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“I am, and I’m pretty happy about it. This is my ward, Tammy Traynor.”
“Hi, Tammy. So nice to meet you. You have a great guy to look up to. Travis is a wonderful person.”
Tammy nodded and didn’t respond. She wasn’t talkative around strangers.
The way Marilyn was talking, I figured she was a little drunk, so when Jack brought my pitcher of Miller and Tammy’s Coke, I ordered Marilyn another drink.
“Dance, Travis?”
“Sure. One dance.”
She’d picked a slow song and I danced her around the roadhouse a few times. The floor was so crowded, you couldn’t actually dance. I mostly stood still, held Marilyn in my arms and inhaled her perfume.
Nothing happened in the sense that inhaling Annie’s perfume always made me hard. Not like that.
After we danced, Marilyn didn’t stay long and Tammy and I claimed her booth as our own. From where we were sitting, I had a view of the front entrance and a few minutes later I was amazed when Olivia came in looking a little lost. A rowdy roadhouse wasn’t a place Olivia Best would ever choose to go.
I left Tammy in the booth and hurried over to where Olivia was standing. “Are you lost?”
She smiled. “I had to come to say goodbye. This is your last night and I didn’t know if you’d have time to stop in tomorrow morning.”
“I won’t have time. Let me take your coat and we’ll dance.”
“Oh, I don’t know about dancing, Travis.”
I took her hand and led her into the undulating throng dancing to Tennessee Whiskey. I pulled her close to me and we moved to the music.
“In a lifetime of living in Coyote Creek, I’ve never been here before. What a shame. Look what I’ve been missing.”
“My second home.” I leaned down and kissed her neck. “Do you want to go someplace more private?”
“I hate to let you disappear from my life, Travis. You’ve meant so much to me in the short time you’ve been here.”
“I haven’t made many friends since I’ve been here, but you are at the top of my list, Olivia. You are someone who won’t be forgotten no matter where I live in the future.”
“What a sweet thing to say, Travis.”
I took a break from the party at the roadhouse and followed Olivia back to the Inn. She led me into her private quarters, where we’d had dinner a couple of times, and this time I made it all the way to her bedroom.
A lot of pent-up feelings for Annie went into my lovemaking. The first time it had happened with another woman since Annie and I had been separated, and I was saturated in guilt afterward. Smoking a whole pack wouldn’t have been enough.
When I got back to the roadhouse, Tammy gave me a funny look. “Where were you? Did you go to make out with that pretty lady you were dancing with?”
“Yeah, I did. I wanted to say goodbye. She’s a special friend and I’m going to miss her.”
“You can get a new girlfriend in Texas.”
“Nah. Don’t want one. I have a wife already and I don’t deserve her.”
“Will I get to meet your wife?”
“Umm… possibly.”
“Is she gonna like me?”
“Yep. I think so.”
Before Tammy and I left the roadhouse, I tracked Billy down and he was drunk from so many well-wishers buying him drinks. I shook his hand. “Nice one.”
