Flirting with Fire, Chapter 8b

Note from Nick: Sorry for the delay with Chapter 7 (Complete). I'll post it later today, followed by the complete Chapter 8.

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Chapter 8 (cont’d)

Sometime later, I inhaled a deep breath, held it as long as I could, and let it out slowly. Allie sensed that I was in the mood to talk. She stirred, and her own breath felt warm on my bare skin.

“Well, what do you think?” I said. “Was it worth all the flirting?”

“Are you kidding? You saw how hard I came.”

“Yeah, true. So… tell me about that. I mean, three in a row? And the last one…?”

“They don’t always happen like that.” It was the verbal equivalent of a shrug. “But when they do… wow.”

“No kidding.”

“Christy has ’em too, doesn’t she? Super-orgasms? So… why d’you ask?”

“Just trying to figure out what you like, how to do it again.”

“Ah. In that case, mine are different. Didn’t she tell you?” It was a gibe at first, but then she raised her head and saw that I was clueless. It turned into a serious question at that point. She scooted up, rested her chest on my abdomen, and folded her arms beneath her chin. She gazed at me from a foot away, her Caribbean eyes alive with interest and amusement.

“Afraid not,” I replied seriously. “I only hear about the kinky things. She doesn’t tell me the mundane stuff.”

“Ah. So you know I like it messy when I give head, but not how I come.”

“Exactly. Only, now that you mention it, it was different. Christy… um… how do I put this…?”

“Comes hard when you go balls deep?” Allie smirked. “I mean, when you hit her A-spot.”

“Yeah. How’d—?”

She shrugged. “She’s always wiped out the day after, so I can usually tell. Or did you mean how’d I learn in the first place? We brag. To each other, at least. Didn’t you know?” She arched expectant eyebrows before she shrugged again, dismissive this time. “It’s what we talk about sometimes. Why? You guys benefit from it, so why get worked up about it?”

“I’m not worked up,” I said. “I’m just curious.”

“Yeah, sorry. Ken used to hit the roof over the stupidest things. This was one of them. He didn’t want me to talk about his ‘bedroom technique.’”

It was classic male chauvinist bullshit. He wanted his wife to be a madonna in public but a whore in the bedroom.

“His loss,” I said.

“Mmm. As far as the other thing, the A-spot… I’m a woman.” It was another verbal shrug. “I’ve been responsible for my own orgasms since… like… forever.”

“Yeah, sorry about that, too.”

“It isn’t your fault.”

“No, but…”

She smiled, reassuring and patronizing at the same time.

“Then tell me what you like.” Unfortunately, my pique came through loud and clear.

“That isn’t what I meant. You’re actually one of the better ones.” Her sincerity went a long way to soothe my bruised ego.

“Thanks.”

She fell silent for a long moment, and I couldn’t tell whether she was letting me cool down or gathering her thoughts. Probably both, I decided, and felt guilty for getting upset in the first place.

“Yeah, I guess I should tell you,” she said at last. “I— I can’t believe I’m about to admit this, but… I’m sort of a size queen. I don’t mean to be,” she added quickly, “it’s just the way I’m built. I need a big dick to get off.”

“Well, I’m glad I measure up.”

“No, no. That isn’t what I meant. It’s just, like, whether I get off or not… from penetration alone. I still enjoy it, though, no matter how big the guy is. I can usually make it work. You know…” She wiggled her fingers, in case I didn’t understand. “Besides, my body’s the size queen, not my mind. The biggest dick in the world doesn’t do it for me if the guy’s an a-hole.”

“You mean Ken.” She didn’t seem surprised that I knew he was well-hung. Christy had been a little vague on details, but “oh my gosh, bigger than Tom” was a decent measuring stick. My brother-in-law was so well-endowed that he made me feel inadequate. I wanted to hate him, except for the minor detail that he was a loving husband, a good father, and one of my closest friends.

“Exactly like him,” Allie was saying about Ken. She decided to elaborate. “He was such a fuckhead toward the end that I couldn’t even get wet when I blew him. It was just a job, you know, something I did to keep him from bruising my insides.”

