love? Gabbi watched it and said: " Only if you feel it. It turned aside the glance and watched at the horizon in the distance. She had the sensation of which there was been waiting for centuries that moment.

But now that arrived she was not safe to be prepared for it. It needed the air. " Mírame " he said to him. It was a smooth but firm order. Remarcaba could not ignore it the light the factions of the face of Benedict. During a second, she thought about the meetings of the meeting, in which Benedict could reduce to any watched opponent with a single one of those dark eyes, and to leave it in ridiculous situation with her firmness and decision. " you talk about the love, Gabbi? " he with a brightness of passion in the eyes, desire, necessity of her smiled ". I do not want to spend a day nor one night without you to my side. You are the laughter and the sun " he took the hand him and took it to the lips to kiss it ". You are the heat, the love… Everything. It felt a heat within her body. She needed so much that it touched it! The words that were been prisoners in their heart during as much time seemed to doubt in leaving to the outside. Gabbi swallowed saliva and saw that he watched it. It smiled. " It is so difficult to be reciprocal? " he asked to him. Gabbi watched it carefully. It had not hoped to find vulnerability in Benedict. Nevertheless, at those moments it seemed so defenseless… And she knew that she was the unique one to whom she would allow to be witness of his weakness. " the first day which you entered a meeting of directors " it began to say she calmly ", I felt that eras a living cliche " smiled ". I do not decide anything to me of which I said.

But your words, your smile, your gestures, remained recorded in my mind " it caressed the cheek to him ". When James invited to you to have supper, I believe that I knew which were the intentions of my father. It must to me have mattered, but it did not matter to me " it said she. Benedict observed the mixture of emotions that expressed the eyes of Gabbi. " I fell in love with you, not of the son and heir of Conrad Nicols. If it had not felt that, it would not have accepted to marry to me with you. " But you left thought that our marriage was a farce " he said. The eyes of Gabbi remained fixed in a point. " Monique congratulated to me after the wedding " she with a knot in the throat said ". By to have obtained a rich husband. I had not occurred to account of that to marry to me with you was a competition, nor that Annaliese had been an opponent. Benedict at heart did not disguise the rage of their eyes. " you have thought that I could be interested in Annaliese? " Everything seemed to fit… " Gabbi reflected ". On the other hand, Monique is the wife of James… And I would not say nor would do nothing that could darken the happiness of my father. " I do not share your generosity. " I can allow me to be generous " she said amiably. And it was certain. The light of the day was being extinguished. The lights were igniting in the tables of the terraces. A smooth smile made shake the mouth of Gabbi. " You are going to give me to eat? " she asked. " We can request that they bring the food to the room " said he to him with a smile.

" the food is wonderful in the restaurant of the Sheraton Waikiki. The dining room was in one of the last floors, and offered a panoramic Vista from all the windows. Gabbi watched it picaramente. " We can dance a little, we were of tablecloth with the coffee " she thought. " If that is what you want… She ed ***reflx mng herself. It was a glad sound that she expressed his happiness and she gave to his eyes a satisfaction brightness. " With that it will be sufficient, at least during some hours. " and later? " We have the night. " It sounds interesting. Gabbi repressed the temptation to incline and to kiss it. " Account with it. Benedict threw of her and she made it put itself of foot. Soon together they walked to the main entrance and they crossed the way to the hotel Sheraton Waiküd. He was early, and there was several empty tables. Gabbi chose one next to the window. Benedict requested champán. The food had a magnificent presentation and each plate was a demonstration of the culinaria masters of chef. " It seems a magical landscape… " Gabbi said watching to the illuminated high buildings that were aligned drawing the dark coast, forming a curve towards Diamond Head. " Yes " Benedict said But Benedict was not watching the views. Gabbi sonrojó slightly when it studied his delicate factions.

