Epilogue

"Ok, I'm just packing up, on my way!" Kelli laughed at her mother's response. "Don't let her get at that cake. Tell Tom to distract her!" She laughed, hit the red dot on her phone screen, shouldered her bag and dashed out, her ponytail swinging. She couldn't help but sneak in a quick look at the nameplate next to her office door -- 'Kelli Meadows, Controller'. Even after eight months it still felt like Marjorie's office. Her boss was still her boss, just now the CFO. Tom had been promoted a year ago to head of IT, so they were both department heads. She was proud both of the promotion she'd earned and the last name she had taken so proudly.

Kelli was, as usual, in a happy mood. 'I have so much to be thankful for.'

She hopped in the Jeep and sped off. She'd long ago gotten in the habit of using her commuting time for reflection, tuning in a light jazz station for background, trying not to be on the phone. She smiled as her mind went back to the 'beginning', as she called it -- when she and Tom Meadows had first crossed paths, become Gym Buddies, then friends, then good friends, then lovers, then so much more.

The conversation with Richard that Saturday had been very hard, but while he didn't take it well initially, he eventually came to accept that he wasn't ready for marriage and they had been able to keep in touch -- at a distance. Kelli and Tom took to cohabitation well, with Tom figuring out quickly that the house was now hers, not his, and he was just fine with that. On the day after Kelli's divorce was final they were consumed in their 'normal' morning shower routine -- passionate love making -- when Tom abruptly announced. "We're getting married, Kel, as soon as we can." She laughed. "Really? Um, do I get a vote?" She remembered the pained look on his face before she grinned and responded. "Yes, I will marry you, Tom Meadows. We've actually been married since our Thursday night date, baby. We just didn't know it." She'd never seen Tom's smile any bigger than that morning. He plucked an engagement ring from on top the shower head and slid it onto her finger. That was the only day they'd both been late to work - by three hours!

About a month after that fateful Saturday Connie had announced to Patti and Kelli she fully approved of Tom Meadows. Patti, ever the wise-ass, piped up. "Yea, I really like him too, Mom -- actually much better than I like Kel!" That earned Patti a sharp punch in the shoulder from her sister. Anyone not knowing Tom and Patti but watching them would swear they were brother and sister as they teased each other constantly. Patti and Kelli were glad to see Tom and Ricardo bond, with Ricardo joining Tom's Saturday morning hoops gang, giving the sisters their weekly connection time.

Kelli and Tom got married in a casual family ceremony up in the hills two months later. The group was fairly large, with Tom's parents, his brother Alan, home on leave, and a cluster of other relatives. Kelli's family included Connie's delightful husband Al and a swarm of very attractive, very busty blonde aunts and cousins. Tom had enlisted two of his most normal single hoops buddies as groomsmen and both gawked at the 'target-rich' environment, not paying Tom a lick of attention. One, Eric, struck gold with Keli's buxom blonde cousin Sammy, and they ended up married - with three kids, at last count. Kelli looked angelic in a beautiful turquoise wrap dress that tastefully showed off her magnificent cleavage and her incredible shape. Tom was a grin on two legs the entire ceremony. As they completed their vows, both tearing up, the newlyweds embraced and kissed for a good five minutes, lost in their bubble, to the amusement of the crowd. Every single one of the sixteen Helgeson women present cried. Patti and Ricardo got married three months later, so they repeated the whole show.

The families overall blended well, with Tom's father, surprisingly, taking to Kelli immediately and effectively adopting her as his daughter, much to the consternation of Tom's mother, who was just wired to be uptight. Tom's heart swelled when Kelli began referring to his father as 'Dad', as he did. Kelli was very happy that Tom had quickly taken to Connie, Patti and Clara, and they had fully accepted him into the family -- as far as a male could go!

Aside from Marjorie, Tom and Kelli didn't tell anyone at the bank they were together or engaged until after the wedding when Kelli went to Terri in HR to change her last name on her paycheck. "Meadows? Really? Hey, just like Tom in IT. What a coincidence!"

Kelli smiled. "Well, not really -- he's now my husband." Terri about fell off her chair, speechless. Kelli and Tom decided to keep their distance at work as much as possible to keep the chatter down -- and to avoid the strong temptation to make feverous love in some conference room! The word got around the bank fast, with a parade of executives stopping by their offices to congratulate Kelli and Tom. Dayon high-fived her boss when she found out.

