And thank you for joining us once again. It is the Nightly Pleasures podcast, Season 2, Episode 7.

Hi. Can you believe we're already halfway done with this season? I can't either. Time is flying right on by.

I don't know what the weather is like out there, but where I'm at, it's starting to chill.

The AC doesn't have to be used all the time, although it still gets rather hot some days,

but the chill in the air is here.

And it's nice, I have to say, changing of the seasons and everything else.

The only thing I don't like about it is being cold outside, but I think that's a small trade-off for being hot inside, don't you think?

And speaking about being hot inside, see, I'm trying to be a bit more segue here. We have a wonderful story by Pandora Spock's

today. It's Rannigan's redemption, and the excerpt will make it clear. This is a story about a

playboy who needs to grow up. And the young woman, well, the young attorney who's going to set him straight.

I'm sure there's going to be trials involved in both senses of the word. Once again, this is

Ranagan's redemption, and thank you to Pandora Spock's for letting us listen and for me to read it.

Here we go, and I hope you enjoy.

Fucking her had been inevitable, he reasoned. After all, Maggie was not unattractive with her thick red hair, bright green eye shaded by long red lashes. She darkened with mascara, the smattering of freckles

across her nose. Beneath those inexpensive business suit she favored, her body wasn't bad.

Don't think he hadn't noticed. It was an odd line of thought for a man on vacation.

He stretched his legs out on the chaise and gazed past his tanned bare feet to the turquoise water of the Indian Ocean. His travel

agent had assured him that he'd love the Maldives. He raised his glass of bourbon in a toast

to Nancy at East Coast Travel, but his thoughts

returned to Maggie.

He'd actually been surprised at the firm, full, round tits he'd unearth beneath that conservative

gray blouse.

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