After our make-session over the weekend I was much more calm and confident that Ann and I would be alright in our marriage. She had left that morning headed out to Chicago again and we had little time to be intimate, but she surprised me with a blowjob in the car just as we got to the airport. I was being surprised by the new her constantly now.
After I saw her off on her trip I went in to work and arranged to take my vacation. My boss asked me if I would take two weeks back to back in order to clear up some kind of problem with manpower. I reluctantly said ok, wanting only to take one week at that time. After some thought I decided that the second week I could spend with the kids and do some stuff around the house that needed done.
I got a message from Ann just after lunch that she needed me to call her from home at seven that night. Knowing that she was probably busy in meetings and trying to get contracts signed, I didn't mind that she hadn't left a more personal message for me.
I spent the rest of the day arranging things for my time off the following two weeks. I had quite a bit of work to do and little time to do it in. That night, with the kids playing in their rooms with friends, I called Ann from our bedroom.
When she finally picked up she sounded winded and a bit breathless. I assumed she had ran to catch the phone, probably having been in the shower or bathroom. We talked and she told me that she couldn't get everything on the contracts done until Saturday or Sunday. She apologized and asked me if I had gotten my vacation.
I told her that I had gotten the next week off and before I could tell her about having to take the following week off too she had started hitting me with the plans for our vacation. She had arranged for me to fly to the islands from home while she flew from Chicago directly there.
I asked her what islands we were going to and she told me that we were getting to spend our vacation in Jamaica. This surprised me quite a bit. She had never said anything about being interested in Jamaica or any South Sea islands.
"Jamaica? Ann, why Jamaica of all places?"
"Don't you want to go there Patrick? I got a special deal on this vacation package. We will get to stay at a very special place courtesy of one of the companies I am dealing with on these contracts. It won't cost us anything but airfare and whatever trinkets we will buy. If you would rather not we could go anywhere else you want though."
"No, Jamaica will be great. I never knew you would be interested in going there though. You surprised me with all of this."
"Only because this company I am dealing with...their president offered the use of their ranch for our vacation. They seem to like me and I think that I got these contracts wrapped up except for the signing and some minor details."
"If you are so close to wrapping them up, why can't you come home on Friday and see the kids before we go? Your mom and Dad are going to watch them, but you won't have seen them for over two weeks by the time we get back."
"I know Patrick. I feel badly about that, but two of the people who need to sign the contracts won't be here until Saturday, and they have already gone out of their way to help me get them signed and us on our way to a great vacation too."
"We could bring the kids along maybe. Wouldn't cost that much more and..."
""Oh sweetie, we couldn't. This ranch is...well they told me it is an adult place. There won't be any other kids there and nothing for them to do at all. We can take a vacation with just them later this year. This is just for me and you honey."
I didn't like it much, but she was right. We needed this for ourselves. If we didn't it was entirely possible that our kids would be in the midst of a divorce even yet. I reluctantly agreed and after a few words of love between us she hung up.
I didn't hear from her until Wednesday. We had made an agreement that when she traveled she would call every other night to save on phone charges. We had gotten some phone bills in the three hundred dollar range too many times.
Our talk Wednesday was about Jamaica and life in general. I forgot to mention that I had to take that second week of vacation again. I felt stupid for forgetting, but then I figured it wasn't that important since I had three more weeks of vacation to use up after these two.
Friday she called me at work just after lunch. She was breathless again and as we talked she sounded distracted. I thought that she was looking over her contracts or something and preoccupied, not an unusual thing. We had a nice chat and she said that she would see me in Jamaica.
Sunday I bundled up the kids and their stuff and took them to her mom's. We talked a bit and I ate dinner with them. I left to go home and finish packing for my trip in the morning. When I got home the answering machine light was blinking.
Ann's voice came out across the room, apologetic. It seemed that she had to stay in Chicago one more day to tie up loose ends. She told me that she would meet me in Jamaica on Tuesday instead of Monday.
I was unable to reach her in her room, so I left a message for her to call me in the morning early. I went to bed a bit troubled with this turn of events. I knew that she had been working hard to get these contracts, but things were not looking up like I had hoped they would be. Losing that extra day on our vacation for her job made me feel a bit hurt.
My morning went badly too. Ann never called and I had to leave for the airport before she could call. The cab was slow and traffic was bad. By the time I got to the airport I barely had time to get through security and screening before my flight left.
Settling in on the plane in first class I wondered how Ann had managed to afford this seating. I would have been just as happy in coach...well not really, but I had expected coach over first class due to the extra cost.
I sat next to a guy who was flying with me all the way to Jamaica. He worked for a business there and was pretty talkative. We got to know each other and I told him a little bit about Ann and I and our vacation we were going to take.
He offered to show us around some time while we were there and gave me a phone number and address to get in touch with him. I got to Jamaica late in the afternoon, tired and worn out from the traveling. I was met by a very dark skinned gentleman who showed me out to a limo and drove me out to the ranch we were going to be staying at.