Two of them were his ex-wife and Collette. He hadn’t slept with anyone except Collette since he’d married her 13 years ago. He had never even cons...dered the possibility of cheating on her as he had done to his first wife. Yes, Jack had been married once before. He liked to pretend the marriage never happened. It was an embarrassment and source of humiliation that he’d failed at something in his life. He blamed a strange combination of events, which caused what must have been temporary insanity. She was glad of the light material of her white tank top and short red skirt and relieved she had not worn her jeans and a jacket. The heat prickled her skin but the sun was surrounded by heavy grey clouds and she knew it was only a matter of time. As she was making her way across a vast open patch of field, the first cool drops of rain splashed down onto her shoulders and she breathed a sigh of relief. Still walking, she took black elastic from her wrist and pulled her thick red hair back into. Neither of them had any illusions about what that meant, and that excited her as well.Holly was simply taking control of her own pleasure.Donatien smiled."I'm flying to New York this morning, but my companion decided to go to Hong Kong with a new friend. Perhaps you would like to join me?"Holly waited, but there was nothing. No recriminations, no warnings, no threats echoing in her head. The voice, it seemed, had given up in disgust. This thought made Holly smiled even more broadly."I would. I hadn’t even been able to discuss what she wanted. I felt humbled to have a girl not yet nineteen lecture me on love. Fortunately Jo dragged me out of my dark mood and we did take lots of pictures which pleased Alicia no end. We worked hard on Jo’s and Alicia’s room and had it finished with plenty of time to spare. Alicia didn’t have much to move so we packed it all into Kerstin’s minivan and took it home. Alicia was delighted with the room, especially the double bed and it wasn’t long before.