Chapter 5
Colt
“Why do you look like you're about to puke Sir?”
I looked over at Ralph and told him to shut up. I don't know why I was nervous. I was never nervous, but the idea of seeing Candy again had my nerves wracked. I had somehow weaseled a weekend with her, even though I had plenty to do at work, I called my boss and told him that I wasn't going to make it in. I told him that I had a family emergency and he didn't ask any more questions. He didn't want to know, and I didn't want to tell him.
Now, it was about 15 minutes before I had to leave for the airport and I couldn't find the right tie. I had tried on several and none of them seem to be right. Nothing seems to be right and finally I just sat down on the bench in the closet and looked around.
“I am not trying to be an ass. Sir. I am just trying to understand what is going on. I never knew you had a bride.”
“We got married years ago and she was the only girl that was gone before I woke up. Kind of ironic isn't it? The one girl that didn’t stay is the one that I can't get off of my mind. I wonder if she would have stayed and we would've had that morning conversation, if everything would have changed. Now, I will find out.”
“Do you think that is wise?”
I certainly didn't think it was a good idea, but before I walked away from Candy for good, I had to know why I thought about her all the time. If I see her in the morning light, I was sure that everything would change. It always did.
“I think that this is what I have to do.”
“And what if you still feel the same way in the morning?”
It was a question that I hadn't even asked myself because I didn't believe it was possible. I had been with a lot of women before and after Candy and none of them made it through the morning. I don't think they can do it as well, but for some reason I was still trembling a little inside. While she may have been a mystery to me at the moment, she impressed me enough that I somehow dragged her to a little chapel to marry her. That certainly never happened before, and I've always lived in Las Vegas, surrounded by tiny little chapels. Never once had I felt the need before.
“So, what is your plan?”
I shrugged my shoulders because I really wasn’t sure. I had heard her voice on the phone and knew that I wanted to talk to her and I wanted to see her, so it just came to mind. I had no real plan in place at all.
“I am going to do what I do every night Ralph. This time is just going to be with my wife.”
He laughed at my words and they sounded funny to me as well. I never thought I would say something like that out loud. I was definitely in uncharted territory and I wasn't sure how is all going to work out. But, Candy was on her way and I was just going to have to see how it all worked out.
The driver was out front waiting for me and I told him to go to the airport.
“Why are we going Sir?”
“We are going to pick somebody up. I do not have a trip scheduled for a while.”
He shook his head and agreed. He had my latest schedule, so he would know better than I would where I was going and when.
“Who are we picking up?”
I was starting to think that I was a bit too candid with the help. Either that, or everyone was just in my business today. I usually didn't mind because it didn’t matter, but things were somehow different with Candy.
“We are picking up my wife Ernest. So, let's make sure that were not late. Have to make a call now.”
I raised the screen that separated us and pulled out my phone. If nothing else, I was satisfied with a look on his face of shock. It was much like Ralph had acted, and it made me wonder how hard it would be for them to believe that I was married. I certainly didn't act married, but that was because my bride took off before we could get to that part. That was certainly not something that I was going to admit to out loud.
I checked a couple messages and sent out a few emails while we drove to the airport. I needed to keep myself busy so that I wasn't thinking about what was going to happen next. Not that worry was going to help anything, and I wanted to keep it cool and collected when I was around Candy. When I had talked to her on the phone, she had sounded like a no-nonsense sort of woman and I didn't want her to get the wrong idea. I didn’t remember that about her, but it had been years since we spent that night together.
When we pulled up in front of the airport, I looked up at the building and wondered how all of this was going to turn out. There was also the question of if I would even recognize her. It had been quite a long time after all, but I knew deep down that she hadn't changed at all. She was just going to be as smoking hot as she was before.
“Do you want me to go in and get her?”
It was something that Ernest did on occasion, but today was not going to be that day. I wanted to be the first want to see her and I didn't want anyone that I know around, when I met her for the first time. I think that the reaction that we were going to make should be little more private, surrounded by strangers that we would never have to see again.
I took a minute to collect myself before I got out of the car. I kept telling myself that there was no need to worry, because whatever was going to happen, was going to happen. It was easier said than done though.
At the moment, my mind was ticking with ideas and finally I started walking towards the airport, not looking back. I had already shown too much to Ernest and I wished that I had been better able to control my emotions and my reaction. This was the very reason that I had to go alone and do this.
The airport was crowded of course, and I didn't see her right away. I didn't know what she was wearing and even though I knew what terminal she had come out of, there were still a lot of people loitering around for the next flight that made it impossible to find any one. I knew that the only way I was going to be able to decipher her from the rest of the people was to look for her hair. Candy had the brightest, natural red hair that I had ever seen, and it wasn't a color that was going to change. It also wasn’t a color that anyone else would have.
I was almost ready to give up and call her, when I saw flash of red in the corner of my eye. She was a little distance away from me and she didn't know I was standing there. It was the first time that I wondered how much I had changed. I was so worried about her changes, that I didn't think about my own.
She was as tall as I remembered and there was a grace in her step that I knew well. I didn’t have to be close to know that it was her. Somehow, I had known that she wasn’t going to change. The woman was a force of nature and I didn’t think that anyone would be able to change her. She was just as beautiful as before and I was sure that all of this was supposed to happen.
When she turned around and looked my way, I could tell that she still couldn’t see me. She walked right past me and I wondered again if I had changed. Here I was worried about her, but she walked right past me.
I said her name out loud as she was passing, and her head whipped around. She saw me now.
“There you are Colt.”
The smile on her face was rather tight and I could tell that she wasn’t all that enthused to see me. I suppose not, but I was ready to see her. I pulled her in for an embrace and though she was stiff in my arms, I knew that I was going to loosen her up over the weekend. People that had sex like us didn’t forget about it. I was hoping that she would be on the same page, but then she pulled away.
“Let’s get this over with.”
I didn’t like the sound of that at all. I didn’t want to get over her. That’s why she was here and why I was going to try and make it work. I was sure that I could. I just needed a couple of days and I’d bought myself that.