I suppose having met George the husband in this story it is only right we meet the woman who holds his heart and therefore keeps his wanderlust in check. She is the queen of his home and heart; over the years as a term of endearment he began calling her Queen Amy Jo actually he started calling her that even before he married her but she never knew that. Later after they became an item her daughters picked it up, so now she is just Queen Amy Jo. Her real name is Amarinda Josephine. For her I need to start at her beginning.
She was born in the elite communities of the American Southwest and was raised in a world of privilege and some would say she had silver spoon in her mouth as she grew up. The truth was that her parents loved their only daughter and did tend to overindulge but did make her toe the line and work hard, this showed as she was not only captain of her cheer squad but also the softball and volleyball team. Something most missed was that she was also a member of the Math club and Debate team and as a teen she was not afraid to use her looks to better her position and since her dad would not just fork over her his money she had to earn her way which meant working.
At sixteen she began modeling and by the time it was time for college she had earned her own way but still took the scholarships. She was asked to join several sororities and picked one that was not necessarily the most popular with the boys as it was made up of young women who knew what they wanted most from a background of privilege and good finances. The fact that all the girls were athletic and looked good in bikinis around their pool meant they all had suitors. Their house mother meant there would be no wild parties and any physical relations would be done in a respectful manner. By her junior year our Queen had honed in on her choice for a life partner and after test driving him for several months found herself pregnant. The young man also from a background of privilege accepted the responsibility and before the school year was out they were married.
Two things happened her senior year, that would alter the course of her life albeit only slightly at first but over the years they would be greater alterations. Yes having a daughter as a senior in college was a life altering challenge but more than this was the loss of his parents when the private plane they were returning from Europe on crashed. Second was the downturn in the economy which wiped out much of what would have been hers when she inherited her parents’ estate. Her parents sold their multimillion dollar home and after paying off their creditors moved back to her mom’s home in Missouri. At first all seemed well as both graduated and they moved to the elite coastal communities north of San Diego where because of his small inheritance and her savings they were able to as a young family actually afford to buy a repossessed estate overlooking the Pacific from atop a cliff. The twins by that time were well on their way to joining the household. Both our queen and her husband fit well into this community of well to do families and were sought after for all the parties, where he made the right connections and his career in the world of finance and real estate took off.
Living above the beach was a good thing even if it was a clothing optional beach; it was not until she was pregnant with her fourth that our queen realized there was a growing problem. It was that little gift he gave her during an intimate moment that could have been devastating to her and the child if not caught in time that should have woken her up. When they began to throw the parties and she noticed his interactions with several of the gals who lived on the beach it should have sent up a flare but it was not until the fourth daughter was born and he came home to tell her that he had been seeing other women that it slapped her hard. The fight had been physical and when it was done he had been arrested, released on his own recognizance and she had taken the girls and moved to her home community where she through her contacts took a job managing a health club. Again she made use of her body to model and when she was offered to be the centerfold for the epitome of gentleman’s magazines she took the offer and would have run with that until she found her ex and his lover used it against her in an attempt to take custody of the girls and therefore her earnings.
Flying out to her parents she went with them to the little Baptist church. Something changed in her and when she and the girls flew home she made the decision she was going to be their mom. Leaving the health spa she took a job at a major resort as a concierge and soon found herself on the sales and marketing team where she became a leader and could have moved up the ladder if she had been willing to relocate. From time to time she had gone on dates but kept men at a distance. As her daughters grew up she was more than a mom but also a friend to them and because none of them had ever had any contact with their dad since the finalization of the divorce life was fun as they could pursue girl things with mom as the leader.
Then it happened, the day came when our queen was walking down the main service corridor in the underground complex where the needs of the guests are really taken care of when she spied this man who though apparently lost had an aura if you could call it which spoke of an assuredness that lost people do not have. Shaking her hair, straightening her clothes and checking her makeup she walked up to him and asked if she could help. She had always been able to hold a man’s attention but with this fine specimen she did not and he hardly noticed her as he said he was just getting his bearings as this was his first day. A few other women had joined her to watch him walk down the corridor. None knew who he was, and when they checked with human resources all they could find out was he walked into the hiring center the day before and without ever filling out an application was hired to assist in their conference support department even though he looked like he just stepped out of the mountains. Our Queen was hooked as were several others and as she could she tried to find more about him.
When the day came he showed up at a communications committee meeting as the representative of the technicians all the women stopped as not only was he a man but he was most definitely straight. At that moment for the men and women of the communication committee for the resort, most of whom were just trying to hold onto what they had had during their school years in the numerous glee and cheer clubs this quiet man who walked with a self-assuredness that not even the CEO of the company had, life changed as when something of substance did come up he spoke. His words were few but always were to the point as he was serious that none should be left out or forgotten. When some of the exotic animals which were under the care of the Marketing department needed to be moved one afternoon he had volunteered and needing to get wet did not hesitate to strip down to his shorts which caused quite a stir among the guests as the pool where quite a few women and their daughters enjoyed the show while the husbands and dads sat in meetings in chilled ballrooms was just across the narrow part of the man-made lake. The fact that this Tarzan like man was photographed carrying an injured fawn he had found in the foliage on the backside of the pool meant that he was a local hero among the school age children and for a moment the save the world and animals are people too types.
The latter changed when during a brief interview he made a comment about as a steward of nature it was his duty to give the animals that would one day sustain them the best life they could possibly have. That event with all the children our queen noticed how well he dealt with children. About a week later during an Easter open house for the employee’s families where her daughters every year ran a petting zoo with their numerous critters he helped them and as she backed the pickup and stepped out wearing shorts, sandals and a tank top she had seen him take a deep breath. As he made the correlation between her and her daughters he complimented her at doing an excellent job raising four girls on her own. She had wanted to ask how he knew she was single but missed the opportunity when his manager a very well-endowed woman came out and borrowed him. As she watched them walk and heard him laughing she got jealous. Apparently she also blushed at the thoughts running in her head that were stirred by remembering the look he had on his face when she climbed out of her truck.
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