The Best is Yet to Come

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The best is yet to come CAPITULATE 1 The cold winter landscape he was so depressing for Ivy as the úl-timos months of his life, although it felt certain excitation when watching the highway that crossed those fields. Ryder it was on way. Culprit felt because she needed to see it, to listen to it, to want it. It had always loved it, although it gave fear him. It was its secret passion by Ryder which had thrown it terrified towards a tragic marriage that it had finished six months ago with the death of its husband. That was going to be the first time that would see Ryder from the funeral, and felt cheers and sad at the same time. She was thinner, but that only made more attractive. She was high and esbelta, its black hair was long and curled and its fresh and cremosa skin. Their eyes were as black as the jet inherited of its French grandmother and framed by long eyelashes and seducers. Ryder always had said to him that it was like the woman of a picture that it had hung in the hall his house, a representation of a titled poem The man of the highway. Although sometimes Ryder was too joking. Ryder had been in funeral, in the county of Clay, Georgia, to the borders of river Chattahoochee, a half an hour of way of the house of Ivy in the southwest of Georgia. They buried a Horseradish tree in the cemetery of the small church baptist to whom it went when it was boy. Ryder tam-bién had gone to its house, and it had to pretend that not it she had seen, fin-gir that she felt pain by the death of a man who had done give to his life a hell. Ryder could not know much that had affected it its presence, that had remembered to him that its secret love by him could have been the cause of the death of Horseradish tree. To Horseradish tree it had hurt to him that Ivy could not respond to him in the bed, and as a result of that it had turned a drunkard. The accident that caused the death to him happened when he was drunk and Ivy felt like person in charge. It remembered its years of adolescent, when Ryder was all its world and it could not think about nothing else that to adore it. But it never had guessed what it felt. It could not avoid to smile when thinking about the ter-nura that it seemed to reserve exclusively stops she. Of course, he was not the sweetest man of the world, had a character very hard, although with Ivy never there were lost the stirrups. - This is the first time that I have been seeing you smile for weeks - Jean McKenzie observed, watching at its daughter from the corridor -. Thus you are more handsome, affection. - I am sure that no - Ivy answered. The return occurred and went a to embrace its mother. It sank its face in that hair that smelled of spices. - But you are a wrist -1e said -, so we make a pair perfect. -¡Ja! - Jean exclaimed -. It leaves that it laughs to me. The latest that you need is quedarte here during the rest of your life - it said; soon when seeing páni-co in the glance of its daughter, its tone was smoothed a little -. Listening, affection, already have spent six months. You must begin to watch towards ahead. You need a change. A use. A new goal. To Horseradish tree not him it would please verte thus - it added. Ivy sighed and it separated from its mother. - Yes, already I know it. One goes away making easier as it passes tiem-po. - I know.what is. I lost to your father when noneras more than a girl - Jean said -. Somehow, I feel that you did not have a son, that would cause that the things were simpler. Like me it happened to me. - Yes. It is a pain - it murmured Ivy. But in fact it did not think like its mother. With a son all hu-biera be a disaster. In the first

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place, Horseradish tree he had been a good friend, but never she was a good lover. It had always had haste, and in the end had been impatient and annoying because Ivy could not to feel by him the passion that it felt by her. It had deceived it when marrying with him, and after his death one felt, mainly, culprit. It had never felt passion. During the last months of its marriage it got to ask itself if it could feel it sometimes. It had promised to Horseradish tree that would go to specialist, although without knowing what could find. Its childhood had been irregular, but happy. It did not leave any scar him. Simply, Horseradish tree not it it physically attracted, because their body and its soul belonged to another man, man who always had seen it like the best friend of his sister, but nothing more. And, what could make a psychologist with her? The money had been another one of its problems. Horseradish tree spent much money when he was drunk, and when she insisted on putting herself to tra-bajar, had terrible discussions. In the end it had stopped and she had been resigned to live poorly. The months they turned years and Ivy retired of the world, avoiding the contact with others, especial-mente with Ryder. In fact, one was forced to do it, since Horseradish tree had put itself furious when it saw it speaking with him in house of his mother. And a month before she it turned twenty-four years, a piece of heavy machinery had fallen on he. An unfortunate accident, informed to him, but it realized which he was drunk when one had been going away to work. That morning had returned a to put itself furious with her because of Ryder. It accused it to be to him unfaithful with thought, to make of its life a hell, and those words were had nailed in its mind. It often attended church with its mother, and only thanks to the faith lo-graba to surpass its feeling of it blames. In fact, the faith was the unique thing that maintained it still on. - When called Ryder? - preguntó suddenly. - For one hour - Jean replaced yawning; he was very early and a coffee had been only taken. So one approached coffee and served one more to a cup for her and another one for Ivy. - one is going away to be by much time? - Who can say which they will be the plans of Ryder Calaway? - Mrs. McKenzie with a smile said while the dressing gown returned to tie itself and it seated to the small white table of she cooks -. Although we have been knowing it for many years, that man continues being mystery. - That is truth - Ivy agreed seating to its side -. This it is a very strange place for a businessman like him, no? Yes that was it. They lived in a small rural county of the southwest of Georgia, in an agricultural zone she surrounds of Abany. The neighbors lived to each other very remote, even in the city. agriculture very was developed, and was very great farms. The own ones parents of Ivy had had a farm until the death of their father, Jean still he lived in her; now he had two hen houses and he used a family to gather the eggs and to feed the thousands on chickens until they were ready to go to the market. A friend of Ryder was his intermediary for the sale. After graduating in institute, Ivy went away to work for the company of construction of Ryder in Albany during some years, before occurring to account of which its friend Horseradish tree Trent also it worked there. They had gone together to the school and they began to leave. Without hardly to occur time to know itself they married. Ivy frunció the frown when remembering the surprise of Ryder when finding out its wedding, but had been reserved and distant, and after the wedding one had left to Europe during some months to found a new company. As her mother were saying, Ryder was a mysterious man. It bought earth as a woman bought shoes, and judging by the car that had and its airplane of luxury, never had money problems. But Ivy did not want it by its money. It wanted it because it was Ryder. It had an indomitable personality. It adored it from the school, when no it let go up to around its house with its small sister. Ivy always well was received in the great red brick house with the

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garden of roses that was located to end of the highway where they lived the McKenzie. And to Ryder never it had to him mattered to invite it when it took to its sister to the cinema or to the field, accompanied of course by the girl with whom it was leaving at that moment. Soon a had left the university and later to Albany to be made position of a small company of construction that was in bankruptcy. After some years it had transformed that company into a giant with offices in Atlanta and Nueva York; this business seemed to occupy all its time. In addition, after marriage of its sister with a businessman of the Caribbean, Ryder lived single in the red brick house. It was thirty and four years old, ten more than she. Ivy was wondered why it would not have married. Surely that with its money and his bearing it had not needed opportunities. It remained watching its cup of coffee while Jean rose to retire the bacon of the frying pan and to watch cakes that were horneando. It never must have married with Horseradish tree feeling that it felt by Ryder. It lived with the sensation on which to Horseradish tree it had not mattered to him to die. It had requested to him more than what could give him, mainly in the bed. But it was frigid. Surely that comprised of the problems that it had during his marriage. But if it had tried it with greater interest, so time Horseradish tree would not have spent as much time with its friends. Perhaps it would not be had emborrachado so often, or it would not have passed most of the time that they were together treating about herir-la. He had been a jovial and sweet boy, but in the end it had been conver-tido in a vicious drunkard, and all too much fast... - the car is not that of Ryder? Every time I see worse - Jean murmured watching after the window. Ivy rose with upset in the heart. - a black jaguar - it said agreeing -. It said why came? - it does sometimes? It will be one of its visits of after one of its trips - I indicate Jean laughing -. It does not have state this way from the funeral. - Good, I am glad of which have come, whatever it is the reason - Ivy confessed -. Ryder knows how to raise the spirit of people. - and to one of us it is that it needs to him - whispered Jean. Ivy went to the porch surrounded in its hot dressing gown of franela, ase-gurando the knot unconsciously when seeing how that high and brown man descended from his elegant car. Like always, its heart began to bark with more intensity when seeing it, and felt that it crossed a placentera excitation. Only Ryder had that effect on her. Ryder approached walking. Everything in him indicated that he was the owner of a company, from his face, that it seemed cement carving, at his enormous hands. It had to measure one ninety, everything muscles, a body that could have given a fortune to him in the cinema. Still him it pleased to work in the construction, and some Saturdays it helped its men in the works that they had in the city. Their eyes were gray, with deep glance and it lasts at the same time. The mouth was sensual but of firm gesture. It dressed a gray suit that one adapted perfectly to his body, as if outside silk. - I do not see you bad, small - I observe with a full glance of ternu-ra -. But you could have some kilo more between the neck and the knees -. It had a dark and aterciopelada voice. Ivy felt that the blood him it ran by the body flooding it of an pleasant calidez. It caused that to him excitation that had felt since it knew it and that never it had been able to explain itself. It smiled without wanting and it watched it affectionately. - Hello, Ryder. - Hello, precious - it murmured and he watched from the height of his almost two meters. They kept silence moments. It seemed to examine it with the mi-rada one. - Not even you are going to give to me a kiss? - she asked to him, treating of which it returned the affection from his youth, so that it did not realize his painful feeling -. For months I do not see you. The face of Ryder seemed to be contracted before responding to him. - I am becoming old, small -- it said and it grasped it by the waist hoisting it until putting it at

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its level -. No it will spend long time before forgets I how to kiss a girl. - I do not create it - she answered with a smile. One leaned in its shoulders and it felt the force of its muscles, tense under the clothes. It seemed changed. It was not the free and wild man who had known. He was much more observant, but it continued being very masculine. It smelled of tobacco and expensive colony. It felt the pressure of its hands in the waist. - You seem tired - it indicated with smoothness. - I am tired - it talked back, and it watched its lips -. You have a very pretty mouth, you I have said it sometimes? Good, what delays? I am not all. - I have besarte? - it asked to Ivy arching the eyebrows with an innocent gesture. - He is better - it murmured -. If I kiss, knows God to you where we will finish. - Promises, promises. - Ivy smiled -. Oh, Ryder; I am glad much of verte. - You have been escondiéndote a little, is not truth, handsome girl? I will have llevarte of flowed it. - I suppose that I need it - she sighed. One inclined on him and it caressed its nose with hers. - In where there are been everything this time? - In Germany - it responded with a rare intonation in the voice -. Ivy - it whispered watching it to the eyes. The sound of its voice was stranger. Ivy frunció the frown and felt how it attracted it against his body. - What happens? - it asked to him with smoothness. It suddenly kissed it on neck. It noticed its anxious breathing and one put when feeling its lips very rigid on the skin. Ryder opened the mouth and it caressed the neck to him with the language. That sensation was chocante and very intimate. It sighed and one stretched. - it surprises to You? - it murmured he. It ascended kissing it until ear and bit the lobe to him. The strong arms of Ryder surrounded it and they narrowed with force until both were as close as they did not have state for five years. She continued kissing it on the lobe, and she began a to shake, to burn. The legs shook to him as much that that thought they could not to maintain it. One had never felt that way with Horseradish tree. Even when there were arrived at greater privacy, never one felt to burn by him. It closed the eyes, and it could have shouted to please when feeling its mouth on the skin. The dreams they had maintained during long time, but the reality eclipsaba. It made a face. "Horseradish tree", thought, "Horseradish tree, feels it, feels it". It had to pronounce its name unconsciously, because Ryder was put rigid suddenly, it remained mortally quiet. It left it in the ground and it loosen it. Its expression seemed carved in granite and its glance was cold like the ice. - I never commit that error - it warned to him in a sharp tone -. I am not a substitute of anybody, Ivy. She ruborizó. - But, Ryder... - In where she is your mother? Inside, watching to see what is próxi-mo that it happens? - it asked with one smile. The hardness of its face it had toned down, and there it was Ryder, again indifferent to his flesh color. It took it of the arm. - What so if we had breakfast? I am dead of hunger. I ate something in the airplane and I have not returned to prove mouthful. It was impossible. It did minute was vibrating of desire by him and at that moment they gave desire him of to offer a slap to him. You and your win to eat - him espetó -. Your sister used to die of laughter when she told your escapes us nocturnal to the kitchen. - I miss It. It lives with Curt in Nassau, but as soon as I go that way. - it wrote to Me for few weeks.

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At that moment its mother she appeared by the door. Ryder surrounded it with the arm by the waist, one inclined on her and it kissed it on the cheek. - Affection - it said theatrically -. Fúgate with me. - Oh - Jean sighed -. No I can. Still I have not mopped plates. - cynical What - Ryder talked back with a false face -. There are broken the heart to me. I will not be until not me well eat a scrambled eggs plate, a pair of toasted, a cup of coffee... - it went saying according to one went towards the kitchen. - You stomach will be your perdición - Ivy joked following it. - Only if I marry with one woman who does not know kitchen - indicated Ryder seating to the table -. God mine, I am very of the car. - From where you came? - him Ivy asked while it put a full plate to him in the table. - the stork brought to me of... - the stork would not have been able with you. - What you are insinuating? Another commentary on my weight and I am going to you to put necktie scrambled eggses. - Killer - Ivy said to him with arrogance. I have inclinations very terrenales - Ryder talked back. Ivy ruborizó, giving thanks because her mother was of espal-das to her. It could not watch it to eyes. When remembering the tact of their lips on the skin, shook to him legs. It was a great infidelity to feel desire by a man when it only did six months that had died their husband. Only that wished that man in body and soul since it was fifteen years old. It had wished it from the first day that it saw it. But it was rich and poor and too young she. So it hid his unattainable desires and had married with Horseradish tree. It could not support to return-al happened. He had deceived Horseradish tree and now it was dead. It had some small one to him loyalty. In addition, Ryder not it desea-ba as it wished him, only it was joking, of that esta-ba safe. Ryder, watching it occurred it counts of the barrier that was levantan-do between both. It sighed and it drank I suck of coffee that Jean finished serving to him. - I came from the airport of Atlanta. The house is cold and there is no heating... - You can quedarte with we - Jean said -. We have an empty room. - Clear that yes - secundó Ivy, that followed without being able to watch it. Ryder watched it. It did not know if to remain. - they do not worry, no it would want to bother them. I can buy in-terior clothes of winter and become involved in a blanket. When imagining what there was saying, Ivy broke to laugh. Ryder could have gone to the hotel, could have bought the hotel if there were beloved, and it seemed as if one went away to die congealed if it did not sleep in his house. - Pobrecito - Ivy said, ruborizando itself and with the chispeantes eyes. - In some senses I am poor man-it agreed he, and in its face it was cre-ciendo a smile, captivated like the beauty of Ivy was pon -. You are very handsome, Ivy - it said and it was commited to mine to plate -. I will remain in my house, but I am thankful to them that they invite to me to have breakfast. He was dead of hunger, and this is delicious. - Thanks - Jean responded smiling to him. - Ivy cooks as well as you? - Of course - it talked back Jean. Ryder tightened the lips and it smiled. - My stomach is oyendo wedding bells. Ivy was put pale. Ryder it could not feel what it was saying and did not understand much that they hurt a to him she those jokes. In addition, Horseradish tree weighed to him on the conscience. ¡It was it killed...! Desmayó and Ryder it maintained when it was on the verge of falling to the ground. - By God... - it exclaimed, and his face revealed its commotion and its sor-presa.

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- one will recover - Jean said -. Lately as soon as it has slept and it eaten very little. It has not spent long time, and it wanted it. - Yes - Ryder agreed with coldness -, already I know it. Jean watched it, but it separated the mined one immediately, because what it had seen in its face it was too much intimate. - They see, recuéstala here. I go by a blanket. Ryder took its slight load to the living room and it deposited it with suavi-dad on the sofa. One knelt down to his side, separating to him the hair from the face. It was like the beautiful sleeper, thought irrationally. Their eyes seemed live coals and its heart barked with force. One paid attention to its eyelashes, and those confused eyes were opened and they smiled to him. It felt desires to kiss it, but it heard the voice of Jean, although it did not know what it said to him, and one rose. it separated and it left covered to Ivy with the blanket. Finally, Ivy was gotten up. It seemed a little aver-gonzada. - I feel It - one apologized, and one paid attention to Ryder, that had the aspect of a living dead -. Ryder, I feel. It is only that... - I already know what is. I also I feel it - it talked back -. Perhaps it is better than it goes to me. - Without finishing of to have breakfast? - Ivy asked -. Why? - I do not want to return á molestarte. Jean murmured something about to take hold the blanket and to take it to its room, I punish they did not realize. - you will not do it - it continued Ivy, disturbed by the coldness of its mi-rada. - he has died - he said with harshness -. Nothing that you can say or do or feel or think you will give back it. If the mention of the word wedding has the effect of... - Normally it does not happen to me nothing. I have not eaten much última-mente and I am a little weak. - and sensible - it added -. After six months, still you are sensible, and nervous. - I must right to be it - it with annoyance aimed -. ¡It wanted it! Perhaps if it said it it could to end up thinking that really there was beloved, who had not deceived his husband because of which it felt by Ryder. It did not say anything, only it watched it at the eyes. -¡It wanted it! ¡It wanted it! It wanted it! It hid the face between hands and skipped the tears to him. - I cannot continue living thus - it whispered. - You can; and you will do it - it said he raising it of the sofa and maintaining it still on -. This must finish. Six months are sufficient to llo-rar in front of a tomb. You are going to begin to live again. - That seems a threat. What you are going to do, ocuparte of me like of your company? Remodelar to me? To renew to me? - Something thus - it replaced with indifference; it removed to a handkerchief from his bol-sillo and tended it -. Now it leaves of to lloriquear, bothers to me. - Nothing bothers to you - it said she blowing one's nose obediently the nose -. Good, perhaps the small things. Like the day in which your car the day was had left unemployed in a turnpike and following, when you were able to take it, you took it to a work and you threw to him a demolishing ball in the heat of windshield - it said with a smile -. I wonder myself what you said to him to the insurance agency. - I did not say anything to them. Me I bought another car, of another mark. - It must be wonderful to have as much money. - I cannot eat it - it replaced Ryder -, or to drink it to me. Or to sleep in him in one night of winter. Although I can to paper the walls, or to roll tobacco. - You are crazy. - Thanks. But you have reason, I am in favor crazy of you. If so desayu-namos what before it dies to me of hunger? I have spent my last energies trayéndote up to here.

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Ivy loosen an outburst of laughter. - It is well. We go, coat without bottom. You said that you had eaten in the airplane? - When we left Germany. God mine, the airline companies would have to consider the women embarrassed and the men who work hard when they serve the food. - and you are of whom they work hard, or of the other group of...? ¡It hears! - Ivy when feeling one exclaimed light tap in the buttock. - Prohibited to fight in it pulls - it took part Jean, threatening them the finger. - It is well, so far is had freed - Ryder said watching to Ivy of reojo. That glance and those words enchanted to him, but it had to disguise. The return occurred and said something graceful. It had not forgotten what it had happened in the porch. He was unfaithful to Horseradish tree, did not deserve to be happy. It would not be allowed to have to Ryder, because it had filled of hopelessness to Horseradish tree, which was it lead to the death. He would not be right to obtain the happiness to that price. I CAPITULATE 2 RYDER responded to questions of Jean on their last trip, but meanwhile did not let watch to Ivy. She knew herself observed, and was more anxious of which never she had state: - You want more bacon, affection? - it asked to Jean its daughter for se-gunda time to him. - What? Ah, no, thanks, already I ate enough - Ivy with a smile responded, and soon it drank a little coffee. - It is as if you did not have proven a mouthful for weeks - Ryder observed. It finished igniting cigarette and did not let scrutinize it. He was leaning upon in the chair and its aspect he was very arrogant. - As soon as it eats. Métele something of sense common in the head, Ryder - Jean rising of the table said and leaving. Ryder jugueteaba with cup of coffee, watching at Ivy with a strange brightness in the eyes. - I believe more that what you need is alejarte of the things that re-cuerdan to you the past. At least by some time. - That is very well. But I have a total of twenty-eight dollars with thirty and five céntimos in my account current. - But, that you think that you estoy suggesting? A trip of turis-mo? - gruñó he -. Listening affection. I have one cabin in mon-tañas of the north of Georgia, one marries in Nassau and another one in Jacksonville. It chooses, I will take to you in airplane. Ivy smiled. - You are very amiable, but no I can. - Why no? I will not deal with seducirte - son-risa insisted he with one, although without sign of humor in watched -. To only I offer vacations you. - I am not safe of what I want to do, still not - Ivy replaced slowly. - you are not scared to me, truth? I am sure that no. We know ourselves well. Ivy watched to him with eyes penetrating. - Yes, I believe that if I have to you little of fear. It matters to you? Ryder smiled to him with tenderness. - the truth, Ivy, are that no it matters to me minimum. In spite of to have married, Ivy felt very ingenuous in some aspects. It watched at Ryder with curiosity and it thought that probably it had been with more women than most of men who had known. When thinking about Ryder with another woman in the bed it gave him an upset the heart and became infuriated. One was glad from which her mother returned stops thus to be able to avoid more embarrassing phrases: - I have put some here cakes so that you you take them - said Jean, that it took a stock market in the hand. - You are an angel - it answered Ryder -. Vente to my house and cooks for me, Ivy that fixes them as it can. - it would only lack that - it replaced Indignant Ivy.

