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A Different Kind of Woman

By: magmaman



It appeared his parents had a sense of humor, his full name was Thadious S. Swarthski. He hated that name.

Plus his older sister was named Teanna F. Swarthski, not much better.

He was around age 9 or 10 when he asked his Dad what the initial stood for.

"Tea was first and you was second." His father guffawed like that was somehow funny. His Dad had a really strange sense of humor. A huge man, his face always looked dirty from working in the mines.

By the time he was 18 Thad was using the nickname "Sec." His sister had already gotten herself knocked up and ended up married, she was actually quite tickled about that. 

Her husband Dale was tall and lanky and also worked in the mines, nearly everyone did. Tea took one look at him and pursued him relentlessly, finally cornering him in one of the barns at exactly the right time. 

The young man had at first resisted the idea of getting married, but Dad had done a bit of encouragement.

Sec inherited his Father's square jaw and broad shoulders, so did Teanna. The biggest difference between Sec and his sister was that she had longer hair. Same heavy build, the same heavy eyebrows, she was just as tall as Sec was. However she was female, and in the company camp that appeared to be good enough. Most of the women in the town were solid, big, hardened from heavy work.

Life was hard living in the mountains and working for the company. All of the tiny little houses were rented from the company, food was purchased at the company store, the company owned the gas station, clothing store, everything. They even stocked the local meeting hall that doubled as a bar on Friday and Saturday nights and church on Sunday, it somehow always ran out of booze by late Saturday and it was always a week before any more arrived. 

The company store didn't even stock beer, a truck rolled in at around shift change on Friday with enough for the weekend and that was it.

Somehow many men in the camp managed to have something to drink around anyway, almost everyone had a Corn patch.

The grocery had canned goods and staples, plus meat from time to time. Nearly everyone just went out and shot something when they wanted meat. The hills were full of skinny mean little Pigs, the meat was tough but tasty. There were Deer, too, getting one of those was a treat. If one showed up nearby it didn't last very long.

Hunting required a truck, there were very few animals near the town except for some giant Rats. Any animals that got too close quickly became dinner.

Sometimes the Rats ended up in a stew pot if they weren't quick enough.

There was just one Doctor, Jeremiah Cox, also on the company payroll. He was a rough and crabby old guy, most of the time he set broken bones and sewed up cuts. 

He even delivered a few babies, but if anything serious cropped up, or something he didn't know what to do about they were loaded in the company station wagon that doubled as a hearse and hauled down the mountain to the city.

There were a few stories that went around about old Jeremiah, he apparently tended to be on the friendly side with the female patients. For one thing, he didn't have any plastic gloves, or a nurse, and the standing joke was that if any female went in for even the sniffles, she got a pelvic exam.

But if anyone needed a Doctor for anything, he was it so nobody ever really said much except to snicker about it. A few of the housewives also knew that if they tolerated his typical business practices, they didn't have to pay him the ten dollars it cost. 

Sec heard all the stories from the other kids in camp, nobody really said too much though. Things were just the way they were.

Sec knew what his fate in life would be, and right on schedule at age 18 his Dad handed him a hard hat and told him it was time for him to start paying his own way. 

He didn't like that one bit, Sec had a serious problem.

He was claustrophobic. He even had a struggle using the outside johns, when the door swung shut his body would break a sweat and he just had to get out of there.

So Sec did his business way out in the woods.

"Something wrong with that boy!" His Dad would say when Sec took off with some paper and a shovel, then promptly forget about it. All his Dad ever did was sit around the cabin and drink his beer until he fell asleep, then he would go to work in the mines the next day.

He wasn't a bad father really, except for the fact that he just never paid much attention to the two kids, he left them to fend for themselves.

But he did provide, there was always food, clothing, all of the usual essentials. Heat was no problem, everyone just brought home coal.

Tea did all the cooking and cleaning, but one day her belly started to swell and Dad spotted that. There was a bit of a fuss, and Dad went down and had that discussion with the young man and his family. 

Their Mother had taken off years before, she had been there one day and then she was gone the next. A tall man had come to town selling pots and pans, household goods.

It seemed he also did a lot more than just sell pots and pans, when he left, Sec's Mom went with him. They did that when Sec's Dad was at work down in the mines, otherwise the odds were high the salesman would have probably stayed around somewhere, most likely in one of the canyons up in the hills. 

That was something that just was not talked about around their house.

When Tea was gone the cooking and cleaning fell to Sec to do. It was just the way things were.

They walked to the lift that first morning, climbed onto it for the long trip down. Sec never made it, the thing had not gone more than 50 feet and he simply freaked out.

They probably would have tried to force him to ride all the way down and go to work but Sec had become quite a strapping young man. The other men on the lift quickly gave up, reversed the thing and let him off.

"Something wrong with that boy." He heard his father say as Sec stood there gasping for breath.

If a man didn't work, he didn't stay in the company housing though. So Sec took a shift working in the power plant, shoveling the coal in to keep the fires hot. He hated that, he could taste the stuff all day every day. But both ends of the firehouse were open, it was something he could do.

Then the manager came by and asked Sec if he wanted to work as the company cop.

Sec agreed, it was something he could do, also. It wasn't really hard, there were a few bad apples in the town once in awhile. His job was to see to it that they either straightened up and toed the line, or they left.

There was a jail, all it was was cement blocks, no light, no heat, not even a chair or bed. There were a couple of windows, just areas that they left the blocks out. The toilet was a hole in the floor in the corner, no lid. It got pretty cold and miserable in there in the Winter and stifling hot in the Summer, no one wanted to be put in there at all, not after one time. 

The company never bothered with trials, either. Management just looked at any problem and made a decision.

The rest, if someone got out of line, Sec beat them up. He had learned how to fight very well, growing up with other kids that were all on the rough side. He also carried an old double barrel 10 gauge shotgun, loaded with buckshot. He never had to use it, not one time.

Early on back in school one of the bigger kids had been harassing him, of course that led to a scrap. The kid had taken Sec down and pinned him, it was a mistake. The panic had set in, Sec exploded off the ground and threw the much larger boy into the air, then waded in. The results were rather serious.

Next the boy's Dad had come down to teach Sec a lesson, with the same result. Sec's own Dad had sat on the porch and watched that, sipping on his beer. He never said a single word, just grinned.

Most of the time things got settled that way, no need for lawyers and courts, besides, there weren't any.

None of the other boys around his age really messed with Sec much after that. Later on he just grew to be so large the idea didn't even cross their minds.

By age 19, Sec was a solid 240 pounds. Some of the older men didn't show very much respect to an 19 year old Cop, and since any real cops were a good four to five hours away if anyone could get them out there at all, Sec spent a few weeks proving himself. 

So a half dozen or so of them learned respect the hard way. After that, it got a lot more peaceful.

The job wasn't hard, in fact Sec really liked it. There were just the few incidents, fights, things like that. 

No one ever stole anything, although there had been a few cases of things that happened over the years. If it was a really serious situation, the canyons had some secrets that no one was likely to ever discover. Sec had heard the stories but he never had to deal with anything like that himself. 

There was that problem with one of the miners that tended to get drunk and ended up hitting his wife. That was a pain in the ass because it always seemed to end up out in the street in front of everybody.

She probably had it coming since she hopped around the camp from one guy to the next, everyone knew that. There were a half dozen women like that, some of them single and some not, working in the different stores. Quite a few of the men were single too, so having a few women available was important. Sec ignored that mostly because it helped to keep the peace, and he was sure the guy knew about what his wife was up to, and he only acted up when he was drunk. In fact, he figured they picked up some extra cash that way, since she had even suggested to Sec once that for ten bucks he could have a little fun. She opened her shirt and showed Sec her breasts, they sagged heavily, the nipples pointing straight down.

Sec wasn't interested. Yep, probably she had it coming.

But the man couldn't go hitting her, not in public. That stuff always caused a fuss.

Sec warned him the first time, then the second time when it happened again a week or so later he dragged the man out into the street and slapped him over and over, asking him each time how he liked it.

Sometimes there were other nasty fights, nearly always over one man's wife in another man's bed. One woman did it enough times and created so much trouble that finally Sec told her to head on down the road. She did, carrying a backpack, her husband following along behind meekly, bent over with their worldly possessions strapped to his back.

He shook his head at that one.

Then there was the man that liked to get drunk and stand in his window nude, and he did that when some of the more conservative women were passing by. While there were always the loose women in the town, a larger portion of them were ordinary housewives. Sec thought of dragging the man out into the street naked and working him over, then he realized the guy just might like that.

Instead, he went over there and hauled him down to the little bridge over the river and dumped him over the edge of it. It was about 10 feet to the stream. That might have not been too big of a deal except it was around 20 degrees out at the time.

The man managed to crawl out alive but barely, he left town not too long after. By this time Sec knew he could handle things pretty much any way he wanted to, he was the police force. The company didn't give a damn, as long as they made money.

One of the women that were available was named Millicent. She was the prettiest woman that was unmarried in the town. She happened to be at the local meeting hall that doubled as a bar everyone went to. Sec was down there keeping an eye on things, she started flirting and batting her eyes at him.

Sec found out about sex that night, it cost him twenty dollars though. But he never went near her again when she happened to mention that Sec was a lot bigger than his Dad was.

That part even Sec didn't know about.

It was a year or so later that things came to a head. One of the company men was messing around with the wife of one of the workers. The husband had told the guy to leave her alone, but he just threatened the miner's job and kept right on.

She really was not willing, and the man was using his position of authority. She worked in one of the company stores, and after a few complaints about him feeling her up every time he got her cornered somewhere, Sec went over to have a word with him.

