It had been two weeks since Alice's wedding. Two weeks since Bonnie had seen Sean. She thought it wise to stay away from him for awhile and let things cool down. She knew that if she could just get him alone and talk to him reasonably, she would be able to convince him that she was what he needed. She dreamt about him every night. The more she thought of him, the more she wanted him. And the more she wanted him the more determined she was to have him. She had tried seeing him in town but she was never able to catch up with him. And now, she stood behind the tree watching him. Watching them.

It was Sean and Marita's 5th anniversary of their second wedding. They always celebrated both nuptials, the one performed in Philadelphia and the one they shared with the family. However, their second wedding was more special to them because they had been able to proclaim their love for and loyalty to one another in front of the family.

That morning when Sean woke, Marita was feeding Sean-Michael. He had told her to stay in the bedroom until he returned. Marita smiled because she knew he had some kind of surprise for her. She also smiled because it was the first time he did not have to be reminded that it was their anniversary. And Marita would be pleasantly surprised to know that he would never again have to be reminded of their wedding anniversary.

When Sean finally returned to the bedroom he had a tray in his hands. He had enlisted Auntie's help and actually cooked the breakfast himself. Marita laughed and gave him a skeptical look when he told her he cooked the breakfast. When he insisted he had cooked, Marita wondered if it was safe to eat. Sean then confessed that Auntie was downstairs and had help him BUT he told her that he did do the cooking under the instruction of Auntie.

After Sean placed the tray on the bed, he took Sean-Michael downstairs to Auntie and came back to the bedroom. He and Marita shared breakfast in bed and after they ate, Sean grinned as he told Marita that Auntie said they could take their time and did not have to rush. Sean took Auntie up on her offer and spent the next hour leisurely loving his wife. When they finally made their way downstairs, they both had smiles on their faces. Auntie grinned when she saw their faces and wondered if she would be dreaming about fish soon.

Sean kissed Marita and Sean-Michael and thanked Auntie for her help before he left for the warehouse. Marita and Auntie spent the morning working on new invoices for Auntie's Remedies they had received. After lunch, Auntie went into town and Marita went up to Ned's.

That evening when Sean trotted up to the house, it was already dark. Because the moon and stars lit the sky, Marita had made a picnic basket and planned a nice supper for her and Sean down at the river. Lexy had already agreed to watch Sean-Michael if Marita needed her to.

When Sean came into the house, Marita greeted him and told him about her plans for their evening. Sean hurried to the washroom and bathed. When he made it back to the foyer, Marita had the basket, quilts and Sean-Michael ready and waiting. They left the house and took Sean-Michael to Lexy then headed for the river, not realizing someone was following them.

Bonnie had come out to the farm, hoping in her demented mind that she could catch a glimpse of Sean and maybe talk with him. If she could just talk to him, she knew he would see the light and come to her. She watched from far off as Sean and Marita came out of the house with Sean-Michael. She watched as Sean set something in the back of the carriage and then helped Marita and into the carriage. She watched and followed at a safe distance as they went to Ned's and returned to the carriage without Sean-Michael.

At the river, she watched as they fed each other, laughed with each other and kissed each other. Her obsession for him grew as she began seeing herself in Marita's place, feeding, laughing with and kissing Sean. She wanted his lips on hers, she wanted his hands on her body. She wanted him.

And then she watched as Sean's hand grabbed Marita's breast...

"Sean..." Marita laughed nervously as Sean squeezed her breast. "What are you doing?"

"um... I don't know" he said with a slight frown as he started unbuttoning her blouse.

"Sean stop it!" Marita said as she slapped his hands away.

"Hey it's my anniversary. I thought I could have anything I wanted" he grinned at her and reached for her buttons.

"SEAN!" Marita raised her voice. "We're outside..."

"And what better place" Sean interrupted her. "To make love to my wife on our anniversary than under a moon lit, starry sky?" he said poetically.

"Sean, someone could see us" Marita whispered nervously as she smiled at him.
He was right, she thought. This was the perfect place for them to make love. But
Marita kept seeing in her mind's eye someone coming upon them in the middle of their lovemaking.

"No one's coming out here" he said as he unbuttoned her blouse down to her belt.

"Sean..." Marita protested weakly. "We can't. Let's go back home" she offered.

"I don't want to go home. I want to stay right here."

