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1The flight from Amsterdam touched down in Willemstad right on time. A glance out of the window, as the aircraft banked into its final approach, lifting and settling in the thermals, had allowed Willem to catch a glimpse of the runway that was fringed by the glittering waters of the Caribbean sea. He took in the brightness of the terminal buildings that had been daubed in ochre paintwork, their pitched roofs and palm-fringed walkways, which made the building look more like a shopping mall than Curacao’s main entry point for air travellers.He found it a stunning sight and he sure needed to be here. He wanted to suspend all links with his shattered life back home, a wrecked marriage and the defection of his two daughters’ affection and loyalty. It had all been traduced by his ex-wife who had put out the word that he had abused them, and they had been accusations it was hard to fight against, despite incontrovertible evidence that it had not been so.But, the legal process, and some drips of news into the press, had done its work and he had now to pick up the pieces and start over. At least he had kept a hold of his job, the Principal and other staff members of the Technical College, where he had pursued a successful career, providing all the evidence needed to convince a court that he was innocent of all the charges laid against him, save that of being a stickler in the family home for good manners, hard work for school and college, and the adherence to some core principles founded on his lapsed Christian faith. What he had presided over in college, so he brought to his home and family life.In the words of some of his friends, he had been accused of being a ‘diligent parent’ in a world that some felt was falling apart all around them. Right and wrong had different meanings to those he had been brought up to believe in and adhere to.The scenery and views of the ocean drifted past the window as the aircraft settled into its approach, rose and fell on the up currents, but the landing was smooth, and the aircraft soon came to a halt.‘How easy it would be to be a cynical bastard,’ he thought as he tugged at his hand luggage and joined the line as he and the jostling line of fellow passengers made their way to the exit door.His six weeks’ holiday on this island could now begin, along with the task of restoring himself and attending to the tasks that his cousin, Anna, had set for him. He had been only too willing to take them on for her.After all, he was a craftsman in his own right, in carpentry. The materials he might get to work with might be different, but the skills he had acquired, over some twenty years of his career, went with him, wherever he chose to go.Cousin Anna would be waiting, and then all bets would be off on what would be encountered. She had been known to have her preferences in men, a taste that had caused a few ripples in the wider family and that she had taken no notice of, save that in the end, she had moved here and taken all her possessions with her. She had found a hillside plot of land and built herself a new home. Who she now shared that with remained a surprise after all that had gone before, several men who had fathered children and who lived out their separate lives back home.But he was not the judgmental sort. He was here to finish off the detailing of her new home and, in the process, would take each, and every, day just as it came. Travelling light was nothing new. As a thirty-five-year-old, taking his emotional baggage with him was something else entirely.But, the heat that hit him, even in the terminal building, soon reminded him that a change of scene was just what he needed. There would also be the company of a woman with an only too modern, and some said, wanton code of morals and the behaviour that went along with it. All of that was now to be welcomed and, he could easily admit, keenly anticipated.‘Yes, Willem de Vries, you’re ready to start again.’2‘Willem, over here!’ he heard an unfamiliar voice call out as he passed through the opening in a frosted glass screen Maltepe Escort and out into the echoing arrivals hall.He looked in startled amazement as a beautiful, local girl with sublimely smooth skin, starkly rouged lips and a shock of dark hair, approached him. He gaped and took in her appearance before him and found her swirling, colourful dress a delight. He heard the soft jangle of a multitude of silver and beaded bracelets that she wore on her wrists. Stud earrings glistened whenever she moved, and the light caught them.‘Eline?’‘Yes, I am Eline,’ she soon told him, on a captivating laugh, and extending her hand. ‘Oh, why bother with that?’ She moved to kiss his cheeks in the usual ways of greeting members of the family, and that he was only too accustomed to. Gone was the formality of a first meeting between them. ‘Anna’s told me all about you…’‘And I’ve heard something of you,’ he assured her.Willem shifted his case from one hand to the other. The light beyond the hall was blindingly bright and he soon put on his sunglasses, with their round reflective lenses. He made to step outside but felt her restraining touch his arm.