I looked around the room at the people eating breakfast. There were a few faces I recognized seeing the night before, but no one that would likely realize the woman I had just kissed wasn't my wife. It would have looked a little suspicious walking in with one woman and kissing another, but nobody paid any attention. Why the hell would I have cared anyway?
Tanya wasn't wearing a braless blouse and skirt like Adriana was, but she looked pretty damn good anyway. She had on a pair of jeans that must have shrunken to hug her body after she put them on and one of those stretchy tops that looks like it's just right for a two-year-old until it stretches out to cling to her curves. To say she looked good was kind of like saying the ocean is a little wide.
I looked across the table and saw my wife whispering something in Tanner's ear at the same time as Tanya said, "Hey no fair. No secrets here!"
Bless you, Tanya, thank you! I thought.
"I was just telling my husband how much I'm looking forward to the day," Adriana said.
I won't say that hearing her refer to Tanner as "her husband" hurt me, it just seemed like a punch in the gut to hear it. Then I realized I'd just referred to Tanya as my wife, so I didn't have much to complain about.
Tanya squeezed my hand and told me, "Me too." I was too, except I had a pretty good idea how I was going to feel watching my wife with Tanner.
Tanya and Tanner had already gotten a plate of food. The Marriott served a good free breakfast, I guess you could call it free when the room was almost two-hundred dollars a night, plus tax! Adriana and I filled our plates and sat back down next to our respective "spouses" to eat.
After breakfast, Tanner suggested we all go in their car. I told him we had a rental car we needed to do something with. Tanner apparently had some familiarity with the hotel as we went to the front desk. They said they'd take care of it for us so I handed him the keys. He took them to the front desk and got a receipt for the car. Apparently, the hotel had some kind of relationship with the rental company.
We took our luggage out to Tanner and Tanya's car and loaded them in the trunk. All they had was a single suitcase and garment bag, as they'd only packed for the one night. We had a suitcase each plus a garment bag.
I knew about Teslas but hadn't ever seen one before, much less ridden in one. He told me to go ahead and drive. He was standing beside me at the front door and said it would unlock when I pulled on the handle since he had the key-fob in his pocket. I tried and as soon as I put my hand on the handle, all four doors unlocked.
I sat down behind the wheel, Tanya beside me, Tanner and Adriana in the back seat. The screen in the center of the dash was more like a mid-sized computer monitor than a simple seven or eight-inch screen. I looked around for the starter button, but Tanner told me, "We all have our seatbelts on, just put your hand on the steering wheel. It has sensors. It's ready to go."
Weird! Every car I've seen either has a key or starter button. Of course, they're not electric either. I did as he said and heard from the car speakers in a sultry, female voice, "Good morning, where would you like to go this morning?"
I looked in the mirror at Tanner. He had a shit-eating grin on his face, I guess reacting to the expression of shock on my own face. He whispered to me, "Her name is Abbie. Tell her to go home."
Okay, I thought, this is kind of fun, "Abbie, go home," I said. I haven't actually had a conversation with a car before!
"What is the password?" she asked me.
Tanner whispered to me again, "She doesn't recognize your voice. Tell her five-thousand-ninety-four."
"Five-thousand-ninety-four," I told the car.
"Thank you, you may exit the parking garage now," she told me.
Tanner directed me again, "Pull back on the steering wheel about a half-inch." I did. I felt a small click and saw the backup camera picture. "Now you can go," he told me.
I depressed the accelerator and the car started to move. There was no sound at all. When I turned into the driving lane, I pushed the wheel forward. The backup picture disappeared and we soundlessly moved forward when I pushed the accelerator. This thing is cooler than heck, I thought. It actually made me forget for a couple minutes what Adriana and I were doing.