“Mmm,” I agreed darkly.

“Whereas you… I get wet just thinking about it. Like today. But in general, too. I mean, I see how you are with the girls, and the way you treat women. That’s really sexy.”

“Thank you.”

“It doesn’t hurt that you have a nice body, but I’d wanna fuck you even if you had a dick the size of my pinky.” She thought about it and laughed. “Okay, maybe not that small, but you understand. I’d still wanna fuck you, and I’d come no matter what.”

“Good to know,” I chuckled.

“I’m serious. I like a decent-sized guy once the action starts, but that isn’t what gets me worked up in the first place. I mean, I’ve never looked at a dick and thought, ‘Yeah, I wanna suck that.’ Not like—”

Her silence grew apologetic, so I finished her thought, “Not like Christy, you mean.”

“Sorry. I didn’t mean it as a criticism. Just an observation.”

Only, it was a criticism. It was a mild one but still valid, especially if I was being honest.

“It’s okay,” I said. “I know how she is.”

“I love her to death, but sometimes…”

“Me too,” I chuckled. “She isn’t shallow—”

“No! Of course not.”

“—but she’s really hung up on appearances.”

“She’s an artist. And… I guess we’re all a little superficial. I try not to be, but I can’t help it sometimes.”

“Same here. I wouldn’t be in bed with you if I didn’t think you were attractive.”

“Thank you. Me too.”

“Anyway,” I prompted, “you were saying? What gets you worked up…?”

“You, for starters.”

I heard something in her voice. “Anyone else?”

“Mark. Obviously. And Trip. Although… I tend to like guys who’re shorter.” She laughed, “Short guys with big dicks… God, talk about contrasts!”

“Like the guys who want skinny women with big tits.”

“Sorry, guys,” she agreed, “but real women aren’t built like that.”

“Nope.”

“Anyway, Trip too. He’s a bit of a chauvinist, I guess, but nothing like K— my ex. And he’s a super dad. That’s way more important. In my book, at least.”

I raised my head and said to my groin. “Did you hear that? I told you, she doesn’t care what you look like.”

Allie’s eyes danced with amusement.

“He gets a little uppity,” I explained, “especially if he thinks he’s the reason we get laid.”

“‘We’?” she laughed. “Oh, God, that’s good! I’ll have to use that sometime.”

“He’s always good for comic relief.”

“You both are. Still… tell him it doesn’t matter what he looks like. Besides, I didn’t see him— Wait! Why’m I doing it now? I didn’t see you in all your glory until today. Although I’ve… um… seen some very lifelike sculptures.”

“Oh?”

“Mmm hmm. Let’s see… the fountain one was my favorite. You know the one…”

Priapus Pool Boy, for an LA couple’s Medici-inspired garden.

“And the obelisk?” Allie laughed. “Oh, God, the veins were perfect!”

The Johnson Monument, six feet tall and slimmer than the real thing, commissioned by a gay couple, complete with a circle of fifty small Pride flags around the base.

“The boner bud vase…?”

Tulips Are Better Than None, a realistic porcelain penis with an opening at the tip for a “spurt” of flowers.

Christy had a thriving word-of-mouth business in erotic art, and we had a special relationship with a few patrons who commissioned us together, as artist and model. The LA couple were swingers in their thirties, bisexual, childless, and wealthy. They were also perverted, even by my standards. The gay men were just a regular couple, friendly voyeurs who shared Christy’s fondness for phalluses.

Our friend Sara had introduced us to the third, an older woman who’d been delighted by the bud vase. She was a character in the San Francisco art scene, a sui generis widow who was literally in a class by herself.

Countess Irina spoke with a vaguely European accent and looked like a well-preserved sixty, even though she was at least a decade older. She didn’t drink or smoke, and she swore she’d never had plastic surgery. “Clean living, darling.”

She was an interesting lady, a wealthy art patron with a taste for old-world elegance. She dressed impeccably in Chanel or Dior, and she was often mistaken for someone’s rich grandmother who’d wandered into the wrong gallery party. “Oh, how lovely and colorful and exciting, darling.”