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- and what has of Kim Sun? - another cup as coffee asked to Jean serving to them -. In where it is? - Because I am afraid that it is doing a new plate to me of its inven-ción - Ryder sighed -. Why not me you invite to eat? Me sal-varías the life. -¡Kim Sun is a cook extraordinary! - Jean exclaimed. - When one is repostería French, can be. This morning I requested to him that it did eggs to me and it said something in official held in low esteem whom if it had understood it, it would have to have it dismissed. It is certain that it makes desserts wonderful, but as soon as it knows to cook one Pope. - I see that to you it puts furious - Jean observed. - Also it has the worse one language of the world - it continued Ryder -, and does not stop to threaten to me. ¡I believe that I go a to dismiss it! - Oh, then for that reason you commanded to look for its parents and you constructed a house to them... - Ivy took part. - You cállate - it cut it Ryder. Its coffee finished and it raised. - I must go to me. Perhaps it already burned the whole house - it said and one inclined to kiss to Jean on the cheek -. Thanks for the breakfast. - It returns when you want. Ryder became to watch to Ivy. - Acompáñame until door. Ivy rose with hands in the pockets. - Pobrecillo, cannot to find the door he single. - Before I knew the clearly one impression that you were wishing to en-señar the way to me indicated Ryder watching it to the eyes. - Sometimes you are too much sincere - Ivy replaced ruborizando itself. - and if it were not it? - I like as you are, Ryder - it responded with a in-esperada tenderness. Ryder tightened the jaw and it had to separate the glance. They were di-rigieron to the door. - I am worried about you - it murmured -. You cannot live in the past. You must begin to live again. - I know It. It is only the form in that it died... - saliva murmured Ivy swallowing -. It will take some time to me to face to me yet of once. - I know It - Ryder sighed watching its face -. If what it has happened before here it bothers to you... - one stopped when seeing the flesh color in the face of Ivy -, long ago that did not kiss to one woman. It had to be truth, because one had never paid attention to her of that form. One fixed them to pretend one smile. - What happens? Your harem it has been empty? - I do not have any harem - Ryder stressed and their pale eyes crossed the body of Ivy -. Long ago time that I do not have been with a woman. Ivy ruborizó, because it felt implied in which it suggested that phrase, but when it watched it at eyes its expression was the one of having been joking. - Gross - it said giving him one to him light tap juguetona in the chest. - Handsome - it talked back -. Tomorrow I go to Blakely to an agricultural auction of equipment, you want to come? Of course that it wanted, but it knew that only was asked it for compassion. He was an old friend and it felt sorry of her. I have things that to do. - Tomorrow it is Saturday. - Already I know it - it responded. It looked for excuses, but they happened through its head like the sand by a sieve. In the end it raised the eyes and it watched it with something of frustration.

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- He is well - it accepted -, no I want presionarte. If you do not want to come, in agreement. - I feel It, Ryder - it excused, already a little calmer. - Again it will be and it dismissed with a smile, although Ivy saw it fruncir the frown when occurring the return in order to go to the car. When it told its mother that Jean had invited it it was perplex. - Why you do not want to go with he? Ivy did not want to give explanations. Still it is in a moment. Only six months ago Horseradish tree died. -¡By God Santo! ¡Ryder no it is requesting to you that you lie down with him! It only wanted to give a return. In serious, Ivy, I do not understand to you. Ryder is the best friend than you have. - Yes, already I know it - Ivy murmured. In fact that was problem. But in spite of refusal, Ryder appeared in the house to the following morning. It lead Rough in traction in the four wheels and it dressed cattle clothes and a hat Black Stetson. Ivy, when seeing it, remained of foot in the porch, and its heart it filled of joy when seeing to lower it of jeep and to go to the porch with his andares desgarba-dos. It took a skirt cattle tender, white shirt and a scarf. Aftas had been put dull because it had thought to go to give a stroll, so it could not return to reject the invitation. If one had left five minutes would before not have seen Ryder; no. it knew if to feel it to ale-grar itself. It opened the door while he account raised to the steps, occurring of which it was examining it with the glance. - List? - it asked with one somewhat mocking smile. - it was going to give a stroll to Me. -¡Jean, we go away! - it shouted Ryder. -¡That they are amused! - Jean talked back. - But, I do not go away with you - Ivy protested weakly. Ryder took it in arms, smiling before the consternado gesture of Ivy. - Clear that yes - he said smoothly. The return occurred and it took it towards the car, maintaining it with as much smoothness as if outside a coat of pens. It felt her wide one and warm chest, and perceived the aroma of colo-nia and the after shave lotion. It had two small wrinkles to both sides of the eyes and long eyelashes. The nose she was precious, and the mouth... they almost gave desire him to shout to only see it. lips were heavy and sensual and when it smiled it showed perfect ones white teeth. It was wishing to raise to the head centimeters to be able to unite its mouth to that mouth. That sudden desire it confused. It had never wished to kiss to anybody with as much intensity, and the same one time there was it been es-perando during years. But it had to remember that Ryder was only being amiable. It did not feel the same by her, and as soon as possible acep-tara, better. Nevertheless, these thoughts did not help it absolutely. When it left it in seat of the car, its mouth was so close that it could feel the scent to coffee and a tobacco. Ryder doubted a moment, his eyes were narrowed and its body was tightened. Soon it smiled, left it in the seat, and the moment happened. One seated to its side and it ignited the car. - I already see that it could not to oppose to me - it accused she. - the women are like machinery, sometimes you must give a small push them so that they follow she advanced. Ivy could not avoid one outburst of laughter. It could not imagine to another man with more feeling of the humor that Ryder. He was a unique man. - What you want to buy in it auctions? Ryder ignited cigarette while they turned in the en-trada way of taking the highway.

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- Nothing in individual, but I want to go. I do not like to be to me in house, where the people know where to find me, and in addition, to Kim Sun it enchants to him to be pleasant with people to whom I do not support - it said, and it added -. ¡Damn it is! ¡I must dismiss it! - What was what him you did? - What? - Ryder exclaimed with a surprise gesture. - You must have done something in order to irritate it - Ivy insisted. - Everything what I did - entre responded to Ryder tightening the cigarette the lips -, it went to throw to him to face a fish plate. Hatred all type of fish, but is that this not even well it was cooked. - Sushi - Ivy said agreeing. - No, it was not Sushi. I him it had commented something of croquetas of salmon that makes your mother, and he me it brought meatballs of crude salmon that roasted with onion. - you had explained to Him how they prepare croquetas of salmon? - Ivy asked to him treating about not reir itself. -¡But, devils, if I do not know to cook! You think that if knew it would have contracted that apostatized vicious person? - Kim Sun cannot read your thought. If you had sent it house to my, my mother would have taught a to him to do croquetas of salmon. - You know to cook. You could to come to my house and to teach to him - Ryder without letting said watch towards the highway. Ivy lowered the Vista and it was watching his hands supported in the lap. It had great temptations of to accept, but he did not have saber-lo. - Thus we would have one "lady gives company" - Ryder said suave-mente. -¡Ryder...! - Ivy protested, that it had been ruborizado and did not want to mi-rar it to the face. - I am so timid - Ryder said with a long sigh -. I have spent as much time outside. I suppose that it knew that, to aim and to the end, was not de-masiado, but a man cannot hold much he added enig-máticamente -. It hoped that already you would be cured. - Cured? - Ivy inquired swallowing saliva. - you cannot meterte in espetó Ryder with the tight teeth knocks down with him - him. - and I do not want to do it - Ivy talked back. One became to watch it, and when seeing its profile felt an upset in the heart. - I have missed to You - him it said with a hoarse voice. Ryder seemed to shake. Their pale eyes were narrowed. - it would have come to verte in whichever me you had requested it. Although outside the midnight. It said it with as much tenderness that Ivy felt desires to cry. It was clear that it concerned much to him, but was only friendship, not just like it felt by him. - you already have enough preoccupations as for ocuparte in addition to me - it said to him -. Everything what I need it is time. Ryder stopped the car together to a bar. - You want to take a coffee? - Yes. Single, please. - I decide to Me how you it pleases - it said Ryder to him. One lowered of the car and to the end from awhile it returned with coffee and doughnuts. Ivy drank the coffee and proved the doughnut. - Delicious - it smiled -. No I had breakfast. - Nor I. I cannot eat nothing very early - Ryder explained to him, and it watched it -. You are very thin, small. You have that to eat more. - Lately I do not have much appetite. Ryder divided a doughnut in two and it wet it in the coffee. - Háblame of it. Perhaps it helps you. Ivy watched a directly the eyes and did not find in them anything that could cause fear to

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him. - it was drunk - it said of sudden movement -. It was drunk when it went to work and it was mistaken. - I include/understand. - you did not know it? You do not say to me that you have not asked how it happened. The insurance agency refused to give me money, but the company ran with the expenses of the funeral - its great eyes black looked for those of Ryder -. Were you, right? You made pay them. - the employees pay one quota to the unions - Ryder said dryly -, Horseradish tree did and you had right to certain amount of money. With him the funeral could be paid for. - You knew that it was drunk - Ivy repeated. It sighed. - Yes, Ivy, knew it - it talked back watching it -. It knew that it often drank. For that reason I stayed remote as much as I could. Because Jean told me that sometimes it had seen you with some cardinal, and if I had seen them would have killed it. Ivy remained without breathing when hearing that. It could not articulate word; it seemed very violent. Ryder realized reaction of Ivy and regreted which there was saying, it could not allow that nothing escaped to him of the hands. - If Eve had been in the same situation, would have done the same by her - and it added -. They mean much for me. I am sure that you know it. - Of course - it said. No it could seem disappointed and it tried to outline a smile -. You always were our protector. - If I had close been when you knew Horseradish tree, you would never have married with him. I have never taken greater surprise than the day in which I returned and I found them married. - We were together to the school. We were good friends. - To be friends does not mean that a good pair becomes - declared Ryder and finished with its coffee -. Horseradish tree was well-known by its borracheras before it worked for me. I said to them to those of personnel who they gave an opportunity him. Ivy was wondered why it had done it. Although his father had worked for the company nobody gives work to somebody well-known by its liking to the alcohol. Ryder watched it, but she it had to separate the glance. - Horseradish tree thanked for much to you that you had employed to him. -¡Devils! You hated to me and you know it. The more time happened, the more hated to me. Ivy contained the breathing. It wished that it did not ask porqué to him, although did not know if it suspected the reason. - Also it hated my mother - it said to him to avoid the question -, although never it allowed that account occurred. It hated to all per-sonas that... they mattered to me. - and it beat to you? - it asked Ryder tightening the teeth. - Very little - Ivy responded with hoarse voice. - God mine... - it murmured, and soon both they remained in silen-cio. Ivy realized which it felt a great pain. Very impulsively, it supported a hand in its arm, that it tightened when feeling the tact of its fingers. It watched it and it verified that it breathed with agitation. - Please... - it said to him with smoothness -, I did damage to him. I cannot con-tártelo everything, but he was a good man until one married with me. It wanted something that I could not give him. It maintained its glance. - In the bed? Ivy ruborizó and separated Vista. - I cannot speak of it. - you remember Me to my aunt solterona - it murmured -. Three years casa-da and you

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cannot speak of sex. - He is something very personnel-it indicated Ivy, that it had been ruborizado still more. - and you cannot speak to me of it? There was a time in which you could say any thing to me without feeling shame. - Not on... that. Ryder crossed the body of Ivy with an approval glance. Finally it watched it at eyes. - very you are reserved. But you have French, small blood, and must you have left something of sensuality, although your husband did not know how to discover it. He was not the enough man? - it added with a smile. Ivy gave respingo. Ryder it spoke as if it hated Horseradish tree, and seemed to be very tense. But it said: - I feel It. I do not have right to hacerte that question. Dame your cup. It took it and putting it in paper stock market that had brought left to throw it without adding one more a word. Ivy was very nervous. It had never thought that the conversation could become interrogation, and the attitude of Ryder with respect to Horseradish tree frightened it. How much it would know? Ryder was very puntilloso with the men who worked stops he, and knew many things of them. It would not have tolerated drug addicts or drunkards, and without em-bargo, it had admitted Horseradish tree, having even confessed that it did not like. Why? By her? Because it considered it like a small her-mana? certain it was that it could not understand it. Ryder returned to the Rough one. - Good, the truth is that still I am much hungry - it said re-cuperando the good humor -. But that has adjustment. A few hamburgers after eating and ready. Ivy returned to reir itself, and words that had heard previously were forgotten almost. The auction was fascinating. It walked between articles next to Ryder, watching things of which nor at least it knew the name, es-cuchando to expose it its virtues and defects. - How long does that we know ourselves? - Ryder asked to him suddenly, while they rested taking refreshment. - Many years - it replaced -. Ever since I was in... párvulo. - So many years and there is no another one thing more than bitter memories for us - Ryder with a voice said very deep, watching the mouth of Ivy -. You remember, right? Still it is there, between us. Ivy as soon as it could breathe. It lowered the Vista. - I did not realize of which door was open - she with sadness said. - I know It. But then not it it knew. And now I feel it. She remembered that night as if she had been the one of the ante-rior day. It had tormented it during years: It had been going to sleep with Eve, it was eighteen years old and she was very ingenuous. Eve pizza had been going away with its mother to buy one and they had left it single in house, or that thought at least. Ryder had arrived from unexpected form, but it had not realized and the door of its room was abier-ta. One went to the shower without more clothes than the silk bodice that Eve had given to him by its birthday; of course it did not hope that nobody saw it, and much less Ryder. But that night he already it it had seen through the opened door, and thought that she took a walk exhibiting itself before him. Even in those moments it could see the same glance. Ice cream in the threshold had remained. Agape and stupefied, and instead of apologizing it had entered room closing the door and watching it accusingly. Ivy observed to him so innocently and so little cautious, that it had had to use all his force of will not to touch it, but without being able to avoid to caress it with eyes. It glimpsed with clarity through the fine silk its turgentes sines and his turgid nipples tightening itself against the weave. Then it had contained the breathing. Ryder watched it at the eyes and it maintained her

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glance. The world is very frivolous, and Eve did not make the smaller attempt ocul-tar its liberal attitude with respect to boys with whom it left. But Ivy was a traditional girl and who a man it saw it in underclothes was for her a chocante and embarrassing experience. Unfortunately, Ryder no it knew it and it thought that it was like Eve. - Precious - it had said to him with a very smooth voice, without letting watch the bodice -. It did not know that you were so handsome. - you would not have to be here - she with a become weak voice said, confused because that situation him she pleased and she scared it at the same time. - Why no? You left open door and you would want that it entered, right? -¡Ryder, not it you understand...! - she when seeing that had exclaimed he se approached. But the protests came too much late. Ryder was it been watching... wishing. And although him it displeased to have fallen about which he thought that it was a trap, Ivy was too beautiful like so that he could control himself. It took the face him between hands and watched it. But it was not its mouth which kissed, but its raised chest silk place setting. And it had proferido moaned that not even had imagined never. The caress of that mouth it caused in her a sensation of abandonment and pleasure, pain and fire, it made that nece-sitaba something conscious that never had needed. Hardly it had given cuen-ta of which it had lowered the braces to him, when it watched it and it saw it to caress its naked chests. Then already it had taken it in bra-zos, without retiring the mouth of its nipple. Ivy had sunk the fingers in its hair tightening the head of Ryder on its chest while it fought against its pride and inhibi-ciones, with the certainty that there was lost control of its own body. - No, Ryder - it whispered weakly while it tended it in the bed in which he had slept -. No. But it did not seem to oir it. One had tended to its side, having catched its legs between hers and caressing the satin skin of its back without letting kiss it on the mouth. That had been the first one kiss that a man had given him and been so enthusiastic that Ivy could to ruborizar itself with its single memory. He had been so deep and so intense that it had left rendered between its arms. Soon Ryder had crossed its body with the mouth and she respondi-do with as much naturalness and of way so disinhibited that anyone of its previous protests seemed false. it embraced and it caressed the hair and profería to him small complaints while he him it caressed the pe-chos with warm and strong hands... Ryder was on the verge of to explode and grasped by the waist, tightening its belly against his. - I wish You. I cannot to contain to me. You can take care of of same, small you? That question was stops Ivy like jarro of cold water that made it return in himself. - To take care of... of same me? - it asked with become weak voice, still rubbing its body against his. - You have something can to me to put or you are taking the pill? - he had asked to him, fighting by to contain its desire. Ivy had blushed of shame. - Ryder, I am... I am virgin - it whispered - I do not know how... how. I mean that to nonvolume the pill. - That you are what? - it exclaimed Ryder. Ivy swallowed saliva, a little frightened it responded: - I have never done this before - it whispered in a whisper. And then Ryder said something that she never had heard of the lips of no man and was put still on, watching it as if it hated it. -¡Damn it is! - gruñó in low voice, more threatening without embar-go of which it would have sounded nobody shout -. ¡Small false and vicious! And it had added many more insults, things that Ivy had been es-forzado to forget during

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years. Things that she not even had imagined that they were possible to be said to him to a woman. Finally, Ryder was had marched and she it remained crying. When it returned Eve said to him that it had jaqueca. It never returned to spend one night in house of the Calaway. And never until that moment at which one was with Ryder in the auction, neither it had returned to mention the happened thing. That had left many scars in Ivy. A crawling being had felt, but also account occurred of the vulnerable thing that was. In spite of everything, that night haba given to Ryder its heart. It had avoided it nevertheless since then, as much as it seemed evi-tara to her. However, when Horseradish tree began to enter its life, Ryder seemed to want to return to resume the old friendship and it had invitado it to have supper one night. But she it was scared when seeing its glance and ex-cusó with the pretext of which it had an appointment with Horseradish tree, which was not cier-to. Soon was said it to Horseradish tree and the appointment became in fact, and when Ryder returned from one of its trips, it found them married. - Still you remember it, truth? - Ryder asked to him -. That -; night I committed the greater error of my life. On the following day I went to Toronto and soon I avoided like a a plague. And a to divide of that night all the nights that you slept with Eve was in your house and never in ours. - it was not as you thought - Ivy said -. I thought, really, that there was nobody in the house. Ryder made a face. - Oh, God, you think soon that I did not realize? But the damage esta-ba done. The only thing that could do era to separate to me from your way. You were scared to me and it did not want hacerte to undergo more. Although in the end what I did was not necessary, because you ran to echarte in arms of Horseradish tree the first time that I requested to you that we left. Ivy shrank shoulders with a neglect gesture. - I thought that you followed thinking that I was one... false and... it swallowed saliva and it crossed the arms -. It was not safe that you did not want a small revenge. That night you seemed to hate to me. You said that... it had so small chests that... - the men say things when they feel frustrated - in-terrumpió Ryder -. I am sure that already you know perfectly. It did not think the things that I said that night to you. Only it wanted herirte. Ivy watched the ground. To the end from the years it had arrived at the same con-clusión that now was saying to him Ryder, but that did not seem to serve to him as much aid. - I feel It - it said with loss of heart. - it was not fault yours. I had to me to have marched, but I could not. It had never seen a so handsome woman. It watched it at the eyes, but his face tightened when seeing the doubt in the eyes of Ivy. It felt that that voice a calidez in its interior woke up, but it did not dare to watch it. - Thanks, but you do not have why to try to console - it said to me with the lost glance in the distance -, Horseradish tree it said that it was too much... pe-queña, too much... ¡Ryder! It took hold it by the arms and it shook it. -¡I lay! You go to meterte in the head that that night I lay? It wished the enough thing you like for haberte forced. ¡Damn it is! It had to move away to me of there, so it needed decirte that - all its body vibrated like dominated by a passion -. ¡Oh, God, Ivy, you do not know how these years have persecuted me that night all! ¡You do not have nor idea! Ivy could see its face tormented although it did not know why. Without thinking, it supported a hand on his cheek. When occurring account wanted to reti-rar it, but it grasped it and he maintained it tightened against its face. - In agreement - she said with a very weak voice -, that happened many years ago. - It happened yesterday - it indicated with a strange and intense glance -. You fled from me.

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- it did not know what to do. Never I have been able to speak thus with mother of things - the Vista murmured Ivy lowering. Ryder attracted it towards himself and it watched the platform of the auctions over his head. - It will be better than we go a another part to speak of this. - Yes - Ivy agreed closing the eyes. To be in its arms was like being in the Paradise. It could not avoid a tremor. Ryder realized and it put very rigid. It thought that it was scared to him. Perhaps it sheltered some fear because it wished it, perhaps but not esta-ba surely, was being deceived himself same. It supported one of its enormous hands in the back of Ivy and it tightened it against yes still more. It could feel his breathing and the heat of its breath woke up desire in all its body. It liked to feel it so close. It brought re-cuerdos to him of that night, the night on which it had kissed it, the night in which it had been for him the entire world. And still it was it, only that throughout the years that feeling had been increasing. It felt by her a desire that all the Earth seas had not been able to exhaust, but was not so only a physical desire. It wanted to have all its being. - It used to ask to me how it would have been our life if there were not lost the head that night - it said feeling its breath on the chest -. We were friends. All these years I have wished to recover that privacy. - It believed... that still we had - Ivy stammered, treating to calm. But it seemed impossible to him to calm feeling its body next to his. It wanted to raise the face and to watch it, to sink its face in its skin undresses and to feel that it wished it... - Not sufficient it - it said with hoarse voice -. But perhaps if we tried it, Ivy, we pruned to obtain the friendship other time. What seems to you? - I believe that we could - Ivy agreed closing the eyes. Ryder felt its heart to beat very quickly. It raised the head took smoothly to Ivy by the chin so that it watched it. - You are precious - it said with vehemence -. The dream of all man. "Except yours ". Ivy almost pronounced those words aloud. Soon it smiled sadly and it separated the face. - Not as much - it talked back with one nervous giggle -. We return? I believe that it is going to begin - it added when seeing evasively to people to meet next to the platform of the auctions. - How? Ryder had to do effort to return to the reality. It smelled it, felt it to its side... it watched towards where she was watching. - Oh, yes, the auction. It will be better than we return. It took it from the arm and it guided it through the multitude, still savoring its small stroll by the paradise. friendship, was said, been better than nothing absolutely. And with that base it could to construct something more satisfactory. A smile was drawn in its face when it directed to the auction. I CAPITULATE 3 IVY was standing next to he, feeling its heat and its presence while the auction passed. Not him it spoke until the article sale finished and both they went to Rough. - you remained shut up - him it said igniting a cigarette. It lowered the glance while she waited for it. - It hurts to speak of the past - she confessed to him -. I at heart had section of my mind during much time. - I also. I was confused absolutely. I had to realize which eras very innocent. - Considering the way in which the things happened, echarte could not the fault reason why you did - it with sadness declared. - you could not? - it asked Ryder with dryness. Ivy felt a little shamed. - In the beginning not even I stopped to you - it explained with a very weak voice -. I felt like

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one prostituta. - I feel It - one apologized Ryder with a reproach glance -. You do not have why avergonzarte. - But you avoided to me. - It felt that it had to do it - it with calm talked back -. I was mistaken, but besarte brought many to me problems - it added with a smile. - I learned the lesson. Me it cured of any lewd tendency. - noneras lewd. Only peculiar young person and. - and you think that that he made easier? - Ivy with dryness asked to him. Ryder stopped and it watched it, although it could not see the eyes him, darkened under the wing of the hat. - We had to speak of this for many years - it said to him -. That could have said you it wished you enough like forgetting tu age and that I stayed because eras remote a continuous one temptation Obtains that that everything is less painful? - You... you wished me? - she in a whisper asked. - Yes - it responded with shady tone -. He wished you, but you only had eighteen years and I twenty-eight. It tried to see its eyes. - I also wished you - he confessed smoothly. - and still you wish me? - it asked he tightening the jaw. Ivy separated the face, tightening the arms, that it had crossed on the chest. - Now I cannot feel nothing - it talked back evasively -. Not with Horseradish tree died by my fault. - What you mean with that of which it was by your fault? Ivy closed the eyes. - I failed to Him - it whispered -. Never I could... I was not a good wife. Ryder let save a length sigh. It had never considered that it could feel guilty. Frunció frown and watched it. It wished to know more about its marriage, of which there was senti-do by its husband. Ivy dropped the arms and it put the hands in the pockets of the skirt. - In any case now everything it has finished. And as you said, I must begin to live again. - Yes - Ryder agreed separating the glance. To watch it was like touching the paradise. It ignited a cigarette. Only with the proximity of its body, Ivy obtained to put it nervous, tense like the cord of a violin. - Why you do not put a to work? - Already we are again - it said she laughing. - Exact. It is not good that you be left sitting without doing nothing, Works for me. My secretary resigned the month happened and I have still not found to anybody. I need to that it can travel conmi-go, and mainly, somebody that can trust, somebody of which knows that one is not going away to put to chismear on the businesses of com-pañía. I believe that you you could do it very well. The idea touched it. But it distresses to be near him made doubt. It wanted it. What would feel to to work for him knowing that everything what it felt by her was affection, and so time some embers of an-tiguo desire? - I do not know - she doubted -. I do not know if I would like to take a walk to me with you everywhere. - I believe that you would like - it talked back -. You will be able to know muchos exotic places. The pay is good and I am sure that traba-jo will be to you interesting. Of this last one it did not have smaller doubt. Ryder always had had some interesting business in hand, and it knew a surprising number of famous people. The work would be fascinating. - I can take a time in order to think it? - Two weeks - he said with a smile -. I cannot follow indefinitely without secretary.

