There Must Be A Mistake Ch. 13

Delicious agreed and the trap was set.

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(11:15 A.M.) The coordinator had Delicious sit in her wheelchair on the left, and Gray in his wheelchair on the right. The two photographers I hired were in their positions, complaining about lighting, and angles. I was holding Richard, when the nurse pulled me to my daughter's side. Then she pulled Jennifer to Gray's side. You would think for such bright people they would have noticed we were very well dressed for visiting a sick person, in a hospital. Gordon was standing in the V of the two wheelchairs in his cranberry colored shirt.

Then a photographer asked, "Do we have anyone who might resemble a minister so we can check for his shadow?"

On cue, Rod walked in dressed in his suit.

The coordinator yelled, "You, come here, we need you for a few minutes."

Rod said, "Who me?"

"Yes you. We want you to play the part of a minister marrying these two people. We have an important wedding this afternoon, and we have to be sure everything goes perfectly."

He looked at Delicious like a Great White Shark looks at a seal. "I finally have you where I want you, and you can't say a word until I stop."

"I will rip your arms from your body, just for fun Rod."

"I'm leaving."

I said, "She will be good Rod. If she moves, I will hit her on her head."

"Dad, you wouldn't do that to me."

"Try me. Let's get this over with, my son is wet."

"Okay, I'll be good."

"I get to play Burt Reynolds' at last."

"Rod knock it off."

"Okay, here goes. Do you 'Crazy Woman with a cracked head and no hair, what was your name again..."

"Delicious Luck."

"That's right, Delicious Luck, tormentor of my life from the day we first met, want to marry this poor innocent good-looking man whose name is who..."

"I'm going to kill you, and you know it."

"That is a weird name for a man. So you want to marry a man whose name is 'I'm going to kill you, and you know it.' Okay that works for me.'

"Doctor Grayson Thyme."

"Doctor Grayson Thyme" for better or worse in sickness and in health till death do you part. How quickly can he kill you? Are you sick already? Did you say yes or no?"

"Yes, I will marry him for better or worse in sickness and in health until I can grab you by the balls and squeeze until Roz begs me to stop or until they pop out of your sack."

"All you present will acknowledge that the pain in my ass, Delicious Luck, just said yes to marry this poor man... What was your name again?"

"Doctor Grayson Thyme."

"Why the hell do you want to marry what's her name..."

"Delicious Luck."

That's right; my mind is so afraid of her, it blocks that name out. You are absolutely sure about this, you still have time to back out, but after you say you will marry her in sickness and in health to love and to cherish and all that bad stuff it's too late. You want to take a moment to think about this, do you want to take two moments to think about this, how about a year or ten?"

"I am going to murder you Rod."

"Be quiet, it's not your turn to talk."

"Doctor, have you thought it over? Are you really sure? This is your last chance. Have you been medically cleared to make decisions of such enormous magnitude?"

"Yes, I will marry her for the rest of my life, or until I kill her."

"Who her?"

"Delicious Luck; and if anyone is going to kill her it will be me."

"That's the spirit. How soon can you kill her; can I watch?"

"No you can't watch."

"Dammit, therefore ladies and gentlemen gathered here today by the power vested in me by the State of Colorado, the County and City of Denver and the Town of Idaho Springs, I now pronounce you man and wife. You two are officially married. Congratulations you may kiss your bride."

I yelled, "Rod run."

Delicious screamed as she tried to get up, "I'll kill that sonofabitch."

She looked up at me with fire in her eyes. "You did this to me?"

"Do you think I'm that stupid?"

Her head turned slowly to Jennifer. My wife had a grin on her face as wide as a Cheshire cats.

"You said ANYTHING!"

I asked, "Gray are you going to kiss your bride?"

"Even as of midnight tonight she is 18. I'm going to do more than kiss her."

"If you want I can get you the exact time of her birth."

"If you do you'll be lying next to your sister."

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He pulled her out of her wheelchair onto his lap. Before he kissed her he looked at me and asked, "Who signed our marriage licenses?"

I pulled the copy out of my pocket and handed it to him. I said, "You two did. You have to be more careful when you are checking out of hospitals."

"Daddy, I'm married, but I'm not 18."

"As your husband said, you will be at midnight. Can you go that long without fighting?"