We learned about her double life when she commissioned a second piece. “Something impressive, darling.” Christy had been saving an oblong chunk of pink imperial porphyry, and she used it to create Hard Rock Cock, a two-foot version of yours truly. “Oh, how marvelous, darling! Shall we compare it to the original?”

In private, Irina’s accent sometimes slipped, especially when she was tired. Then she sounded like a dustbowl refuge from a Steinbeck novel. “You won’t tell, will you, darlin’?”

Whatever her background was, she was as rich as Croesus, as horny as a succubus, and had the inhibitions of a madame. She told us once that she’d actually been a high-end call girl, “A courtesan, darling,” before she’d fallen in love and married one of her regulars.

“Still, that wasn’t the reason I had sex with you,” Allie finished.

I frowned in mild puzzlement—I couldn’t remember what we were talking about.

The little head cleared his throat.

Oh, right! How could I forget?

How, indeed, he said dryly. Still, I suppose the countess is a good reason to be distracted.

Mmm.

“Like, I dated a guy in college,” Allie was saying. “He was thoroughly normal, maybe even on the small side. But he— Well, let’s just say that I was horny all the time, and it had nothing to do with his equipment.”

I replayed what she’d just said and made an educated guess.

“Did it have to do with his brother’s equipment? Yeah, I know all about it. Or, should I say… them.”

Allie had had a relationship with identical twins when she was twenty. It had started with one brother but had quickly progressed to both, usually at the same time. They’d dated for about a year, and things had been pretty wild toward the end—threesomes and gangbangs and porn, oh my!

“I should’ve known,” Allie said. She paused but then shook it off. “Still, it proves my point. Reese and Rob— I’m guessing you know their names, like I know Tiffanie. They weren’t anything special in the dick department, but they totally did it for me.”

“Oh, I get it. Like I said, I’ve heard some of the stories.”

“You don’t know the half of it,” she murmured.

“Oh?”

“Uh-uh.” She glanced at the alarm clock on the nightstand and then sighed.

My words to the girls at bedtime echoed in the back of my mind, Six o’clock comes early.

“Yeah, me too,” I said aloud. “But I’m too wired to go to sleep.”

“And I’m too talkative. Sorry, I get like this sometimes. It isn’t the sex. Just… talking to a man. Like, intimately. Flirting is fun, but this is way more satisfying.”

“It is.”

“Besides, I’m still in the mood.” She forestalled me with a laugh. “Later. Right now, I’m parched. Do you mind…?”

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I pulled a couple of bottles from the fridge and handed one to Allie.

“Cranberry. For the plumbing.”

She smirked. “You might have to inspect it later.”

“I have the perfect tool for the job.”

She snorted at the corny line, although she followed with a sly glance at the tool in question. I replied with one of my own, at her bare slit. Then I closed the refrigerator door and plunged her into shadows again.

“C’mon,” I said, “I wanna hear more about the twins.”

The security light over the pool house shone through the windows and outlined a walkway of sorts. I followed it into the living room and through the pocket doors by the master bedroom. The shadows deepened in the hallway as we passed the door to the grotto.

“Maybe tomorrow we can do it in there,” Allie said.

I chuckled. “So you’re already planning next time?”

“Sure, why not? I mean, Christy’s gone, and you don’t leave till Saturday. She said I could borrow you…”

The guest bedroom welcomed us with a warm glow from the bedside lamp. Allie closed the door behind us, and her expression went from amused to thoughtful.

“Nothing,” she replied to my curious look. “Just that it’s a little weird. I mean, talking about sex in one breath and your wife the next. Not to mention that she’s one of my best friends.”

“Welcome to the lifestyle.”

“I dunno about that,” Allie demurred. “I’m having sex with you. That doesn’t make me a swinger.”

“It’s a step in the right direction.”

“Maybe. But… I’m not so sure. I don’t exactly meet all the requirements.” She paused the conversation by twisting the cap on her drink. She climbed onto the bed, while I enjoyed the view. Then she sat cross-legged, waited for me to do the same, and picked up where she’d left off.