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- We would travel much? - Yes - it responded with brightness in the eyes -. But I do not offer the use to clear in the middle of a Jean and to lay down to me with you. I am not used to working with that type of women. -¡It was not necessary to say it! - she with certain sadness exclaimed. - No? Good, perhaps you think that you are irresistible. If it is thus, I will say to you that I can look for that type to me of company elsewhere. It separated from him, with the heart beating and the eyes throwing tipsy. -¡And you know what you can do with your work...! - it shouted to him while they arrived together at the Rough one -. ¡I will not work for you under those conditions! That fit of genius it astonished and it liked. Perhaps what it bothered it was the idea to see it in arms of another woman. - I believe that you will do it -- it said watching it to the eyes -. You will finish cansándote of your inactivity sooner or later. If you follow without doing nothing you will return crazy. - You also - it talked back. - Better crazy person than buried in life - it indicated shrinking shoulders -. The best way to recover of one loss is to take care of something, to be related to another people. - and how I am going to do it working for you? - Hazlo and you will see it. One of my new projects are a villa in Arizona. Their inhabitants will be of third age, and I know many them. In spite of itself, that interested to him. - I like the old ones. - To me also. The wisdom of the world it resides in his calm minds. They will enchant to you. - I do not doubt it - it agreed and soon it added frunciendo the frown I believe that I could like. Ryder, that had contained the breathing, let save a long sigh, taking care of of which it did not occur it counts. - You can begin Monday. I must go to me to Phoenix. - Porqué you want to do this by me? - You are too much, young person stops encerrarte in a mausoleo. It would do the same by Eve. In spite of the fear that I gave you when you were eighteen years old, I believe that you know that you can trust me. Truth? - Yes, I know it - Ivy agreed with a smile -. In agreement, I will dust my abilities as clerk and I will do my suitcases. Ryder looked for its darks eyes for a moment. - Good girl - it said finally -. Good, vámonos. But you are not going to take me a my house? - it asked to him when they stopped in front of the red brick house where Ryder lived. - No, until you do not teach a that damn devil to do croque-tas of salmon -- it talked back helping it to lower of the Rough one -. I will call to Jean and I will say to him that we are here. Ivy loosen an outburst of laughter. He was the man more unforseeable than it had known. - That sounds well. Not you it had heard really laugh long time ago. - Poor Kim Sun - she said. When they arrived at the porch, the door of the house was opened, and behind her he appeared a low man with torn eyes, were bald, and of yellow skin; it did not let shake the arms and to shout to Ryder with incomprehensible sounds. - Cálmate - Ryder said to him -. Damn it is! ¡Cálmate! Kim Sun inclined the head backwards and she watched it. - nonmilk in the house. No eggs, nonflour, nonsugar. How I can cook so in conditions primitive? - the light works - it observed Ryder -. You can at least use the stove. - a stove without food? - There is salmon - Ryder replaced with, a malicious smile.

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- Fortune teller where to put salmon this time - she talked back Kim to him Sun. - I have brought to You instructor. Their best mother and she do croquetas of salmon to the south of the Arctic. Kim Sun greeted it with one elegant inclination of head. - Ivy Young lady, I am glad of to see it again. I will appreciate its aid much - it said and watching Ryder it continued -: Some stupid people demasia-do nonknowledge that is necessary to learn new plates. - stupid Llámame once and I will command to you more to house put in a box of cornflakes. - We go, we go - Kim Sun said denying with the head and miran-do to Ivy -. This idiot knows less of rules social that a donkey. I will not consider - it declared with pride. - To whom you are calling to him idiot? Who devils pay to you every month? - That misery. Nonpayments nor half of which I am worth. - Listening, miserable, if you had what really you deserve, ten-drías that to pay you me. A misery, but you are the only cook of Georgia that has a Mercedes. - Good, good - Ivy said trying to calm them -. Acuérdate of your problems of tension. We go, Kim Sun, they see with me. - Good idea - it talked back Chinese doing a face to him to Ryder -. ¡Tomorrow I go away! -¡Tomorrow I will dismiss to you! Kim Sun said something in his own language and went to the kitchen. Ivy, amused and astonished, was after he. Kim Sun was a good student and she did not take long time to him to learn - to do croquetas that to Ryder they pleased. - He is so horrible to work for him? - he is not horrible, is impossible - head responded to Kim Sun moving la -. It is necessary to be prepared a any hour, does not eat well, only work, work, work. Duer to me little, it does not go with women. First I thought was forgetting a girl. Now I think addict to make money. - he has always been a man untiring - Ivy commented -. Good, it will be better than it is going to say to him to my mother who it has not rap-tado to me. Kim Sun watched it fixedly. - Sometimes it jeopardize with the head? - it asked of sudden way. - Oh... so that? No... By what it questions? Kim Sun separated the Vista. - Oh, please, pardon by the question. Excuse curiosity. Someday you will include/understand the reason stops ask-it said and it added to avoid to follow with the subject -: Croquetas is lists? Ivy was wondered what he could know who she did not know. Ryder behaved like brother the rest of afternoon. It spoke to him of Eve and of its husband, it taught to him wood elephants que had brought of Ceylon and soon they ate croquetas of salmon with a salad. It had to accept that Kim Sun had done a great one work. - the next week, chicken roasted - Ryder said to him to Ivy while they savored a dessert of egg yolks, fruits and ice cream that Kim Sun had invented -. Now you cannot hacerte stops back. You will make of Kim a good cook sureño. - that to Kim Sun Can not him please what I cook. - It will like - Ryder affirmed -. If one refuses I will make it clean vajil-la of silver tonight. A furious bustle of words were heard in the direction in which it was the kitchen and to the few seconds Kim Sun appeared shaking the bra-zos. - Someday one will go away - Ivy said to Ryder laughing. - one would not dare, in what another place would find to a so comfortable work and a head with whom it could to fight itself? - Poor Kim Sun - Ivy said with an outburst of laughter. - Poor of me - it sighed Ryder -. As soon as you go away will hide my cigarettes. - I do not blame it - it talked back with a smile. It watched it, but the privacy that they had recovered made it ru-borizar itself and separated

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the Vista. Its timidity did that Ryder felt like protector. - I will take to house - it offered he rising of the table -. You will be ready Monday to six in the morning? We must take an early flight in Albany to be able to approach the airplane in Atlanta. - Yes, I will be ready - him it assured. In its interior one was cursing to accept to work for him, which probably would be the worse one error of its life. Jean did not think the same. - You will like, and you know it - he said to him to his daughter -. And Ryder will take care of you. - I suppose that I am doing the correct thing - Ivy sighed. - you do not worry. You will already see how everything comes out very well. Ryder gathered it to six o'clock of Monday. Dress with a suit went elegant navy blue, Black leather Stetson and boots. It did not feel so elegant with the suit dark that she had two years ago and the white blouse of cotton. - You had to get dressed dark? - Ryder asked to him after taking leave of Jean. - My suit? He is the unique one that I have. - haberte Could advanced something of money so that you bought something less tristón. - he is not tristón - it talked back she -. He is very elegant. And that also seemed to say the glance of Ryder. Soon it returned to be centered in the highway. - I feel that in your first one day of work you must come to Phoenix instead of going to the office stops familiarizarte yet, but I must go. And you must see what we are doing there. It will help you to include/understand how it is our work. - I never have been in Arizona. - Or it will enchant to you or you will hate. Specially the zone to which we go. - Sand and serpents of bell? - Delay and you will see - he said with a smile. After few hours they were flying on Arizona and Ivy watched through the window hills cut and the reddish Earth before arriving at the airport of Phoenix. - I thought that everything was flat - he commented to him to Ryder. - In serious? It will not be only surprise that you take. It was right. When they lowered of the airplane paid attention to the mountains that rose of the desert ground, and when going in a car rented until the center of Phoenix one paid attention to abundant vegetation that was to both sides of the highway. She was not the dense one and humid of Georgia, but the variety of colors and plants showed the beauty of Arizona. The air, clear and clean, and the long highways that ran in line straight until being in horizon trasmitían a peace sensation. Ryder enjoyed seeing fascination of Ivy before that landscape, and those earth that knew so well they appeared before him with new eyes. They had reserved rooms in a luxurious hotel in Table of the Sun, a tourist center that no some would suppose competition para its project. - He is greater of which it imagined - it said to him while they arrived at Table of the Sun, a small group of buildings that stood out in the distance. - You mean the Earth? Ex-plicó --. is by the lack of trees - him The horizons seem greater because it does not have nothing hides them. If Arizona seems great, you would have to see you Montana. - There is some city ghost this way? - Ivy of re-pente asked. -, Yes enough. I will deal with llevarte to some. In agreement? -¡In agreement! - Ivy exclaimed with an ample smile. The rooms of the hotel they were together and they had a communication door. After leaving suitcases went to the place in which Ryder was constructing the new one complex. The

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foundations of some buildings were only he-chos and first it plants of two of them. - He is very pretty, Ryder him Ivy commented about the design of es-tuco that it conjugated with the landscape desert. - To me also me it seems it - Ryder agreed. Soon it accompanied it to main building, where the work head, a giant pelirrojo, was them hoping. - Hank Jordan - it presented/displayed it -, it is in charge of the project. Hank, this are Ivy, my new secretary. - I am glad of conocerte. - How goes everything? - of Ryder asked. While two men they spoke, Ivy gave a stroll reason why they had to be DAS offices of the complex, enjoying he gives amplitude of spaces and of he gives to DAS simplicity constructions. - What seems to you? - him Ryder asked approaching her after awhile, and taking it from the arm they directed again towards the car -. There will be approximately sixty marriages, and a medical doctor's office, a restaurant, a theater, a small one is included supermarket, stores of clothes and a store of tools. We will have ours own running water and conditioned air. - It sounds as if outside one city of the future - she commented. - Hopefully do is - he said with a smile -. We will make a use more logical of the space, with a special emphasis in to integrate to us in eco-sistema in which we are. -¡Magnificent! - We are going to eat something, you are hungry? - it would eat to Me until a plate of sand. - the tacos are better. We go. They took leave of Hank and they returned to Table of the Sun. The temperature was surprising. Ivy dressed clothes winter, but was warm and the conditionned swimming pool was a temptation. Him it would please to have had the occurrence to bring a bath suit. One changed of clothes. It was put texanos and a pink blouse of braces and soon the hair loosen. When it found with Ryder in the dining room, also it went dress with jeans and a light jersey, although continued taking the Stetson and it give leather boots. - Tired? Ivy denied with the head. - For a long time that not me it found so well - it said laughing -. But it gives conscience position me. It would have to be taking notes or typing some thing. - there will already be time for that - it assured Ryder to him -. After eating we will take care of the papeleo. If you want we can seat next to gives swimming pool. You have brought bath suit? - Like it was so much cold in Georgia... - This is Arizona - of it said he. It slid by its body one possessive glance that continued until they seated in a table next to one window. They ate tacos and fajitas with frijoles fried and drank refreshments in great glasses. Ivy was astonished to stop as much thirst, and it was asked if he was de-bido to DAS dryness of the desert climate. Ryder kept silence during the food; ad to finish was excused and it went to his room to look for it gives portfolio. They were in meeting next to the swimming pool. Once there, they seated in a table with som-brilla. Ryder began to remove documents and of gave to Ivy a notebook and a ball-point pen. - Hour to work - it said -. I need that notes some numbers. If with himself a typewriter, you can late pass them to machine this? - Of course - it agreed she. It could not protest, stops that had gone. But cuen-ta had occurred of which Ryder was tense since they lowered of the airplane and pre-guntaba the reason. It could not know that for him to have it so close was like a drug that made vulnerable and do

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maintained on edge and hungry. One made an effort so that it did not realize, but the aspect that had with those texanos it was returning I touch. work, at least, would maintain it occupied hours. It had to resist it, no it could risk to lose it being again impatient. It watched the hand that supported on it gives table. Still Lucia the wedding ring that Horseradish tree had put there. It wished to clear it to it and to throw it very far, that forgot that it had belonged to Horseradish tree and to do it hers completa-mente. But it knew that it was impossible. In spite of two defects of Horseradish tree, Ivy had wanted it. How it could compete now with him? Perhaps with time Ivy one became towards him. One was forced to hope thus that outside, because it was only which do saved of it gives locu-ra. I CAPITULATE 4 IVY as soon as it had time of to worry to be in a room next to the one of Ryder. The work it crushed it, mainly the correspondence that had daily to be taken care of. It was familiarized with electronic typewriter, which saved long time to him, but the greater one part of the day was occupied in transcribing the dictation of Ryder in letters that they satisfied him enough. Often, he rescribía the same letter three times before allowing that it sent it. Meanwhile it passed most of time in the city, and when it returned to the hotel gave new encar-gos him. Ivy had the sufficient one work like to have maintained ocu-padas three secretaries. Ryder occurred it tells that it had some problem at the time of copying. - Soon it will be more easy - it promised to the third day to be in the hotel -. So far hazlo only better than you can. When we return to Albany, I will say to him to another girl who helps you. Ever since Mary left the work seems to have increased, she had been ten years with me and it knew each facet the business. For anyone it would be difficult to be accustomed, so you do not worry, in agreement? Ivy smiled with lightening. - In agreement. A began to feel a little to me incapable. - you are not it. You type at a speed over the nor-mal and in shorthand you are very fast, although little orthodox - it said chasqueando the language -. We will obtain it. You want that tomorrow we are going to see a ghost city? - We can? - she exclaimed -. We have time? - Since you have worked very hard, yes - he answered watching the clock -. God mine, forgot to me. I have one interview in the bank. I am run myself. It requests something to eat and estate pending of the telephone, it must to me call a friend of London. It writes down what it says to you. - I will do It - it said seeing it to leave by the door, fascinated by its in-agotable torrent of energy. On the following day, after to eat, they filled a portable refrigerator of refreshments and left towards the north. two dressed texanos and wore leather boots and he insisted on which it took a hat to protect itself of the intense sun of that zone. Ivy seated together to him in jeep and it smiled when verifying that they made good pair. The only one evident difference in its articles was the red handkerchief that lleva-ba she around the neck. It made too much heat to take cha-queta, and Ivy knew that the long sleeve of its shirts would serve more to protect them of the sun that of cold. - Where we go? - him it asked. - To a very special site - it answered to him -. You will not find it in any tourist map. It is an old mine of silver that belonged to an ancestor of Hank. I said to him that it wanted enseñarte some ghost city and suggested to me brought to you here. It gave the key me of puer-ta. - amiable What. - Hank is not immune to women - Ryder said to him watching it of reojo -. It liked. - But if as soon as I spoke with he - she with a sor-presa gesture protested. - you are not conscious of enchantment that you have. I have never known a less vain woman.

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It could to him have said that it was thus thanks to Horseradish tree, that found a lack in each part of its body. But was not said it. - There were many mines in Arizona, right? - it asked to him. - It had and it has - it responded to him he -. One of most famous is Silver King. - it was not Tombstone silver deposit? - Yes, originally yes - him it said laughing before the interest that it demonstrated. - I read something on Arizona when you said to me that we would come, although the truth is that all it surprises to me. It seems another world. - Yes - it agreed -. That was first that I thought first vez that I came. When we are in the mine pégate to me like one lapa. You could caerte in some hollow and very it would not be amused. The eyes of Ivy reflected certain fear. - you are joking, right? - No. There are this way some cities in which some buildings by the great amount have been derrum-bado of tunnels that had ex-cavados under the ground. And some people have fallen in pozos of left mines. - horrible What - Ivy exclaimed with a tremor. - you do not separate of me and I I will take care of of you, small. To Ivy it beat the heart to him when listening its protective and tender voice. It must have well-taken care of for no to give in, not to show what felt. Although he would not be far from easy. With to only be sitting to its side, could not let shake. - Also there are some serpents, so fíjate where you put the foot. After a few kilometers, Ryder separated from the highway and took a way until an iron door, closed. It opened a great inner door with a padlock, and after driving the car to another side, closed it. Soon they continued in jeep until the valley where it was the mine. There was a left town of houses of marinates. The wind did not leave of to blow. They lowered of the car; Ivy walked without separating of Ryder, feeling insignificant in the vastness of those places. It aspired deeply and it closed the eyes. It almost could listen to voices. - Dreaming it wakes up? - him he said joking. Ivy shrank of shoulders. - it was only listening to a the ghosts. It would bet to that they can count some histories. - I do not doubt it. - All that people who worked and she lived here... - she said advancing between the ruins -... and that now is died. It does not seem to you that it does not have sense, Ryder. Why all that? - their dreams Looked for - it responded watching the perfect profile of Ivy -. God knows that some dreams they are worth any effort. Ivy murmured something soon and it stretched sluggishly. - I am hungry. - You are of mine - it joked Ryder -. I go by the basket. After minutes they were eating cold chicken with ensala-da and drinking refreshments. - It is the Paradise - it sighed smiling to him. They were seated in stone steps. The sun shone with intensity and the wind continued blowing smoothly. - I am sure that here same they had to come from picnic many of the inhabitants of this city. This had to be full of children and furious mothers with them because they filled of dust. Ryder was ed ***reflx mng. It was enchanted. For long time that one did not feel so happy, so peacefully with world and with same himself. To see Ivy made feel full of life. It was very beautiful, each part of its body was beautiful, until its heart. It never had wanted to nobody as it loved her. - For long time that no it saw you so relaxed. - For much tempo that no you saw me - son-risa full of humor remembered to him with one -.

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I believe that to move away of house has helped me much. And you also are helping me much. - you do not have why to thank for me nothing - he with dryness said watching to the distance -. I needed one secretary and you a work. It has only been question of businesses. Ivy felt that its heart it became weak. It had waited for something more than that, although it did not allow that he it gave account of its deception What could wait for when the past it had finished with any hope of future for them? In addition, its guilty complex even one interposed in a way. It crossed the hands on lap. - In spite of everything you have been very amiable. Mother said that she was throwing to me to lose and perhaps was right. After... the death of Horseradish tree I lost the interest by everything. Ryder took off the hat and a hand went through the hair an impatience gesture. - I suppose that he is natural - it said with calm -. But it is dead and you no. Already there are lost long time trying to live in the past. That was certain of what it supposed. But not because of Horseradish tree, but because it wished with desperation to return to that night on which Ryder had kissed it by first time. It wished to have one second opportunity. And it was impossible. - That you create? - it asked. It gathered the wastes and it put them in a sweepings stock market. Ryder took hold the portable refrigerator and it took it to car, while Ivy seated in the steps to contemplate that landscape deshabita-do. - We must enter now? - it asked to him Ryder when it returned -. One is so well here. - We can remain - it responded seating in the su-perior step his. One slid suddenly towards its step so that the body of Ivy was between its legs, and surrounded to him the waist with the hands. - Calm - it said to him when noticing that it was put rigid -. Quedare-mos us and we will listen here how the wind blows, in agreement? Ivy swallowed saliva. It felt heat of its body after her and was scared to reveal its vulnerability. But he was too much placentero like protesting. - In agreement - it accepted smoothly and it tried to tranquilize itself. It closed eyes v and it supported head on and "its chest. It thought that it could be allowed to savor few moments in the sky, and soon it would return to the work without complaining. Ryder narrowed it between his arms, so that their chest and its stomach were left patches behind Ivy. - You are well? - it whispered to him to the ear. It had the sensation of that they were the two only people in the world. - Yes - it murmured. It caressed the hair to him with the cheek and peacefully felt like by primera time many years ago. Ivy it smelled roses, remembered the nights of pain in which it sighed to have it between its arms. It thought that he was amazing that allowed him to narrow it against his body. Perhaps it felt necessity to touch it, like him to her, but by des-gracia the past it remained. Ivy watched the hands that they narrowed and compared the pallor of its own fingers with those of those enormous hands. - You have hands very great - it murmured caressing them. - yours they are very elegant - it talked back with deep voice Never you have studied music, right? - No. I wanted, but in house they never had money. Papa died when I was very young. - I did not get to know it. Us we changed to Albany when you es-tabas in the school, but already they were only you and your mother. - Your family behaved very well with us - she said to him -. I wanted much to your mother. - All they wanted it - it reflected in very low voice -. She was a lady, a true lady.

