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Sarah’s Exotic Tales 1

A rich blend of betrayal, deception, love,

lust & romance

All rights reserved. No part of this

publication may be reproduced, stored in a

retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by

any means whatsoever, without the prior written

consent of the sole author,

Sarah Ako Myers

All characters in this publication are purely

fictitious and all storylines are strictly the

figment of the author's imagination.



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About the writer

Sarah Ako Myers is a Canadian

writer based in Gatineau, Québec. A

married mother of two girls, Sarahdescribes herself as someone who loves

with passion, works with passion, nurtures

with passion, protects with passion,

forgives with ease and moves at the speed

of light.

For the past twelve years, Sarah

has held various administrative positions

in both the public and the private sectors,

and has acquired considerable experience

in proofreading a wide variety of

manuscripts.

This book is the first of many in

a series of short story collections,

presented as an exotic blend of lifestyle

drama.



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Acknowledgements

My heartfelt gratitude goes out to

the love of my life, Junior, and to my

beloved daughters, Mysa & Vanessa, forstanding by me through thick and thin.

To my beloved parents of blessed

memory, John & Monica, and to my siblings,

Charles, Roland, Conrad, Anasthasia &

Marie-Claire, for sharing the wonderful

journey of life with me.

To my dear cousin Rose, and all my

other cousins, nieces, nephews, in-laws &

friends, for being an integral part of my

life and for challenging me to be the best

I could.

To Nicole, Andrée, Vicky, Michael,

Claire-Dominique, Alain, Rémi, Jocelyne,

Chantal, Kevin, Lori, Carole & Nancy, forinspiring me to exploit my full potential.

Darling Mysa Myers, a very hearty

thank you from your mommy, for the great

editorial insight!



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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SEDUCTRESS Page 5

OBSESSION Page 23

NICKY Page 43

BETRAYAL Page 60

DOROTHY Page 78

TRAGEDY Page 94

POSSIBILITIES Page 114

IRRESISTIBLE Page 130

WHIRLWIND Page 149

DECEPTION Page 165



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SEDUCTRESS

Her moist tongue slowly swirled,

flickered and lingered sensually around

the rim of the large sugar-coated martiniglass, as she quietly reminisced about the

last time that she and Martin had spent

the day on a pleasure boat on The Thousand

Islands, an archipelago of islands in the

Saint Lawrence River, northeast of Lake

Ontario. After circling the lake for about

fifteen minutes, they found a secluded

area, anchored their boat, unfolded theyoga mats that Laura had packed, and

spread them on the deck. They spent the

entire day in the nude, swimming in the

lake, devouring each other, and munching

on the delicious treats that Maria,

Martin’s cook, had piled into a huge

basket for them.

The very intense sensual memoriesdrove her to near ecstasy, as her eyelids

began to droop and flicker, closing gently.

Sprawled on a chaise lounge by the pool at

the beautiful hotel Gouverneur, which is

located on Charron Island in Longueuil,

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crossed and uncrossed her long tanned legs.

She was completely unaware that she had

been physically moving in unison with her

reverie, oblivious to the world around her,

as a sense of warmth enveloped her body.

She and Martin had chosen this particular

hotel for their romantic weekend getaway

in Montreal, because of its proximity to

the renowned Îles de la Madeleine, and

Casino de Montreal. It was the grand prix

weekend in Montreal, and there were

parties everywhere on the streets, hotels

bursting at the seams to accommodate racecar enthusiasts from all over the world,

descending upon the Montreal metropolitan

area in droves. Martin was a high roller,

who loved placing heavy bets on the

blackjack table and enjoyed revelling in

the champagne and caviar atmosphere at the

Casino. …

OBSESSION

As they lay back to back on the

huge king-sized bed that they had both

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Ottawa some thirteen years earlier right

after their wedding, Martha stared at the

floral patterns engraved on the ceiling

boards, deep in thought. After about half

an hour, she whispered in the dark, “I

cannot do this any more Peter.” Peter lay

silently next to her, and did not bother

to respond. After a slight pause, Martha

again whispered, “Peter! I cannot do this

anymore, I want a divorce!”