“Talking about Reese and Rob made me think of it. I mean, my qualifications. Besides, you’ve already been hinting.”

“Sorry, you lost me.”

“Earlier, this afternoon. You wanted to know if I’m… you know… into women.”

“Oh, that. Right. Well, are you?”

“I— I’m not sure. I know that’s a lame answer, but…” She shrugged. “I don’t have much experience. And before you ask, I’d like to establish some ground rules.”

“Of course.”

“So… I haven’t told Christy any of this. Some of it, obviously, but I left out parts.”

I lifted an eyebrow.

“Ground rules first. Please don’t tell her. I don’t want you to lie, but…”

“I don’t have to volunteer anything. Got it.”

“She’s gonna start hinting anyway, especially after you and I— I mean… this…” She gestured. “Us… but I need some time.”

Leah had taught me a thing or two about interviews over the years, so I knew better than to interrupt. Sure enough, Allie sighed into the silence.

“So, my experience with women… I guess I should start at the beginning. Okay, you remember I said I was a good girl in high school? Well, I really was. I didn’t lose my virginity until senior prom, which is a cliché all by itself. And I didn’t blow a guy until later, when I was eighteen.”

I nodded and stuck to Leah’s interview playbook.

“So I was pretty innocent when I left for college,” Allie continued. “I got there and oh my God! Culture shock, big time. I mean, I was basically a small-town girl. My roommate was the same. We had a lot in common, even though she was from New Hampshire. Her parents were a dentist and a teacher, and she wasn’t that serious about Judaism either.”

Allie’s father was a NASA project manager and her mother a crew training specialist. They were highly educated, liberal, and Jewish in the Deep South, a combination that was still as rare as hen’s teeth.

“Anyway, I guess you could say we bonded,” Allie went on. “Before you ask, nothing happened. Christy told me about her and Wren, and my stories’re nothing like theirs.”

“Then… what’d you do?”

“What do you think? We got drunk and fooled around. I’m pretty sure she was a virgin, and I practically was. We didn’t really do anything, though. We kissed a little and felt each other up. I guess it started as a joke, but you know how it is.”

I nodded.

“It felt good but… weird at the same time. I mean, guys get insistent, you know? And rough. It wasn’t like that. So it felt… weird.” Allie shrugged. “That’s the only word I can think of. Soft, maybe. And slow. Frustrating? I dunno. We did it again, like, a week later. We weren’t as drunk but we didn’t go any further. And the next day we were too embarrassed to even talk about it.”

I’d known plenty of women who were bi-curious but hadn’t done anything because they’d bought into the lie that “nice girls don’t do that.”

Allie took up her story again. “We never did anything after that. Just those two times. I started dating a guy in the spring, and she met someone too. She lost her virginity, and I was getting laid on a semi-regular basis. So… like, we never repeated our drunken fumblings.”

That sounded familiar too.

“Anyway, fast forward over my sophomore year. My roommate in the fall was a total JAP, a self-centered nightmare. It was bad enough that I moved into a single in the spring. I had a couple of boyfriends, but nothing serious. We only did the usual things. We did it a lot, but just boy-girl stuff.”

“Then you met the twins?” I prompted.

“Yeah, like, the first week back for my junior year. I had a friend who lived in their building. That was when I really started to go wild. I’m sure Christy told you.”

“The basic outline.”

“I’ll tell you more—I have some pretty fun stories, kinda like you—but some other time.”

I nodded.

“Okay… so… did she tell you about the poker parties?”

“Some.”

The twins had organized poker nights, where “poker” was a euphemism and Allie was the main prize.

“I guess I enjoyed the attention,” she said by way of explanation. “I mean, I wasn’t an ugly duckling in high school, but I wasn’t a swan, either. I was sort of a nerd. Like, glasses, braces, and pigtails. I even had a Trapper Keeper with a horse on it. I swear to God,” she laughed, “I was so un-cool!”

“I think everybody was.”