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Ivy was on the awares and watched the changing, red shades, anaran-jadas, yellow. - To your father always me it costs more to remember it, I do not know why - it always was abroad. It liked to make money; its way, it loved my mother. But it did damage to him. It never was very afec-tuoso. Now it is even a luck if it calls to us per Christmas. - you feel single, Ryder? - it asked to him supporting the hand on hers. - Yes. You no? It is not it everybody? - it responded to him watching its black hair and feeling the blood at full speed to run thanks to the contact with its body. - I suppose yes that. It crossed one of its fingers with its index, without occurring to account of the sensuality of that gesture hasta that heard that he contained the res-piración and tightened the hands. - taken care of Ten, precious - him Ryder to the ear murmured -. That gesture could in-terpretar badly. To Ivy it gave an upset him to heart. The tone of its voice had been in-confundible. It felt weakness in knees and were glad to be sen-tada. - I can preguntarte something? - it said to him with smoothness. - What? - Why you have not married? Ryder tightened the hands on the stomach of Ivy before rela-jar them and leaving supported them on his thighs with a full gesture of familiarity. - the marriage is a subject very serious - it answered to him -. And I do not believe in the divorce. - You must have... thought about it - it said, and its voice became weak. It could not request to him that it separated the hands from his leg, but that tact was like fire. It never had sense its so alive body. - In what? - it whispered to him to ear before biting the lobe to him of the ear. - In the marriage - it was able to say she to him. - ñ ÿ ¿0 0 @ s @ ó m ä ñ ÿ ¿- Once, perhaps - it said and it put the hands on its stomach, right under its chests -. You are shaking. - Good... and what delays... if you touch to me... of that way - she with the difficult breathing said. - How? - it asked murmuring to him to the ear. And it put the hands to him on the sines, so that their nipples became hardened instantaneously. -¡Ryder! - I am sure that not you it surprises so much - it said to him with a mocking tone -. After all you are a widow, not a virgin. Ivy shook when feeling that Ryder tightened its skin still more, atrayén-dola against himself. - I Was... that night - it said shaking of pleasing -. ¡You rejected to me! - Yes. "That one night". It could hear the request of its voice, prove its skin of silk; its body did involuntary movement. Soon profirió a curse and was put of foot before that it could realize. The return occurred and ignited a cigarette. It raised other two steps to separate from her and to avoid the temptation to have it. It had to recu-perar the control. It was too much soon, but as soon as it touched it it lost the control, so it would have to maintain the distances. Ivy watched it disturbed. It was shaking, as soon as it could think that it had touched it of that form. It crossed the arms to prote-ger its chests. - It will be better than we return - Ryder suggested dryly. The return occurred and began to lower the steps in the direction of jeep. It opened the door to him, but nor at least it watched it. Ivy felt too much uncertain like pronouncing a word, so they remained in a tense one silence until they arrived at the hotel. It could not think that everything was had spoiled so soon, but one did not dare to ask what had done or said so that it behaved of a so cold way. When arriving at the hotel he was courteous and educa-do, but it realized of which she wanted to

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maintain the distances. It could not be mistaken, that it had happened not had to another cause that to the proximity and that he it had been long time without being with a woman did not have to dream. It could not to give in to its necesi-dad to have to Ryder, so it had to be thankful to him that no it had allowed that the things were more far. After all it was not enamored with her, one was only the same desire that snatched it when it only was eighteen years old. On the following day they returned to Georgia. Ryder took it to house. - You can go to the office tomorrow? - it asked to him. - Yes. I will be there to eight and average o'clock. Thanks for the trip - it added educadamente avoiding to watch it a the eyes -. I have passed it very well. - Until I spoiled things, you will mean - he with coldness said -. Good, everything will be easier here. There will be much people to ours around and I will have to maintain to me to ray. Ivy watched it with curiosity. - Olvídalo - it said with one watched of challenge -. See you tomorrow. - It is well. It was clear that it had haste to go away. It left the car and it left the suitcase of Ivy in the porch. It interchanged a fast greeting with Jean, returned to the car and it left. - they were amused? - him Jean asked after giving a hug him. - Era a trip of businesses, mother, not vacations. But, we passed it well. Jean did not make more questions and Ivy did not say nothing else. Ryder put an assistant to him to Ivy on the following day and he himself it taught the most important questions to him of its new work. It thanked to the sky because, at least, it seemed to be a little more accessible that the previous day. - I already know that it seems that they are many things - Ryder observed when it finished informing it into which were his duties -. But you will have an assistant and you will adapt in a moment. - Of course that I will do it. - You have left the rose well - him it said to Ryder praising the blouse of that color that took with a jacket suit of very professional aspect -. But very well. Ivy ruborizó, outlined one smile and watched it. It removed a handspan almost to him and he was strong and deliciously masculine. Soon one paid attention to its mouth and it wished to kiss to him. That unexpected desire him it accelerated the pulse. - Thanks - it said to him almost without breath. It could not separate eyes of her and it felt undresses her glance as opposed to. At the same time she it caused that it felt like a boy, and that vulnerability put it furious. - I have been mistaken in something? - Ivy with loss of heart asked. It had remained watching it so fixedly that the girls of the other tables began to murmur. - What you mean? - him Ryder asked. - you do not let watch to me. - Eh? - it exclaimed, shrank from shoulders and it separated the glance -. Good, I hope that you do not have any problem, because I have a meeting. - I will be able to fix them - it whispered eating it to it with the eyes before lowering the glance -. Thanks for aid. - it has been a pleasure - it dismissed. It was arranged to leave, but when happening to its side it watched it at the eyes. It wore a dark suit without hat, nobody could doubt that he was a businessman. The suit seated to him perfectly and its form molded the powerful lines of its body. Ivy almost it shouted when admiring his wonderful and masculine perfection. - it would take to You to eat - it said he with smoothness -, but we would be reason for habladurías. - Yes - it with one agreed timid smile -. Thanks to say to me in any case. - You will have to come Saturday.

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- Why? - To my house to follow teaching to Kim Sun. - In agreement. - it does not matter to you? She denied choir the head. - Kim Sun is a student very applied, and I like. - also it likes You him. So long - it said and one left. She watched it while she moved away. It had to be the most amazing man of the world, but it seemed to be single, as much in the office as between the multitude. It did not know where he was his thought. It was asked if al-guna time would be the enough thing near him like in order to know it well. One of the secretaries it called so that it took care of cues-tiones on the project of Arizona, with that it separated from its mind by minutes its preoccupations on Ryder. After all it was there in order to work, it does not stop to dream about the head. I CAPITULATE 5 IT WAS a luck that to Ivy him it pleased to travel, because to the se-mana following Ryder it had to go to Jacksonville. And took it with him. They reserved a suite in a luxurious hotel on the St river. John's. They ate in a restaurant that there was in the same street of the hotel, a fabulous place that gave the impression to be carving in the trunk of a gigantic tree. The service was wonderful and it proved the best seafood of his life. Later they returned walking to hotel following the border of the river. They kept silence, and Ryder seemed pen-sativo, as there was been since they arrived at the city. Both they dressed clothes unreliable person, he dark trousers and a yellow jersey of very slight weave, and she a white dress of organdí with a handkerchief around the neck. Ivy she asked with how many women she would have been in that same place, because it seemed to know the way memory. A pair with three chiquillos came near towards them; re-pente one of the children it left running in the direction of the river. The mother shouted, but Ryder was faster than heavy father of the boy, ran towards him and he took it in arms. The boy did not stop to laugh when Ryder gave it his horrified parents. - He is very fast - it said to them Ryder. - More than what you can to imagine - the alleviated mother replaced son-riendo -. ¡Thank you very much! - I suppose that I will have to lose a few kilos - the same gratitude commented the father demonstrating that her woman had expressed. The boy, blonde and of eyes blue, he tried to return to the ground. - Fish - it said to him to his father -. Mother has said to me that the river has fish and I want to see them. - the fish almost bite to you in the nose, tiger - Ryder with a smile said to him. The father of the boy greeted a Ivy, that had arrived next to them; Ryder realized which the man it fixed with detail to his precious figure. When the man noticed that Ryder he was obser-vando separated the Vista immediately. - you Are and your woman of vacations? - it asked to him with a nervous smile. - vacations of work - Ryder talked back dryly and surrounded shoulders by Ivy with an arm -. And it will be better that we return. Good night. - Good night. Ryder remained watching them to march surprised and annoying by the jealousy that that man had waked up in him. But it could not allow that Ivy realized because would have felt something of fear. - a likeable boy - he commented -. An authentic character. - You like the children, truth? - mien-tras asked to Ivy smiling to him continued walking.

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It did not say anything to him of the arm that he surrounded shoulders to him and he did not make intention to separate it. It dealed with to adapt to its step, and although in the beginning they inopportunely walked clumsily and, little by little con-siguió. - Yes, I like the children - he after mirán-dola affirmed awhile -. You do not know much about me, truth? - Good, I know that you like to eat, that desire much money, that always you are occupied and that you have a great one heart - it answered with a smile -. But, I suppose that I do not know much about you -"excepto that I want to you", could have added. Ryder stopped and it became towards her. It supported the hands on its shoulders while the lights of Jacksonville illuminated the night and the noise of the traffic seemed to stop by a little while. - you do not continue fleeing - it said to him unexpectedly. It could not see him eyes, but had tranquilized it because its voice sounded very strange. - No... I do not understand to you - it murmured. - Yes that you understand to me - it talked back anxiously breathing -. Ivy, I know that I did damage to you, but now you have perhaps grown and you understand that a man can behave of a way irrational when one feels hurt and frustrated. It noticed its warm hands on shoulders and one felt light like the night. It watched it in the dark, wishing to take the step that would approximate its body to his. It wanted that it will embrace it in order to give rien-da loose to all the emotions that woke up in her. Horseradish tree never it had made him feel neither the confusion nor the pleasure that á Ryder felt together. - That was long ago - it said to him after choosing the words -. Ryder, still is... in a moment... - Again Horseradish tree, is not that? - it said tightening the hands -. By God, I will remove it from your head. One inclined and it kissed it. No it could avoid it. When feeling the smooth and warm body under its arms could not to be contained. It moaned with deses-peración while it kissed it, and the noise of beats of his cora-zones extinguished the one of the traffic. Ivy I felt to burn while he kissed it and wished to let himself take by the torrent of sensations that awoke in her. But it could not and it tried to separate from him. The ardor of Ryder it frightened because he was violent, violent like... -¡Like Horseradish tree! Ryder separated immediately when it heard to Ivy pronounce the name of the other. In its face drawing an implacable face. -¡Damn Horseradish tree! Soon the return occurred putting the hands in the pockets. It was burning with desire and everything what she had done was to acor-dar herself of that man. Ivy realized too much late of which it had done. It had not wanted to pronounce the name of his husband, but the violent compor-tamiento of Ryder had given back to him do-lorosos memories. One approached, but it did not want to watch it to the face. It extended the arm and it put the hand on its back with tenderness. Ryder gave respingo when feeling that contact. - I know what you are thinking - it began to say to him -. But you are mistaken. I did not say it because... The sound of a truck it drowned his voice, and Ryder continued walking. - Ryder - it said to him again when they were in the lobby. It tended the key to him of suite. - you Raise - she said to him -. I I have something to do. Before it could say nothing he went in the direction of the restaurant. Ivy dropped the arms with rage and it raised the room. Perhaps the destiny wanted to maintain separated them, thought Ivy. It was dropped on the become weak bed. It wished with all its forces to give in to its feelings by Ryder, wished to embrace it and to love it. But it did not include/understand its fury, the rudeza whereupon

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there was it treaty. Ryder could not include/understand that when behaved therefore it remembered his to him husband and she could not say it to it. Nevertheless, while there were secrets between they, there would not be any hope for the love. That night returned a to have an old nightmare. Horseradish tree held it of the arms and it shook it, accusing it to deceive it with Ryder. He was drunk and it was ed ***reflx mng while it undressed, forcing it later until doing damage to him. It smelled of alcohol and it began a to shout. -¡Ivy, wakes up! Ivy felt that hands they were holding it. It watched upwards with the full eyes of tears. It was cover of sweat and deja-ba not to shake. - You are well? You shouted like a crazy person - Ryder asked to him, that was next to her with the jacket of the pajamas undone, which allowed to see its chest him covered with hair. Its single presence there, on the bed, it was enough so that him se-cara the mouth. It seemed to him incredible that its naked average body could affect it as much, when it had never liked to see Horseradish tree de that way. But Ryder was different. Only with watching it felt it a tremor in all its body. With a nervous gesture it dealt to fix the nightgown. - I had a nightmare. - On Horseradish tree, I suppose. - Yes. - it astonishes to Me that it matters to you as much after all what it did to you. Ivy remained watching his naked torso. - Era my husband - it aimed with hoarse voice -, and had fidelity, but something to him more. - Even after his death? - he without being able evitar-lo asked. Ivy closed the eyes. How it could say to him that its obsession by him had lead it to the marriage with Horseradish tree. There was no possible form that it could confess it to it. - Levántate - he said unexpectedly passing a hand to him through the hair -. I will bring something to you to drink. It knew that it had something of brandy in its room, and to her it did not like the alcohol. It had already done it to suffer enough. - you already know that I do not drink. Ryder watched it at the eyes. - Good, I do it when the occasion demands it. And you are not going to me to say that you do not need something that helps a you to sleep. We go. One rose although it did not want to do it. It did not have dressing gown and it remained of foot next to the bed only with white nightgown of cotton that marked its sines, before falling to him until ankles. With the hair on shoulders it seemed a fallen angel. - I will deal with not watch-him he with calm said. One occurred to the return and she it it followed the luxurious hall the suite. Ryder served the brandy in two glasses and they accommodated in the sofa. Ivy seated with the legs crossed underneath nightgown. - still you are scared to me? - he asked -. I am not peli-groso of which it can be any other man. But in my case, in addition, an invitation would need to me that did not leave place to doubts. That leaves you calmer? Ivy remained watching brandy glass. Probably it would be an exquisite drink, but it did not know it. Everything what Horseradish tree had had in house was whiskey cheap. - I am scared of the majority of the men - it affirmed after a minute. The nightmare was it left exhausted and too much ago-tada like pretending felt. - It tries to live between threats and violence during three years and already you will see how it affects to you. - I know that it beat to you at least once - the jaw assured Ryder tightening -. Only a blind person would not have seen the signals. I said to you that for that reason I stayed remote.

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Jean swore that you were loca-mente enamored and I know the little consideration very well in which they are had some women when one is the man whom they love. Ivy did not know what to do. Ryder completely had a mistaken idea of its loyalty towards Horseradish tree, but no there was form to remove it from his error without counting things that did not dare a to say to him. It drank a brandy drink and silence seemed to thicken. Ryder it ignited a cigarette and it began to smoke. It seemed exhausted and probably es-taba because it lived to a endiablado rate. Ivy sighed. The flavor of brandy did not displease to him, but she was not customary to the alcohol and it began a to feel its effects. It felt a placentero I am annoying and began to tranquilize itself. - What would have happened if no you had left, Ryder? - it asked to him watching it. It was put tense. His finished glass and extinguished the cigarette. - If it seems to you that already you can to sleep, I take leave - she said levan-tando itself. It also rose, staggering slightly. It seemed high much more when it was it takes off. One in front of stopped him and it watched it, paying attention to its masculine presence. - Horseradish tree was all target when it did not wear clothes - it said with dificul-tad. - It is that I pass much time in the field - he said, and tightened the jaw. - and he also. - Horseradish tree pale era of skin, I I am brown. Ivy... It touched her chest, doubting a little. It had the cold fingers but to him they burned as ignited candles to him. it tightened and it took the hand to separate it to him from its chest, but it could not. The scent of body of Ivy penetrated to him by the nose with much intensity. - Not - it said to him with calm -. Thus no. It breathed deeply. - Like in the old times - it spoke with hoarse voice -. , you accuse to want to separate to me to me from you, when you are that it throws to me of its side. Ivy realized which it was drunk, but it felt the pain the rejection and the eyes filled to him of tears. - Why? - it whispered. - Because it is not the moment nor the appropriate place - it with annoyance replaced. It tightened its hand against chest. - Siénteme - him espetó with harshness while it caressed the hair with the other hand -. It feels what you have to me fact - one talked about the furious beat of his heart -. I have never known another one woman who made me feel what you. - He is everything what you feel? Only desire? - it asked to him with tris-teza. Ryder was on the verge of to lose the control. It had to separate from her when still it was on time. - you already know what I think with respect to the commitments, right? - it shouted to him. - you do not want them - it affirmed she -. You will never want them. It bent the Vista and it dropped the arm of the chest of Ryder. - I feel It. I feel little rare. - you are drunk - it corrected he -. And it is hour of which you lie down. - it seems that I go away a it with a giggle fall-murmured. - it does not matter. Ivy gave a deep sigh and it felt that the world vanished around her. Ryder maintained it before it fell and it took it to the room. It put it between sheets, remembering a every second that had to be contained. It seemed a sleepy angel, with the hair shaken on the face and the closed eyes showing its long eyelashes. It was the woman more beautiful than never had known and she loved it desperately. But still he was obsessed with his husband and it could not compete with a ghost. Profirió a curse and left the room. To the following morning, Ryder remained slept for the first time in many years. When it entered room, Ivy was desayu-nando. -¡Oh! - she exclaimed -, it was on the verge of llamarte.

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But one was glad of no it to have done. The last night remembered with certain em-barazo. With a gesture unconscious the blouse stretched that fell on its black trousers. - We are going to eat something - he proposed -. Soon we will see St. Augustine. - To the Castle of San Marks? - it asked con.estusiasmo to him. - Yes, and if you also want to the museum of Ripley de Incredible Objetos. Ivy served a cup to him as tea and went it over the table, with the fixed eyes in the blue t-shirt of open neck that he dressed. The color went with its eyes and the neck very well it allowed a very seductive vision of his chest. It remembered it to have caressed and it felt the same confused sensation again. It would learn sometimes to no to throw itself in its arms? - I feel the one of last night. - Already I suppose it - it talked back with a sharp and deep voice -. It hurts the head to you? - A little. I will take two aspirins. - the air of the sea you it will help; it eats something, walks. Ivy ate the toasted one, but nothing else. - it did not mean that it felt to have drunk -- it began to say to him. - If what you want it is to request excuses to me by something more, olvídalo - it said to him without watching it -. It finishes coffee and vámonos. They were bordering the coast by wagon number one until St. Augustine, the oldest city of everything The United States. The strong magní-fico left Ivy out of breath. It was located in a earth arm that dominated the bay of Slaughters, in the Atlantic Ocean. Constructed in stone, their walls were gray, modeled by tiem-po. It was surrounded by a pit and the tourists they had to cross it through a bridge of wood. Its history went back a a very distant past. It had been raised in 1565 and it had belonged a Spain, to France, to England and, finally, the United States from 1672. An interesting curiosity she was that the tribe of the apaches chlri-cauas was imprisoned in the fort after the defeat of Hieronymite, at the end of the last century. Ivy he asked how those confined inhabitants of the desert would have felt between those walls in which the only open space was a small patio that now it was planted of turf. It imagined to es-pañoles, and to first North Americans. History was breathed in that place, and if the ghosts they exist, was safe that there there were many. It shook slightly by atmosphere of that site and by the cold breeze that blew from the sea. It did not have taken shelter, but Ryder took off its jacket and was put it on shoulders. - it did not think that it could do this cold -- Ryder commented. - I am well, but you you are going to cool without the jacket -- Ivy said. It took hold it of shoulders and it smiled to him. They were surrounded by a group of tourists of the third age that they followed a guide. Ivy was terrified by the influence that Ryder had on her. It could not resist and did movement to separate from such form that the hands of him were on his chests. It hoped that it separated the arm, but it did not do it. She watched it at the eyes and account occurred of which it had been to observán-dola some time. They remained quiet being contemplated, while the wind blew drowning the voice of the guide, who it began to ale-jar itself. Soon Ryder watched downwards and moved the hands. Him it caressed the nipples with a smooth movement that made him shake pier-nas. Soon it watched it while it breathed deeply and its chest was shaken. - you would not have to do that - him Ivy said. - Then you do not leave me - it talked back challenging. Ivy could listen beats of its own heart. It felt a chill and a little went ahead stops to support the head on the wide chest of Ryder. - Ryder - it murmured. Ryder felt a great one to please, although did not forget that it was very vulnerable and who therefore no it had to take advantage of. God knew that it had tried to maintain the intervals,

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mainly because Ivy still thought about Horseradish tree, but now it could not make another thing. To feel it close was as one drugs and it could not stop. - quiet Quédate. It undid the blouse to him slowly. She knew that she must have protested but could not, was too placentero. It felt the yolk of its fingers to caress its skin and gave respingo. The head inclined and it watched, throwing a glance to the group that moved away. It knew that it must not have begun. The blood seemed on the verge of exploding to him in the veins, realized of which that would not help them, but Ivy seduced it completely and already it did too much time that wished it. Paying attention to its pink skin, it separated the clothes in order to see the raised nipples. - it Ryder-whispered. - Precious. I have not been able to sleep imaginándote tonight desnu-da, your naked chests within my mouth... Ivy sent moaning. - You like, right? - it whispered with hoarse voice -. To me also. But if I kiss to you there I will lose the head, and I believe that you also, and we have not come here for we turned an attraction for the tourists. Ivy breathed with difficulty, with the half-opened mouth. It was tightened against him with force. - Oh, God, what moment stops to wish us - he said biting the ear to him. It saw how the group of tourists began to move away by the stairs and thanked to the sky, because his body burned like own hell. It separated it enough stops to place the hands between its bodies. It began to caress its chests while it kissed on the forehead, almost out of breath: it remained submissive in her arms, enjoying the tenderness of its hands. Ryder realized which it was shaking, but it saw that one did not resist, but that was offered to his caresses. It was embriagada by the scent of its body. - Mírame - it requested to him -. I want to see your eyes while I am mi-rando to you. She obeyed to him and she watched it to the eyes. It contained the breathing when sen-tir that their hands included his chests and the thumbs caressed their ardent nipples. - Somebody can see us - entrecorta-da protested with the breathing. - No. They finish going away. And when saying it, the last one of the tourists disappeared downstairs. - To the single aim - it said and it kissed. That time Ivy did not feel no violence. And its mouth responded to the request of that mouth, that requested to him a deeper contact. Its heart belonged to him, and the only thing that it wanted was to be the plus cerca- of him during the greater possible time. It embraced it and it was tightened against its body. Ryder grasped it by the hips and it attracted it towards himself without leaving to kiss it. Ivy occurred to account of its evident excitation when feeling the powerful one pressure on its belly. Ryder did not leave of to be astonished of which it did not resist and raised the head to watch it. She it had begun to move rít-micamente tightening itself against him. - you feel It? - Yes - it talked back, ruborizando a little before its mali-ciosa and ardent glance. - It is thankful to stars that we are not in the room. To this it is to which you have to me been inviting all the week whenever you watched to me. That was not what she it wanted to listen. It waned before that hint, that meant that she there was it been causing. - You began - she said to him. - No, you were - he talked back and he returned to watch towards his sines -. You do not take support. It is so that it is to me more easy besártelos? Ivy ruborizó and was closed blouse "fastening it to it quickly with temblorosas hands. Ryder always it found means to aver-gonzar it when the things escaped of his perhaps control,

