Yes, I was dead. At least I was emotionally soul dead to the world. My heart was dead and had no room for myself else much less anyone else. Yes, I ate meals that had no flavor. I took showers to wash a body with no feelings, no sensations. I worked, I slept, I did all the things you do to keep body and soul in the same general vicinity. Mom Davenport tried for all she was worth to help lighten my grief, but in the end, she had her own grief to deal with. Her only child was gone. I even somehow managed to start and grow my own business. We were small, but we were growing. After the first year of my grief, Dave, my fellow Marine, my best man, and my business partner along with his wife Mattie tried to get me to come out of my stupor and find a girlfriend. It was a fool’s mission. I was lost and that was that. I needed no one to help hook me up. Soon they gave it up too. I used to spend hours just staring at Shellie in a picture sitting in our new car with her baby bump touching the steering wheel. Of course, every small and growing company has its legal issues. To solve those issues we sought out a legal firm who specialized in business matters. For us that firm was Solvang and Associates. Bill Solvang was an acquaintance of mine from college. He was in law while I studied law enforcement. It’s funny how things work out. I no longer had anything to do with the law, and he was building his own law firm. I was happy to throw what business I could his way, when I could. Bill took care of getting us incorporated as an LLC to protect our personal property from loss should our company fail. Then he took over a large portion of our accounting work too. He had hired an accountant just for this purpose. It was a blessing to our little company since we knew shit about payroll and taxes and all that. Dave’s wife Mattie was keeping our books up to then, but was frankly overwhelmed. It was all turned over to Bill’s accountant, Janet Czkowicz. Mattie, for one, breathed a sigh of relief and happily went back to the chore of wife and mom. I never figured out what it was about Janet, but something about her just seemed to draw my attention. Yes, she was an attractive woman. Her hair was a wonderful shade of auburn, looking more the color of a fawn than anything else I could possibly describe. Her hair flowed off her head down to her shoulders in a cascade of curls that absolutely took my breath away. She seemed, at least to me, to have streaks of purest gold running through the strands of her honey delicious hair. Janet’s smile was to die for, her teeth became glowing beacons as her lips parted when she smiled. Oh, those lips, so red, so kinda puffy. I think the work I am looking for is kissable. Her eyes were hazel, and were always filled with light and life. I guess it was her eyes that first attracted me. That shade of hazel along with what seemed to me to be golden flecks in her iris just kept me rapt. I mean, Janet was the whole package. She was about five foot, six or seven inches. Her boobs seemed to me to be about 36 Ds (I was to find out later that I was close, bursa escort she was actually 38D). She had a figure that could stop traffic in front of the AMTRAK station, in down town LA. Janet, to me, seemed to be always to be dressed to be professional at least while on the job. I was seriously smitten by my accountant. As I became more and more aware of my attraction to Janet Czkowicz, I decided I needed to know all I could about a woman I was quickly becoming infatuated with. So, being a good college buddy, I cornered Bill, Janet’s boss, and invited him out to lunch. Bill, being nobody’s fool saw right through me. I must have more resembled a window pane instead of the smooth operator I fancied myself. Actually, Bill shared that it was pretty obvious to the entire firm that I had really fallen for Janet. He told me that she felt very much the same, but being a lady wouldn’t be forward and make a pass at me. Bill also shared that Janet was divorced and had been for several years and that Janet had a daughter, Michelle . My heart took a huge leap at that coincidence. I had to gulp and explain to Bill what had just occurred. Following the lunch with Bill, I began my hunt for Janet. I wanted her now, more than ever. A week later my plotting and planning was complete. Time to put my plan into action. On Monday, I simply walked up to Janet’s desk which we had set up for her in my office suite to use while doing our books once a week, I asked her out on a three day date. A date with two girls. At first, she only stared at me as if I’d lost my mind. Her jaw seemed to hang open as she contemplated the state of my sanity. Just to make matters far more confusing, I held out three weekend, all expenses paid passes to Disneyland. I knew Janet earned well, but she would have considered this, a luxury she couldn’t justify. I had also made reservations at the Frontier Land Lodge on the park grounds with open dates. Two rooms, of course, a double for her and Michelle and another for me. I knew this was going to be a stretch but I was looking for the home run ball. I had Bill’s permission to take his employee out to lunch and ask Michelle what she might think about the whole idea during her lunch time at school. Since I had not ever met Michelle, I was taking a gamble. But knowing that Janet rather liked me secretly helped my confidence. Janet was still looking at me like I was crazy as I lifter her from her desk by her elbow and took her out of the office, down the elevator out the front door of our office building and straight into a limo I had rented for the day. We were whisked away to the nearest McDonalds restaurant where a happy meal was procured. Janet still was seemingly in shock as she told the driver the elementary school where Michelle was a student. Shortly after our arrival, the lunch break bell sounded and it seemed like every kid in Los Angeles jammed into the lunch room where we waited. It was only just a few minutes before Janet started waiving like an idiot at the most gorgeous little girl I had ever seen. Michelle came bursa escort bayan rushing up to her mom. Janet hugged her girl deeply and sighed as only a mom can