"Mind your own fucking business!" Was all that got Sec. So he reached out and dragged the man out into the street, proceeded to dish out a bit of local justice. Several people saw that, they all stood around and smiled.

It was just two days later that he found himself walking down the road. Some things just were the way they were, it seemed. The company man he had dispensed a bit of justice to saw to it that he was fired. There had been a tense moment when Sec considered working over the main boss for that, but then he thought better of it.

For one thing there were four of them in the office, one of them had a big .45 revolver strapped to his hip.

Sec wasn't stupid.

He just turned around and walked out, headed home to get his gear.

His Dad had actually hugged Sec and patted him on the back the day he left, something Sec never remembered ever happening before. He looked at the huge man, spotted the trace of tears in his eyes. He felt his own getting damp at that and quickly grabbed his sparse belongings and left.

He knew his Dad would be just fine, he had seen Millicent sitting on the porch, a smile on her face.

Life on the road is not easy. Sec had no car, so getting anywhere meant walking or hitching a ride on one of the huge trains that hauled the coal down the mountain.

He soon learned the ways, all the tricks to getting a meal, how to look for clotheslines and snag something to wear when his own got too badly worn. The first few times he did that he felt a little bit guilty, but after awhile that kind of stuff was normal, just survival.

What had been the only home he ever knew was quickly very far behind him. He became aware that the outside world was a very big place.

One day he hopped off a train as it struggled up a long grade, he had spotted a lake and some homes off in the distance. It looked to be worth checking out, since the pair of cheap jeans he had on were not only too small but they were developing holes. His spare pair were in about the same condition.

He usually went cross country, since he had run into the local version of his former self a couple of times. Local policemen usually encouraged him to move on, just one time he had resisted and found out very quickly that he might be large and strong but there was one heck of a lot of them.

Sec did manage to cold cock a couple of them but then he found himself on his back. Panic had set in, but that time to no avail, there was just too many of them. 

They didn't even charge him, they just threw him in jail and left him there for a day or so. There were three of them there the day they let him out and told him to hit the road, all as big as he was. He had been a panic stricken blubbery mess for several hours, then one of them brought him some coffee, telling him that until he got himself under control he was going to stay right there.

Sec somehow managed to force a calm and just sat there. By the time they let him out, he had taught himself to control the panic that set in in tight places.

When they told him to hit the road, Sec hit the road.

Now he was hundreds of miles from there, crossing a field towards the lake. He found a little park, it had some tables and stone fire pits. No one was around, which was the way he liked it.

Early on he had tried staying at the camps other hard and dirty men gathered in. One night he had woken up with a start to find a hairy looking man holding a knife. There had been a quick struggle, Sec ended up with the knife.

It was a good knife, too. Sec had it tucked away in his pack. But now he kept as much to himself as he could.

He selected a camp site way off away from the main section, settled in. Soon he had a nice pot of stew going.

He was hoping to find some work, maybe some odd jobs to pick up some cash or food, he had just six dollars left in his pocket.

That evening, he stripped down and bathed in the lake. It was very cold but by now he was used to that. He got out his only change of clothes, the worn blue jeans and a heavy work shirt he had managed to nab just a week before. In the country some people still hung clothes out to dry, in the cities and towns he only rarely saw that. He had just slipped out of the bushes and quickly grabbed a pair of large socks and the shirt, and he was back into the brush and gone in no time.

The shirt looked like it would fit, it was hard to find shirts large enough for him. He also had two other shirts, both way too small. He knew that sooner or later he would run into someone else living on the road, and they just might have trading stock that was too big.

Items like clothing were a form of currency, none of them ever had any money to speak of.

He had just laid the clothing out on the table in the moonlight, when he heard a voice.

"Hello!" Then a small titter.

He jumped, startled, looking over he saw a young woman standing there looking at him. Sec was naked, waiting to drip off before putting anything on. 

"Sorry, I was taking a bath." He said, grabbing the shirt and holding it in front of himself.

"I see that. Why don't you just do that at home?" She asked.

"I don't have a...I live out here."

"Oh." She took a step closer. She looked to be about 20 or so, tall and slender. Her hair was medium length, it was dark enough he could barely make out her face since she was still standing in the shadows from a nearby tree.

"Hey, do you mind? I need to get dressed." Sec was totally uncomfortable now. The only females to ever see him naked was Millicent that one time and his Mom and sister, Tea. But Tea was about the same size and build as he was so he never paid any attention to her. Their house didn't have any inside doors anyway, so nobody paid any attention to nudity.

"I don't mind at all, I just have never seen anyone..all naked like that out here." She stepped out of the shadows, now she was less than ten feet away.

It was obvious that she did not intend to leave, turn her back. In fact, she seemed very interested.

"Look, I am going to put my pants on now." He told her, warning her.

"Go ahead." She giggled and stepped even closer.

Good grief.

Sec put down the shirt, reached for his jeans, deciding to hell with her. He stuffed one leg in, then the other. They were too damned tight, he was struggling to pull them up. She stood there and watched.

"Oh, my!" She giggled again.

"What?" Sec demanded, starting to get angry with her. He finally managed to get the pants up and buttoned, but he couldn't quite get the top button.

"I saw my Dad's once, but it was only...." She held up a thumb and forefinger about four inches apart.

"How would you like it if I caught you naked and just stood there and stared?" Sec growled as he reached for his shirt, it was a better fit.

"I wouldn't mind." She giggled again. She walked over and sat down on the top of the picnic table, leaned back and crossed one leg over the other.

Sec sat down at the other end.

"I'm Alice." She smiled at him.

"Sec." He held out his hand, she took it. Sec noticed it was extremely soft, all the women he had ever known had work hardened hands. His huge paw was more than twice the size of her hand.

"Sec? That's an odd name."

"Just a nickname."

"I never saw a man completely naked like that before." She smiled at him. Sec noticed that she had a very nice smile.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know anybody was around."

"It's OK, that was interesting. Besides, it was pretty." She smiled at him.


A Different Kind of Woman



"Pretty?" Sec snorted.

"Yes. It is so big, it looked like one of those big Polish sausages just hanging there like that." She beamed at his discomfort. 

Sec had no real idea at all what a Polish sausage was for sure.

"Hey, do you always talk about a man's thing like that?" he asked.

"No. That is only the second one I ever saw. I liked looking at it, what's wrong with that?"

"Nothing, I guess."

"Can I see it again?"

"No!" Then he laughed, all of this sounded ridiculous.

"Oh, you are no fun." She giggled.

"I can be." Sec was starting to banter a little now, she really seemed to be unconcerned. She scooted over closer to him, that made him suddenly nervous again.

"Want some coffee?" He asked her, trying to change the subject.

"Sure, that would be good, it's a little bit chilly out."

Sec got up, he had some water boiling in the pot over a low fire he had built earlier. He got his cup, poured water in over some grounds. He let it simmer a bit, then poured in a dab of cold water to settle the grounds.

He walked over and handed her the cup. She took a tiny sip, pursed her lips and blew on the hot liquid.

"That's pretty good! Aren't you going to have any?" She asked.

"I only have the one cup."

"Oh. Here, we can share." She handed him the cup. That surprised him a little, but then so far everything she did was surprising him.

They sat quietly for awhile, handing the cup back and forth. When it got down to the grounds, she got some in her mouth and spit them out.

"You aren't supposed to drink that part." He told her, getting up to rinse out the cup and make another.

"So why do you live out here like this?" Alice asked a bit later.

Sec told her some of the story, how he had been a company cop in a mining town, and how he had ended up on the road. She listened quietly, as they handed the cup back and forth.

"Wow. I have heard of things like that but I never met anyone who just lived outside before."

"A person gets used to it." Sec told her.

"I suppose. Hey! How would you like a place to stay?"

"A place?"

"Yea, we have a little cabin down by the lake, it has running water and a shower and stove and everything, even a dock."

"I don't have any money, I can't afford...."

"Maybe for working? Daddy hasn't hired anybody yet this year and usually when he does they stay right there in the lake house. There are lots of fish in the lake, too."

Sec had never done any fishing before, there had been some lakes back home but nothing lived in any of them because of the mines.

"Maybe. What kind of work?"

"Mowing and yard work and whatever needs to be done. Plus he always pays too, about $400 each month and room and board."

Sec just stared at her. That was about what he was paid as a police officer and he had to pay for his own room and board. Somehow that had always managed to come out even every month, there was never any left over.

"What makes you think your father will hire someone like me?"

"You let me take care of Daddy, and I will make him pay you $600!" She grinned.

"OK. We will see." Sec knew he could use a job but he also didn't want to be around people any more than he had to be.

"I will be back in the morning, please don't leave, OK?"

"I won't." He said, planning to do exactly that.

"OK. Well, bye!" She got up, smiled at him and in just a few steps she was gone into the darkness.

Sec sat there with the remains of the coffee in his hand. He was wondering if that had really happened? She had appeared like a ghost and left the same way.

He rolled out his bedroll under some nearby bushes, tugging his sheet of plastic snugly around himself. He had seen the evening clouds rolling in, and it had cooled off some. Being early Spring, he knew it was likely to rain.

The rain started to fall lightly just after midnight. He tugged everything tighter, folded the plastic sheet so the water would drip off and went back to sleep.

Sunlight woke him up, he went over to his fire, but it was out of course. He sat at the picnic table and ate a cold can of sliced beans. After several hours with no sign of her, he started to stow his gear away. It started to drizzle rain again, so he quickly gathered up his gear, knowing he had to keep it all dry as possible. He had just finished rolling up his bedroll into a very tight little ball, his few possessions wrapped inside when he saw her.

