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‘How do you know all that?’ she had asked and he told her, then, about his years in the diplomatic, his time in East Europe

It was the first personal conversation they had ever had; they had sat on in the diner, drinking beer, for a long time, then he drove back to theher inside, letting the door slam behind him

She res had started to shake when he bent and kissed her mouth hard This was how all her fantasies about hi true at last

As he lifted his head a moment later she stepped away fro him

‘Sorry,’ he had said ‘I’an to turn back to the door only to stop dead, his lips parted in a silent intake of air as he saw her take off her glasses and drop the to undo her silk shirt

She could still re of a sensual drum in her veins She hadn’t hurried, she had kept her eyes fixed on hi sloith ritualher clothes on the floor, lifting a languid hand to release her hair fro it flon over her shoulders

She had worn it long, in those days; she had changed her hairstyle toher indifferent to ht Don had stared, pupils wide and shiny, as if he was hypnotized by the body she unveiled for his and the dark curly hair between her thighs

She had heard his thick breathing quicken as she put a hand out to his shirt and began to unbutton it Neither of them said a word He let her undress him; he let her make all the moves now When she had stripped him they stood there, face to face, in silence, until she put her hands on his bare shoulders and pushed him down on to his knees

Grabbing his hair, she thrust his head forward until his face was buried in the dark bush he hadn’t been able to stop staring at While his tongue probed her she stroked his hair, her bare thighs brushing his face, huskily groaning, ‘Yes, theregoodthat’s good’

When she had been aroused to the right pitch, she grabbed hiain and pushed him backwards on to the floor She re up at her as she h-pitched cry he gave as she began fiercely riding hi herself up to a frenzy of pleasure Don had helplessly writhed under her, abandoned to her The violent explosion of passion was brief and shattering Afterwards she reasping and shuddering

Only afterwards did she realize that she had hit upon his own secret fantasies, the first woman who ever had, but maybe he had never admitted them openly even to hi He found it hard to admit what he wanted, needed He had been as conservative in his sexual encounters as he was in the rest o

f his life That night she had been so aroused that she had driven for her own satisfaction and in do him had discovered what turned him on From that moment on, she had the whip-hand in their relationship As the years went by Don had become addicted to what she did to him in bed

Watching him with these British politicians now, her ht to keep her expression cool, but triulass behind her eyes

He was hers; when he was president she would rule hih him, the whole of America, the whole of the world The very fact that her do She didn’t want anyone to know She relished the shadowy nature of her power

As the last man left and they were alone in the conference roo in enquiry Quietly she gave hie and saw all the colour drain from his face