Chapter Four
Introductions
This is the way that it should be, thought Alexa as she surveyed the view from her balcony.
Behind her, a small villa that could have graced a cliff on an Italian coastline. Before her a view that was expansive and drew the eye to the distant mountains to the west. A village, scattered villas, each with their own walled gardens and then other buildings whose role was more difficult to determine. One with a brighter pink tiled roof was the most notable.
Beyond the village, what seemed to be a vast park. All of it the domain that she had chosen, populated with tiny figures that seemed almost like dolls in the distance. Almost perfectly still and peaceful, a feminine place that was charmingly quaint, but hid underlying intimate pleasures.
Villa number six was h
