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Chapter 34

A fun-filled afternoon with Gina

 

I was woken rudely by the ringing of the phone on the nightstand.

“Yes”, I mumbled, barely awake.

“Good morning sir, it’s ten o’clock,” a cheerful voice answered. I’d forgotten I’d asked for a wake-up call when checking in.

“Oh thank you I mumbled,” and put the phone down. If I wanted to have my day with Gina I’d better get a move on. I suddenly realized I was naked and then everything came flooding back, my dinner with Catharina, the talk we had, and the confession I made during our glorious love-making session. I truly hoped I hadn’t put any crazy ideas in her head, but quickly rejected that thought, knowing she would forget about it or blame the throes of passion we were in while making love.

I jumped in the shower, and shaved everywhere; thinking of Gina’s youthful sexy body was already making my cock lift its head in anticipation. The next thing was breakfast. As usual, on a Sunday morning, the hotel restaurant was rather quiet, the rush was expected rather around lunchtime when I hoped to be walking somewhere with Gina. I had no idea what she had in mind or even how she was doing. The last time I saw her she was a successful sommelier working in her father’s restaurant just like her brother Marco. After a quick breakfast, back in my room, I took a look at the photos I had taken from Catharina the previous day, loaded a fresh card in the camera, and replaced the battery with a fully loaded one.

When I came down from my room at noon Gina was already waiting for me in the lobby. Although I’d seen her the day before, she took my breath away when I saw her again. She wore a flowing very short summery dress with spaghetti straps and a plunging neckline, immediately drawing attention to her cleavage. I let my eyes wander over her beautiful body, taking it all in again, ending on her legs that seemed to go on forever. By the time I reached her, my eyes were back on her beautiful face, a big smile on her lips. She held out her arms, taking me in an arousing hug, pressing her lips to mine with a naughty dash of her tongue along mine.

“Buongiorno Lew!” she said with a naughty smile, “ready for a fun-filled afternoon?”

“I guess so, I’m all yours for the rest of the day unless you have to work tonight?”

“No, daddy gave me the day off, and mom told me to take extra good care of you,” she said with a wink.

“OK, lead the way, where are we going?”

“I have a little surprise for you.”

“Great I like surprises, especially surprises by beautiful young women like yourself.”

“Still the same old flatterer - I see you haven’t changed.”

“I’ve been told a leopard cannot change its spots by a very dear friend.”

“Yeah mom told you, didn’t she?”

“Yes she did, she knows her proverbs.”

“Let’s go, I've got my car outside, there’s something I want to show you.”

Once in the car, we got to talking about how she was doing and she surprised me by telling me she was doing something entirely different now. She no longer worked in the restaurant as a sommelier but had made a 180° turn in life and become a realtor.

“Where did that come from all of a sudden?” I asked, “and how does it work that your dad can still give you the day off?”

“I still do some sommelier work in the restaurant on weekends to help mom, but for the remainder of the week I deal in properties, and proud to say I’m doing very well, I seem to have the knack to sell houses that have been on the market for a very long time.”

“Well that’s great, but this seems to have come out of the blue?”

“Not really, I always had an interest in that kind of business, and when the opportunity presented itself with an old friend from school, I jumped in.”

“Oh, another new thing, a boyfriend?”

“Uh, not really, rather a girlfriend,” she said turning slightly red.

“Just a friend from school, or a real girlfriend?”

“Both, we studied together, but then lost touch with each other when we graduated, but I met her again shortly after your visit for mom’s fiftieth, and we sort of rekindled our friendship from school. We were very close when we were studying,” she said again, turning even redder than she already was.

“I see, there was already more when you were younger?”

“Yes we were already sort of in love, but can you imagine the reaction of dad if I had told him at the time?”

“Vividly! He would have gone berserk if you’d told him his little girl was a lesbian.”

“Yes indeed, though I’m not strictly a lesbian, I’m more bi-sexual, I like boys as well.”

“I know, well boys, let’s say, men.”

“Yeah, I prefer slightly older men, probably just like mom?”

“You could say that your dad is indeed older than your mom and so am I, but do tell more about the business you’re in.”

