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assurance he’d felt in the afternoon was gone. “But I’m not ready to commit to it – or anything for that matter.  I’ll stay for a few weeks and then we’ll see. “
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    Chapter 7 – A Failure
     
    “OK, we’ll see how it goes. A glass of wine with dinner?”
    Andy hesitated. He was careful with alcohol, though not teetotal.  “Sure, why not?”
    So, Megan asked Joshua to open a bottle which they finished off between them during a delicious curry meal, and afterwards on the verandah for coffee, Megan offered Mulanje Gold, the local cream liqueur, which had come on the market after Andy had left and was produced on a nearby estate.  Andy accepted, though with misgivings, with the result that when it was bedtime they were both very relaxed and free to be themselves.
    As they rose to go inside, Andy reached out to hug Megan with his good arm as he had the night before, but unlike the night before, Megan turned the hug into an embrace and kissed him on the cheek. Andy drew back looked at her.  There was tiredness in her face that moved him deeply, and he wanted very much to wipe it off her face.  He raised his eyebrows and said, “Is this going where it seems to be going?”
    “I think so Andy, if you want.”
    “I want. I’v e wanted for years. It was torture watching you and Mike making out and even worse, heading into your room at all times of the day and night.”  He took her lips in his, gently at first and then hungrily as she responded. 
    After a moment Megan drew him towards her bedroom and once inside, she began to undress him, beginning with his jersey and his shirt.  She took his injured arm in both hands and tightened her grip when he tried to jerk it away.  “It doesn’t matter, Andy. It’s not your hands I’m particularly interested in.  She kissed the surgical scars above the stump.  Besides we’re neither of us the people we were when we first met.  I’ve been scarred too, though in less visible ways, perhaps.  You’ve seen my hair. There are strands of grey inside my head too.
    And with kisses as light as butterflies, she began with the hollows below his ears and continued over his torso until she reached the belt of his trousers while he caressed her back with his hand. “Megan, my dear, you’ve no idea how many times I’ve imagined this.  Even when I was in the deepest pit of despair, half unconscious  from drugs, you’d come into my  daydreams like an angel of light to remind me that I once had a life more beautiful than most people ever dreamed of.  It helped.  
    “Andy , even in the heat of Mike’s courtship, I would wonder if I’d chosen the right brother.  You were such a source of life for us all. When Mike sent you away, it was like the lights all over Thyolo went out.”
    Together they sank onto the bed. Andy undid the buttons of her blouse and unhooked her bra.  Her breasts, though mature, were beautifully shaped and the skin of them soft as silk. Lying on his side, he pulled her on to hers and cupped them one by one with his hand, worshipping them with his tongue, then taking in turn her nipples in his mouth, one by one, and sucking gently until they stood erect.  She arched her back, thrusting them up towards him and felt the waves of passion flow through her. It had been a long time since she’d been treated as anything but an object of lust. Continuing to caress her breasts, he buried his face in the bowl of her belly and inhaled her fragrance, lifting her to his mouth with his arm. As he lay next to her, she sat up and undid the buttons of his trousers one by one, kissing the skin she exposed as she went.  His erect manhood was already half out of his boxer shorts, and she reached in and caressed him, drawing his scrotum out where she could kiss it.
    Andy began to moan and the suddenly cried out, “My God, Stop! Stop! Don’t move.”  But although Megan did stop, it was too late and Andy emptied himself onto the coverlet.  “Shit!