The wedding happens quickly…

James and Olivia spent a couple of hours or so at his friend’s place in the hot tub and pool, which was well lit and was heated so it wasn’t too cold on what was an already cool October evening.

Olivia had on a beautiful one piece swimsuit. She hadn’t planned to wear it for too long, but she knew she looked spectacular in it. It was tight fitting and would have been unforgiving on a lesser body than hers. On her however, it was amazing.

Soon they were making out, and it wasn’t long before they had stripped each other of their clothing. He pulled one shoulder strap down a bit to expose one of her perky breasts and then the other. He smiled when he was at eye level with her beautiful breasts, and leaned in and kissed one as Olivia untied his swim trunks and put her hand on his cock.

James again spent a long few minutes licking and sucking on Olivia‘s perky B cup breasts, and as before she enjoyed the attention, jerking him off slowly as he did it.

He then sat Olivia on the ledge of the hot tub, spread hear legs and went down on her. And James again took his time, not being in any hurry. He was a matured lover, he had learned to please his lovers, and that in time he would enjoy plenty of pleasure for it. So for about fifteen minutes he ate Olivia out.

He varied his technique between fast and slow. Nibbling, sucking, tongue fucking, gentle fingering, and all the while using his hands to softly grope her breasts, pinching her nipples and giving her pleasure as she moaned.

James got her there, giving Olivia an orgasm, and then another. Finally she pulled him up towards her and kissed him, smiling happily. “I brought you here to give you some dessert you silly boy,” she said in rushed breath, trying to compose herself. “This was supposed to be for you, not for me…”

James smiled at her, “you think this is just for you?” He asked in a coy voice before leaning down and kissing her pussy briefly, before visibly taking in her scent, and briefly pushing a finger back into her. “I enjoy this Olivia, and the dessert you brought me tastes very good…”

Olivia took the finger he just had inside of her and licked it, then sucked it, making a face as if she was at a wine tasting, then rubbed her fingers against her pussy and licked her fingers clean. “Ok…you have a point, I do taste pretty good, if you are into that sort of thing…”

“Ok, what was dessert then?” He asked, “I get you however I want you right?”

“Well yeah, that was what it was,” she replied. “You know, you fucking me however you want to, getting your balls sucked, tonsil fucking me, cumming on my face a few times, that is what I had in mind.”

“What if what I want starts with eating you out for as long as you can stand it?” He asked with a smile. “I mean fucking is nice, but it happens a lot. Deep throating feels good and all, but can also be a bit undignified, and I never saw the allure of a cum facial to be honest. I mean what would you get out of it?”

“Have you ever done it to a woman?” She asked and he nodded yes, so she continued, “I mean to someone who loves you, who smiles as you do it, who licks your cock clean when it is done?”

James nodded his head no, he had done it, but only when having emotionally empty porno sex with strippers.

“I have had a guy do it to me, and I didn’t like it,” Olivia continued. “He didn’t ask, and he didn’t give me any warning, I never figured I would ever want cum on my face again, but right now I’m thinking of having you do it to me in the full wedding dress getup after we are married.”

“For you I want it…like, I would let you do it to me in public if you wanted to. Like I want to walk through the mall with your cum on my face…”

James moved between her legs and pushed his cock into her, and she moaned in pleasure, “fine Olivia, if you want me to do that I will, we can do anything we both want.” He said as he slowly pumped his cock into her, smiling as she was not just warm but tight. It was like his cock fit into her body perfectly, like it was meant to be there. “But know I am going to treat you with love, as my wife, as a lady…there is room for that in the bedroom.”

“We aren’t in a bedroom baby,” Olivia replied. “We are basically on our second day as a couple, and you are balls deep inside of me, unprotected in a hot tub at a friend’s house…you can basically just wear me out here baby. Fuck me however you want, pound my ass in any way that pleases you.”

“I don’t know what we will end up being, but I can’t wait to find out,” she continued when her soon to be husband gave no indication he was going to treat her like a whore.

