Victoriously Yours,

Rurally Yours

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"This is bad. Seriously bad." River hissed at her wide-eyed friend who was staring through the cage they were held in.

Christopher didn't seem to hear her. He was too busy observing the tall males carrying them through the leafy heavy vegetation arching over them.

She clenched her jaw, as she glared at his ignorance. Christopher had been a good buddy of hers until her lusty feelings for him caught up with her. Unrequited lusty feelings.

She did have an agenda to change them into requited ones by signing up to be his guide trail into the deepest section of the Amazon where no mortals have gone and it was unheard of.

She was a heck of a guide, though. In truth, she could have resisted the job. She had enough money stashed away in the bank and her life was just about as good as it gets.

However, she had a nose for adventure. The thrill of seeking the unknown that made her accept Chris's generous offer and the fact she wanted to have him.

The tall lean blond was sexy as the nerds with the geek glasses could get with their heads all piled under a buttload of books.

Also, the fact she was treated not any different than he did with his friends. At first, she thought he had been playing-hard-to-get only to find out he was hardly-in-the-mood-to-get.

River didn't catch feelings as such. It's probably because of the unending loveless marriage she had seen in her parents. They had remain together for all these years with all the cheating, the lying, and the love forgotten.

Her parents may love her and probably because of her that they still stayed together in the farce of this marriage but it didn't fool River.

She knew love had its expiry date.

At the age eighteen, she moved from Rio to Belém, Brazil where the Amazon Basin wasn't a walk in the park and she started to work under a man called Tiger who taught her everything she needed to know about the mysterious river.

When she heard Chris's proposal of his course, she knew it would spike her thirst for this extraordinary expedition.

However, the place where this lead wasn't all that appealing and dangers lurked.

It was far interior and north deep into the Amazon forest. The inland they were headed would take weeks and it was about a two or three months to trek and if they do happen to find it, another more months and she was the only one who has to see through it that he gets back.

All the others guides had refused poor Chris and he had come back to her with a tail between his legs.

She had been available and the offer was hard to ignore. Three thousand dollars a week. In hard cold cash. Roughly amounted to twenty, three thousand of dollars. Ka-Ching!

Plus, he paid for all the supplies. They didn't get extra help because all of them didn't know the course up there and refused to go.

So, of course this added to her brownie points in Chris's book. If she managed to do this, she can have him right at her meeting point and then refuse him.

As much as she gets tantalized by men, she backs away when it's the real deal. She didn't know why she did that but it was her whacko brain that won't allow her to sleep with anyone.