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although not even he knew why. One separated from her, ignited a cigarette and remained watching towards the bay. Still it felt anxiety. she asked why continua-ba doing the same. And then it had one horrible suspicion. - There are lost the interest by sex? - it asked to him brusca-mente, watching it with threatening eyes. I CAPITULATE 6 IVY remained surprised by the question and it took segun-dos in realizing of which Ryder wanted to say. That if there were lost the interest by sex. The certain thing was that for her it had not been more than something odioso, nothing else that humiliating ame-naza. It watched it in as much it fastened the jacket nervously. It did not know why it did that question to him after the sweet intimi-dad that had shared. - You what you create? - it asked later it gives a long silence. Soon the return occurred and it showed to the walls that they gave to the bay of Slaughters. Ryder approached its side with the cigarette ignited in the hand, but it did not watch it. - Me... you put nervous - it said finally. - I have already realized -- it answered passing the fingers through the worn away and humid stone -. Why you end up losing the head whenever me seals? Ryder let save a great one whiff of smoke without letting watch the horizon. - Because I wish you. - Yes, already I know it - it indicated with smoothness -. But that does not finish explaining it. Ryder watched it of reojo. - Long ago, but surely that you remember that almost I lost the control with you completely that night. - Yes, I decide to me - it answered closing the eyes -. And everything what beams are to separate to me from you. Ryder occurred the return maintaining the Vista and the tight jaw low. - I must do it - it talked back with a strange voice -. God mine, if we occur a kiss that lasts more than five seconds we are going to finish being loving. And you do not pretend that you do not think like I. She could not deny it. It drew up lines on the stone and tried to breathe with normality. - Both we know - he said -, that you are not prepared for a physical relation with a man. No, when still you have nightmares in which you feel that you betray Horseradish tree. Ivy wanted to listen to others words of him, although could understand that he thought of that form. "Now or never", it thought. It would have to trust the luck and to tell him the truth about his matrimo-nio. Perhaps if he understood why he felt thus, they would have opportunity to begin again. - I do not have nightmares in that I betray Horseradish tree - said with hoarse voice. - Then? - he asked containing the breathing. - it did damage to Me, physically - nervous Ivy responded and lowering the Vista. It was the first time that it had trusted him, even although it was saying something to him that already knew. But it was a form to comen-zar. Nevertheless, Ryder had secrets that Ivy did not know. Secrets that they had to do with the life and death of Horseradish tree. It had a great feeling of culpability that appeared every time that it touched it, because the fault sense was one of the reasons that returned it crazy person when it did. The other reason was the desperate love that felt by she. It wished to share with her the deepest love being known than it would be more transcendental experience of its life. But it needed that it lands on water it. Only if it loved it, it would do the love to him. That was what it tormented it, which it stopped whenever it touched it. And now she confessed that its marriage had not been perfect... When it had spent many years obsessed by the idea that it could it have loved him instead of a Horseradish tree, but that it had rejected it, thinking that was too young to marry. Almost no it could support to think about that.

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- I suppose that you did not know that it already drank when you married with him - it said choosing the words with care. - it gave pain Me - him it responded -. He was an amiable and good man and let drink. I think that it could it to have helped - it continued with bitterness -. It did not have nor idea of which it was doing. It thought that everything would improve, but the things every time were worse. - I feel It - Ryder said grieved. - I also. Once married, I could not escape, was atrapa-da, as much by my conscience as by his necessity. But I was more and more cold... and still I am it, in many senses - it said and it sighed deeply -. In any case I cannot lie down with you, Ryder, desire is not enough. It watched it but its face was inexpressive. - to Perhaps it surprises you to oir it, but to me is not enough to me either. For that reason treatment to maintain the intervals. -¡Oh! - Ivy exclaimed. It did not know why it was surprised as much. After all he never it had mentioned the love. He was sincere at least, and a horseman who was not going to seduce it by a purely physical necessity. Thus that it remained calmer. A smile crossed by face of Ryder when seeing the expression of Ivy... - You thought that it wanted to put another notch in the head of my bed? That humor adjusted more to the Ryder that knew. - it is not what you want? - him it asked with a smile. It denied with the head. - I said to You from the beginning that it did long time of that and did not joke. There am lost the curiosity by opposite sex. Although. - it murmured inclining towards her -, that does not have to do with you. I suppose that it would enchant verte to me without clothes. It blushed of flesh color and she separated the face. -¡Then I do not know what I have of special! - Nothing that must preocuparte, small - it with calm explained to him -. The solitude seizes of the human being of time in when, you do not worry. You are as human as I - she added putting to him arm on shoulders with a paternal attitude -. We will leave the things like they are, in agreement? We are friends for a long time, so we do not go a to lose now that. - it could not support it - him it confessed, savoring the proximity that had recovered -. The guide said that there was a museum of arms down, you want to see it? - it asked to him with an enthusiasm contagious. - Very well, and soon you I invite to eat seafood. -¡Wonderful! They began to lower by stairs as quickly as possible and she lost foot. It could have had a bad fall because the stairs were very zooming, but with a fast movement, Ryder it took root by the cha-queta. -¡God mine! What is what you tried? - it exclaimed with annoyance. When Ivy recovered balance and watched realized it of which he was pale. - Thanks - it said with smoothness. - you do not worry but fíjate where you put the foot. We are very high. - It is well. Ivy felt the hand of Ryder in the elbow and son-risa could not avoid one. That it worried about her it produced a warm sensation in all the body. The joy of those moments it remained throughout all the day. They saw the museum and they went away a to eat. Soon they entered a full store of toys of ositos of peluche and Ryder gave one to him. Era of color honey with a very likeable face and a nose very long. - Thanks - she said laughing while she embraced the osito -. It wanted one since she was small. Ryder felt like protector when seeing it with that doll between the hands. It remembered how poor had been the McKenzie, but Ivy, like its mother, always had been glad and shining a to

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weigh of everything. She was one of the things that he admired of them. - Thanks, Ryder, I will take care of very well of him. - it has been a pleasure. The glance of Ivy was sufficient like gratitude. It astonished to him that it liked that doll as much. It had that to insist a good short while so that it put it in the seat of back in the way of return to Jacksonville. Ryder had a supper of businesses, so Ivy requested a salad and it remained in the suite seeing television. After one hour it went to the room put the nightgown and it laid down in the bed tightening the osito of peluche between the arms. The form in which remembered Ryder had kissed it on the castle, and the passion whereupon it had responded to its ardor. Perhaps, after all, not outside frigid. That gave him hopes. It closed the eyes and it was let invade by the memories. It remembered it forms in which it had watched it and the heat that felt in its interior before that watched. And the delicate caress of its hands. One moved on the bed and the nightgown it was on its thighs. It was burning. The sensations that experimented were new and delicious and it watched the open door hoping that Ryder arrived. But it took much and the re-cuerdos of that late left it exhausted. One put under sheets, it put the osito next to her and it closed the eyes. Finally, it remained slept and no it had nightmares. When Ryder arrived was exhausted. One stopped in front of the opened door of the room and smiled to to see embraced it the osito. One approached the bed sandpapering itself in the face of Ivy. His curly hair was desorde-nado on its face and had the sonrosadas cheeks. The blanket covered the chests to him and it had to resist the temptation to separate it. Every day had to fight to continue maintaining the distances and it wanted it more than to his own life. One inclined and it kissed his cheeks. It stretched and said a name in whispers. One straightened up. The heart him it barked with force. It left the room and it closed the door behind him. it felt stunned. The name that she had pronounced was his. To the following morning they returned to house, but Ryder stopped in Savannah to buy some candies for Jean. Ivy never had been in Savannah, so they lowered and they walked by its paved streets flanked of oaks. But there was too much people, and Ryder wanted to speak with Ivy. - What seems to you if we go a the beach? - it asked to him suddenly. - It is winter - she exclaimed. - Yes, but it does enough heat like seating to us in dunes and watching the sea. - Very well. It will enchant to me - it accepted laughing. - Then we go. It took it from the hand and it took until the car. The osito of peluche waited for them seated in the seat of back. They went to the outskirts, to the beach of Savannah. Then of the year she was desert. They walked by the sand seeing how they broke the waves. They seated in a dune. Ivy played with a shell that Ryder had gathered of the ground. - Háblame de Ben, Ivy. She doubted. Still it had some too painful things. Although the truth was that it wanted to speak to him of they and that were a as good occasion as any other. - I failed to Him - it said simply -. When it did not drink was a good man, but in the end it drank constantly. - Then it beat to you - Ryder murmured. It agreed. The wind it shook his hair. - Soon always it was sorry. I never could be what it wanted that outside, although I tried it - it confessed fixing his tormented eyes to him -. But, Ryder, I create... that I am frigid. - What? - it said with murmur -. After which we made together in St. Augustine? Immediately, Ivy occurred it counts of which Ryder was dicien-do and contained the breathing.

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- Yes... I have thought much about that. I never felt thus with Horseradish tree - it declared. Ryder remained ice cream and it returned to watch it. - Never? - it exclaimed. Ivy shrank of shoulders with timidity. - Never. I treated in the beginning to pretend, but... - In name of God, by what you married with him if you felt thus? - it did not think outside that so important. The amiable and likeable era and to me did not bother to me that it kissed to me, although it did not feel anything in special either. And in the bed... Oh, God mine - it exclaimed covering the face with the hands -. God mine, never in my life had hated so much something as it hated... that. Finally they were arriving a some part. Ryder gave one long cala-da and chose the words that a would say continuation. -"Aquello" is one beautiful comunión between two people who are wanted. But it must exist something of chemistry. - I realized that of worse way - it talked back -. Horseradish tree and I was good friends, I I thought that I would be sufficient. - In the bed not - he said watching it to the eyes. - Not - it was shut up moments -. After that night con-tigo, I was scared. Not only of you fruncía added when seeing that Ryder the frown -, but of which I did and felt. I I thought that as Horseradish tree were so amiable and I was not excited too much, everything could to be wonderful. It was not scared to him, it give account you? The safe era... - its voice it became weak. - But I not - he said watching it. Ivy watched it and soon it returned to lower the Vista. - No, you no. You me you turned another person when me to-caste and it could not understand it -- it said and it watched towards the waves that broke in the beach -. My night of weddings ended all my illusions. And with hers. It thought that I knew how to do it, not you it seems in-creíble? - I do not love that me count - gruñó Ryder between teeth. Ivy watched to him with a gesture of surprise. But he did not watch and esta-ba very rigid. Why it mattered to him as much? - he would not have been equal with you, right, Ryder? - it asked to him with smoothness -. The way in which it felt to me with you... it would have made it easier, right? - Yes - he with a voice affirmed extinguished -. We would have crossed each passage of the way. It would have been like in the castle, Ivy, when you threw the head backwards and you offered yourself to my lips. But violent and much more sweeter. - I never thought that there would be violence in the bed - Ivy with a slight doubt in its voice observed. - I do not talk about something cruel. There is much difference. Ivy kept silence moments. - Until I married, my only experience I had it with you, that night. When hearing that Ryder it was very quiet. Soon one rose and it gave the back him, fighting not to lose the control. - he would have been better for two if it had not touched to you - said he bitterly. Ivy did not watch it. She also it had thought perhaps that if he had not kissed it, it could have responded to which Horseradish tree requested to him. But it could not imagine that Horseradish tree could to compete with Ryder, although es-tuviera alive. One had fallen in love with him much before knowing Horseradish tree. Ryder had been its life, and still it was it. Ryder watched it during long moment before becoming again towards the sea. It extinguished the cigarette with the boot and ignited another one. Soon one moved away walking by the beach with a hand put in the pocket while the wind him ensortijaba the hair. Ivy watched it while it moved away towards the beach. He was a very good looking man with

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an impressive body, and it had a presence that po-dría to return crazy to any woman. But in addition it had a generous spirit who compensated his strong character and the melancholy that it felt some times. He was everything what a man must be. Pre-guntaba what would say he if it said to him that it wanted it as it was. One rose and it followed it. In the beach was warm but it felt cold in her interior. - Always you escape - him it on the brink of madness reproached when reaching it the beach. Ryder did not respond, nor it watched at least. It loosen a smoke whiff and it remained watching the water. - You know how long of my life there am single past? It knew that it lived single from that Eve married and his father was transferred to live to New York, but in fact it did not know how much tiem-po had been single, because its previous life was mystery for her. The age difference did that I entered he and Eve had certain spacing, and in addition Ryder was very reticent to speak of itself. - I suppose that you have taken a normal life. - I grew in a boarding school and when he returned to house my father tolerated my presence, but nothing else. - Your mother wanted to you. - Yes - Ryder agreed -, but I needed my father and I never concerned great thing to him. In addition, by a thing or through another one never it could spend long time with my mother. After fulfilling twelve years it was not allowed me to return to house in the vacations. They sent me to one military school and soon I went to the university and the army. Later, Eve was born and one became the only interest of my mother. Peculiarly, my father no he hid the affection that he had to him. It spoke with bitterness, Ivy when watching it thought. - Perhaps it thought that it was not necessary to give to a daughter a so strict edu-cación. - Yes, later I arrived a the same conclusion. They educated me to be a triunfador and that is what I must to him to my father. But often it would have changed everything because there was acompaña-do to me a baseball party and it had played with me in the garden. - you have father At least - him Ivy said -. I did not know mine. Mother says that he was somebody special one. - It also is special - she said and one became to watch it. Its face shone to light of the sun. - God, what handsome you are. Brilliant like a currency. - Not - Ivy whispered -, I no... - You yes. And not only your body he is beautiful - it assured to him caressing the cheek to him -. You are like a wrist of porcelain with a very great heart. I go to darte something. The heart of Ivy barked with force... Ryder seemed sad and sensual, a dangerous combination. - Something? - it asked to him approaching deliberately. It wished to kiss it and it demonstrated in the eyes, all their face. - Yes - he said. It had anxious breathing -. What you want? It threw the head towards back. - Your mouth - it whispered. - You are safe? - him Ryder with calm asked -. To my age a kiss in a very serious subject. Ivy put a hand to him on the chest and felt the hair through the clothes. - Yes, I am safe - it affirmed with a brightness in the eyes. - Then they see here - he said with smoothness, and he threw the cigarette. It attracted it towards himself and she embraced, and it let itself attract by her arms narrowing itself against her chest and offering the mouth to him. Ryder almost shook before that unexpected reaction. It took the face him with the hands, watched it during long moments and comen-zó to give smooth bites him in the lips. Those kisses ignited his desire but did not satisfy it.

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It began to feel ardent desire that crossed the stomach and the belly to him with a tremor. Him it tightened its strong arms, conscious that its position invited it to kiss it, and in its eyes it showed to desire and the delight. Ryder enjoyed each kiss as much as she. It smiled perezosa-mente while it savored the lips of Ivy, without letting joke. But when she tightened herself against him, it followed maintaining the distance doing the placentera delay still more. Ivy captured its lip inferior between the teeth and soon it bit the superior one to him. It enjoyed powerful body of Ryder and tightened it against himself until against its belly it had certainty of his ex-citación. But it did not want to separate. It was almost without breath, with a sensation that remembered to him in the morning in the castle. Ryder realized which Ivy was offered to him and it was repeated: "Slowly, slowly, not to scare it". Their hands descended by its back while their lips jugueteaban with his. It put the hands to him in the hips and tightened. It noticed the breath of her on its face while his heart barked with such force that seemed that it go to jump to him of the chest. - Your legs... they are shaking - it said to him pronouncing the words on its mouth. - Yes. And I am going to do that yours they shake still more - it whispered. Ryder raised it of the ground and it moved it on him tightening it against his belly. It felt a great mixed pleasure with anguish. - We are in a beach - him it remembered. - a desert beach - it whispered -. And only we are besan-do. - Not - it talked back shaking -, we are not only kissing to us. - it does not seem to you Either enough - it murmured without letting kiss it -. Delay, small. I want to have something more... The last word was drowned by the noise of a wave. She sin-tió that the language of Ryder looked for hers. It had never felt that sensation, almost unbearably sweet. It felt a heat that was crowded on its belly and that obli-gaba to move rythmically against its thighs. Ryder it tightened it with force between his arms. Ivy did not feel the minor shame and he knew it. Its way to react to the passion increased the ardor that it felt. - I cannot follow of foot - Ivy said when Ryder released its lips for a moment. - If we eased up, a goes to pass something that will change our relation completely. - But we cannot... here - Ivy without conviction protested. - That is what you-you create - he with humor said and he kissed it to pro-bar the veracity to him of his words. - There is people. Somebody can to come. - Already I know it - it whispered kissing to him the eyelashes, the cheeks, the nose -. Hacerte the love is going to be just like to scale the Everest with skids. - I feel It - it said opening the eyes and watching it -. It was not joking. If you wish so much me, I will not stop to you - it with timidity whispered. Ryder tightened the jaw. - I believe that it knew it, but no I will request the supreme sacrifice to you, now no. It loosen it with much smoothness. The arms shook to him and had the sore body. - It hurts, right? - him it asked tenderly, looking for its eyes. - Yes - it affirmed separating from she and aspiring deeply trying to alleviate the pain that felt in throat. - I suppose that I did not have to do what I did - said she, while he tried to ignite a cigarette to weigh of the wind. - No? - it asked and it smiled. The pain was happening and now as soon as hu-biera Ivy which could could think that offer itself to him of that it forms. But, unless he had become crazy, that is what it had happened. - Why no?

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- Good, he has been a little... behaved shamelessly. Ryder was ed ***reflx mng and in its eyes its joy was reflected. - While you are not that behaved shamelessly with anybody more, we will be able to fix them - it said to him -. To me I have liked. - and to me - she confessed ruborizando itself. Ryder yawed an eye to him. - In any case you have my permission to repeat it when you want. Horseradish tree had ended espontaneidad of Ivy, but seemed that it was recovering it little by little. Ryder also the only thing knew to it, that it hoped was to survive so long delay. During the last years it had been sighing by Ivy, so it did not have there are no other woman. At those moments account of the hard one occurred battle that supposed not to throw to Ivy to a relation for which not yet it was prepared. - It will be better than we go away - it proposed after awhile -. Jean can worry. - No, I do not create - she said. - You can teach your osito to him. You are going to him to put a name? - Bartholomew -- it answered she with a smile. - What? - Good it is that it is a osito with much class - it said with se-riedad -. You would not hope that it put a name to him normal and current. Ryder shook the head, but it did not say nothing else. Only it smiled. I CAPITULATE 7 RYDER found Kim Sun in house of Ivy, teaching to Jean to prepare delicious mousse of chocolate. - not to complain - it threatened his head -. You said boring menu, then I to learn estofado of meat, liver and ce-bollas, fried chicken and tubular powders with cheese. Mrs. McKenzie teaches to me. And I teach to Mrs. McKenzie to do Napoleón, crepes Suzette and mousse of chocolate. Good treatment, eh. - Very good - it had to admit Ryder and watched Ivy. She smiled to him and, by first time, it put itself nervous. Ryder had the sufficient experience like in order to know that the privacy that had lived days in the last involved some danger. In spite of its good intentions, it had gone too much quickly. She it de-seaba, but it did not want to run the risk of scaring it. Although nonhu-biera wished his husband, there was beloved, and he longed for to obtain his heart more than its exquisite body. It wished too much it and it could lose the head, which only it would contribute to complicate the things. So it would have to hold the reins of its anxieties. It would have to make the things in such a way that it did not lie down back nor wound in its pride felt, without losing the head in spite of frus-tración that supposed for its desire. Ivy paid attention to the expression of Ryder, but it interpreted it bad. Had gone it too much far? There was it frightened of some form? - It will be better than a goes house. See you tomorrow, Ivy - Ryder said -. If you have finished - it said becoming Kim Sun -, you can take to house. - Finished so far - the little man agreed -. Thanks Mrs. McKenzie. - Thanks to you - it talked back she -. I must teach to Ivy new prescriptions. - Thus it could gain some kilos - Ryder watching to Ivy with affection took part. - This skinny one invites a to have supper - Ivy said to him. - Thanks, but I have work that to do - it answered after thinking it during moments. That day could not remain single with Ivy neither a minute the more. Although its body already recriminated the decision to him to go away. - But you have Jean have supper-insisted. - the next week I take to your daughter to Paris - it said, leaving so astonished to Jean as to Ivy -. It is a trip of businesses, but it will have time to go of purchases and to see the city. The