She was soaked, her hair hanging in strings. The heavy knit sweater she had on wasn't the best choice of clothing for a wet day.

"Hi!"

"Hello."

"Are you ready?"

"Sure, I guess. What's the deal?"

"I had to wait for Daddy to get done with one of his silly meetings. I told him I had hired you, he said OK."

"Really?"

"Yes, really. Daddy lets me do whatever I want to because he knows if he doesn't I will throw a fit." She giggled at that.

Sec realized that this was probably a spoiled little rich guy's daughter. He would have expected her to look fancy or something, instead she looked like a tomboy if anything. She had on blue jeans with holes in them and that heavy sweater, no makeup and her hair was a stringy dirty brown. It had now quit raining. Looking her up and down, he saw that she was skinny, flat chested and her neck seemed to be way too long.

Alice wasn't that pretty, just attractive in a weird way. She had a little pug nose and round cheekbones, with the sharpest blue eyes he had ever seen. Her hair hung down in her face, causing her to almost constantly push at it.

"Well, come on. It's only about a mile." They started walking.

"Daddy runs a company that makes stuff for computers, he is gone a lot. Since Mom left, Daddy has me run the house and things, he is always off with some girlfriend so it's just me and the two maids. Plus Henry."

"Who is Henry?"

"He is an old guy that takes care of the cars."

"Cars?"

"Yea, Daddy is nuts about old cars, he has two dozen of them. Henry is the mechanic, plus he also fixes stuff that breaks around here."

They came to a clearing, a tall chain link fence ran all the way out of sight up a long hill towards a giant house. She did something at the gate and it slid open, they walked inside. The grass was greener than any he had ever seen before, and there was a lot of it. There was a cabin by the lake down below, and a dock. A large sailboat was tied up there, along with a 16 foot aluminum boat with an odd looking short top on it.

"You can use the outboard but don't touch the sailboat, that is Daddy's pride and joy."

The cabin was much larger inside than it looked to be at first glance. There was a bedroom, separate bathroom, kitchen and combination dining/living room. It had a TV set on the wall, everything one could imagine.

It was like a mansion to Sec, he almost couldn't believe the place.

Alice sat down at the table, pulled out some forms from somewhere.

"We have to fill this out, it's for taxes but you won't have to pay much if any. Daddy insists on the tax stuff since he uses the property for meetings and writes everything off."

Sec filled out the forms, Alice looked at them.

"Thadious?" She asked with a grin.

"Yea, but I don't use that."

"Are you Polish?" She asked.

"I don't know. Dad always said we were part Polish, part Greek and a whole bunch hound dog."

She just laughed.

"I really like you, you are different. Well, the mower is in the shed outside, that is the first job. Everything has to be mowed at least twice each week."

"OK." Sec wasn't looking forward to that part, the place was at least five acres of lawn and he knew that pushing a mower would be several day's hard work.

"I will go to town and get you some food, what do you like?"

"I could use some beans, and some flour would be nice, or maybe some cans of stew?" Sec hadn't expected that. He was used to dumping cans of whatever was available into a pot of water.

Alice laughed.

"I better just get what I think you will like."

"OK." After she left, he went out and looked in the shed. There sat a perfectly spotless Craftsman mower, he had never seen one before. It only took him a few minutes to figure out how it worked. He started in doing the lawn, it looked like it hadn't been done for more than a week.

He was halfway done when he saw a little silver car drive up to the main house, Alice got out, waved to him and went inside.

About a half hour later she came out wearing different clothing. It was hard to tell from the distance but it looked like a dress. She drove down the narrow paved road to the cabin. Sec turned and headed down there.

He saw that Alice had on a short white skirt and matching blouse. The blouse was unbuttoned quite a bit, showing a lot of bare skin between her smallish upper breasts. Once again he noticed the overly long neck. She was carrying sacks inside, he parked the mower and started to help her.

The next thing he noticed was that each time she bent over the back of the car, her breasts came into view. There was no bra and her titties were tiny, capped with hard looking nipples, each with a round button on the end.

She had to know that he could see, and she was completely careless about that.

The amount of food was beyond belief, there was everything a person could imagine. He picked up a giant ham and just stared at it. It had a mesh wrapping around it, he had seen Hams before but they were always tough and scrawny. This one had veins of fat running through it.

"I hope you like meat, I got some steaks, too." She picked up a stack of big T-bone steaks and walked over, lifting the lid on what he had thought was a counter of some kind. That turned out to be a deep freezer, he had never seen one of those. They had a tiny cooler on top of the little white icebox back home but it only kept things cold, it didn't really freeze anything.

There was also a fridge with two doors on it, she was stuffing it full, too. Sec picked up some big odd looking hot dogs, he had never seen any like that before either.

"Polish sausage." She said, looking at him standing there holding them. Then she giggled.

Now Sec knew what she had been talking about, he laughed.

Alice finished up, went in and sat down on the couch.

"Well, you are all set." She smiled.

"Hey, thank you, I really appreciate the job." He started to sit down in a chair.

"Come sit by me." She patted the couch beside her.

Sec went over and sat down. She started telling him about everything around the place, and all the things she wanted him to do. There were fruit trees to trim, grass to mow, hedges and bushes and it sounded like a lot of them. Sec had no real experience in any of that but how hard could it be?

He was trying to not look inside her blouse, which was not easy to do since she sat there with it hanging open.

"You can look at me if you want to." Alice said suddenly.

"I don't..I just never.." He mumbled.

"I saw you naked, don't you want to see me naked?"

"I..I don't know." He blushed furiously.

"Well, maybe later then." She hopped up and left, Sec sat there wondering what in the hell he had found here?

Finally he got up and went back out to finish cutting the grass. He got to the top of the sloping field when an old black guy came walking out. Sec shut off the mower.

"You the new guy? I'm Henry."

"Hello Henry, I'm Sec."

The old man nodded, looked him over.

"Don't ya go sniffing around Alice, that is the boss's pride and joy." Henry glared at him. Sec started to say that he thought the sailboat was the boss's pride and joy but kept his mouth shut. The old man had a no nonsense look on his face.

"I raised her from when she was a baby, I mean it. She is innocent and don't know nothing about men." Henry scowled.

"I'm not..I didn't..."

"OK. Anyway, you come see me before you go using any more tools." Henry said, looking at the mower like he didn't like the idea of Sec being on it.

"OK." Sec was trying to be agreeable, he didn't know his place as yet.

"And clean that up before you put it away!" The old man turned and walked away. He stopped and looked back.

"It pisses me off when a man don't clean up after hisself, hear?"

Sec nodded.

He finished the mowing, then carefully wiped down the machine, he even washed the tires and reached under to clean the blades and mower deck. After he had it gleaming just like when he first saw it, he put it away in the shed.

Then he went inside and got some of those sausages, cooked them in a pan and ate them. They were good, he ate four of them. He made some coffee, boiling it in his own pot and putting a little cold water in to settle the grounds out. There was a coffee pot sitting there but Sec gave up after several minutes of trying to figure out how it worked.

Later he looked over a box of some kind that was sitting on the counter, he finally found a button that made a light come on and it started to hum. A plate inside went in circles. It looked like something he was supposed to cook in but it didn't heat up, he opened the door to check.

He gave up with that, turned on the TV. At least he knew how to work that, then he found the little thing with buttons all over it. He played with that for an hour, it made the TV change channels and do all sorts of things. That really didn't make any sense, the TV set had a switch right on it so what was the point?

Sec realized he had a lot of things to learn, finally he went to bed. The bed was so soft and comfortable he was asleep in minutes.

A pounding woke him up, it was still dark outside. Opening the door, there stood Henry.

"Ya gonna sleep all damned day?" Henry grunted.

"OK. Give me a minute." Sec shut the door, quickly dressed.

They spent the morning moving some huge beams over to repair a walking bridge over the creek. By just after noon it was finished. Henry never said anything all all the entire time except to bark orders.

"Well, at least ya will work, more than I can say for the last one." Henry told him.

"Now, just keep the grass cut and trim the bushes. Do the fruit trees too."

"How do I know where to cut them?" Sec asked.

"Ya just cut off anything that looks like it is growing where it ain't supposed to. The boss likes them tall enough the Deer can't reach them and short enough that he can." He cackled, his expression more like a scowl than a smile, and left.

Sec spent the rest of the day wandering up and down the paths looking for something to clip off.

He did see Alice a few times over the next several days but always from a distance. She would wave and get into her little car and leave, then return a few hours later, always carrying an armload of sacks.

Sec asked Henry after a couple of weeks if he could take a day off.

"Sure, whenever ya wants to if I ain't got something I need ya for. Go catch a fish or go to town or whatever. Don't go bringing no women out here, and if you get drunk fine, just stay in town." He turned and went back to what he was doing, working on a tank and pump of some kind.

Sec decided to go fishing.

He had found some fishing poles, one of them had a big lure that looked a little bit like a colorful fish of some kind. He was looking at it trying to figure out how it worked when he heard her.

"Hello, what are you doing?" Alice asked.

"I was going to try to fish."

"Can I go?"

"Sure."

They loaded up the little aluminum boat, Alice went into the shed and came out with two fishing poles and a metal box. Sec got the motor running, it started right up. He managed to run into the dock a couple of times before he got the thing pointed out into the lake.

Alice expertly tied on a shiny spinner and a hook on each line. Then she reached into the box and pulled out a plastic carton, grabbed a huge worm and pinched off part of it.

Sec realized she wasn't the least bit squeamish as she slid the bit of worm onto the hook.

"Let it out about a dozen feet and go slow." She told him, handing him the rig. He let it out, watching the tip of the rod bounce up and down.

