I wasted no time climbing the ladder and sliding in beside her. “How is the water temperature?” she asked. It was chilly. The perfect chilly becau...se I could see her nipples harden through the bikini and it only turned me on more. “Perfect,” I laughed. She drifted around the pool a little and I could tell by the young, devilish look in her eyes she was teasing me. I smiled and dove underwater, coming up right behind her. Quickly, I embraced her with my arms and pulled her close. She gasped in. There were a lot of young Porters dying to tend them, and Greta put Jenna in charge of the young crew.The train was crowded, but it made the distances remaining shrink to manageable ones. They passed through Redmond barely a half hour after leaving Madras. In even less time the train covered the distance between Redmond and Bend and they passed within the city's artificial canyons. Ghost towns in general aren't attractive places, except perhaps in a haunting, unsettling way. They did not. The kids were happy, Brian was happy, I was happy.Until about three years ago. That's when I looked in the mirror and realized I was approaching forty and I still hadn't experienced much of life. We don't travel a lot, our tastes are simple and Brian was the only man I'd ever made love with. I decided I needed to live a little before I got too old to enjoy it.I lost weight, got back in shape and rediscovered my sex drive. I had no plans to cheat on Brian but I wanted to rekindle the lust in our. "Come on darling. The hiding game is over." The honey-sweet sound of her voice belied the depraved desires emanating from her mind.Squinting in the later-afternoon sun, a young woman, no more than a girl really, stood before Davis' towering naked form. She wore a simple white gown embroidered with blue flowers and her hair was laced with tiny pearls. He had expected any of a thousand horrors, but not this image of purity and innocence. The girl looked up at him with doe-eyed fear, pressing.