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A nude man was in her pool

She should turn away At least shut her eyes

Instead, she found herself staring at the naked, novel sight

Against the turquoise light his figure was a dark silhouette with an aquaes of his body like veins of neon light He was tall and lean, his shoulders wide He had strong arather life closer to himself with each stroke

He say fros fluttered with lazy kicks, she detected the shift ofto create a scoop on the right, then a scoop on the left She watched, fascinated at how everybody exuded power And sex

Sex?

E was burning inside her, too, burning so hot that the blast of heat was the final blow to her coaze stayed focused on that masculine speci as they fell to land as ashes at her feet Her flesh was left behind, still clothed, but hypersensitive to the gentle scrape of fabric against its surface It left her hyper-aware of that swi now

Co toward her Inexorable Inevitable

Cli out of the pool, his all-net

His right foot breached the deck His left

Her heart expanded, pressing against her chest wall Get back! her instincts screamed Get away!

Air rushed out of her lungs She leaped in retreat, even as she knew he couldn’t see her through the darkened s Her hips crashed into the square butcher-block table, shoving it along the terra-cotta pavers with a piercing screech The knife clattered to the floor, followed by the shalloooden bowl that held the rest of the ripe, red fruit

Thump-thump-thump-thump

Apples rolled unevenly along the floor,the jerky beat of her heart

One darting glance showed that the dark figure had frozen, but then it thawed in an instant and made a dash for the kitchen door The too-fli them apart

It renched open The overhead light blazed on