Once the drugs got out of my system, I saw the error in my way of living. I decided I had enough money put back that I could run away with Sherri. I packed our bags however; Joe caught me before we could leave. I got a beating for trying to leave him and a warning from him.
“Joe, threaten Sherri if I did not do as he saw fit,” “I made a deal with him that I would obey if he left Sherri out of all this,” I explained. “I use to fear what he would do to her so much that I used to lock her in her bedroom at night,” I added crying. “I had no choice John please understand that,” “I felt bad each time I turned the key locking her behind that door but at least I knew she was safe from him,” I added.
John wrapped his arm around me as he asked, “Kay, why in gods name did you not just leave?”
“I knew not where to run and hide.” “I was afraid of what he would do to Sherri.” I replied. “Joe got in trouble out there and the police wanted him as well as other bad men,” I added.
I explained how Joe had me meeting someone that night. I locked her safely in her bedroom before I left. I came home that night to find Sherri’s door pushed in but still locked. I unlocked her door to find her hiding in the corner. I ran to her taking her into my arms. I held her tightly as she wrapped her little arms around my neck.
“Make the bad man go away,” Please make him go away,” Sherri screamed as I held her.
“HEY BITCH,” Joe yelled.
I explained to John how I thought that was the end of both of our lives. I told him how I took Sherri into my arms burying her face into my shoulder as Joe reached in his backpack. I knew he kept his gun in there so I figured he was going to shoot us both. However, instead of gunshots I heard his motorcycle leaving. I grabbed Sherri and we ran to the airport as I had just enough money put back to fly us back to my mom’s.
“John, I understand if you were to ask Sherri and me to leave and all I can say to you is that I am sorry.” I said to him looking deeply into his eyes so he could see the fear I had in them of him doing just that.
John wrapped both his arms around me pulling my head into his chest as he replied, “Close your eyes and I will close mine,” “I have you in our happy place.” “Feel the warmth of the sun that day as I held you tightly in my arms.” “As I held you that day I heard two hearts beating as one.”
John went on saying, “Know that we all have hidden pasts some good, some bad,” “But we do not live in the past, we live for the present.” “Know also I fell in love with you not the other you,” “I promise to you that it is me who loves you and not that other me that lives within.” “Kay, I love you only because it is you.”
“It is I the true me that loves you John,” I replied to him before I laid my head to his chest. “There I told him,” I added talking into his chest.
“Just who were you talking to when you said there I told him?” John asked.
“That lovely girl I share your heart with as well as our home,” “The Angel Carrie that is who,” I replied lifting my head from his chest while rubbing my hand on his heart.
John kissed me deeply and with passion before I broke our kiss as I said, “I have to go call Cathy.”
“Why is that?” John asked.
“She threatened to never see me or us again if I did not tell you the truth,” I replied to him.
John smiled as he said, “I am getting to like that girl more and more.”
He walked me into the house and as I called Cathy, he went to pick Sherri up at school. I explained to Cathy that I had told him the truth about everything. She asked me if I felt better. I told her I did, as I did feel better at least for now.
Later that night as John and I lie in bed I said. “You know a hot tub would be nice.”
“You will have the biggest and the best here by the weekend,” John replied taking me into his arms.
John kept his word as the next day the tub arrived and his crew put it together. I did notice one troubling fact as I watched them putting it together. John seemed to yell a lot at his crew however, he would pull that person to the side and talk for a few seconds then shake his hand before they went back to work.
I asked John about it midweek and he told me he had a project on his mind that was causing him some problems. He told me he has been taking it out on his crew. He told me his problems would soon be over and they were used to it by now.
“John, can I help you with that problem,” I asked.
“No, Kay I don’t think you could,” John replied.
“I understand John I am not as smart as you,” I said walking away from him.
“Kay, that is not what I meant,” John yelled to me.
“I know John,” I replied turning to him before walking on into the house.
I sat in the kitchen watching them work. I thought about how I was not as smart, as wise as John was. I had sat with him many times, as he had talked to some clients but I had never done anything more than clean his office. I wanted to do more than being the housekeeper. However, I did not know how to tell him that.
