" So ... so you don't take me against my will?" Tarifa asked him with a neutral voice.Isra shook his head. "That is something I will never do! I have ...old you that!" He spat. "I stay away because ... because I don't want ... I don't want to feel what I'm beginning to feel for you. And it grows stronger every hour."Tarifa didn't know what she expected to hear, but she was sure it wasn't that. She could feel this man, his scent filling the air around her. The wildness that he kept controlled. She. There was this girl.She was standing there, a tear in her eye, just staring out the door.“Ma’am, are you all right?”“No, my fiancé just told me he had another woman and asked me if I’d be interested. I told him to fuck off. No, mister, I’m not all right.”“I’m sorry to hear that, but I’d like to help and I’m in a really, really good mood. Wanna have some fun?”“God, no. Get away. I’m not that kind of girl.”“Good. I’m not that kind of boy. I’m buying a new airplane in about a half an hour and. Do I need to tell you I love you again?" Yes. With every breath." I love you. With every breath."The trip the next weekend to Mom and Dad's was in Alan and Tina's Cessna 182 because we brought them back with us for graduation.There were times in the past two years where I wanted to give up that idea. Maybe my buddies WERE right. The math was daunting at times. However, every time I foundered, Susan was on the phone to either Cindy or Nikki."Yeah, he's having a math moment." Pause. Giggle.. "Paedo! Paedo! This dirty bastard is touching up this girl!" I wasn?t! Piss off! She?s my... my niece. Aren?t you?" And I?m the Queen! Look at this pervert everyone, come and see thepaedophile." You?re mental," he snapped, but fear lined his face as he jumped fromthe bench and hurried away, pulling up his hood and hunching hisshoulders.Outrage flared in me as he scuttled away, I stood too and made tofollow - I really wanted that cigarette and to see him smile again -but a hand clamped onto my.