Patterns of Passion by Leonard Jackson

Maria was her woman, Barbara had decided, and no man, woman, or circumstances was going to change it, and that was the pattern of Barbara’s passion.

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Maria was content to share herself with Barbara, because the woman’s tender loving was a contrast to the rough, animalistic love making of Antonio. But what Barbara hadn’t known before she’d practically given herself in rape to Antonio, in order that she have the police get him out of the way, was that Maria could no longer accept her love once the burley Antonio was no longer alive to offer diversion for the Spanish-American beauty.
It was thusly so then that for nothing Barbara was ravished, and also to no avail that Antonio was killed…