Chapter Thirty Two
A Gentle Beginning
Excerpt from the novel Dino-safari ©2000
Jack kissed his new wife on the tip of the nose.
“Come on honey, you’re going to love this. Blackroot Castle is just riddled with secret passages.” He took her by the hand, and drew her with him to the left rear corner of the room.
Passing a giant bookcase groaning with tomes, he led her around a large potted fichus tree. Behind it lay a narrow slit of black. Grinning back at her, Jack turned sideways, pushed past the branches, and edged into the slit. She followed, and soon they were behind the bookcase, sidling along a darkened space so narrow that Kira’s breasts brushed repeatedly against the rough-hewn basalt.
This set off a pleasant, anticipatory tingling in their tips, an excitement augmented by the
