Chapter 25-High Heel Good Time

"Our Man in Tegernsee"

"Oh, hello," Amanda said shakily.

"What did you say," Lee replied in a clipped tone trying to keep his anger in check.

"Hello?"She said worriedly, not liking the look on Lee's face.

"Hello," Lee said with none of the usual warmth on his face when he saw her as He linked he arm through the iron bars of Amanda's jail cell and glared at her.

She smiled nervously and said, "Did you have a nice trip?"

"Did I have a nice trip?" Lee said barely containing his irritation. Well, it all started with me being rousted out of bed in the middle of the night by Billy.

"Sorry," Amanda said hanging her head.

"Did I mention I'd taken a long weekend?"

"No, you didn't," Amanda said with an arched eyebrow wondering just what his plans had been for his long weekend.

"I'd taken a long weekend..." Lee confirmed pointedly, "...which had just started. Gillian's got a terrific lodge up in the Poconos." In truth, his long weekend with Gillian was done before it had ever begun because on their last date when Amanda had first left for Germany, he'd been thinking of nothing but her and it had shown. Gillian had immediately called him out on being distracted and not paying enough attention to her. He had agreed to the long weekend with Gillian in the hopes of being distracted by her from his incessant thoughts of Amanda. Instead, he'd been distracted from Gillian by his thoughts of his partner, knowing she was going to be in Germany only brought back memories of the time they'd been in Germany together. When he'd tried to pass it off as just concern for his partner's safety, he hadn't been very convincing and she'd told him, not very nicely to take and hike and to forget the weekend, and that she'd find someone else who would keep his attention on her for more than two seconds. His anger now had more to do with the fact that no matter how hard he tried; he couldn't get the tempting housewife out of his head.

"Gillian has a lodge in the Poconos?" Amanda said with a grimace.

Lee nodded and continued. "So, I was rousted out of bed, and then there were all those questions down in the office, which, by the way, I had no answers to."

"It must have been just awful," Amanda said trying to be sympathetic, but could help that just a trace of sarcasm that filtered into her statement. She'd just spent the night in a German jail, and he was mad because his naughty weekend had been interrupted. She felt a painful stab of jealousy striking her in the heart.

Catching the slight sarcastic tone in Amanda voice, he countered even more sarcastically, "The flight over the Atlantic Ocean was very nice. Nine hours and forty-five minutes, but very nice."

"You're angry with me," Amanda said softly.

"Now, why should I be angry," Lee said in mock surprise. "Hmm? Why should I even be surprised?" Amanda jumped slightly, startled by his harsh tone. "You were sent over her to do agency business. All you had to do was deliver an envelope, that's all! And you get yourself arrested for passing counterfeit money?"

Amanda getting angry at his anger, leaned forward and snapped, "I didn't know that money was counterfeit! Lee, you know I would never do a thing like that!"

"The German government is very, very unhappy and the American government is very unhappy-"

"I am very unhappy!" Amanda interrupted. Boy was she ever. Between being arrested, not being able to go home, not knowing what was going to happen to her and the painful idea that had she not been arrested, Lee would have spent the entire weekend in the arms of another woman. She cringed as the thought about his comment of being rousted out of bed, out of bed with Gillian, no doubt.

"Counterfeiting louses up everybody's economy."

Amanda had finally had enough. She forcefully tossed the blanket from her lap and rose to her feet, stormed to the bars to meet him, but by the time she got there, her anger had turned into worry and fear "Look, I know you're disappointed."

"Oh," Lee said with a deep sigh.

"I'm a little disappointed myself," Amanda said though she didn't want to admit that her disappointment has just as much to do with the fact that he was so angry about his weekend rendezvous with this Gillian person was interrupted as she was about being in jail. When he'd arrived, she'd been so happy to see him, only to find that he'd been with another woman and that he'd rather be with that other woman than with her. She couldn't help but wonder if he was serious about her. She tried to shake of that nagging thought and said, "Doris Semple was supposed to pick me up at Dulles International Airport. My mother and Phillip and Jamie are probably worried sick about me. I'm in Jail in Germany. I've never been in jail before and I don't even speak German. The only word I know if edelweiss."