Peter jolted from his sleeping

position, stretched his hand, and jerked

the chain on the nightstand lamp, almost

knocking it over, flooding the room with

light. They had not had sex for almost

seven months, and Martha’s words should

have come as no surprise to Peter, yet,

they hit him like a thunderbolt. He lay

hunched over on the bed, gasping for air,

as his extremities began getting numb. He

could barely feel his fingers and toes. He

let out a painful groan, swung around to

face Martha, and mumbled in agony: “how

dare you do this to us Martha? How dare

you?”



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In a disgusted voice, he cried

angrily, “I have literally forsaken all of

my friends for you; I have lived in your

shadow for so many years, to allow you

foster your career, and now you think you

are too good for me Martha?” “Why must

everything always be about you?” “You have

begged me to support and accommodate you

countless times, you have pleaded with our

children to be patient and understanding

with you, and now that you have achieved

your dream, you want to break our family

apart?” moaned Peter in distress. …

NICKY

Sprawled face up on the swinging

sofa on her patio, Cynthia could not help

but marvel at how wonderful God had been

to her family all those years, especiallyto her little girl Nicky. As she gazed at

the late evening sun purposefully weaving

its way slowly but surely across the vast

skies heading towards the east, she

muttered under her breath, “Thank you



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Lord.” Cynthia smiled contentedly, as her

mind wandered further down to her early

years at the university. Those were some

of the best days and sadly, some of the

worst days of her life, all nicely wrapped

in a package about the size of a shoebox.

“Memories!” she exclaimed, “That is all

they are, except for Nicky.”

Cynthia’s charming and polite

college sweetheart, Joseph, had abandoned

her on the same day that she told him

about the pregnancy, and she had not seenhim ever since that fateful day. He had

all but disappeared from the face of the

earth. After Joseph vanished, Cynthia

reluctantly dropped out of the university,

with only nine credits left to complete

her Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography.

She went back to live with her parents

until the birth of her child, Nicky. The

devastation and humiliation that she

suffered after Joseph abruptly dumped her

proved too much for Cynthia to bear. All

she wanted to do was to stay away from her

friends, and nestle in the comfort of her

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only safe place in the world at that very

moment. That was exactly what she did. …

BETRAYAL

For the last couple of months,

Victorine’s marriage to Paul had been

quite rocky, for the most part, because of

the lengthy hours that she spent at the

office. Fortunately, after several tens of

hours of counselling and major compromise

from both parties, everything was back to

normal. Vicky could not be happier with

her life. That same day at lunchtime, she

gave a stellar presentation to senior

management, and was very proud of herself.

She planned to stop by her favourite car

dealership after work on her way back home

in the evening, to test drive a sleek

convertible sports car that she had beeneyeing for quite sometime now.

As she happily strode back into

her office from the boardroom, her

secretary rushed in, almost knocking her

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her lungs. “Vicky Vicky quick, Lisa is in

trouble. I just got off the phone with her

principal and she is badly hurt, the

paramedics came to her school and left

with her in an ambulance moments ago,

heading for the Children’s Hospital.” In a

flash, Victorine was in her car and

driving frantically towards the hospital.

Blinded by her own tears, she could barely

see through her windshield as she made her

way blindly to her destination. Vicky

arrived at the hospital, parked her car

outside the emergency ward and boundedinto the crowded hallway, breezing past

the Receptionist and heading straight for

the surgery room, coughing and gasping for

air. …

DOROTHY

“What did you do that for eh?”

yelled Anthony, as he advanced menacingly

but rather playfully towards Elizabeth as

she took off running, weaving her way

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Notre Dame cemetery, which had become like

a second home to the pair. Frustrated by

their blatant lack of respect for the

faithful departed, the Caretaker of the

cemetery had chased them, threatened them,

and called the local police on them

several times, but they just would not go

away. In the small town where they lived,

they were renowned for their truancy, and

many parents forbade their children from

interacting with them in any capacity.