“I will be your whore if you want,” she leaned in and whispered in his ear. “I will do anything for you, you can do anything you ever want to me…I am all yours baby, every part of me.”

The two of them fucked for a while, changing positions, resting in the hot tub, then going back at it. {him_name} fucked her on a pool float in the shallow end of the pool, enjoying the heated pool in the cool October night air.

Then Olivia sucked his cock underwater as she held her breath, which was lasting as she was athletic and was a competitive swimmer among other things.

When they were done and drying off to get dressed again, James was sitting behind his soon to be wife and pointed out to the amazing back yard his friend Bob had.

“What if we had the ceremony here?” He asked Olivia. “Bob retired as a colonel, he could officiate our wedding, and this is at most a fifteen minute drive from our apartment. Your dad would be comfortable on the trip over I think.”

“Isn’t Bob in France?” She asks. “Not right next door, what if he can’t get back in time.”

James smiles at her, “he is, but if I ask, Bob will be here for me, that I know.”

She smiled widely, looking at the beautiful yard and then back at her father’s best friend and her soon to be husband. “I like it here, I like it a lot. I mean this is rich people housing, but it is really beautiful I think for a wedding.”

The house wasn’t really a mansion, it was just a nice big house in a gated neighborhood. Five bedrooms and four bathrooms, with a good sized lot and a nice pool. It would do nicely.

“Ok? I will talk to Bob and get him ready for whenever the date is,” he replied. “Not a lot of decorations are needed, and we don’t need to make your dad sit through anything to lengthy…so maybe we keep it small.”

“I’m cool with that, it’s not like I’m keeping up with my friends from high school,” Olivia replied. “They are all off at college or moved on, nobody even lives in town anymore among my close friends.”

They soon drove back to James’s apartment, and on the way there Olivia reached over and started to play with his cock outside of his swim trunks, finally unlacing the front a bit, and sucking his cock as he drove.

As he had said, it wasn’t a long trip back to his apartment, but she worked on his cock pretty hard, now fulfilling a fantasy she had the day she met him, sucking his cock till he came in her mouth. She lifted her head a bit to swallow, it was a smaller amount of cum, but she had gotten him off quite a few times in the last couple of days, it wasn’t a surprise.

Olivia then flashed him the beautiful smile that still stunned him, and gave his cock a sweet little kiss before pulling his trunks back up.

James knew this was the new relationship stage when people had a lot of sex. It wouldn’t last forever, but it would be great while it lasted.

When they made it home they got ready for bed and they ended up fucking yet again. They were just barely in the new relationship stage, and their want for each other was only growing. This time James fucked her in the missionary position the entire time, slowly and gently, kissing her and leaning down to lick and suck a perky set of breasts he enjoyed seeing more every time they were before him.

He came inside of her while they shared a kiss, and he gave her yet another orgasm, one of many so far, one of many yet to come.

They fell asleep naked in each others arms, something which was of more comfort to both than either knew they needed. But they both did indeed need it badly.

The next day they again saw Jack, bringing him breakfast, with Claudia answering the door, looking as beautiful as ever, but settling in now, being a bit more friendly to James.

She was quite friendly with Jack now, more comfortable in her role, and it was obvious Jack enjoyed the view as his beautiful live in nurse saw to his needs. And the view was better, as Olivia couldn’t help but notice that Claudia was wearing a tighter outfit than before.

It was still a set of scrubs like a nurse would wear, but in this set Claudia’s ass was quite pronounced in a tighter fitting bottom, and it stretched tight on what looked like an impressive set of tits on the young woman.

So friendlier to everyone and dressing to entertain her father? They weren’t going to complain about that.

Later that night, Olivia and James drove to meet his former commanding officer Bob, but at a different house. A bigger house, this one was an actual mansion in size.

“Colonel,” James said when he met his old friend Bob. “This is Olivia, my fiancé.”

Bob looked to be 70 years old, but was fit and looked sharp. He was very well kept and dressed the part of a wealthy man, he smiled and offered Olivia a hug.

