One

High above his head came the lengthy roar of an airplane heading towards the sky. Thaddeus was cruising in his Coupe DeVille down the slow lane of the highway heading back into the city and he couldn't help but admire the sight of the plane as it broke through a blanket of clouds still soaring towards the great blue. He wondered if that was Constance's plane he was seeing. He remembered she had booked herself a window seat at first-class. He could just picture her right now gazing at the sight of the city as it receded beneath her and wondered if she could sight him from up there. He knew nothing would happen to her. He would see her again.

It was a Saturday mid-afternoon, a work-free day for him. As he drove into the city headed towards his apartment, he ran through his mind what he was going to do with himself between now and evening. He hadn't been at his apartment for the past two days, having spent those ones locked between the arms and legs of Constance. As he observed the city traffic he ticked off what his activity was going to be like for the next few hours before it grew dark. First thing he needed to do was take care of his laundry. Maybe clean up the kitchen, even though he couldn't exactly recall the state in which he'd left it last time. That one shouldn't be a problem; he would take care of the rest of the house tomorrow. Done with that, he could always chill at home instead of hurry out to go hang out with someone. He had a new Walter Mosley novel he'd been putting off to read, and then maybe he could sleep off for an hour or two, by which time it would be dark outside and then he could think about hitting the club to find himself a bitch to keep him company. It's been a long while since last time he went club-hunting. Either that or he could instead call someone up. He remembered he still had the card those two rich sluts had scribbled their numbers on when he was at that CLUB EROS party. Yeah, he could maybe give one of them a call and see if they wouldn't mind hanging out with a brother tonight. And even if that one didn't work out ... he could always call up his friend, Pimp Zee, to hook him up with another white bitch. He hadn't forgotten Myra though. The thought of her made his cock nod a reply inside his pants. Had she come to his mind earlier in the day he would have given her a call back then to program her for the evening.

Although he didn't say it out loud, but Thaddeus considered that he deserved himself a much-needed break from work. He'd been working his ass off since the start of the year, dodging bullets and knives, resolving high quarrels and disputes ... and with this most recent case he'd resolved, knowing the cops would be just as anxious to find something to nail his ass with since he'd unconditionally made their asses look dumb, the best he could hope for was to steer clear of anything that might bring him close to them. At least for a month or two, by which time they would have other problems to mend than carry grudges of him on their minds till then.

He was able to beat the querulous late-afternoon traffic and make it to his neighbourhood. He drove into his apartment compound, sheltered his car in its parking space, then climbed out and went in the direction of his apartment door. He let himself inside just as easy, closed it behind him and turned the lock.

He took two steps into the living room, threw his bunch of keys on the centre table and right away his nose caught a whiff of something. It smelled a lot like incense. Cinnamon, if indeed he was wrong. Thad never had any incense in his apartment, and he knew quite well he hadn't bought any recently.

Was someone in the apartment?

He tapped his shoulders and cursed himself for having neglected taking any of his guns with him. He went in the direction of the kitchen. The smell wasn't that much in there; he looked in the sink and was happy he didn't see any leftover dishes or plates in there. He returned to the living room, stood there for a moment, still sniffing the air, trying to figure where the incense smell was coming from. He went in the direction of the bedroom and opened the door.

There was the glass bowl of incense burning on his table, but it wasn't in that direction his eyes went instead to the sight of his neighbour's wife, Erica, who lay on his bed reading one of his books she'd gotten from his library shelf. She looked up as he walked into his bedroom and smiled and threw his book aside.

"Hiya, Thad," said Erica. "I was wondering when you were going to show up." She came down from the bed and approached him, coming to wrap her arms around his neck. She was wearing a summer t-shirt and shorts and right away started grinding her body against his. "I've been lonely upstairs and dying for when you'd return home."

"Damn it, Erica," he groaned, fighting to remove her arms from around his neck. "The fuck are you doing in here? How the hell did you get in here?"

She reached inside a pocket of her shorts and unearthed a key, smiling at him. "Silly of you to forget you gave me one of these some months back. I'm glad I finally got to put it to use anyway."

