Chapter 2: Chapter 2
“Sure,” Marco said.
“Why not?” Dani said.
{See you guys this evening, then,} Marco sent. {Dani and I have a million questions, and I imagine you do as well.}
{You’ve got that right,} Quentin sent. {… until this evening.}
They finished their breakfast, and went their separate ways after Tom and Noah agreed on a time to deliver his guests to Quentin and Nate’s cabin. When Quentin and Nate were back at their cabin, they went out to the deck and settled down on chaise lounges to enjoy the weather, and the pleasant sound of water rushing over rocks.
“Imagine that?” Nate said.
“Imagine what?”
“Meeting another couple like us.”
“Yeah, what are the chances of that?” Quentin said.
“Not very likely, that’s for sure. But now that we have, it’ll be an interesting evening, I’m sure.”
“Let’s go inside, babe,” Quentin said.
“Why?”
“I hear the bed calling, don’t you?”
“Now that you mention it.”
2
Maggie Valley, NCthat evening
QUENTIN AND NATE were sitting on the deck relaxing and watching for Tom’s car that evening. When they spotted it coming up the driveway, they hurried downstairs, opened the garage door, and walked outside to great the new arrivals.
As Marco and Dani exited Tom’s Jaguar, Quentin said, “Ready to go?”
“You bet,” Marco said.
“We’ll get them back to your place, Tom,” Quentin said.
“Or better yet, you can stop by here for a nightcap,” Nate said.
“The latter sounds good,” Tom said. “See you guys later.” The Jag made a quick turn and headed down the driveway.
“Glad you guys could come over,” Quentin said.
“I hope you brought appetites,” Nate said. “We’re going to a great little restaurant in Waynesville.”
“Sounds good,” Marco said.
“As you might imagine, we’re a little cautious about this,” Quentin said. “We thought a nice dinner and a bottle of wine might create the right atmosphere for sharing information.”
“Makes sense,” Marco said. “We’re ready when you are.”
“That’s your cue to back the car out, Nate,” Quentin said.
Nate backed his Edge SUV out of the garage, and their guests got into the backseat while the garage door was still closing.
“I like the location of your house,” Marco said. “It’s very private up here.”
“Yeah,” Quentin said. “Not quite as open as Tom and Noah’s place, and very private. I give Nate full marks for spotting the potential of this parcel.”
“How long have you guys been together?” Dani said.
“Three years, more or less,” Quentin said. “You?”
“Marco and I met when I was eighteen and he was twenty,” Dani said. “We’ll be celebrating a twenty-fifth anniversary in a year or so.”
“Wow!” Nate said. “That’s a long time to be with one person. A very long time.”
“It seems only yesterday,” Marco said.
“That was the right thing to say,” Dani said.
The conversation ebbed and flowed as they headed toward Waynesville, where Nate eventually pulled into a parking lot adjacent to a restaurant called The Sweet Onion.
“I assume this is the place,” Marco said.
“Yep,” Nate said. “Great food and atmosphere. We love it.”
“The French onion soup is out of this world,” Quentin said. “And everything on the menu is pretty darn good.”
Over a great meal, they began to get quite comfortable with their guests, and when a second bottle of wine was ordered, they started to exchange more and more personal information. Quentin and Nate learned that Marco and Dani, as they’d asked to be called, hadn’t known they were both telepathic until several years after they’d gotten together.
“You mean that you and Marco were together that long before you revealed what you can do?” Nate said, somewhat incredulously.
“Yeah,” Dani said. “It turns out, we’d both kept that part of ourselves bottled up so tightly that it just didn’t want to come out.”
“Until we finally came to the realization that we were the real thing, and there was no need to hold anything back,” Marco said.
“And in all that time, you’ve never encountered anybody else with this ability?” Quentin said.
“Not until this morning,” Marco said. “How about you guys?”
“I told you how I rescued Nate from kidnappers after I heard his mental cry for help, right?”
“Yes,” Marco said.
“It was a few months later, maybe longer; I don’t remember for sure. Anyway, I was on a case in Savannah and Nate was back home in Jacksonville. We’d been playing at getting together in the evening and visualizing having sex with each other.”
“Been there, done that,” Dani said.
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