Agent for a Cause (The Agents for Good) (5 page)

“You did this!” She slapped my cheek none too softly and mumbled something under her breath.

She left and came back with a needle and thread and to my surprise started re-stitching the wound shut. It stung, but it hurt a whole heck of a lot less than my attempt at closing it up had.

Glancing at her work I commented, “It is quite apparent that you’ve had some experience at this.”

She didn’t look up as she said, “I was well into the second year of my nursing degree when I got pregnant with Kevin. Things fell apart after that. My father disowned me and my family in general won’t have anything to do with me. It got worse after Kevin was born.”

“Kevin’s father?” I asked softly prompting her.

“I made a mistake. I thought there was something more there then there was. I was just another conquest to him. He wouldn’t have anything to do with me when I refused to have an abortion.”

“Anna?”

She glanced up, “He’s the one that made a mistake!”

She glanced down back at her work as she finished up. “Thank you, but I was very foolish and I made a poor decision in a mate. But not this time!”

She said glancing up at me pointedly. She poured the alcohol on the wound and I winced sharply. She’d caught me off guard again as she’d distracted me with her words and eyes.

After I recovered from my grimace of pain I commented as she was bandaging my side up, “You would have made a great nurse.”

Then I added “A lot of girls wouldn’t have made the tough call that you did having Kevin knowing what it would cost you.”

She smiled, “Best thing I ever did was have Kevin! He somehow makes it all worth it. I just wish…” She trailed off.

“Wish what?”

She shook her head and stood up and started cleaning up her supplies, as I put my shirt back on. I started to pick up one gun harness, but she stopped me and I glanced at her to see that she had a spark in her eyes as bright as the jewels that she wore.

“Mr. Tyre our date night is not yet complete.”

I glanced at my watch and saw it was almost ten o’clock.

“Don’t you have to go get Kevin?”

With a gleam in her eyes she grasped the front of my shirt and tugged. I got to my feet not sure what was happening. She led me over to a threadbare couch and pushed me down to sit on it.

“Mrs. Reed doesn’t expect me until 11:30, which is when I usually get home. So you see Mr. Tyre we have an hour and a half to have ours ourselves a good time.”

Her words and movements were pure seduction and I was way out of my league. Her skirt slid up as her knees pressed into the couch cushions to either side of me as she straddled my lap. She unbuttoned the top two buttons of her shirt and I couldn’t take the silence or the situation anymore.

“What are we going to be doing?”

Boy did that ever sounds stupid and pathetic of me, but she only smiled and I tried to hold on to rational thinking processes. Her hands settled on my shoulders as her eyes laughed at me in erotic torment.

“We are just going to kiss Mr. Tyre. Just like this.”

She leaned forward and kissed me solidly on the lips. She pulled back slightly to gaze into my eyes and I felt like I had to be honest.

“I’ve never done anything like this Anna.”

Her expression softened, “I know, but it’s high time that you did. This is the way it’s going to be. We kiss, as I count on you to be the gentleman that I already know you to be.”

She kissed me again.

“Ready for your first couch makeup session Mr. Tyre?” She asked teasingly.

I nodded.

She grasped my hands which were hovering in midair to either side of her and pressed them firmly down onto her hips.

“You can touch Mr. Tyre, but no clothes come off.” She said waving one finger in the air warningly in front of my face.

Her hands slid onto my shoulders as she kissed me again. Both of her hands rose to frame my face. It was a long kiss and she started to pull away and I followed her for a moment.

She laughed softly “I do believe you’re getting the hang of this Mr. Tyre.” She said as she idly ran one finger over my lips with her other hand still holding the side of my face.

Her gaze turned smoky with passion, as she glanced up from my lips she was stroking with a finger to my eyes, “If you desire something more than this Mr. Tyre.”

She took her fingers from my lips and wiggled her empty ring finger. “Two rings and a promise of forever and I’m all yours darling anyway you want me.”

She brought her lips back to mine and this time she didn’t stop the kiss. She was so intoxicating! Why would anyone spend all their fortune on drugs and amusements, when two rings and a promise could give an endless supply of highs whenever needed. I really started to wish I had two rings in my pocket and a preacher in the closet.

