"Anne, I want you to make love to me," he said, drawing her close.
"What was that again?" she demanded, disbelieving. The man she wanted most in her life and whom she could not have for three years offering himself wholesale without any cajoling. Cynicism crept into her head.
“I want you to take me as you please,” he stressed. “Make love to me.”
“Don’t tease me, Netu. I know you don’t mean it. You never would.”
“Anne, I mean it. Just do it.”
Anne wrestled with her conscience. “I don’t want to be the one to spoil your aspirations, Netu. I like it the way we are. I’m used to your idea of playing safe. Let it be that way, please.”
“I asked for it. You didn’t force me, did you?”
She huffed, confused, hesitating, and then stirred with the instinctive energy of long suppressed passion. “Okay, I give in,” she said, flailing her arms in submission. “But don’t cast blame on me if anything should go wrong with you.”
"Nothing would go wrong."
"Are you sure?"
"Of course, I’m sure," Netu assured her.
“That puts me in the clear!" Anne sighed heavily and began to undress in frenzy.
Netu watched Anne until she was done, and then with languid gentleness took off his own slacks and undies.
The next moment they were one sweet rhythm of blended forms. But the spurious concession would haunt Netu later with its inexplicabilities.
End of Book One
Table of Contents
Part One
NEWLAND, RIAGENA
Newland, Riagena. January 10, 1996
Wisdom Hall, Disk Center, Blackhole.
Sagol Sea, Newland, Riagena.
PlayToy, Xamuder, Mars.
Newland, Riagena. January 14, 1996.
Part Two
ATLANTIS
SONGHAI, ATLANTIS. Twenty-five thousand years ago.
Disk Center, Blackhole
Disk Center, Blackhole.
Fini blanched.
Part Three
NEWLAND, RIAGENA
Newland, Riagena. January 16, 1996.
Part Four
BLACKHOLE
Disk Center, Blackhole. 2023.
Part Five
NEWLAND, RIAGENA
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