Moira leaned back in her seat and stared at the traffic stretched out before her, the roofs of the multitude of cars glaring with the sun's blinding reflection. A pounding headache was beginning with a dull throb settled right behind her eyes, and she slumped in resignation.
"Another day, another dollar, my ass," her mutter was quiet and she nearly gasped in joy as the traffic finally began to actually move in the lanes aside from the mind-numbing pace of stop-and-go. She turned the radio up again, quietly, just loud enough to drown out the noise of the tires on the pavement, and jolted in shock when her car made a noise at her.
"CALL FROM JACK" it intoned in it's robotic voice, and Moira hit the answer button on the steering wheel, smiling her first genuine smile in what seemed like forever. "Hi, baby!"
"Sugarbear! How's traffic?" Jack's warm voice seemed to melt out of the speakers, and Moira shivered all over. He was her southern gentleman, a skulking grey corporate minion, as he liked to coin himself. Even though they'd been together several years now, she still had the hots for him like no other man before.
She preened, even though he couldn't see her, and her headache was nearly forgotten. "Abominable, but finally moving. I'm actually going forty right now, believe it or not!" His laugh boomed through the car, and she joined him in laughter. "But, really, on a serious note, it will probably be another forty-five minutes before I get home."
"That's just what I was calling to ask, sugar." She could hear the smile that was doubtless across Jack's face as he paced around their house, his energy constantly keeping him going, though he was in his late forties now.
Though, you sure can't tell it to look at him
, Moira thought, idly picturing him in his sweatpants as he ran the vacuum cleaner in the living room, back smooth and tanned from relentless afternoons at the gym each weekend. Her mouth grew dry as she then imagined those same sweats half down, exposing the firm cheeks of his ass to the light as he took her, bent over the end of the sofa.
She shoved a lock of hair back behind her ear, and smiled toward the phone, "Oh, this day was utter hell. Can you make sure to have a glass of wine poured for me when I get home? I'll sit at the bar and then we'll make dinner. I think some pasta and chicken sounds great tonight."
"Sure thing, babe," he intoned, and she heard soft clinks and knew he was looking through their wine rack for a good choice for her.
Such a perfect man
, she thought. "Ok, I'm gonna hop in the shower, I should be done by the time you hit the ramp toward home, and I'll open a bottle to breathe before you get here. Love you."
"Love you, too." The call ended with a soft beep, and she turned the radio up, mood much improved, and a half hour later, she sighed in joy as she pulled off on the exit that would soon have her home.
It was just past dusk when she pulled up the long drive of their modest two-story home, and she noted to herself that it was odd that so few lights should be on, especially with Jack making dinner. She shrugged mentally as she stepped from the car and walked up to the door, blinking in surprise at the note tacked to the matte black finish: "COME ON IN, DOOR IS UNLOCKED."