Chapter 31

Amanda was in awe as they turned up the driveway of Drake’s house in Bunker’s Hill.  Two enormous metal gates, emblazoned with the words “Winslow”, opened automatically as they approached the property, revealing a tree-lined path up a short hill beyond them, with the house itself just barely visible in the distance at the top.  As the gates closed behind them Amanda immediately felt as if she had just entered another world, a secret garden of beauty, hidden from the eyes of man.   Drake drove around a large circular patch of garden, with a beautiful angel-shaped fountain in the middle of rows of rose bushes, and parked in front of the steps leading up to the double story house.  He switched the engine off and in the silence that followed Amanda bathe...

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