"We will think of something to do. Maybe I'll go out and buy a wig."

"Look in your paperwork; they have the name of two stores you may want to try. I think you'd look scrumptious as a blonde."

"Blonde, yuck, red maybe, but never a blonde. People will think him a ditz."

"Remember, don't overdo it. You just had surgery, and you're lucky your brains didn't get scrambled."

"Yes daddy, thank you for worrying about me."

"Who said her brains didn't get scrambled?"

"Do you see what I mean dad? I didn't say anything nasty to him, and he's looking for trouble already. If he keeps looking, I guarantee you he's going to find it."

"Goodbye children, remember midnight is only 12 hours 27 minutes away. Try not to kill each other before then."

"Goodbye dad."

"Goodbye dad in law."

"Goodbye son-in-law."

Delicious leaned over and nibbled on to Gray's ear. "If you promise to be nice until midnight I'll tell you a secret."

"Am I going to like this secret? Is this secret going to hurt me in the long run? Am I going to have to kill you over the secret? Does anyone else know about the secret?"

"In order of your questions: Number 1, yes. Number 2, no. Number 3, no. Number 4, yes."

"What were my questions again?"

"Promise you'll be nice to me until midnight, and I will tell you my secret."

"I know I'm going to hate myself for doing this, but I promise to be good until midnight."

She whispered into his ear, "I stopped taking my birth control pills two months ago. I want your baby. I love you very much Gray. I will always love you. Whether we are together or apart, I will always love you."

He kissed her so hard it felt like he was trying to stuff his head down her throat.

"How do you expect me to be nice until midnight, when you say something like that to me. I adore you, I have since the moment I met you. I need a shower, a very cold very long shower."

"Do you want company?"

"Stay away from me you devil, or we will never make it until midnight."

"Do you want to go to a movie, and fool around?"

"Was there anything in particular you wanted to see?"

"The girls at school were talking about a theater called the Roxy. It's running a new movie about cars. It's called, "Anal Parking."

"You are so going to be spanked. Anal Parking has nothing to do with cars and you know it."

"I was just saying what some of the girls at school were talking about. You know I have no practical knowledge of any form of sex. You know President Clinton said that blowjobs are not intercourse. It's just another form of talking."

"Yes, and you've learned to speak that language so well this past year."

"You know we shouldn't be speaking like this in the chapel. God may hear us."

"We are getting married in front of HER in two weeks. I hope she doesn't mind we got a quick start."

"That reminds me, I'm going to kill Rod."

"You have to know someone put him up to this, and it wasn't your father."

"It had to be Jennifer. I can't wait to find out what she did to make him do this. He's already been clipped, I can't imagine what else could have driven him over the edge."

"I can, but let's not worry about that today. Are you hungry; or do you want to go wig shopping?"

"Feed me first, you know how I get when I'm hungry."

"You don't have to tell me twice."

"You said you were going to be nice."

"Delicious, if I ate like you do I would be 400 pounds. I'm jealous of you. I don't know where you put all that food and not gain an ounce."

"It's in my genes."

"I've noticed, and those jeans fit you mighty fine."

"If you don't stop talking like that, I am not going to make it until midnight."

"We could go back to the apartment and play until midnight."

"We would go there with the best of intentions, and last about a minute before you impregnate me."

"How far into your cycle are you?"

"11 days, after midnight it will be 12 days."

"Jennifer must be a witch. Did she know you stopped taking the pill?"

"I never told anyone but my Doctor."

"Does she use the same Doctor?"

"Yes, Jennifer, Roz, and I all use him. He just saved Jennifer's life."

"I will make you a wager someone in that office has a big mouth."

"Are you going to feed me or not?"

"There are many things I want to do to you, and feeding you is not on the top of my list. However it's not midnight, and we have to wait. What would you like for lunch?"

Gordon said, "Wendy's."

Gray turned around and looked at him. "What are you doing here?"

"Everyone left in such a hurry they forgot about me."

Gray laughed. "Somehow Gordon I don't believe they forgot about you. I think they left you with us as a babysitter."

"Aren't you supposed to babysit me?"

"No Gordon, not today. Today is a very special day, and your parents just pulled a fast one on us. Wendy's it is. How hungry are you?"