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only one condi-ción is that, first, I must finish all my work. - It is that case - Ivy intervened smoothly -, please, Ryder, vetoes to house. It was ed ***reflx mng. - ruthless Woman. First you invite to me to eat and soon me man-das to make the suitcases. At least, cook comes with me, We go, Kim Sun, to see how the "chicken leaves to you fried ". The little man watched it. - Delay and you will see. - Promises, promises - it joked Ryder. Soon both they dismissed and they moved away discussing. After minutes two women were seated to the table. - You seem contented - it said to him Jean to Ivy. - I am It - she answered playing with the possesor -. I suppose that you know that I am in favor crazy of him. - Yes. - I hope that it is not too much soon. - Ivy, Horseradish tree is dead - it said Jean with calm -. And I am not as blind as you create. I know that it was not happy marriage. It pretended because you preferred it thus. But, you do not think that already it is hour of which the two we change? - I suppose yes that. No, it was not happy. It was fleeing from Ryder and Ben knew it. I never must have taken one so easy exit. Only es-pero that is not too much late to change things. Ryder behaves of a way... stranger. - How? - he is not able to decide between regañar to me or kissing to me - That is promising - it observed Jean. - I do not include/understand - Ivy said frunciendo the frown. - it does not matter. A day it will insist, then the nonEast barriers. In these years I have learned that if you leave things happen them by themselves, without trying to force them, the ends loose they are tied in a moment. Test. - I have election? - it murmured Ivy with a sigh -. Hopefully it could return to me back. Horseradish tree could have been happy with another woman. And it would follow alive. Jean took the hands from Ivy between hers. - Affection, you cannot remake the past, you must follow ade-lante. Horseradish tree did not have why to marry with you, you can meterte that in the head? If you did not make it happy she could have requested divorce. But it did not do it. - It knew what felt by Ryder - Ivy confessed to sadness. - If it knew it, it still had less reason to continue with matri-monio that did not lead to, no part. It is not possible to be loved by de-creto. - Horseradish tree drank by my fault - Ivy whispered. - Not - Jean talked back with dryness -. You cannot follow atormen-tándote thus. The compassion cannot be base of a marriage, and, if you are sincere, you must recognize that you married by compassion. You did not want it, only you felt sorry. Ivy hid the face between the hands of its mother. It had heard the truth. Horseradish tree had filled it of attentions while Ryder seemed to avoid it. She had cried in his shoulder and it was it listened, she had felt sorry myself of him. Its reason had been that it wanted to de-mostrar to him to Ryder that could be loved, that they wanted to marry with her although she no it wanted. But its revenge had become con-tra she. - My young poor man - Jean said tenderly trying to console its daughter -. Calm. To face problems mean that you have half of the won battle. Whatever cries want and you will feel better. That night cried much. It accepted for the first time that his matri-monio had been a lie. Horseradish tree always she had had problems, and she, with her compassion, only

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contributed a to increase them. But he had been able to choose so much as she. Nobody was it forced to marry. To admit the failure of his marriage allowed him to concentrate itself for the first time in Ryder. To the following morning a went the office and found courteous and educated, but as distant Ryder as when they had returned from Arizona. Whenever one approached him, Ryder moved away. Him it had said that she was because it wished it with too much intensity, but she sen-tía that there was much more in its strange attitude. After one week they left towards Paris. Ivy was confundi-da by the paternal attitude of Ryder, and only the excitation of the trip maintained it cheers. To see Paris had been one of the great dreams of its life and at those moments as soon as it could think that it directed to that city. Everything was possible in Paris, perhaps the City Light it melted the hardest hearts. They had reservation in one of the hotels of the Elíseos Fields. It could leave to the terrace and see all capital dominated by the Eiffel Tower. Next to her the silver-plated tape ran of the Seine, and closely together the towers of Nótre Dame. It discovered everything what there was hoped, and much more. - a great Vista, right? The return occurred. Ryder it was behind her. One had taken off the shelter and the necktie and took neck of the undone shirt. It seemed tired very. - the best one than I have seen in my life. Ryder, you seem tired very. - the airplane. You are not tired? Or it is that I already begin to feel the age? After all I am ten years greater than you. - you do not speak thus - it requested to him -. We are in Paris. It made intention of to approach, but it prevented it with a gesture. - No. When you are replaced emotionally, perhaps, but now no. - What? - You loved Horseradish tree. I do not want to load with any rest of that emotion. So calm, affection. The return occurred and left the room without returning to let say it word. In case there was no it understood, its behavior from en-tonces was very explicit. The only thing that it needed to maintain the distance was to use a knife. it tolerated with much courtesy but he was unequivocally cold. Ivy did not know what wanted of she. It was asked if it were known itself well. If it could say to him what it felt by him. It had the sen-sación of which if it did, it would finish with all malentendidos, but it needed the value necessary to dare. Ryder, meanwhile, it had his own problems. Also it had to fight a feeling of it blames. Ivy did not know that an order hers had caused, in last instance, death of the father of Horseradish tree, as it did not know either that that had been the reason of that Horseradish tree began to drink. If Ivy took the blame by the luck that had run Horseradish tree, was easy to imagine that still it would blame more to him. It had loved Horseradish tree and it was the person in charge of which there was ocurri-do to him. Indirectly, it had be its attitude the one that had caused the chain reaction that had lead to Horseradish tree to the drink, which had caused its cruel behavior with Ivy. It hated to be conscious of all that and still hated more than Ivy could get to know it someday. To stay separated from her it was a hell. It could not let less watch it and in that city for which it seemed to have been born. It seemed a full star of brightness, except when it watched. Account occurred of which it did not include/understand his attitude and that felt like wound, but it could not allow that both they were let drag by a physical relation before it had time to forget Horseradish tree. Its intentions, without embargo, gave an one step back to the second day to be in Paris. For his misfortune, an attractive French man of nego-cios paid attention to Ivy and him complicó the life. After taking two days supporting the cold behavior of Ryder, it was a lightening Ivy to be

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object of the attentions of gentile and refined a French. Armand LeClair was called, and the English spoke with as much fluidity as if outside his native language. - Ivy - it said savoring sound of that word -, it is a very beautiful name. Like you, mademoiselle. - you Are very amiable-he talked back smiling timidly. - I am sincere - it said to him -. No it has no appointment to eat, ver-dad? Ivy watched at Ryder of reojo and account of its fierce expression occurred. One had separated from her moments in order to take care of a ban-quero and returning it had seen its position occupied by young person, obvia-mente foreign. Its dispproval could not have been evi-dente although it had aimed to him with a pistol. - It will have to ask it a to it my head - Ivy clarified evasively and lowered the Vista: It did not know what it said to him, but the young person ruborizó and left as quickly as possible, murmuring something that seemed an excuse. - What you have said to him? That you are boxer? - Ivy asked to him Ryder while this one seated in the chair that the French had left. But it did not respond his he asks. - You are here for working, it does not stop relacionarte with playboys. - Era playboy? - Yes. That people are very dangerous, she knows what does. - flattering What that it fixed to me. -¡To the devil with flatteries! - it exclaimed watching it with fury -. Unless you want to see it fallen of noses in front of you you do not return to animate it so that one approaches. -¡Ryder! - she exclaimed bending the eyebrows with a surprise gesture. - you do not understand it, verdad'? Then... A voice was heard in the room that it came from the loudspeakers and Ryder had to shut up itself. Ivy realized violent that had been put, and probable-mente that violence had to scare it, but it was not thus. En-cantada when including/understanding felt that it did not like that others men approached her. It could be an attack of jealousy... and that sig-nificaba that it felt by her something more than desire. It gave the impre-sión him of which it would have that to continue trying it a little more. But it did not put it easy. After the meeting it invited it to eat, and in the restaurant it dictated to him the most interesting points of the same one. It did it very quickly almost seemed to enjoy the difficulty that it had in following it while she took note. - you are becoming a little sensitive - it said to him. - Of course that I am returning sensitive. I bring to you to Paris and you put yourself to coquetear to the first opportunity. - I was not coqueteando - he said to him with a brightness in the eyes -. It invited to me to eat, that is everything. And it was very likeable boy. - Era a fox looking for his prey. A man knows when another man is of hunting, small. By instinct. - it did not think to leave with him - Ivy protested. - No? Then it gives me impression that I just arrived on time to avoid it. Unless it is to me returning blind. - Perhaps already you are it - it with fury talked back -. First you are cold like an iceberg and hot fire like... A day you are to mister North Pole and Romeo on the following day, and to the day following is that you por-tas as if you were my older brother. ¡It is like stops to become crazy! - you are screaming. Ivy breathed deeply and it tried to elude the eyes that were fixed in her. The hair lay down backwards and vesti-do blue with white neck was fixed a little that took, and with that it seemed young much more.

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Ryder watched it with one mixture of exasperación and astonishment. When it was gotten upset, it seemed much more live that the timid and fragile creature who remembered of her adolescence. Him it enchanted that outbreak of temperament. But it was not going to confess it before her. - I do not know what you want of me - it concluded. - We offer for that reason - it affirmed Ryder raising its glass. It also proved the wine, although with much precaution, because she was not customary. Even so it feared that the wine had something to see with the demonstration of character that finished of to do. - If I am only going to be your secretariat, why I cannot leave with another one? - You are the one that said to me that he wanted to keep mourning by his husband - him espetó with dryness -. Or only you said it because I am demasia-do greater for you? Ivy could not think what it was oyendo. - Too greater? - the sufficient age stops to tontear with me, but too much to arrive at something more intimate, is that? Perhaps that jovenzuelo French is more of your style. After all you you married with Horseradish tree, that hardly was a year greater than you and it did not have anything to do with old an addict one to the work like I. Although what oía him it was incredible, Ivy had the impression that Ryder spoke in serious - Ryder, never has happened to me by the head that you are "old an addict one to the work". - No? Ivy paid attention to the fingers that it was caressing. In the strong and masculine hands of Ryder. - you Are whom she has you doubt. I believe that I am not the quite attractiveness for you. Now he was he who took hand of Ivy. - That is lie. - Perhaps, physically yes you taste - it said to him without watching it -. But our worlds are very different. I never I have felt... - one stopped, astonished of which it was on the verge of admitting. - you have never felt what. I occurred it. Ivy gave a deep one sigh. - I never have felt whom can be the quite good thing for al-guien as you - he declared with great sadness -. He was too young, too simple and too poor to fit in your world. Ryder kept long silence short while and when she watched it surprised in its face a glance deeply mysterious. - me you had never said it. - You must darte tells that you are rich - it said to him smoothly -. Ryder, I as soon as I know what places setting I have to use in this restau-rante. If you had not chosen by me, it could not have read the menu. I never drank wine and I do not know how to tolerate to me in the high society. Me it bothers and it gives fear me. - Small, why not me you had said? Ivy felt a chill to to hear the tone in which it said those words and when seeing its glance. - it did not know how. Ryder sighed and soon it kissed the hand of Ivy. - I feel It. It did not give me it counts of the social difference. I have always accepted to you like part of my own one circle. Mine and of Eve. It knew that he was sincere. Ivy it watched it at the eyes and one felt catched by the same electrical sensation that it felt when it embraced it or it kissed the palm to him of the hand. - Partly for that reason you fled from me, right? - Yes - it agreed bending Vista. - there have been many malentendidos. Too many. Some times I ask myself if we will obtain to disentangle them all.

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- we will not obtain it... if you continue fleeing - Ivy without being able observed to watch it to the eyes. - When you forget Horseradish tree and watch towards ahead, I will stop. It depends - it added with dryness -, of which you want. I am not easy. When hearing those words, Ivy raised the Vista and it watched it, and when seeing its face, was ed ***reflx mng gladly. - You are safe? Eve said that you had quitarte to the women of above with a wood. - Then he was younger - the hand of Ivy responded and loosen -. More young person and much less demanding. - That means that now yes you are it? - Oh, yes - it talked back with one mocking smile -. The marriage is something very serious. It is necessary to choose well to woman with whom you are going to pass the rest of your life. To Ivy it gave an upset him heart. It had its drink and it passed the finger through the edge. - the marriage must be for always, right? - it asked to him pensativamente. One remembered Horseradish tree and it asked how it would be its life at that moment if it followed alive. That thought gave chills him. Ryder frunció the frown. Horseradish tree, always Horseradish tree. It drank the wine que was in the glass. - I have a meeting this late. You can pass to machine those notes and mantenerte occupied until I return? Ivy watched it, astonished by its sudden change of humor. It had been the mention of the marriage which it had cooled? Probably. There was no doubt that it scorned it, so, if sometimes they lay down together, everything what a relation could wait for era passenger. And in deepest of its heart it knew that it could not take that type of life. He was too traditional. Although also it knew that it was too much enamored with Ryder like rejecting it if he seted out it. She was one frustrating situation. - Yes, I will be occupied - it talked back. - Not with that damn French. I swear to you by God, Ivy, that esta-ba not joking. If I see it less of kilometer of distance of you, I hang it. - Why it matters to you that leave with somebody? - tratando inquired to contain the tears -. You not me you want. - Oh, devils, yes, clear that yes - it declared between teeth. - Good, perhaps. ¡But of that form is not enough! Ryder watched his around. - we cannot speak here. - it does not need to speak to us nowhere. You are the head and I your secretary. We are going to leave it thus. You say that I am not ready for nothing else, but perhaps you either replaced rising and agarran-do the purse -. If it does not matter to you, I return to hotel a to continue with tra-bajo. - Ahead - Ryder talked back. Through its side it passed a woman that it did not let watch it. To only irritate to Ivy it gave back the smile to him. woman went very slowly to the door of the restaurant walking. - If I arrive late, not me hope - it said to him to Ivy. - I cannot but you yes. It is as well as it works? - I am a man. What you hoped? That it rejected a in-vitación? -¡I hate to you! - Ivy exclaimed between teeth. It had the full eyes of tears. Ryder gave resoplido. -¡Oh, God! ¡Veto already! I am here to work, it does not stop to coquetear with French, although I swear to you that sometimes they give desire me to do it. ¡Veto to work! Ivy walked steps and soon one became towards him. In their face his were reflected with clarity all fears and desires. - Ryder, you will not go with...

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- it would matter to You? - Oh, yes. It would matter to me much. Ryder put a finger to him on the lips. - I do not know if to cheer to me or no - it murmured -, but you understand at least how I feel with respect to the French, right? Ivy meant something but it could not. It did not have left any defen-sa. The return occurred and left restaurant, treating about not seeing the French, that it followed it with the glance and soon one went towards Ryder. Ryder dismissed it with fresh wind, although of a way very educated. It thought that it had to find something in which to occupy tiempo that night, because if it would not end up doing something of which could regret. But the answer was not another woman. Only it wished her, that was the problem. It cursed between teeth and one went to place of the meeting with the hope to forget Ivy by hours and to have thus something of peace. With a little luck cuan-do would be slept returned to hotel. I CAPITULATE 8 IVY had supper in their room a salad and drank much coffee. It spent the midnight without Ryder had arrived. It could not let torment itself thinking that she was with French. It had said to him that it would not do it, but, and if it wished a woman so desperately that could not be contained? It almost imagined them together and no it could support it. The nightgown was put and it put in the bed, but it could not sleep. It spent long time until finally it heard that the door of the room was opened. It entered the suite, but it did not go to verify if Ivy were dormi-da because it did not want to run risks. In all the day had not made another thing that to think about her. It was until its own one room, undressed and it put under sheets while it smoked cigarette and dealed with not thinking about her. It remembered it in the castle of St. Augustine and in the beach of Savannah, and the more thought it the more was excited. Very it was altered and it did not let move. ¡It had to try to separate it from his mind! Ivy, in spite of having closed door, heard the noise coming from the other room. Ryder was every time worse and she no longer it knew how to behave. When it had left that it late it had had the impression that it waited for something of her, but did not know what. Everything what knew was that was undergoing much, and wanted to help it. In silence at night, the sounds of the other room were perfectly audible. Ivy heard something that it seemed ago-nizante moaning, and without thinking it twice one rose and it ignited the light. One approached the door conscious of the danger that it involved to enter the room of a man dressed in an almost trans-parente nightgown. But one was Ryder, was not no stranger, but a friend. It opened the door very slowly. The lamp at night was en-cendida, he remained average laying place setting by sheets and covering the eyes with the arm. It went it takes off and it walked on the carpet without making noise. It arrived until the bed and it watched it. The sheets only him they covered the waist, the rest of the body, from his hair entangled to his powerful pier-nas, was offered naked before its eyes. It could not avoid to feel to please to see it of that form, enjoying its virilidad, the perfection of its body. Ryder moved with a new one complaint and separated the forearm from the eyes.- It saw Ivy before him. - I must be drunk - it said with absent tone. - I heard to You, Ryder - it murmured with smoothness -. You are well? It tightened the jaw and it watched overwhelmed. Soon cuer-po paid attention to his, the raised chests and the skin cremosa of its neck, in the black eyes that watched it tenderly and in hair, and wished it with a burning intensity. - It vetoes of here, Ivy. Express. Its voice was threatening, but, by once, to her it did not matter to him.

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- Porqué? You cannot to say to me what it happens to you? - you really want to know it? - it asked to him with a desire and frustration mixture -. It is well, by what no. You are already a woman, this is what it happens to me, Ivy - it said, and it retired sheet that covered the waist to him. Ivy remained agape. Completely it was excited. It did not let shake and it had the sunk eyes. - Oh, Ryder. Ryder was surprised of which in those black eyes there was not the smaller indication of fear. But Ivy could not to conceive that somebody could feel fear or shame before the beautiful vision of hom-bre. -¡Oh, God! - Ryder exclaimed seating in the bed and occurring the return -. ¡I must be crazy! I feel it. Veto, small, please. Ivy felt affected by its evident suffering. One seated to its side and it caressed an arm to him. - Acuéstate, Ryder - it said to him with a difficult whisper. It did not know what to do exactly, but it had a slight idea. It could not leave and thus leave it, although he could hate it when re-cuperara the calm. - What? Ryder could not think what it had heard. Ivy pushed it and it forced a to ease up of backs. It did not watch it at the eyes, one inclined on him and it kissed his velludo chest while him acaricia-ba the stomach. - Ivy... by God Santo... no! But it did not stop. It took the fingers until its virilidad and it touched it, a little intimidated by its power. It kissed on him stomach while it continued caressing it. - Not - Ryder moaned with tremor. - Enséñame - it whispered without to watch it. In its life it had had less fear of the one than had at those moments. -¡Ivy! Its hand began to guide of her. It could not let moan. Ivy felt it to shake under its mouth. In the end, Ryder had one convulsion and shouted in éxtasis. At that Ivy moment it was commited to watch it. It was incredible. Even in its more intimate mo-mentos, Horseradish tree never had been... thus! If it had not known what it was happening, it could have thought that it was dying. . When the espasmos they stopped, it left and it looked for it a towel. When it returned found it as it had left it and it cleaned it with the towel with much tenderness. heart beat to him with intensity when thinking about which they finished sharing. Ryder was on awares incredulous. Still it was shaking. - You are well? - it whispered to him Ivy. - Yes - it responded and it took his to him hand and kissed it -. Thanks. - I so feel to have been clumsy. I... I, never... Ryder was on the awares with enormous surprise. - Not even with him? Ivy denied timidly with head. - Ryder, I can preguntarte something... personnel? - What you want to know? - What has happened to you, now...? What feels? - been you have married, not it you know? Ivy sent a deep one sigh and denied with the head. Ryder seated in the bed and it watched it at the eyes. Soon it did a very direct question to him. Ivy ruborizó. Nor at least Horseradish tree had asked never something to him so intimate. - No. - He knew it? - Yes. It said that she was frigid - it responded with a nervous gesture -. He was very

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uncomfortable, and some times it hurt to me much. Ryder took the face him with the hands and forced it to watch it. - it never did to you what you you finish making me, for hacértelo easier? - What you mean? Ryder could not think what it was oyendo. All that beauty, that innocence, and never were it taught to enjoy sex. In fact he was almost as if outside virgin. it fixed to those pre-ciosos black eyes, in the silky and curled hair that fell on naked shoulders, and their beautiful chests. - How long took? -¡Ryder! - I must know it - it stressed smoothly -. It trusts me. It separated the eyes. - I do not know it. Not much. Always it was in a hurry. - Less than five minutes? - Ryder asked to him, that had the tight jaw. - Good... - it responded swallowing saliva -. Yes. -¡God! -- Ryder exclaimed with a sigh. - I thought that she wanted it, but he did not wish it - it with a great sadness declared -. It did not know what it would suppose to live with him, to feel to me as it felt to me. - I want darte what you me you have given, you will leave me? Ivy ruborizó. - you do not have why... - you have asked to Me what it feels. It pushed it with smoothness and it tended in the bed. The hair espar-cía on the sheet forming I pull ahead in winch to its face. - I go to enseñarte what it feels. - Ryder... - it murmured treating to push it. - you do not worry, I do not go a hacerte damage. Ivy breathed with difficulty and contained the breath when he in-clinó on her. - they do not use... men... something? It smiled and it kissed it on mouth. - Ivy, I do not have been with one woman more ago than two years, why had to take something? - you do not have...? Ryder kissed it again. Ivy he smelled roses, and he thought that never in his life he had more been near Paradise that that night. Still it felt the pleasure that it had given him so unexpected and generously, and now it wished to offer it to it to her. It wanted that it experimented the in-descriptible dulzura to belong to somebody to that you concern much to him, that it loves you more than to his own life. It could not say those words to him because it would not want to listen to them, at least, not to-davía. - Relájate - it whispered. It kissed it on the chin and on the body. - Tranquilízate, small, no I go to hacerte damage. Ivy contained the breathing when it separated the fabric from the nightgown and discovered the smooth curve of his chest. It put the hand to him in the hair and instead of separating it she caressed it while it kissed. Es-tremecía when feeling the delicate kiss of its lips and the caress of the language on the nipple. And something began to happen in its body. It felt one new and captivating calidez in the belly. Ryder realized which it had begun to breathe with difi-cultad and it included/understood that already it was enough excited, although it had not done more than to begin. It opened the mouth on the sine and apri-sionó the nipple while it tightened the chest with the hand. Ivy moaned and it shook of pleasing. Ryder noticed that he himself it returned to be excited, but it tried to con-tener itself. It looked for the satisfaction of Ivy, not it hers.

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With the hand that it had it frees the nightgown over the thighs raised to him and it placed it in the belly. Ivy it put rigid for a moment, it held the hand and it gave respingo to him. Ryder raised the head. - Yes, he is very intimate. As much like which you have done to me. It was certain. In addition, to weighing of which it felt something of shame, ex-perimentaba a febrile and placentera sensation due to the movement of the fingers of Ryder. It separated the hand leaving it on the bed and watched it while the caress was made intimate more and more. A big wave of pleasing it surprised suddenly and it gave respingo. Ryder returned to caress it without leaving of to watch it, increased the rate of its fingers until it could not resist it more and it began to re-torcer itself in the bed. One bent and it wished to do shreds the fabric that separated its skin of the body of Ryder. It wanted that it watched it. The sensuality was ending its timidity and desire burned the body to him. - Mírame. - Yes. - Quítame the nightgown. Ryder contained breathing and took off it. -¡God! It returned to put the hand where it had it. It remained engrossed before the magnificencia of that naked body. The long legs, the exuberantes hips, the narrow waist and the beautiful ones chests. It watched the raised nipples and one inclined to caress them, enjoying with the moaned ones that Ivy did not let proferir. It knew that it liked that him it caressed and it kissed the sines. Mordisqueó smoothly a nipple obtaining that it shook of pleasing. Ivy opened to the legs each time more tightening itself against its hand. - Oh, Ryder. It raised the head and it watched. In fact that was his first time and moaning did not want to lose itself, gesture, a position. - When you feel it - him it whispered with sensuality -, I do not close the eyes. I want mirarte. Those words resonated in the ears of Ivy while its pleasure did not let increase. Hardly one occurred it counts of the gemi-dos that profería following the exquisite sensations that they acu-mulaban in its body. A pleasure had never imagined that outside possible so intense that almost was near the pain. It did not know if it could support it and one occurred it tells that the eyes filled to him of tears as the espasmos increased more and more, until fi-nalmente they took step to an uncontrollable tremor. It felt that waves of pleasing crossed their spine and collapsed on the bed. Ryder comprehensively watched after the inexpressible pleasure and salva-je that saw in its eyes. It separated the hand from the belly of Ivy and it smoothly supported it on one of its chests. - This is what it feels when doing the love? Ryder agreed. -, but Yes more dangerous. - Why? - Because I can dejarte embarrassed. To Ivy it gave an upset him heart, and watched it with great sadness. - No, you cannot... Ryder, no I can have children. -¡God mine, Ivy! Ivy did not include/understand why Ryder gave the impression to need consolation. But involuntarily one remembered of chiquillo that had saved in Jacksonville and it gave account of which him they enchanted the children. It would enchant to have children and it finished to him knowing that with her it would not be possible. But perhaps it could with another woman... It separated that thought of its mind and caressed the cheek to him. - I feel It - it declared containing the tears -. I would like much to have children. Ryder kissed it tenderly.