Lee, at hearing the edge in her voice, seeing the tears in her eyes, gave her a calming gesture with his hands and said, "Okay, okay." What he really wanted to to was to take her in his arms and hold her until she calmed down, but with the bars between them, this was the best that he could do.

"...and I learned that from "The Sound of Music, I saw it seven times."

"Take it easy, huh?" he said in a soothing tone with a slight smile. "Just take it easy."

"What's going to happen to me?"

"Well, for the moment, you are to be released into my custody," Lee said with a warm smile, liking that idea very much.

"I am?" she said smiling back.

"But you can't leave Germany."

"I can't leave Germany?"She asked warily.

Lee just shook his head, but he wasn't entirely disappointed as he recalled the last time they'd been in Munich together and how she'd led him on a wild goose chase that had led to an even wilder time in her hotel room. All thoughts of Gillian jilting him had disappeared from his mind.

Once, Lee had gotten Amanda released and they were on their way, he found himself becoming increasingly irritated by the way that Lieutenant Volkenauer had all but ignored his presence when he'd tried to introduce himself. He'd answered with a noncommittal, "Yes, I was told," and a half-hearted shake of his hand, before turning his attention solely to Amanda, treating him as if he were invisible. He then began to question her about her statement and this "Hymie" she spoke of almost as if he were a jealous lover wanting to know if she had a man in her life. He even seemed relieved when Amanda explained that it was her son, Jamie, she'd been talking about. Lee eyed him warily, wondering just what he was up to.

"Now, should any other questions arise, you will be available?" The lieutenant inquired.

"Well, since you have her passport, that's a rather academic question, don't you think," Lee snapped, his irritation showing. He didn't at all like the way this guy was smiling and gazing at Amanda as if her were undressing her with his eyes.

Once finally finding his old friend, Harry Hollinger, Lee's irritation only increased. He'd been happy to see him at first until his crack about Billy's taste improving which was clearly a not-so-subtle way of flirting with Amanda. His smile soon changed to a scowl at his friend. Then his comment, "The right company," accompanied by a suggestive tone and leer at Amanda had only increased his agitation. What the hell was it with men flirting with his Amanda right in front of him? Had he suddenly turned into the invisible man?

When the conversation turned to a drink and Harry made his crack about it being five o'clock somewhere, he replied, "What are you talking about, man? I never had any respect for you anyway," trying to pass it off as a joke with an awkward chuckle, but there was just a hint of underlying bitterness in his tone. How could his so-called friend make a blatant pass at Amanda while he was standing right there? Couldn't he see that Amanda was his girl?

Later than night, after Harry had passed out on his couch and he and Amanda had helped him to bed, Lee felt a pang of sadness for Amanda as she tried to explain to her mother what had happened and why she wasn't coming home and was becoming increasingly frustrated by it. "Everything okay?" He asked, but Amanda waved her hand at him to shush him.

On the other end of the phone line, Dotty was shaking as she tried to stifle her giggles. She'd listened to Amanda concocting so many wild stories since she'd begun her love affair over a year ago and now it was an arrest for counterfeiting in Germany, no less. "What? i can't hear you!" she said feigning a bad connection as trembled with amusement hoping that her daughter would just come clean with her and admit that she was there with her mystery man.

She'd heard a distinctly male voice when she'd called her earlier in the day and again just a moment ago asking if everything was okay. She was sure it was the same male voice that she'd heard on the patio with Amanda in the past. She just wished she knew more about the man her daughter was so smitten with. She'd gotten a quick peek at him twice, but only from the back. All that she could tell was that he was tall, had sandy brown hair and a very nice rear end, but what did that really say about what kind of man he was? He obviously didn't think twice about repeatedly having sex with a woman without a commitment of any kind. On the other hand, if he kept coming back for more, maybe there was something to it. Maybe he was one of those men who had a hard time admitting his feelings. She just wished she knew. Amanda clearly wasn't bothered by keeping things with him just the way they were. She wondered if it had something to do with this new job at IFF. Did they frown on workplace romances? Was that why their relationship, whatever it was, was being kept so secret.

