I made it to the café` without getting lost too many times and I asked for a table outside so I could enjoy the wonderful weather and smells coming from the other stores and not to mention the eye candy walking by.
As usual I was making lists of things I needed to get accomplished and muttering to myself as was my habit, when I heard someone say "Excuse me but can I ask as to why you feel the need to lists while talking to yourself instead of watching all the eye candy walking by?"
I looked up and saw a short petite dark haired woman talking to me with a man who looked like her bodyguard standing beside her. I smiled and told her while looking at her that without my lists I wouldn't get a bloody thing accomplished before I started to work and that yes I had heard about the famous nola eye candy and that I did plan on enjoying the sights.
"By the way," I said "My name is Morgan Moon and as you can tell I am new here and while I don't mind renting from Jeni I would like a place of my own and was wondering if you new of any that were up for sale?"
My new friend said that she didn't know of any places off hand but that she would keep and eye out for me and that she would give me a buzz when she found any thing.
I said to her "Thanks and I didn't catch your name. Do you mind telling me yours?"
She laughed "Sorry I keep forgetting that you're new to the town and don't know us by sight. My name is Sid or Darkling as the sisters have named me and this giant of a man behind me is Gabe."
"How did the chamomile tea and candied ginger work for you?" I asked. I looked at Gabe and said "Did you do a good job on painting Sid's house and are you taking good care of her?"
He looked at me and said "So I have you to thank for that additional chore on top of what the sisterhood had decided was my lot for my so called misdeeds."
"Yep," I said with a grin, "I see you're non the worse for it are you?" He said, "paybacks are a bitch you know and I do plan on getting mine." I said, "if you think you can then bring it. I know that I am safe at the temple cause you wouldn't dare piss the priestess off. I don't know who's more vindictive Jeni or Cody." Gabe grinned down at me and said "I didn't say it had to be me doing the payback now did I? This way you won't know when it's coming or from who." "You're good. I'll give you that you almost had me worried there for a second. But here's the kicker I know that all your friends round here are scared or the sisterhood and what would happen to them if the piss them off."
Gabe said " yeah your right none of my friends round here would even attempt it so I know that I am gonna have to call in a favor for this payback. I'll have to think long and hard on this one. You caused me unnecessary work that day. " As he was talking I noticed this guy walking by and I damn near had a heart attack. He looked just like the guy from my dream. The one dream that I have yet to be able to get to the finishing part because I always get woke up before I can get off. Gabe finally noticed that I wasn't looking at him and turned to see what had captured my attention so completely. When he saw who it was a big grin spread across his face because this was just too perfect. That was one of his friends and now he knew Morgan's weakness. He had noticed that she had gripped the table like it was her only anchor to this world and her eyes had widened like she had seen a ghost. Jimmy hadn't said that he had met anyone when he was down in Georgia but then jimmy was always closed mouthed about his women that maybe had something to do with the fact that they normally went after the same woman.
Gabe hollered out, "Hey Jimmy, long time no see or hear. Why didn't you let me know you were in town and I would have let you come stay with me and Sid or you can get a room at the temple of fire from the priestess Jeni. I'm sure that she wouldn't mind the extra income .'
Jimmy turned when he heard his name hollered out and when he saw that it was his old friend Gabe he couldn't believe his good luck. Not only could Gabe help him find a place to stay while he was here but just maybe he could help him find this one woman that he had let slip right through his fingers. He was tormented with dreams of this woman that had him at a constant state of arousal and he was surly as a bear that had just woken up out of hibernation.
He saw that Gabe was standing next to this short petite pregnant dark haired woman and that they were talking to another woman that was sitting at a table on the sidewalk it looked like she was waiting for her order and that Gabe and this other woman were making plans of some kind with her and he didn't want to intrude but he needed to talk to Gabe about getting his help. He walked over to Gabe and said "You hollered for me. What do you need? And yes it had been along time since we have spoken. A lot has changed and yet some things never change. Isn't one woman enough for you or do you do threesomes now?"
