**Please click my nickname, and view my stories page, to find Chapters 1 and 2 of this series. Chapter 3 is the final segment.
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I opened my eyes, sensing something – somewhere - in the darkness.
I was disoriented for a few moments, not being in my room, or my bed, or, alone. I felt a body lying against mine, a sense of shared warmth, the brush of legs and feet. I lay still for several moments, piecing together where I was, and who I was with, and then I returned to the question of what had woken me. I think it was just a sixth sense, letting me know that someone else was awake; that another consciousness was drifting silently through the room.
Mary.
She lay between me and Emily, turned, at the moment, towards me, her hand resting on my stomach. "Are you awake?" she whispered softly.
I nodded, and felt her hand trace down, and her fingertips begin to lightly caress my cock, causing it to stir.
"I'm still glowing," she whispered.
I nodded, though, in the darkness, her head below mine on a separate pillow, she probably didn't notice. "Yes," I said, squeezing her lightly. "Yes."
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We signed up for another race, again entering the triathlon relay competition, this time Guelph Lake II in the Guelph Conservation area. The Guelph race came up quickly, only two weeks after the Toronto Island race, and on Saturday afternoon, when Mary picked Emily and me up at my apartment for the drive to Guelph, it was the first time the three of us had been together, in the flesh, since Toronto Island.
I took the wheels off my bike, and loaded it into the back of Mary's Mazda 5, while the two women embraced silently for a few moments on the sidewalk. Although I'd had lunch a few times with Mary since Toronto Island, this was the first time she and Emily had been face to face since that race. The several moments of "I don't know what to say" silence were broken by giggles, from Mary first and then Emily, and soon we were in the car, headed for a Saturday night at the Fairfield Inn in Guelph, before the race first thing Sunday morning..
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We checked in, taking two rooms. We somewhat unpacked. And sitting together in one of our rooms, still too early to get dressed for our dinner reservation, Emily brought up the idea of an ice-breaker. She and Mary were sitting at the end of one of the two beds in the room. I was on the small couch, my feet up on a coffee table. "An icebreaker?" Mary asked.
Emily put her hand on Mary's leg. "An icebreaker. To smooth things out for when we get back here after dinner tonight."
Mary nodded, her tongue appearing slightly between her lips, obviously warming to the idea. "And what would we do?"
Emily patted Mary's leg, smiling. "One second." She moved to where she'd dropped a large gym bag, and dug inside, pulling out a hairbrush. She turned back to Mary, her eyes scanned the two beds for a few moments, and then she climbed up onto the bed Mary was still sitting on, easing herself back against the headboard, her legs spread out in a V, patting the mattress between her legs and saying "Come here."
Mary scooched on her bum back between Emily's legs. When she was in position, Emily began stroking the older woman's blond hair with her fingertips, smoothing her hair out, helping it fall straight and long. She held the hairbrush in her right hand, her left hand holding Mary's hair, and began brushing Mary's hair in long, careful strokes. Emily, young, athletic, her back straight, her bum touching to the bed's headboard. Mary, in her late 40's, initially leaning slightly forward and away from Emily, but softening with every stroke of the brush. When Emily's left hand went to Mary's shoulder, the older woman lifted up into the touch, her shoulders rising. Emily traced her fingertips over Mary's shoulder, onto her neck, down her back, up again, over her collarbone and down the front of her neck, and then up towards Mary's chin, continuing to brush Mary's hair the entire time.
I watched as Emily brushed her fingertips over Mary's lips, softly stroking them, causing Mary to open her mouth, and take Emily's left index finger in between her lips. She sucked on Emily's finger as Emily set the brush down on the bed beside her, and started stroking her right hand up and down Mary's right arm. Emily lowered her face into the crook of Mary's neck and kissed her exposed neck, her hairline, her ear, causing Mary to moan as she sucked on Emily's finger.
Emily moved her hands down Mary's sides and under her arms, clasping her hands fully on Mary's breasts, squeezing them through her T-Shirt and bra. Mary purred, her eyes closed, moving her hands onto Emily's and pushing back against the younger woman, her back now flush against Emily's breasts and stomach. Emily massaged her hands into Mary's breasts, cupping and squeezing. Mary reached her left hand up behind her head, searching for Emily's face. Emily nuzzled into Mary's hand and the older woman turned her head, and Emily's mouth went to hers. They kissed, deeply, hungrily, Emily draped over Mary's left shoulder, her long brown hair falling over them both.
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"Oh, love, well, I don't know. It's hard to say." Mary swirled her wine glass slightly. "Love comes, and I guess it goes. He was okay. I don't go around bitching about him all the time. He's good with the kids I think. Whatever there was between us just disappeared at some point."
The Grange Restaurant in Guelph. We were seated at a table for four on the wood deck patio. The six or seven other tables were all full, people talking, laughing, enjoying a late summer evening at a fine restaurant. Our little party had gotten to talking about Mary's ex-husband, over whom she seemed non-chalant, rather than bitter or hurtful.