Kissing and feeling her was the foundation of a growing addiction. I’d simply never have enough of her! After some time we both pulled back breathing heavily. She rested her forehead on my shoulder.

“Is it always like this?” I huffed out.

She turned her face to me her eyes alive and full of appreciative passion for me, “It’s never been like this! What have you done to me Mr. Tyre?”

What had I done? I didn’t feel like the same person as I was before we had begun this make out session and she was asking me what I had done. She straightened away from me slightly and I saw a sensual gleam spark in her eyes. I felt my breathing pick up in anticipation of what this amazing woman would do next.

Her tone was rich as she idly asked, “So you seemed pretty into this Mr. Tyre? I had you pegged as a bit of a germaphobe.”

She was right there, when it came to people and animals I was very germ conscious, but not so with her apparently. Right now I couldn’t have cared less what germs she harbored. She could have the bubonic plague and I’d still be kissing her and I told her as much.

She chuckled, but then her voice deepened seductively as she asked, “I think you’re ready for this, but if you’re not let me know.”

“What?” I stumbled out with.

She brought her face back to mine to speak directly against my lips. “There are many ways to kiss Mr. Tyre. The French do it something like this.” She breathed out, as she opened her mouth on mine.

Through the fog of passion I felt her startle against me suddenly and then she drew back from me abruptly. I thought her face beautiful all the time, but seeing it now as her lips were swollen, her face all flushed as her hair lay across her eyes, ‘Wow!’ was all I could think.

“I have to go pick up Kevin!”

She was kidding right? I glanced at the clock and it read 11:35!

That had to be the fastest hour and a half of my life, as well as the most meaningful. She was grinning at me now and I wondered why?

“I have to go honey.”

Okay I understood that, she could go I wasn’t stopping her. She laughed softly and shook her head at me teasingly, as she reached back and grasped each of my hands that were gripping the cheeks of her bottom tightly.

I flushed redder than I already was from all the kissing. I hadn’t realized I’d been gripping her so intimately or possessively. She brought my hands up and kissed the palm of each hand.

She didn’t say anything, but her eyes were laughing at me as she slid back off of my lap to stand. She turned to go, but then turned back to me as an earnest look pushed past the passion that still clouded her eyes.

“I’d like it if you’d stay and meet Kevin.”

I nodded and sat up straighter. Her hands twisted together in front of her

“Umm… something you should know about him is that he’s….”

“Autistic.” I said cutting in.

Her eyes widened in surprise, “You already know? You’re okay with that?”

“Yes, why wouldn’t I be?”

A sudden tear slipped out from the corner of her eye and she stepped towards me to lean down and kiss me hard for a moment. Drawing back she whispered “I love you!”

And then she ran from the room and I heard her knock on the door across the hall. I loved her too.

Our story wasn’t like the movies portrayed it. I’d loved her since I’d seen her, not even knowing anything about her. And then she’d surprised me by singling me out and showing me what a good time was.

I believed her that she loved me as unbelievable as that was. I’d go buy the rings right now and line up a date, if I wasn’t so scared. Surprisingly it wasn’t the emotional intimacy and private disclosures that would happen within a marriage that was scaring me. It was the danger that I would bring to her and Kevin, because of my many enemies.

How could I ever live with myself if something happened to her or Kevin, because of something I’d done? It was going to be a hard decision any way I looked at it. I heard a noise and I stood up and turned to see Kevin.

He looked at me for a long moment and then he continued on into the room to a worn out and way outdated desktop computer. He turned it on and sat in the chair in front of it and started to play a game. Anna came up and turned the screen off. He looked up at her and then went to turn it back on, but she stopped him.

“Kevin turn in your seat.”

He obeyed and faced me. There didn’t look to be anything wrong with him physically although he was probably more like seven years old than six. Anna came and stood beside me and took my hand.

“Remember what trust means Kevin?”

The boy nodded.

“This is Mr. Tyre. Mommy trusts Mr. Tyre.” She said holding up our clasped hands as she said those words.

