So, the dude who
called about the banquet looks harassed, still. He's adding four
more people to the banquet numbers as it's happening. Erika tells a
waiter and he heads off to the kitchen to let them know. Erika is
kind of freaking out, but she hides it and boosts this guy's morale
instead. They're moving everyone to the banquet room and it's all
going fine...until Erika sees Glen standing in the hotel lobby. He
says he has to talk to her and getting the keys to the villa from her
office will give them a bit of time.
They go to her
office and Erika doesn't let him touch her because then she'll be all
kinds of distracted during this crazy banquet. They both say that
they missed each other, but Erika tells Glen she's got no time right
now. She legit is run off her legs, but Glen just sees the usual
excuse. He gets a promise from her to see him later that night, but
he's not really satisfied.
Erika returns to
the banquet, which happens smoothly, and sees the guests off to their
plane. The guy who called her says they'll be back next year, which
prompts Erika to think about how she doesn't know where she'll be
next year, and about how her time with Glen will be too short.
Anyway, she's gotta go see him.
It's 11:30 PM and
the hotel is getting quieter. Erika sneaks out by taking the stairs
from her private balcony to the gardens. That's a security risk,
having a staircase like that. Anyway, Erika relives a scene from a
secret agent novel on her way to Glen's villa, sneaking through the
gardens with the moonlight as her guide, and such. When he lets her
in, he pulls the shades down. Glen wants to pull her into his arms,
but Erika demands some words first.
Glen explains that
he came to Bermuda to get work done, and wasn't, so he went to New
York. He really couldn't get anything done there, and he was worse
than before, so he came back. Then, after Erika demands the truth,
Glen admits that he's never felt this way about any woman before,
never let one interfere with his work. He says that she's special
and he can't get her off his mind, but he mixes that with worries
about his work. Erika just hears the second part, apparently. She
says she wants a reasonable explanation, and Glen says he's given
one. Erika starts to leave, but Glen grabs her wrist and she stops.
She says she won't listen to him any more, but even after his grip
loosens on her, she doesn't move.
There's a bit more
back and forth, Erika with herself and Erika with Glen, before he
pulls her into a kiss and she thinks about how it's her decision.
She's a strong, independent woman, you see. I mean, it is her
decision to kiss him, but he started it. After the kiss, they talk
some about how they missed each other, and how Erika wants Glen to be
able to work on Gossip. She also finds out that his deadline
is mid-September, which is soon, so I assume she starts to understand
his predicament. ...but that's boring.
Glen takes out the
pins and whatnot from Erika's hair and tells her she smells like
flowers while nuzzling her hair. She replies, “And you smell of
man.” Hah. Okay, Erika. Way to sweet talk. Anyway, they start
comparing bodies, and Glen gets to whatever base under-the-clothes
groping is. Then Glen says they should get naked and asks if Erika
has any moles in intimate places. She doesn't know and Glen offers
to tell her. Apparently Glen's got an interesting birthmark
somewhere. Then he starts taking off Erika's dress and her underwear
follows soon after.
Glen stares at her
and tells her she's beautiful. Then he spends a long time playing
with her boobs. Eventually, they get around to taking off all of
Glen's clothes as well. After his clothes come off, they just stare
at each other for awhile. It's totally not weird, though. For
example, “...she gazed on his tall, naked figure as if through a
swirling mist.” See? Not weird at all.
Then they run into
each other, Erika moved second but it was totally her choice, and
they start grinding. They both obviously want to have sex, so Glen
sets Erika on the couch and they do. One thing I've noticed in these
romance novels, the guy spends a long time playing with the girl's
boobs, or generally doing things for her, like smelling her hair.
Generally, she doesn't do anything, or as much, for him. What
unequal treatment.
Anyway, after their
wild, passionate lovemaking, Erika reflects on how Glen will have a
lot more women after her and she is sad and whimpers. Glen asks her
what's wrong and she says she's fine. It's kind of a big deal to
her, so she should probably tell him. Glen thinks about how she
wanted sex too and it was great for both of them, so he is confused
about why she withdrew from him, which happened just after the
whimper. As he's lying there staring at her, he resolves not to let
what happened to his father happen to him. We don't get to know what
that is because Erika's got to leave.
She has Glen let
her up and she goes into the bathroom to put her clothes back on.
Glen said that he hadn't found any moles, and she says he'll have to
take a rain check on that. Oh hey, this'll happen again. Aw ye-ah.
Once he's got his
pants on again, Glen offers to walk her back but Erika says they
can't be seen together. It's best for both of them. Why is that,
exactly? Anyway, Erika leaves and Glen stays in the villa of love.
As she's crossing the garden, Erika sees the shadow of the Moongate
and considers making a wish, but she knows it won't last with Glen,
even though she wants it to. So, I guess the Moongate is going to
come up again in an important way. Anyway, Erika walks up the
burglar-friendly stairs to her room and goes to sleep.
Well, that only
took them five chapters. We're not even half-way through the book.
I guess there will be some of that “emotional growth” I've heard
rumors about. ...either that or just pages and pages of sex scenes.
Anyway, for the next chapter, I predict that Catrina will realize
that she wants to have a baby, but not her husband's, and she'll ask
Erika for help picking out a baby-daddy. Erika will facepalm so hard,
she'll fly into the atmosphere and the island will sink.
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