“Yeah, well,” Allie continued, “I was a nerd, so I liked the attention from guys. And I didn’t have to worry about my parents catching me, so… I guess you’d say I was a major slut.” It wasn’t a put-down the way she said it.

“Anyway, things were pretty wild, especially the parties. I wore a mask when other guys were there, but still… Like, they all knew Reese and Rob, and it wasn’t that hard to figure out who I was. Word started to get around on campus, and especially in the Foster Mods.”

I didn’t know what those were—a residence hall? an apartment complex?—but it didn’t matter. Besides, I didn’t want to interrupt.

“We decided to cool it for a while. That was in the spring, and we’d started to drift apart anyway.”

Christy had said that Allie and the twins didn’t have a lot in common, except for the sex. The guys were also a year older and ready to graduate, while Allie still had another year of school. They’d ended things on friendly terms a couple of months later.

With a whimper instead of a bang. I grinned at the pun, but Allie was too absorbed in her story to notice.

“…the part that Christy doesn’t know about,” she was saying. “We quit having the big parties, but we still had our little ones at Jay’s house.”

I didn’t know who he was, but it didn’t matter.

“He asked if he could bring a friend… a girlfriend.”

My eyebrows rose, even though I’d been half-expecting it.

“I sort of knew her,” Allie explained, “but only to say hi. She lived in Foster, so she’d heard the rumors. At first she thought they’d been exaggerated. I mean, you know how it is.”

“Yeah.”

“But then I guess she started watching us. She was friends with Jay, and they went out a few times. She got him to tell her about the parties.” Allie snorted at a memory. “She told me later that she blew him but wouldn’t do more until he told her. Then she told him what she really wanted.”

My dick swelled as my imagination kicked into overdrive.

“I thought she must’ve been one of those Jewish or Catholic girls,” Allie added in an aside. “You know the type, the ones with overprotective parents. They go wild as soon as they leave home.”

I knew two of them, in fact, one of each.

“But she was just a regular girl who wanted to try a gangbang.” She laughed softly. “I wouldn’t call three guys a ‘gangbang,’ but I didn’t tell her that.” She paused and grinned at her own wantonness. “Reese and Rob were all for it. Jay too, which kinda surprised me.”

“What about you?”

“I guess,” she said with remembered indifference. “I thought it’d be kinda fun to watch. We were really into porn at the time— Did Christy tell you? The guys had a whole drawer full of tapes. We’d even made some of our own. I wanted to see what it looked like for real. So we told Jay to invite her. Obviously.”

Allie fell silent but then snorted. “I thought she’d be nervous or something, but she got right down to it. I mean, we didn’t play cards or drink or anything. She just took off her clothes and asked who was first.”

“Sounds like my kind of girl,” I chuckled. I was breaking Leah’s first rule of interviews, but I didn’t care.

“Yeah. You’d’ve liked her. And… I guess… like… she reminded me of me.” Allie smiled at the memory but then shook it off. “Sorry. So… yeah. She had her gangbang and wanted to do it again, like, a week later. You see where this is headed?”

“She wanted to have sex with you?”

“Yeah. A double gangbang. Rob and Jay tried really hard to talk me into it, but Reese said it was up to me. I think he still sort of carried a torch for me, if that makes sense.” She stared into the past.

“I decided not to,” she said at last. “I guess I was too ashamed. Yeah, I know… I didn’t have a problem fucking six guys in a row, but one girl gave me the heebie-jeebies. Maybe… like… I guess it was for real with her, not like when I was a freshman, fooling around above the waist.”

“So… you never did anything?” I prompted.

“No. I’ve thought about it a lot, though. Since then. And now I kinda wish I’d tried. I guess… I mean… you know. I’ve grown up a lot since then.”

I nodded.

“Fast-forward again. I met Ken and we got married. The sex was good, but he was strait-laced about lots of things.” She sighed darkly. “That should’ve been my first clue, but… I was in love. Then I got pregnant with Maddy, and I was so busy that I didn’t have time for anything else.”

I’d heard that before too.

