Vicki Delany by Valley of the Lost

Author:Valley of the Lost
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-09-09T17:42:36+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Lucky Smith was making up baby formula when she heard the familiar car turning off the road into their long driveway. She looked out the kitchen window. The tomato plants were heavy with red fruit—if she didn't get out there soon, they'd be nothing but a rotting mess—and the lettuce beds overflowed. Weeds were moving in on the spinach and chard, like an army that's discovered the enemy's sentinels sleeping. Andy's car rounded the corner and parked in its usual place beside the big red cedar. It was early for him to be home from the store. She was pleased to see that he wasn't carrying an armload of work for her to do.

Miller was awake, but for once he wasn't screaming, just watching the sunlight play with the mobile Lucky had strung over his bed. Sylvester was taking his afternoon nap beside the pram. Alone in the Smith family, Sylvester seemed to like having the baby around, and Lucky had moved his bed from its usual place in the master bedroom into the kitchen.

Without even bothering to shut the door Andy gathered Lucky into his arms in a big bear hug. He tired to lift her, as if he was about to swing her off the ground in the way he used to. But he was too fat, and too unfit, to pick her up and Lucky was too heavy to be picked up. Instead he patted her ample bottom.

"What on earth?" she said with a laugh, "has gotten into you?

And what are you doing home in the middle of the day?"

"Molly here?"

"No. She took an extra shift."

He gripped her by the buttocks and pulled her hips toward him.

"I knew that. I saw her in town. She was in uniform and with John Winters. I realized that my luscious wife was at home. Alone." He nuzzled her neck and lifted one hand to grip her breast.

To Lucky's considerable surprise she felt a bulge in Andy's pants. "You dirty old man," she said with a laugh. It had been a long time since they'd had sex outside of their bedroom after the ten o'clock news. In the early days they lost customers when Andy would put the closed sign on the shop door and join Lucky in the storage closet. But soon they accumulated children, and employees, regular hours and responsibilities.

Lucky loved having her nipples stroked. She pushed her chest forward, as Andy's fingers tightened their grip. "Do you remember the first time," she murmured in his ear, "on the side of the hill, the lights of the city."

"Where you wouldn't let me do it, because I didn't have a condom?"

"But you made me happy, anyway. I remember that."

They had been students at the University of Washington.

Young, in love, with each other and with radical anti-war politics.

She kissed him, deeply, full on the lips. He wasn't exactly the handsome, thin student, with hair as long and pale as that of a fairy princess, whom she'd fallen in love with long ago.

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