What the hell am I going to do thought Mary Catherine or simply Cate to those who knew her. She wasn't even a week into this seven-month commitment, a situation she simply could not walk away from.
When she had been asked to help her deceased sister's widower and their son her altruistic nature and truthfully the money and relocation to such a warm climate had made this seem like a no-brainer.
Her younger sister Mary Elizabeth known to all as Bitzee had passed in a car accident two years before while Cate was on mission in Kenya.
She and Bitzee may have been sisters but they were complete opposites and had never been close. Bitzee had cared only for wealth expensive fashion and attractive successful men. Cate on the other hand was focused on how to help anyone she could. From stray animals on up...thusly the eight years spent in Kenya.
When her brother-in-law Gavin an international corporate lawyer contacted her and asked if she could relocate from Boston to Los Angeles her desire to help made it an easy decision.
Her time in Boston had been an awkward readjustment to American society and trading her crappy apartment for a lavish home just seemed like so much fun. After settling her affairs she had moved to LA to provide housesitting duties for her 18-year-old nephew Kelly.
Her presence was intended to keep Kelly from turning his father's home into party central or destroying himself before he headed off to Cal State Fullerton on a full-ride basketball scholarship. Her duties were she felt as Housesitter/Guardian.
Her last encounter with Kelly had been when he was a rambunctious but sweet tow-headed 9-year-old with piercing blue eyes. When he and his father met her at LAX she was struck by what a handsome young man he had become. He had just graduated high school and had been recruited by several West Coast universities he was 6'5" and extremely fit and the blonde hair and blue eyes hadn't changed. Her first thought was if only I was thirty-five years younger and not his aunt.
After settling in Gavin left for Thailand to begin his overseas assignment and for two days things had been perfectly normal. Kelly was polite, considerate, and engaging, wanting to get to know her and to hear tales of his mother's youth. The home was massive and opulent Cate was overwhelmed by the beautiful views. The only thing was Cate began to feel Kelly's eyes upon her when she cooked or cleaned especially when she bent over.
Cate had always been attractive with red hair cut shoulder length often up in a pony tale, porcelain freckled skin a trim firm waist a nice tight ass, and an ample bussom which had filled out substantially upon her return to a plentiful American diet.
She knew very well when a man was checking her out so Kelly's attentions weren't uncommon and honestly a little flattering.
On the third morning, she decided to be a bit naughty and give the boy a little thrill by wearing tight shorts and a striped tube top with no bra it was 1977 after all. Kelly immediately noticed the shift in her wardrobe and a warm satisfied smile spread across Cate's face. Even at fifty three she still had it.
The previous night she had shown Kelly pictures and slides from her time in Kenya he was impressed with the wild beauty of the land and inquired about her fellow teachers and eventually he asked about Bikira the man who appeared in numerous photos. Cate simply told him that he was the principal of the school she had taught at never mentioning the fact that they had been lovers for almost the entire time she had been in Kenya.