Note: All persons in this novel are fictitious. If you are looking for a great deal of explicit sexual activity, this story is not for you. Those scenes that are included will be evocative rather than just for the sake of sex itself. This story is for your reading pleasure. Its length is undetermined at this time, because I do not know where my mind will take me along the way. I hope you will stay with me during this journey until it reaches its inevitable conclusion.
120. Detonation
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Hello Anna, why are you calling so late? It's after 11 PM, is everything okay between you and Cloudy?"
"Mom, Cloudy couldn't be more wonderful if he tried. I love him so much, and he loves me. We'd like to set a date for the wedding, but we need to know when you and dad are available. You're always running around, and dad is always so busy with the project down in Texas. If you want to help us plan the wedding, it would be wonderful. However, we can do it
by ourselves if you are too busy."
"Have you spoken to his family about this?"
"Believe it or not, they don't like me very much. They don't mind my money, but they think I'm a spoiled bitch. I don't think I've acted that way around them, and neither does Cloudy, but that's the impression he gets when he speaks to them alone."
"Do you want your father and me to speak to them?"
"Mother that's the last thing in this world I want to happen. I know how you are, but more importantly, you know how you are. If they say one bad word about the family, you will use your gun on them, without worrying about the charges that will be brought against you."
"A lot of people, in high places, owe me a lot of favors, Anna. Don't worry about the charges, there won't be any."
"Mother, just think about the wedding, do you want to help us or not?"
"I want to give you the biggest and best wedding ever held in the United States. Whatever you, and Cloudy want you will have. I will try to keep my opinions at bay. I can't guarantee it will work all the time, but I will try."
"Now what about Cloudy; do you think his family wants to be involved?"
"Mom, I think they look at dollar signs, and don't want to spend a penny of their money."
"Honey that's fine; heaven knows we have more money than we will ever spend in 100 lifetimes. It also makes the seating arrangements very easy. We will have the wedding in Austin. We will pay for all their travel expenses, hotels, food, and entertainment."
"Thank you mom that solves more problems than you possibly can imagine."
"I've waited since the day the three of you were born to throw a big wedding. After all you did for me, through my terrible years; it warms my heart that it's you."
"Don't you dare make me cry."
"Why not, I'm crying."
"Now I have to tell you something else mom; and I don't know how you are going to take it. You may have to plan a wedding for your other daughter, or it may be her first liaison."
"Have you talked to Laura? I've been trying to get a hold of her all evening. Her phone is disconnected."
"It's not disconnected mom; she turned it off. She is at a man's house, somewhere in Fort Worth."
"I'm going to ask you this very calmly. Was that man's name Adam Schiff?"
"Yes it was."
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Did she say what she was doing there?"
"This is the part I don't think you want to know mom."
"Anna, as God is my witness, if you don't tell me everything you know, I will crawl through the radio waves these phones work on, grab you by the throat, and beat the shit out of you until you tell me."
"Mother, please remain calm. Remember she's 24 years old. She has the right to do anything she wants with her body."
"Anna, stop stalling."
"While I was talking with Adam, Laura was undressing him. He was telling me everything she was doing, while she was doing it, piece by piece. As she did it, Adam would say, she just removed my shirt; I am now bare chested. She has my legs saddled, as she's removing my boots. She's sitting on my chest, opening my belt and unbuttoned the button of my jeans and is getting ready to remove them... and so on."
Then Laura took the phone from him. She said, "Anna, I am going to be a little busy for the next few hours experiencing many new things about a man's anatomy. I should have done this year ago, instead of waiting for mom to get me so angry that I'm doing it this way. If mom comes knocking at his door, I will do the same thing to her as did to me the other night. I am turning off my phone just like she did, and I hope she has to sleep on the grass."
"I am going to kill that bitch with my bare hands. I brought her up better than that. She just met that man. She doesn't know what diseases he may have. I'm going to go there and pull her out of his house by her hair if I have to, but she's coming home with me."
"I wouldn't bet my grandchildren on that mother. Her guards are faithful to her. She pays them not you. I don't think you want to start a firefight in the middle of the night."
"I'll firebomb his house, and grab her when she comes running out."
"Mother, stop this. You are going to do nothing of the kind. She's going to get laid. I did, and I haven't changed. It was a very loving, and enlightening experience."
"Are you pregnant?"
"No, but I've stopped taking my birth control pills."
"I think we should do this wedding in the next two months, don't you?"
"Cloudy graduates next month, and his family is going to throw a big party for him. Anytime after that would be fine with us."
"I'll see if I can steal Jemma for two weeks, and we will fly to New York to see Carolina Herrera and get your wedding dress started. I'll call her and give her a heads-up. She will be thrilled. She did mine, now she's doing yours. Your sister can't get knocked up, because she can't go into space pregnant. I hope she remembers that while she's fucking him tonight.
I am going to ring her neck, and leave her in a landfill, the next time I see her."
"Stuff it mother, you are going to do nothing of the kind. If you were going to kill any of us, you would have killed Robert years ago."
"That's true, but Robert still has a job. He's had it for almost 15 months, and they are still paying him voluntarily. Who would've thought that was even a possibility?"
"Do you watch him when he is interviewed on C-SPAN, or CNBC?"
"Yes I do. I can't believe he's the same boy who lived in our house for 22 years."
"The election is in November, can you imagine if she wins."
"She's only behind by four points, and that's within the margin of error in the polls. Look at the people she has behind her. Her dad can't go out electioneering for her because he's on the Supreme Court. However, he's always on the stage with her, and just his presence means a lot. Julia and Clark are there any time they can be, because of their health, and ages. Robert is there, and apparently, he is giving them good advice. They have a ton of money behind them, between the Atwater's, their parent's, and Robert, so they can't be outspent. They haven't made one mistake on the campaign trail so far. If the incumbent does, it's all over but the shouting."
"Don't get angry with me mother, but have you noticed that both the candidate and her sister are always glowing when they're on stage?"
"Yes, they both look extremely happy."
"Do you ever wonder if Robert has anything to do with it?"
"That was a horrible thing to say, about a political candidate, and her sister, Anna."
"We've both seen a lot of women candidates take the stage over the years, mom. They may smile for the cameras, as they are walking to the stage, and away from it.
However, they all looked haggard and gray from the stress and travel commitments of the campaign when they get back to the privacy of their own rooms. Sandy and Cindy have only five months to go until Election Day, and those two look fresh as a daisy."
