Dark Angel (Casteel 2)

loved and admired her for doing that.

"Leigh was sensual without knowing she was.

She radiated health that exuded sex. She moved with

undulating hips, her small breasts jiggling unfettered

beneath those fluttery garments. And Leigh was

always angry with her mother, resenting me, until

finally she discovered one day that her mother was

very jealous. And that's when Leigh began to play up to me. I don't think it was malicious, it was just her revenge against a mother she thought had ruined her

father's life."

I knew what was coming!

I just knew it! I pulled back and raised my

hands to

ward off his words, wanting to cry out and say no, no!

"Leigh began to flirt with me. She dared to mock and

tease me. Often she danced around me tugging at my

hands, taunting me with words that often stung, for

they hit the mark so often. 'You married a paper doll,'

she'd chant to me time and again. 'Let Mother go back

to my father,' she pleaded, 'and if you do, Tony, and if

you do, I'll stay! I'm not in love with myself like she

is.' And God help me, I wanted her. She was only

thirteen years old and she had more sexuality in one

small, white finger than her mother had in her entire

body."

"Stop!" I screamed. "I don't want to hear any

more!"

He went on relentlessly, like a river of melted

snow that had to flood and destroy. "And one day

when Leigh had taunted and teased me ruthlessly, for

it was her game to punish me as much as she punished