Chapter 16

I finished my beer and decided that I needed to go back to my cabin and get some dry shorts. Then I headed down to the lodge for a little lunch. I found Fred at his desk.

"Hi Fred," I said, "What's for lunch?"

"Hi Dave." He said, putting some bills on a pile in front of him. "I'm running a little late, and I didn't get anything organized for lunch today yet."

"No problem." I said. "Want me to throw something together?"

'There's some sandwich stuff in the fridge if you're hungry." He said.

"You want me to make you a sandwich?" I asked, heading towards the kitchen.

"Nah, don't bother for me. I had a big breakfast." He said.

I made myself a sandwich and went back into the office to shoot the breeze with Fred. We figured out where we would run the wiring and put the components that I was going to try to hook up this afternoon. I finished my lunch, cleaned up my dishes and headed out to the van to get some of the stuff I needed. I was carrying the second load of stuff into the lodge when Audrey showed up. She was wearing shorts and a little cami top that showed off her breasts nicely without being too risqué. She offered to help carry stuff in.

Audrey was her usual cheerful, helpful self, and I enjoyed her company and her help. We spent the afternoon running wires through the lodge and mounting the boxes in the closet.

At one point, I was in upstairs hallway of the lodge, standing on a ladder, with the top half of my body in the scuttle hole to the attic. Nobody else was around and I wasn't entirely surprised when Audrey joined me on the ladder. I felt her hands run up my legs.

"I'm here to keep you from falling off the ladder, Dave." She said.

"I feel safer already." I said, pulling the wires together where I was going to splice them. I could feel Audrey's hands slipping up my thighs and under the legs of my shorts. I looked down at her, and she looked up with a bright smile. She covered my thighs with little kisses.

I heard someone coming up the stairs at the end of the hall! Uh-oh! I handed down the toolbox I had in the attic and Audrey took it and stepped down to the floor as the steps got closer.

Presently, I could see Fred standing next to Audrey at the foot of the stepladder.

"Is there anything you need from the hardware store?"

"Not that I can think of." I said.

"I was going to try to get the last of the lights wired on my boat when I get back. You think you'd have some time to help me?"

"Sure Fred." I said. "I should probably be around the lodge here."

Fred wandered off and I looked down at Audrey.

She looked up with a sheepish look. That was close, and she knew it. Then she graced me with that dazzling smile, and just looked so sweet I couldn't be upset. We were very discrete after that.