And He Called It Research

She stopped again and smiled at him as she said, "You sneak, you didn't tell me anything about missing the last ferry."

"I guess that sort of slipped my mind."

"You know I don't buy that for an instant."

"Well okay, so I guess that's why I sent Melvin an email earlier telling him I'd have you in the office before noon."

Her jaw dropped and her eyes danced as she smiled and said, "I can't believe you. How did you manage to put all of this together so quickly?"

"It only took me a few minutes. I didn't even know that you would be late tomorrow, but I figured what was the harm? If you showed up on time then all the better, but if you didn't we had that covered too."

"Oh god are you sure that neither Melvin nor Didi will be mad?"

"I'm sure. Now let's go down to the Blossoms and see who's out and about down there. Maybe we'll be invited into another cottage."

"Oh no, I'm not going into another cottage."

"We'll see, and he smiled at her just before he kissed her again and then pulled her along as he stepped forward.

"Mac, now stay out of the water and behave yourself."

"Okay, but you're asking a lot of me. I'm with my new vision of the perfect woman and you expect me to behave? That's gonna be tough."

"You strut along all safe in your baggy shorts, and I'm on the verge of being naked."

"Oh, and he stopped and reached for the button on his shorts.

"Mac stop. You wouldn't do that now would you?" He smiled at her and undid the button and fished for the tab on the zipper. "Mac, damn it."

"You make a good point. I'm hoping you'll be naked soon and I'm wearing these very ugly baggy shorts."

"Nudity for you is no big thing is it."

"I'd rather be nude than dressed anytime no matter who is around."

"Please Mac?"

"Okay, but I'm not redoing the button. If they just happen to fall later it won't be my fault."

"Oh god, you are really crazy."

"Crazy men don't do this," and he gently combed his fingers along her temple and through her long brown hair before he kissed her and held her close to him. She responded to his kiss and her hand went to his back as they continued and her world swayed a little He put his hand behind her neck and pulled her into him as he kissed her more firmly and his tongue went in search of new territory as her other hand reached around him and she felt his warm naked back under her hands.

"Oh Mac, you are dangerous."

"I'd rather be thought of as...well maybe mysterious, or intriguing."

"You are dangerous. Intriguing maybe. Mysterious, not so much, but very dangerous."

"But if I were dangerous, and crazy I'd do something like this," and he pulled at her skirt.

She grabbed for it and louder than intended she said, "Oh god, Mac, now don't do..." but it was too late and he held her skirt in his hand.

"Oops."

"Not oops, now damn it look...no now don't look at me, my god."

He didn't ask permission and he didn't say anything to draw attention to what he was doing, but she knew even before his shorts dropped to the sand. Her eyes went between his legs before she could think and she said, "Oh no, you're not wearing underwear."

"I'm trying to save money."

"Mac, you have no idea how difficult this is for me. We just shared such a wonderful and dangerous kiss and now look at us. Damn it I have to stop saying that."

"You have to stop saying dangerous too, because I'm really not."

"Oh yes you are. If it weren't for you I wouldn't be naked in front of you right now."

"But you said that wasn't my fault."

"I was wrong."

He pulled her into another kiss that became even more dangerous for her as his hands explored her naked back and butt. She didn't even realize at first that she had one hand on his ass and was pulling him into her as their kiss continued.

She didn't push him away and she didn't complain, but she whispered, "Mac, could we walk some more?"

"You must know that isn't what I'd like to do, but I bow to your wishes."

"When you give an island tour you really go all out don't you."

"I'll have you know that I've never given an island tour like this for anybody."

"Oh come on, you can be honest with me."

"Yes I certainly can," and he stopped and pulled her to him again. "Quite honestly, this is the first time I've ever done anything like this. Also very honestly, I want you so much I'm vibrating inside. You are very honestly very sexy and desirable to me and I can't get enough of your kisses. I also quite honestly don't care if we don't get back before daylight tomorrow."