The breeze was cool, he tugged his heavy shirt snugly around himself. She had on a sweater and jeans. There was no sign of makeup, and her hair was every which way as she tied some intricate knots attaching the other lure. It just took her a few minutes, he watched with interest as she finished, tugging on it a couple of times, then lifted her rig into the water.

"Head over there by that point." She waved her hand towards some large trees on a spur of land that stuck out into the lake. Just as they got close something bit his line, then bit again and the pole bent down.

"Reel it up!" She said, suddenly looking excited.

Sec started to turn the handle.

"You have it upside down." She giggled.

He turned it over and started to reel. Whatever it was was pulling pretty good, finally he lifted a nice foot long Trout into the boat. Alice grabbed it as it flopped around all over the place, undid the hook and tossed it back in.

"Hey! What did you do that for?" It was the first fish he had ever caught and she threw it back?

"Too little." She grinned at him, just as her own pole bent over. This one was much larger, but she unhooked it and threw it back, too.

"How big do they have to be?" Sec asked her.

"You will see." She grinned at him.

It was almost an hour later, they caught several more about the same size, when suddenly her rod went down hard. She handled the rod easily as the fish stripped off line, until finally he looked down and a giant Trout lay beside the boat.

The thing was at least two feet long.

"Wow!" Sec said, as she reached down and slid the hook loose, letting it go, too. Alice glanced up and saw the look on Sec's face.

"Daddy buys the fish and puts them in here, he gets mad if anyone takes them out. There are lots of them in here great big like that."

They caught a few more on the way back, he got one almost as big as the one Alice had caught. Finally Sec managed to get the boat back up against the dock, after banging into it a couple of times and going right on by once too far away for Alice to grab it. 

"Closer!" She told him, giggling at his efforts.

"This thing needs some brakes!" He laughed. They were having a good time. 

Alice put the gear away as he tied the boat up.

"That was fun, thank you for letting me come with you." She said.

"Hell, it's your lake."

"Yes, but thank you anyway." She leaned in and kissed Sec on the cheek, then she turned and left him standing there.

Sec felt a little flutter in his stomach when she did that.

The next day was much hotter, Sec was cleaning up the mower to put it away when he looked up to see Alice walking across the fresh cut field.

"Let's go swimming!" She said.

"OK." That sounded good to Sec. She handed him a plastic bag.

"What's this?"

"Swimming suit. Daddy probably wouldn't like it if you went..the other way. Although I would prefer it." She smirked at that.

Sec went in and pulled on the suit, it was black and stretchy and a good fit. Alice was down on the dock by the time he came out. He saw that she had on a conservative two piece outfit. Just as he got there she dove in, her body was long and slender, she formed a perfect arc as she slid into the water.

Sec just jumped in with a big splash. They spent a solid half hour swimming and playing in the slightly cool water, then finally getting chilled they got out and sat side by side on the edge of the dock.

"That was fun!" She smiled at him as she sat there leaning back on the palms of her hands, her eyes closed, letting the warm Sun hit her face.

Sec took the opportunity to look her over closely, her stomach was flat as a board, her hipbones thrust forward, creating a small gap in the front of her suit bottoms. He could see just the upper tracings of her pubic hair, it was the same color as that on her head.




A Different Kind of Woman



She opened her eyes and caught him, Sec blushed but she just smiled, making no move to adjust her suit.

"I thought you weren't interested in seeing me naked." She grinned.

Sec looked away quickly.

"Daddy is coming home tomorrow, you will get to meet him. I think you will like him, I hope he doesn't have a girl friend this time."

"Your Dad brings women home?" Sec asked.

"Yes, most of the time. I know he gets lonely since he is always off somewhere but it isn't the same as when Mom was.... It used to be just us and we all went and did things, but now...." Her voice trailed off.

"We never did much of anything when I lived back home, my Mom left one day, then it was only my Dad and my sister and me."

"What is your sister like?" Alice scooted over closer until they were almost touching. She leaned forward slightly and turned his way.

Sec described his sister Tea, doing his best to not stare at the top of Alice's bikini which had flopped open, almost completely baring her left breast.

"Don't you like me?" She asked, suddenly.

"I like you just fine, why?"

"I know you can see me but you keep looking away." She said pointedly, making no move to cover up.

"It isn't that, I just....You are my boss. We probably shouldn't..." Sec flushed, uncomfortable.

"Will you kiss me?"

"What?"

"Please?" Alice smiled at him, leaned forward and pursed her lips, closing her eyes.

Sec leaned over and pressed his lips to hers, held them there for a few seconds. Then she leaned back away from him.

"I better go." Alice hopped up and headed up the towards the main house.

She stopped and turned back.

"Thank you for taking me fishing yesterday..and the nice swim!" Then she giggled and took off running. He watched her long legs as they flashed across the huge lawn towards the house. Alice could really run.

Sec sat there for quite a long time, thinking. Alice was really a strange girl, she was nothing at all like any of the women he had ever known before.

The next morning Sec woke up, it was still warm out and likely to turn off much hotter. He went in and took a shower, relishing in the powerful stream of hot water. His thoughts slipped to Alice, the way she had looked in that swim suit. His hand moved down to his penis, stroking it a few times, but he stopped before he climaxed. He finally finished his shower and picked up a towel, drying himself off.

He was briskly rubbing his hair as walked out of the bathroom to go into the bedroom and get dressed.

"Good morning!" Alice said brightly. Sec almost jumped out of his skin, she startled him. He looked at her, she was dressed in the same manner as she nearly always was, a blouse and blue jeans.

"Alice! What are you...darn it!" He darted into the bedroom, pulled on some shorts and a t-shirt. She was still sitting there with an amused expression on her face when he came out.

"You are supposed to knock or call out or something." He scolded her.

"Why? I saw that before, so what does it matter? Besides, it looked way bigger, were you playing with it?" She smirked at him.

"No! I wasn't! I was..it's just the hot water, I was taking a bath."

"It's OK. I know that men do that. I do it sometimes myself." She grinned broadly at his discomfort.

"Anyway, Daddy is home. He has a woman with him though." Her expression changed to unhappy.

"So what is up?"

"I want you to come up and meet Daddy."

"OK. Let me get some decent clothes on."

"You are all right just like that, come on!" She reached out and took his hand, tugging him out the door.

She held his hand firmly all the way up the hillside to the big main house. Inside, an older man stood there, he had a newspaper in his hand. Even dressed in simple shorts and a pullover, he looked expensive. Sec noticed the gaudy watch on the man's wrist.

"Daddy, this is Sec, he is in the lake house and doing the yard for us this year. Sec, this is Ron, my Daddy." They shook hands, Sec noticed the man's grip was solid.

"And this is Carol, his friend." She added as an attractive brunette walked into the room. She was older, in her forties and tall, her bust looked to be too high and too firm for her age. She also had on shorts, her legs appeared soft, but well tanned.

"It's Caroline." She corrected, drawing out the name. She came over to Sec and shook his hand. It wasn't a grip, she held her hand out with the fingers straight. Then she instantly released her hand and stepped back, looking Sec up and down like she was inspecting some livestock.

Her gaze made Sec feel uncomfortable.

"Well, welcome aboard. Have you found everything?" Ron asked.

"Yes, sir. I think I have everything figured out."

"It's Ron. Well, let us know if you need anything, or just check with Henry." Sec knew when he was being dismissed, so he nodded and headed for the door.

They walked back down the hill, Alice didn't hold his hand this time. At the lake house, she stopped.

"See what I mean?" She asked.

Sec knew what she was talking about, she didn't like her father's girl friend.

"Kiss me again?" She stepped up to Sec and leaned in with that same expectant look on her face again, so Sec kissed her.

"Ummmm." She said, then she took off running up the hill again. Just then, Sec saw Henry, he was standing outside the shop door, looking down at them with his hands on his hips. He turned and went back inside. Sec went and got some tools, he planned on trimming a row of Roses that had just begun to bud out nicely.

By just after noon, he reached the upper part of the row. He had been carefully clipping out any leaves that were discolored, shaping the plants. He planned on going back and getting the little trailer and picking up the clippings. Just then Henry came out, stood there for a moment.

"Come on in." Henry said, turning and going back into the shop. Sec laid down the clippers and went in.

It was the first time he had been in there. There were rows and rows of gleaming vehicles, most of them looked to be old, and he had no idea at all what they were. Some of them had letters and numbers on them, wheels sticking out with no fenders.

"Wow!" He managed.

"Boss's collection, sometimes he drives them but not often." Henry told him.

"They all run?"

"Yep. I see to that, I never know when he wants one." Then Henry stood and looked at Sec, like he was trying to think of what to say. Sec just waited.

"I saw ya kissing on Alice." He finally said bluntly.

Sec just nodded.

"Don't ya go sniffin' around that too much, that's the boss's pride and joy."

"We haven't done...."

"Best ya don't. Alice ain't been around no men much and she is just getting to that age."

Sec nodded again, not knowing what to say.

"What I mean is she acts like she likes you, so don't you go hurting her. I know I told ya to leave her be but it ain't my place to tell her what to do. If anything does happen it better be real."

"I won't...We are just...she treats me nice."

"OK. Go back to work." The old man glared at Sec, then picked up a cloth and began to wipe off imaginary spots on one of the machines.

Sec figured he had better do as he was told.

When Sec got his first paycheck he asked Alice to take him to town so he could cash it. She took him to the bank, the teller smiled and called her by name. He had no trouble at all cashing it, back at his place he stuffed the money in a sack and put it under his mattress.

