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open iron gates and drove through the paved
driveway that led to the closed garage in the left of the main
building. Thera became a little freaked-out by the way Carla drove,
which she had noticed.
    “Wow… I didn’t know that my friend has become
a female Schumacher!” she teased as Carla turned the engine off
right outside the garage.
    She grinned at her. “My little car may be
old, but it’s a rocket!” she answered proudly before she got out of
the car.
    The truth was speed was her passion. She
found that out after Thera had gone. It was a passion that even her
parents’ car crash hadn’t banished. Speed on a car gave her the
feeling of freedom from all of her cares. It relaxed her and got
her ready for stressful work. It was also a good thing that there
were many stretches of roads here in the island that were free of
traffic and heavy cars. She could indulge anytime she wanted.
    She now stood with Thera beside the car, and
her friend was looking up at the house with wonder.

Chapter Four
    “ E xactly as I
remember it!” she said, like she was at the same time sinking
herself into happy memories.
    “Well, we kind of like it the way it is so we
decided not to tear it down to build another,” Carla teased.
    The house was standing on the top of a small
hill, with the side facing the ocean descending on a beach. The
house was big, built with colorful stone and red roof tiles, with
wide-windowed rooms at different levels all the way down the hill.
On the front facing the roads, the grounds and the upper floor were
visible with the garage and the long circular driveway. The ground
in front of the house is covered by green grass, with a big
umbrella in a corner, by the edge of the flower garden. Under the
umbrella were a table with glass cover and bamboo legs, and its
four matching chairs.
    The estate was surrounded by a wall about two
meters high, interrupted by the iron gates for vehicles and another
smaller one on the side for pedestrians.
    Carla sensed Jake stopping very near her, and
she immediately tensed. Never had she imagined, even in her wildest
dreams of him, that she would witness him here, in her house,
ever.
    “You have a wonderful home, Carla,” he said
with sincere voice.
    “Thank you, Jake,” she replied. “This house
was my father’s baby.”
    “I’m very sorry for your parents. Thera told
me they died in an accident?”
    Her eyes suddenly got teary and for a moment,
she couldn’t help but look up at him wildly as she stepped near
Thera. She certainly did not want him to be there right then! “Yes,
t-two years ago.”
    He touched her arm tenderly, almost
involuntarily, and she froze. For a second, she drowned in the look
on his eyes. For a second, time stopped and nothing seemed to move.
They were alone in the world, even as she heard Thera saying
something on the other side of her.
    It was another voice that woke her up from
her preoccupation.
    “You’re here at last, little lady! We were
worried!”
    The deep voice talking in Greek made all
three of them jump. She snapped out of her dream state with a
frown, and studiously avoided looking at Jake now that others were
with them and would surely noticed something.
    The old man approached, looking a bit grim as
he held Thera’s shoulders to look her over. Then he smiled and bent
down to kiss the hair of her laughing friend.
    Carla couldn’t help but smile. “The flight
was delayed, Mr. Gerou,” she said in Greek. Mr. Gerou was on his
sixties, still well-built and strong. If it wasn’t for the white
hair and moustache, he would have appeared much younger.
    Then another, female, person rushed from the
house and immediately engulfed Thera in a tight embrace.
    “Oh, Thera! Thera!” the old woman was
exclaiming, then greeted the young woman profusely in Greek.
    “Mr. Gerou is my caretaker-gardener and
personal bodyguard,” she explained to Jake in English while they
waited for the greetings to die down. “He is married to