"I'm very hungry. Can we go now?"

"I think you've learned enough about sex today. We can eat now. Where is Montgomarie?"

"She's standing in the hallway waiting for me."

"Okay let's go."

Delicious started to stand up and Gray said, "Sit."

"Why?"

"Hospital rules. A patient cannot get out of her wheelchair until she exits the hospital. You are still in the hospital you stay in that chair."

"Are you starting already Gray?"

He leaned over and kissed her, until she couldn't breathe. When he let her go he asked, "Does that answer your question."

"Yes dear."

Gordon tugged on Gray's belt. "Does kissing girls always keep them quiet?"

"Not always Gordon, but it sure does help. Why are you having trouble with Danielle and Brandy?"

"I'm not having trouble with them. They are having trouble with each other when I am around. I'm trying to figure out a way to stop it. If kissing works, I'll try it on both of them."

Delicious nearly fell out of her wheelchair laughing. Gray was thankful he was holding on to the handles.

"Gordon before you do that talk to your father first. He is a very smart man when it comes to matters of the heart."

"Okay, I'll think about it."

They walked out of the chapel, and their agents formed up around them. When they asked for the destination Gordon announced happily, "We are going to Wendy's."

The agents couldn't help themselves; they all burst out in laughter.

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(12:45 P.M.) As they were preparing to leave the hospital grounds, an ambulance caused the last of the five protection vehicles to stop and let it pass. It also caused it to stop at the traffic light entering the main roadway. Sydney called the lead car to say she was out the position and she would catch up as soon as possible.

As she was maneuvering to catch up, she watched a car maneuvering to stay behind the lead group. She pointed it out to the three men in the car with her. They ran the license plate, and the vehicle through the police computers, and they didn't match.

Sydney called Jayden and said, "We have a tail."

"How far back and how many?"

"Three cars behind you, and I only see one. It may be a reconnaissance vehicle."

"We are going to Wendy's. Sydney you continue on as if you're not part of our group. Contact control, and advise them of the situation. Get six people into Apartment 'A', and a dozen into Apartment 'B'."

"Will do Jayden, I'll call you on your private cell."

As the four cars turned into Wendy's parking lot, the black Buick did also. The agents played with Gordon, like they didn't have a care in the world.

The two men in the Buick filmed everything, including Gray and Delicious hugging and kissing.

Sydney continued straight ahead for a mile, turned into a gas station and filled up the SUV like any ordinary customer. When she was finished, she followed a route through a community to be sure she wasn't being followed. She waited five minutes, and drove a circuitous route that led her back to the shopping plaza obliquely across from the restaurant, and watched. She called Jayden to tell him her position.

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After sitting in Wendy's parking lot for 10 minutes, the two men took off their jackets and ties, and went into Wendy's, ostensibly to have lunch. Both of them were wearing sophisticated listening devices under their clothing.

After they paid for their order, and filled their drinks, a table opened across the way from where Delicious and Logan were seated. The discussion didn't sound like employer employee conversation. It sounded more like a friendly discussion.

Delicious said, "Why don't you guys stay in the lobby tonight. Better still, take the night off. I don't want you tape-recording my first night with my new husband. Knowing you, you'll have it on YouTube by noon."

"Noon, it would never take me that long to get it up and running. I'm going to have a microphone on your door and on every window in the apartment. I'll be doing the play-by-play myself."

"If I didn't know you better, I would believe you meant it."

"I do mean it."

"The next time I make you dinner, you won't be able to walk away from the table."

"I wasn't able to walk away the last time, it was so good."

"It will be so good this time, it will be deadly."

"Okay, the four of us will take off. Just remember double lock the master electronic lock. Anyone who tries to get into the apartment will have to blow the door off its six tungsten steel hinges to gain entry."

"Thank you daddy, how many times have you read me that lecture now?"

"How many times have you forgotten to do it?"

"I'm only 17 give me a break."

"People intent on kidnapping you don't care if you're only 17. With a body like yours, some Arab would pay $1 million own it."

"How about you? Would you like to play with my body?"

"I'm immune to you, remember. I play for the other team."

"If you give me a little time, I bet I could change your mind."

"If Junie couldn't do it, you don't stand a chance."

"She's that much prettier than I am?"