She extended her hand out of habit, but he kissed her hand, then offered her a warm but very proper and polite hug, “darling if you are marrying my boy cowboy here, we will need to be on hugging terms.”

Olivia looked at James and laughed, “cowboy?”

James laughed, but Bob answered her, “in the army, and even more so in the special forces you get a nickname,” he said in a happy tone. “All of us end up with one, everyone.”

“Now you don’t get to pick your nickname. James earned that name when we found out in training he was born in Fort Worth, otherwise known as Cowtown…” he replied in a happy tone. “It is said with love, I promise…”

James just shrugged and smiled, not at all a new story for him to hear.

“How was the flight back?” Olivia asks softly, “weren’t you in France?”

“It was a lovely flight, thank you very much,” Bob replied. “It was a work trip, we are partnering with EU partner countries on some parts of a project, and let’s just say the company there had become a bit stale.”

“I was already stateside when I got the call, so when James told me about you, I just had to come and meet you darling.”

It didn’t take long, and they got the particulars worked out. While working out that the wedding would be in a few days, just after the 72 hour waiting period was over, Olivia learned that Bob had made his fortune in oil while in the military, and had then expanded to real estate, buying and selling property, and owning a number of homes which he rented out. But only to friends, he was particular who lived in his properties.

This while serving as an executive at the defense contractor James worked for. It seemed a busy life, but Bob seemed healthy and happy.

Olivia also learned more about how James didn’t just work for a defense contractor and in the Army reserves, he also handled security for all of Bob’s real estate interests, and logical security for Bob’s oil and gas company, which was still operating. So a full time job, a part time job in the reserves, and another part time job.

She didn’t know it, but James was better paid than she could have known. $300,000 plus for his job for the defense contractor, and something close to it with Bob, looking after the security for quite a large set of interests. Bob also paid James in stock options, wanting to take care of his old friend, a man he knew had been through a lot.

To Bob the age gap didn’t matter, nor the conditions that lead to this hasty wedding, he just wanted James to lead a happy life. He had given a lot in service to his country, and part of that was giving up his health for a while, and even his happiness. These days happiness was a rare thing for James.

Bob looked at the smiling couple and saw Olivia was making James genuinely happy, and he needed to know nothing else about her.

The two new lovers spent the rest of the day together, getting James fitted for a new tuxedo. She asked if he would wear his military dress uniform, and James politely declined.

Them she took him to get a fresh haircut, Olivia insisting on both of them getting a full spa treatment, and then a nice dinner and another long night of fucking.

The next day James took Jack back to the new doctor to go over the results of the scans and bloodwork, and as Jack requested they didn’t bring Olivia.

The odds were poor, and he didn’t want to get her hopes up to have them crushed, so just the two of them went in the guise of having a lunch together again.

And the news wasn’t good at all. It was preliminary, there were still tests out, but the news was not positive.

The previous doctors had gotten the diagnosis right for the most part, the cancer was there and where they suggested it had been. It was indeed in his brain, lungs and pancreas.

However the other doctors had been wrong on how aggressive it was. Time was shorter than Jack had been told.

Jack was in his end days, parts of his body were nearing failure that were needed to live, it wasn’t months to live and maybe weeks of unlucky. Jack had weeks to live if he was lucky. All they could do was give him some medication to manage his pain and symptoms, but Jack needed to prepare for the end.

This was why Jack had insisted Olivia not go to this doctor visit, to have hope and have that hope taken away. But he smiled anyway. Life was unfair, but seeing that his daughter and his best friend got along, he had hope for her, she had a future better than her present.

That night after dinner Olivia really went to sucking James‘s dick, feeling like she hadn’t been able to accomplish what she wanted to.

She had been watching videos on the subject, instructional videos and porno, and Olivia had been practicing on a lifelike rubber cock she had purchased which seemed to closely match James‘s cock.

She had tried repeating what she saw on screen, but she struggled with her gag reflex, but she was getting better at trying to push it into her throat. She wanted to be able to do anything James wanted, and maybe that was one thing he would enjoy seeing.

