This story is the sixth in a series. The stories are told roughly in sequence and each story assumes knowledge of the prior stories. Therefore, I recommend reading my stories "Kelli," "Kelli CH 02," "Kelli CH 03," "Kelli CH 04," and "Kelli CH 05" before reading this story.
This story is a work of fiction. The story depicts a world untouched by the corona virus. The virus is inescapable everywhere else. My intent here is to offer an escape. Hopefully, this story will continue to provide enjoyment when the virus is just a bad memory. In the meantime, I ask that my readers stay safe.
Real institutions are mentioned in this story, but they are used fictitiously. Insofar as the author knows, no real person affiliated with any of those institutions has ever behaved like the characters in this story. Any similarities between any character in this story and any real person are coincidental and unintended. Comments on this story, both favorable and unfavorable, are always welcome. Thank you for reading.
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I said in an earlier chapter that I tell you about our Pine Hills case. The case was important for Kelli and me. However, I realized that part of our story is more interesting to lawyers than to other readers. Suffice to say that an aspiring politician tried to launch his career by shutting down a Southern Ohio nude resort. Kelli and I got the case and kept the resort open. We acquired two new friends and clients: Cindy and Ryan Ryerson, the couple who managed the resort. We also achieved some prominence as lawyers serving the clothes-free community.
Shortly after getting the Pine Hills decision, we got bittersweet news. The woman who had been head coach of Robin's college gymnastics team retired. She was replaced by the assistant coach with whom Robin had been close. The new head coach offered Robin the vacant assistant's position. It was an offer Robin could not decline. To seal the deal, Brandt was offered a job on the university's athletic training staff.
Karla, Peter, Kelli, and I would miss Robin and Brandt, not least Robin's sexy athletic body. Worse, they moved out of our shared house while Kelli and I were in Germany. Kurt had made those arrangements before we knew Robin and Brandt would be leaving us. Robin and Brandt were gone when Kelli and I got back from Germany. Karla assured us that they were sent off properly. On their last night at our house, Karla fucked Brandt and Peter fucked Robin. I was a bit envious of Peter.
Kelli and I had talked a lot on the flight home about Kurt's offer to give us his bank's US legal work. We needed the money, but could we do the work? It was Kelli's idea to talk to Julia Minter. I knew Julia represented financial institutions. I had not spoken to her since our wedding eleven months earlier. I called Julia a couple of days after we got home.
"I have a bone to pick with you," Julia said when I called. "You got me to go naked at your wedding. I enjoyed it so much that I wanted to keep doing it. When I brought that up with Grant, he went batshit. He already disliked that my involvement with AFHF meant I saw a lot of other nude bodies. That I now wanted to show off my own nude body was too much. We separated just before the Holidays. The dissolution should be final soon."
"I'm sorry," I said.
"Don't be," Julia replied. "Grant and I want different things out of life. We papered over that for years. My going nude just stripped the paper away. It has hurt some, but I think it is a good thing overall. I'm a free woman, able to enjoy life before I'm too old to."
I explained Kurt's proposal to Julia. "Let me call some friends in D.C. and New York and see what I can find out about Kleist Bank," she said.
Julia called back a couple of days later. "My friends at Treasury say Kurt and his bank are squeaky clean," she said. "My friends in New York say Kleist does a lot of work with the big boys: Goldman, Chase, BOA. Wall Street sees Kurt as a mixed blessing. He does not let the big boys roll over him, but he brings clean money to the table. They know he will never get them in trouble. That's not true of too many people in big time finance."
"Did you get a feel for his legal needs?" I asked.
"Yes," Julia said. "Nothing too difficult but I expect it is a high volume of work."
My next question was something Kelli and I had agonized over. "Can you teach us?" I asked. We thought we knew where that question would lead. It was what Kelli and I had decided we wanted and needed.
"Do you guys go nude in the office?" Julia asked.
"Most of the time," I answered, "as does our office manager Karla. You met her at the wedding. She was one of Kelli's bridesmaids."
"Yes, I remember her," Julia said, "beautiful girl. What's your goal with your firm?"
"Right now," I replied, "we can't afford to be picky. The goal is to be a niche firm serving the clothes-free community."
"That's what I wanted to hear," Julia said. "Do you want a partner?"
"I was waiting for you to ask," I replied.
So, Lampe & Lampe, LLC became Minter, Lampe & Lampe, LLC. Julia started with us the Monday after Kelli's and my first wedding anniversary. She made an immediate impression.