She listened for a moment longer as Amanda finished her second retelling of her tale of counterfeiting and when she didn't reply, she heard her daughter ask, "Mother, did you hear me?"

Dotty purposely remained silent until Amanda finally gave up, told her she'd try to call again another time. "Okay, Darling," she replied and just as she was about to hang up, once again heard the male voice in background asking her if everything was okay at home. "Hmm," she said to herself as she placed the receiver back in its cradle. If he's concerned about her home life, maybe he did care , after all.

Standing in Harry's living room, Lee removed his suit jacket and tie, then kicked off his shoes while he watched as Amanda hung up the phone in frustration, muttering about a bad connection. Seeing the pained look on her face for the second time that day, he approached her and wrapped his arms around her the way that he'd wanted to when she was in jail, "Hey," he said soothingly. "It'll be okay. We'll try again tomorrow, okay?"

"I...um...I just don't want her to worry," Amanda said as she leaned into Lee's comforting embrace enjoying the warmth of his touch after the stress of the past twenty-four hours.

"I know," he said as he gently rocked her in his arms.

"I'm sorry to be such a burden," Amanda said looking up at him.

"Hey," Lee said as he wiped the unshed tears from her eyes. "You are not a burden."

"But I...uh...I ruined your weekend," Amanda said touched by his gesture, but still unnerved by the idea that he'd had...other plans for the weekend.

"No, you didn't. My weekend was already ruined," Lee confessed. "Gillian dumped me two days ago."

"Oh, I'm sorry," Amanda said trying to sound sympathetic, but failing miserably as her heart leapt at the thought that he was no longer involved with anyone else.

"Don't be. All I would have been doing is sitting around my apartment moping" Lee replied, although he wasn't quite ready to admit that it would be her that he was moping over. He then changed his tone to a much softer one. "I'm not sorry a bit. We weren't that serious to begin with. Besides, I'd rather be here with you," He said as he placed a tender kiss to her forehead. When he pulled back and saw the glowing smile on her face, the adoring look in her eyes, he stammered, "I...I mean...to...uh...help you get out of this mess." he quickly turned from her, but was stopped by her tugging on his arm.

"Is that the only reason that you'd rather be here with me," She said in a suggestive tone. While she knew that Lee's embrace had been intended to be one of a purely comforting nature, it along with his words had stirred something else entirely in her.

"I...uh...what other reason would it be?" Lee said evasively.

"Oh, um...I don't know," Amanda said hesitantly searching his eyes for any sign of his true feelings that she knew were there. She decided to take a chance, snaking her arms around his neck and kissing him, inwardly praying that he'd respond.

Lee sighed at the feel of her lips pressed against his and responded by sliding his hands to her waist, kissing her back, teasing her lips with his tongue and holding hr tightly to him. This time his embrace was not the comforting one it had been, but one of the desire for her that he'd being trying all day to suppress, tinged with a bit of possessiveness after watching her dodge other men's advances. He was elated when she opened her mouth to his and began to work loose the buttons on his shirt, caressing his chest beneath, and then roughly yanking the tails of it from his pants while he moved his hands to do the same with her blouse, needing to touch her the same way. He pulled back from the kiss, gazing into her eyes for a moment to be sure that this was what she wanted and that she wasn't just reaching out to him because she'd had an upsetting day. "Amanda," he said questioningly. When the only thing he saw reflected back at him in her eyes was raging desire, he lowered his lips to the tender spot just below her ear, then down her neck, then her shoulder before unhooking her bra and taking once breast in his mouth.

"Lee," Amanda said with a soft sigh as she pushed his dress shirt from his shoulders running her hands up his firm chest, loving the feel of his muscles beneath the smooth skin. Before she knew what was happening, she heard a loud crash and felt herself being lowered onto a hard surface while Lee's hands roamed under her skirt, sliding her panties down her legs. While she had initiated the contact, he had quickly taken over and was now on his knees between her legs, his mouth driving her crazy as he suckled and licked her relentlessly. She couldn't get over how much he could make her feel and how quickly he could do it.