Olivia watched videos of women’s throats bulging as a big cock was pushed deep into them, and it aroused her. It seemed sexy, in a dirty kind of a way.

So she drank a full glass of wine, and finally got over the gag reflex, and her throat stretched as she pushed the long flesh colored rubber cock deep into her mouth.

She smiled and kissed it, as she kissed James‘s cock, then watched more video of women doing it, and started pushing it into her throat again.

Her father Jack had taught her, anything worth doing is worth doing well, and she was going to get good at this.

So after two days of practice, Olivia sucked James‘s cock, but different than before. This time she looked him in the eyes, this time she sucked his cock harder as she did it, and this time she did it with purpose.

She wanted to give him a mind blowing experience, to be better to him than any woman he had ever met and this was a part of it.

James was stunned at how aggressively she was going at his cock, and when she looked into his eyes, let his cock our of her mouth and smiled at him, it shook him to his core.

“I love you James” she said as she licked his shaft. In that moment it was indeed different. He had experienced a lot of pornstar type blowjobs from women who had probably sucked a hundred dicks, but nothing like this. This was an act of love, somehow.

Olivia went back to trying to suck the cum out of her soon to be husband, and then she adjusted herself, as his cock curved up towards his abdomen just a bit, and she pushed it into her throat.

She nearly orgasmed as it slid gently into her throat, his warmth was amazing, and she heard him groan.

She let it out of her mouth, looked up at him and smiled, “you like that?” She asked before licking and kissing the tip of his cock. He nodded yes and she continued.

Olivia went back to it, and inch by inch she took more and more of his cock into her mouth. She didn’t struggle with it, she had practiced and right now she was horny out of her mind to get this done for him, and she didn’t **** or gag either. It was like his cock was made to be in her, every part of her.

She had a glass of wine just a bit earlier to help her relax, and that hadn’t hurt either. She wanted this to be special for him.

James could only watch in amazement as his beautiful wife to be soon had every inch of his cock in her mouth and throat. She moved up and down a bit and looked at him, no tears in her eyes, no sign of struggle. She then let it out of her mouth and throat and took a long breath and smiled at him, before moving between his legs and sucking on his balls, one after the other as she gently massaged his cock.

Olivia grinned and took a deep breath, and then went back to work, sucking the cock in front of her not just with love but with purpose. And the beautiful older man it was attached to was obviously enjoying it.

James laid back and exhaled, but kept watching Olivia as she worked on his cock. He heard gentle sucking and slurping sounds, and a bit of a gargling sound as she again took his cock into her throat. Olivia slowed her pace when it was in her throat, going slowly up and down, but mainly pushing down, trying to take it all into her throat.

And she made it, her lips touching the base of his cock, and she responded with a squeal of happiness which was muffled by the nine inch cock in her throat.

Olivia then pulled back and resumed the blowjob as she had been doing it, with long and quick strokes, now gently squeezing his balls as she did it. Her goal was to give him a powerful orgasm from just a blowjob, and it only took a few minutes.

Soon James grunted and spoke up, “oh fuck, I’m close Olivia,” he said as she kept her rapid pace on his cock. “I’m cumming baby…”

Olivia held his cock and helped him to his knees, then laid down in front of him, his cock right by her mouth, “I want you to cum on my face baby,” she said happily. “Do it slowly, rub it all over my face with your big cock…slap my face with your cock if you want to…rub your balls on my mouth, whatever makes you happy.”

“I am yours Olivia, in every way you want me to be.”

She didn’t hold out her tongue like a pornstar, instead Olivia just looked at James, in his eyes and smiled. It was a contented smile one of love, and as beautiful as she was, James was stunned at how heavenly she looked just then. She was a picturesque beauty, but laying in front of him naked, giving him a loving smile while waiting for him to cum on her face, somehow she was even more beautiful.

When James orgasmed he slowed his pace, slowly dribbling cum onto her face. Olivia leaned up into the slow stream of semen, happily accepting it. She moved her face around, taking it all over her face, then as he finished she opened her eyes and took his cock into her mouth to finish him off properly.