"Sean we can't. Not out here."

"Yes we can" he said as he moved closer to her and put his lips to her neck. "Let me show you."

"Sean..." Marita sighed as he suckled her neck. "Someone might see us."

"We... can keep... our clothes on..." he said between suckles. "And if... we hear... somebody coming... all we have to do... straighten them... up."

The plan was inviting and Marita could hardly resist. Especially when Sean's kisses moved down to the swell of her breast. Sean put his hands inside her open blouse and moved them around to her back. He loosened her cosset then ripped it down the front, exposing her breast to his seeking mouth. When he had thoroughly suckled, nibbled and kissed her breasts to hardness, Sean moved his hands beneath Marita's skirt and pulled her bloomers and stockings down her legs. After he pulled them over her shoes, he pulled her into a straddling position on his lap. He rubbed up and down her outer thighs as they kissed passionately. After many moments, Marita gasped in Sean's mouth as his fingers touched her and began to caress her. Sean moved his lips to her cheek and ear as his fingers continued to pleasure her.

"You like that?" he whispered in her ear.

"um hum" Marita moaned incoherently as her pleasure intensified.

"You know, I'm crazy about you woman" Sean whispered in her ear then bit on her earlobe. "I can never get enough of you" he murmured as he used his finger to enter her body.

"aaaahhhh..." Marita groaned as his hot breath in her ear and his finger in her core sent sparks of pleasure racing through her body.

"You feel so good..." he told her as he moved inside her and felt her warm wetness cover his finger.

Marita's body squeezed his finger as he urged her toward her pinnacle and she cried out her delight once she reached it.

"S e a n" she dragged out his name as her body shook from the gratification it received.

Sean was more than ready for his manhood to feel what his finger had just felt.
He laid Marita on her back, pushed her skirt up to her waist then quickly freed himself and dove into her moist, still pulsating body. Sean lost himself as he forged in and out of her sweet flesh and let out guttural sounds.

Bonnie stood watching. With each thrust, Bonnie's heart beat faster and she began to tingle. She needed to be beneath those hardy thrusts. She needed to feel the heat of his lovemaking. She broke out in a light perspiration as she heard their moans of pleasure and then their cries of fulfillment as they found release. Bonnie watched as they lay there holding each other, not saying anything, not doing anything other than holding each other. When she realized they were not going to do anything else, she left them.

As she rode back into town, she kept seeing Sean's hips rise and fall. Her pulse beat as she felt him inside her. Then she compared her time with him to what she had just seen. The unbridled passion he displayed tonight was a far cry from what she had experienced with him. She knew she would do whatever it took to get Sean Logan back in her bed. To get the uninhibited passion she saw tonight.

Sean and Marita lay in each other's arms for several more minutes, not saying anything just enjoying where they were - together.

"Happy anniversary" Sean smiled at Marita when they had turned on their sides and were facing each other.

"Happy anniversary" Marita smiled back.

"I loved my gift" he said as he ran his finger across her cheek.

"I haven't given it to you yet!" Marita said, wondering if he had peek at the gift she had bought him.

"What do you call what you just gave me?" he grinned at her. "That was priceless."

Marita flushed at his words and could only smile. Even after almost 6 years of marriage, he could still cause her to blush.

"I love you so much" Marita said with great emotion as tears lit her eyes.

Sean was humbled, as he always was, when he heard the emotion in her declaration of love. He took her hand, brought it to his lips and kissed it.

"I love you too. More than I could ever put into words" he said as he used his thumb to wipe away the tear that had escaped her eye.

The lovebirds lay under the beautiful night sky for the next 30 minutes sharing their love for one another before they got up, straightened their clothes and went to get their son. When the family got home, Marita put Sean-Michael down to bed and she and Sean shared a leisurely bath before they exchanged gifts. She bought him a new hat and a pair of boots. He bought her a beautiful hooded cape.

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When Bonnie got back to town, she found a street urchin to break into Sean's office through the window. After he got inside, the little bandit then opened the door for her and she gave him a nickel before he scurried away. Bonnie searched Sean's desk and found a key. She tried it and it was the key to the office door. She smiled as she locked the door, closed it and left with the key in her hand. She went to bed dreaming about what would happen in that office tomorrow. Sean would not be able to resist her, she would make sure of that. Her body would know his again before too long and just that thought almost gave her physical pleasure. As Marita fell asleep that night with strong arms around her, Bonnie fell asleep with nothing but her fantasy. A fantasy that would never come true.

