[Chesapeake Bay] - for Clayton

[freshoffthefarm]

The drive down took a little under four hours, just like he'd predicted. She'd packed light and left her bag in the car Friday afternoon. Without going into details, she'd told Joan that she was heading to the shore for the weekend. Her boss's simple instructions were to keep her car gassed and her phone on. Easy enough for Annie and, with that

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[fakes_death]

Webb saw Annie's red Volkswagen pull up along side his current model year Aston Martin thanks to the surveillance system in the house. When he bought the car, the other directors couldn't resist the James Bond cracks. Webb managed to shrug them off well enough.

He walked down the front stairs and the driveway to meet Annie by her car. Manderly was a large property, even for Webb, and didn't want her to be too intimidated by it.

"I hope the drive wasn't too bad..."

[freshoffthefarm]

She'd kind of spun in a circle and, as she came back toward facing the house, she was also facing him. A smile came over her face and she nodded as she took off her sunglasses.

"The drive down was nice. Traffic got kind of interesting around Richmond, but-" She dismissed it with a shake of her head and went back to staring. "But this. You weren't kidding, were you, Mr. Webb? This place is amazing. And your car... I bet they call you James Bond at the office, don't they?"

[fakes_death]

"I can even build firearms from items in my briefcase," he sounded amused, "Though I usually leave my exploding pen and shoe phone in my office."

He smiled again and led her into the house. Large windows looked out onto the bay and two doors led out to it's basically private beach. The living room had a fireplace in the center and opened to his spacious kitchen.

[freshoffthefarm]

Annie followed, her eyes still taking in everything he was showing her. They lingered on the beach and she smiled. That was definitely a place she was going to spend some time this weekend and she had the sudden thought that he might not see her at all.

"The house is gorgeous. Did you grow up here?"