Olivia then used Olivia‘s cock to push his cum all over her face, avoiding her eyes, and also into her mouth. She looked quite happy while she did it, lovingly licking the cum off of his cock, and swallowing what she pushed into her mouth.

It was a big cumshot for him, surprising with the amount of sex they had enjoyed, but he came a lot. Gentle spurt after spurt.

And somehow with a face now coated in semen Olivia still looked beautiful.

“Ok, that was fantastic James,” she said, hopping up. “I need to clean up, just for a minute, be right back…we aren’t done for tonight baby…”

James relaxed as she skipped into the bathroom to wash her face, and she first ate as much of his cum as she could, only washing her face when she was out of cum she could easily get a good taste of.

She also brushed her teeth and used some mouthwash as well, not wanting to give her husband to be a taste of himself.

As she did this, he considered just how good an experience she had provided him, really he if the best he had ever had.

She was back in a few minutes, freshened up and still looking aroused, and she fell into his arms as they kissed and started to go again.

Before they fucked again, Olivia asked about any other kinks or perversions he had. What did he like and dislike in bed? Like were there anything he really wanted to try with her that might take some getting used to.

“Like what?” he asked in a joking tone.

“I don’t know, guy stuff I hear about,” she replied. “Like anal, do you want to fuck me in the ass? That would take some getting used to I think, or a threesome? I hear guys want two girls at the same time, to have two girls give them a blowjob…and I hear some guys want to share their woman with another guy…stuff like that. And lesbian sex, don’t some guys want to see their girl eat pussy?”

Olivia laughed loudly, “ok yeah, that kind of thing…so no. I’m not about anal sex, never have been,” he replied. “And no threesomes. I had a couple in the past, and…”

“And what?” Olivia asked when he didn’t continue.

“Ok, a threesome, whatever kind it is,” James replied. “If we brought in a girl it means one or both of us have sex with someone else, and another guy? I have no interest in seeing you with a guy, no more than seeing you with a woman…I mean you can kind of eat your own pussy, and that might be something to see, but not another woman for you or me. That is what you do with a rental, not a purchase, so to speak.”

“Eh?” Olivia asked, confused by the phrasing.

“Think of it like this, when you buy a car, the one you are going to keep, you take care of it like you plan to drive it long term,” he replied. “A rental? Who cares if you scratch a rental. I plan to be with you for the rest of my life, just you…only you. I am man enough to please you, and I don’t want or need help in that.”

Olivia smiled widely, leaning in and kissing James deeply, she loved so much about this man she had just met.

She wasn’t into girls at all. Outside of fucking her youth pastor’s wife…and that wasn’t something she had wanted, she had never so much as a friendly kiss on the lips from another woman. }her_name} had no interest in sharing James either. She was pleased to hear he didn’t want any of it either.

They were soon back into foreplay and sex, and they continued for another hour, with the two lovers fucking till they got tired and went to sleep, as they had the two nights before.

The next day was the day of the wedding. Olivia was up early and out getting things done. She got her dress, had her hair and nails done, and got a facial at a spa, the whole time thinking about it being not much better than a cum facial, having read up on the health advantages of swallowing cum and having it on your skin.

As Olivia relaxed and they applied the facial cream she imagined it was James‘s cum on her face. This brought a smile to her face, and she decided she wanted her soon to be husband to do it again, and do it often.

James went and got his new tuxedo at the tailor, having had it altered to fit him perfectly. He spoke on the phone with Bob for a while, and with Jack to make sure he was doing ok. He spoke with Jack’s live in nurse Claudia, as his friend was sleeping in. She was trying to get Jack ready for a car ride, and being rested and having medication at the right time would help.

They stayed apart the rest of the day, with Olivia leaving before James woke up and staying out the entire day before the time of their wedding. For her it was superstition, the groom seeing the bride being bad luck, and she wanted as much luck on their side as she could get.