“OK, well Victoria, my girlfriend, and I studied together and then lost touch until I saw her again during a small realtor get-together coincidentally organized in the restaurant. I was surprised to see her and learn what she had been doing. As we hadn’t had a chance to talk during the event in the restaurant, we got together the next day. She told me everything that had happened to her and how she had to take over her dad’s realtor firm when he died rather unexpectedly, some 2 years ago. Although she was not really enthusiastic at first, surprisingly she became rather successful in a relatively short time. She was so successful, she was urgently looking for someone to join her. She is good, she managed to convince me that same day this was the perfect career for me. She was also willing to share me with mom and dad in the restaurant, and there was still that small fire burning between us -which she rekindled during a passionate night we spent together.

So quickly thereafter we were working together in her realtor firm; we will soon rebaptize it V&G properties.”

“You’ve become a partner then?”

“Yes, in just a few months we will jointly own the business on a 50/50 basis.”

“How do mom and dad look at it?”

“Mom was over the moon, she knew I had a bit of a fling with Victoria when I was studying. Dad was a bit more difficult, but in the end, he understood that there are girls that don’t always fall in love with boys. The thing that clinched the deal was that I can always make him a grandad if we stay together.”

“I gather that you two are not only business partners but also a couple then?”

“Yes, we are.”

“Any chance of me meeting Victoria?”

“Just be patient Lew.”

“Oh, that’s where we’re going?”

“That is for me to know and you to guess.”

“OK I’ll take it as it comes, this looks like a very nice area though, I’ve never been here before, are we getting closer to the coast?”

“Yes, we are.”

“I thought I could smell the sea.”

Ten minutes later we were driving through a residential area with nice free-standing villas, all looking very modern. She stopped in front of a closed iron gate that began to open slowly, after which she turned into the spacious driveway. The house seemed to be a more modern one although the front looked a bit like a fortress, having very narrow windows with white glass, and it was surrounded by a very nice, well-tended garden. She stopped the car in front of one of the two closed garage doors and cut the engine.

“I gather we’ve arrived?”

“Yes, we have.”

The front door swung open and I saw a very good-looking young woman with a big smile waiting for us. She was not very tall, with raven black hair, between 1,60 m and 1,65 m (5 feet) I guessed. She had serious boobs, and was certainly not skinny, though I wouldn’t call her fat either - let’s just say she was nicely rounded in all the right places, not like Gina who was rather skinny.

“Welcome to our home Lew, I’m Victoria,” she said, beaming.”

“Hello Victoria,” I said extending my hand, which she ignored and took me in a bear hug pressing her impressive bosom against my chest totally taking me by surprise.

“Now, that’s a warm welcome Victoria if ever I had one.”

“Any friend of Gina’s is a friend of mine,” she said with a welcoming smile on her cute face, her chocolate brown eyes giving me a quick look overall.

“How was traffic honey,” she asked Gina, immediately confirming their relationship with this simple remark.

“Not too bad,” Gina replied.

“Please come through; make yourself at home.”

Coming in, the fortress aspect was gone, and in front of me were big glass windows looking over a nice garden, with, at the other side, another window, through which I thought I could see a living room. Going left, they took me via a hallway to the other side of the building. We passed several doors on my left, but on the right, it was all glass with a view out to the sunny patio garden I had seen when entering. We finally emerged into the spacious living area I had seen from the entrance hall through the patio. Looking straight ahead, I was completely blown away by the majestic view of yet another garden with a stunning sea view in the background.

“Wow, this is some place you’ve got here.”

“Nice isn’t it?” they said almost in unison.

“I had it built a year ago,” Victoria explained, “I was lucky to be able to buy this piece of property from an old farmer, it had a small medieval farmhouse on it and lots of acreage. The land I developed and sold off in parcels, big enough to build a nice house on each. I kept a few plots for myself and with the profits I made on the sale of the land had luxury villas built on them for rent, but I kept the crown jewel for myself, and although most of them also have a nice sea view this one has the best, being at the summit of the hill. Since I was a small kid, I dreamed of a house with a patio garden. Probably had something to do with me being Roman: the old Roman villas all had patio gardens, just a question of safety and privacy. It’s perfect for sunbathing in the nude.”

“Excellent, I wouldn’t mind witnessing that,” I said with a big grin on my face.

“I see, Gina warned me about you - always looking to take pictures of nude girls.”

“Correction, of beautiful nude girls, and I see two very beautiful girls right here, not nude yet, but I can only hope.”

