Finally, something changed. First, kisses then slowly progressing to more intimacy. When we reached the oral sex stage it became evident that she was ...being my teacher and was still holding back from fully letting go with me. We were never completely nude at that point. On my birthday we went out for a rare restaurant dinner and Moira invited me to her room afterwards. She went to the bathroom and come out topless in a native sarong which soon went to the floor. She led me to her bed, helped me. ‘Wow, what a lovely dinner that was.’ I murmured sarcastically as I watched him stride upstairs. ***A WEEK LATER*** It’s Friday night once again and I planned to relax but, like last time, I couldn’t. I got home from work at 6:30 today. Five minutes after my arrival Greg said he had to make a run to the store and left out. Before I know it it’s after twelve a.m and Greg’s not back. I called and text him repeatedly but no answer or reply. I sighed as I got sent to voice mail for what felt like. “Thank you, Michael. Let me introduce you to the others.”The assembled group included their opponents, but except for Alejandra’s doubles partner Aída, a stunner in her own right, I didn’t remember the others.“How’d you all meet?”Aída laughed.“We’ve known each other since grade school. We’ve played against each other ever since we started playing tennis seriously.”“And we’ve beaten you two every year,” said the dark-haired member of the opposing team.“Nonsense,” replied Alejandra. “You didn’t. A. newspapers so he could read the stories he was sure they’d written about him. He had just known he would see all kinds of headlines about how he’d brutally attacked a famous L.A. nightclub singer who turned out to be a tramp! He’d wanted to read reports of how the D.A.’s office had decided not to pursue prosecution even if he was found because there were too many questions surrounding the ‘supposed’ victim’s past. Instead, all he ever found in any of the papers were the occasional blurbs.