HIS MUSE

" Susannah said wit

onded more prosaically. "She'd have no trou

etch your legs?" Williams made a valiant e

ou once" Susannah remarked. "Wh

n off his tongue as complacency and calc

o be by himself.He needed to gather his thoughts, although he would have been the first to admit that the confusion knotted in his belly had very little to do with thinking.He stationed

as Jodie,was the most beautif

could he possibly know what she looked like? From fifteen rows up,under spo

body suit,a little voic

e remembered how long it had been since he had

bodies at the dojo.And a lots of women.No

's why,he thought savagely.If there's magic in th

oved.Arms flowing as though boneless,the curve if thig

here was no room for magic

with excitement making Will

the second half of the s

d more sedately,and with each step that took him nearer to the door heard an insistent inner vo

ut.Susannah would as

the show,the curtain ope

clearly about sexuality.White was innocence,playfulness,flirtation:the body unawakened yet expectant,knowing that something momentous and wonder

lackness where memory should have been-a blackness he had long ago learned to leave strictly alone.That

,their primitive rhythm stirring his blood,and between one moment and the next Jo

his groin,He must be the on

love to her.Wondering if he was going crazy, Williams f

e love with this

ere incorporated into a richer,more subtle and more complex melody.Although her invisible partner was still with her,there were now united by

force of his reaction.What he felt was a torrent of ange

rove people into ill-starred marriages and untold misery.She should have known better.Certainly

s closed his mind.Although he might want her in his bed so badly that he sti

at moment of absolute silence,the very best tribute an artist could receive,before the applause,the

raincoat on the seat behind him.Under the cover of the n

e looked like.He

ance, his blood ringing in his ears.He also felt as though he had travelled the whole length of his lifetime only

eyes. "It's all right to feel" she said forcefully,then she tu

n,no matter how well intentioned or how well loved, commenting on the way he ran his life.Then

o meet Jodie Scott-Davies face to face in a roomful of people. "Thanks,but n

with at least half the audience.Ben chuckled

yly. "Thanks for dinner,bot

exit.The cool,misty air against his face was like the touch of sanity.He set off along the

a woman as soon as he could and he'd

uld not be