Chapter 6

I drove my fist so deep into his soft belly that my knuckles felt his spine.

I left Jimmy puking his lunch up in that parking lot.

I still had over a month before I had to start that huge Postal Building at Coral Gables.

I told Fay I wanted to go back to Florida and spend a week or two fishing at Key Largo.

My employer had a large ocean going House Boat docked there and they had offered us the use of it. There was a small fast inboard for fishing docked there to.

When Kathy had quit wearing her sanitary napkin she and I began to indulge in unprotected sex.

She and Kent wanted more children.

Fay and Kathy had become ardent lovers.

Fay hated the thought of going back to Florida. I told her " Bite the bullet girl, you do as I say not as you want". Then I told her she could stay if she wanted but we would be through.

Fay begged me to not even think of that, she was mine, and she only wanted to please me for the rest of her life.

Before we left I dropped by to see the people I had worked for in Birmingham. The owner of the company asked me to lunch again.

We talked on and on and I let it slip that I had caused my present employing company to make better than double the profit mark up they had estimated and expected on my previous project.

My ex employer offered me a salary near what I would be making on my new job in Coral Gables if I would come back to work for him. I thanked him and promised him I would make no commitment after finishing the project I had obligated my self for now until I talked to him.

We would talk about my returning then.

We said our goodbye and drove to Miami.

Fay, her baby and I spent two days in our trailer in Miami. The drive down to Key Largo was beautiful. I had told Fay that she could stay in Miami if she liked, I could leave her our car and use my company pickup to go to the Keys. Fay would have none of that.

I fished constantly and caught a lot of fish.

I had not been told that there was a three man crew on the house boat nor that it was over a hundred feet long.

We spent two weeks in luxury.

The cook was a gourmet chef.

The little ships Captain was my fishing guide and took me to the best places to fish in a small fast fishing boat. Did I ever catch fish !

His sister was the housekeeper.

We did not even have to make our beds.

I told Fay that I could get spoiled quick.

Fay said she could feel the pounds just going on to her slender body.

We drove to Key West and stayed two nights.

I booked us into a motel on the beach.

Again luxury.

We went back to Key Largo and spent the last four days of our vacation. I fished, Fay and the child played on the beaches, both had turned dark brown from the sun.

Coral Gables Postal Facility started off bad. We worked a union shop, I had a work stoppage the second day. The carpenters and the Laborers claimed the same work. I could have cared less who did the work but the job was shut down for three days while The Building Trades Council made their decision about the issue. When we resumed work I was informed over the phone that every labor union Business Agent would let us do as we pleased if they received a cash contribution of a thousand dollars to their widow and orphans fund.

I hot footed it to the main office and gave my immediate boss that information. He said that would mean sixteen or seventeen thousand dollars stuffed up some hog's asses. He told me to forget it, the bastards would still strike at the drop of a hat. We would be wasting company money.

I left with a feeling of dread.

Six weeks later and six dam work stoppages later, I called and made an appointment to see the president of the company.

When I was inside his office I told him I was about to turn in my resignation. I could not build the Coral Gables project for him. He said hell son this one is easier than the school you just built for us, what is wrong ?

I told him every Monday since I had started the project there had been a dispute between the trade unions causing a three day work stoppage.

We had six three day delays in six weeks.

We had been shut down for eighteen days and had only worked twelve in six weeks.

He shouted " WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING OUT THERE TO CAUSE THAT " ?

I told him "Not a God dam thing".

He asked what was happening then.

I told him that those bastards in the trade unions were not going to let us build the project until they got paid off.

I asked him if Mr. Blair had not told him that I had received a request over the phone demanding money six weeks before.

He replied " Shit no, and he should have come to me immediately with something like that".

He punched a key on an intercom and spoke in a loud voice " Blair, get your ass in here and I mean right now".

Mr. Blair was there in seconds.

Our boss told him that I had come in to resign, I had told him that I would not be able to or was even interested in building the Coral Gables project. He told Mr. Blair that he could see why I was ready to quit, the sixth shutdown was taking place on the project in a period of six weeks.

He asked Blair why he had not come to him when I had reported the call requesting the bribery.

Blair said " I was certain that this company did not do business that way, and I thought it was a bluff and they would not have the guts ".

Blair was told that AFL-CIO Business Agents did not bluff and they had the guts to even have someone killed if they wanted.

Blair was told he was fired and that the matter would be handled as it should have been six weeks before.

Two days later the shut down was over and there was peace and harmony between the trade unions until the project was completed.

A few months later Kathy called and said she could get away the next week for seven days. Her mother in law would keep the kids and Kent would be on the road. She wanted to fly down and visit. We told her we would like to have her come to see us and we loved and missed her.

Fay picked Kathy up at Miami International and they arrived at the trailer while I was in the shower.

I heard their voices as they came in and cut off the water. A radiant Kathy was standing in front of the tub with a towel in her hands and a big smile on her face when I pushed the curtain aside. She said " Let me dry you off so I can get kissed and hugged and not get wet".

