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Red Wine, Nipples... No Panties
Nico came to her out in the cork trees.
She, Amelia, was there first. Of course she was there first; her family had owned this particular 'montano' since before the time of Prince Henry the Navigator, it was home. Millions of bottles of wine had been corked from this grove.
The low lying sun at her back, she watched him materialize from the shadows. She watched him stop, shift the canvas shoulder bag he carried, watched him study her; she saw his quick smile.
"You still do it to me," he said. Not, 'hello' or 'gee, it's good to see you.' He just said, 'you still do it to me.'
"I hope so," she said. She shifted her foot, turned slightly; knew the fading sun
highlighted her body, She knew her legs were silhouetted inside the sand colored linen skirt.. "I hope I still do it to you," she said.
She knew the effect it had had on him; she knew, remembered, the times on the boat those twenty and more years ago. Remembered the empty coves and the blue water of the Balearic Islands. The naked swims at dawn. She knew, remembered, the proud hardness of him when he had watched her stand against the light, it turning the ends of her pubic hair red, the skin at the top of her legs translucent. She remembered, those years ago, seeing him change from flaccid to erect; remembered him not being shy about his growing hardness, relishing her attention.
She physically felt his eyes on her, felt the wetness come to her from knowing he was looking at her, her standing between him and the sun, the beams of light coming between her legs at the top.