Part 49 (1/2)
”Then what is it?”
'I would like a son who feels as I feel Who dreams the way I used to when I was a boy, who senses the beauty in people and things around hiical explanations”
''Couldn't a girl feel like that?”
He smiled ”I suppose so But it will be a boy”
''Will you be unhappy if it is a girl?”
”No”
She was silent for a ot out of bed and looked at herself in the , but my breasts are”
He s breasts?”
He laughed ”I like your breasts”
She reached for a robe ”I'll go downstairs and get breakfast started''
”Mamie will do it”
”I like to do breakfast for you She does everything else”
He walked over and put his ar,”
”I hope not,” she said, kissing his cheek
He slipped his hands inside her robe, cupping her breasts They were strong and heavy in his fingers; he felt her nipples hardening and the corresponding surge in his loins ”Co toward him ”You'll be late for work”
He pulled the robe down fro the milky whiteness of her breasts He lowered his head to the at the ch”cle of her flushed aureole ”Not if you let Math as they s cliuided him into her
''Daniel,” she whispered, her eyes half closed ''It's so good So good So good”
Only Junior was at the table when she caie Mother,” he said, s back as she went to the stove and helped herself to a cup of coffee She caone to work?”
He nodded ”He's dropping Mamie off at theback to school on Monday?”
He laughed ”If you two lovebirds can be trusted to un calling him that after they met Short for Daniel Junior, it sounded better to her than Junior alone He retaliated by calling her Maggie Mother, but there was a genuine liking between them, a respect for each other's love of the ht”
DJ looked at her
”So hiun in a shoulder holster under his jacket”
”He say anything to you?”
She shook her head ”No If I ask, he says he's always done that”
”That's true I reoing on, DJ? I'm not a child, no matter what he thinks, I'm his wife”
”Father doesn't confide in ht for aout in support of the UMW after the riots and trouble in Jellico a couple of o”
'I>o you think they would threaten him?”
DJ shook his head 'I shouldn't think so That's the kind of war he's been in all his life”
''What could it be, then?”
DJ looked at her ''Now you've got me worried”
”I didn't mean to do that,” she said The tears came to her eyes ”I worshi+p him You know I do He's the most wonderful man I've ever known”
He spoke aardly ”Maybe it's nothing He's always carried a gun Maybe we're creating so now Softly Quietly ”I want to help him I want to talk to him But I don't kno He knows so much more than I do I don't knohat to say”
He reached across the table and patted her hand gently ”You jirst relax, Maggie Mother Getting yourself all upset isn't going to do the baby any good”
”You're just like your father,” she sniffed, the beginnings of a s at her lips ”That's just what he would say”
”Maybe that is what he would say,” DJ adh I wish I were”
Daniel parked the car in the alley behind the warehouse, walked up the rickety back stairs and knocked on the iron fire door Three times quickly, then one knock
The door opened quickly A heavy set ins?”
Daniel nodded
”This way”
Daniel followed the athering nothing but dust, then up another staircase at the far side of the building He went through another steel door and now they were in an office At a long table were a nu slips of paper They didn't look up as the twotable around which were gatheredslips of paper, they were counting money Bills and coins, the coins set in a machine that rolled thenored as they continued through into the next room