“I guess things started to change when I met Christy. I knew you guys were swingers, but Ken was Ken. Like I said, he was really conservative about some things, which is ironic. I mean, he’s sort of the reason I wanna try now.”

“What happened?”

“It started with porn. Again. Famous last words, right? So… we had this routine. For, like, the last few years before things turned ugly. He’d come home from a trip, and I’d dress up in something sexy after the girls were in bed. I’d suck his dick while he sipped a drink. Sometimes it took him a while to come. At first I thought it was the liquor, but now I know the real reason.”

“Mmm.” I was dying to know more, but I didn’t want to interrupt.

“Yeah, sorry,” Allie said. “I still don’t wanna talk about it.”

“Okay, then tell me why you changed your mind, why you went from strictly dicks to maybe chicks?”

She laughed and brightened. “Thanks. I needed that.”

“It’s what I do.”

“Yeah. And I’m grateful. So… what changed? Well, he started watching porn while I blew him. It wasn’t the usual stuff, though. It was new, all-girl. So… um… yeah. I’d be sucking his dick, and I’d hear them in the background, the women moaning on TV. I was playing with myself at the same time, and I guess I started to connect the two. I mean, it’s basic conditioning.”

“True.”

“Now I get worked up when I think about women writhing and moaning. I know it’s just porn, that the real thing isn’t like that, but… I can’t stop thinking about it. You know? I keep wondering if I’m missing something.” She paused and gazed at the ceiling with indecision. “There’s another reason, but I’m not sure I wanna tell you. Not yet, at least.”

“That’s okay. I’m ready for a break anyway.”

Allie glanced at my erection and moistened her lips.

“Yeah. I’m gonna need a blowjob…”

“Uh-uh. I’m ready now. I wanna ride you. Then you can finish in my mouth.” She scanned the bedside table, and her eyes flashed. “Hand me a condom. We’ll see if I remember how they work. They say it’s like riding a bike…”

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Allie disappeared into the bathroom after we finished. The door opened a few minutes later, and a triangle of light spread across the ceiling.

“I forgot the condoms.” She grabbed one from the foot of the bed and spotted the other on the floor. “Want me to flush ’em?”

“No! I mean, no,” I added in a calmer voice. “They’re bad for the plumbing. Just wrap ’em in toilet paper and toss ’em in the trash.” They were empty anyway.

“Oh. Okay.” She did, and the light on the ceiling winked out. “God, that was exactly what I needed. I’m gonna be sore in the morning, but it was totally worth it.”

She came around the left side of the bed and climbed in. Her cheeks and mouth were pink and freshly scrubbed. I chuckled to myself—she liked it messy all right. She scooted across and stretched out beside me. Her skin was warm where it touched mine, full of energy.

“You’re on my side,” she accused playfully.

“Yeah, sorry. It’s my side too.”

“It’s nothing, a contretemps.”

“Ooh, nice word.”

“I bring the lightning.”

“In more ways than one.”

“Mmm.”

She pulled the sheet over us before I could ask if she wanted me to stay. I didn’t want to take her for granted, but she seemed to be settling in, so I put my arm around her and rested my hand on her bare hip. She snuggled closer, slid her leg over mine, and caressed my chest.

“You normally sleep in the nude, don’t you?”

“Yeah.”

“I don’t, but I will for you,” she said. “In case you need access in the middle of the night. I don’t mind…”

“Good to know,” I chuckled.

“Mmm,” she sighed. “Sorry, talking about the past got me worked up. I didn’t realize how much I missed it. I guess it’s the sense of adventure, you know? Something new. Oh, and the sex! Let’s not forget that! It was awesome, way better than I imagined.”

“Thanks. Same here.”

“You’re just being polite.”

I wasn’t, but it wasn’t worth an argument.

“I’m rusty,” she added. “Lack of practice. I didn’t think it’d be such a big deal, but… like… toys aren’t the same. Although they’re a lot easier to turn on!” she laughed, soft and self-deprecating.

I silently agreed and did my best to stifle a yawn. Unfortunately, Allie took it as a hint.

“What time is it?” She raised her head. “Oh, God, almost two. And we have to get up at six?”