It was almost $600.00! They had kept part of it for something, he didn't quite know what that was for though.

He had never had that much money before.

He realized he had nothing at all to spend it on, except maybe some new work clothes and he could do that later.

About a week after that Sec came out of the shower, he had taken to wrapping his lower body in the towel first just in case. But she was never there.

This time she was.

"Good morning!"

"Hello."

"Shy I see?" She tittered at that.

"No. It's just that we aren't..you and I.." Sec didn't know what to say really.

"We aren't lovers? I know, but it doesn't hurt anything to look." She smiled.

"I guess not but..."

"Want to go swimming?" She asked.

"Sure, I guess so."

"OK. Let's take the boat."

"Boat?"

"Yea, let's go over to the island, I made some snacks."

"All right. That sounds nice." Sec went and got the black suit she had given him. In short order they were loaded and headed off across the lake. He beached the boat and pulled it up far enough that he was sure it would stay there. Alice walked down the grassy bank a ways, she laid out a big blanket.

Sec turned to follow, looking up just in time to see her strip her jeans off.

There was nothing underneath at all. He came to a stop.

"Well?" She asked. She really looked odd standing there naked from the waist down.

"Well, what?"

"Are you going to join me?" She grinned, one hand on her hip. Then she tugged off her top.

"You want to skinny dip, I see?"

"Yes. I saw you so now you get to see me! What do you think?" She stood facing him, her hands on her hips.

"You look...beautiful!" He managed.

"Well? Are you going to get undressed or just stand there?"

Sec sighed, tugged the T-shirt over his head. Then he slipped off his blue jeans, hooked his thumbs in the bathing suit and stripped it off.

"There! Are you happy now?"

"Yes, I am!" She smiled and sat down on the blanket.

Alice pulled out some sandwiches, handed him one. He ate it, it was delicious. They sat there, both of them naked, like it was the most natural thing in the world. She pulled out a bottle of wine, poured each of them a glass.

After an hour or so, the warm Sun and the wine started to get to him, she had stretched out on her stomach and appeared to be dozing.

Sec woke up with a start, Alice was rubbing sun tan lotion on his legs.

"You are getting a little bit red, your upper body is nice and dark but the rest of you isn't." She smiled.

Her hands were getting pretty high on his legs, when she took the bottle and squirted some directly on his penis and reached for it, he let out a yelp.

"Hey!"

"It's going to burn." She said.

"I can do that myself." Sec told her, but it was too late, she had one hand wrapped around him and was spreading the lotion.

"Relax, I don't mind. Besides, this is fun!"

"Alice...."

"Relax." Her voice took on a husky tone.

Sec gave up, he felt himself begin to erect.

"Wow! It does get a lot bigger." She said, staring at it as her hand slid up and down his length.

"Alice, if you don't stop...."

"Relax." She said again, her hand getting busier.

Sec had no way to hold back, he felt himself go into amazing convulsions, his seed blasting out first in several large spurts, then pouring out and over her hand. She didn't stop, instead she just kept on and he felt himself building to another even more powerful climax. Finally she let go, Sec lay there panting.

"That was fun!" She exclaimed, reaching for a small towel. Then she jumped up and ran to the water's edge, rinsing her hands in the water.

Sec watched her as she squatted down at the water's edge, then she stood and walked back to where he sat. She sat down cross legged, unconcerned that this caused her pussy to spread open completely. He saw that her lips were swollen, engorged and shiny looking. She used the towel to clean him up, then set it aside.

"That was really fun." She repeated.

"I never did that before, it felt so hard yet the skin is so soft. I almost..." Her upper body shuddered slightly.

"Nobody ever did that to me before, either." Sec told her.

"Really? No wonder you are so bashful."

"I am not bashful."

"Yes you are."

Sec sighed, leaned back.

"Aren't you going to put some lotion on me?"

"All right." Sec sat back up, reached for the lotion. He spread some on, began to rub it it, avoiding her breasts even though they were white where the suit normally was.

"Get my titties too!" She encouraged.

He spread some on her breasts, feeling the button like nipple slide between his fingers. She let out a sigh. Finishing there, he spread some low down, stopping short of her pubic hair.

"Put some on there, too." She asked.

Feeling himself flush, he went lower until he felt the slight dampness of her. At that point he stopped.

"Do the back end too!" She flipped over onto her stomach. Looking over her shoulder, she spread her legs wide.

"Please?"

Sec went right to work, letting his fingers slide deeply between her butt cheeks, his fingertips tracing upwards over her sex. He was almost fully erect, finally he could not stand it any more.

Sec slid up into position behind her, the tip of his erection just touching her lips.

"Be careful, I am a virgin." She said, crossing her arms under her face and opening her legs even more. She had lifted her lower body off the blanket, ready. The tip of Sec's penis had just begun to enter her, he came to a dead stop when she said that. 

Groaning, he rolled over onto his side.

"What's wrong?" Alice asked, rolling over and sitting up.

"I can't. I just can't."

"You don't like me?" She looked hurt.

"It's not that, it's just that....you are a virgin."

"I don't care, I was ready."

"I just can't."

"Your thing is big and hard." She pointed at his cock, sticking straight up.

"I just can't!" Sec moaned.

"That's not fair, I did it to you." She said, sounding mildly angry now.

"I know, but...."

"We need to go back now." Her voice suddenly sounded mildly upset. Alice picked up her clothes and dressed. Sec got up and pulled on his clothes, too.

The boat ride back to the dock was quiet, he slid the boat in alongside on the first pass. She tied it off snugly, picked up the basket.

"Well, see you later." She said, and left.

After that the only time she came down to the lake house was payday, she brought him his check and left, only saying hello. Henry let him drive a truck to town to cash it, he stuffed the money under the mattress with the rest.

While he was there he went in and applied for a license to drive. He figured he would need one around here, back up at the mining camp nobody ever bothered.

Each day he did his job. Several times he saw Alice as she came out and got in the little car. She waved every time but that was it.

Sec was having troubles, he went to bed each night thinking of her, he woke up each morning with her on his mind. The fantasy of her sitting there cross legged, completely exposed became his outlet in his private times, it was the only thing that caused him to erect. That and the way she had presented herself, face down with her fanny elevated, open and ready for him.

That vision became almost overwhelming.

September slid into October, he realized he had gone quite a long time not seeing her at all. When Henry showed up with his paycheck instead of Alice, he asked about her.

"Alice is off to college back East, she will be here for Thanksgiving."

Sec just nodded. Thanksgiving arrived, Sec found himself looking out the window constantly. Finally he saw her car, he waited for her to come down to see him but she didn't. He felt miserable when he saw her car was gone a couple of days later.

Maybe he should have gone up to see her? But he had felt uncomfortable with that, her Father being up there and all. What would the man think, Sec being just a hired hand and his daughter was...? Well, very likely way out of his league.

Then Henry stopped by, handed him his check.

"Last one, we won't need nobody now until next March. If you come around then and want to work, let me know and we will see. You work good so we will put you back on."

Sec understood, he just nodded. The next day he gathered up his gear, rolled up his bedroll and he was back on the road. He had almost $3000 in cash stuffed away in his bedroll, he walked into town and opened a bank account.

That much money in his bedroll was enough for him to get his throat cut out on the road, he knew.

Sec headed South, it was way later than he had gone in the past so there were some very hard nights spent under trees and bridges. He managed to keep his mind totally calm and not think of Alice.

But only in the daytime, she slipped into his dreams anyway every night.

Sec sent a postcard home from time to time to keep in touch, always from the same post office in a little town on his route. He stopped there to post one, asking them if they had any general delivery mail for him.

He was surprised when the clerk presented him with a letter.

He read the letter, it was from his Sister, Teanna. His father had passed away, his girlfriend Millicent had tried to claim the few things he owned, suggesting they had been married.

That had led to Teanna going over there and solving that little problem. She didn't go into much detail but Sec could just imagine.

But the surprise was his father had purchased stock in the mining company many decades before. Teanna had sold the stock, and had some money for him. She didn't say how much, and the letter asked him to come home.

Sec was about a thousand miles from there, he sighed and shouldered his gear. It was coming up on March, he had planned to head back to the lake house, to see if they had work for him. Instead, he hopped a freight train, headed back home.

It was days later when he walked up the last dirt road into the town. Everything looked exactly the same except the house had been painted. When he stepped up on the porch, Teanna opened the door. She took one look and grabbed him in a bear hug. Inside, he was greeted by two dirty little children, her husband sat there watching a big TV set. Sec had noticed the new Chevy pickup parked out front.

They sat at the kitchen table, it was new, also. There were even doors inside and carpet on what had been a wooden floor.

She showed him the documents, the stocks had totaled almost $80,000.00. Teanna had put Sec's half into the local bank, then set out trying to find him.

He stayed just a week, then they drove him down to the nearest city where he bought a new pickup for himself. He also bought a camper top, and some new gear.

Then it was back on the road towards the lake house. He still could not get Alice out of his head. It was mid April when he pulled up in front of the shop, hoping Henry was around.

Henry looked up when Sec walked in.

"Well, damn me! Ya did show up, took yer sweet time I see." He came over and shook Sec's hand.

"I am just looking for work."

"Yea, thought so but the boss hired some kid, has him living down there."

"Oh. I figured on that, I was coming earlier but something happened."

Henry nodded.

"Maybe next year." He said.

"Is Alice around?"

Henry looked at him oddly.

"She is in college, I thought you didn't like her? That's what she said, anyways."

"I liked her just fine, in fact I was hoping..."

"Too late I think. She has some boyfriend, one of those uppity types. I don't think much of him but I guess she likes him. Hey they are supposed to be down come a week from Saturday, wanna stick around?"