Julia walked into our office her first morning in her woman lawyer's uniform: dark jacket and matching skirt, light blouse, hose, heels. Karla, Kelli, and I were already there wearing our office uniforms: bare skin. When Julia walked in, Karla told her, "you need to get those clothes off."
Julia stood in the center of the room, facing the three of us. "I've been looking forward to this," she said. She took off her jacket and draped it over a chair. She slipped off her shoes. Then, she pulled her blouse out of her skirt, unbuttoned it, and took it off. I was reminded that Julia had a lovely chest when she took off her bra and draped it over the chair. Julia smiled as she unhooked the hasp in the waistband of her skirt. The skirt fell to the floor. Julia wore pantyhose but no panties. It was a sexy look. She rolled the pantyhose down and pulled them off her feet. Then Julia took a step forward, turned her back to us, and bent over to pick up her clothes.
I had noticed at our wedding that Julia was much more attractive nude than in clothes. Over the intervening year, she had lost a little weight and had firmed herself up. Bent over showing her pussy and asshole, Julia was alluring. She straightened, put her clothes on the chair, and turned back to face us. She had transformed from an attractive woman in her forties to a woman who was beautiful age notwithstanding.
Damn," Karla said, "I'm straight and I think you look good enough to eat."
"You're always welcome to," Julia teased. "I've never given or received oral sex with another woman," Julia added. "Now that I'm completely free, I'd like to try it sometime."
We had told Kurt and Lisa that Julia was joining our firm. Kurt and Lisa still wanted to talk to Julia in person (they had just been introduced at our wedding) and wanted all of us to meet the Bank's primary lawyers in Munich. So, Kelli and I flew back across the Atlantic, this time with Julia, the week after Julia joined the firm.
We spent the day we arrived the Bank meeting the staff. The next morning, we were at the offices of Hoffmann u. Esch, the Bank's outside counsel. We met with the senior partner, Helmut Hoffmann, and the newest lawyer in the firm, Helmut's daughter Bettina. Herr Dr. Hoffman reminded me, a lot, of former West German chancellor Willy Brandt.
Bettina Hoffmann had wavy hair, a wide face, and big eyes. I guessed Bettina was the same age as Kelli and me. Her clothes gave no hints about her body. Her excellent English was not surprising, but her mastery of American idiom and slang was. That was explained when she said she received her bachelor's degree at the University of Chicago. I also learned that Bettina and I had been in college at the same time, albeit in different parts of Cook County, Illinois.
It soon became apparent that we were doing an audition. Apparently, Kurt wanted his general counsel to be comfortable with the new US counsel, especially since the change was from a huge New York firm to a three-lawyer firm in Cincinnati. Kelli and I tried to let Julia handle most of the technical questions. However, the Hoffmanns both made sure to put Kelli and me on the spot. We met with the Hoffmanns for over eight hours. It was not a relaxed day.
We finished about 6:00 on a Friday evening. I wanted nothing so much as food and a drink. However, Lisa was waiting for us outside the law office. She used her phone to make a quick call, to Kurt I assumed, when she saw us. Finishing her call, she told us "come!" We walked to the Bank but did not go inside. Instead, Lisa led us to the small parking garage behind the building. Kurt was waiting in his larger Mercedes.
Kurt fought with Munich traffic for about 45 minutes as we drove north. Just before we stopped, I thought I saw the silhouette of the 1972 Olympic Stadium nearby. We parked and walked another block and a half. We were headed for a building marked "Schimmhalle." "What are we doing?" I finally asked.
"There is coed clothing optional swimming here every Friday starting at 19:00," Lisa explained. "Kurt and I come here every Friday we're in town."
I looked at Kelli and Julia. "I'm fine with it," Kelli said. Julia smiled.
As we approached the door to the pool building, Lisa called out "Bettina!" Little more than an hour after grilling us in her father's law office, there was Dr. Bettina Hoffmann. Apparently, she was going swimming too.
Kurt paid for all six of us and we followed him into a changing room. There were little cubicles with doors you could go into to change. No one used those since everyone was just stripping naked. Kelli, Julia, Lisa, Bettina, Kurt, and I undressed side-by-side.
Before we picked up our towels to go out to the pool, Bettina took a step backwards, looked at us, and said, "I've seen Lisa and Kurt nude before. Julia, Kelli, Will, you all look great nude. You should go nude more often." Julia, Kelli, and I all got a smile out of that. Bettina did not know that we went nude more than we were clothed.