Chapter 18

Betty drove Carol to the airport two evenings later, where Carol caught a plane for Miami.

The first two days Carol never left the hotel, lolling around at the poolside in the bright sunshine. But she enjoyed the tranquility and sunshine, and was particularly happy about being away from home and in a new environment.

Her second night, as she ate dinner in the hotel dining room, a face from her past loomed before her. She began thinking about Gary Peterson, her old lover, and wondered what it would be like to be in the position of getting to make love to him again.

That night when she went to sleep, with Gary Peterson occupying a position in her subconscious, she dreamed about him lying naked in bed.

She was there with him, totally devoid of clothing and ready for some hot sex action. He leaned over and kissed her lips passionately. As their lips remained pressed together fervently, he reached out and cupped his fingers around her breasts.

His fingers moved rapidly over her hot breasts as her body flipped back and forth, enjoying the steady action that he was providing.

"Oh, what great tits you've got," he gasped. "I just love running these fingers over them."

"Oh, you're so good at it. Those fingers are moving so quickly, so beautifully."

He finally removed his fingers from them, then put his tongue on her breasts. Now the tongue was dancing feverishly over her breasts and nipples.

"Oh, you're really working me over," she sighed. "Drive that tongue, honey, oh, I love it."

He kept up those fervent tongue movements over her boobs until the pangs of anxiety were overwhelming her. Now she needed to feel his rigid penis inside her vagina.

"Oh, baby, I need you, I need you now," she cried out. "Fuck me, honey, put that penis of yours to work inside me. Oh, I want it, I need it, I need it right now."

Gary was more than ready to respond to her urgings as he allowed his penis to enter spiritedly inside her mound.

"Oh, that feels good, I'm inside you," he sighed. "Does that feel good to you?"

"Ah, you're overwhelming me with that hot manliness," she sighed. "Keep it going, baby, keep that hot cock pounding inside me. Oh, I like it, I love it, I love what you're doing for me."

Now he was drilling his penis with great intensity inside her hot mound. He was pushing it in as far as it would go, working that cock diligently.

"Oh, I'm going to explode inside you," he sighed.

"Keep it up. Drill me, honey."

"Hang on, honey, hang on."

Now he leaned forward and let his lips plunge against hers. He let them remain locked against hers as he kept up his resolute cock attack on her vagina.

He kept it up spiritedly until his entire body began to shake. He released his lips from hers dramatically at that point.

"Oh, I'm there, I'm there," he declared.

"I know you are. Ah, I can feel all that wonderful juice in me, baby."

"Wasn't it beautiful?"

"It was even better than that."

At that point she opened her eyes, awakening from the dream. She thought it strange at first about thinking of Gary. After all, it had been quite a while since she had last seen him.

She got up and walked over to the window, drawing the drapes open and looking out at the Atlantic Ocean's swirling waters in the darkness of late evening.

The more that Carol thought about it, the more she began to realize that there had been a very simple reason to explain why she had been thinking about Gary.

He had been the last person she had had a strong affection for. If only he hadn't been married, she thought, then maybe they could have had a wonderful romance.

But she realized that the thoughts concerning Gary at that time demonstrated just how much she was thinking in the past. She recognized how important it would be for her to reorient her thinking toward the present. It was a necessity if she ever was to remove herself from the dilemma that she was caught up in.

She looked at the waves of the Atlantic for several more minutes, then went back to bed. As she lay in bed she made herself a vow. Somehow she was going to forget all about Wayne, about Gary, about all the unpleasant memories of the past. And she was going to start from scratch.

She enjoyed the rest of her ten day vacation in Miami, mainly reading and sitting in the sunshine. She did her best to put her thoughts in a different context than before.

Betty was there to pick her up at the airport.

"Say, a man called the house the other day for you," Betty said after they exchanged greetings.

"Who was it?" she asked curiously.

"He said his name was Edward McPherson. Does that mean anything to you ?"

"Of course. The chief administrator at the hospital," Carol replied painfully.

"Yes. He said he wanted to see you in his office as soon as you return from your vacation."

"What else did he say?"

"He was interested to know if you were enjoying your vacation. He told me he was concerned about your health."

"Is that right. I'd be afraid to show my face before him after all that happened to me at that hospital."

"Well, I'm saving the best part of what he said for last."

"What was that?"

"He told me to tell you that they've been examining all the bizarre aspects of your case. He said that there's a possibility that they could put you back on the staff in a probationary capacity. You'd have to prove yourself, but it looks like he might be willing to give you the chance."

Carol looked out the window at the lights of the city.

"You know, Betty, I've been doing a lot of thinking on that vacation," Carol sighed. "I'm gonna snap out of this. I'm gonna get over it and start all over. That's great news. I'm gonna take advantage of that chance."

"That's what I was trying to tell you," Betty smiled. "You've got to keep your chin up when things are tough."