27/27 For once the lure of a beautiful, enigmatic, immoral, and promiscuous woman--poison flower though she was--was haunting him. "D-- the little beast, anyhow! The -- --! The -- --!" He used terms so hard, so vile, so sad, all because he knew for once what it was to love and lose--to want ardently in his way and not to have--now or ever after. He was determined that his path and that of Stephanie Platow should never be allowed to cross again.. |