They did have an ongoing, romantic -- and sometimes x-rated - text chat in the secret app where every day Tom found a different way to ask how his wife's breasts were doing!

*****

Two months after Patti's wedding the sisters were having coffee together on a Saturday morning while their men were sweating at the Y. "So, something's been kicking around in my head ever since that morning we all sat in Mom's car waiting for Tom to come home."

Patti's arched her eyebrows. "Really? What?"

"You were so sure Tom would take me back."

She grinned. "Yep - your big sister's just that smart, Kel, figured it out."

Kelli's eyes narrowed -- she was suspicious, and Patti could tell she was going to get busted. "No, somehow you knew he'd say yes. How?"

"Hey, I just knew he-"

Kelli cut her off. "Bullshit. Tell me how you knew, or I'll beat it out of you!"

Pattis stuck her tongue out at her sister. "Try it, blondie, and you'll be hurtin' for certain." Kelli grabbed for Patti's arm, but Patti pulled it back quickly, having anticipated her sister's move. "Ok, ok, I'll tell you -- just to spare you the humiliation of me whupping your butt."

Kelli glared fiercely at her sister.

"So, I called Tom after you and I had lunch Wednesday of that week you were apart. He didn't answer, so I went to see him that night.

"You did? You didn't tell me?"

"Nope. Mine and Tom's secret. I asked him if he hated you, and he said no. Then I asked him if he loved you, and he said yes. That's all."

"He never told me, and we share everything."

"Kel, remember, he was devastated that week. He's probably tried to forget the whole time." Patti touched her sister's hand. "It was obvious that you and Tom were perfect for each other. The two of you just needed a little help from big sister to get you there." Patti grinned and pointed her thumbs at her chest, like The Fonz.

Kelli sat silently for a minute, then smiled. "Making me apologize to him in the gym, the negligée, the scalp massage, the cake, the singing, going to see him -- it was all part of your plan to get us together."

Patti smiled and nodded.

"Thanks, 'T -- you're the best friend a girl could have."

Patti grinned. "Yep!"

*****

Tom and Kelli's secret and anonymous web video postings were wildly popular, and the couple soon turned their 'hobby' into a fairly lucrative business. With that income, their bank salaries and Kelli's regular bra-modeling gigs they saved enough money to purchase their rental house from the Gustafsons next door, with whom they'd become good friends. Starting that first July their neighbors spent every summer with their grandkids in Montana, giving the Meadows' full access their house and pool, so Kelli was able to swim laps almost every day -- naked -- often with her horny, hard husband in 'hot' pursuit!

And their sex life? Unlike most couples, the frequency and intensity of Kelli and Tom's loving didn't decrease over time -- more the opposite. Tigress and Tiger made daily appearances. They decided that they should have been together since they were teenagers so they had a LOT of lost time to make up for! Tom continued with his regular 'special' back massage duties, pressing his manhood deep inside her while he worked and kissed her back, keeping her in a state of absolute bliss.

There were many 'lost weekends' where the lovers never got dressed or left the property, and one infamous beach vacation where in five days they only made it to the actual beach, all of 30 yards from their front door, once, during the day! They did have had torrid sex on the deserted shore every night, under the stars, naked to the world. Once they were surprised in mid-coitus by a couple taking a late-night walk. Tom managed to greet them with a causal "evening" that left both Meadows laughing uncontrollably the rest of the night! While they had their 'traditions', such as making love in the shower every morning and ending the day in the hot tub, her in his arms, him holding her breasts from behind, her singing softly to her lover-- their natural creativity kept their loving fresh. Their ritual of dressing and grooming each other every morning was rarely skipped as they both loved the intimacy.

Kelli was bemused at occasional women-only conversations at work where the ladies complained their men didn't pay them enough attention, were disinterested in sex. She resisted being drawn into that talk -- wary she might blurt out her man more than satisfied her -- multiple times every day!

They mostly fulfilled a commitment to work out at the gym two days a week - after figuring out they'd have to change clothes at the gym rather than at home, where they tended to get 'distracted'! Every year on Kelli's birthday they without fail went to The Point, she wearing the red dress, celebrating what they called their first date, enjoying german chocolate cake for dessert. The only difference was that Tom dressed her. Their sex afterwards was every bit as passionate as the first time.