“That’s another thing Gina warned me about, your knack of talking girls out of their clothes using flattery.”

“Am I succeeding?”

“Only time will tell, but first what can I offer you to drink before lunch? A glass of Spumante?”

“Sounds excellent.”

As the weather was still very nice in Italy at that time of the year we adjourned to the terrasse just outside the living area. Gina joined me while Victoria went to the open kitchen to pour our drinks. When I was seated, I detected a long, narrow swimming pool to my right, clearly designed for pulling laps to keep in shape - which both girls obviously did regularly seeing the shape of their healthy bodies. Victoria came out with three glasses and a bottle of Spumante in an ice bucket, she also brought some nibbles, with one of my favorites, salted almonds. Victoria had seemingly been told a lot about me, even down to some of my favorite foods. For lunch, I got the royal treatment, with a beautiful salad containing at least 5 types of leaves and Italian Pomodoro, all homegrown, followed by a very tasty risotto dish. The meal was crowned by a creamy tiramisu with plenty of alcohol and believe it or not 6 small candles on top.

As they brought it to the table, they burst out, “Happy Birthday, Happy birthday…” all the way to the three cheers at the end. I turned all red.

“Sorry to remind you Lew, but we couldn’t let it pass.”

“OK, because you’re so friendly to me, I’ll forgive you, but let me take a few photos please?” They posed together, both holding the dessert, looking seductive and leaning forward to flaunt their cleavages, adding some spice to the pictures.

Gina had warned Victoria not to offer me an Italian coffee, but rather a café Americano with lots of cream but no sugar. They of course both had ristretto, black like their hair, with lots of sugar, which allowed Victoria to demonstrate their impressive Italian coffee maker.

In between courses I was also shown the vegetable garden where the salad and tomatoes came from and of which they were extremely proud. We finished the meal with a locally produced grappa. After all of that, a siesta was in order, so we adjourned to the patio garden, where the girls began to undress to combine rest with some sunbathing, in the nude of course.

“Do you mind if we sunbathe in the nude?” Gina said with a chuckle and a wink.

“No I don’t if you don’t mind me practicing my favorite pastime girls,” I said grabbing my camera.

“As long as we get copies we don’t mind do we, Gina?” Victoria asked with a smile while she started unbuttoning her blouse, revealing a nice white lacy push-up bra. Before I could remove the lens cap, her blouse was gone and she got busy undoing the hook and zipper of the miniskirt she wore. I was able to shoot some pictures of her bearing her beautiful legs. They were not as long as Gina’s but very shapely with just the right amount of muscles to make a leg man drool over them. A white lace panty was the next thing that came into view. She looked at me and struck a pose cocking her hip provocatively to the side almost like a professional model.

“You have modeled before,” I stated.

“Yes, I have, even in the nude, I was also a nude model at the academy of fine arts, posing for the student painters or sculpters. But enough about me, Gina is anxious to get her picture taken.”

That was indeed the case, she was almost jumping from one leg to the other to catch my attention. When she saw I had finished with Victoria for the moment, she turned her back to me and very provocatively slipped the spaghetti straps of her dress off of her shoulders and began to draw the zipper of her summer dress down, revealing her gorgeous nude back, no bra straps in sight. When the zipper was all the way down, I couldn’t even detect panties, had she been commando the whole time? I thought.

She must have been as I detected the top of her ass crack, and I didn’t have to wait very long, as seconds later her dress dropped to the floor, leaving her completely nude. She turned quickly around her arms in the air shouting “Surprise!”

She then quickly moved behind Victoria and began undoing her bra, putting her hands under the straps and slipping it off, unveiling Victoria’s impressive rack, resulting in a sharp intake of breath on my side. Neither girl had any tan lines, clearly giving away that they indeed always sunbathed in the nude. Victoria’s panties quickly followed her bra as Gina pulled them down. I was shooting photos like crazy, it was rare, even for me, to have the pleasure to photograph two raving beauties together in the altogether. After about 5 minutes they’d had enough posing, approaching me their fingers wiggling, clearly indicating what they had in mind. I only had a second to put my camera down before I ‘reluctantly’ had to surrender completely.I It was after all not every day I was undressed by two gorgeous naked women. When they finally pulled down my boxers, it was no wonder my cock was already standing at attention, I was happy I had had the foresight to take one of my blue pills, even with one bi and one lessie, not completely impartial to some male attention, so I was told, you never know.

