"But have you?" I looked at the cementbeneath my feet. "You haven't, have you?" he added with a sad sigh.I shook my head sadly. "I'm afraid of scaring...her away." My fatherpatted my back sympathetically. "She's been through a lot in the pastfew years, her emotions are quite fragile." I could still feel his handresting against my shoulder as I finished.From the corner of my eye dad was digging into his pocket. "I havesomething for you, it was your grandmothers." He pulled out a tiny blackvelvet. " My pleasure. And if there is ever anything I can do, just ask, okay?"I smiled wanly and nodded before returning to my thoughts.As the chopper sank down towards the pad on the island, I could see the figures of the woman in green and her minder (or manager or pimp or whatever) standing and waiting. My apprehension for my future grew but as I walked away from the helicopter with a shopping bag in each hand and approached the pair I couldn't help but smirk for she was no longer looking as. Suddenly I felt a draught and opening my eyes, I spotted V standing in the doorway.I nearly died. I was on the point of telling her that, “it isn’t what it seems,” but actually it was exactly what it seemed. Astounded, I saw V smile in a way that I’d never seen her before, a smile that would have melted every exhibit in a wax museum.Without saying a word, she stripped herself of her clothes, not that there were many, came over to the bed and, swinging her leg across me and in front of her. The moment was entirely surreal. ‘I told you before I find you to be a most beautiful woman. But it is more than that. You are THE most beautiful woman in the entire world,’ he said, as he slowly lowered her to the blanket. Karen was going to give herself over completely to this stranger. But yet, he wasn’t a stranger. Instinctively she knew what he was going to do before he did it, and she was growing increasingly aroused by the second. If this is a dream, she thought, please don’t let me.