It was a week long orgy. Kathy would get my semen deposited in her each evening, and every morning. During the day she and Fay spent hours doing each other with a 'strap on' or their mouths.

When Kathy left to fly back home that Sunday afternoon she said that there was no way her ovary could have missed being exposed to my sperm that week.

She said that she even felt pregnant.

Six weeks later Kathy called and said her doctor had confirmed her feeling, and she was in fact pregnant.

Kent was so proud of her he was going to buy her a new car.

Kathy said she was morning sick every morning and the wine I had suggested she sip while carrying her other two was not helping a bit. Kathy said she was miserable with this pregnancy.

Two weeks later she called on a Saturday afternoon. Kathy was crying and said she had lost our baby. Her doctor said there was no reason that he could find for her aborting the fetus, it just happened sometimes.

Carrie called the next day, Sunday, she was going to Birmingham the next weekend and offered Fay and the child a ride. She was going to stay for two weeks that time.

I told Fay to go if she wanted to, Kathy could use some cheering up.

Thursday night Fay hired a baby sitter and I took her out to dinner. We ate by candle light on a screened in patio. Soft music was coming from speakers scattered around in the ceilings.

We danced some, it had been ages.

Before we left and while sipping our last glass of wine I told Fay we were going to make some changes.

I had given her permission before we were married to continue her sexual relationships with the partners she had before she became pregnant.

I had even instructed her to seek a possible husband and father for her child.

That had never really happened.

I had been permissive for her to try though.

She had chosen not to date new men.

After we moved out of our first small apartment she had quit seeing Jack Harris and Jack Hazlet.

She had admitted though that when Jimmy called she could not refuse him.

I told Fay that she had not been able to resist going off with him the last time she had seen him.

She had gotten in the car with him even though she knew that Jimmy would force her to do what ever he wanted her to do.

I told Fay about my meeting Jimmy in that empty parking lot, and what was said.

I instructed Fay to call Jimmy when she got home this time.

She was to see him and have intercourse with him if she wanted.

Fay asked " You don't mind" ?

I told her I was telling her to do it. I said " Fay for your protection and mine I want you to see that he wears a rubber when he fucks you".

I told her I would buy them for her.

I said " Fay there is something else I want you to do while you are home this time". I told her that I wanted her to nearly seduce Kent.

She was to tell Kathy that I wanted the two of them to prepare Kent for wife swapping the next time we were home together. I would have a better chance to get Kathy pregnant if Kent was willing to let me have intercourse with his wife thinking she had her diaphragm in.

Fay said that Kent might not desire her, what then.

I said " Honey Kent has gotten a hard dick every time he has ever been around you since you two were in grammar school". I told her she was about to make his wet dreams come true.

Fay said " I am not believing this, you are telling me it is alright for me to get my brains fucked out for two weeks".

I said " No Fay, I am instructing you to set the stage for me to get a woman we both love with child again". " As for Jimmy, he would have had you on his terms sooner or later, this way it will be on my terms".

Fay promised to do as I had told her.

The next day Fay was gone when I got home from work, she had called me at noon and said Carrie was there and they were leaving.

Two weeks later Fay was back, she was getting fucked five minutes after Carrie drove off.

The little girl was sleeping and did not wake up when Fay brought her in from the car.

After she had made my hard cock go away we talked.

Fay had seen Jimmy five times while she was home. He was nice to her and she had been willing to do every thing he wanted her to do. He couldn't get enough of her cunt. He had even eaten her for the first time in years.

Fay said that the first day she was home Kathy had dropped her two children off with Kent's mother and picked her up at her mother's house. They had spent the rest of the day making love and planing how to get Kent eager to trade wives with me.

Fay said that four days later when Kent was home she had let him see her tits down the neck of her blouse. Then she had given him a view of her transparent panty crotch several times when her skirt rode up. She had made it seem as if it was by accident while she was sitting across from him in the living room of their apartment.

She had seen a bulge grow in Kent's pants and knew he had been sexually aroused by her. Kathy had seen it to and excused herself to go down to the corner store to get milk for the children.

While she was gone Fay had gone to the bath room, taken a pee, then when she came back she sat close to Kent on the sofa.

Fay had placed her hand on Kent's cock.

Fay had told him " Kent I think you are interested in having sex with me and I know I want to have sex with you but I will not cheat on my husband". Fay had gone on to say that if she could get me interested in Kathy and he could get her interested in having sex with me we could swap. That would not be cheating.

Kent said he liked that idea very much.

Fay had unzipped his fly and taken his cock out. She had sucked it until they heard Kathy at the door. Kent had slipped away to the bath room so Kathy would not see his hard prick.

The next day Kathy told Fay that Kent had began talking of how he would like to see Fay and myself having sex while they fucked.

He reminded Kathy of a time years ago when Fay and I were just dating. We had gone fishing at Lake Purdy, there were four couples of us. Fay and I had slipped away and fucked.

He and Kathy were married then. They had gotten the urge to fuck and slipped away also.

They had found Fay and I pleasuring each other and watched.

