Jeff finds himself in Silicon Valley where he is asked to investigate claims by a gregarious Frenchman that his neural network electronic technology actually works. He meets up again with the enchanting Nancy, the FBI agent he had worked with in Atlanta where they fell in love while he was still married, and again in Washington DC Kathy puts romance back into Jeff’s life as he finds himself hounded by financially-desperate Europeans so determined to push their questionable technology―men so desperate that they will stop at nothing, even Jeff’s murder. The excitement will make the reader gasp, tragedy will make the reader cry, romance will make the reader sigh.
Chapter 23 of Silicon Gulch … Kathy gets naked!
Thursday 5:58 PM: Get a Clue
Jeff plays Clue with Kathy and the kids, then they send out for Chinese food. The Chinese men delivering the food recognize Jeff from when he confronted a racist man in the hotel elevator. Suddenly Kathy is naked!
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Thursday
5:58 PM: Get a Clue
"Aunt
Kathy ! It's your turn!"
"Mom!"
They both pulled back from each other abruptly, straightening their clothes,
he reached forward patting down her hair.
She leaned forward, "Uh. Uh yes. We just started playing Clue, want
to come join us?"
Jeff looked down at the flowers laying on the little table, his habits
urgently wanting him to put them in water but he realized it was hopeless.
He turned to her, "Okay, sounds like fun," she took him by the
hand leading him around the corner. There were three young kids laying on their
stomachs surrounding a Clue game
board.
"Guys, this is Jeff," Kathy
proclaimed. The kids rolled to their sides or looked up in attention. "Jeff,
this is my daughter Hannah." Jeff reached down shaking her offered finger
tips, she gave a small embarrassed titter.
"Nice to meet you Hannah, I have kids about your age."
"Really? How old?"
"I have an eight year-old son and a twelve year-old daughter."
"That's not my age."
"H-a-n-n-a-h!" Kathy
smiled in a mild scold.
"I said about your age. It's nice to meet you Hannah." Jeff turned to
the other two, "And who do we have here?"
"These is my niece Cloe, she is Hannah's age, and her brother
Scooter."
"Scooter?" Jeff smiled.
"Scott," the young man piped up, "but my best friend
since preschool is named Scott so everyone calls me Scooter."
"Well, Scooter, my son is named Scott."
"Yeah, well don't call him Scooter, that name is already taken!"
everyone laughed.
"Come on," Kathy
poked at Jeff's arm, "get your coat and shoes off and play with us!"
"Absolutely!" He kicked his shoes off, pushing them into a
corner with his feet, pulling off his coat.
"Here, let me take that!"
Kathy reached for his coat. He
handed it to her. She held it, weighing it in her hands, turned, "I will put
it in the entry closet," before Jeff could stop her to say that he would
do it she was already at the closet directly across from the door he came in,
opening the closet door pulling a hanger out, putting it away.
Jeff got down sitting Indian style, the kids skooching around the board
to make room. Kathy sat on Jeff's
left the same way.
Hannah looked up to her mother, "Mom, your hair is all mussed!"
Kathy glanced at Jeff who shrugged should
have done a better job, huh?
Jeff reached over patting down the right side of Kathy's hair.
"Okay kids, yes, Jeff and I…well we like each other, okay?"
The kids' interest in this lasted about one millisecond, Cloe saying, "Okay
Jeff, we've only had two rolls so we'll just let you roll twice. Who do you
want to be?"
"Who is there? It's been a while since I played this game, so you
might have to help me."
"Well," Hannah started, "I think you should be Professor
Plum."
"I'm Miss Scarlet!" Kathy
smiled, "Professor Plum would be very
apropos for you. Yes, you be Professor Plum."
"So someone give me a quick explanation of the game."
Scooter now piped up, "Well, you see there are all these room. You
have to roll the dice to go around to the rooms to find the murder weapon. The
weapons are a dagger, rope, lead pipe, candlestick, gun―"
"Revolver!" Hannah corrected.
"Yeah whatever Hannah, a
revolver is a gun! Anyway," with a mock scowl to Hannah, "and a
wrench."
"What? No poison?" Jeff laughed.
"So it's your turn!" Hannah said setting the Professor Plum
piece onto the board. "You need to roll twice to catch up to us."
Jeff leaned over the board rolling twice, moving his piece becoming part
of the game. He really enjoyed the high spirits of the children and Kathy's
loving manner. He watched her trying to imagine her with Nicole and Scott. She
would turn to him every so often, putting her hand on his left knee until her
turn to roll the dice.