Thursday night in bed, John told me I would have to ride to school with Cathy Friday. He told me he had to stop at his office and that he might be late getting to school as well. I could see the look of concern in his eyes. I asked him again if there was anyway I could help.
“No Kay you would not know what to do,” John replied.
I lie in his arms wondering if he had just told me I was dumb or something. I might not have the smarts he did but I did have some brains. I fell asleep and when I woke up John was already gone. Cathy picked me up and we went to school.
I went to my first few classes before John came walking into class. I asked him if everything was all right at his office. He told me it was as Frank his partner had handled it.
“I got with Frank to set up an appointment with an important client,” John said to me. “Been trying to pitch him a deal on building his line of car washes around town for some time now,” he added.
“Oh I see,” I replied softly.
“You will be making the new pitch to him Wednesday at 11:00 am,” John said looking at me.
“Me, but you’re going to be there as well right,” I replied.
“I will be there but not in the meeting this client is all yours,” John said to me.
“What if I…” I started to say to him.
John placed his finger to my lips as he said, “Don’t worry you will be just fine.”
John walked Cathy and me to her car after school. At Cathy’s car, he took a hold of Cathy’s hand. He looked at me smiling then turned back to Cathy.
“I just wanted to tell you that our house is your house,” “You are welcomed to come and go as you please,” “We both would like to share our hearts as well as our home with you,” John said to Cathy.
Cathy brought her hand to the side of John’s face. His eyes opened wide as they filled with the brightest blue I had ever seen in his eyes. His eyes filled with that far away look in them as he looked at Cathy.
“Thank you John, for making me feel welcomed as well as loved,” Cathy replied rubbing her hand to his face.
John froze as she rubbed her hand on his face. They stared into each other’s eyes. Cathy removed her hand and John gave his head a little shake. Before he told us, he would see us at home after he stopped at his office.
As Cathy’s drove me home I said, “John really likes you,” “I think you are Carrie to him sometimes.”
“Nonsense Kay, Carrie is gone and forgotten,” she replied. “You are the new love of his life, not me,” Cathy added.
I was not for sure but I thought I had seen a gleam in her eyes. I also felt a pinch of jealousy in my heart. However I left it, slip my mind as we talked about me making a presentation to one of his clients.
“Kay, you will do fine or you can use your charm on the man,” Cathy said to me looking at my tits.
She dropped me off telling me she would see me at school Monday as she had her kids this weekend and would not be able to join us until next weekend. I kissed her and told her I would miss her.
I sat in the front room waiting for Sherri to come home from school. She came home as I was talking to Cathy on the phone. She had called to check up on me because of the worry I had in my voice over making this presentation come Wednesday. I was talking to her about being worried about screwing this all up and John getting mad at me. Sherri came home, I saw her grab Coco, and she went outside to play. I was sitting in the front room when John came home.
John walked over to me giving me a quick kiss then placing a stack of files onto my lap as he said, “These are for you, look them over and if you have any question I am here,” as he walked away.
I studied those files all weekend long. John’s client wanted his company to build him five new type of car wash facility. The plans and layout of the building John was purposing was much more than it needed to be. I mean you were washing cars and it did not need to look like the Taj Mahal.
However, I also saw little notes that John had written about really wanting this project. If he got the project, the client would be a return customer if he could please him. John had drawn dollar signs after that.
I reworked his plans a little bit as well as the cost to build. It took me all weekend and into Tuesday night, before I had it all worked the way I thought I should present it to his client. After we got Sherri to bed, I checked the files over one more before I took them into John as he sat reading in the living room.
I went to him as I said, “John, this is your project not mine,” “It is important to you and you should present it,” as I handed him the files.
“Kay you have watched me pitch projects to clients many times,” John replied.
“Yes I have John but you have that special ability that makes people listen to you,” I said to him with an unsure look on my face.
John took me into his arms pressing his nose against mine as he replied, “Kay just be you and you will do just fine, I have faith in you,” as he kissed me.
Wednesday arrived and after we took Sherri to school, John and I drove right to the office. I was dressed nicely in that business suit John had brought me. John had on his three-piece suit as well. John walked me into his office and I could not believe how messed up his office was.
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