CHAPTER 1
Rugged looking but usually smiling, Charlie (Buck) Buxton resigned his position as CEO of Denver-based Robinson Kitchen Appliances, LLC as agreed in the takeover by Universal Kitchen Appliances Corporation.
The predatory corporation had its own person to install as CEO and that resulted in the 34-year old leaving at the end of that month with just under $3 million placed in his bank account. The usual termination payments were boosted hugely by a golden handshake funded by the multi-million takeover deal he'd negotiated on behalf of the Robinson family.
Buck was weary of hours and hours of meeting with attorneys and hard-faced Universal Kitchen executives. The job as CEO of the company struggling to grow its business had already cost him his marriage two years earlier, Lyn ending up with both kids and half of his accrued wealth. She'd since remarried and now lived in England.
Buck's parents had recently moved to a gated retirement community in Florida but their home remained unsold. Buck had fond memories of living in that house and so purchased it. He'd decided to move back to Brixton Junction and wind down, spending time fishing and hiking, two pursuits of his youth that had long been forfeited to marriage and corporate life in the fast lane.
His company car, a Porsche, had gone back to the leasing company and Buck had bought a black Ford Explorer that wouldn't stand out like a blowfly on a cream cake as a Porsche would in a backwater city called Brixton Junction.
Brixton had originally been a construction camp for crews continuing to build a railroad to the west and a branch at that point to the north into lumber and mining territories. When the construction folk moved out a village established itself and those first permanent settlers adopted the railway name of Brixton Junction, so-named after the original crew boss and chief surveyor who were former English guys from a place named Brixton.
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Face creased in a big smile, Buck headed up the valley and was delighted that regenerated woods had formed on the hillsides after the clearances of 120 years back and then again thirty years ago.
Rain threatened and mist strung itself along the hilltops.
Buck scratched his nuts contentedly and sighed at the thought of being back in territory he'd not really forgotten after all. He had his window down and could almost smell the atmosphere of inevitability of life destined to be going nowhere, or at least nowhere fast, so much unlike the corporate rat race.
"God thanks for making me do the sensible thing by coming back here to refresh and get my life back," he grinned, wondering why he was speaking to God when he was practically an agnostic.
Yeah he was practically a number of things like many people who chase money and success only to find, on reflection, they have become a little divorced from reality through riding on high hopes and competing under the pressure to try to gain traction to achieve their ambitions.
Buck sniffed with the freedom of a guy who has no one telling him he shouldn't sniff and he placed a hand softly over his dick as if seeking it's recall who was likely to be in town who he could line up to have dinner with and perhaps seduce once again.
Carole Saunders? Nope alas, she'd been burnt to cinders in a small aircraft crash when the pilot had both engines cut out and was circling to pancake on to a freeway but unfortunately lost height too quickly and the aircraft ploughed into a fuel storage tank with explosive results.
Wendy Higgins? Nope alas, the last he'd heard she was in the Congo as a missionary.
Caroline Majors? Nope alas. She married and had gone somewhere and the last his mom had heard had mothered five kids. Holy fuck. She'd be no longer interested in sex.
Gloria West? He'd heard nothing about her. She'd been a great fuck.
Angel Hernandez? He'd heard nothing about her. Oooh with her small mouth she was awesome at fellatio.
Eva Fruehauf? She'd been over-weight but oh boy could she move her ass and grind. He'd heard she'd been in and out of prison and that wasn't the in-out he had in mind.
Jenni Wright? Oh dear. Despite four series attempts, like so many before him apparently, he'd failed to score and what a good little darling her mom would have thought Jenni had been. That's if Jenni had discussed the threats on her virginity with her mom, a pastor's wife.
Buck sighed, concluding this introspective was doing him no good. In all probability the playthings he'd had at his fingertips when he was waiting to go to college or even during his college years were either dead, had left town or were in a family situation that had them corralled, safely away from the nefarious overtures from old flames like Buck Buxton. Buck had been a huge threat and widely known for his wickedly wayward fingers around eighteen and nineteen year olds who hadn't yet accepted their role in life was to be promiscuous, well perhaps until marriage.
So back in Brixton Junction Buck knew he'd have fishing and hiking to keep himself occupied but what about his dick? That needed nourishment before it mistakenly thought it had been put out to pasture in retirement. He grinned and attempted to bolster his hopes that women prepared to drop their panties would pop up; they always did. Well had done so till now. God his PA had cried her eyes out and begged him to take her with him but gallantly he'd said no. Well she was married.
Perhaps turning her down would rear over him as one of the biggest mistakes of his life? Buck sighed and picked his nose and flicked something out the window. He didn't believe sexual opportunities could turn off completely just because a guy changed his environment. Sex was bigger than environment, wasn't it?
He said yeah but it hadn't sounded all that convincing.
Buck stopped off at Shoprite Supermarket and bumped into Patty French, one of his mom's friends. Actually she ran her supermarket trolley into his and scowled before her eyes opened wide and she said, "Buck, Sally Buxton's boy?"
A largely boring ten minutes of prattle followed for Buck but as it turned out, it would prove helpful.
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Bottled blonde Amelia West raced to the door when she heard her daughter's car arrive. As soon as Gloria stepped out of the blue Ford Focus she was seized and kissed enthusiastically.
"God mom, what's up? Have you come into money?"
"No, no. Your Aunt Patty called. She was in the supermarket not two hours ago and bumped into Buck Buxton. He's arrived back here to live. He's the mystery buyer of his parent's home."
"Oh how exciting for you mother."
"You mean for you. You need a new husband."
"Bullshit. I've told you I'll never again marry. Marriage is a cesspit of arguments, excessive sex, worry over a shortage of money and being ordered what to do including how to behave and having your husband having more sex away from home than at home with his wife."
"Oh I told you a thousand times you just struck a bad guy to marry."
"Yeah well most of my old girlfriends don't appear overly ecstatic about diapers and bills and late-arriving husbands."
"Oh that moaning is because they've nothing better to talk about. Darling the even bigger news is Buck's wife divorced him two years ago and now lives in England with their two kids and has remarried."
"So? Why are you excited? I remember coming home when Buck fucking Buxton stole my virginity in Casper Park and you were all set to go after him with dad's shotgun but you couldn't find the key to the gun cabinet."
"Oh that? That was fifteen years ago and these days girls pester guys to take their virginity."
Gloria grinned and adjusted her bra over her not insignificant breasts and flicked up the back of both sides of her chestnut hair. "Mom you are certainly prepared to act like a modern mother when it suits you. Mostly you are the hottest critic of promiscuity around. You may have forgiven Buck fucking Buxton for taking my virginity but I haven't. It was so rushed and he made no magic moment of it because he'd just remembered he was supposed to be doing the newspaper round for his friend Tony Caselotti."
Gloria shared an apartment in the city center and occasionally came home at weekends to stay with her parents who appeared to enjoy her company. She always found her mom to be good value but at times, like this thing over Buck fucking Buxton, her mom went a little too much over the top for Gloria's liking.
"Now what to do about Buck?"
"Mom if you don't shut up about him I'll shove your favorite vibrator up your butt and out of reach."