“Yeah, sorry.”

“I’m a night owl, not a morning person.”

“I could tell.”

“You weren’t complaining when I was sucking your dick.”

“I’m not an idiot.”

“Besides, doesn’t Christy wake you up in the middle of the night?”

“Sometimes. But she lets me sleep first.”

Allie shrugged. “I’m not her. I hope you’re okay with that.”

“Of course.”

She fell silent for a moment but then changed the subject. “So, how much will you tell her?”

“About tonight? Not much.”

“She doesn’t want to know?”

“It depends.”

“On what?”

“How kinky she thinks it is.”

“And this isn’t?” Allie laughed. “Sleeping with one of her friends?”

“No, sorry. I do that all the time.”

“Oh, yeah, I guess you do. Still, we have to think of something…”

I could think of several things, but I didn’t want to start a long conversation, and especially not at two o’clock in the morning.

“Well, you’re welcome to spend the night,” I said instead. “Tomorrow, I mean.”

“I was trying to figure out how to ask.” She sounded sheepish. “I mean, I feel like a kid in a candy store. But I… um… I don’t wanna overstay my welcome.”

I snorted to show what I thought of that.

“Thank you.” She slid her hand from my chest to my stomach. After a moment’s hesitation she moved to my penis.

I snorted again but kept it to myself. She thinks we’re twenty.

Speak for yourself, the little head grumped. I’m always ready to go. You’re the problem these days.

Yep. And I’m still in charge.

We’ll just see about that! He tried his best, but he couldn’t get the blood flowing. I even gave him a couple of minutes, just to be fair. Unfortunately, the big head was fighting a losing battle against sleep.

“I’m a greedy slut,” Allie said, an apology of sorts. “I need dick, like, every day.”

“I wish I could give it to you. Sorry.”

“That’s okay. You gave it to me earlier. Four times! I know you were hoping for five, but we got a late start.”

“We’ll start earlier tomorrow. And we have all day.”

“And all night! Do you think the girls’ll get suspicious?”

“They shouldn’t. We’ll use dance camp as an excuse. And you know how kids are; they’ll think we’re doing it for them.”

“Little do they know,” she chuckled suggestively.

“As long as we pretend we’re sleeping separately. Speaking of which… do you mind if I spend the night?”

“Oh, thank God! I thought you were going to leave or something.”

“No. I just didn’t want to assume…”

“No, stay,” she said immediately. “That’s probably the only thing I miss about being married, even though you stole my side. I should make you pay for it.” She kissed my chest and returned her hand to my manhood. She squeezed gently, a hint more than urgency. “We could wait a while and try again.”

“Thanks, but…” I patted her hip in consolation. “I can take care of you, though.”

“No, that’s okay. I’m just excited.”

“Me too, but I’ve been up since six thirty…” The phone call with Laurie seemed like a lifetime ago.

“Yeah, you’re right,” Allie said. “I’ll let you get some sleep.”

“You should too.”

“I’ll try.”

I stretched and turned off the bedside light. Allie scooted away and started to roll over, but I moved with her.

“Is this okay?” I asked.

“God, yes. I just… I mean… you know. I don’t know the rules.”

“No rules. Just do what feels right.”

I spooned her from behind. I was used to Christy’s five foot nothing, but Allie still fit in the curve of my body. She sighed, and her breathing slowed.

“Mmm, this is nice.”

I rested my right hand on her hip, but she pulled it to her breast instead. I squeezed gently, and the little head made a last-ditch effort. I decided to humor him.

“Are you sure you don’t want me to…?”

“No, that’s okay,” Allie sighed, sleepy at last. “Just hold me. I miss that too.”

“Mmm.” Part of me was relieved, but the twenty-year-old wasn’t ready to give up.

Old man, he muttered.

Older and wiser, I said without a hint of regret.

Yeah, well… you’d better fuck her brains out.

Tomorrow, I agreed.

And the next day? And the next?

We’ll see. What’s so funny?

You, he said. Forty years old and I’m still leading you around.

I chuckled. If it ain’t broke…

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The End

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