I started out from college as a workaholic. It cost me my marriage. The house and bank account were little compensation for the lonely days and nights, especially since I'd moved up the corporate ladder a bit and was able to delegate work to others. I'd even set up an office at home and worked there three days a week. That part was great since my house is way out in the boonies. There's not another house within a mile or more and the privacy is awesome. I let the outside naturalize so that there's not very much to do in terms of yard work, so I have plenty of free time these days to do whatever I want. I'll admit that many days I never get dressed, at all. Roaming around the house or even outside fully nude has always been a pleasure for me and I am afforded that pleasure just about all the time now days.
I got a call one morning and the number showing on the caller ID looked vaguely familiar. When I answered it was the wife of my ex-wife's brother. My sister-in-law, in-law if you will. Callie had always been a good looking girl, nice figure with a sweet smile and sparkling eyes. She and I had always gotten along well, even flirting a bit when there was enough booze at family gatherings to allow our guard to drop a bit. She and my brother-in-law had never had any kids, by his choice.
"Callie, what's up? It's been a long time and to what do I owe the pleasure of this call?"
"I need a favor, Ed."
"Sure, Callie. What can I do for you?"
"I need a place to stay for a while. I left Bobby this morning. I'm on the road now and I thought that if you would let me stay with you for a while, at least until I got myself together, it sure would be appreciated."
"Oh, Callie, I'm sorry to hear that, but of course you are welcome here for as long as you need." She had never been to my place but once and that was several years ago when I was still part of that family, so I gave her directions how to get here and told her I'd see her in a couple of hours. Then I went about cleaning up the place in a mad rush.
A bit after lunch I heard a car coming up the driveway and looked out the window to see Callie pull in and park. She sat in the car for a few moments checking her hair and lip gloss, and I watched as she stepped out of the car and stood surveying the surroundings. My cabin is in a horseshoe shaped bowl up in the mountains, surrounded on three sides by mountain ridges. I don't have that big of a tract but I'm surrounded mostly by park service land and the other neighboring properties are very large tracts. I'm essentially alone out here and the views are grand indeed.
Callie looked as good as I've ever seen her. She was a tad bit heavier than the last time I'd seen her, which she wore well. It seemed to me that most of the weight had gone to her tits and hips, giving her even better curves than I'd remembered. Her naturally blond hair was cut a tad shorter than before, but her eyes were as sparkling as I'd remembered. Indeed, her figure in a bathing suit at the coast had given me fodder for fantasy more than a few times over the years, and the version I was seeing outside my house now was an even better version.
"Come into the house, Callie. It's great to see you, in spite of the circumstances."
"Oh, Ed, it sure is good." As Callie stepped up onto the porch she came to me, pressed her body against mine with her arms around me and hugged me long and closely. I had to shift a bit to keep my growing erection from pressing against her tummy. "You know, you were always my favorite in that family, and both of us were outsiders that had married in. I really appreciate you letting me come here."
"Hey, you're one of my favorites too. Now, what can I make you for lunch? Want a beer?"
"I sure do, but first I need to use the ladies room."
"Right down the hall, between the two bedrooms." I threw together a couple of sandwiches, grabbed a bag of chips and two beers, and took our lunch out onto the large back porch where the breezes would be better.
When Callie came out the breezes caught her sun dress and lifted it a bit. Not high enough to see anything but enough to look sexy as hell.
"Ed, this is really nice out here. You have a beautiful place. "We talked about my place there and me being alone out there, then we shifted to her current matters. Apparently her husband Bobby had gone to drinking heavily, a family trait, and was smoking a lot of weed. He had become mildly abusive to Callie, and had come to essentially ignore her and go out to see buddies alone. They hadn't had a sex life in several years, which didn't bother Callie seeing as how Bobby was so obnoxious most of the time. She really did miss being treated well, being treated like a woman. I think the final hurting blow was when she told Bobby she was leaving his reaction was simply to ask for her door key.
At that point I got up, went to the kitchen and got my spare key and gave it to Callie, telling her it was hers for as long as she wanted to stay. Tears rolled down her cheeks as her arms went around my waist and her head buried into my chest.
The next few days passed remarkably quickly and easily. We fell into a comfortable routine where Callie would take care of the household chores in the mornings while I retreated to my home office and took care of business, then our afternoons were filled with hikes in the surrounding mountains, going into the nearby town to shop, having a picnic out in the wildflower meadows, or working on some little project. The house and yard really began to blossom from a woman's touch. I got more interested in the projects, and we certainly ate better than the fare I was used to cooking for myself. I really enjoyed having Callie around, for all those reasons but also because I truly enjoyed her company. Our conversations were easy and flowing, nothing was off limits and more and more frequently our conversations turned into flirting with definite sexual tones.