Gabe said, "Now don't get your dander up, Jimmy. I am looking after Sid until she had the baby because she had a temper and she has made a lot of enemies and I and the sisters feel that she could use the extra help. But I wanted to talk to you about getting some payback on someone a little later. If you are looking for a place to stay you could always stay with Sid and myself or you could stay at the temple of fire renting a room from the priestess Jeni. I am sure that she wouldn't mind the extra income and it would kill two birds with two stones. You would have a place to stay and it would be the starts on that payback I was talking about. Now what were you needing my help for?"
Jimmy said, "Well I am looking for this woman that I met on my yearbook social site. You know the one I told you about. The one I let slip right through my fingers because by the time I realized what she meant to me she had already moved to here so now I am here looking for her. I saw that she said that she was coming to the café` after getting settled in her room and I was hoping to catch her off guard and finally get to meet her and tell her exactly how I feel."
Gabe noticed Morgan's jaw drop and he finally put two and two together. Morgan and Jimmy's mystery woman were the one and the same person and he was betting that Morgan wanted to keep the fact that she was the he was looking for under wraps for now because he knew for a fact that Jimmy hadn't told her on the website that he was a squire that she was thinking that she was somehow gonna keep him safe by keeping him in the dark.
Gabe said, "Where are my manners? Jimmy this young lady sitting at the table is Morgan Moon and she has just arrived in town and Sid and I know her from the boards and she is the reason that I had to paint Sid's house to go along with all the other things that the sisters had decided I needed to do as penance for my misdeed."
Morgan was shooting daggers at him as jimmy turned to meet her for the first time and he saw the light go off in Jimmy's eyes just as soon as he realized that this was the woman he was looking for .
I saw the bells go off in Jimmy's head just as soon as he realized that I was the one he was looking for and he knew that I knew it. He held out his hand for me to shake and said, "Nice to meet you Morgan. My name is Jimmy." He leaned down so he could whisper in my ear, "Now that I have found you I am not letting go and be prepared for the chase.' He stood back up and said to Gabe.
"I think I will take you up on the offer to take to me the temple of fire so I can rent a room from this lady Jeni."
Gabe noticed that Jimmy still hadn't turned Morgan's hand loose yet and he would have loved to hear what he said to Morgan that got her flushed in the face.
I said, "Nice to meet you as well Jimmy but I must be heading on my way. " "Sid it was nice to finally meet you in person and Gabe all I can say is bring your a game. I'll be waiting for our next verbal sparring match. Sid don't you think that your yard needs to be taken care of. Like I don't know maybe relandscaping it with some trees and maybe a gazebo. What do you think?"
Sid got this look on her face that had Gabe backing up and saying "Oh, no. Your yard doesn't need relandscaping. Morgan you're gonna get it for this new chore that I now have piled on me"
Sid said, "Thanks for the advice. I hadn't yet come up with a chore for him keeping my coffee from me. Now I know just what to do that will keep him busy and out of your hair for the next few days. And Jimmy you are more than welcome to come and stay at my house with Gabe and me. You can help him and I won't take no for an answer. You need to turn Morgan's hand loose so she can go about her business and you can follow me to my house. Morgan I just remembered about a house that has come up in the market but it's in the garden district and I don't know if somebody else is looking at it. You need to contact Savannah Dubrinsky. Her and her husband are moving back home to the Carpathian mountains and are selling their home."
"Oh, I said." "I know her brother in law Lucien. I'll just call Lucien and tell him that I want to buy Savannah and Gabriel's house. I am pretty sure that when I tell them the situation that they will be more than glad to sell me their home. Jimmy I really need my hand back now. I really have to be on my way if I am gonna catch Lucien before him and Jaxon go to sleep for the day."
Jimmy looked down and sure enough he still had a hold of Morgan's hand. He said," I'll turn you hand loose on one condition. You tell me where you are staying at now and where this house is gonna be because we all know why you are buying it and it ain't cause you want your own place now. That may have been the original reason but now that you know that I know you are here and that I am coming for you. You think you can just disappear off my radar one more time. I let that happen once before but never again."