He watched this amazing woman noticing in this light that her eyes were
not just a deep deep chocolate. In this light he could see a bright green ring
around the chocolate in each eye, green that worked to corral the fire that he
could see glinting from the darkness of the deep colors. Her hair was shorter
than last time he saw her, cut neatly into a rounded loop that touched the back
of her neck. He looked at this laughing face, cajoling with him and the
children. He saw perfection. Those wonderful small creases that framed her wide
smile, her perfect nose, her perfectly rounded eyebrows that followed the lines
of her eyes so closely, her eyelids that framed those wonderful brown and green
circles that called to him.
Called to his heart.
The children laughed rolling dice, moving pieces, idle chatter filling
the tall room, the sloping ceiling of the living room, bouncing from the walls
meeting the last giggle midair with tiny fireworks explosions of the joy in the
room.
He felt a closeness to this woman that he never felt with Nancy Nancy 's eyes today he realized that Nancy
"Yooo-hoooo!"
Jeff was suddenly yanked back to the room by the banshee cry, Kathy plunking her Miss Scarlet playing piece into
the winning spot. She jumped up with her arms in the air, "Miss Scarlet
with the revolver!"
"Yeeeeeeeeee!" the girls jumped up dancing around the room with
Kathy celebrating the victory.
Scooter sat laying on his stomach with a discouraged face.
"What's wrong Scooter?"
"I was only one roll from winning."
"That's okay, look at me, the total loser," Jeff pointed to
poor Professor Plum who could only ever seem to roll ones and twos.
Scooter's face brightened, "Yeah, I guess at least I didn't lose."
Jeff held out his hand, Scooter took it, they shook firmly, "Here's
to winning next time!" Scooter rounded himself to sit up with a resolved
smile.
"Yeah, next time!"
"Okay guys, you need to get ready. Hannah, do you have your bag?"
"It's upstairs, I'll go get it!" Hannah rounded the corner
into the hall out of sight.
Jeff stood up stretching to get the kinks out of his legs from sitting
on the floor, "What's the plan?"
Jeff smiled feeling a definite
rise between his thighs worrying that rise may just be showing itself off,
hoping he was just imagining it. Kathy's glance down below Jeff's belt told him
that he was definitely not imagining
it.
"Hold on." Kathy
walked to the dining nook where a princess phone was sitting. She rifled
through some papers, pushing buttons on the phone looking to him, "Chinese,
can I just order or is there something you want."
"I like at least one dish hot and spicy."
"Me too!" she turned back to the wall hearing her ordering.
Hannah came down holding an overnight bag, setting it by the door.
Just as Kathy hung up the phone the doorbell rang.
"It's mom!" Cloe yelled
running for the door, "I can hardly wait for her to meet Aunt Kathy's new boyfriend!" a chorus of "Ooooooooo,"
emerged again from three chiding faces.
A second later a woman who was Kathy's exact copy with different
clothes, longer hair, emerged into the living room, her eyes already giving Jeff
a thorough examination.
Jeff held out his hand but the woman held back with a stern look, not
finished yet with her spit roasting the image in front of her, an awkward
moment of silence ensued.
Finally Theresa held her hand out, "Jeff, nice to meet you. I have
heard so much about you."
Jeff flashed confused at Kathy
who gave a gentle smile back to him, "Yes, I told her we met in Washington DC
Theresa's face suddenly lifted into a smile, "Yes, that's so
romantic. Met once, separated by a year, then fortune throws you two together
again!"
Jeff finally found his segue, smiling, looking to Theresa, "Don't
believe it, this woman can be very romantic!"
"Boy I'll say. Having me take Hannah on a school night?"
Jeff felt his face flush.
"Look Kathy ,"
Theresa turned away, "can we talk about this weekend?"
"Come on, I'll walk you guys out." Turning toward the door she
looked back at Jeff, "Jeff honey, we'll just be a minute."
She walked up to the kids with her arms out, "Okay, guys, it's a
school night, and I believe Hannah still has homework."
"It's all done mom!" Hannah protested.
"We'll let your aunt be the judge of that."
"Come on guys," Theresa called out, "McDonald's tonight,
let's go!"
A chorus of "Oh, boy McDonald's!" rang out with high-pitched
eagerness amid four herding arms.
He heard Kathy call out from
around the corner, "Jeff, I'm going to walk them out, I'll be right back."
Jeff heard the door close. The room became quiet.
He sat down on the couch. Somehow he thought that his mind would be
clear. Here he was, finally going to be alone with this enigmatic woman in this
relationship that was still a mystery to him. How could they go from dismissing
each other at that singles mixer in Washington
DC
Why was he so attracted to her?
He suddenly had the feeling that all the women in his life were circling
around him. Nancy, his wife, Kathy ,
Lin the congresswoman even. Maybe even throw Paula into the mix! Like they were
all somehow in cahoots. He imagined the phone ringing off the hook between them
while they plotted what do we do about
Jeff?
