One morning Lana came into the greeting room and sat next to Henry while he set up shop for the day's appointments.
"We need to talk, Henry."
"Sure, what's up?"
"I think we need to get a divorce."
He looked at her in partial shock because their marriage was compartmentalized in the 'not now' drawer in his head and, being honest with himself, he knew it would bring up feelings he didn't want to address.
"You and Abby are a thing and I've been seeing more of Jim and it doesn't make any sense to stay married. We don't have to change a lot and you can keep the house and we keep a working relationship. And we're friends, Henry...we'll always stay friends."
"Yes, I want that...but can we wait? It's too hard to look at right now. Please?"
She tried to lighten up the subject. "I'll still let you be my voyeur. Every girl needs one. Hehe."
"Please can we wait? I'm changing a lot, it's freaking me out and it feels like too much right now. I know we have to do it but emotionally I'm not ready. Please, for now?"
"Jim predicted you wouldn't want to do it. He said you're a pussy."
"Tell him he's a dick."
"Well at least you two have that in common. Okay we'll let it slide for now. By the way, Henry, why DO you get off watching me have sex?"
"It's...my kinky side...I guess. You're just so smokin' hot and I can't take my eyes off the monitor and without thinking I'm suddenly jerking off and I have to get the rug cleaner."
"Thanks. I'll take that as a compliment."
"You're welcome."
She came over and kissed him on the cheek.
"What's that for?" he asked, searching around for the rug cleaner.
"That's for being a wonderful mess who's really trying to be a better person. Not many people are willing to face change and I love you for that."
He stopped fussing around and just looked at her. His chest heaved and he didn't know whether to speak or run away and hide.
***
As he worked on the client spreadsheet for the week he made himself chuckle that the word 'spreadsheet' had a wider meaning in this place. After that came a cavalcade of puns and he was laughing out loud when Abigail came bouncing into the room and onto his lap. "What's so funny?"
"Oh, nothing...just my brain entertaining me with silly shit. What can I do for you?"
"Just came by to tell my boyfriend I number two him..."
"I number two you too, my beautiful princess."
"...and ask about my schedule today."
"Well leading off at 10:30 is Mr. Entertainment Toes followed by Mr. Fast Fuck at noon."
Mr. Entertainment Toes was a guy with a foot fetish who was mad about Abby's tiny feet and would suck on her toes while she jacked him off. Every time he came it was the same arc of action and always ended with her taking his dick between her feet and jerking him to climax. Lying on her back to do this, his cum would fly wildly, usually hitting her in the chest and part on the bed spread.
Mr. Fast Fuck was pretty much that, a guy who came in the door breathing fire at horny level 10. He hurriedly took off his pants, tore her panties off and penetrated her before she could say, "Hi". He only fucked her missionary because he'd prematurely ejaculate and they never made it to another position. He pulled up his pants and was usually out the door in no more than 15 with 45 still on the meter.
"And then at one I'm taking you to lunch at the new Greek place. We'll go over your late afternoon itinerary at lunch. Any questions?"
"Nope! Excuse me, I have to go polish my toenails for my 10:30." And off she went up the stairs, yelling back, "I number two you!"
Abigail had, by her own account, a terrible upbringing and one morning in bed she told Henry this was the first time she'd ever been happy.
Remembering her saying that, he vowed to himself, "Don't ever let her down or I will punch you in the face."
***
The knock at the back door didn't seem to coincide with the known schedule but that didn't account for referrals so...
"Edgar! What's up?"
"Can we talk?"
"Sure," he said unsure of where this might be heading.
"That time I spent with Lana...I...I need more of that."
"Ya, you and a hundred other guys."
"What I'm saying, Henry, is I've been sexually dead for so long I didn't even realize what was missing. Jean is done but I feel like I'm just awakening."
"You can always jerk off or make an appointment with Lana."
"Henry, I'm on a fixed income. How an I supposed to generate that kind of money? I thought that we could work something out since I'm part of the team."
"Let me talk with Lana and the girls and maybe we can work something out."
Edgar left and passed Kenny coming in for his 10am with Candy. Kenny was the handsome handyman who installed Abby's blinds when they moved in. He booked time with the girls on occasion at a cut rate based on the work he had done for them over the years. He particularly had a thing for Candy and she him.
It wasn't until he took off his clothes for the first time they saw how tattoos covered quite a bit of his body. In addition, he liked to impress Candy with his chiseled work out physique. He eventually had her name tattooed on the inside of his thigh, very near his balls, so that she would see it when she went down on him.