Garden of Desire: 1
“More than one woman awaited him. For once, he was relieved.
He’d avoided Little Flower—Daisy—whatever her real name was—all afternoon and evening, using every problem brought to him as a pretext for delaying the inevitable contact.
He’d taken his dinner with the men selected to guard the sheep that night, huddled around a blazing fire while listening to their endless bragging. Hearing of their sexual exploits had done nothing to cool the heat his body had carried all day from the first sight of the lovely virgin.
Lovely…untouchable…virgin.
He’d helped to pull a large piece of farm machinery from where it had become mired in a low-lying trough. He’d climbed a tree to retrieve a lacy bit of underwear that had blown away from a clothesline, and narrowly escaped the owner’s grateful, full-on-the-lips kiss.
He’d settled no less than three arguments among the ex-cons, listening endlessly to their convoluted, impossibly illogical opinions until his head ached. The last had firmed his decisio...n to flee the planet at the first opportunity.MoreLess
He’d avoided Little Flower—Daisy—whatever her real name was—all afternoon and evening, using every problem brought to him as a pretext for delaying the inevitable contact.
He’d taken his dinner with the men selected to guard the sheep that night, huddled around a blazing fire while listening to their endless bragging. Hearing of their sexual exploits had done nothing to cool the heat his body had carried all day from the first sight of the lovely virgin.
Lovely…untouchable…virgin.
He’d helped to pull a large piece of farm machinery from where it had become mired in a low-lying trough. He’d climbed a tree to retrieve a lacy bit of underwear that had blown away from a clothesline, and narrowly escaped the owner’s grateful, full-on-the-lips kiss.
He’d settled no less than three arguments among the ex-cons, listening endlessly to their convoluted, impossibly illogical opinions until his head ached. The last had firmed his decisio...n to flee the planet at the first opportunity.MoreLess
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