though I try to stop him and to have him just for me for a few moments longer, he walks out leaving me on my own.
I try to find out what the time is, but I don’t see any clock or watch in the bedroom. I also start to wonder where Yasmin and Melisa are. And also what about Babette? She stayed behind yesterday, we left her at the hostel, but did she try to join us as she told us in her text message? I’m pretty reluctant about getting up, but I see I have no choice. There are things to talk over with the gals. They must be somewhere in this big house, after all, neither Colin or Jim ate them alive. Though they could just have nibbled them a bit.
I stretch and yawn languorously, then scramble off the bed to look through the window. The sun is already pretty high, so I assume it’s not an early morning. But I can’t be too sure. I have no clue what date it is, either. I just hope it’s not spring or autumn. The clothes the guys were wearing yesterday can’t be any indication of a season for us, after all they are British, and the British are reputed to not be afraid of the cold. They’ll go around in t-shirts, even if people of other nationalities would also wear a jacket. And we were also sufficiently warmed up by emotions not to feel if it was cold or not.
But after looking through the window and checking the temperature on my own skin, I decide it’s warm enough to go around in Tony’s robe. Or perhaps even without it. The sun looks really enticing and I’m starting to have ideas…But for now, I need to take a shower and then to eat. My stomach is reminding me that the last food it had was just the salmon and oysters, which wasn’t really a full meal. It was rather a snack. So after washing, I purposefully go down to look for breakfast.
Downstairs in the hall I meet Melisa, also wearing a robe, probably Jim’s. She’s radiant, smiling with this dreamy expression. Do I look the same? I greet her and ask her about her night. She beams.
“Jim is just fantastic in bed,” and gasps as if she has just thought of a particular example of his abilities. “Don’t remind me Eleyne, otherwise I’ll get too horny to do anything now, but believe me he knows what to do in bed.”
I wink at her.
“Sounds interesting. You wouldn’t want to share him with me, and with Yasmin, would you?”
She frowns, then freezes me with her eyes. “ Sorry, but I’d like to keep him for myself. At least for a while, I don’t really like sharing. And what about you and Tony?”
I beam back at her.
“Oh... He’s been an ace, too. I have never had such sex before with any other guy. And he likes me, too. Says he’s never fucked such a cool gal yet. But I can share him with you if you like…”
“Thanks a lot for the offer,” she replies dryly.
“By the way, I told him everything about us, about how we came here. Did you tell Jim?”
“I did, but he didn’t really believe me. I could see it in his eyes.”
“Well, neither did Tony... But I can’t blame him. Our story is incredible and at this moment we have nothing to back it up... Unless...”
“Unless what?”
“Tony told me they were going to the city and on the way back they were going to check the stone circle. And see if our things are still there. If they bring them here, we can show them all the technical gadgets we have then they will have to believe our story...”
“Oh, that would be fantastic if we could get them back!” Melisa exclaims.
“But enough of this for now, let’s find breakfast, it’s supposedly served outside in the garden.”
Finding the garden is not difficult and we soon help ourselves to big servings of coffee and toast. I eye bacon and eggs greedily, trying to think if eating such things won’t be too much straying from diet, then I decide that after all the sex I can indulge a bit and have a slice and two eggs…
We sit, eat, talk and then we see Yasmin going out of the house. She doesn’t look too fresh, her long dark
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