James had a tech guy he worked with stand in as a DJ to play Canon in D when it was needed, he had flowers delivered giving the backyard a beautiful wedding theme,

Olivia had a good friend help her get ready on site, and was a bundle of nerves, having to tell her friend to chill out when pressed over marrying an older man so quickly.

But all in all her friend was as understanding as she could be, and when the time came Bob was dressed in his military dress uniform for the ceremony, complete with his medals and ribbons, which were significant. James didn’t like to wear his, as he felt guilt for having won a Congressional Medal of Honor for a mission where half of his squad was killed in combat. So Bob understood him wearing a tuxedo, but at least it was a very nice one.

When Olivia was getting ready upstairs with her friend, she was asked why she was marrying a man so much older than she was, like her friend questioned her motives. Was the house his? Was she just in it for the money?

“I love him, ok?” Olivia had replied. “Like I haven’t ever felt this way about someone, like I want to be with him forever, you will get to know him better, but James is one in a million…”

Canon in D was played, and Olivia made her long and deliberate entrance to the small area cleared for the ceremony, and her father was there and looked healthy, and seemed quite emotional. His plan to make sure Olivia was going to be ok had worked. He wasn’t going to make it very long, but she would.

Olivia looked more beautiful in that moment than anyone James had ever seen, and it wasn’t close. Elegant and classy, tall and beautiful, and in a dress that accented her shapely hips and ass, and made her B cup tits look great, showing some cleavage.

The ceremony was brief, at the request of Claudia, as not to keep Jack out in the weather longer than needed, as she was trying to make his life as long and comfortable as she could.

There were only four witnesses, Bob’s wife, Jack, his nurse Claudia and Olivia‘s friend, and only Jack got emotional, crying as his daughter and best friend said their vows. The wedding march then blared as it ended, but they didn’t run to a car or to a reception as was often seen in weddings.

James and Olivia kissed, a long and loving kiss, then she embraced her father in celebration. It was plainly obvious how happy Olivia was, so her friend rejoiced with her, as a good friend should.

After the wedding was done, James and Olivia wrapped up and started to pack their cars up, Bob walked up to both of them, “so where are you kids getting off to?” He asked in a whimsical voice. He stood perfectly upright, in practiced perfect posture from decades of military service.

“Just stowing some gear,” James replied. “We won’t leave the place till it’s clean, you have my word boss.”

Bob smiled, “no rush Cowboy,” he replied softly. “I sold the place today, but it’s not a mess, I don’t think the new owners will mind if it takes a minute to clean it up, I hear they are going on a vacation today, so no rush at all.”

“Well fuck…we are in the way of you selling the place, aren’t we?” Olivia asked in a worried tone, she popped the trunk of her new Mustang and started putting things in more quickly, seeming nervous now. She felt like she had forgotten in all the celebration that this was someone else’s house. “We can be out of here pretty fast…”

She clearly seemed flustered now, worried that they had put Olivia‘s old friend out, she certainly didn’t want that. She started trying to get out of some accessories on her dress and struggled in the effort for her anxiety.

Bob was right there to calm her, placing a gentle hand on her shoulder, “it’s ok, you can take your time.” His deep but gentle tone was comforting.

Bob gently closed the trunk of her car with a smile, “darling, you need be in no hurry at all, I promise.” He smiled and took her hand, “walk with me, will you?” James paused but Bob called him along. “You as well Cowboy, come on pal, I want to give you the nickel tour.”

So the newlyweds walked through the house, it was five bedrooms, four baths and a den, but with a lot of space in the rooms. Two living rooms, a large dining room and a fantastic kitchen. It was amazing.

Upstairs had a large balcony out of the master bedroom and a hall in the back, and another balcony in the front. Not quite with the view in the back but it was nice.

Also there was a large back yard with an in-ground pool and a beautiful hot tub, and a three car garage. It wasn’t a mansion, but to a regular person it seemed close.

James had been taking about how he bought the place, and what he knew about it, then he spoke up again when they got to the garage. And he opened the garage door and they saw a moving truck pull up, “thanks for the tour Bob, but it looks like the new owners are ready sooner than later, we can be gone in ten minutes boss.”

