After Jill had kissed her lover good bye, we showered, had a hearty breakfast, and took coffee on the porch.
"Well!" She declared.
"All is well. Very well."
"I don't know where to begin."
"Watching you with him was like having a threesome for the first time. It's been so long."
"It was so much better than the others it might as well be the first."
"I had the same thought last night. It's like we have arrived at that age and stage to completely appreciate what it is all about."
She winced. "Don't remind me of age. I am going to be a sore girl for awhile."
"Too much cock? Too deep?"
"Never too much cock for me. Never too deep. No, my old gal flexibility was put to the test."
"I heard a leg wire pop when you straddled him last night."
She laughed. "I recall I didn't dismount like a gymnast either."
"It's yoga time for you. Pull and stretch. Get loose, limber and lithe....You were radiantly beautiful, Jill. Sucking his cock, opening wide for him to fuck you."
She glowed with memory, and my praise. "You gave him to me. You gave me to him. It was perfect."
We watched the birds outside the screen. Goldfinch occupied the pegs on the feeder. The titmice hid in the leaves of nearby shrubs, waiting their turn. In two minutes the titmice came out and scattered the goldfinch in a yellow flurry up to their trees. How did they know? It was like clock work. Two minutes tops, and another genus came from hiding and scattered the titmice, taking their turn at the feeder.
"Steve likes you. That is plain." Jill said.
"No as much as he likes you."
"Well, he is my lover, after all. He did give you kiss," she said with a mischievous smile.
"What did you think of that?"
"What did you?"
"Nothing much. Just a spasm of sudden play, it seemed."
"That's what I thought. Just a way of saying thank you. I got a hell of a rush seeing you put your fingers around his cock and lead it to me."
"A spasm of sudden play on my part. Just as spontaneous as his kiss."
"Are you going to do that every time?"
"I have no idea."
"I hope you do."
"Why?"
"I was so...symbolic. You holding his hard cock and leading it to me. Like saying, 'I am giving my wife to you, take her.' No wonder he likes you." She laughed.
We watched the various groups of birds taking their turns at the hanging feeder, with clock work timing. How did they arrive at that cooperation in sharing?
"Every time, you asked. You are looking at a stretch of times."
"For sure I am. This is my Shangrila. An on-going affair with my lover with you beside me."
"Tell me, honestly, was it as good for you with me there as it was when you were alone with him?"
"Better with you there. I did nothing alone with him that you didn't see last night. I really can't imagine doing or saying anything alone with him that your presense would... hinder. No, the three of us together, that is the ultimate. You putting your hand on his cock and leading it to me, that is the ultimate." She shivered. "I just felt that same rush again!"
"You know, a couple of years back, when we were seriously talking about a hunt for a new man, I idly wondered if there was anything left in it that would be new for me. Three things, as it turned out. For the first time in my life a man's lips kissing mine. For the first time in my life I held another man's cock, albeit very briefly. For the first time in my life I had sloppy seconds."
Jill blushed. "Uggh, Jack. 'Sloppy seconds' sounds so dirty. I suppose I should apologise. I just got into it and forgot all about the condom. I don't think there's any reason to worry. About his clean bill of health I mean. Do you?"
"I don't think he's a risk," I said, with the confidence of having seen his medical records, which I couldn't tell her. "And since we are being so intimately honest, I got a strange rush of my own, feeling his sperm left in you."
"I knew you did! Or I thought you might have. They way you fucked me. And the sperm he left in me sounds so right. Not sloppy seconds," she admonished. She smiled, dreamily. "Let's do away with condoms from now on. I want to feel his sperm shoot into me every time he fucks me. That is a very special sensation for a woman. It is like a man is putting his signature on his creation. You both put your signatures in me. My lovers fill me to overflowing with their cum. Oh Jack!" She bounced and clapped her hands. "Let's do it!"
*****
Something new was with us. Steve Larsen, an evolved, sophisticated, worldly smoothie was the perfect threesome partner. But he was something more. He was Jill's lover. That concept made real infused our triad with substance that flushed her entire being into bloom and blossom. I analyzed the new reality in silent contemplation, and embraced it. She had fucked the other five partners with no reservations, and some of them brought her to orgasm, but they were never her lovers. Steve was. Because Jill wanted him to be, and was free to make him so. That was the culmination of my giving her the gift of going solo with Roger and Larry and Steve, and that gift had brought us back to the right place, sharing her with a bono fide lover on the same bed. She blossomed and bloomed. She was a beautiful aura in every prosaic day. She had a husband who was her love and life, and she had a lover.
*****
Our other threesomes had been widely spaced, due to logisticl circumstances, and also conscious deliberation. Too often would take the keen edge off the cutting excitement. At her age of fifty two and mine of forty nine, our children out on their own, and Jill the proud possessor of her very own lover, we had sex with Steve anytime the three of us wanted to. But there was no regular schedule. He, and we, lived our separate lives. Jill was usually the catalyst, needing her lover again. He fucked her on our bed, on LADY JILL when we went on an over night river cruise. One time she backed her ass to him and ground away, and he lifted her skirt and bent her over the kitchen table and fucked her from behind, standing. A powerful fuck. For me to see. She sucked him off anytime her deep personal need compelled her to do so. There was no schedule, no formal choreography. Jill and her lover, and I, let sexual impulse hold sway and have its way.
I did hold his cock and lead it to her, sometimes, when sexual impulse took pause and made it appropriate. It became something of a ritual, which Steve initiated the second time he joined us. In position on his knees, he put his hands on his hips, his bare cock jutting forward, and said, "Do the honors."
I was never certain what that meant to him. He might have liked the feel of my hand on his cock. But I strongly suspected his primary feeling was exactly the same as Jill had described, my symbolic giving him to her. Confirming he was her lover and privileged to fuck her. Jill experienced an emotional, erotic siesure each time I did so.
Condom free, Steve and I filled Jill with cum. And our cocks relished plunging into the respective signature pools, to do respective obliteration.
*****
Steve was a perfect partner, and lover for Jill. No restriction encumbered his sexual pleasure with her, nor his expressions of a deep, deep affection containing a measure of love for her. But he never crossed forbidden lines. He never presented even a hint of challenged to me. And Jill held a trump we never discussed, which governed all. She screamed out my name when I fucked her and took her to the heights of orgasm. She had never screamed the name of any other man, and she never did with Steve. She knew complete pleasure and bliss with him, and his fucking lifted her to powerful orgasms, but she never screamed out his name in her surrender to him. She could not. There was, and would always be, a place in her where Steve or any other man could not go. I was permanently in that place. Steve knew it. And he knew it by countless other signals that Jill gave off in "down time," so to speak, of normal, non-erotic togetherness.
*****
One evening Steve called to ask if he could drop by. He was in a chipper mood. He seated himself and launched into a conversation about swimming pools, and his sudden keen interest in having one to set off his patio. I gave all the pros and cons I knew. He suddenly paused and glanced about.
"Where's Jill?"