‘It’s…it’s incredible,’ she gasped, giving him an unwavering and appraising glance. ‘You…you look just like a young John Lennon, with those glasses on.’Willem gave her an embarrassed shrug. ‘It’s been said before, Eline, even down to the light brown colour of my hair, as he once had it or so I’m told. Mine’s a little longer, that’s all.’She smiled, beautifully, her teeth bright against the colour of her lips and her dark skin that suggested mixed race, a rich golden brown. It had already captivated him for the sheer novelty of being in the young woman’s company and talking so easily with her. They walked on.‘But it’s true! Your hair, your slim face and now, those sunglasses!’ she enthused. ‘It feels as if I am walking with him.’Willem did not know whether to be flattered or embarrassed, by her enthusiastic ways of it with him and on such a short acquaintance. He felt that his grip on reality might be loosened in this woman’s company and in no time at all, were it not for the fact that she was spoken for.‘Where is Anna?’ he asked, changing the subject to what was of greater immediate concern to him.‘She’s sorry not to be here, but the heat and the humidity affect her sometimes, even with the air conditioning we often have on in the house. But you’ll see all of that very soon now.’ She took hold of his arm and guided him to the car parking lot. ‘Anna’s waiting for us with a welcome drink and lots to catch up on, so I am told. Anyway, you will hear of it all when we get home.’Accented as her melodious voice was, and her Dutch good, he was disconcerted to hear her call Anna’s place ‘home’. Their relationship would be something that he would get to hear about, or else have to deduce it from how Eline and Anna were together, even in his presence.For now, he had to take it all in.Anna’s past lovers and her last husband, dead some years now, had all been of Dutch colonial descent, her men of a particular presence and appeal to her and who had all been a vital element in what many thought to be Anna’s wayward lifestyle. Her choice of company had changed, but he wondered if this was but another phase in her life.Now, it was abundantly clear, she had taken an undoubtedly beautiful Curaçao woman as her lover and partner. He knew better than to try and keep up with it all, and this development in particular. He would, no doubt, learn how the wheels turned in Anna’s life soon enough.♥Willem gasped in admiration as Eline drew up outside Anna’s home. On the plot of ground that he had seen pictures of long ago, and where a partially completed villa had stood without a roof, there now was to be seen a white-washed property with a terracotta-tiled roof, shaded by small palms and surrounded by local plants and shrubs. A slabbed path curved up to a welcoming front door that was set back under a yet-to-be-completed recessed porch.It would be one of Maltepe Escort Bayan his first tasks to deal with the approach to the house, Anna had said after he had settled in. He had not pursued what she had meant by stressing that one word the last time they had spoken a day before his flight, but her voice had teased him as only she could, her laugh brittle but happy.Anna now rushed out to greet him, her face creased in smiles, her laugh high on the air. He saw the sway of her necklaces at her throat and how her breasts moved under her flimsy sun top. The woman did not change. There it was again, the wildness in her character and the impulse to break life’s rules that struck him even more strongly in the surroundings where he now found himself to be.‘At last, you’re here, Willem, dear…dear cousin!’‘Yes, I am, and less of the cousin bit. Just call me Willem!’First, it was Eline who had hooked his attention, now it was Anna who kissed his cheeks possessively and soon met his appraising glances upon her. He would see her lightly tanned skin, her blonde hair almost white from the bleaching by the sun and, just as he had them, her strikingly blue eyes taking in every detail of him. She wore tan shorts and a sleeveless yellow blouse that hugged her pert figure and with sandals lending her feet an easy grace. ‘You are only the second member of our family to visit me here…but I’ve looked forward to yours the most.’For a woman ten years his senior, Willem thought that her life out here in the sun had treated Anna very kindly. She looked radiant and happy.Anna waited for him to take his suitcase from the trunk of the car; saw him glance her way as she stood close to Eline’s side, one arm around her waist, if only for a moment.‘It is how it is now, cousin,’ she told him in her direct ways of it, and of old, and on seeing Willem’s pouted smile as he took in the scene before him. He would be in the home of two captivating women and his thoughts of home, and a more prosaic existence had already fallen away.‘I’m not in a position to say anything on it,’ he replied as if needing to reassure her, ‘after all I’ve been through.’Anna pressed fingers to his lips to silence him. ‘You’re here to be mended and to help me too, isn’t that so Eline?’‘Yes,’ she smiled at Willem, seeing and hearing Anna’s evident fondness for the good-looking man before her. ‘The three of us will make your stay work…for all of us. Okay?’Willem saw the two women smile, as if they only had eyes for each other and before Anna led the way inside, out of the heat. ‘It’s as if you’ve bought your little part of paradise, Anna…’‘They’re my thought exactly, and the place has always been what Luc and I decided on buying, and slowly paid for until he was lost to me.’ It seemed to Willem that Anna wished for the confessions to be out of the way. ‘I changed after that and I found comfort with someone you now see here by my side. The years changed me, as did the things that happened in those times to make me take stock and decide on how to live out my life and to do that here. You will soon see how free it is here on the island. Life is so uncluttered and unbounded. People are allowed to be who they are…and to hell with what they think!’Willem held a hand out to her as Anna laughed, relieved to have said it all in a rush of words. She clutched it as he drew her to his side. He met her uncertain look upon him after her confession had sunk in.‘Your home in Blue Bay looks stunning and I haven’t been here long enough to even begin to know it all. You’re happy, so we don’t talk about what has brought you to this point, okay? You live on and I mend myself. That was the arrangement and I’ll live the way you two do while I am here.’ Willem squeezed her hand again as if to make her concede on that point. ‘Do we agree on that?’‘Yes, we do,’ she smiled and leaned in to kiss his cheek, but close to the edge of his mouth.‘Let me get used to the idea I’m here,’ he murmured, keeping her close for an instant longer Escort Maltepe as a charge of excitement coursed through his body.Anna slowly broke free of his hold upon her and on feeling Eline touch her arm. She gave her lover a moment’s distracted look.‘I’ll show you to your room and you can unwind, a bit, while Eline and I sort out a welcome drink or two…’‘I like the sound of that,’ he smiled and was captivated by the sight of them. His troubles back at home now seemed so very far away and he felt a surge of anticipation for what he imagined might well await him.He sure wasn’t the moralizing sort of man, and the two women had taken hold before he had been in the place for an hour. Drink, and fatigue after a long flight might yet decide how events unfolded.3Washed, and shaved, just to freshen up, Willem simply put on some swimming briefs, blue shorts, a white T, and white beach shoes. He used his fingers to brush out his hair and left it at that.His room, with its shower room and toilet, was a white out, the walls decorated with brightly coloured abstract paintings, the small dresser having a potted palm at its side. A tall sliding window looked out over the sloping hillside and the sea beyond. Oblong windows, set at the ceiling’s edge allowed light to still enter the room and curtains were only necessary for privacy. It felt as if he had been transported to another world.He soon knew that he had been, when he saw the two women together again, unashamedly intimate and unaware that he had come into the living room area.‘Ah, there you are,’ Anna smiled as she drew away, murmuring something to Eline, who nodded and left them. ‘I’ll show you around outside and also show you where I have put some of the materials you asked for…’‘And what about the tools that I’ll need?’‘They’re on call, Willem. I wasn’t going to pay a day rate when there was no knowing when you’d want to start. Just settle in first, okay?’Willem nodded in agreement with that wise decision Anna had reached.‘Ever the organised one,’ he smiled, stepping out to the edge of the slabbed verandah and looking down the hillside, its gradient steepening the further away he looked. The ground before him was cloaked in dense but dry vegetation.Stunted palms and a tangle of shrubs, thickets, and plants were close to the edge of the verandah and the grass, such as it was, stunted and parched. It would all change in almost the blink of an eye after a rainstorm.‘I’ve always been that, but even more so in getting this place fixed up.’ Anna swept an arm around to point out the view and the setting of the house, the back walls painted an azure blue and in stark contrast with the front that he had first seen. It matched other properties on either side, as the authorities demanded. ‘The small plunge pool was an expense, but worth it…as you’ll find out.’‘You’ve done incredibly well. It’s a credit to you…’ Willem had walked to its slabbed side and crouched to feel the water’s temperature.‘Try it!’ he heard a voice suggest and gasped on seeing Eline approach, an azure bikini stark against her ebony skin. She was carrying a tray; the clink of empty glasses was to be heard. A jug of some fruit cup, alcoholic he had no doubt, also to be seen. But, it was Eline who had held his attention, her bikini all but a second skin and shaping her. It was too early for him to be feeling the way he was. ‘Try it…we should all do that. Call it a ‘settling in moment’, or in my case a ‘getting to know you’ time.’Willem was disconcerted by her winning ways, her figure revealed to his gaze and so soon. He saw the women exchange a knowing glance once more.‘That sounds like a great idea.’ Anna agreed. ‘You don’t mind do you, Willem? We can take turns in the plunge pool and have our drinks right here, outside?’Willem shrugged.He felt an interloper as the two women behaved as they seemed to do when on their own. ‘I’ll watch and learn,’ he grinned, turning his face up to the sun. ‘I feel like a bleached piece of bone washed up on the beach compared to you two…’He was seen to tug off his T-shirt, revealing a line of reddish hair over his strong but pale torso and down under his waistband. The stress of recent times had taken its toll on his physique. Cycling to work, and for distraction, along with the often physical demands of his teacher’s life, had firmed up his body.Anna came to…
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