here working with Michael and thought I’d come bug you for a bit. Do you have a few minutes you can spare for a visit?”
I didn’t want to mess with his schedule. Wyatt was like me with his schedules and routines.
“For you Helen, I’ll call off the entire day.”
“No, don’t do that. Whatcha got going today that requires a receptionist?”
Wyatt looked at the woman at the desk and smiled.
“This is Millie; Millie, this is Helen, our boss.”
“So please to meet you Helen,” Millie said as she presented her hand to me. I took her hand and smiled.
“Like wise, I’m sure.” I said which seemed to have an affect on Wyatt.
“Millie is training to be my secretary and she’s coming along very well.” Wyatt informed me.
“How many more interviews do we have today?”
Wyatt was asking Millie even though I was pretty sure that Wyatt knew exactly what was left on his agenda for the day.
“You have just one this morning, in about a half and hour and then two after lunch.” Millie reported.
“Millie if the appointment gets here earlier than they’re scheduled for would you please have them sit until I come for them?”
Wyatt cleared the way for us to go into the office and chat.
He wrapped his arm around my shoulders and tried to guide me into the office. I turned in his arms and took up a dance stance. He got it immediately and joined the dance embrace. I sang.
“All you have to do is touch my hand, to show me you understand and something happens to me, it’s some kind of wonderful.”
Wyatt danced me into the office and we danced all around the room until I finished the song.
We spent the next half hour talking about design and Wyatt and the possibility of Wyatt going to San Francisco for a stock holders meeting for one of the businesses of the ‘New Holdings’. The idea of Wyatt visiting me in the states made me feel good for the rest of the time that we were together.
While leaving I asked Wyatt if I came by again before I left could he make time for a catch. He said that he’d love to. We hugged and Wyatt kissed the top of my head.
Before I went to see Miles in the servant’s quarters, I glanced at Millie.
“It was nice to meet you Millie.”
I keyed in the code to get into the servants quarters but I was unsure of what I would find. Miles Henley was my benefactor who had died the year before but I’d had a sexual relationship with him after he was dead. Even though I wouldn’t have sex with him again because of my relationship with Charlie, I was still hoping to see him and to visit and give him news of Tut.
As I entered the private hallway and then into the living room old familiar feelings came back to me. The place had a home like feel to it for me. It had been a haven in times of need and it was where I met Tut, my sweet Tut.
Standing in the living room and feeling the stillness all around, I called to Miles to let him know that I was there.
“Miles, it’s Helen, are you here? I’d love to see you.”
There was no response so I ventured into the dining room and then further in to Miles’ bedroom. When I opened the door I was at first startled to see him but then elated. He kind of drifted over to me and I smiled and wrapped my arms around him in a ‘hello hug’.
He started to unbutton my blouse as was his pattern if he wasn’t already in bed waiting for me. I stopped his progress and told him that Charlie was back in my life and I couldn’t cheat on Charlie even with a really good looking dead man.
Miles laughed and then he kissed the top of my head – there’s something about the top of my head that the men in my life end up kissing me there.
Miles was happy to hear about Tut and that Tut got along well with Charlie. He told me that it was obvious that I was being satisfied regularly but he would miss our times together and would lament often about not ever being able to be with me again. Miles was actually saying good bye.
He told me that he wouldn’t be there the next time I visited because he was moving on. He could move on because he knew that both Tut and I were taken care of. He thanked me for the good sex that we shared and said that he would brag about it in heaven.
Our good bye said I exited the side door of the servant’s quarters so that I could head toward the fence and the little gardens on that side. Plus I wanted to scale the mysterious garden wall again and view the vista from atop of that wall.
I ran through the yard touching as much of the foliage as I could while I passed by. When I got to the fence, I traveled the entire length of it to the big street and then back again. On the run I took the wall and was at the top in a matter of heart beats. Once up there my breath came fast and excited because of the glorious view and the strange London sky.
The scents of all the surrounding gardens could be detected from up on that wall and I breathed it all in and felt the communication coming my way on the air currents. Raising my arms to the sky in a melodramatic kind of move, I caught a glimpse of Ricky and laughed.
Ricky was inviting me for an adventure on the currents. I didn’t see the red spark until after I’d jumped. The tormented air moved in a jerky and chaotic fashion but the falling was nearly pleasant as I tried my best to relax and go with interest where Ricky was sending me. After the turbulence and the dizzying decent I was back on board the ship with Michael.
It was the day that Michael decided that the only way to satisfy the reconnect was to complete our connection and get inside of me. Again I got glimpses of Michael’s thinking.
“To bad I didn’t get hooked up with her sister; that I could get behind. I bet I could get her sister to complete the connection. Helen, who does she think she is that she won’t have sex with me? Does she think she’s something special?”
The thoughts in Michael’s head were critical of me but that wasn’t new. I could see in my recall that he was irritated with me over not just having a quick poke. Because he was sure that would answer what the reconnect was asking of us.
When I woke up it was dark and I was on the ground at the base of the wall and I couldn’t move. While I laid there forcing myself to breathe slowly and relax, I waited for my strength to return. The other times Charlie was with me and he seemed to help me gain my strength back just by holding me.
I felt them coming through the fingers of the reconnect that reached out to me and then I heard them. Michael and Lu were walking the path and calling my name.
My voice was nearly inaudible but I tried.
“I’m here, help me please, I’m here.”
Then Michael was kneeling by me.
“She’s here Lu.”
I heard him call.
“Elena,