She let go and led Kevin up to me.

“Show mommy that you trust Mr. Tyre, Kevin.”

The boy’s emotionless face glanced up and stared at me for a moment and then the boy placed his hand in mine and I gently closed my fingers over his.

I heard Anna breathe out a sigh of relief, “Good! Whatever Mr. Tyre says, you do it, just like you do for mommy and Mrs. Reed understand?”

The boy nodded.

“You can go back and play your game now.” Anna said softly and the boy did just that.

He gazed at the simple game that came up on the screen and began to play it and I realized that was how he relaxed. Anna came to me and laid her head against my chest and I brought my arms around to hold her. The boy looked from the screen to us and pointed at us.

“He wants something.”

Anna glanced over at Kevin, “He wants to know what we’re doing.”

Anna slipped her arms around me and said, “Kevin this is what love looks like.”

Her words and the feel of her arms settled the dilemma I had been going through. It would be two rings and a promise and may God help me keep them safe from my past! I so wanted to be a part of a family. This family!

The boy turned back to the computer screen, but Anna’s arms stayed where they were and so did mine. We stood there for quite a while.

She drew back, “I’m sorry, it’s late and you need to rest. Thank you for the good time tonight.”

I kissed her and said, “Likewise. Good night Anna. I’ll be here in the morning to help you move.”

She nodded and saw me to the door. I glanced over her to the boy still at the old computer.

“Doesn’t he go to bed?”

She shook her head exasperatedly, “He won’t sleep! I’ve tried everything! He’ll be awake for days! He doesn’t seem to need sleep the way I do.” She said on a defeated note.

I nodded and looked back at her. The way she was looking at me as she leaned with one cheek against the half open door was a clear testament of love that she wouldn’t have been able to deny if she had wanted to.

“Thanks for everything Mr. Tyre!”

I couldn’t help it. I pulled her onto the hall and kissed her again for a long moment. I stepped back reluctantly from her and started down the hall.

“Sweet dreams Mr. Tyre. I know you’ll certainly be in mine!”

She said calling out after me. To me she was a dream, a dream come true. I turned the corner in the hall and stepped into a deep shadowed alcove and waited.

Two hours went by. A little before two o’clock in the morning I heard the sound that I’d been waiting for. The rustling of keys told me that I had hit my mark. I’d seen the look the desk clerk had given to the jewels on Anna. It had been a look of utter greed.

He was fumbling with a set of keys outside Anna’s door and the fool even had a knife clutched in one hand. That was his big mistake!

I shoved my pistol into his back, “Walk!” Startled he dropped both the keys and the knife, with a cry of fear. I picked up both of them. We made our way downstairs and I gave him back the keys.

“Put them on the desk. He reached out to comply and I nailed his hand to the desk with the knife. He shrieked like a girl and I began to pistol whip him savagely with my gun.

When I left he was unconscious his hand still fixed to the front desk by the knife. He was lucky I hadn’t killed him for threatening what I held most dear.

Chapter Five

Good and Plenty

Anna added yet one more item to the overflowing shopping cart. Yes she was splurging, but in a good way. She looked at the items in the cart and felt humbled by what they represented. Other than for a few items just for her, everything else was for Kevin.

She could only imagine what the gluten-free food would do for Kevin. It had killed her for years to not be able to feed him the food that was better for him, but gluten-free food and organic food was expensive and she hadn’t been able to afford much of it. That had all changed since she had crossed the gap with her gentleman stalker and gotten personal.

Kind couldn’t begin to even describe Tyre in her eyes. He was an angel and the answer to prayers that she had long since thought forgotten in the halls of heaven. He was also somewhat of a brutal angel. She’d heard all about what had happened to the front desk clerk this morning from Mrs. Reed.

She had seen the way the man had looked at her necklace and because of it she had slept with one hand on the pistol that Tyre had given her. She needn’t have bothered as Tyre had taken care of the problem, howbeit, somewhat brutally.

She was fully aware that her knight in shining armor had a dark side. How dark she wasn’t sure yet, but she was confident that it would never surface out against her or Kevin.