They dropped to their knees. Gina being the more forward one took my penis tenderly in her hand and gave it a few tugs, pointing it at Victoria who gave the head a tentative kiss and lick. She then took it back, circled the glans with her tongue, and took it in her mouth sucking on it like a lollypop then taking my whole cock inside in one go. Her nose touched my pubic bone, it was a smart move this morning shaving there as well, I hoped the girls would appreciate it. Victoria was the first to notice.

“Oh I like it when a man is nicely groomed down there, I hate to get hair in my mouth, did you do this especially for us, or do you shave all the time Lew?”

“He shaves all the time,” Gina mumbled her mouth filled with my hard cock.

“Can I have a go? It’s been so long since I sucked on a cock and I do like this one, it looks so nice.” Victoria said with a girly pout.

Before I could say “Be my guest,” Gina had pulled off and pointed it at Victoria, who eagerly opened her mouth wide, taking me all the way in with one mighty gulp. She was good; I would never have thought a lesbian could suck cock as well as Victoria did.

Gina had moved behind me pressing her boobs into my back, her hands going all over my chest and abdomen. She managed to make my nipples stand out as theirs were, tickling and tugging on them. After 5 minutes she disappeared, but I didn’t even notice as Victoria was bringing me higher and higher with her mouth and tongue. All of a sudden Gina was back walking towards us, dropping on her knees and motioning to Victoria that she wanted to have my dick again. I had seen her cheeks were slightly bulging but didn’t pay much attention until she slid her mouth over my cock and all of a sudden I felt ice-cold and prickly.

“Oh my God Gina, you’re doing your mother’s trick with the bubbly.”

“Mmmmm,” was all she could say, trying to keep as much Spumante in her mouth and around my cock as possible, although some was trickling down my balls with her mumbling. This made the orgasm I had so far been able to keep at bay, approaching rapidly, but all of a sudden the feeling was gone as she swallowed the wine and pulled off my cock. It felt cold immediately due to a light breeze blowing off the sea. However, the chill didn’t last long as my dick was again sucked into Victoria’s hot mouth making it mighty difficult to hold out. The thing is I had no idea if lesbian Victoria could handle an ejaculation directly down her throat. My lessons from Alicia still in mind I took Victoria’s head in my hands and tried to push her off of my steel rod while I shouted…

“I’m gonna cum any second now, I can’t hold it any longer…” Victoria didn’t budge. She wouldn’t let me pull her mouth off my cock but kept on sucking while I was all the way down her throat. As I was at my limit, I tried again to warn her, shouting. “I’m cumming, I’m cumming,” immediately shooting jet after jet of hot cum deep in her mouth. She quickly began to swallow, hollowing her cheeks as she sucked even harder, drawing every last drop of jizz I had to offer out of my balls. When she was finished she looked up at me with a big smile on her face.

“That was awesome, that’s what I miss sometimes going down on a girl: male spunk tastes so much creamier than girl juice,” she said beaming while getting up.

“Oh my, it’s still standing,” Gina remarked taking my cock in her soft hand and tugging at it, “You surprise me, Lew, at your age, still hard, do you have anything to confess?”

“Euhm, yes, I took one of my blue pills before I came, just to be prepared,” I said the tip of my finger in my mouth trying to look shy and guilty, but smiling.

“Excellent, that means we can continue, you don’t need a rest?”

“No I’m ready to go, just tell me how I can be of service to you lovely ladies.”

“Why don’t you lie down on the sunbed and we’ll take it from there.”

When I was comfortably installed, Gina walked over me, her legs spread wide, and her feet on either side of the bed, while seductively pawing her boobs, taking the hard nipples and pulling them out. When she reached my midsection, she put her feet on the sunbed and squatted over me, slowly coming down while she held my dick and rubbed it a couple of times along her snatch, lubricating it with her already flowing juices before empaling herself.

