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Had there ever been a woman so beautiful?
Loc didn’t think so, and he’d seen a random sampling during his travels.
Cat sat next to him on the sofa, smiling as she pulled bits of chicken satay off a skewer and ate them with her fingers. He’d thought she would enjoy having something different from her usual New Mexico fare to eat, and so they had satay and fried rice and wontons and egg rolls, most of which didn’t have to be eaten with a knife and fork. And wine, too, of course, the Syrah that had been grown here in this very vineyard.
It was hard not to merely sit there and stare at her, at this wondrous being who had shown him heights of pleasure he could never have even imagined before this day. As he’d told her, he’d understood that human beings placed a great deal of emphasis on