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- it does not matter. You follow being the same one, that does not do less woman to you. I believe that you I finish it demonstrating. Ivy ruborizó. Ryder she separated a little to pay attention to his sines, and she made gesture cover itself. - You return to be timid? - him it asked smiling. - I feel It. I never allowed a Horseradish tree that saw me thus. And without embar-go, I have left you watched to me when... - You want that it says to you how you were? Or it is easier for you to remember my face when you made me feel same? Ivy was put completely red, but it did not separate the Vista. - I never thought that it could to do that to him to a man. - To intention, why you did? - Because you were suffering - it affirmed caressing the lips to him -. Oh, Ryder, you were suffering and had to do something. Ryder shook. Thus that still there was some hope. If now it concerned as much possible era to him that someday it mattered to him more still. It took hold the hand to him and it kissed its fingers one by one. - In that case, I will say to you secret. It had never left ningu-na woman did it. Ivy smiled with a brightness in the eyes. - To me you have left me. - it did not have much election. God mine, who would be imagina-do? My innocent and timid Ivy falling down to me in the bed to acari-ciar to me. Your mother would remain of stone. - you will not tell it my mother, right? - By God santo, us he would kill both - he talked back laughing -. They see here. I want to sleep with you. Ivy did not feel in those moments the pressure of the passion and doubted for a moment. It was difficult to do that to cold blood, even after the privacy that finished of to share. - I do not know... - it confessed frunciendo the frown. Ryder caressed the forehead to him with the index. - I do not talk about that. I want that you sleep between my arms. - Oh. It was wishing it, but in those moments it felt a very strange timidity, although it returned to notice that the blood ran warms up by its veins. - Ivy, tonight was agonizing and you almost calmed to me, and es-pero to have done the same by you. But it was a necessity that could not satisfy nobody more than you. You include/understand, affection? He would have returned crazy before allowing me that another woman did what you have done. Ivy watched it and account occurred of which it meant to him much more. - What so great eyes. Date the return. You would sleep undresses in arms of another man and you would let to him do that I have done to you? Ivy gave respingo. Nor at least account had occurred of which esta-ba undresses. - Now your body me it belongs. Me you have given it. There is no reason for esconderte of me. Mirándote could live the rest on my life as you are now. Their eyes said to him to Ivy that it was saying the truth. Acari-ció and then Ivy contemplated its body. It returned to be excited. - Sight which you do to me - it said Ryder laughing -. It extinguishes the light, affection, and see here. - you will not go a... - Your mother would strangle to us to both reason why already we have done, so it will be better than we fall asleep before that something new is happened to us, in agreement? - In agreement - it responded to him with a smile. Of course, it had to less fifty good reasons for which Ivy must have put the nightgown and returned to his bed, but it remained there, with the pleasant sensation of to be between the

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arms of Ryder. - will enter nobody, right? Ryder kissed the eyelids to him. - No, nobody will see us. Duérmete, my love. She was not safe of having affluent ear, but perhaps outside thus. Yes, of course that there was saying, Ryder waited for until Ivy remained slept and it leaned in an elbow in order to watch it. He was se-guro of which it mattered to him, perhaps more than what she it admitted. Of mo-mento he was only something physical, but it did not have doubt that a would arrive .to be something more. It returned to lie down, obstructed by the sensation to have it to his side, and fell asleep peacefully for the first time in many years. When Ivy awoke to tomorrow following, it was standing next to the bed, completely dressed and watching it. It was naked, tended on the bed in a position frankly tenta-dora. It had been dreaming something; although his did not remember what and body still was satisfied with the fullness sensation. Ryder had to say something, it had to think any thing. Their masculine instincts pushed a to take off the clothes and to do the love to him with a wild passion. It was burning and it wanted to burn themselves, to be consumed in the fire. But it could not lose the control. It was demasi-ado dangerous. - I go away to a conference. I will return to the one. - In agreement. Ivy had been ruborizado before the glance of Ryder. The previous night it seemed to him something unreal and embarrassing. It took the sheet and it was covered. - Soon I will pass notes of the meeting of yesterday to machine. Last night too much it was tired. It was lie, in fact it felt too much wounded and sad after leaving to Ryder in the restaurant like putting itself to work. - It is well. The return occurred and left the room precipitadamente, without at least watching it. Ivy heard that the door that it gave the corridor was closed of portazo. It was all the day asking porqué of that compor-tamiento. Perhaps one regreted at night previous encounter. Perhaps it must not have entered his room, although what it had happened later, was worth more than all fears that could feel. Quiet Profirió-un complaint when remembering sensations that had felt thanks to him. And it remembered that it had allowed him to watch it;that it had requested to him that watched it! It was asked if it would return a to speak to him. Perhaps it also was disturbed. Surely it did not use to say to him to women the distant spot that had arrived in a matter of sex, nor would leave it they saw in that state of necessity. But it had caressed it with ability. If mu-jeres had had others, thought, surely that it knew how to reduce it to her to a mere fleeting subject. It hated those women. It hated any woman who had es-tado between her arms, that were shared that body, its body... Ivy was excited of feet a head when remembering the powerful body of Ryder. It had said to him that to to make the love felt just like it had felt, but could not be certain. It knew that to make the love he was painful. He was disagreeable and everything happened too fast: On the other hand, Ryder she had tolerated with much tenderness and it had felt a great pleasure. it would tolerate equal if it left it... It swallowed saliva. One felt febrile. What it would feel when being under that impressive body and to feel the smoothness of his mouth and of its hands? It closed the eyes and it let fly the imagination. I CAPITULATE 9 THAT was for Ivy the worse one day of its life. Ryder was the overflow of the courtesy during the rest of the day and no a single time talked about nor to which it had happened the previous night or to his inexplicable behavior when leaving the suite. It was as absent as

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other times, only that now were worse, because it hid something behind that calm. Ivy was not explained either why, if one regreted which it had happened, it did not say it. Although, to his way, perhaps outside that indeed what it was doing. The only thing that knew was that the frustration was killing it. Only a month ago it did not know what was desire nor what supposed to satisfy it. Now it knew it very well, and it wished a Ryder of all the forms in which a woman can wish a man. It dreamed about it, missed it, yearned for it, would have died by him. But it did not seem to realize anything, although she shook in her presence and their eyes were very eloquent. It had said to him that they would return on the following day to house and it did not know how it was going to fix to it stops them to survive. But perhaps outside the best thing. Thus one would separate from its Vista and his mind, because it never spent de-masiado time in the office. But to think about future did not help to support him the present. That night took leave with a dry one "Good night" and one put in his room. Even tact of its nightgown caused pain to him. It threw it to the ground and it was dropped on the bed without letting think about Ryder. It imagined that it must have a horrible aspect, but what mattered. The body hurt to him as if it had fever. Not even it raised to extinguish the light. Unexpectedly, it was opened the door. Ryder entered. When seeing it its gesture became hardened still more. It had the hair dunked and it only wore a dressing gown. A shower had occurred. God knew that there was tried not to think about her. But no longer it could support it by more time. it had heard move by the room as she had heard it the night previous. It closed the door with violence, threw to the ground the dressing gown and it came near until the bed. Ivy did not move. It was excited and it showed it without shame. It watched it of reojo and it knew immediately its intentions. Ryder tended in the bed and Ivy directed a full glance to him of desire. - I wish You - it said to him -. I feel, but I cannot avoid it. Ryder, I wish you. - Yes, already I know how you feel. I also wish you. One inclined and it kissed it. Ivy it opened the mouth and one filled with that éxtasis. - We will do the one of yesterday and perhaps later we pruned to sleep - Ryder indicated. But when its hand it descended until his belly, she stopped it. Ryder watched it at the eyes. - Not - it with voice whispered trembly -. I wish you. I want to make the love. - Ivy... It realized his objection. He was a old fashioned man who still had some paternal thought of protection. But it did not want to think. Not at that moment. One slid under its body and it surrounded it with an arm so that their sines were tightened against the chest of Ryder. - Please... - it whispered to him in the lips. And it was tightened against him forcing it to a privacy that had not shared with any man from his tragic marriage. It felt its tact with a tremor and it was tightened against it still more, and, soon guided his powerful force with the hand. - It is well - gruñó he -. But not thus. It leaves excites to you before. If we are going to make the love, I want dejarte completely satisfied. She watched it with curiosity, but after a moment kissed it and felt on himself the weight of his body. Soon it caressed the thighs and the belly to him very slowly. He was very patient, because reason why it could see and feel po-dría not to resist much more in that state. But it kissed with slowness, with calidez, proving each corner of its mouth with the language. And mien-tras as much with a hand caressed the chests to him, avoiding with taken care of the sensible nipples. - Oh, by favor-requested she. - Already? But if we do not have fact more than to begin. - I go away to die-said she with the awares very been on.

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It was tightened against her and it made him feel in the belly the urgency of its own desire. - That is what they say French, who the climax is a small death, you knew it? - Not - it responded with flesh color. Ryder stretched the legs and it catched among them those of Ivy. Soon se incorporated so that it could take nipple, for torment of Ivy, between the lips. - You like, small? - it asked giving small mordis-quitos -. To me also. - Oh, Ryder. Soon it descended until his stomach, separated the legs to him with the hands and it kissed it on the belly, returning it crazy from pleasing. It gave the return him and it threw of a leg so that it could put hers between averages. It rubbed the nose against hers and it kissed los to him closed eyelids. It took hold it by the hips and it attracted towards himself. Soon it watched it after caressing it in its more intimate part. - Yes - it whispered -. You are ready. It did not understand it. No it let shake affected by its caresses and their enthusiastic kisses. - List? - to accept my body. To be part of me. It contained the breathing when it began to penetrate it and for a moment it felt pain. - Either, or - it whispered with tenderness and smiled -. Slowly, pre-ciosa. Relájate, you can take me. Relájate, that is. Then it pushed a little more. - Yes, yes. One did not move, not even it breathed. Only it was on the awares and it watched it. -¡God mine, Ivy! - it exclaimed with a tremor -. ¡Oh, God! ¡I am part of you! Ivy shook. It opened mouth with incredulity and watched its cuer-pos. Their cheeks were dyed of flesh color to to see intimately that they esta-ban united. - I feel as if there was be virgin until now. - you do not imagine true that is those words. And you make me feel as if I also it it had been until now, affection - it declared and it caressed the face to him -. Ivy, Ivy. And when saying its name it began to move the hips with a slow and smooth rate that in a moment woke up unsuspected sensations in her. And she tightened herself against him to do those still more intense sensations. - That is - he affirmed -. Adáptate to me. Enséñame where you feel more. Yes, Ivy, yes. Ivy put the hands to him in the hips and tightened with force desean-do to fill all their being with that body. Ryder moaned of pleasing and she tightened more fort, until she shook and she began to jadear. -¡Ivy, Ivy, I cannot more...! Ivy knew that it was arriving at the éxtasis, but it did not matter to him, because it was on the verge of arriving to the limit. Without wanting, it tightened the nails in its hips and one moved with a fury it blinds looking for its own fullness and realizing of which Ryder also had lost the control and was on the brink of madness madness. When one became unbearable, it shouted. It wanted more and more of him, it had to flood until the last one corner of its body... ¡now! It felt convulsions of intense to please and it shouted again throwing the head backwards. Ryder it took hold by the hips and one sank within his body. Soon something murmured inaudible and simultaneously threw backwards the head and profirió a moaned length. it gave account of the first con-vulsión that was followed by another one and another one more than they invaded con a indescriptible fullness. Soon Ivy noticed the sweat that it soaked the body of Ryder and se gave account of which she herself was bathed in sweat. Ryder kissed the chests to him and it shook between her arms. heart beat with such force that the beats almost were audible. It was touched humid hair to make sure that it followed lives. It hurt cuerpo to him as if they had struck, but still it

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conserved the heat in all its members. One moved. It followed inside of her. Ryder made intention of to rise, but she did not allow it and protested, so she got up herself little and she watched it. Their eyes were full of astonishment. - Your body is inexhaustible, but I still must rest a little before returning to make the love. Ivy shook. They went a to make the love again. And it had felt thus, making the love authentically for the first time in its life. A finger caressed the face to him happening by its eyebrows. - it was not for that reason. - Why then? It watched it with timidity. - Because I like to feel it. When hearing those words Ryder was excited. - You said that you could not - she remembered to him. - Ah, yes? It began to move again, slowly and smoothly. - I do not know if it is so going to be good like before. I almost die. - it hurt to You? It was ed ***reflx mng. - It was a éxtasis. - Also for me - it whispered she watching it. It followed its rate, helping it, feeling that the tremors began again. - Oh, Ryder. Beam that feel again, please. This time it could not hope and he did not try it. She had it with an almost wild force and it reunited last forces that it had left to adapt to their movements until two returned to ex-perimentar the climax. It had amanecido. The latest that Ivy remembered was that Ryder embraced it enthusiastic and covered them with sheet. The return occurred, but the bed was empty. It stretched pier-nas and it raised. It watched the sheet and it remained agape. - it give account You of which there is be the first time? The return occurred and watched a Ryder. It did not understand anything. - you do not know what is happened? - Ryder asked to him from the door. It was completely dress and, apparently, on the verge of leaving. - What has happened? - you do not know why to principle hurt to you? Ivy returned to watch it to eyes and included/understood suddenly. Ru-borizó of the head on the feet. - That is. Almost eras absolutely virgin. So, in a certain sense, I the first in hacerte have been love. It gave a kiss him in mouth and embraced it. - You like? - Yes. I loved that you you were first. Oh, I wished you during as much time - it said to him leaving all its fears -. When it had fifteen years mirarte used and to dream that one night you came to my room and you did the love to me. - What? Its expression did it to keep silence for a moment. - I thought that you knew it. Already I have said to you that I never felt the same by Horseradish tree. It was because... it only could feel it by you, and he knew it. -¡Ivy! It give account to you of that you are saying? ¡It did not know it! ¡It did not know that you wished me as much ago time! - But I was safe of that you knew it. After that night you avoided to me... - and you to me. You left running and you lay down in arms of Horseradish tree. - Because it knew that it could not tenerte. You did not want to me because you considered more me like a small sister who like a a woman. I understood it by your attitude. You always

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avoided to me, so cuan-do Horseradish tree requested to me that we left, I accepted. -¡God mine! - he exclaimed. - What happens? Ryder could not speak. She it had wished it and it never knew how it felt. It thought that it wanted to avoid it, that it would reject it, so married with the damn Horseradish tree. And Horseradish tree knew that it loved him and for that reason it had dealt it with cruelty. It gave to returns the head him. - I must go stops me to verify the reservation of the airplane and algu-nas other things - it said to him dryly -. So long. One left without watching it at least and Ivy remained watching it while the heart was broken to him, because it finished saying to him what felt and he had left as if he did not have to him pleased what it had heard. Perhaps the only thing that he it felt was desire, and now that was satis-fecho the life did not want to be complicated with the love. The eyes of tears filled to him. It did not know what could do. Ryder did not go to eat to hotel. It verified the reservation of the airplane, one took leave of its friends and it walked under rain, treating to com-prender what it had happened. Why not it had given account of the feelings of Ivy? Why it had not been noticed of that it wished it? It decided that one was that. She, during all those years and also the previous night, only it had wished. Horseradish tree never had satisfied it and after the previous night it knew what was to feel like like a woman thanks to him. But it was not love. And he it wanted its love. Culprit when seeing felt its sad face when it returned to the hotel. It did not know what to say to him. Never it had it to have touched, now he would want a purely sexual relation and it could not to give it to it. It wanted much more. The hat took off and it left on the table. - Ivy, we must speak. - it is not necessary - it talked back she. It had decided that the only one way possible era to pretend that it really did not matter to him until he lost the interest. - you do not have why to explain nothing to me. You wished and I to me to you. Both we were very satisfied and that is everything. You do not worry, notices I will put no difficulty. Ryder sighed. How it could to speak in those terms when for him he had been something much more important? Good, if for her it had meaning so little, knew very clearly that it would not say much to him that there was meaning for him. Both they could play the same game. - I am glad of which you understand it. - I am, an adult woman, no one said to boy-him without watching it -. From now on we will continue working together and we will be friends, but nothing else. I wait for not escandalizarte. - As if you could - it murmured he -. But what is safe it is that we cannot continue being friends. - I do not know it. It was ed ***reflx mng bitterly and it ignited a cigarette, which did quite often lately. - you do not know it? Then it leaves that it says to you that whenever you watch to me during the rest of your life, you will see me naked; and to me it will happen to me the same. Ivy ruborizó. - It can that is good idea that it looks for another work to me. - it will not be necessary. Me I will march to the foreigner during some time within few weeks, so it is than more probable that not even we see ourselves. - Ryder-it whispered with one deep sadness. The return occurred. His face was impassible. - It will be better than we go away to the airport - it suggested with a strange voice. - it had almost finished of to make the luggage.

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While it removed the last one clothes of the closet of its room were asked if Ryder would not appear after his back in any mo-mento and would say to him that everything had been malentendido, that they queda-ban another week, that wished it again, that it wanted it. It watched room once again and invaded the deepest sadness. They said that Paris was a city for the love. Good, it and Ryder had been loving, but in where they were its dreams of love and commitment to eter to us? He was better there them not to have made, because it knew that never they would become reality. In the days that followed a its return of Paris Ivy pre-guntó often if it were working for ghost. Because Ryder went on a trip towards a unknown place to the day following to return. It went to the office dominated by the anxiety, but it worried about anything. Ryder had left with the secretary vice-president and not even left this where she went. With a deep Ivy sigh one seated in its table to open the mail, asking itself how a went to fix them to it during the rest of its life with the heart made pieces. There was lost the appetite and it only ate toasted, coffee and salads. It did not show to interest by anything and every time he was thinner and weaker. - you do not think that you would have to go to the doctor? - Jean with pre-ocupación said to him. - I am only tired. They were the seven of afternoon and it could not maintain the eyes open. -¡Tired! By God Santo, you are always tired. Oh, affection, very I am worried about you. - If you want to know truth, I believe that I am gotten depressed. I miss to Ryder. Jean was tranquilized. - So he is that. Ivy agreed. - a month Takes outside and nor at least it has called to me by telephone. It sends messages through Mr. Wood giving instructions and it sends to letters and contracts by fax, but nothing for me. - It happened something in Paris? Ivy occurred the return before that her mother realized of which had been ruborizado. Jean was not none idiot and Ivy did not want to speak with her of something so personal. - the only thing that happened is that it said that it did not want to marry. - My young poor man - it sighed Jean accepting the phrase as if outside all the truth. It embraced its daughter with affection. - In any case, no forget a thing. Most of hom-bres some times do not want to marry and it has been long time to them to become to the idea - it commented and it was ed ***reflx mng -. You know that your father was one of those? But it decided that the marriage was not so bad and when you were born was the happiest husband of the world. - Hopefully it had known it. - Yes. He was very special - Jean agreed -. You would like to eat something now? - I will try It. I do not have much appetite lately. And the plus ex-traño is that the scent to bacon puts to me ill. Think that it happens something to me in the stomach? Perhaps you have something of indigestión. They spent three weeks more before Ryder returned. Ivy had recovered a little, but the fatigue of the afternoons it was every greater time. It followed without having appetite, but it left of to worry because it seemed that a little had gotten fat, which proved that it was well of health. The morning of Monday, Ryder entered the office inesperada-mente. Ivy raised the Vista of its table and it saw it. It watched it with its pale eyes, that seemed great still more due to the thinness of its face. It could not know later that of seven weeks it saw it very changed. It remembered a healthful woman, with an exquisite skin and a brightness in the eyes. But now that same woman was excesiva-mente thin and she had opaque the hair and the skin of the face. It gave the im-presión to be ill.