Without ever talking about it, each was fully attentive to the other, just like those early days. People who'd recently met Tom and Kelli assumed they'd been together for a lot longer than just a few years as they seemed totally in synch, often finishing each other's sentences.

*****

Not that there weren't bumps in the road, including a big one that hit Kelli, Patti and Connie hard. The Meadows had been married two years when Connie's ex-husband David, Patti and Kelli's father, decided to abruptly re-enter his family's lives and showed up in town. Patti and Kelli wanted nothing to do with him, no contact, while Connie at least talked to the guy, telling him he wasn't wanted. Kelli spent a few nights crying in Tom's arms. He didn't take well to anyone upsetting his best friend, lover, and wife, so when David, a big, beefy guy, showed up at their front door one evening Tom was ready for him, taking Kelli into the bedroom and closing the door before opening the front door. Their unwanted visitor had obviously been drinking and demanded to see his daughter. Tom politely declined, saying Kelli had no interest in talking to him, that he hadn't earned the privilege.

He informed Tom that it was his right to see his daughter and he'd better step aside. Tom stepped into David's personal space on the porch and quietly informed the guy that if he tried to step inside there was a hundred percent chance he'd be leaving the property unconscious, in an ambulance. The guy made to grab Tom and quickly ended up turned around, shoved against the porch post, with his arm pinned, painfully, up against his back by Tom's powerful right arm. The guy kept struggling, spitting out f-bombs while Tom maintained pressure. "I could apply just a little more pressure and your shoulder will dislocate, and that's really gonna hurt. Let me know when you've had enough -- I've got all night." Finally, the guy gave up. "Ok, enough." Tom released him, walked him to his vehicle and made sure he drove off. When he turned around after locking the front door Kelli was right there -- she'd snuck out of the bedroom and heard it all. She touched his cheeks and kissed him. "Thanks, Tom -- once again, you're my hero. I love you, baby." Later, Connie asked Tom how he'd persuaded David to leave town. Kelli smiled and replied before Tom could. "Oh, my husband can be very persuasive when he needs to be."

*****

They'd been married just over three years when Patti and Kelli surprised Tom and Ricardo with playoff basketball tickets for a Friday night -- very unusual -- and suspicious. The brothers-in-law had a good time, but both speculated on what the girls were up to. "Whatever is it, it'll be expensive, that's for sure." Tom nodded in agreement. When they got to Tom and Kelli's place after the game Connie and Patti were there and the dining room table was covered with various maternity magazines full of advice on how to get pregnant and how to set up a nursery. Tom and Ricardo each scratched their temples, noting the display - and the three empty pinot bottles. The women giggled and Kelli spoke. "So, we've decided we're both going to get pregnant, have babies. According to these magazines, we can't do it all ourselves, so we'll need sperm from each of you." Connie spoke up. "I'm ready for grandkids. Time for you men to do your duty and knock up my daughters." The women broke up in howling laughter as the men looked at each other with slightly frightened looks. Tom and Kelli had been talking about it for the last few months, without conclusion.

'Well, guess the matter is settled!'

Once she regained her composure Kelli took her husband by the shoulders and frog-marched him into the bedroom, kicking the door closed, giggling. "Give me your sperm!" Not that they needed an excuse, but the sex was non-stop from then on!

Tom brought up moving to a bigger place, but Kelli would have none of it -- too many wonderful memories attached to their little place! They remodeled the house, building out the unfinished crawl space, adding sorely-need closet space off the master bedroom and turning the front bedroom into a nursery. Kelli let Marjorie know they were trying to get pregnant. Exactly a month later she was telling her boss that she was pregnant. While Kelli was a bit surprised, Marjorie wasn't, as there was no doubt in her mind that Kelli and Tom had an extremely active sex life!

Tom was a very attentive partner during Kelli's pregnancy, fascinated by the changes in her body and responsive to her every need. Not surprisingly, being pregnant made Kelli even more horny, and her breasts, swollen to E-cups, just added fuel to that fire! They speculated their child's earliest memories would be of her mother's screaming orgasms! She experienced some discomfort and morning sickness as towards the end of her first trimester, but it passed. At the fifth month they visited their OB-GYM, whom they shared with Ricardo and Patti, also preggers, and found out they had a girl coming, which Tom claimed to have been certain of all along. "Helgeson genes way too strong, will prevail!"