They had no friends at school, and never

did their homework. Elizabeth and Anthonywere teenagers of the same age, attending

a local secondary school in the small

farming town of Hemmingford, Québec, near

the border between the province of Québec

and the State of New York. They both came

from different elementary schools, but

instantly bonded during their first week

of sixth grade, because of their similarbackgrounds.

Shortly after birth, Elizabeth’s

mother abandoned her outside a local

church, where a parish priest found her

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five, a middle-aged transhipment truck

driver and his wife, Tina, who was a

bartender at one of the many local pubs,

adopted the bright-eyed little girl, that

everyone called Elizabeth. They had no

kids of their own, and raised Elizabeth as

an only child. With her father on the road

most of the time, her mother usually spent

long hours at the bar where she worked,

and often came home very late at night,

reeking of alcohol. There was hardly ever

any warm meal for Elizabeth to eat after

school; nobody cared whether she did herhomework, and she was literally running

wild in the small town. …

TRAGEDY

“Miss Lucy brought her dog Patsy

to school today, and we had so much fun

chasing it around,” squealed Mandy in

sheer and utter excitement, as she bounded

into the house, straight from her school

bus. “Oh mom, you should have seen it!”

she said breathlessly. “At lunchtime, I

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little tail as it ate right out of my

hand!” Colleen braced herself, as she knew

exactly what was coming next. “Mom,” said

little Mandy pleadingly, “I know we cannot

have a dog because of your allergies, but

if you buy me a poodle, I promise not to

bring it into the house.” “Hmmm, where

would you keep the dog Mandy dear?”

demanded Colleen, a mischievous smile

tugging at the corners of her lips. “In

the shed mom,” Mandy piped out, “I will

ask dad to build me a shed for my dog with

a room, a kitchen and a bathroom.” “Abathroom for your dog?” asked Colleen

incredulously, as she playfully ran around

the huge kitchen, chasing her bubbly and

energetic six-year-old girl, and tickling

the bridge of her nose. “Baby doll,” she

said to her little girl lovingly, “dogs

cannot use toilets like you and I, besides,

poodles only live indoors, and cannotremain in the courtyard all the time.”

Mandy ruffled Mindy’s ears and

smiled, as she reminisced about her

childhood. After walking around Bate

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River for about half an hour with her tiny

two-year-old Shih Tzu dog named Mindy,

Mandy sat down on a park bench under her

favourite oak tree, which looked to be at

least fifty years old, staring into the

calm river. She had chosen a Shih Tzu dog,

because they had a reputation for not

shedding their coat. …

POSSIBILITIES

From his vantage point near the

doorway of the dining room, Claude satwith a pair of large brown horn-rimmed

glasses loosely perched on the bridge of

his nose, reading his book calmly. His

left hand rested on the dining table

before him, while his right hand firmly

gripped a small grey hardback novel. The

novel that Claude was reading, adorned

with bold gold scribbles, displayed arather strange insignia. As he heard Magda

pull out her chair for the fourth time, he

swore under his breath, “If I see her do

that one more time, I will definitely

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the windowsill, seemingly unaware of the

disruption that she was causing.

Magda stood on her toes by the

windowsill of the dining hall on the

fourth floor of the retirement home,

peering down on the street below, with a

look of anticipation on her face. It was

the seventh time in less than twenty-seven

minutes that she had noisily pulled back

her chair in the middle of the room, stood

up, and sauntered across the hall to the

window on the other side of the room,

flip-flops thrashing wildly on the floor.