Thad closed the bedroom door behind him and took off his hat. "How long have you been in here?"

"Not that long. I tried calling you yesterday but your line never went through. This is even the second time I'm stopping by here. Where have you been all this while?"

"None of your business. But if you must know, I've been out. And that's what you ought to be doing right now before Artie gets back home." Thaddeus grabbed her hand, wanting to lead her out of his bedroom and from there out of his apartment. He opened the door but Erica pulled her arm off his.

"It seems like you're reneging on our agreement here, Thad. Remember what you promised me last time we fucked here in your room, on your bed? Do you remember, or do you need me to remind you?"

Thad sighed in defeat. "I remember everything, Erica. But not in this type of situation."

She slinked towards him like a cat with feline grace. Her hands went to her t-shirt and as she came closer to him she uprooted it from over her head and let it fall to the floor. Her hands wrapped around her tits and she muttered a moan as her fingers rubbed her nipples to apparent hardness. She pouted her lips at him, looking like a sad little girl.

"I've been keeping this body all for you since yesterday, and you're going to send me away just like that. Why daddy, don't you know how much I've been missing you?"

Thaddeus brought his hand to cup one of her tits as she pressed her body against his, bringing up her knee to his crotch. Thad's other hand went behind to grab her ass, sliding his fingers into the crack lining of her shorts.

"Artie won't be back till late evening, right?" her hands were helping him out of his jacket. "He told he's got double shift today, and also that he might be stopping to have a beer or two with the fellas. So you and I have got plenty of time to explore. And I'm not going to be disappointed."

Thaddeus now was fighting to be out of his clothes. He threw his jacket aside and was struggling with Erica to undo the buttons of his shirt while at the same time grappling with her kisses. He kicked his shoes off his feet and when he was done with his shirt, Erica came to her knees and unzipped his fly and reached in for the bulging prize pressing against his pants. Thaddeus moaned as he felt her fingers wrap around his cock and freed it from within, stroking pre-cum juice off the swollen head. Thad meanwhile unbuttoned the waistband of his pants and let it fall to his ankles to give her better room at what she held in her hand. She licked his pre-cum off before sucking on the head of his cock and just like that opened her mouth more to take him all the way.

"Ahh shit!" Thad sucked air through his teeth as the feel of Erica's succulent lips punishing his cock to full erection for her. He bent over her backside and grasped her ass cheeks from behind her shorts. Erica kept on bobbing her head with frantic fury back and forth on his prick. She stroked his shaft and licked her tongue over the apparent veins that supplied blood to its swollen head then nibbled her tongue over it before swallowing it once again. She was having herself a good time and wasn't afraid to show it.

"Oh boy, I've really missed this black cock of yours so much!" she muttered as she continued sucking him. "Can you imagine," she continued amidst licking his prick, "lying on your all afternoon, waiting for you to show."

"I'll bet you've been playing with yourself since then," Thad responded.

"Oh, you just don't know how much."

"All right then. I think it's time you showed it to me."

He grabbed her hand off his shaft and roughly pulled her up to her feet. He freed his feet from his pants, keeping only his socks, and pushed her towards the bed. He threw her on it and his hands went to her shorts and within a few seconds he'd undid the buttons and pulled it off her legs. Her pussy looked inviting to him; she observed that she had shaved her coochie too. One hand on his cock, stroking it to remain erect, he attacked her pussy with his tongue and lips. Erica rested her legs over his shoulder and muttered sounds and cries of ecstasy as his tongue slipped into her vagina. Her pelvis rocked up and down, her hands pressed down on his head to keep at what he was doing.

Thaddeus rested on his elbows and punctured her ripe pussy with his fingers while his lips locked on her clit. He nibbled on the tiny knob with his tongue, sending shards and lewd cries escaping her lips. Erica beat her feet and her hands on the bed. She squirmed ever which way, wanting to draw away from him but unable to as Thaddeus had her pinned down. She saw constellation of stars as the work of his tongue brought her crashing to earth in a splitting climax. Still he kept his lips transfixed on her pussy even as her cum juice sprayed all over his face.