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Bonnie waited for him in his office. She knew he would be there because she had seen a note on his desk the night before that stated he was meeting someone at 1 o'clock. Bonnie guessed that he would probably come to his office long before his scheduled meeting and that would give her time to make him the offer he could not refuse. When she heard footsteps, her heart began to pound. She was about to get what she had been longing for.

"I know you can't resist this" she said as the door opened.

"I think I can."

Bonnie gasped as she heard a woman's voice. THAT woman's voice.

Marita could not believe her eyes. Bonnie had herself propped up on Sean's desk
- without a stitch of clothing on.

"What are you doing here?!" Bonnie had the gall to say.

"The question is what are YOU doing here!" Marita said as she stepped inside, slammed the door as hard as she could and took menacing steps toward Bonnie.

Bonnie felt as if she were about to be attached and scurried off the desk and around it to retrieve her clothes.

"Get out of here!" she said frantically as she picked up her clothes and tried to cover herself.

"Get out of here?" Marita said as she walked up to Bonnie and sat the basket that she was carrying on the desk. "The only person getting out of here is you! It's obvious" Marita said as she snatched Bonnie clothes from her. "That you have lost your mind!" she yelled as she threw Bonnie's clothes across the room.

"I haven't lost my mind. I just know how you've kept Sean away from me! I know about you coloreds and that black magic you use."

"You ARE crazy!"

"We'll see who's crazy when Sean comes back to me" Bonnie said confidently, forgetting she was standing there naked.

"WILL YOU LOOK AT YOURSELF?! You're standing here naked! In a man's office. A man who has told you he DOES NOT want you!! What will it take for you to understand that?!"

"He DOES want me! And I WILL have him!" Bonnie insisted as she moved to get her clothes.

"Over my dead body!" Marita exploded. This woman was really getting outrageous.

"If that's what it takes!" Bonnie yelled as she picked up her clothes and began to dress. "HE loves me!! NOT YOU!" she insisted.

"OH really!" Marita said as her anger went up a few degrees. "Well, that's news to me AND him!"

"The only reason he's with you is because of that black magic you use on him!
Why in the world would he be with some colored woman when he can have me?!" Bonnie said as she continued to dress.

Marita looked at the demented woman and knew she was not living in reality.
Marita almost felt pity for her.

"You are pitiful! GET OUT! RIGHT NOW! AND DON'T COME BACK!"

Bonnie looked at Marita with such anger that she could not speak. She turned red in the face as she fumed at Marita throwing her out. She also was incensed that her planned seduction of Sean was brought to naught once again. Bonnie gritted her teeth as she turned on her heel and stomped out of the office.

As Marita watched her leave, she shook her head at the pathetic creature. What world was she living in, Marita wondered. After a few moments, Marita turned her thoughts from Bonnie. She had come to bring Sean lunch. Since he was in at the office yet, she went behind his desk and wrote him a note and left to do her errands.

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When Sean made it to the office he saw the basket on his desk with a note sitting on top of it.

I thought you might get hungry.

I love you.
M

Sean smiled as he read the note then looked up at the knock on the door. It was his appointment. Bonnie watched when Sean's 1 o'clock appointment left. She waited a few minutes then made her way to his door.

"Eating alone?" she said when he bit her come in.

"Get out of my office" Sean said when he looked up from the lunch Marita had left him and saw her.

"Oh Sean, will you stop playing hard to get. I know you want me just as much as
I want you. What does a woman have to do to get your undivided attention."

"A woman already has my undivided attention."

Bile rose up in Bonnie's throat as she thought of Marita. The woman who stood in
the way of her getting Sean. The woman who had humiliated her at Alice's
wedding and then again in this same office.

"How is it that you are able to live so openly with your wife? Most southerners don't take to kindly to marriages like yours. I'm surprised she's not in jail or worse. I mean it is illegal isn't it?"

Sean heard her underlying threat and stood up immediately. He walked around his desk toward her. When he reached Bonnie, he roughly grabbed her upper arms.

"AND exactly what is that suppose to mean?!" he said in a deadly voice.

For the first time, Bonnie felt a twinge of fear. Sean's eyes were full of rage and his grip was beginning to hurt her.