As Kelli progressed into her second and third trimester and her belly grew she experienced periods of anxiety at what was happening to her. One day Tom came home to her crying on the couch. "I'm so fat I'm starting to waddle!" She remembered him soothing her, telling her she was even more beautiful. "Baby, you're with child, and you just have this glow about you -- you are so beautiful!" He encouraged her to get out in public by buying her pretty, sexy maternity outfits that, rather than try to hide her pregnancy, accentuated her belly and huge breasts. They went for walks along the river promenade, drawing a lot of attention, which Kelli grew to appreciate. One time, during her eighth month, on an early morning walk with nobody else around, he persuaded her to go braless and pantyless under a beautiful, sheer, flowing orange gown. She beamed as she walked, her breasts swaying over the bulge of her big baby-ball. Kelli smiled as she remembered how she again felt sexually powerful and so female. Tom had her do model poses and took a long video of his smiling, unbelievably sexy, hugely pregnant wife. She remembered blushing when he told her she was the goddess of fertility! They made passionate love when they got home.

The closer she got to her due date the more Kelli wanted to spend time floating in the hot tub, relieving the pressure on her body. She enjoyed leaning her head on her elbows and forearms on the side of the tub, her breasts and baby-ball suspended in the swirling water below while Tom spent hours behind her, his thick shaft deep in its home, massaging her girls, caressing her round tummy, kissing and rubbing her neck and back, making her smile. Or she'd perch on Tom's lap, facing him, his big hard rod deep inside her as she slowly slid up and down, pleasuring them both, while Tom's big hands caressed her huge breasts, now even more sensitive since her milk had come in, and the sensual bulge of her tummy. While her orgasms weren't as strong as before, Tom still managed to bring her to climax regularly. They ended most days in their favorite hot tub position, she on his lap, impaled on his manhood, facing away, Tom's big arms and hands holding and caressing his lover.

At about the eight-month mark Marjorie, knowing from personal experience how uncomfortable Kelli was, banished her from the office, letting her work from home. Her water broke a few days early, while she was at home, much to the amusement of the other participants on the video conference call she was leading! She sent out the baby alert and Connie ran all the way from her house. Tom immediately fled the office and met them at the hospital where Susan 'Suzie' Alaine Meadows entered the world screaming after putting her exhausted mother through nine hours of labor, Connie and Tom both attending. Little Suzie's mom, looking like she'd just played a whole basketball game with Tom and his buddies, held her daughter, smiling and crying, Tom daubing away her tears, beaming at his two girls. Connie stayed for a few hours until she got a call from Ricardo and frantically made to flee the room. "Damn -- sorry, gotta go -- Ricardo's pulling up with Patti now -- she's about to foal!"

Ricardo and Patti had bought a place down the street from Tom and Kelli. Connie -- after asking for permission from both daughters and their husbands, and getting it - managed to buy a place on the same street, equidistant between her daughters, for her and Al. What was designed to be the living room was built out as a nursery for her granddaughter and grandson. She informed her daughters that she fully intended to spoil their kids and there wasn't a damn thing they could do about it!

After delivery, Kelli worked hard to get back in shape, lose the baby weight. Her husband was even more attentive than before, loving on her constantly, whispering that motherhood made her even more beautiful, more desirable to him. He was enthralled watching Kelli nurse Suzie with her enlarged breasts, and they loved the eroticism of Tom having his fill after his daughter's tiny tummy was full! Kelli remembered how she'd never felt more of a woman, more female, then the times when she nursed Suzie and her cousin Eduardo at the same time, providing the tiny babies with sustenance, with life.

As soon as Kelli was ready, the lovers went right back at it, often doing it next to their sleeping daughter. Kelli's fear of her husband losing interest in her body after having a baby proved to be unfounded. If anything, their love for each other, their sexual energy, their relationship, were made stronger by parenthood. Kelli and Tom were mated, and no power on earth could change that.

*****

Kelli looked back at the empty child seat strapped to the backseat and grinned, even though Suzie kept the backseat trashed. Today was her daughter's second birthday and the family was already gathered at Connie and Al's. Tomorrow night they'd do it again for Eduardo, Suzie's favorite cousin. She glanced at the picture of her, Suzie and Tom on her phone screen. Their daughter very much took after her mother, curly blonde hair and all. But Kelli could see Tom in her eyes, her nose and the way she smiled -- just like her father's grin that still made her heart melt!