PART ONE

 

Introduction

 

"Hi, TT," Lexi said to me. We met in a coffee shop we used to visit. I had not seen Lexi for over a year. Before that we had been married for nearly five years. Lexi looked good but she displayed a nervous tentative smile.

"Hi Lexi," I said. "You're looking good. Have a seat. Coffee?"

"Yes, coffee would be nice." I ordered her favorite. At least it used to be her favorite.

"You look like you've managed to keep in shape," Lexi said when the waitress delivered the coffee.

"Yes, I managed to get to the gym a couple times a month," I answered. "How are you doing?"

"Good," she answered after a moment's thought. "How's your business doing?"

It was amazing that our conversation was so strained. Lexi and I had married right out of college. We had worked every day, long hard hours to make our fledgling business fly. Personal computers were just taking off when we opened our computer store using money my parents loaned us.

The business did well right from the first. My geeky interest in computers was paying off big time. I also managed to write a couple of programs that did well. More than a couple actually.

The long hours we put in paid off with big dividends and at the time of our break-up we were rolling in the dough. Sometime after she disappeared, Lexi cleaned out what we had in savings and a few stocks that were in her name. That amounted to about a hundred thousand dollars. It wasn't an equitable distribution, but it was apparently what she wanted. Of course I closed our old checking account and opened some in my name alone.

I'm Travis Thomas, TT to my friends, and I'm not sure what last name Lexi is using these days. She looked good at thirty years of age. Dammed good as a matter of fact.

"The business?" I said. I was stalling because I wasn't sure why Lexi had contacted me or why she wanted the meeting. I figured she was broke and wanted money. "Fine, I guess."

"You guess? Travis Thomas, who had his fingers on the pulse twenty-four seven? What does that mean exactly?"

"Why Lexi?" I said shortly. "Why after all this time do you give a shit how the business is doing?" If I sound bitter, I was. I didn't see the break-up coming and I was devastated for months after Lexi left. Not that I hold her completely responsible. I have to shoulder some of the blame. Maybe most of it.

Chapter 1

 

The beginning

 

I'm not exactly sure when it happened. I mean the falling for Lexi bit. Of course I thought she was pretty, even beautiful. From that first moment I saw her I thought she was stunning. I'm not sure when she changed from just beautiful to downright sexy in my mind.

I first met Lexi at a frat party. She came with Dick Carter, a classmate of mine. I didn't have a chance to talk to her that time. I just admired her from across the room. She had short blonde hair.

The next time was a few weeks later at another party. She was with some bozo I didn't know. Again I didn't engage her in any conversation. We just nodded, smiled, and moved on. I did ask around about her. I was told she was Lexi Irwin, an accounting student. She was a brunette that time.

To be truthful, even though I was attracted I didn't have a driving need to find out more about her. I was busy getting ready to graduate and I had just sold some software programs. That was the occasion of the next Lexi sighting.

"I believe congratulations are in order," she said, coming up to me. It was a party to celebrate my sudden windfall. We had gathered at a pub called the pit. "I'm Lexi Irwin, by the way."

"I know," I said to her. "I asked after the first time I saw you. I'm Travis Thomas. You were a blonde the first time I saw you. Later you were a brunette and now a redhead. I like it red, by the way."

"Thank you, TT," she said, laughing. TT was what I had been called since my freshman year at college. I wondered how she knew that. "I think I'm going to stay a red-head for a while." Lexi was standing close to me so that we could hear over the racket in the pub. She came to about chin high on me. She also smelled as good as she looked. Since I'm six-one that made her about five-two or three. I could see part way down her dress top. Lexi was living proof that tiny tits are sexy. I resisted the urge to lean forward and actually touch them.

"I mean it, red hair suits you," I said leaning down closer to her ear. "Are you with someone?"

"Yes, I was invited by Dick Carter. He's somewhere networking I suppose," she looked around the crowded room. "So how does it feel to be a big time computer whiz?"

"Pretty good, actually," I said. "How are things with you?"

"Things are fine. I have a couple job interviews that look promising."

"You and Dick...serious?" I ventured. I didn't want to be accused of being an interloper.

"No, not really," she said smiling up at me. "Dick and I have dated on and off for a couple of years. He's a reasonable dancer and he's funny most of the time, so I usually go with him when I can. Is there someone special in your life?"

Her question seemed fair so I explained that I hadn't time to be seriously involved with anyone. Being a serious student and president of the geeks wasn't good training in the art of he-ing and she-ing. It was part of my social development that was sadly lacking. I thought she was interested, but wasn't sure enough to press it.

Sometime later Dick took the lovely Lexi and left the party. Then on the next Monday Dick found me on the way to the student center.

"Well, TT," he said joining me on my journey. "What the fuck are you up to?"

. "What are you talking about?" I replied

"I'm talking about Lexi Irwin," he said. "Are you trying to cut in on me?"

"No buddy," I replied. "I'm trying to cut you completely out." He laughed and shook his head.

"Okay then. Just as long as I know the score. I got the impression she was interested in you. You want her number?"

"I would indeed," I said. "How pissed off are you going to get?"

"Medium pissed," he answered. "I kinda like Lexi and she's always a good piece of ass. But what the hell. She's looking to settle down and I'm not, so if it wasn't you, it would be some other swinging dick. She told me to give you her number, so fuck you and the horse you rode in on, TT."

He hadn't gotten more than ten feet away before I was on my cell phone to Lexi. We made a date for the next evening and it was great. We went out again the following weekend.

Seduction was another area where my education was lacking. I never seemed to know what to do or when to do it. Luckily Lexi sensed that I was a slow starter so she took over and she seduced me.

Dick had been right about Lexi wanting to settle down. She and I were married the following spring. In all honesty I must have been ready to settle down, too. I took to it like a duck takes to water.

For the next few years things went along smoothly. Lexi was exactly what a young, up and coming, entrepreneur needed. She pitched in and worked right alongside me. The subject of children came up several times, but it was apparent that we didn't want children anytime soon.

In the bedroom, Lexi was a proven asset also. She was exciting and adventurous and was up for anything. Oral sex was something she loved. Both giving and receiving. When I first mentioned anal sex she quickly got to her knees and spread her butt cheeks. She loved to have her tiny boobs played with and she loved it when I sucked her puffy nipples. She could actually get off with just breast play. If it had anything to do with sex, Lexi was always ready. She never uttered the words 'no' or 'I've got a headache' or 'too tired'.

I was living the good life and things just couldn't get any better...or so I thought.