" We danced? Benedict said to him. When they arrived at the track from dance he tightened it against his body and it melted in her arms. The neck surrounded to him. Music and the lights were smooth. There was an atmosphere that was lent to the ensoñación. She tightened herself against him while they moved together to the compass of music. Its body was prepared and begun to feel the heat of the anticipation of the passion. It felt to accelerate the beat of his heart; its blood striking in its veins; a fire that began to seize of all its neurons, of each one of the cells of its skin. It felt the necessity of something deeper and physical than the mere tact among them. Despite there was a certain one to please in the delay of the moment for leaving and returning there to the suite, Era a way to increase desire, and to return it little by little crazy. The breathing of Benedict whispered against its ear. " Vayámonos of here " he said. She raised her face and she cleared the lips to him with his. " Immediately. As soon as they returned to its table, appeared the waiter. " They want coffee? A licor? Benedict left the decision into the hands of Gabbi. It accepted the offer and requested a coffee with licor to finish the supper. She was late when they arrived at the room. Gabbi took off the heel sandals. Soon, the loose hair was left. Benedict held shoulders to him, she attracted it towards him and she kissed it enthusiastically. It felt that she surrounded the heat doing to feel it alive. She moaned of pleasing when it slid the mouth by his neck, and soon followed his way towards the decollete of the dress.

They took off the clothes pledges to article. It caressed the chests to him with the hands and the mouth. It moaned of pleasing. Then, Benedict slid their mouth to savor the most intimate part of their being. It felt that that was the glory, and enjoyed those caresses, being contracted when she increased the pleasure, until this one was so intense that it hurried in that nirvana of enjoyment and sensuality. He was so erótico that all its body shook and its soul filled of emotion. Soon, it remained thrown, enjoying the caresses of the fingers of Benedict on his skin. With a winding movement, it put itself still on and she gave a kiss him. Now she touched him and it took her time starting to him sighs to please. The body of Benedict was tightened and it moaned under his caresses. It felt crushed by that enormous one to be able who exerted on him. It was an intoxicating sensation to make it arrive until that éxtasis, and see how long took in knocking down it and doing it hers in the middle of that desperation. Benedict did the love to him with smoothness. It moaned inside when feeling it, she bent time and time again and she raised herself slightly to receive the push of his love. Later, they rolled together by the bed. Benedict embraced it, she kissed to him sien it and she caressed the back to him with movements from top to bottom. " I love to You " she said to him. One felt peacefully satisfied and. No longer they consumed disturbing thoughts, the painful agony to want something that it did not have. Benedict slid a hand to him underneath the chin and looked for their mouth to give a sweet and slow kiss him. Later, it put her head in the chest of him. " You are comfortable? " Mmmm..

" murmured sleepy it ". You want that she moves to me? " Not " he answered and he caressed the hair to him. Gabbi smiled and it kissed the neck to him. That was like being in the paradise. " What you think of the children? " she asked to him. " In general? " Of which we have babies our. The fingers of Benedict stopped: " you are proposing Me something? She kissed her neck again. " She would have to be a mutual decision, you do not create? " Gabbi… " he in whispering moaning said. She smiled. " That means that yes or that no? " she asked to him. " Of course that yes. The idea that you are pregnant is sufficient stops… It caressed the cheek to him. And he kissed it enthusiastically. " I would like to follow with my work of Stanton-Nicols. To have certain flexibility, an office in house when I am pregnant and later… " was left pensativa ". Once the children are in the school, would like to return to the office, with on time partial schedule " it added, knowing that it would like to be in house to greet the children when they arrived and to take care of his extra-scholastic activities. It remained thinking and imagined small a boy brown, a blond girl… Games with the ball, lessons of swimming, ballet, music, gymnastics… Duties. Strolls by the park, picnics in the beach. Laughter.

Family. And Benedict, God Santo! With Benedict to its side always, he thought. " I love to You " Gabbi repeated calmly. Benedict kissed it enthusiastically, soon turned itself until she was underneath him. " You are my life " he said to him and he returned it to kiss. She sighed satisfied when he began to move, and the neck surrounded to him. He was something magical, thought she later while it was curled up against him. Magic… The union of two bodies and two souls, in a mutual exploration of pleasing and love. Always present the love… AIM