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way her lips parted when she took in the sight of him. She was not just another average woman on the street to be ignored. She carried with her an intense organic property: raw life in a dead, paved over, concrete world. Even now, Fabio could not think about her without lust getting the better of him. Just looking at the woman for a few seconds had gotten him agonizingly hard. Had she noticed? What a disgusting fool that would make him look! He could not even try to analyze what attracted him to her now without getting aroused all over again.
                  He had gone out to dinner to relax. It was nice to get out of his regular haunts and be away from people. In some ways it was crucial, easing his transition from his daytime life to his nighttime one. But now he could not get past the distraction. He found his food ashen and without taste. The headspace required to enter his other life eluded him and all on account of that woman, the new tenant. She was to blame. But if there was one thing Fabio De Lucca's experiences had taught him it was that assigning blame never did any good.
                  Tonight's client was an important one. All of his clients were important in their own way, but this one moved in spheres of power even he could barely reach. His discretion was vital, his reliability crucial. Yet he could not go before the client like this. How had this happened? A pair of great tits and a can of corn rolling across a tiled floor should not be able to do this to a man like him! He did not just need to figure out what had happened to him, he needed to figure out why .
                  Fabio's own cell phone seemed almost like an alien object to him as he dialed the number. He had never had to make a call like this. It was crucial that he never do so again. “Dominique,” he said to the woman who answered. “This is highly irregular I realize but there has arisen... a conflict. I'm afraid tonight will have to be postponed.”
                  His client, powerful and used to having her way in her own sphere, temporarily forgot with whom she was dealing. She bristled at the disruption and demanded to know why. That brought Fabio out of his mess just enough to remind her who he was and what he was capable of.
                  “If I say it must be postponed, it must be postponed! I would not do so if I did not have a good reason. I am disappointed that you would not realize this by now.”
                  It was enough to make Dominique remember. She immediately grew contrite. That was fortunate because he could not have gone much harder on her without his current state showing through. “All is forgiven, Dominique. Your patience will be rewarded. When next we meet you will be given all that you require and more. And Dominique? Never demand an explanation from me again!”
                  He ended the call. The satisfaction garnered from bullying Dominique was fleeting. It did not begin to solve his problems. Briefly he wondered if such a confrontation with the woman from the lobby would go the same way. It was nothing more than a hunch, but somehow he suspected that it would not.
                  This new tenant, what was different about her?
     
     
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                  Saskia did not see the man upstairs after the encounter with the groceries, but the embarrassment lingered for a long time. Her one and only meeting with the man who unknowingly controlled her sexual fantasies, and all she had done was to make a complete fool of herself. Not that it mattered. Ruby's description had not done him justice. He was hot as hell and way out of her league. Saskia didn't let that keep her down, of course. Lots of men in the world were out of her league and plenty more would go crazy for a shot with a girl like her. Nevertheless, dropping her groceries in front of the hot mystery man was an experience she could have