Part 18 (2/2)
”Thank you Dr John,” Richfield said
didn't matter if she stayed awake a bit later ”Just a ht as well come in I still have some coffee made”
She pulled the bolt on the door and opened it He stood there hesitantly ”Sure it's no trouble, now?” he risked ”No,” she said ”Come in”
He stepped into the house and she closed the door behind hiht the lalow of the lah the roo what had happened to you”
”I had to go to a ? What about?”
He hesitated ”I don' know if I kin tell,” he said ”I proal, was it?” she asked, a sudden concern in her voice
”No,like that”
”Then you don't have to tell o put a fire under the coffee”
When she ca She placed the coffeepot and the cups on the table ”Why didn't you sit down?” she asked
”I jes' looked at your clock over there,” he said ”It's after ten I didn't realize it was so late Mebbe I'd better go”
”Don't be silly,” she said, filling a cup She held it toward hiesture She saw the sudden flush in his face as he took the cup with averted eyes It took her a lanced down at herself The thin cotton nightdress she as alh her and her nipples sprang into life, thrusting thes felt weak and she put a hand on the table to support herself, but she made no move to close the robe His eyes were still averted when she spoke 'Daniel”
He looked at his coffee cup ”Yes, Miss Andrews?”
She felt her heart ha at me?”
He didn't answer for a moment ”Your robe ” He didn't finish
”I want you to look,” she said, her voice sounding strange in her es
He raised his eyes slowly She could see the sudden bulge in his tight-fitting pants The coffee cup trembled in his hand
She moved toward him, took the cup from his hand and placed it on the table ”Have you ever been with a girl?”
His eyes fell again ”No, et excited?” she asked
He didn't answer
”You ,” she said ”You cant walk around like that”
He still didn't look at her ”I jack off”
”Often?”
He shook his head, his face suffused with red ”In the its too bad”
She felt the flood of hs ”What do you think of when you do it?”
He raised his eyes suddenly and looked at her ”You”
”I want to see you,” she said
He didn't ers felt the hard throbbing through the cloth Quickly she unbuttoned his fly The rigid phallus, freed fro ently and looked down
The blood-filled glans see As she looked down, the orgash his body and the heavy white se froer able to support her She sank to her knees before hi her loins Frantically, she pulled at her goith her free hand, exposing her breasts The seainst her flesh ”Oh, my God!”
Half an hour later, they lay naked on her bed, her loins choked with him She drifted in memory and sensation It had never been like this So She felt hinaled the coas his large, round, stonelike testicles, and with her other hand moved his face down to her breast ”Not yet, Daniel,” she whispered ”Slowly Ever so slowly”
He held hiain, it ith the long gentle strokes she loved
”That's better,” she whispered, her body's rhythainst her breast ”You jes' tell me what to do, Miss Andrews,” he murmured ”I'll learn”
Daniel had proved to be an indefatigable lover A bo, uninhibited once set free, he seemed never to tire It seemed to take no effort for hias More than once she had been surprised at his readiness One time she had touched hihed ”My God, Daniel, do you walk around like that all the time?”
He still hadn't lost the ability to blush His face turned red, and he smiled ”Does seem like that at times Miss Andrews Don't it?”
The one habit she hadn't been able to break hi her as Miss Andrews Not even in theirlike a bull and she was screaasm, had she been able to ave up Somewhere in the back of his mind she would always be his teacher
Outside the bedroom he had never crossed the line He read, studied the books and lessons she gave hi ability to learn and coht had surprised her al The speed hich he absorbed ideas had begun to make her wonder just hoell equipped she was to educate awith the schoolbooks froone as far as she would be able to take him
But the months they had been lovers had see about ould happen with the lessons It was getting toward the end of May, and in a little while school would be closing and she would go home, perhaps never to return to the school Or him That too she would not let herself think about
She closed her eyes when he slipped into his trousers and went outside A fewsound of the axe, and she drifted off into a warh the openthat awakened her, It was the silence She lay still for a er heard the sound of the axe She glanced at the clock near the bed It was only a few ht Usually he didn't finish before ten o'clock
She rose from the bed and looked out theDaniel, the axe still in his hands Was talking to a stranger The man's back was to her, so she could not see what he looked like, but his clothes were torn and covered with dirt While she atching, Daniel put down the axe and started toward the house The rabbed for a robe, then went into the other rooot there, Daniel entered, the ht behind hiely veiled, a grayish pallor under his skin It was almost as if he hadn't seen her
”Daniel,” she said, suddenly aware of an unknown dread
He blinked rapidly a few times 'Miss Andrews” His voice seemed e”
She looked at the man He was alrowth of beard stippled his face, and there were dark hollows under his eyes His shi+rt and pants were torn and dusty, and his shoes were covered with mud He took off his sweat-stainedhead ”Ma'a,” she replied She turned back to Daniel ”Daniel, is there anything wrong?”
He didn't answer her question ”Mr Craig's been travelin' fer three days an' two nights Would it be all right if n we fix 'im somethin' to eat?”