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Ivy waited for a smile that one did not take place. Only it watched it with the gathered, immovable frown in the quicio of the door. -¡God mine! - it exclaimed -. What it has happened to you? - Porqué? Nothing - it stuttered. One rose of the chair and it tried to sonreir to him. - I am glad of verte, Ryder. It did not respond. It took a portfolio and put it in the ground. It seemed worried. A moment later, Ivy it felt that the Vista, that the head gave returns him and, with a light one became cloudy to him complaint, felt nauseas and fell to the ground. I CAPITULATE 10 RYDER raised it in arms and it watched it with the gathered frown. - I am well - it assured to him she trying to smile. It had returned, so everything would march well. It watched it with the heart and it asked: - you are not going to give a kiss to me? - it would give one You if it had security of which it could stop. It crossed the door and it entered its office. - weights nothing, is that no you eat? To Ivy it enchanted to him that it worried about her. - I suppose that I have virus. I was ill long time and now I am not hungry. Strangest it is that some meals make sick to me. Ryder as soon as it could believe that Ivy did not realize which they meant its words. It had said to him that it could not have children, so could not imagine what in fact it happened, rather it described it like a strange disease. Nevertheless its mind it illuminated before that delicious possibility. - you have seen a doctor? - You speak as mother - it asserted she laughing -. No, I have not seen a doctor, because it does not need to me. Now already I am well, surely it will not be more than an influenza. - you do not have good face. - If you are going to begin meterte with me, I will say to you that you also Seem tired - she said to him paying attention to his ojeras. It smelled expensive colony and it had a very interesting aspect, as if it hid a secret. - Too many nights with pretty girls? - As if it could touch a another woman after that night with you - it clarified to him with calm. The heart of Ivy seemed to want to jump to him of the chest. - you say It in serious? - Completely. One inclined and it kissed it. She it accepted it without reserves. It was a kiss like at night in Paris. Ryder moaned smoothly and it attracted it towards himself with force. Still it maintained it in arms, and in place of de-jar it in the ground seated in its writing-desk and it kissed it until they necesi-taron to breathe. He was almost safe that she was pregnant woman, and him it astonished and it enchanted to him that not even it suspected it. The intensi-dad of his own feelings also astonished it, like the pleasure that invaded it with thought of which Ivy took in the entrails a son his. But when it raised head and watched its timid eyes, was happened to him that it could not say to him that it knew. It would have to take it to see a doctor. After the news knew it would watch it so that it did not make any madness, and finally would have to be sorprendi-do when she said it. Because if it said to him that it knew, could think that one was only interested in her because it was going to have a son his. It was a difficult situation, but it did not have more remedy than hacer-lo thus. The first step, decided, it would be to court it. Without fits and unexpected situa-ciones that did them to lose the head. It had to pro-bar to him that he was faithful, that in fact could to trust him, and that desperately it was enamored. In fact it must have fact all that attracted by

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her like being able to think. Luckyly, still it was left time, if it made the things with care. It rubbed the nose in his cheek and said: - he has been a great one welcome. You invite to me to eat? -, Yes clear. Kim Sun also she can come. - Kim Sun is of vacations and one has been going away to visit his parents. Luckyly, it will not return until within two weeks. - You know perfectly that you miss - it assured Ivy to him. - he is not nothing compared with what missed to you to you - it said caressing its cheeks -. It was as if world was lost its enchantment. - That is what it happened here, without you. It threw the arms to him to neck and kissed it with passion. - You will want acostarte with me? Ryder was put rigid. - you do not imagine how much desire. But you and I needed to em-pezar again, from the beginning. To go to cinema, to take us from the hands, to leave... that class of things. Ivy remained surprised. It could not be saying that... It watched it at the eyes and it knew that yes there was it understood. It was speaking of a commitment. It could not know of what type, but it did not matter. The only thing that mattered was that it had returned and wanted to be with she. - Sometimes it dreamed that it left with you. - I also had some dreams. You made reality many of them in Paris - its face murmured and kissed, blushed of flesh color -. You do not worry for that reason. It was the sweetest night of my life. - Yes, but you have had many. - She was new for both, créeme. In many senses, you were virgin, remember? It shook to to remember that night. - we cannot make the love? Ryder ignited cigarette. - Still no. - We must hope? - she insisted. - Not much. Meanwhile we will be able to be known better. - You will have time? - I will remove It from where it is. I am going to take care of very well of you, McKenzie young lady. - you say It as if it did lack that took care of to me. - and you do not need it? Sincerely, you are thinner than espagueti. - I have been to diet while you were outside - she said, joking with which she was not more than the pure truth. - Now I have returned and no I will return to leave, so you will not have any excuse to let eat. - Coarse whereupon not me DES bacon. That night did not give him bacon to have supper, but jamón cooked with homemade bread, salad of Popes and cake of apple, its favorite dessert. Ryder ate much. It was first that ate with true appetite after many weeks. It had thinned two kilos. It did not separate the Vista from Ivy, that wore a dress of color bone with a organdí handkerchief, that he already knew. That clothes him it was very well. After the dessert, Jean it insisted on washing plates and it let them single in the living room closing door with much discretion. - Cupido with cotton dressing gown - Ryder joked -. Thank heavens that does not know the one of Paris. I believe that it would break to us head - it said to him smiling. That smile obtained that Ivy forgot its timidity and it was narrowed against him. - I want besarte. Only kisses this time, small. We do not want that the things go away to us of the hands. - Yes that we want - it affirmed greater she embracing it with insisten-cia.

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Ryder separated of her with smoothness. - Yes that we want, but no tonight. Nor here. Ivy supported the head on the chest of Ryder. It could hear the beat of its heart and feel the calidez of his body. - I have not slept - it clarified without to want while it watched the fire en-cendido in the chimney. - I have not slept either well. Not because there were other women, but because it threw to you much of less. It wanted sostenerte between my arms when sleeping, like in Paris. - Sssshhh - it indicated Ivy to him -, mother can oírnos. - Hmm, is truth. But you also you missed to me, ver-dad? Ivy agreed and closed eyes. It liked to be supported in him, felt very feminine. It was not like Horseradish tree. - Why you have remained shut up? - it was thinking about Horseradish tree. It depended too much on me. It was thinking - it added when occurring account of which it had put very rígi-do- that I like to support to me in you. - There is something with respect to Horseradish tree that you do not know. Before we go more far you must know it everything. Ivy was gotten up. In tone of voice of Ryder was a certain pre-ocupación. - the father of Horseradish tree died in an accident, because I had issued orders to him of which she left a report me in office. It took a bottle from whiskey that found in a drawer of my table. Him they made the autopsy and they verified that he was drunk when its car fell by a precipice - it told all that him without daring to watch it to the eyes -. A to divide of that moment the life of Horseradish tree began to go of badly in worse. After accident began to drink. Part of the fault of the problems that you had with him she is mine. Ivy kept silence during a long moment, thinking in its own responsibility and the words that her mother had said to him on the matter. It also wanted to help it as a it had helped Jean it. - Nobody is responsible for the problems of the others - him ase-guró with calm -. You say that Horseradish tree drank by cause of the death of its father, but could have faced that death of another way. All we can choose, and sometimes we were mistaken. Horseradish tree was mistaken and I also. But now I must continue living. And you. To watch back will not help you. By much that you lament podrás not to change what it has happened. At that moment, Ryder it watched. - I was not what Horseradish tree he hoped, but it did not have why to remain with me and tapeworm why not to drink - Ivy added. Ryder caressed the hand to him. - I have dragged that during long time. I thought that you would throw the fault to me. - I do not blame to you of anything. Except returning to house before raising the Eiffel Tower - it indicated to him with one smile. Ryder loosen an outburst of laughter. - I did not take to you? I feel it, affection. Those days a mess was done. - Why we were ourselves so soon? - you do not know it? I raise it and it put it on its lap, causing that supported the head in its arm. - we would not have been able to stop to us. We would have en-tregado one to the other day and night while we remained there. When returning, Jean would save to us from we ourself. - Yes, here yes. But Kim Sun one went away and there is nobody in your house. Ryder smiled. - I do not go to llevarte to my house. To Jean it would not like and I do not want to put in prohibition your reputation. - old fashioned What. - Then that is what I am; except when colored people of black eyes make me lose the head -

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she expressed and it kissed it with suavi-dad -. I would like dejarte pregnant woman, Ivy she whispered to him in ear with smoothness and without being able to avoid a secret smile. Ivy shook. Him aque-llas made a knot in the throat when hearing words. A little was gotten up and it said in a murmur: - and to me also, Ryder. A me also. Ryder embraced it with force and they occurred a long kiss. Ivy felt it with as much intensity that awoke desire in her. It took a hand him and it supported it in one of its sines. Ryder tried to retire it but it maintained it there. - it is not a good idea, Ivy - gruñó with hoarse voice. - Oh, yes that is it - it whispered she against its lips -. I would like to undress to me. ¡I want hacerte right here the love! - All-powerful God. ¡You go to me to kill! - Ryder exclaimed. It kissed it enthusiastically and with a hand it raised the dress to him and it caressed the smooth skin to him of its thighs. -¡Ivy...! A plate roar and cups alerted them of the proximity of Jean. Ryder retired flowed it and it incorporated with lack of appetite. Both they respira-ban with agitation and they felt the heart to bark at great speed. - I suppose now that yes you will think that I am an impertinent. But it does not matter to me. It would not feel to me thus with nobody more. - I hope that not - he said. "Mainly in your state ", you could have added. It separated fle-quillo to him from the face. - But no, I do not think that be shameless - it continued -. I believe that you are a normal woman with an attitude very healthy with respect to sex. I am glad of which you trust me the enough thing like stops to con-ceder as much freedom to me with your body. - As much you wish me? - Oh, yes - it murmured with one note of desire in the voice. Ivy supported the head in his chest and rubbed the cheek in the sleeve of the shirt. - I do not want to rise. I must do it? - Your mother can imagine many things, affection. It will be better than we behave well. - In agreement. One seated to the other side of sofa and at that moment entered Jean with the tray of the coffee and it seated between they with an approval glance. During the following days it had to show many glances of approval and to exert its paper of guardian when Ryder came to have supper or to see a film for, according to him, to entertain itself. Ryder never suggested a to him Ivy that always went to their house and assured that they did not pass too much time single. It sent flo-res to him and it called it by the nights to only hear his voice and to enjoy its secret, although sometimes had desire to leave running a the street and to say to him to which was going to have a son. Often it watched and it could not avoid a smile, to be with her was like being in Paradise. Meanwhile it followed being his secretary and to him she cost to him much to have the mind occupied in subjects of the office. A day, with a secret investigation joy, she surprised it observing it after receiving the visit of architect. It bent an eyebrow while one leaned in the quicio of the door and it watched it with a smile. - Your cheeks return a to have color. - I am better. Although I am sleepy to all hours. Ryder had to be contained not to take it to see a doctor. But it did very just a short time that it finished of to return and must have much tact. Their lives depended on which he did. No it could so-portar to throw to lose its relation, but it could not either wait for much more. - Today I have some appointment more?

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- Nothing see you tomorrow. You you go? - we go away. It called to Mr. Wood and him it said that both they would go away by the rest of the day. - But to where we go? - To Knolls of Kolomoki. The Knolls of Kolomoki they were an old Indian territory of enormous extension that in winter was desert. During the summer one filled of tourists and students of archaeology. - you dare to raise? It had more than twenty meters until the top covered with high grass, at which it was arrived by a zooming cement stairs. - Yes. But, why we go? - Now that Kim Sun has returned, in what another place we can be single? - it asked to him without watching it. She ruborizó. It had tone in its voice that made shake. She was sure that it could raise. it watched. It wore to a dark suit and she a skirt plisada with a white blouse. - it seems to Me that we did not take clothes very adapted. - it is not adapted Either stops to roll by the grass, but that is what we are going to do when we raise. Or you create that we will be ca-paces to seat and to speak to us crossed of arms? Ivy watched it with complicity. - Not even it crossed me by the head. The Knolls were located in a red zone of earth. There were them small, but the one of the temple it elevated in a plain on the trees that surrounded it. There was nor no a soul, although they had been with a car of the police of national parks to entrance. Ryder helped it to raise, with taken care of much not to let lose it foot. She did not understand the reason of so many attentions, but felt flattered. When arriving at the top, jadeantes, Ryder surrounded to Ivy with an arm and contemplated the surrounding landscape. - He is magnificent. - Yes. Although the trees they prevent to see it everything, more to the north are higher zones from those than it is descried a fascinating Vista. Ivy watched it. - I liked much Arizona. - and to me. It watched it at the eyes. - I want to You, Ivy - it said and it kissed. Those words resonated in the shaken body of Ivy and the eyes they filled to him of tears: - there are no saying, right? I have dreamed it. - I have said It - it affirmed and it kissed on the cheeks wet by the tears -. I want to you since you had eighteen years, but I thought that eras too young. I waited for some years stops to try it again, but I gave fear you and you ran to the arms of Horseradish tree - it said, and it added with a deep sigh -. It thought that you loved it. For that reason I was myself later of the funeral. I offered a use to you and I spent nights whole thinking about the way of decirte what felt. - Oh... Ryder - it murmured and tears slid by their cheeks -. I also wanted to you... it loved to you... it lived by tí. Horseradish tree knew it and it hated to you, and it hated to me for that reason. It kissed it. It took hold it by waist and raised it, too emo-cionado like thinking about its state. It wanted it! ¡It had said to him that it wanted it! - you did not know it? - him Ivy asked. - Not - it answered to him. It watched it of such form that Ivy thought that it was going to become crazy from joy -. I never imagined that importarte could as much. In Paris it knew that it could obtain that you wished me, but it was not sufficient. I never wanted to arrive so

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far, but it had passed much time and wished you with madness. I do not feel it, but hopefully we had known before we the same felt the one by the other. - Now we know it - it said to him happiness flood -. Please, cásate with me. I cannot decirte not again and for my mother it would be a scandal that we lived together without being married. Ryder shook. it had been tormenting looking for thousand forms to say it to it and was she who it requested it. They almost gave desire him to explode in outbursts of laughter. - You want to be my woman? To live with me for always? - Yes - it responded to him with ardor -. I will take care of to you, Ryder. I will make comi-da, good, Kim Sun and I we will do food - it added laughing -. And I will take care of to you when you are ill and I want to you all nights. Ryder felt that the heart it was going to jump to him of the chest. It watched it and it kissed it with infinite tenderness, shaking with the new sensation to love and to be loved, to belong to somebody. - I also will want to you. It embraced with force and she account occurred of which it was excited. - It hoped here that no it was so much cold. - I also, Ryder, can to park the car somewhere... Ryder took the head him between the hands and it watched it. It wished it more than ever but it did not want to do to him love in its state. - Not - it said after moments -. I love too much to reduce to you what we felt a little while to febrile in the back seat of a car. One separated from her, who it watched seductively. - you already know what it costs to me not to do it. - Therefore you felt in Paris? - you do not have idea - it answered caressing the cheek to him -. Ivy, from the day in which I realized which you it wanted has been no another woman. - you said that two years to Me. - I lay to You - it said and it took hold it by the waist and it balanced it with ternu-ra -. They were five. - Oh, God mine - it exclaimed she -. ¡Incredible! -, Yes incredible - it repeated smiling -. And not yet you know everything to it. - What? - Ivy, why you said to me that you could not have children? - Because I cannot - it responded she with sadness -. I did not have them with Horseradish tree. I must have something... badly. It matters to you much? You said that no, but... It took the hands him and it put on the belly watching it with infinite tenderness. - It feels. Ivy did not include/understand. - nauseas, the fatigue, the scent of the bacon - it clarified son-riendo tenderly -. We made a boy in Paris. Ivy was on the awares extremely and the breathing was cut to him. The joy exploded in his interior. It broke to cry and it embraced it without letting shake, crazy of happiness. - you did not know it, right, small? - it asked to him the ear -. Yes, I will marry with you, McKenzie young lady. And it will be better than it is as soon as possible. - I cannot believe it. It is too wonderful. It had never dreamed... But, and if I am not it? - you have had menstruation? Ivy remained agape. - Oh, God mine. I thought that he was due to the excitation. Ryder watched it with malicia. - it must to the excitation. Ivy gave a tap him in the chest. - I will never be able to believe it. That be pregnant and that you know before I to it.

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- You have to do doctor. You make an appointment today same - it requested to him -. But as much if you are it as if no, and good looking the neck to that you are it, we will marry. ¡I want to you! - I also want to you - he repeated and he kissed it -. But I hope that here there is a niñito -- it continued occurring one light tap in the belly. I CAPITULATE 11 And THERE WAS a niñito. Ryder it took to the doctor and it waited for with her until the doctor received them. Ivy was had amused much listening to invent it excuses to obtain the appointment. In less than one hour doctor confirmed his suspicions and he mentioned another day to test more exhaustive. - I want to think that the boy he will be welcome -- it said the doctor with dryness. Ivy was seated in one chair and Ryder, squatting to its side, took hold the hand to him. - it does not know how much - him Ryder answered and watched Ivy, that had been ruborizado. - Good, I will give the name them of a good gynecologist. From now on it must take care of itself much - it suggested a to him Ivy -. The tests to only are going us to confirm the results of the examination, so pode-mos to advance an appointment - it said and it returned to watch them over the glasses -. I imagine that one is one of these modern adjustments. - Oh, we are not nothing modern - Ivy responded to him -. We are going away to marry. - Doctor, has to explain to him what he happens to him to a man after five years of abstinence - he suggested Ryder to him -. For that reason she is pregnant before the ceremony. - It has been in the war or what? - been I have enamored with she, but it was outside my al-cance. But now she is mine and one will never go away of my side. - and it will never want to go away - Ivy affirmed. The test results he was positive and on the following day they notified to Jean to him. - We have something decirte - Ivy said. - Me it imagined it. Last night no they did more than to send evasive and to watch one to the other when I asked why so you were tired. They are going away to marry, so I congratulate them. - This... I am afraid that it is little more complicated - Ryder stammered and it seated with Jean in the sofa and took his hand -. We are going to have a boy - it confessed to a smile. - it cannot... to have children. I mean... - She is pregnant. We finished to gather them test resultses. Jean took a hand to chest. -¡God Santo! - it exclaimed with an astonishment smile -. ¡Oh, Ivy! Ivy was united to them in sofa and embraced its mother. - he is not incredible? All those years and no... And the first time with Ryder - account occurred of which it was saying and colora-da was put. Jean watched its two faces red and it said: - Paris? - Paris - they agreed both at the same time. -¡They are not married! - we have bought the license this late and I know a judge who will not request the blood analysis to us. Tomorrow we will be married. Jean watched them with severity. - It would have to beat to them to two. - I want It. I waited for five years to say to him how much - Ryder assured, and it shrank of shoulders -. I said it a little more gráfica-mente of which it tried. - If you waited for five years, I can imagine how it happened. God mine, did not support the food and I did not suspect nothing, nor cuan-do either did not begin to go away at night to the bed to eight.

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- I did not suspect it either - she laughed Ivy -. Ryder said that esta-ba to me pregnant. - One of my aunts had binoculars - Ryder commented -. It has had twin in its family? - My grandmother had binoculars - Jean responded -. Your uncle Harry and your Todd uncle. - it would enchant to Me to have binoculars - Ivy said watching to Ryder. - Twin, trillizos, which be -- it declared -. I hope that it does not affect too much to us and we become crazy. - To return to us crazy? - Of happiness. Jean loosen an outburst of laughter and it embraced it. - I know how you very well you feel. Welcome to the family, son. On the following day they married and that Ivy night lay in arms of Ryder in its own room. - he has been wonderful. With all those flowers and Eve of godmother. - and the most handsome fiancèe of world - Ryder assured, and it kissed it. They wore pajamas and Ivy were wondered why he had not insisted on doing the love to him. - You are a little distant to be your night of weddings - it insinuated to him smiling -. You are not the same man who it was going to seduce to me in the Indian temple only three days ago? - Two - he corrected to him -. Yes, I am the same one, but you were tired after the ceremony and in addition we had to go to dismiss Eve and Curt. The return occurred and it curled up in the hollow of his body and comen-zó to caress the chest to him. It contained the breathing. - Slowly, slowly - him he requested -. We must think about our son. - Yes - it responded and it kissed it. Soon he began a to caress it and kissed him the sines with dulzura. She never had imagined that the love with as much tenderness could be done. One adapted to its body and it excited with gentleness until it shook and one embraced him. Only then it had and began to move with smoothness, very slowly. Ivy felt the calidez and fullness of its body and was on the awares to watch it. Ryder put the hand to him in the hips and she smiled when feeling that it attracted it still more. It received it with joy and did not feel pain at any moment. - it does not hurt to me. - Clear that not - it assured kissing it --. In virgin Paris eras and now you are my woman. We adapted like one hand to a glove. It watched it and it pushed a little more, with infinite smoothness, until arriving at deepest. Only then it stopped a little while and comen-zaron to move again. He was incredible. They did not leave to watch itself at the eyes and they moved with the same rate, very sweetly. Ivy he felt the weight of his body and he watched it while the pleasure did not leave of to grow. Little by little the rate was au-mentando, tightening its hips with both hands. Ivy felt that room gave returns around his. Oía the rubbing of its bodies against sheets and the moaned ones of Ryder. It was let take by him, transported of pleasing, ascending to medi-da that they moved more quickly. Finally they reached the culmi-nación with abandonment while a deep one to please it exploded in its in-terior. In a moment it finished, almost hardly after it to have reached. Ivy tightened the face against its chest. - Porqué cannot last? - Then how we could to live? - it whispered -. You do not move.

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One tended of backs, but without separating. - You are well? - Yes. It kissed it on the chest caressing the hair with the nose. - Every time is different. - Thus it must be. Later of which the boy is born, I will teach to you some other forms to do it he said caressing the back to him -. Some are difficult, so we will hope that be recovered. Ivy watched it. - They say that the passion can to be violent. That is what I always feared. But now no longer it gives fear me - it clarified and it kissed it - We can do it again? Ryder smiled with malicia. - I do not know it. We can? Ivy caressed its parts to him more intimate. - Oh, yes, we can... The boy was born after seven months and means. They were not twin, but, as Ryder said, it cried as if they were it. They removed it from the hospital and they were immediately agasaja-dos by one radiating grandmother who did not know of whom to take care with more affection. - It will end up saying that it seems to you - it said to Ryder to Ivy mien-tras to him both watched the extasiada one grandmother. - Yes, I know it - Ivy responded leaning in its shoulder. - I will take You to the bed. They have be very long days. - wonderful days - it assured watching the shining eyes of Ryder -. You are happy with me? It caressed the cheek to him. - you are It everything for me. She knew that a love like that involved responsibilities, and was wishing to accept them. It felt same by him. Ryder paid attention to a picture what hung of the wall. It was a picture to the oil of a girl with a dress rose seated in a meadow. It had the black and long hair and the dark eyes and his charming lips outlined a smile. It had painted it he himself when it was eighteen years old. - Era my only pleasure during the years that we were separated. A memory of a day in which I took to Eve and you to the field. I believe that that day I fell in love with you. - I also fell in love with you in those days. I feel to have been so cowardly, I threw to lose many years. - No. They served you stops to grow, to mature, to learn what is really the love. I feel that you underwent so much, but those are the problems that mold the character to us. No personality forms in calm waters. Ivy smiled. - I suppose that you are right. Most important, he is than es-tamos now together - it affirmed, and it watched Jean that still it had to its son in the arms -. And that we have a son. The small Clellan opened the eyes and watched their grandmother. - Good, already I know to whom it seems - Jean affirmed -. It is looked like me. Ryder and Ivy broke to laugh before the astonishment of grandmother, who was too happy with her grandson in the arms like pre-ocupar itself by knowing of what they ed ***reflx mng themselves.