Mack

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing, I just hate walking around with this stuff on me. They are going to know what we were doing in there. It’s just so…”

She didn’t finish the sentence, but I knew what the matter with her was. It hadn’t been the first time that she had been a little shy after going off like a geyser and I loved to see her like this. I would leave it on me all day, all of the time. It made me think of her and it was no different now. I didn’t realize it before, but I had really needed that. I’d needed her and what I could do to her. I wanted her pleased and she was. It was all that was required to make me want her as mine again.

“It’s hot as fuck. I’ve told you that before, but you never believed me and yeah, they heard you. You were screaming pretty damn loud there Danny. I missed that. I always knew when you were satisfied. I never had to guess.”

“I suppose not since you are wearing it. You sure you don’t want to get something else to wear as well?”

I had extra suits in a small closet in the back of the plane. It wasn’t for instances like this, but for when I needed to be fresh for work. I wouldn’t say that the plane wasn’t already christened, but hell it hadn’t gotten the bathing it did today. I already told the attendant that I needed the spot cleaned. I don’t think Danny would ever know how sexy I thought it was. She was convinced that it was wrong. If it was, I didn’t want to be right.

“No, it will be okay. I like having a bit of you on me.”

She groaned and looked away. I loved how worked up she got about it. She was hard to come to grips with and now I knew that I was in for it. How could I not be? Danny always was a one of a kind woman. I’d looked for her equivalent for years subconsciously and I still had not to find one that was anywhere near like her. She was one all her own and she was going to be mine again.

“God Mack, really?” Danny asked exasperated.

“Yeah, really. You never will get how damn turned on you make me and when you soak me like that. Fuck it’s just hot as hell. I want to do it over and over again. I want to do it right here in the car.”

She moved over a little further from me and it made me laugh. “I’ll let you get something to eat first.”

“I would laugh if I thought that you were joking, but I have a feeling that you’re not.”

I didn’t answer her one way or another. This was something about me that hadn’t changed and the fact that I never tired of her was one of them. I’d fooled myself all of these years, telling myself that it wasn’t as good as I remembered, but damn if I was wrong.

***

The restaurant was just as I remembered it and it impressed Danny. She wasn’t impressed by planes and money, but give her a good blackened shrimp and suddenly she was.

I don’t know if it was the food or the love making, but something had changed in her and I was glad to see it. I knew in the end that this was going to have to go somewhere, it always did, but for the moment I was just content to watch her. The smile that I’d missed so much was on her face and I knew that it was going to be something that I always remembered, no matter what happened between us.

My mind was back in some kind of twilight zone and I was doing my best to keep it together. Every flash of her smile threw me off and eventually when I got her out of there, I didn’t even notice the two men that had been watching us. I saw them on my way out, made a mental note of their appearance, but it was quickly forgotten when we got into the car and Danny touched my thigh. It all went out the window there. I certainly wasn’t a very good business man when she was around.

The flight back was more of the same and I don’t remember when we actually touched down. The two of us stayed in the plane for quite some time. Everyone was gone by the time I was able to surface enough and look around.

“Where did everyone go?”

“I didn’t know how wet you would get us, so I figured that you would want to leave alone. It should only be Ernest that is left and he won’t say a word and doesn’t see anything.”

She gave me a doubtful look, but I knew that it was enough for her. Danny had covered us both again and we had a wet ride home. She smacked my hand back once, telling me no more because she was sore.

“Are you sure you don’t want to come just one more time?”

I was already eying her and she shook her head quickly, telling me that she didn’t want that at all. Her answer was so quick that it made me laugh. I didn’t know what to think about Danny as I dropped her off. We were now in the grey area that I hadn’t navigated before.

“Take me home Ernest. I can’t sleep another night in that hotel. I need my bed after today.”

“Do you think that is wise?”

I was not sure what he was talking about and I asked him.

“Well we’ve had a trail since the airport when we first arrived. I thought you knew. You always track them way before I do.”

I was alarmed at his words and not sure what to say about it. I didn’t know that we had a tail, especially since we first touched down in New Orleans. If they were going across state lines like that, it meant only one thing and I didn’t even want to think about it.

For once in my life, once in a very long time, I was unsure how to go forward. We were sitting in the car in front of Danny’s house and that fact made me even more nervous.

“Let’s get on the interstate and we can drop them after a few exits. I don’t want them coming back here.”

As I said it, I knew that they would. There were things about me that I didn’t want Danny to know about. She didn’t have the tolerance for certain things; she was a school teacher for God’s sake.