"Well to be equally honest, I want you too Mac. I came here expecting a nice benign and short walk down the beach and back while you told me little tidbits about the island. Now here I am, totally naked with you this equally naked man and I keep looking at how your desire is showing. I'm scared out of my mind and at the same time, there isn't any place I'd rather be right now. I'm not afraid of you, but I am afraid of us and how quickly and seemingly innocent all everything has happened. Believe it or not, I considered going for this walk in my bra and panties pretending that was my bikini, but I was struggling with even that idea." She pulled him against her again and said, "God Mac, we just may need all night because I don't know what to do with myself, what to think or how to even sort all of this out."

"Then let's walk, hold hands and talk. Well okay and share a kiss every few hundred feet."

Chapter Sixty One

Things were about to get a lot more exciting for Kate as they passed the dividing line to the Blossoms cottages. She saw them slowly walking toward them, but there was no place she could hide; nothing she could do but pull herself closer to Mac. "I can't believe I put myself in this situation."

"I'm proud to have you at my side Kate."

"Thank you Mac, but I'm still trembling."

Mac waved to them as they neared and he said, "Hi June, you look fantastic."

"Thank you. I didn't think I'd see you again."

They walked into each others arms as he told her, "Now I couldn't let that happen," and they shared a meaningful kiss.

Kate was doing her best not to gawk at the guy with June, but she just couldn't get used to the idea of seeing so many naked men. "Hi, I'm Zack," he said and she forced herself to focus on taking his hand.

She hesitated and then told him, "I'm Kate."

"It's very nice to meet you, are you staying in one of the cottages?"

"No, I'm going to spend the night with Mac and Didi."

Mac pulled himself away from June and said, "Kate is a very good friend from the mainland. We were going to do a marathon beach walk, but we'll be turning around soon."

Zack was a good inch shorter than Kate, but he put his arm around her waist and as she held her breath he said, "Then if you don't mind, we'll walk with you until we reach our cottage."

"Great," and Mac smiled at Kate before he and June cuddled together and on they walked. What almost shocked Kate was, before long, her arm was around Zack as they shuffled through the warm sand while each of them dwelt in their own worlds, and then would talk only to drop into silence again. But then Mitch and Gina were added to the mix, and once again Kate was treated to another naked man, only Mitch was almost hard, and when she was introduced to him, he pulled her into a gentle embrace . The two of them were very close to the same height and his cock pushed against her little patch of pubic hair and slid down between her lips. She had little choice but to hold onto him as her world spun. The evening sky was full of the strong reds that appeared as the sun disappeared over the horizon, and that alone hid the fact that her face was red. She waited until a few words were shared back and forth and then told Mac, "We better head back."

Mac moved over to her and held her close to him as he said a few more words, and then with a wave, they reversed direction and left their naked friends behind.

"Getting tired," Mac asked her.

"I almost fainted when Mitch pulled me into his arms and his...as he speared me."

Mac laughed and said, "You are fantastic Kate."

"I don't feel fantastic, but I do feel a little weak in the knees."

"No, you were incredible. You've been assailed with naked guests, held close to naked people that you don't even know, and yes even speared by Mitch's cock."

"It has been an unbelievable evening."

They hadn't gone more than a hundred yards when he stopped and pulled her to him again and they kissed, and this time it was his cock that was long and hard and pushed against her mound. But this time she didn't nearly faint. This time she pulled him into her and with her chin over his shoulder and her lips to his ear she told him, "Don't move and don't say anything please. I need to feel us close. I need a minute to focus on just the two of us and what is happening. My eyes are closed to the ocean and my thoughts are denying the sand and the warm night."

Mac did hold her close and he caressed her back from shoulders to butt in a slow and gentle motion. He gave her the time she felt she needed, but when he felt her move he whispered, "I love feeling you in my arms and your nakedness pressed against me."

"Oh Mac, I'm so far in over my head here, but I don't want tonight to be over. I'm just a mess inside."

"Kate, the more I'm with you, the more I want to be with you. I don't want this evening over either."

"But Mac, I have to think that you've been with many women, and I'm fairly sure that one or more of them that we met not long ago."

