When I got to Mary's condo I was happy to find that Matthew was there. The smell of sex and a bit of a flush and puffiness in Mary's face indicated that I might be able to get a bit of a breather tonight.
Funny, I thought, going from sex-starved addict to burned out in less than a week. Of course, thanks to Gloria and SAA I had been out of practice for the past 4 months, and I was looking at the big three-oh not that far off. Still, I could remember - ah well.
Martha, as usual, had been working on school papers at the kitchen table. She gathered those together and asked if I wanted any food. I really appreciated that she asked me what I needed first. I told her that if there were any left-over pierogies, I'd take them. She got them out and started nuking them, then asked Mary and Matthew if hey wanted anything. They dragged themselves off the sofa where they'd been cuddling, and said they might could go for some paczki. Once the microwave dinged, Martha pulled out my food, put it and some white wine and bottled water on the table and everyone sat down. Pretty clearly they all wanted to hear what had gone on in my meeting, but they had the decency to let me eat and get some energy back. Later Martha told me that when I came in I was looking "a little worn," which probably meant I looked like shit. That might have accounted for the kid gloves treatment.
When I was done eating, I sat back and said, "Your old man says that he'll keep hands off as long as we meet his conditions."
Then I filled in the rest of the details. When I got to the part about him offering the services of the firm that does his security, and offering to send us to people he knew if we wanted help with the business plan, Mary and Martha looked at each other. I didn't catch the signal, but apparently they decided that Martha would do the talking.
"John, you did good. In fact, you did great. Neutral was as much as Mary and I had hoped for. That bit about the security and being willing to refer us to people is a lot more than neutral. Coming from Jack Doe, that's huge."
Mary got up and came around the table, bent over and planted a big wet kiss on me. When she broke she said "Thank you. Maybe I can do more to say that later tonight."
"Mary, I appreciate the thought, but tonight I would just disappoint you. Maybe in the morning, if you all will let me get to sleep soon."
After I turned Mary down she went back to the couch to pout and I summoned what was left of my energy to keep the ball rolling.
I turned to Martha and said, "Maybe while Matthew is wiping that pout off Mary's face you could make some phone calls. Better not call Luke at home, but get a message on his answering machine or service or whatever and tell him that Mr. Smith from Milwaukee is going to be in town for tomorrow only and needs a meeting in the office at 4pm to be continued at a business dinner. I figure that will buy him about four hours to get together here.
"Then call Thomas and tell him he needs to be here at the apartment at 4:30. Tell him whatever it takes to get him here. I know, tell him his blood work is clean and the caps are off." Well, maybe it was true. I'd seen mine this afternoon, hadn't I? "And tell him I met with Jack and that things are looking good, so if he wants to he can stash his sons at a nearby restaurant until the grown-ups are done talking, then bring them in."
Then I turned to Matthew and said,"I sure hope you don't have a heavy schedule of pastoral duties after your noon service tomorrow, because you need to be here at 4:30. I think that this is where the rubber is going to hit the road."
Matthew, who had been looking at Mary while she gave him one of those tongue swipes that Miley Cyrus likes to do, looked up and said, "No problem." Then he went back to staring at Mary.
I puled out the check that had been burning a hole in my jacket pocket ever since I left the Doe building. "Oh, one more thing," I said as I leaned over so that Mary could reach it.
She looked down, took the check, looked at it closely, and said, "What's this?"
I said "Clearly, a check for a million dollars." Matthew sat up very straight, while Martha got up and came around to stand beside Mary.
"Yeah, I can see that," said Mary. And I can see it's made out to you. So what's it for?"
"That, my little chickadee," I said in a very bad WC Fields voice, "is to buy me off. Seems your dad suspected I might be a gold digger and this was his way to make me stop digging. Man in his position, I guess he thinks the carrot is better than the stick. Sticks are messy, and remember what I said about people with so much money that the amount is meaningless to them."
"But he made it out to you and you're still here."
"Yeah, in the quickly fading flesh, and your dad is now trying to figure whether I'm working a long con instead. He says he's looking forward to seeing how this plays out. Actually, it was the one time in our meeting that he seemed kind of amused. Now, turn it over."
She did, and she and Martha looked at it closely. Mary said, "You mean this is mine?"
"Yes," and then "Whoa!" as I came out of my seat faster than I'd known I could. "For Christ's sake, don't tear that up!"
"Why not? You said it's mine. I've got my own money from my trusts and my business. I don't want his."
"Mary, that's great. I appreciate your spirit, but in case you haven't noticed our project is a bit short of being fully funded right now. And even if we solve that ourselves and you never cash it, just think what a great piece of wall art it will make. I'd even be willing to go in halves for a little frame."
By this time Matthew had also gotten a good look at the check. "Gosh, I've never seen one that big before. Can I hold it?"
Mary burst out laughing and said, "Hey, that's supposed to be my line."
After we'd all had our yucks about that, I got up and headed off toward my bed in Martha's apartment. Martha headed toward the phone in the kitchen, and Mary and Matthew followed me as far as her bedroom, moving even more slowly than I was because they were busy undressing each other as they walked. I managed to shuck my clothes, pee and brush my teeth before falling into bed, but it was a close run thing. I was asleep before my head landed on the pillow.
When I woke up I thought I was having the blow job dream again, but this time it turned out I really was getting a blow-job.. Sensing I was awake, Martha took her mouth off my cock and said, "Good morning. We both kind of missed out on the fun last night. How about a quickie before work?"
"Yeah," I said, then "I mean yes, please. But first I really need to go to the bathroom. Give me a minute."
When I get back from the bathroom Martha was on her hands and knees.
"Come over here and let me stiffen that up for you, then I want you to fuck me doggy fashion."
I didn't need to be told twice. Soon her mouth had me rock hard again, and I went around the bed and crawled up behind her. Her cunt was already wet, and as I sank into her she let out a big sigh.
"Fuck me hard," she said, "but try not to get there. I want to finish you off with my mouth."
Whatever she said she wanted, Martha was doing her best to make me come, pushing back at me as I thrust into her, getting more and more vocal as she worked herself up toward her orgasm. They say that if you have premature ejaculation problems you're supposed to think about other things, so I thought about my meeting with Jack Doe yesterday, and how he'd pretty much declared himself judge, jury and executioner for my balls if things didn't go as he wanted with Mary. That worked, barely.