Kathy told Fay Kent would like to watch and touch us sometimes.

She said that she had let Kent think that his talk was making her terribly excited.

Fay told me that the rest of the time Kent was home that week she spent a lot of time in their apartment. She gave Kent a number of opportunities to feel her bare tits under her shirt. Several times she had let him slip his hand under the waist band of her shorts and finger her.

Fay said she had given Kent a hand job once while Kathy was in the bed room on the phone talking to her mother in California. She and Kent were in the kitchen when she did that and she had caught his juice in a paper towel.

Kent thought he and Fay were fooling Kathy, he had no idea that they planed every incident together and were having fun while doing it.

Kathy was getting her brains fucked out, because Kent was so horny all of the time.

Kent had convinced Kathy to go along with him exchanging her for Fay. Kathy had told Kent that Fay and she had talked a lot about how each others husband was in bed. They had agreed that if Fay could convince me to do it, the four of us would sleep together the next time I was home. (Devious and complicated as hell but it would make it a lot easier to make a baby in Kathy).

The Bulk Mail Facility at Coral Gables was finished. The construction equipment was sent to the company yard. The site was cleaned up and I had dotted all the i's and crossed the t's.

The final inspection by the postal service was set for less than a week off.

I had been told by my boss that I had earned a twenty thousand dollar bonus. He had told me though that the company did not have a project for me to build next.

He said that the recession of 1958 was severely hurting the economy in south Florida.

My boss said I could count on several months vacation with pay before the company could put me back to work.

I told Fay we were going to have another long holiday. I told her that if the company were the low bidder on something tomorrow, it would be several months before the project could start.

I told Fay to be getting ready to pack for a move back to the Birmingham area. Fay went into orbit, " We are moving back home" she screamed !

I told her we might be, but it would depend a lot on whether there was a job for me there.

We had the Postal Service people make their inspection and sold the building to them.

I went by the office the next morning and received a check for twenty thousand dollars and a lot of congratulations for doing a fine job on the project.

I gave the payroll clerk an address in Homewood to mail my checks to, told every one good by and went home to my trailer.

I still had the two wheel trailer I had bought to move Fay to the Cape. It was parked behind the house trailer. Eight G.I. foot lockers covered with a tarp were on it. I stacked those ply-wood trunks on the patio and dragged the trailer to a service station close by. I had the car serviced and the wheel bearings packed on the trailer.

While I was gone Fay was filling the foot lockers with all of our clothes and other possessions in the house trailer.

When I returned from having the car and the 'tag along' serviced she had dam near every thing we owned packed. Fay and I loaded those eight foot lockers, covered them with the tarp and chained all of it down. I had brought some cardboard boxes back in case we needed them.

Every thing in the small Fridge went in my big fishing ice chest, grocery items in card board boxes and my fishing tackle all went in the trunk of the car. The same small play pen we had used before went in the back seat.

By two thirty we were ready to leave.

Fay locked up our empty little home and we started toward Birmingham.

We were home a little after day break.

I had received permission from my parents to use their house again. I drove us there and we flopped in a bed. At mid afternoon we unloaded the car and trailer. We just stacked most of the foot lockers.

The next morning I called and made an appointment to see the president of the firm I had worked for before I had gone to Florida. He suggested we have lunch again.

I was his guest at The Club. While dining we were looking out over the city of Birmingham.

I told Mr. Kirkpatrick that I was thinking of moving back to Birmingham. I asked him if there was an opening in his firm.

He said " I was hopping that you were calling, looking for a job". He told me he had two openings, he needed someone to finish a project that was started by the oldest superintendent with the company. The man had died of a heart attack two weeks before. He mentioned his name and I remembered him.

I told Mr. Kirkpatrick that I had known him and had liked him. I said I was sorry to hear of his death.

I was told that the man had been supervising a job at the Republic Steel mill in Bessemer. The project was over half complete and consisted of the construction of two new Blast Furnaces.

The assistant superintendent was doing the best he could but was over his head.

The other job opening was for the supervision of the construction of the largest sewage plant in Jefferson County. It was at Patton's Chapel, almost on the Shelby County line.

Mr. Kirkpatrick said that both projects consisted of massive concrete structures.

Then he blew my mind. He said that he thought I could take charge of both projects. He figured I would be running my ass off but the work sites were only twenty minutes apart.

I told him I had intended asking for 'A' job not two. I told Mr. Kirkpatrick I was still on the payroll in Miami, I said I was burned out with Florida and rush jobs with tight schedules. What he was asking me to do was a bigger headache than the one I had just finished.

Mr. Kirkpatrick asked me if I would consider it if I received a salary check on each project, a check for four hundred a week. (A top salary, twice that was almost unbelievable)

I said " Jesus man I can't turn that much money down" !

Mr. Kirkpatrick said that the blast furnace job was 'cost plus', the company could afford to do that under the circumstances. Republic Steel would be paying one of those salaries indirectly.

I told him I would give it a try.

He said I had to start Monday morning.

I said " Dam I get three days vacation and I will have to spend that in moving ".