I had lost track of Victoria, but she appeared quickly over my head, facing Gina. Once she had positioned her tempting pussy over my face, she also came slowly down, pulling her lips open and covering my mouth with her vulva, treating me to her musky womanly flavor and perfume. I ferociously attacked her cunt with my nose buried in her asscrack. It made breathing a bit difficult but I wouldn’t have traded my position for any other at that moment, the only downside was that I couldn’t see Gina's gorgeous naked body anymore, I could only feel her going up and down my hard cock. I made up for the lack of visuals by sliding my hands over Victoria’s nude frame in search of her tantalizing tits, which I hadn’t had the pleasure yet of touching and playing with. Although I’m not really a tit man I could still enjoy playing with these big babies. While pleasuring my hands with her mammaries and nipps, I pleasured my mouth with her silky folds while pleasuring her clit with my tongue.

With my palms on Victoria’s boobs, I felt Gina’s erect nipples rub against the back of my hands, keeping them emprisoned between their soft orbs. After a while, I was done playing with their knockers, and I moved my hands under Victoria’s butt cheeks and lifted her slightly, trying to improve my breathing but more to move my licking and sucking towards her little brown star. Sliding up to her perineum, she began to seriously moan, uttering high-pitched yelps of pleasure when I reached her puckered asshole, trying to slide the tip of my tongue inside.

Although I couldn’t see much I heard the girls kissing, and judging by their movements they were playing with each other’s boobs. As I’d already cum I felt Gina pulling every trick in the book to make me cum again, her pussy was not only pumping me but she undulated her abdomen like her mother had done the day before. I could only imagine what it looked like, conjuring up the image of Catharina doing this sort of belly dance the previous day.

“How do you girls feel about switching positions?” I mumbled, my mouth still half full of Victoria’s tasty labia.

“OK, Victoria said, but then I need to put a condom on you as I’m not on birth control.”

“That’s no problem, I guess being lesbian there is no real need.”

“Not only that, but the sex is so much better when you don’t take the pill.”

“That’s news to me, is that so?”

“Oh yes, since I stopped taking it our sex life has seriously improved.”

“Maybe there is no need for a condom: I had my tubes snipped many years ago. I can’t make you pregnant, so unless you’re afraid of any kind of disease, we can go.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes, I am dear.”

“OK then, it feels much better without anyway, but you know Italian men rarely have their tubes snipped, they're afraid.”

“I can understand that too, it does hurt for a few days when you have it done, it feels like they kicked you seriously in the balls, but afterward the benefit is so much bigger, so climb aboard.”

Victoria didn’t hesitate anymore, certainly after she got the thumbs up from Gina, who knew about my operation from her mom. She took Gina’s position empaling herself on my cock. Gina took a rest after her acrobatics on top of me, giving me a spectacular view of Victoria’s gorgeous naked body gyrating on top of me, her D-cups making tantalizing circles or bouncing up and down. As it was futile to try and grab them, I held on to her soft hips, helping her up and down movement on my cock. As I was curious to see her cum, I moved my hand to the top of her pussy, bringing her clit from under its protective hood and rubbing my thumb over her engorged pearl.

Small sweat beads were beginning to form on her soft skin as she feverishly tried to reach an orgasm, going faster and faster while steadying herself with both palms on my chest. I didn’t feel anything approaching yet, so I concentrated totally on her orgasm. She mewled, her voice high and thick with pleasure, alternating with mousy little squeaks, a clear indication of a pending orgasm building rapidly inside her naked body. She had her eyes closed gasping for air, her mouth opening and closing like a fish making her wince and hiss. All of a sudden she became rather vocal screaming at the top of her voice.

“Fuck! Leeeeew, oh God, yes, yes, keep going, keep going, I’m cumming, I’m cuuuuuuming! she shouted as I felt her pussy quivering and convulsing around my cock. I pushed it as deep as I could into her, strumming her clit with my fingers to keep her orgasm going. The dam broke as she inundated my lower body, her clear girly fluid squirting all over me. Her hands gripped my chest painfully hard while she gasped for air, her naked body going completely rigid, her stomach hollowing.

“Oh My GOD !” were the last words she uttered before dropping like a ragdoll onto me, gasping for air. I felt her heart race against my chest. Pulling my hand from between our bodies, I gently stroked her back in circles. Gina was looking on with big eyes.

“Jeez Lew, I’ve never seen Victoria cum so hard,” she stammered.

After several minutes Victoria raised herself back up a huge smile on her face looking straight into my eyes.