"I think I should just hit the road." Sec said sadly.

"Ya gonna act stupid, huh? Stick around, son, it just might pay ya." Henry grinned at him.

"Why? If she has a boyfriend..."

"I remember the look on her face onct you was gone, I be thinkin' ya should at least say hi."

"I guess I can get a place in town."

"Stay with me if ya want to."

Sec took Henry up on it. It was a surprisingly good time, the old man was interesting and full of stories. After a few days, Sec was completely comfortable. He spent some time helping Henry work on the cars, just for something to do. It was mostly waxing them, though, and starting the engines, checking the tires.

He met the skinny kid they had working the yard, and he noticed he never overlapped any of the mowing, leaving strips of grass here and there. Plus he put the mower away without cleaning it, Henry came in one night fit to be tied about that.




A Different Kind of Woman



"Hey, want yer job back?" He asked.

"Yes, I would like that."

"OK, I am gonna tell the kid to hit the road come Monday." The next week Sec spent back working the yard.

Saturday came, about 10 in the morning he looked out and saw Alice and a tall young man climb out and go inside the big house. Sec felt his heart flutter at the sight of her, it took him a moment to get himself under control.

Later on that morning he saw her walking down the path. She knocked, Sec answered. She just stood there and looked at him.

"My God!" She said, finally. They hugged, then she came in and sat down. It took a couple of hours for them to catch up. Sec noticed she was slightly heavier, and she seemed fuller in the bust.

She caught his look and blushed, that was different.

"I guess I am a late bloomer." She said, grinning.

"How are you getting along with your boyfriend?" Sec had to ask.

"Oh, Phillip? He is nice, he is captain of the swimming team and he is studying to be a lawyer."

"I have thought of you a lot, it's nice to see you." He told her.

"I think of you a lot too, that crazy time last Summer was wonderful." She smiled shyly at the memory.

"We did have a lot of fun."

"We almost did it, didn't we?" She grinned at him

"Henry hired me to do the yard work again." Sec said, changing the subject.

"Yes, he told me. I will be around most of the Summer now, Phillip is going back soon, he is taking extra classes."

"OK. Maybe we can go fishing, or something?"

"Maybe." She smiled again, then she went back up to the main house.

The next morning Sec looked out in time to see Alice and her boyfriend come out, then by the car he took her in his arms and kissed her. Sec felt a pang of jealousy, then unable to stand watching that he turned away from the window. The car was gone when he came out a few minutes later, so he just went to work.

It had taken most of the prior week to get the lawn and trees looking proper again, the kid they had hired really had been sloppy. He was just finishing up cleaning and lubing the machine when he looked up to see her coming down the hill.

She had on a light halter top and shorts, once again he noticed that she seemed to be much fuller in the bust.

"Want to go sit out on the dock?" She asked, holding up a bottle of wine.

"Sure." He pushed the machine into the little shed and closed the door.

"Where did you go for the Winter?" She asked him as they sat down on the edge of the dock, their feet dangling in the cool water.

"Just on the road, I headed south, then I got a letter from my sister so I went home."

Sec had already told her about his father passing on, and that he had a small inheritance.

"You bought a truck, I saw it." She said.

"Yea, it took most of the money I inherited, but it beats walking."

"I guess so."

Their conversation was a little bit lame, it was like neither one of them knew exactly what to say. Somehow the easiness from the year before was gone.

"I was pretty silly about things last Summer, wasn't I?" She told him.

"Like what?"

"Peeking at you and sneaking in like that, I just had never seen..."

"It's OK. I guess it is just learning about...things." Sec flushed for a moment, remembering how she had been so forward and relaxed when she saw him naked.

"I have grown up some."

"I see that." He laughed, she laughed with him.

"I want to know...You never said why you stopped..you wouldn't...?" Sec could tell she was struggling to find the right words.

"You mean when I didn't make love with you? I couldn't, you told me you were..." Now Sec was struggling to say it.

"A virgin? I was, but I was ready. I wanted to do it so bad, but then you stopped."

Sec didn't say anything.

"I thought you didn't like me."

"I liked you just fine, in fact, I was falling in love with you!" Sec blurted out before he could stop himself.

"Really?" Alice suddenly acted delighted.

"I was thinking that I was in love with you, too."

"I just couldn't, you were so young and innocent, I was thinking we should be..you should be married first."

"Married? That's what my Dad always says, but then he has a different girlfriend every month, sometimes more than that. Say, did you just say you wanted to marry me?" She turned to flash him a big smile.

"I'm not..I don't have anything to offer someone like you."

"Oh, don't be silly. Sure you do! You are handsome and kind and you work hard, that's a lot right there."

"What about Phillip?"

"I like Phillip and he told me he wants us to be together but I just don't know. He even asked Daddy if he could ask me to marry him, Daddy thought it was a fine idea since he is from a good family and all."

"So what did you say?" Sec asked, his heart sinking.

"I told him I wasn't sure and I wanted to finish school first."

"Oh." Sec said, feeling a bit relieved.

"I better go back to the house now." Alice jumped up. She started to head up the hill, then she stopped and turned back to him.

"You should have, you know? Then I wouldn't be confused, and all...ruined. Daddy always told me I should be...pure when I pick the man I want to marry but now I'm not!" 

Sec knew what she meant. 

"Sec? You should have, you really should have!" Her eyes formed tears, she looked at Sec for a moment and then took off running.

Sec thought he understood. She had been his once, and he had stopped. Now? He still wasn't sure, any more than he had been back then.

He went inside the lake house, made himself a dinner, then later on went to bed. The next morning he got up early, and went to work.

Saturday he saw Phillip's car coming up the drive. The man got out and went inside. He had on a light colored pullover, dress slacks. He just appeared to be well off, the way he carried himself. Later he saw Phillip and Alice sitting outside on the deck, with her father and a redhead he had never seen before. Sec kept busy working in the yard.

He was finishing the mower and putting it away when he looked up again to see Alice and Phillip walking down the hillside.

"Phillip, this is Sec." She introduced them. Phillip shook his hand, eying him. The grip was strong. Sec realized that Phillip was a good three inches taller than he was.

"Odd name, what does it stand for?" Phillip asked him.

"Just Sec, that's what I go by."

Phillip nodded, then appeared to be bored.

"Well, let's go boating, honey." He said.

They headed for the dock, Alice took a long look back at Sec, then they went down and climbed on the sailboat. Sec watched as he expertly took the boat out across the lake, soon they were beyond sight around the bend.

He was hauling a trailer load of clippings down to the big compost bin when he saw the boat returning several hours later.

The next thing he noticed was that Alice appeared to be upset. She took off up the hill, Phillip right behind her. He reached out and grabbed her arm, pulling her to a stop. She tugged to get loose, but he held on fast, saying something with an angry expression. Alice had a look of pain mixed with fear on her face.

Sec climbed off the machine and headed over there.

"Hey, let go of her!" He told Phillip.

"Mind your own business!" The man glared at him.

"I said let go of her!" Alice was still struggling, tears now streaming down her cheeks.

Phillip let go and turned to Sec.

"And I told you it's none of your business!"

"I won't stand by and let you man handle her!"

"What are you going to do about it?" Phillip said, then he moved and Sec's head exploded. The man had flicked out a backhand and hit him in the mouth, it was a total surprise.

In the background he heard Alice scream at Phillip, by then he had recovered and was wading in. He found himself almost instantly on the ground, from being kicked up side the head. He tasted blood in his mouth.

Managing to get to his feet, he saw Phillip standing there in an odd looking stance, his hands open and held high, one leg back. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Alice with her hand to her mouth.

He reached for Phillip, came up with nothing, then he was hit again in the stomach, knocking his breath out of his body. But he managed to close one hand on a wrist, so he jerked him forward and off balance. There was a short struggle as Phillip tried to tear his wrist loose, then Phillip brought his free hand down across Sec's wrist.

That hurt like hell, but Sec also didn't let go. Grabbing Phillip, he got him into a bear hug, hooking his leg he turned him, taking him down to the ground. 

He got several more slaps to the head in the process, but ended up on top. Several elbows came up and batted his head, he was now tasting blood. Phillip tried to force his head forward, but Sec shoved hard and managed to get some room to swing. He drove one fist straight down, missing, but when Phillip rolled to avoid that Sec got his arm around his throat.

The rough and tumble episodes he had when he was a mining camp policeman served him well, he got his legs hooked over Phillip's from behind, folded his elbow around his throat and drew him back. When Phillip tried to spin over, Sec clamped down, using his other arm to tighten his grip.

There was no match at all in pure strength. When Phillip kicked both legs to try and get free, Sec got his legs hooked over him, then he bore down on his own wrist.

It was over in moments, he felt the man go limp, so he released him.

"What the hell was all that about?" He asked Alice after he got to his feet. He glanced down at the back of his hand, it was smeared with blood from his face.

"He wanted to..wanted sex....he insisted. When I told him no he got mad at me." Sec looked at her face, spotting a red welt and a tiny trickle of blood from her nostril. He hadn't realized that Phillip had slapped her. Her arm had an ugly bruise on it, too.

"Come on." He took her hand, they went into the lake house. He got some ice and a soft towel, she held it to her cheek.

"Just a minute." Sec went outside to check on Phillip, he was now sitting up groaning.

"Probably best you leave." He told him. Then he saw Henry headed down the hill, with a short crowbar in his hand.

"See to Alice, I will take care of this one." He told Sec. Phillip was just getting to his feet, still struggling to get a breath, he saw the old man and the crowbar and it was obvious he didn't like the looks of that. He turned and started up the hill, Henry right behind him.