"No, she's got a bigger ass."

"I don't like you Logan."

"Yes you do, otherwise you wouldn't want me so bad."

"Gordon are you finish with your lunch?"

"Can I have another 'Chocolate Frosty'?"

"Are you going to throw it up all over the apartment tonight?"

"Probably."

"Okay, you can have a small one."

Logan said, "You are so easy."

"I've been trying to tell you that for a long time."

"Why don't you try Jayden? He's got 14 inches or more."

"No black man is ever going to touch me. I would kill him first."

"Here I thought you were more open-minded."

"Open-pussied, not Open-minded."

"Sis, I'm ready to go."

"That sleeping pill mom gave me for him better work. If he wakes up while Gray is fucking me, I'm not stopping. He will gain at advanced education in sex at a very early age."

"Why don't you give him a ride. He will remember it for the rest of his life."

"I've washed it, I wouldn't even feel it touching me yet."

"Are you sure all you did was wash it?"

"Well, I may have pulled it a few times but it didn't react."

"Miss, you are bad girl."

"It takes you a long time, but you finally get the right idea."

As she got up from the table, Delicious faked slipping, and sat down on one of the spies laps.

"Oh God, I'm so sorry sir. I guess I don't have my balance back completely yet. I fell the other day and fractured my skull as you can see by all these bandages. I apologize for being so clumsy."

With his hand holding her tit, the man said, "Darling, you can fall into my lap anytime."

Delicious put her arm around his head and said, "Do you see what I mean, this man knows how to treat a woman. He doesn't toss her away to play for the same team. Thank you for being so gallant sir. My name's Delicious, and I truly am Delicious."

The man replied, "I could not agree with you anymore than I do."

"I have to leave now, maybe some other time?"

"It would be my pleasure ma'am."

"I'll make sure it is."

As they walked out of the restaurant Gray pulled her to his side and said, "What the fuck was that?"

"I wanted to see if he was wearing a wire, and he was. Whoever he's working for wants to know exactly what we were talking about. Jayden do you want to tell my husband what's going on?"

"With your wife's help, and with the knowledge they were taping our conversation, we had just laid a trap for them. They don't think anyone is going to be on guard duty tonight. Someone is going to be at your building soon to make sure you go in. They know they will have to bring explosives to get through your front door, because we told him they would need it. Most of them will come up the elevator, some of them may come up the stairs. When they get to the top, we will cut power to the elevators. We will have people on the 15^th floor on both of the staircases. They will have no place to go, or move. They will have no way to escape."

Gray stared at Delicious. "If this is part of your mother-in-law's 'Anything' game, I'm going to pull out her fingernails and toenails very slowly

"May I borrow your cell phone please?"

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"Hello Gray, how are you holding up?"

"Hello dad, it's Delicious, is mom there?"

"Of course she is, she's buried in the back where the headstone is."

"No dad, I meant Jennifer."

"You're calling her mom now? Don't get me wrong I'm very happy about that, it makes me very proud that you've taken that step. I am as proud of you as I was when Gordon called me dad. Yes your mother is here. I'll get her."

Delicious heard her father yell, "Jen, your daughter is on the phone."

When she answered Jennifer said, "Are you going to kill us for leaving Gordon with you?"

"We thought that was a really smooth move mom. There were certain things we would not have talked about if we knew he was behind us, but no you're not going to get killed for that. There is something else going on and if this is your doing, start digging. Are you having us followed and audiotaped by people other than our guards?"

"Why the hell what I do something like that?"

"That's what I'm asking you mom. We are being followed, but we don't know by who. Gray asked me the strangest question, and I couldn't answer it, without asking you. So this has nothing to do with the word ANYTHING!"

"No dear, our deal is finished. You and I, and the word anything have completed our journey. You are a married woman, but more important you are happy. Whoever is following you is trying to make you unhappy. Stay by Gray's side, he will protect you. Listen to his counsel, he is smarter than you are in these situations. Above all do not get into an argument with him about this. Now is the time to allow him to think, and act, not react."

"Thanks mom, I'll tell him."

"Gray, my mom said she has nothing to do with this. She wants me to listen to you and to stay close to you. Most of all, she does not want me to argue with you. She wants you to be able to think and act, not react."