Driver

Part 15

Idyn didn’t need any further encouragement. Picking her up he carried her into the bedroom and undressed her before losing himself in the most intoxicating exchange he had ever experienced.

Later, lying relaxed and sated in Taki’s bed, Idyn said “from the first day I have wanted this.”

She smiled “even when I was yelling at you?”

“Even then” he said. “I haven’t been able to stop thinking about you.”

“Same here” she said “each day I would sit behind you and torture myself by thinking of a new way to corrupt you so you would skip work and come back here with me.”

He grinned “why didn’t you say anything?”
 She shrugged “I didn’t think you would want to, not after the way I behaved. And all the time you could have done it and not even had to explain to anyone” she said in an ironic tone.

“I should have told you who I was in the beginning” he said loving the idea that she had wanted him for as long as he had wanted her. “To be honest, after that first morning I was terrified of making you angry again.”

She laughed. “I like it better this way anyway. I like that you wanted to drive me verses having to.”

“Can I ask you a question?” he said.

“Sure.”

“What happened last night?”

 

Her expression going wry she said “ah that was me being idiotic. It started out as a working dinner. But it turned into a sort of celebration when we worked out a solution to a problem we had been having. So I allowed myself to be talked into going into the club next door for a dance and a drink. Like anytime I drink however, I started to feel sorry for myself.  But this time instead of doing something sensible like going home to wallow in private, I drank even more. Finally I was numb enough not to feel it anymore but then this guy grabbed me and wanted my money. He pissed me off so I fought him. He didn’t like that.”

“What were you feeling sorry for yourself about?”

She looked away and her expression was the same haunted one he had seen before so he knew the answer before she said it. “If I let my guard down, the guilt just engulfs me. I shouldn’t drink, but sometimes the need to be normal is over whelming.”

Idyn pulled her into his arms. He didn’t have any words to make it better so he said nothing and just held her.