Unlike her husband, she wears no perfume; her skin is sweet enough without the need for sensory adornment, and it cuts through everything else in the ...room to grab my attention. He’s my employer; just another man wealthy enough to afford my services. She’s my client – and my focus, as always, is on her, and her alone.She closes the distance between us and reaches out; soft fingers curling around mine, making a little pearl of warmth in the coolness of my palm as she gently draws me away from. "Good morning sweetheart."Argh, bad breath."'Morning Taff, don't want to be rude but ... morning breath love." Sorry, got a bit of a tooth ache and my mouth tastes like the bottom of a bird cage." Hope it's not too painful." Nah, I'll take a few Panadol with breakfast, should do the trick."Later in the day I could see the tooth was giving her problems and suggested she see a dentist."It's getting worse Tony, I'll see if I can get an appointment."When Taff came back from seeing the dentist, she. It would be the last time for a lifetime, and we could never have too much time alone. Or too much warm sun and ocean. She was pale when we arrived, we were both pale, and the patterned bikini I insisted she wore highlighted the whiteness of her skin. Also highlighting how much she had grown, but how unripe she suddenly looked. So pale. Within a day she had a bright pink haze over her body. By the second night she looked as if a golden frosting had been brushed over her, and after three days. ..Better than leaving you." The two of them stood there without a word to be said, the tall woman's large frame dropping to her knees before Lily and embracing her by the waist, burying tears into her stomach as if begging her to understand such a heartless action. The redhead's eyes gazed down at the collapsing figure of the woman she had known to be so fierce, her unbreakable exterior wilting into vulnerability she never knew Carna to have; blood streaked down the dark skin of her back and.