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 26 of Silicon Gulch … Jeff has doubts about everything
Friday 4:26 AM: Doubts
Kathy and Jeff are driven back to his hotel room. He awakens in the middle of the night wondering at the events of the week, at the woman sleeping before him. Suddenly he is filled with doubts when Kathy wakes and assures him that she loves him.
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Friday
4:26 AM: Doubts
Jeff awoke startled!
He looked around the darkened room, the curtain drawn, no daylight around
its edges. He sat up, looked at the clock. Four twenty-six. He had not even
been asleep an hour. He looked to his right seeing Kathy's form in the dark,
her soft regular breathing a peaceful song in the room.
Carefully sliding out of bed he went around it to the big corner chair,
turned it quietly back to the room.
He lay back in the big chair marveling at all that had happened to him
this week. Remembering Atlanta Nancy
He watched the dark form laying in the bed feeling wonder that his life
finally seemed to have direction. There was no question. He was absolutely
head-over-heals in love with this woman, yet he worried that he had felt the
same with Nancy
And how could Kathy , from
just their few meetings be so determined that he was the one? He suddenly felt terrified that this woman did not
love him. That he would wake up and she would be gone. Or that she would come
to treat him…
Jeff wondered at Ted. Dead. Mary. Her daughter. How is it that such bad
things happen to such good people? There is no fairness in this world. There is
only randomness. Every attempt we try to rebuff the forces of nature, the
forces of fate. Religion, politics, our saviors from disorder are cast onto the
ground by a cruel hand that mocks the human predicament in robust laughter with
tragedy as its honed weapon.
Tragedy. It is the unwanted friend of our existence. Our constant
companion. It is the random force that casts its evil eye on every living soul,
waiting for the moment to remove that soul faster than a heartbeat.
We laugh at it only the good die
young as one way to deal. We pray. We hope. We cry out. A heartbeat later
one of us is gone.
And to love. How could he go from his adoring twenty-one year-old wife, all
those years believing that she was one with him? Now to find out that she had
been unhappy for years while he
lah-de-dah'd through their marriage believing everything was fine. A bump in
the road here, a sharp turn there, that was just how marriages worked.
They were a team! Connected.
But they weren't connected. He had been living a lie, he was the butt of
the joke that his wife was just going through the motions. How many times had
he felt that moment of sexual ecstasy while she was just watching the door? It
was a fraud. And he never knew. Nancy
He laughed to himself sadly that his life was surrounded by fraud. His
wife. Nancy
Now he was going to give his heart again.
He didn't know where the doubts were coming from.
Yes. Yes he did.
How many times had he dreamed of Nancy Atlanta
Now he was giving his heart again.
How was this different? He shook his head in the dark knowing that he
didn't know.
Knowing that it could happen again.
He didn't care.
He was ready to give his heart again.
"Jeff?" He peered through the darkness seeing Kathy sitting up, "What is it honey?"
The word honey saddened him
for an instant, trying to unravel his brain filled with sharp corners flying in
a whirlwind banging against the backs of his eyes, tearing across his ears
until he could only hear the sharp scraping of metal inside his skull. How that
word was a sweet poison to him with Donna; how many times had he heard that
word, that saccharine sweet word while she was waiting, waiting, waiting for
the right moment to go find who she was.
To abandon him.
Suddenly he looked down to Kathy's sweet face, kneeled before him. "Honey,
what is it?"
And now honey was suddenly uplifting
feeling his hands reaching into his head, transforming through his skull to
caress his mind, to pull it back into the reality of the adoring face in front
of him.
"Jeff what is it? What is it honey? Is there anything I can do?"
"You really do love me, don't you?"
Even in the scant light he could see her face warm with love.
Shaking her head with an ironic smile, "No, I think you're an idiot
for being up like this. How can I love a man who doesn't have the sense to lay
down with me?" She pulled at him, "Come on, I know that your brain
must be stuffed with a thousand pictures. Honey," she stroked his cheek, "I
wish I could reach in there and pull them out." He marveled that this
woman had seen inside his head with the sharp shapes whirling around. "Maybe
I need a Jeff-brain vacuum cleaner." She pulled at him again, "Please,
come lay down with me."
He stood up, she pulled him to the bed laying him down. She lay next to
him caressing his face. "You are the most amazing man, the most amazing
person I have ever met. I cannot believe that you have been given to me. You
and Hannah are the most precious people in my life. You were so amazing with
her. I thought I loved you before tonight. Jeff, you have stretched my ability
to love, I never knew I could love a man this much." He could hear a sniff
in the darkness, "I never knew a man could love me this much."
Reaching to her in the darkness he sighed. He felt like his heart was
going to explode out of his chest.
She stood up. Even in the darkness he could see her pulling her
nightgown up over her head, crawling onto the bed pulling down his black
underwear she reached down to slide his hardness into her, laying on top of
him, kissing his face with no movement to their bodies laying inside of her, laying
like this for minutes, her breath slowly quickening, she raised herself up again,
her slow gentle sweep bringing them
to ecstasy.
The only thought that Jeff could remember was how all that open-door
pissing good luck had come to reality.
They made love until dawn.
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