"I have to admit that you're right, but that not only does not diminish being with you, it means that I've experienced enough to know that you are an exceptional woman. I know that after tonight I'll want to see you again." This time when they kissed she did her best to rape him with her tongue and her hand went again to his ass as she pushed herself against his hardness. There were no lounge pads for them to borrow, and making love on the sand, though possible, wasn't what he wanted for this woman that he held so closely to him. "There is a place up a little farther where we can rest and be more comfortable." She looked at him and reached down. Down to his cock and she wrapped her long cool fingers around him before she kissed him again. Ann jumped into Mac's mind for a minute, and that was because Kate was giving him strong feelings just as Ann had, and possibly even stronger. He now knew that it wasn't love that he felt when he was with Ann, but he couldn't decide just what those strong feelings were. Now here with tall and leggy Kate, his world was once again in a state of confusion. Was he losing his ability to keep things and people in his life in a proper perspective? He didn't know, because at the moment all he knew and could think about was being with Kate. To make love to her and to be with her.

She slipped her hand down to the base of his cock and then slowly moved it out to the tip, and as their kiss continued his hand went to her breasts until she broke the kiss and told him, "That resting place hadn't better be far away."

Minutes later Mac tossed two cushions onto the damp sand at the waters edge and they lay down next to each other. Mac put his hand to the side of her face told her, "You have been so strong this evening. You've been bombarded by a series of new, and I'm certain, frightening experiences right from when we left the house, and yet here you are lying naked next to me and in full view of anybody that might wander up the beach."

"It's getting dark so I don't think we'll have any visitors."

"I don't want to make this be more difficult for you, but that means little here. I love to walk the beach after dark and so do some of the others. But at the same time, we're about halfway between two cottage groups, so that may be enough to keep us private."

She smiled and kissed him lightly before she said, "I give up. You and this island are determined to change me totally. Okay, so let them walk by or stop and stare, but if any of your women get any ideas, they'll have to wait their turn, and that won't be anytime soon." Mac smiled and moved over her as she rolled onto her back, and he held himself on his elbows as he looked down at her as his hand slowly moved down to her prominent mound and on to her velvety lips. "Mac, I want this to last a long time. I want us to love each other before we make love to each other, but damn it I want you so very much right now."

"I want us to love each other too Kate, but we do have all night," and he moved as she took his cock in her hand and guided him into her.

Kate didn't go wild as they made love, but she couldn't just be still either even for a moment. If her hips weren't moving her hands were, and she proved that she thoroughly enjoyed their kisses. Their orgasms came and went and they rested, but they didn't have any desire to stop. The tide was coming in so the warm silky water was teasing them as it washed over the edge of their mat and kissed Kate's side. Her right foot was in the water unless her legs were wrapped over his back. Neither of them had any interest in different positions, because they wanted to be able to look at each other as they talked and made love. His cock was soft for a time, but still he lay almost on top of her as he touched her modest breasts and caressed her side. Her right hand stayed with his low back and his ass, and at one point she slipped her fingers into his muscular divide and told him, "I love your ass honey."

"I'm glad, and I love yours too. And I love your mound and your vulva. I love your lips and your hips, and oh how I love how we make love."

"Do we really have all night?"

"Of course we do."

"I know I can't last that long, but I love that idea just the same."

"Will you promise me you'll come see me in Pennsylvania?"

"If there is anyway possible, yes, I give you that promise."

Mac couldn't get over how different it was to be with tall Kate. Didi was less that five and a half feet tall, and in those moments at least, he couldn't remember any woman that he had known that were a lot taller than Didi. Maybe five seven at the most, but sweet Kate...oh how he loved lying next to her and even better, over her as they made love. "Kate honey, would you do me a favor?"

"Of course."

When you do come up, bring a pair of heels and we'll go out someplace fancy for dinner."

"Mac, I'm pretty tall, so when I wear heels..."

"I know, but you have the most awesome legs."

"Then for you I'll bring heels."

"Okay, and a short skirt with no panties."

She smiled at him and said, "You must be joking."

"Absolutely not. Just now, as we talk, all of that came into my mind. It's like a sudden fantasy that I want to see come true."

"I can't promise the no panties, but I'll have a talk with myself because I'm learning that it's difficult to tell you no."

"Then now is the time to tell you that I want more of you. Right here and right now love."

"The tide is sneaking up my side."

