"Your Step-father and I have been talking. We've been talkingabout your future. Now, sweetie, we both know what a miserable failure youare as a studen.... You're probably distracted by all those handsome youngmen in your classes... aren't you," she asked, suddenly gripping Gene'spenis in her long-nailed hand, her eyes flashing with... not anger exactly.Gene reacted predictably: he flinched and the blush showed on his bellynow, beneath his flimsy tank-top."Aren't you," Charlotte purred again,. “It was never the bikini, Vicky.” She turned to look at me, our gazes locked with unspoken need. “It was you.” As I finished the sentence, my hand lifted from her shoulder to glide along her long, slender neck. I cupped one side of her face with my thawing palm, into which she laid the weight of her head. Her eyes closed and I simply breathed to her. “It’s always been you.” I waited no longer before easing the cracked and broken surface of my lips to hers. Her head lay back in my hand and. I struggled to keep from staring as she sat down. Her legs parted ever so slightly, revealing her clean-shaven labia. The sight of it threatened to drive me insane and all I could do to keep from leaping across the sauna and having my way with her was to tear my eyes away. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do, but I knew it was the right thing to do. I spent the next few seconds stealing glances at her. Each time my eyes landed on her, I found her to be more beautiful than before. By the. You remember how we were when we first got together, you couldn’t get us apart for anything.’ ‘Yeah, but we were happy. Err, happyish, anyway. She doesn’t sound like her normal happy-go-violent self.’ Shane smoothed down the loose strands of hair from my ponytail, his calm touch soothing me somewhat. ‘Look, I’ll go talk to Sam, okay? Since they’re living together now maybe he knows what’s goin’ on.’ Sam moved into Sydney’s condo in December when his lease was up on his apartment, they had.