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[…] Richard complied quickly, giving the woman a disarming smile.  <\/span>She blushed.  <\/span>The man was an attractive brute, she thought.  <\/span>If she weren\u2019t happily married, she\u2019d make sure to discover the wonders of the Riviera very intimately with this man.  <\/span>Feeling suddenly embarrassed, she thanked him and scurried away quickly.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
     <\/span>Richard watched her retreating form, his lip curled in a bored, cynical smirk.  <\/span>Always the same, he thought.  <\/span>It was getting tiresome, however useful it was in his line of work.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
    <\/span> <\/span>Ever since he\u2019d turned sixteen and his aunt\u2019s neighbor had willingly enlightened him about his sensual magnetism, it had always been so.  <\/span>He remembered that the interludes with the woman had been a pleasant and<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/a>welcome distraction during those first months of living within the sterile walls of his new home. [\u2026] <\/o:p> <\/p>\n

It was then that he had met Grace, a practical, pretty woman in her late forties, whose sexual appetites matched her husband\u2019s workaholism.  <\/span>She had pointed out the unexploited power Richard wielded, her squeaky voice saying, \u201cYou have the eyes of a faun and the body of Adonis.  <\/span>You\u2019ll get anything you want from any woman if you play your cards right, my boy.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Slapping his naked butt, she would continue babbling.  <\/span>\u201cAnd don\u2019t worry about being unscrupulous, honey.  <\/span>We\u2019re all users, one way or another.  <\/span>No woman, or man for that matter, sacrifices anything for anyone unless it\u2019s to his advantage.  <\/span>We\u2019re all mercenaries and you won\u2019t break anyone\u2019s heart, believe you me.  <\/span>The women who were claiming undying love for you the week before will be wetting their panties for someone else the week after.  <\/span>It\u2019s just a matter of who offers the most.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
     <\/span>Givers and takers, Richard thought.  <\/span>He had learned early in life to be the user, discarding the unnecessary or burdensome.<\/span><\/div>\n

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[…] Richard complied quickly, giving the woman a disarming smile.  She blushed.  The man was an attractive brute, she thought.  If she weren\u2019t happily married, she\u2019d make sure to discover the wonders of the Riviera very intimately with this man.  Feeling suddenly embarrassed, she thanked him and scurried away quickly.      Richard watched her retreating … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome-to-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}