Bob put his hand on James‘s shoulder, “stand fast Cowboy, I hired those movers,” he said in a joking tone. “You can’t leave till I give you your wedding presents.”

He handed them an envelope, it had tickets and a travel itinerary in it, “St. Lucia?” Olivia said in a joyful tone, “that place is supposed to be amazing.”

“An all inclusive bungalow on the water to be exact,” Bob replied. “It is a beautiful all inclusive resort, you leave tonight, and it is paid up for seven days.”

“This is too much,” Olivia said with a tear in her eye, on the verge of crying. “We can’t take this…”

“Darling you can, it is paid for, and isn’t refundable. First class seats on the flight, the resort, all paid for and done, no taking it back. You use it or it goes to waste.”

“But that isn’t really the present, this is,” he said softly, dropping a set of keys into her hands. “Welcome home Cowboy, the place is yours pal, and yours as well Olivia. Make a home of it you two…”

Olivia covered her mouth in shock, and James started to protest, but Bob would not hear of it. When he raised his hand, James went silent, a **** of habit with his old CO. Bob commanded respect like that among anyone who had served with him.

“Cowboy I have done well and you have helped me in that, never demanding a cut, never thinking of yourself,” Bob replied somewhat harshly. “I can sell my house to anyone I god-damn well please for any price I god-damn well want to, and I am choosing to sell you this house right here and now.”

“Come on Bob, I am paid fairly,” James replied. “But you know I don’t make the kind of money to afford this place.”

“Well shit Cowboy, I wish I had thought of that,” Bob replied with a sarcastic laugh. “Shame I already had the sale started, all you have to do is pay me and sign on the dotted line…”

Bob held the paperwork out and Olivia took it out of politeness, and her eyes went wide, “a dollar? A fucking dollar? For this pad?”

James’s eyes narrowed, he didn’t ever want charity, “Bob…” His tone was far less friendly, this was something James just didn’t do. He got by on his own steam.

But Bob again held up his hand, “Cowboy this is my choice, I mean to help you and your new wife have a good life together. And this is the first part of that, so give me a fucking dollar, sign the paperwork and tell the movers where you want your things. You don’t have long, your plane leaves in less than four hours.”

They look in the back of the truck, their things are in the moving truck, Bob moved them out of James‘s apartment in a time so short it seemed impossible. They had not been gone that long. It seemed money could indeed accomplish nearly anything.

“Bob, I mean thanks,” Olivia replied. “But I have to take care of my dad…I can’t just leave.”

“Darling I have that covered, and covered well,” Bob replied. “His live in nurse has all she needs, and based on what I am hearing he is stable, he will be fine while you are gone, I promise to make sure he stays this way. You two need a week with just you at the start, please trust me on that.”

“Well I can put in for more PTO, I’m on it now,” James replied. “But I don’t want to put the company in a bind.

“Oh for fucks sake Cowboy they love you at the office, and I’m on the fucking board, it isn’t even a discussion about time off, forget the PTO…it never really mattered if you put in for it anyway.” Bob replied, “you are burning daylight…but the vacation and the house are yours now, deal with it you two…after someone hands me a dollar.”

James and Olivia looked at each other, then she smiled at Bob and said yes, feeling that her new husband agreed, and she was correct.

James pulled out his wallet and didn’t have any cash on him, and as he did Olivia opened a small purse that went with her wedding dress and pulled out a little cash she had, with a crumpled few dollars, and handed Bob one of them.

He smiled and put it in his pocket.

“Great to hear kids,” Bob said with joy. “You best get yourselves packed, but don’t pack too heavily, this vacation is all inclusive, you barely need anything but a bathing suit for this trip…”

Olivia squealed in joy and gave her new husband a big kiss and a strong hug. She could barely believe any of this was real, it was like she was in a TV show over the last week or so.

There had been tragedy, drama, some comedic moments and a lot of sex, not perfect at all, surreal really.

Life was hard, it had been hard for a long time, now she had to balance a honeymoon with her father’s failing health.