Murder on the Mainline: another Mike Claymore Mystery Chapter 10 - Sex Stories

Murder on the Mainline: another Mike Claymore Mystery Chapter 10

CHAPTER TEN 3RD WEDNESDAY As the sun first strikes the mountains and glaciers around Jasper, a CPX Kenworth makes its way into those mountains with a box full of goods for Vanderhoof. Mike starts working the gears again for the grades and Trudy crawls out through the curtain to curl up by him on the console. He watches her out of the corner of his eye and says, "You better put something on. It's getting light. How'd you sleep?" She yawns and stretches almost causing an accident with an oncoming car full of tourists. She reaches through the curtain and pulls out the cowboy hat. "Not that. We're leaving the prairie now. You got a fur lined one?" She laughs and pulls out her robe as well. She perches beside him with her feet up against the windshield. "Can we stop for a pee, soon?" "I'll find a spot. Cross your legs for a while." Mike watches for a wide shoulder with brush near the road. Soon she has her way. They push on along Jasper Lake and soon reach the town of Jasper. On they’re way west out of town they have to slow for big horn sheep on the road. Then it’s over the Yellowhead Pass and west on the Yellowhead Highway. Near Tete Jaune Cache they see tourists out taking pictures of a bear and her two cubs by the roadside. Mike shudders and says, "Don't look, Trudy. Those idiots don't realize what danger they're putting themselves in. We'll just keep on trucking." "Don't people read signs?" "Sometimes you wonder." At Tete Jaune Cache junction they are flagged down by another ...

... big blue rig. It’s one of the trucks from Prince George and he tells them he will take their load on in. They are to head south to Kamloops then over to Sicamous for the long box that's going back down to the coast. Mike uses his cell phone to confirm with Toronto then drops the trailer. The other guy grins at him as Trudy peeks over his shoulder and he looks quickly to see what she has on. She winks at him and says, "Don't you trust me to not embarrass you, Mike?" She's overdressed for Trudy and he has nothing to worry about. They both wave as they pull away and bob tail south. They have a picnic lunch in the pullover by the campground in Clearwater. After lunch they stroll hand in hand along the river for a ways then return to the truck. The atmosphere has taken on a holiday feeling without a trailer to tow. They spend an hour in the sleeper "Getting a rest" as Mike calls it. "Just because you made me do all the work." Trudy is not really complaining, just kidding around. "You had to work off that lunch, didn't you," is Mike's comeback. They roll through the edge of Kamloops and head east to Sicamous for supper at the Husky. Mike hooks on to the long box and checks his fuel. Soon they are heading south down the Okanagan. Trudy pipes up, "Don't you think I should work off some of that supper?" Mike grins and says, "Later." The lakes are gray and misty in places in the sunset. "With any luck we'll be in Kelowna before dark." "Will we be home before midnight?" "Don't think so. ...