“Why did I ever imagine that sex with a woman was the greatest thing on earth, how could I ever think I was 100% lesbian? That was amazing Lew - Gina was absolutely right to talk me into having sex with you.”

“Gina? Did you have to convince your girlfriend to have sex with me?”

Gina turned red in the face, looking at me, admitting she had indeed convinced her to try and see how it feels to have sex with a man again. It seemed Victoria’s first experience with a man, when she was deflowered, had been very painful and totally disastrous. Victoria confirmed that the guy she had had sex with was a total inconsiderate selfish bastard who was only interested in his own pleasure, not even caring he could get her pregnant filling her very sore and just deflowered pussy with his inconsiderate cum. The weeks after had been pure hell, not knowing if she was pregnant or not and that’s when she swore never to have sex with a man again - up until now.

“If it had been you who took my virginity at the time Lew I might never have turned lesbian in the first place.”

“It only proves, dear Victoria, that you’re exactly like Gina, bi-sexual, ready to enjoy both sides of the fence.”

When Victoria finally slipped off of me, my cock, still semi-hard and very wet from Victoria’s juices, slid out of her with a plop. Gina immediately took pity on it stroking it gently, after which she tenderly kissed it and took it deep into her mouth while caressing my balls. She rapidly brought it back to a full-blown raging hard on making it twitch, enjoying the taste of her girlfriend all over me.

“Your dick tastes so yummy with Victoria’s sauce over it,” she mumbled while licking and sucking fervently.

She was good, what am I saying, she was a master at sucking cock. When she pulled off, she looked at me and asked with a naughty look if I would prefer another Spumante bath instead of just her hot mouth. I declined gracefully pointing out that too much alcohol would not be good for my health. I felt an orgasm building in the wings, my cock anxiously waiting for its cue to step into the limelight and fill the theatre of her sucking mouth with a generous helping of hot juicy cum. Her tickling my balls was definitely a plus in the process of making me climax and she knew it.

While she kept on licking and sucking, teasing the bulbous head and concentrating with the tip of her tongue on that very sensitive point just at the rim, she looked up at me with her hot sensual eyes demanding me to fill her hot mouth with my spunk. That look was too much for me, I couldn’t hold it any longer and allowed my cock to step onto the orgasm stage and let my cum race up my shaft from my balls, my hot steamy load squirting jet after jet deep into her waiting mouth. My mouth was wide open but nothing but air came rushing out as I reached this pinnacle of sexual bliss. Gina kept on pumping with her hand, and sucked, her cheeks hollowing, the very last drop straight out of my balls. When no more came out, she let my cock out of her mouth with a plop, then looking up at me with a big smile on her face, she said, “that was absolute bliss, a nice hard cock, coated with my girlfriend's yummy juices, giving me a delicious creamy sauce to top it off.”

“You sound as if you just enjoyed a meal in a 3-star restaurant,” I joked.

“Believe it or not, this tops any meal I could possibly have in any restaurant, even dad’s.”

“You were telling me earlier you had some villas for rent here as well?”

“Yes we do, we want to sell some but we also want to rent out some, why?”

“Well, the woman I went on this cruise with and spent a week in Orlando, her name is Grace, by the way, is also in the realty business and she made a lucrative deal with the American couple who own and operate a sort of similar set up to yours over there. What if I get you in touch with her? You might potentially represent the American side here in Italy and offer your villas to their customers. Would you be interested in such a deal?”

“Of course, American customers are always welcome, but it is difficult to contact them directly, a representation in the States would be great.”

“Excellent, I’ll inform Grace you might be interested in such a deal, maybe you two can get together, here, or in Belgium to discuss it. If it were Belgium, you could maybe visit my studio; I’d love to show it to you.”

“Yes, I’d love that too.”

“Great, but now I must go back to the hotel and get some much-needed rest after this fun day in this gorgeous location.”

“I’m so happy I got to meet you Victoria. I’ll make sure to send you all the photos you allowed me to take of you.”

“Yes and perhaps you can take some more photos of me when we would be visiting?”

“I would definitely like that.”

I took Victoria tenderly in my arms and gave her an intimate kiss to which she responded likewise. Gina took me back to the hotel where I also said my goodbyes to her in a very similar tender way. After a very good night - I slept like a log - I made my way to the airport and flew home on the first flight out, hoping that the coming week would be a less tiring one. Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be…