Sec nodded and went back inside. Alice was sitting there crying, holding the cold towel to her cheek.

"He won't hurt you any more." Sec told her, sitting down beside her.

Phillip was gone soon after that, he wanted no part of old Henry and her Dad Ron had a few short words for him that he understood perfectly.

Alice's Dad then walked down and thanked Sec, shaking his hand. That was only the third time they had ever really spoken.

"Alice says she likes you, I see why. I thought that Phillip was a good match for her, since he is from a good family and all, but I see he turned out to be quite an ass."

Sec just nodded.

"By the way, Phillip is really into martial arts, he is the college heavyweight champion, how did you...?"

"I was a cop in a mining town."

"Oh." Ron just grinned. 

"Well, thanks."

Sec nodded again.

The next payday, Sec got a nice raise. Alice had gone back to school, it was almost two months before he saw her again. 

One morning he got up, went in to take a shower. He heard a noise, then the door opened as someone came into the bathroom. Sliding the glass door open to see what was going on, he saw Alice standing there.

"Hello." She smiled.

"Alice, what are you doing?"

"I came down to see you, I will be here for three whole days."

"You could have waited until I finished taking my bath."

"No, I couldn't." She reached down and tugged her pullover top over her head. In one quick motion she hooked her slacks and had them down, stepping out of them.

"Move over." She grinned at him.

Sec moved over.

"This is just like I remember." She told him, soaping his genitals.

"These got bigger!" Sec said, his hands coming up to her breasts. They explored for a very long time, rinsing off finally as the water began to cool.

After drying each other with some towels, she led him back into his bedroom. Sec was as fully erect as it was possible to be, she pushed him back on the bed, her hands all over him.

"You won't stop this time, will you?" She asked.

"Not unless you want me to." He answered.

"I wanted you to be the first, but you won't be."

"I know, it's all right."

"Are you sure? I want you to now be the only one."

"I want that, too." Sec told her, and he meant it.

"Oh, and I asked Daddy."

"Asked him what?"

"If I could have you...for keeps."

"What did he say?"

"He just hugged me and told me I could do a lot worse."

Sec's body felt like it was on fire, his fingers gently probed between her legs as she sat, straddling him. Then she lifted up and scooted higher, reaching down to spread herself, she slipped over him. It was a struggle, for a moment he thought it was impossible, but finally she settled down.

Sec paused when he saw her face tighten up in a wince, then she began to move. It was slow at first, then Alice started to moan. Somehow they managed one of those rare joint climaxes, it was like his own set hers off.

She collapsed, pressing herself flat against him. In a few minutes, Sec felt himself soften and he slipped out.

Alice rolled over with a sigh. Sec looked down and saw the small puddle of blood.

"I thought you said...?" He asked.

"I did. I let him, sort of..but it was so small that I don't think...Yours is like a Polish sausage and his was like a..hot dog." Alice grinned at him.

"I guess so." Sec got up and found a towel for her. Then he rejoined her on the bed.

"Say, do you know what month next month is?"

"Sure, it's June, why?"

Alice just grinned at him.

"Oh!" Sec did know about that, women all wanted to get married in June, although he had no idea why.

"So maybe I can move in here with you?" She tilted her head onto his shoulder, looked up at him.

"I..I don't make much money, how am I going to support....?"

"Hey, we get room and board and we don't need much money."

"What is your Dad going to say?"

"Daddy will be just fine, he likes you. It's Henry you need to watch out for."

Henry? Yes, there was that, he did act a bit protective of Alice.

"Henry will be tickled." Alice smiled at him.

"Alice, I really do love you but I don't have much to offer you." Sec knew what he wanted, but how could he compete in the world that she knew?

She really was a different kind of woman.

It was quite a surprise when he reluctantly let Alice drag him up to the main house. Her Father Ron was there.

"Daddy, Sec and I want to get married!" She announced proudly. The man didn't seem the least bit surprised.

"Well, you could do a lot worse. When?" He shook Sec's hand, gave Alice a hug.

"Next month!" Alice told him.

Ron frowned.

"Do you have any education?" He asked Sec.

"High school."

"We can fix that. Then maybe you can get married." He grinned at them.

"Daddy?"

"I mean it, honey. There is more to life than just sex. I assume you two are...?"

"Daddy!" Alice exclaimed again as Sec blushed from the top of his head to the tip of his toes.

"You be quiet now!" Ron just looked at her, a firm expression on his face. Alice started to open her mouth to protest, then she shut up.

Ron turned to Sec.

"So what do you want to do with your life, son? What do you know how to do?"

"I was a policeman once, and..well..what I do around here."

"Policeman? Yes, you said in a mining camp? Did you like it?"

"Yes, I did." Sec admitted.

"Well, then. How about planning for a career enforcement?"

"I can do that now."

"Not without an education. Nobody will hire you. You can go to college, I can get you in anywhere. Then we will see what happens. Meanwhile, you kids aren't getting married."

"Daddy!" Alice tried one last time, her father just looked at her.

"I mean it, honey."

"I never saw Daddy like that before." Alice sniffed as they walked back down to the lake house.

"He just wants what is best for you."

"I guess so, but you are what is best for me!"

"I think I should go to school, I can't mow grass and clip bushes the rest of my life."

Sec started classes just six weeks later, using the dab of cash he had saved up. It was just a local community college, but it was a start.

When Alice came home for visits, that was the high point of his life, he missed her terribly when she was away. During the Summers he worked days taking care of the estate, during the Winter he worked at a local gas station.

He noticed that as Alice matured she also filled out, the slender girl he had met that day at his camp became rounder and fuller, a beautiful young woman. The tousled hair and blue jeans vanished, she now was always well dressed. 

Her father never once showed any signs of being upset when Alice stayed with him at the lake house. Their bedroom sessions became practiced, and good. On those rare weekends, they were like an old married couple, then in between were the long weeks alone.

Their relationship was a few days of wild sexual activity, then long weeks without seeing each other at all. Sometimes there were phone calls, ending with drawn out tearful goodbyes.

Two years later, Sec had the Associate's degree in hand. He also won a small scholarship, that with his careful savings barely covered a larger State college.

It was a serious change in lifestyle, Sec managed to land a job working at a shipping center, it paid fairly well so he could afford a small apartment.

He met several women classmates, but he never dated any of them. He instead waited for the brief times with Alice.

One day blended into the next, he still saw Alice for only a few days, then she went back to her own school. A few times he visited her but the trip costs were hard on his finances. Alice lived in an all woman's dormitory, one trip he noticed the odd looks from some of her friends.

It was almost like they disapproved of him? Every single one of them looked expensive, from well off families.

That made him uncomfortable, he mentioned it to her.

"Oh, they are all uppity, don't worry about them." She told him.

Sec was 26 when he finally had the degree enforcement. Alice wasn't there that day when he graduated, she had now missed several of their breaks. She did call and tell him that she had some "meetings." 

Sec had felt the changes, but there was nothing he could do about it. He instead buried himself completely in the schoolwork.

He already had the job lined up with the Sheriff's department in the County that he had almost come to consider home. He was planning on surprising her with that.

He was wearing his uniform the day he drove up to the main house. Alice's father Ron answered the door, he grinned when he saw Sec.

They sat and visited for quite awhile, Sec asked about Henry. Henry was getting old but still working, plus he had seen the young Mexican out working in the yard.

"So how long has it been since you saw Alice?" Ron finally asked him.

"Three weeks, maybe a month, I guess. She doesn't call much anymore, and is almost never there when I call. She doesn't even know I am going to be working here, I don't think."

"You know she has been dating, right?"

"Yes, I figured that."

"She needs to know about the world, back then...when you two...she was too young, I think I spoiled her."

Sec nodded, he felt miserable.

"Alice always got her way when she threw a fit, I finally had to set down on her."

Sec nodded again.

"What about you, son? What do you want?"




A Different Kind of Woman



"I guess I just need to...make my way in the world."

"You are doing fine. By the way, Alice will be home in two weeks for the Summer. Come and see her, see what happens?" He stood up, shook Sec's hand again.

"Life has a way of seeing to it that things work out for the best if you let it." Ron told him.

Sec went back to work. The town was quiet, and the rules were far different here than what he had known at the mining camp. He knew that the County would probably throw a fit if he slapped someone silly for creating trouble. That all seemed to be a lifetime ago.

He was sitting just off the highway in his big cruiser when he saw the little silver sports car go by. It was flying, he took off in pursuit. It was nearly four miles down the road when he caught up.

"Sec! I didn't know you were already working here." Alice smiled at him. Sec glanced at the young man sitting in the passenger seat, he was wearing a business suit. Alice had on a loose top, it was unbuttoned way too far. She also had on a short skirt, a lot of her legs were bare.

"You were moving way too fast, Alice."

"Are you going to write me a ticket?" She grinned up at him.

"It's warning, you need to slow it down." He told her. He scribbled out the form, handed it to her.

"See you later." He told her, turning to go back to his cruiser.

"Sec!" She opened the door and got out. He stopped and looked at her. Alice was well dressed, she had on makeup, she looked...expensive?

"I want you to know...I am sorry? Things..change."

"I know. It's all right." Sec went back to his cruiser. Alice got back in the car, she said something to the man with her, he looked back with a scowl.

Sec watched as the little sports car drove away. Sitting in silence surrounded by his thoughts, he felt a tear slip down his cheek.

One day he drove into the station at the end of his shift. The day had been completely boring, just one small fender bender and a call about a barking Dog. He had also picked up a meal and delivered it to old lady Harrision that was housebound in a wheelchair.