Lee, from his perch at the end of the coffee table, delighting in hearing Amanda's moans of pleasure, continued to devour her needing to remind her how good her could be to her, that these other men couldn't be as good to her. He was very soon rewarded for his efforts, hearing her crying out her release, her quivering thighs clenching around his head. He raised his head to give her a satisfied smile."Feel better?"

"Much," Amanda said breathlessly as she reached out her arms to him. "But I could be even better," she added in alluring tone.

Lee needed no further invitation. He quickly divested himself of his pants, dragging his boxers along with them, and then joined her waiting arms as he simultaneously joined them together. "Oh," he groaned at the feeling of being sheathed within her welcoming warmth again withdrawing from her just enough to push into her deeper than before. Wanting that feeling to last as long as possible, he kept his movements within her slow and steady, not wanting to lose that feeling any time soon.

"Oh," Amanda gasped at his maddeningly slow movements as he moved in and out of her. If he kept this up, she wouldn't be able to take it much longer. It hadn't gone unnoticed that both Harry and the Lieutenant had been flirting with her, and while she'd been flattered by the attention, the only man's attention she wanted was the one who was inside her, making her desperate with need. She locked her legs firmly around his hips, pushing her own hips up against him to urge him to pick of the pace. When he still kept up the same pace, she panted through her heavy breathing, "Lee...I...I...need..." She gasped again as he pushed into her again just as slowly and finally unable to take anymore of his teasing, cried out, "Harder! Please!"

"You want it harder," He growled as he pulled back from her and slammed back into her, feeling her eager response, he said, "Is that what you want?"

"Yes," she rasped. "Yes...please."

Lee, realizing that he couldn't hold back any longer with her pleading for completion, gripped her hips tightly and slammed into her again and again, each time producing louder cries of pleasure from her. His own pleasure was heightened by knowing just what he was doing to her and he thought that he might be a little egotistical, but he was sure by the way she responded to him that no other man had ever made her feel that way. He cried out her name as he felt everything in him letting go and his warmth spilling into her as she clenched tightly around him, leaving both of them quaking and gasping for breath. "Amanda," he whispered softly as he collapsed atop her, holding her tightly to him.

Amanda wrapped her arms around Lee cradling him to her as they lay on Harry's coffee table locked together in their post-coital embrace, whispering each other's names reverently. "Lee," she whispered in a shaky voice as she trailed tender kisses down his face and held him close.

Once his breathing was under control again and his heart rate back to normal, Lee pulled back from her, rose to his feet and reached for her hands to help her up. He kissed her softly, then chuckled slightly and said, "It's a good thing Harry's passed out."

Amanda couldn't help but laugh too and said, "You know, we should probably get to bed too. It's been a long day." She then bent to retrieve her discarded blouse, bra and panties, putting them back on, while Lee gathered up his own clothes.

"Yeah, it has been," he said as he dressed as well.

Amanda looked at the mess from where Lee had swept the contents of the coffee table onto the floor and said, "What should we do about this?"

"Leave it," Lee said with amusement dancing in his eyes. "We'll just tell Harry in the morning that he did when he got so drunk. He'll never know the difference."

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After Amanda had turned down the Lieutenant's dinner date, Lee couldn't help smiling smugly at him. He then turned to Amanda to find her smiling just as brightly at him. He looked back over his shoulder to make sure the annoying cop was gone, then turned back to Amanda and said, "So, you do know our flight home's not leaving until tomorrow afternoon, right?"

"Yeah, I know," Amanda said amusement dancing in her eyes.

"So, why'd you turn him down?"Lee asked curiously.

"Well, I was thinking that if I'm going to have a typical Bavarian meal, I'd rather it be with you," she said still smiling. She paused for a moment, linked her hands with his then added with a mischievous grin, "Maybe complete with dessert."