MAYOR HARRISON HOLMES looked across the room at the visiting female dignitaries of Les PΓ©nΓ©lopes grouped around his beautiful and charming wife Parissa thinking if they only knew. When he first met Parissa she'd acted like a bat out of hell.
That night returning home from the reception for the French women, Parissa completed her good night kiss (actually performing world-class fellatio based on his limited international experience). While Harrison remained on his back Parissa toweled him dry and turned over and went to sleep. Harrison's mind drifted back to earlier days with his wife...
CHAPTER 1
Property investor Harrison Holmes was driving along Mayfair Avenue when he heard a siren coming ahead of him to the right. He shrugged thinking he was clear of imminent danger.
Wrong.
The next thing he saw was a white BMW come around Wilkinson in a huge rubber-smoking slide and the driver gun the motor to regain control. Thirty seconds later a cop cars slid sideways around the corner and slammed into the front of the truck, crumpling and bits and pieces of metal falling off the now very misshapen cruiser, the two cops saved by air-bags.
Harrison's eyes flicked back to the white car being chased.
Shit.
He braked to a stop and watched in horror, as right in the path of that white car was an elderly woman pushing a white-hair guy in a wheelchair. Three seconds to spare the BMW driver had the choice of mowing them down or taking on the concrete divider planted with low shrubs.
Harrison blinked twice and saw the speeding car turn into the road divider and begin to roll as it rose into the air. He didn't blink again, and probably didn't breathe, as he realized the white car was about to smash into his soft-top convertible. He unbuckled and threw himself along the passenger seat, figuring why allow the car to land on his head.
And then nothing.
"Harrison are you awake? Harrison please wake up. Harrison are you awake? Harrison please wake-up."
The monotonous voice of the bitch was getting on Harrison's goat. He seemed to be floating through a channel with white and blacks walls were attempting to crush him. Yellow and red lights were popping. Suddenly he could see the shape of someone bending over him and beyond that a ceiling light.
"Fuck off," he groaned.
"Oh good, you good boy Harrison."
He heard the woman say, "This is Carole doctor. Patient Harrison Holmes is back in this world."
Harrison then heard the bleep of a machine beside him and a women's voice said, "Harrison, this is Doctor London." Harrison wondered how did he get to England when a fog rolled in and took him with it.
Two days later Harrison was wheeled into an empty two-person room. He was now coherent, out of danger and wanting his neck brace off but the answer was always no. He also had lacerations galore and a fractured left femur and had been repaired under surgery, his spleen had been removed and he lay on his back with both collarbones fractured and had painfully damaged ribs. Despite all that trauma he'd retained his manhood intact.
Jennifer Smith and Harrison looked at his erection.
"I'm supposed to have it covered," said Jennifer, one of two nurses giving him a blanket bath.
"It needs an airing," said the patient. "I'm lucky it wasn't taken from me in the accident. Lick it please."
"Don't be so disgusting. Cover it Jennifer," said Nurse Christian, who was sponging his chest.
Harrison groaned as young Nurse Smith took the tip into her lips and applied light pressure.
"Jennifer," hissed Claire. "I'm reporting you."
Jennifer looked defiant and began washing the erection. Harrison said, "Claire, do you know anything about money missing from my wallet?"
"Harrison, you know I wouldn't steal from you. How could you make such a ridiculous accusation? She then saw the grins and sighed, "You swine. Okay Jennifer, I'll turn my back and give you five minutes β no more."
Jennifer was so good she had Harrison off inside two minutes.
"You people disgust me," Claire said, back on the job again. "Jennifer you have semen on your chin."
"Oh god," Jennifer said, wiping at her chin. There was nothing there and now Claire and Harrison exchanged grins.
That afternoon the empty bed was removed from the room and minutes later the wing suite manager Mrs Gapes entered and spoke to Harrison and looking very serious. "If you have an objection we will place her elsewhere."
"Who?"
"The patient we are about to bring in, pending your approval."
Harrison joked, "Who, the bitch who dumped her car on to me?"
"Yes."
"Jesus."
The wing suite manager frowned and asked was that his mind-processing acceptance?
"Um yes. Wheel her in. What's her name?"
"The same name as the police told you when they interviewed you: Her name is Parissa Wilkinson."
"Harrison," Mrs Gapes said, "This is Parissa, a young lady injured in a... a... bicycle accident. She was hit by a truck."
Harrison waggled a finger at the lying ward principal and said, "Hi Parissa."
The new patient groaned and muttered, 'Hi'.
Mrs Gapes, aged about forty who terrorized the nurses, service people and young doctors leaned over and kissed Harrison. He moved gingerly, bearing the rib pain, to hold her left tit and she didn't break his jaw; instead she pulled away smiling and thanked him and whispered, "Continue being lovely to Parissa; she's had a very rough time. Her face is scared."
The newcomer couldn't see them because she had a frame over her legs.
"What happened?"
Mrs Gapes leaned over him so Harrison handled the tit again and squeezed. "A guy was waiting in her car when she came out of a 7-Eleven convenience store and burnt her face in four places with his cigarette while he ordered her to say she wanted to have sex with him. Crying in pain she said yes and while he was unbuckling his trousers she escaped, jumped into a BMW with its motor running. The guy screaming that when he caught her he'd murder her β just as my husband will do if you don't stop interfering with me."
Harrison pulled his hand away as if shot.
"If you want it, go for it Harrison. You'll have my cooperation," said Mrs Gapes, walking away, leaving Harrison... er... gaping.
Nurses came in to attend to Parissa, giving her medication and attending to facial wounds that Harrison learned later had received skin grafts. Both her ankles were broken.
A day later his neck brace was removed and he was instructed to avoid sudden movements. His left thigh remained in half a plaster cast. A few hours later after he'd been medicated to relief pain in his ribs during movement, two male nurses lifted him on to a wheelchair to take him to the toilet and shower. Harrison was unable to lift at all, not with his two collarbones on the mend and cracked ribs. He asked to be wheeled to the side of Parissa's bed.
The 38-year-old apartment investor, who'd been on vacation when the accident occurred, said to the young woman, aged about twenty-five, "Hi, you have been very quiet?"
"I'm in despair."