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Eighteen Hours of Rain
Date: 8/26/2015, Categories: Historical, Author: flytoomuch, Rating: , Source: LushStories
circuit in London? Only serendipity can imagine her perilous route into the arms of Jean de Langham, a man who was a dilettante of all things except sex and avant-garde poetry. When Jean first met her in 1953 Svetlana was so perfect the only reason a man wouldn’t want to fuck her was that he was gay. About to turn twenty-one the attractive Russian could have any man she wanted. All she needed was to crook her finger and wink. Married, single, engaged, they all frankly wanted to possess Svetlana. Now at twenty-three her beauty was maturing, becoming deeper, blooming into a more profound perfection. Jean could only speculate on how incredible she would be at thirty. He hummed nervously. Still gazing across the room at his lover, Langham slowly let out a cloud of grey-blue smoke, playfully forming grey-white circles expanding in the darkness. He had done this at Cambridge for his friends. Smoke circles was one of his party tricks. Jean had many tricks: cards, dice, making things disappear, making coins come out of women’s ears, reciting Latin and Greek verses. Svetlana turned and looked towards her subject. She giggled softly. The gorgeous Russian found Jean amusing. She particularly adored his smoke rings. In some things the Russian sophisticate was still the childish girl from the shores of Lake Baikal. Her father Anatoly had blown smoke rings for his giggling eight-year old daughter. She had giggled for her father too. That was before he was dragged away on trumped up ...