Claude had been living in the

Bilingual Retirement home located on Gouin

Boulevard for about a year, and enjoyed

the peace and tranquility that it afforded

him. …

IRRESISTIBLE

Ron silently swore under his

breath, as the chain on his brand new

chainsaw stuck into a crevice in a branch

for the fifth time. A very wealthy and



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successful private building contractor,

Ron had bought an impressive 1025 acres of

land on Beach Road in Minnedosa some

fifty-two kilometres north of Brandon in

Manitoba about five years earlier from one

of his friends. He built a two-storey

mansion on his spectacular and extremely

elegant sprawling estate, bounded to the

south by the Minnedosa Lake. The lavish

six-bedroom, six-bathroom mansion was a

magnificent work of art, which reflected

Ron’s very own personality in its design

and architecture, and his wife, Cindy’screative personality in the décor. Cindy,

who was a Crown Attorney in Brandon, loved

the estate very much and spent as much

time there as she possibly could with her

three children, Ron Jr., Melissa and Carla,

as well as her granddaughter, Dolly. Cindy

particularly enjoyed walking the vast

expanse of land, taking in the spectacularview of the Minnedosa Lake, and tending to

the hundreds of exotic plants in her huge

green house.

Ron and his family owned a huge

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which was amongst the most expensive in

the area, featuring a lavishly furnished

penthouse, in which the family spent their

weekdays. Three years earlier, their first

child, Ron Jr. had completed his MBA in

Montreal. He attended the prestigious John

Molson School of Business in Concordia

University, and just like his father, went

on to establish his own business in

downtown Montreal. …

WHIRLWIND

It was getting very late, and the

darker it got on the long winding road

between Windsor and Middleton in Nova

Scotia, Nancy’s nervousness became more

apparent. Middleton was only about eighty-

nine kilometres away, and the trip usually

took them about an hour, but at this point,

the amount of time spent on the road was

of little or no consequence to Nancy. She

mercilessly squeezed her hands, as her

knuckles turned snow white, revealing dark

and very unsightly purple veins bulging on

the back of her palms. She hated driving



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at night, but this was no ordinary trip.

Roland’s mother was dying, and they had to

get to Middleton before it was too late.

Nancy grew up in Mississauga,

Ontario, and moved to Halifax when she was

thirteen years old. Her mother was a very

successful private investment banker, and

her father, a renowned Neuroscientist and

full Professor at University of Toronto.

She and her parents spent a lot of time at

their ranch located only a few kilometres

outside of Mississauga, where Nancy loved

to ride her little pony. Her dad was an

avid equestrian, and taught his daughter

to ride a pony at a very young age. One

Saturday evening at the cottage, little

Nancy came down with a blinding headache

out of the blue. Her mom gave her some

pills but by nightfall, she was running a

very high fever. Her parents decided to

head back to town, to take Nancy straight

to the hospital. They quickly piled into

their blue minivan, with Nancy fastened

securely in the third row seat, and headed

back towards highway 401. …



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DECEPTION

As he lay in the maze waiting for

the sun to set, Rick stared at the clear

blue sky high above him, idly chewing on a

straw of wheat that he had plucked from

the tall dry mixed grass on his father’s

huge ranch in Redwater, Alberta. Life on

the ranch was very hectic, but Rick loved

every minute of it. The 2024 acres of land

that his father had inherited from his own

father comprised of rich and abundant

nutritious grasses, hundreds of cattle, a

large chicken barn and a few cottages, all

neatly enclosed in a huge perimeter of

wooden fence. After a long hard day of

labour, the little spare time that Rick

could afford, he spent it lying down on

his favourite patch in the huge maze,

gazing at the skies. He loved watching the

birds flying synchronously in the sky, the

clouds swirling in slow motion, and the

large bright orange sun shining above him.

The sun dance as he called it fascinated

Rick. It began as the sun slowly weaved

its way purposefully towards the East,

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reappeared briefly, only to disappear once

again behind the thick clouds.

Rick’s father, an imposing figure

named Patrick, had fathered two boys and

seven girls with his beautiful wife

Margaret, the only daughter of his late

father’s best friend, Joshua. As first son

of his family, Rick was the natural heir

to the vast ranch. Upon the death of his

father, he would become responsible for

the entire family. …

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