do. Then Janet made our introductions saying that I wanted to ask her out on a date. Then it was Michelle’s turn to let her mouth hang open. All she said was, “Mom you know I’m still too little to go out on a date.” Janet then explained the deal to her, all the while Michelle’s eyes just got bigger and bigger. When Michelle finally calmed down a bit, I looked at her quite sternly and asked her, “You’re not going to stand me up are you, young lady?” Her baby blues looked up at me with eyes as big as dinner plates and claimed she wanted this more than anything else in the whole wide world. I just smiled as the most beautiful daughter in the whole wide world ran off to share the news of her very first date with all her girlfriends. As Janet and I left the school grounds headed for the limo. I nonchalantly took her hand in mine. She turned her head to me and I turned mine to her and we just looked into each others eyes as an unspoken message passed between us. Words were not necessary. She understood that Michelle was not going to a barrier to us getting to know each other on a deeper level. I also wanted her to feel and to know that I was already totally in love with her child as much as she was. Lunch was at Steward’s Steakhouse, a fairly upscale eatery. Neither of us really had an appetite for food as we just sat at the table, now openly holding hands. I guess we really made goo-goo eyes at one another. I had not felt like this in years, and I was looking at the reason for it across the table from me. I asked her if she was really committed to going back to work this afternoon since it was already 2PM. If asked, “If not, we could go to my place, it’s not too far from here.” She only smiled at me in her feminine way and nodded. She only said, “Lets go, I’ve been waiting for this offer for a long time.” The drive to my place only took a few minutes. I then released the Limo, signed the charge sheet, and opened the security door to my (yes, my) building. We rode the private elevator to the penthouse flat where I humbly abide. Once the elevator doors closed I turned to her, and without asking, Janet stepped into my arms. Our lips met. This first kiss was not a lip crusher. No, it was more a butterfly kiss, A butterfly kiss that started almost without the sensation of pressure. Soon it deepened though. The kiss held its own life. It became us. We became it. The kiss became the KISS as we began to find each other emotionally. We were becoming one. Hell, this was only our first kiss and I was losing my heart and my soul to this woman. All of sudden, Janet screeched as if she had seen the end of the world. The next words out of her mouth were probably predictable knowing who and what she is. “Shit, Don, school is going to be out in twenty minutes and we’re way across town from Michelle’s school.” We flew out of the apartment and hit the parking garage on the run. We were on a escort bursa mission. No fighter pilot in war was more determined to get somewhere on time than Janet and I. We didn’t run any red lights but we sure as hell came close at a couple of intersections. Damn, I thought to myself, I didn’t even get a shoe off her. But then again it didn’t fucking matter. I knew that I did love her and hoped she felt the same about me. What I really had in mind could wait. I did indeed want to make lover to her. Hell!! I really wanted to fuck her brains out! I wanted to make her moan my name in pleasure. Now sitting in the car in front of the school building with five whole minutes to spare, Janet turned to me. She just looked me straight in the eyes and calmly, slowly leaned in laying a kiss on my lips that could have started the San Francisco fire. Tongues dueled as we once again shared our souls. Once we looked up we burst into laughter, Michelle was standing on her tippy toes peeking into the car. It must have looked strange to Michelle because as she got into my beemer, she asked me if I liked her mom. I told her honestly that I liked her mom very much. I drove Janet and Michelle back over to my office where Janet’s car was parked and let the ladies out. Michelle told me all about her day at school and how all her BFFs were like totally jealous of her now, and that her new daddy was pretty cool. As Janet drove away, I knew that life for me was never going to be the same. My heart was no longer mine. It was now the property of Janet and Michelle. Then next three days passed in a total blur for me. I kept calling Janet just to hear her voice as I stupidly asked her again and again if everything was okay. Was there anything else I needed to take care of? Finally, it was Friday. Janet had gotten Michelle excused from school for the day. And I called Janet’s boss, Bill earlier and got her off work that day off as well. Finally, I called my partner in crime, Dave and did not ask to be out; I just told him to not expect me to be, in even though we were expecting possible future clients to come in to tour our operation. Frankly, I didn’t give a rats-ass about the business at that second. Janet and Michelle were way, way more important to me at that moment that even the business. Had Dave given me any gruff and offered to buy me out for $1.25 he would have had a sale. At last Friday was here. The limo showed up promptly at 7:30 am . I boarded quickly with my overnight bag and we were on our way. Next stop Janet’s apartment. When we pulled in, Michelle was at the curb with her pack cutely poised on her back, jumping up and down, She was so damned cute she took my breath away. Her gorgeous mom was right behind her trying to hold the jumping bean down. Janet looked totally awesome too. She had on a pair of jeans and a sweat shirt. But damned, if she didn’t make those blue jeans look sexy! On the other hand, I think Janet could have made an old potato sack look sexy that Friday; at least in my mind she did. She had on a pink sweatshirt the really did nothing for me though. The sweatshirt hid two of the things I most needed to see. Oh well!! We arrived at the park around 9:45 and were ushered into the park via the VIP entrance. Our entrance passes were checked by the gate guard and we were escorted by a concierge directly to our hotel.