A minute later he heard the door open then close, the sound of the
double-lock clicking. A second later she appeared in front of him, he looked up
to her.
"Can you believe this? Finally!"
He patted the couch, she sat down next to him, leaning back together,
her head on his right shoulder. They sat for a minute in silence.
Looking to his right at the head resting on his shoulder he caught that
faint fragrance again. He realized it wasn't perfume, it was the aura of Kathy . "You smell nice."
She gave a small chuckle, "You smell like sweat. Did you have a
hard day?"
He didn't answer shaking his head slowly.
"Jeff, this is soooooo nice."
"You know, after DC, I would never have thought that we would get
this. You and me."
"Yes, who woulda thunk?"
He nodded.
"I've never wanted Chinese
delivery to be faster!" they both laughed.
The doorbell rang, she jumped up, "That wasn't too bad,"
reaching for her purse.
He stood, "I can get that, where's my coat?"
"No, my treat!" She stepped around the corner with him behind
her as she opened the door.
Jeff looked over her shoulder at two Chinese men in the porch light, a
younger man and older man. Suddenly the older man pointed to Jeff speaking
excitedly in Chinese to the other man who turned to him and they carried on a
short conversation more than once pointing to Jeff.
This site was baffling, Jeff stepping around Kathy to the men. The
younger man turned to Jeff. "I am sorry sir, but this is my uncle. He has
come to visit us from China
Jeff paused, remembering, "Oh, yeah, right, just a racist prick.
But I wasn't going to let it pass. Tell him I'm sorry that happened."
The younger man turned back to the older man speaking in Chinese, the
older man smiled, replying. "He says he wishes there were more brave men
like you, that the world would be a better place."
"Look, anyone would have done it. Really it was no big deal."
"Listen, let me tell you that anyone would not have done it, that
took courage and I thank you for my uncle, for my family." He held up two
big plastic bags filled with little white cartons, "I insist that you have
this food for free. It is the least we can do to thank you."
Jeff held up his hands, then reaching for the bags, "Like I said,
it was no big deal, and I insist we pay
for this food." The young man seemed hesitant, looking to the older man,
Jeff thinking of a tactic, "It is a matter of honor for me to pay for this
food."
The younger man spoke to the older man again who nodded slowly, finally
concurring. "He says that if it a matter of honor then we will accept your
money, but with our sincere thanks."
Jeff turned to Kathy watching
this whole interchange with a blank expression looking back and forth between
the faces before her. He touched her elbow, she came back to the moment holding
out the money in her hand.
Thanking them Jeff took the bags, nodding closing the door, turning to
her. "What was that all about?"
"On the elevator, in the hotel. Some prick was pretty rude to them
and I didn't let it pass. That's all. No big deal, really. Turns out the guy
had a huge chip on his shoulder."
She stood shaking her head, "Mister
Jeff, you are full of surprises."
He suddenly really wanted this behind him, holding the bags up dangling
from his hands, "Wow, did you get enough food?"
"Hey, I figured we are going to be really working some calories off
here!" Jeff feeling the rise between his thighs again. She leaned kissing
him, "But I meant it. You are one amazing
man!" Cooing, "And I am so
glad you are here."
She set the bags down on the dining table, he sat back on the coach, his
back to her sitting patiently waiting for the sound of rustling bags. He heard
a soft rustling, but it did not sound like plastic.
He turned in his seat to look back at Kathy
standing next to two plastic bags, the only thing she was wearing was an enormous
smile. She stood there, her hands out to her sides, turned toward him, her
naked beauty in full view.
"We have a lot of eggshells to crush, get over here!"
Jeff stood up vaulting over the couch, she laughed embracing in a deep
passionate kiss, "Oh, Jeff, I have waited my whole life for this."
Those words flowed through him tickling his insides.
"You have way too many clothes on," she laughed, four hands
pawing at Jeff's clothes until he was standing wearing only his underwear, "Yoo-hoo!
Black underwear! Yes I remember! Sexy!" a second later he stood wearing
only two things, the same enormous smile and an enormous hard-on.
She pulled him playfully by the hand leading him down the hallway, up
the stairs, left to the master bedroom, filled with the soft light from the
bedside lamp, the covers pulled back.
He laughed, "It looks like you were expecting company!"
"Yes, company that I have waited for my whole life."
She stopped, turning to him at the bed, they stood holding each other's
hands. In this soft light he couldn't see those wonderful green rings circling
the chocolate circles in her eyes, but he knew they were there. Waiting to take
him into their secret little circle, anxious to have him swimming in the mystery
of this beautiful woman's eyes. Reaching to pull his watch off, she set it on
the nightstand.
"Yes," she said pulling him onto the bed, "I have waited
for this moment."
He smiled, "Yes. Like you I have waited my whole life."
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