"Then let's see who wins, us or the tide."

Mac couldn't cum again, but Kate could and did, but he was still hard and he slowly moved his hips up and down as he told her, "I still want more of you honey. I don't think I have it in me though."

She smiled and told him, "I have it in me though, and I'm not in a hurry for us to quit."

"Even with the threatening tide?"

"I'm not floating so I'm okay. In fact I love how it feels to have the warm saltwater all around us. I love how it feels to have you inside of me and on top of me too."

Mac found a little more energy, and though neither of them had enough to climax, they both did have enough to last a little longer. Long enough for a small wave to splash Kate's face and bring their marathon lovemaking to an end.

They got up and tossed the mats onto the chairs and fell into each others arms again. "Oh Kate, how I love feeling you against me."

"I'm glad you do, but it's going to be a long time before we can be together again."

"I know and I don't like that at all."

It was well past midnight before they made it back and he slipped into bed next to her. They kissed once more and then she rolled to her side and he moved up close behind her and draped his arm over her side. "Night honey."

"Night babe," and they fell into a deep sleep.

Chapter Sixty Two

Mac and Didi were at the dock early Sunday morning and he had three bags packed and ready. They had their arms around each other as Didi said, "I can't believe this is really happening. We've always been together, or at least never apart for more than three days at a time."

"I haven't even left and it already feels weird to me."

"Do you have a plan on how to take care of Ann?"

"I'll make it up as we go along. Honey, I'm not worried about him assaulting me or anything crazy like that. This is more about seeing to her peace of mind and to assure Melvin that Ann is safe. I'm a little surprised that he's being so cautious with her."

"I'm just guessing, but that's probably because he was so out of control at the time and now he's been fired, so...well maybe it's a liability issue or something. I don't know how a lawyer would see all of that."

"So he's just covering his ass."

"That's certainly possible. Plus, you have to go back to the states anyway, so it all makes sense. I just don't like it is all."

"I hope you stay very busy and time flies for us. I'm going to miss you and this island a hell of a lot."

The guests were arriving, six at a time and were getting dressed for the flight home, so Didi and Mac kissed one last time and he told her, "I love you hon."

"I love you too, and good luck with your project and with hiring Liz."

"Oh right, I do have to get going on that. Thanks hon," and he got onto the ferry and sat up next to Cletus as Didi smiled, wiped tears from her eyes and headed back home alone.

For the first time, Mac realized that he'd had his favorites in the groups. To help time pass on the long slow ferry ride to the mainland, he walked down one side and stopped to talk to each of them. But when he came to one of those special guests, he would take a minute longer and flirt with her. Even Dawn got some extra time with him. He did the same with Misty and Gina, and when he came to Lois he whispered, "I expect to hear from you soon, and I hope you and Gina get together soon and truly enjoy each other again."

"Thank you Mac. You'll always be in my heart and my memories."

Then on to June, and again he told her to be sure to send him an email because he wanted to stay in touch with her. Each of the women felt a little special even though most of the women ended up with his personal email address. Then coming to Ann he sat down next to her and whispered, "Ann, you mean so much to me, but I better save that until we're alone. Are you doing okay?"

She smiled and told him, "I'm fine, and I'll always love you, my hero," and then he moved on to Francine. "Sexy lady, I'm searching for the words to use. You have a quality that draws you to me, and I'm a little jealous that you're going home to Howard, and you and I didn't even have a chance to be together."

"Mac, you've been wonderful, and though, like you, I'm sad that we didn't have some quality time together, I'll keep you in my fantasies."

"I'll have to settle for that," and he moved on. The guys got a hand shake and they shared knowing smiles, but each and every woman got his undivided attention at least for a short time.

To Mac, and probably the others, the long flight back to the states seemed to take forever. All of the same stops had to be made again as guests deplaned after shedding tears and sweet words. Then it was Mac and Ann's turn to leave the group and venture out on their own. Mac tossed his bags into the trunk of the rental car and they drove toward Ann's house. She placed a call and talked for a minute and then closed it before she said, "I just talked to Joyce, my neighbor. She hasn't seen Boyd or any signs of life at our place for a long time."