He was in his own car on the way to his house when he saw a man running down the street. Glancing over, a woman was screaming. It took a moment, Sec realized the man had the woman's purse. He spun his older Chevy and gave chase. At a corner, the man tried to turn towards a park, Sec slammed to a stop and took off after him.

In just a few strides he caught the man and took him down. The struggle was brief. He used the zip ties he always carried to secure the man's hands, then making him lean over the trunk he reached for his radio to call it in.

A city officer showed up in minutes, took the man into custody. Then Sec went over to the woman, who was standing there sobbing, frightened.

"Here, miss." He told her, handing her the purse.

"Oh, thank you!" She said, looking up at him. That was when Sec recognized her, she was one of the secretaries on day shift staff at the station. He had noticed her, her name was Kathleen, a pretty brunette.

"Here, let me give you a lift home." He told her.

"Thank you." She got into his car and directed him to her house. It was just a half dozen blocks.

"I always walk to work, it's so close. I never dreamed...."

"We do have a few bad ones around, you need to be careful." He told her. She thanked him again, got out and went inside, waving with a smile before she closed the door.

The next day Sec stopped and chatted with her briefly before going on shift, that evening he asked her if he could drive her home.

Over the next couple of weeks, he drove her home each night.

Then one evening she asked him inside.

"I want you to meet my Mom." She smiled.

"And my little girl, Mary." She gave him a sidelong glance to see his reaction. There wasn't any, Sec had already heard about that, and the husband that had been lost in Iraq.

Her Mom was a white haired older lady, the little girl was about three. She was sitting on the floor, playing with some cardboard boxes.

They visited, then she came out onto the porch with him.

"You really are a nice guy, aren't you?" She asked him, stepping closer.

Sec didn't know how to answer that, then she slipped into his arms and they kissed. That made Sec's head swim, it had been a very long time since he had kissed anyone. It wasn't the eager open mouthed mashing of lips like it had been with Alice, instead her lips were pursed, it was almost....polite?

Four months later they were married. Nearly every policeman for miles around was there, it was one hell of a party.

That night they walked into the bedroom at Sec's house. He felt mildly nervous, to that point all they had ever done was kiss. Sec didn't want it to end up wrong, he never did more than just hold her and kiss her.

He wanted their joining to be...right?

"Can we turn the lights down?" She asked, a blush on her face.

"Sure." Sec walked over and turned the switch off, the only light in the room was from an outside street light on the corner.

He turned to her, she began to undress.

"Let me do that." He told her. Kathleen let her arms drop, he unbuttoned the simple blouse she wore at the after wedding party, then slid it off her shoulders. Unhooking the bra, he slid it forward, then reached up to stroke her heavy breasts. They were very soft, with a slight sag.

Kathleen blushed mildly, a shy smile on her face.

He gently urged her onto the bed, then undressed himself. She reached down for him, finding him completely erect. She gasped at the first touch. Until that very moment they had not been nude with each other, they had not even petted any.

"Oh, God! I didn't realize. I don't know if I can...."

"You can. It will be just fine." He said, taking her in his arms.

Kathleen's stomach was also soft, there was a slight swelling there. He traced the faint scars with a fingertip. He slid the undergarments off her hips, then nuzzled her body for a long time. She kept a firm grip on his erection.

Their joining that first time took quite a bit of effort, he felt her wince in pain at first, then finally she relaxed. For just an instant, that first time with Alice crossed his mind, then that faded quickly.

It was sweet, comfortable after that. The next morning, he slid the covers off of her sleeping body. She lay curled up beside him, her breath coming in small snores.

He saw a mature woman lying beside him, her body so different from the lithe and athletic one of Alice.

He did feel mildly ashamed of thinking of Alice at that moment, then the thought of her faded as Kathleen woke up. He felt his head spin with love as a soft smile crossed her lips. She glanced down at herself, them back at him.

"Morning honey. What are you doing?"

"I am checking out my prize!" He grinned at her.

She laughed with delight, then jerked the covers back, reaching out for him just like she had the night before.

"I didn't know that men even had things like this!" She giggled, playing with his erection.

Their lovemaking that morning was more urgent, active.

Just a month later Sec put money down on a nice four bedroom house with some acreage. That gave them room for her mother and little Mary, and perhaps more later.

The next year, Sec ran for the County Sheriff position and won. The results put him ahead by just 67 votes. He had spotted the big ads in support on him, it took him awhile to figure out that many of those came from Alice's father, Ron.

He also saw the ads from his competitor, they had searched out and found about some of his early life and used that against him.

It didn't work, Ron's team presented him a regular guy, one who had prevailed against long odds, and honest to a fault. There had been a few small scandals about the last Sheriff over the 20 plus years he had held the post. For one thing, he lived in a half million dollar home overlooking the County seat, and that was never really explained as fitting a Sheriff's salary.

Ron even sent someone down to drive old lady Harrison to the polls, wheelchair and all.

Things like that helped a lot.

The former Sheriff shook his hand, telling Sec, "I never should have hired you!" Then he laughed and left.

Sec drove out later to thank Ron.

"You were the best choice, Sec. The least I could do is support you."

"How is Alice?" Sec asked.

"She married that stockbroker, I guess she is doing fine." There was a hint of sarcasm in his voice. Sec let that slide. 

Life as the County Sheriff was a big improvement, it meant higher pay and respect. Sec was completely happy with Kathleen, too. He seldom thought of Alice until one day he read in the local paper about her high profile divorce.

He shrugged at that, then his mind flashed back to all of the good times. But he was far too busy with his work, and with evenings at home carefully rubbing Kathleen down with Cocoa butter to keep her from developing stretch marks.

Kathleen got extremely big, her navel poked out a full inch. He delighted in tickling it, getting her to giggling.

The twin boys arrived right on schedule. He took a lot of ribbing around the station, his men making wisecracks about "doubling" up and his "Cannon" being overloaded. 

Kathleen quit her job at the station to care for the household.

Just one short year later the twin girls arrived.

That really did increase the good natured ribbing.

The quiet evenings at home changed to mayhem.

The crew he hired to build the additions on their house were very efficient, they had it up and finished in less than a month.

Their home now had seven bedrooms, although at first they kept the two sets of twins together in their own rooms.

Life became very busy in just a few short years. They hired a live in helper, a big boned Swedish woman named Nikola. She was wonderful with the kids, in short order she became part of the family. Sec outfitted her quarters with a stove, fridge, TV set so she could live privately.

She spent nearly all her time living with them as part of the family anyway.

His life was settled, good.

One day he was sitting in his office going over the reports when the intercom went off.

"There is a lady to see you. She says it is a private matter?" His receptionist said.

"OK. Send her in." 

Alice walked in, smiled at him and sat down. He instantly noticed her blouse, it was unbuttoned way too far. He was mildly surprised, she appeared to be much older than he would have expected, even the careful makeup couldn't hide that.

"Hello, Sec."

"What can I do for you, Alice?" Sec was careful to keep himself completely calm in that manner he had learned sitting in a tight jail cell so many years before. Just the sight of her caused those same old reactions in his body, he had no control over that.

"I just wanted to see you, see how you are doing."

"Kathleen and I are doing fine." He told her.

"Four kids, I hear?"

"Five, actually." He said.

"I would have loved it if they had been mine." She said flatly.

"I know."

"Do you? Do you really? I think I always loved you, Sec. I think I always will."

"Well, the truth is that I always loved you, Alice. I still do, but I also love Kathleen."

"There is no chance that you would ever even think of....?" She smiled, one hand idly fiddling with a button on her blouse.

"No." Sec knew what she meant.

"I thought so, although I was hoping...God, I could use a bedroom session like you and I have had." 

"That can't ever happen now, Alice. I will always be true to Kathleen."

"But you did love me, that helps. Well, I just wanted to say hello." She got up.

"Take care of yourself, Alice. Somewhere out there is a man for you, someone can make you happy."

She turned back to him at the door.

"Sec, do you remember that day? Out at the lake?"

"Yes, I will never forget."

"You should have, you know. You really should have. I wanted so badly for you to be the one. It would have changed everything."

"Yes. It might have." Sec said.

"I really do love you, Sec. It just took me too long to realize there isn't anyone like you."

"I love you too, Alice. We will always have those memories."

Alice smiled, then opened her blouse. Her breasts were way larger than he remembered. 

"Something else for you to remember." She let out that same giggle he remembered so well, then she was gone.

That night when he got home, he went directly to the kitchen and hugged Kathleen. She hugged him right back.

"I made a roast." She told him.

"Great!" He answered. So simple, so normal. Sec pushed the thoughts of the past and what might have been out of his head.

Then he went into the living room, sat down with his newspaper and relaxed. For a few seconds he thought of the vision of Alice baring her breasts to him, just like it was something normal. Then he laughed out loud.

"What's so funny?" Kathleen came in and slid into his lap, there was the racket of the kids creating the usual mayhem in the other room.

Sec told her about Alice coming in to his office, and what she had done.

"Well, you can't blame a girl for trying, but you are mine now, honey!" She grinned.

"I also have something to tell you." She said with a smile.

Sec looked at her, he had a pretty good idea.

"I am pregnant."

"Don't tell me, twins again?"

"Nope, just one this time."

"Thank God!" He laughed, holding her close.

"I will get some Coca butter tomorrow." She smiled.

"OK." Sec looked forward to that part, Kathleen always got completely turned on when he rubbed her down.

"Let's eat!" He said, getting up. They held hands and went into the kitchen, Nikola was busy setting food on the table.

His little pangs of memory from time to time of Alice? That certainly was a different kind of woman, he would always remember her.

But he was a different kind of man.