"Sean..." Bonnie said with fear in her voice. "You're hurting me."

"Are you threatening Marita?!" he said and Bonnie could feel the fury radiate from him.

It took every ounce of will power Sean possessed not to strike Bonnie. He had controlled himself every since she came to town. But now, she had dared suggest that some kind of harm would come to Marita. And that pushed Sean to the edge.

"ANSWER ME!" Sean yelled as he shook her violently. "ARE YOU THREATENING MY WIFE?!"

Bonnie was now truly afraid. Sean had a murderous look in his eye and she felt circulation in her arms being cut off because of the tightness of his grip.

"Sean please..." she begged. "You're hurting me!"

Sean was deaf to her plead.

"If you EVER come near her, I'll kill you myself! NOW get out!" he said as he threw her from him. "GET OUT OF THIS TOWN! OR I'LL HAVE YOU THROWN IN JAIL!"

Bonnie stumbled back and tears formed in her eyes. Her arms pulsated from the pain of his grip. Sean looked at her with contempt and near hate. Then she saw it and could not deny it. Sean did not want her. He would never want her. Then in desperation, she ran to him.

"Please Sean" she cried as she grabbed the front of his coat. "All I ever wanted was you. Please!" she begged. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. I'll do whatever you want me to do. Just don't hate me. Don't send me away."

"Bonnie!" Sean said. "I'm a married man. I love my wife..."

"But I love you!!" she said hysterically. "I don't want to live without you! I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU! PLEASE could you love me?!"

"NO! I can't love you!" Sean said as he looked at the miserable woman standing before him. "I never have! And I NEVER WILL!" he said as he pulled her hands away from his coat.

"DON'T you see!" she yelled franticly as his words rung in her ears. "She used her black magic on you. That's why you can't see that I'm what you need. Not her!! I'm the one you love! Not her! I can make you happy. I can!" she said desperately. "Don't you see why she wants me to leave?! She knows if you keep seeing me you'll come to your senses and leave her!"

Sean watched as this woman turned into a lunatic in front of his eyes.

"Bonnie, you need help" he said a little sympathetically.

"I NEED YOU" she cried.

"You CAN'T have me!" Sean said forcible. "You need to leave. Right now. And I don't EVER want to see you again!" Sean said as he walked to the door and opened it.

"I'll do whatever you want me to do" she pleaded with him.

"I want you to leave" he said without looking at her.

"You can't mean that!" Bonnie lamented as she saw her dreams of being with
Sean slipping away.

"I mean it. LEAVE" he turned cold eyes to her.

Bonnie looked at him as tears streamed down her cheeks. He was not hers. He would never be hers. Bonnie left Sean's office feeling dejected and hopeless.
What would she do if she could not have Sean?

It was all Marita's fault!! If it were not for her, she would be the love of Sean's life. She would be Mrs. Sean Logan. She would be the mistress of his home. She would be the lover in his bed. She would be the mother of his children.

It was all Marita's fault!! She had been humiliated time and again. She had made
a fool out of herself as she begged Sean to take her. She never had to beg men
to take her. They did it at the drop of her bloomers.

It was all Marita's fault and she would pay.

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When Sean made it home that evening he had decided not to tell Marita about
Bonnie's subtle threat. He would tell her about Bonnie coming to the office but he would leave that part out.

"She was at your office today" Marita told him before he could tell her.

"WHAT! When you were there?"

"Yes" Marita said.

"I'm sick of that woman!" Sean exclaimed. "She came by again after my meeting ended. She must have been watching the office" Sean said as he began to see just how deranged this woman was.

"Sean, what are we going to do?" Marita said.

Sean looked at her and saw that she did not blame him for all the problems Bonnie was causing. He blamed himself but all she did was ask what they were going to do about it.

"I'm so sorry about all this Marita" he said.

"What's done is done. We just have to deal with it."

It was no wonder he loved he so much. She was such a loving, kind, forgiving woman. And Bonnie thought he would give Marita up for her?

"I'm going to the sheriff" he said, thinking he wanted to get this lunatic woman far away from Marita.

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Two weeks later, he waited for her to appear. When he saw her, he pointed the
gun and pulled the trigger. The shot rang out and a scream was heard before
Marita fell to the ground.

To Be Continued..................