I ran the water in the sink until it was hot again. Then I dampened one of the old towels, thinking, "Christ, I need to do laundry tomorrow," and went back and cleaned mother and babies.
I covered them up. They were tired. I guess being born is work too. Then I went into the front room, closing the door behind me, and leaned the recliner back.
I slept, surprising myself.
The slight shaking of heavy feet on the steps woke me and Ashley and Steve came in. She looked happy. Hell, they both did.
I smiled, but didn't get up.
"You have two daughters," I said and Ashley squealed a high-pitched sound of delight. She went running into the bedroom while Steve was calmer about the whole thing.
"Got coffee?" he asked and pointed at the Keurig machine.
I grinned and said, "help yourself."
He turned, all very casual, and said, "that's a very special intimacy, isn't it? Helping a woman deliver."
I grinned even wider and said, "oh yeah."
"Did you fuck her?" he asked, and the casual way he said it was the first thing in a long time that kind of shocked me.
"I did," I said, "she asked, and welllll...." and I kind of ran down.
He chuckled and said, "don't worry about it. She needs that. She says she doesn't feel very sexy or desirable right then and a good fucking helps."
He turned back to the Keurig machine and concentrated on his coffee, adding a healthy dollop of the half and half and a half dozen spoonfuls of sugar.
"As soon as I get some coffee in me," he went on, sipping from the steaming cup, "I'll be giving her some, myself. You can join me if you'd like, she likes that and Lee's tits seem up to the job of feeding the babies.
Sometimes the way my mind works is an amazing thing. What caught my attention in that exchange was the
non sequitur
of hearing Ashley's name shortened to "Lee," something I had never heard before.
There was something, well, "cold" about him that kind of scared me.
So I didn't say anything, just got up and made a cup of my own coffee. Our new lifestyle struck me for an instant as I realized I was naked and didn't care.
As the Keurig sputtered the last of my coffee into the cup Ashley came into the room. For an instant, my Goddess was back. The smile on her face was pure joy and the way she had a baby cradled in each arm as they suckled at her big tits once again had the words Earth Mother, Fertility Goddess, and Gaia running through my mind. Her age was on display but she looked like a doting grandmother who was lucky enough to be able to be a wet nurse. As she sat in her recliner her eyes closed and "contentment" is the only word to describe her at that instant.
We sat in that odd tableau for a few minutes not saying anything. I was watching Ashley, mostly.
Suddenly he drained his cup, got up, went to Ashley and kissed her soundly, and asked, "you okay with my girls?"
She just nodded, that odd, happy smile on her face, and I wondered if there were such words as titdrunk or maybe babydrunk. If not, there should be because that is clearly what she was.
He headed into the bedroom then, unbuttoning his shirt as he went.
"Hey, Dave," he said over his shoulder, "I could use some help."