John could hear his cell phone ringing, but he couldn't figure out where the sound was coming from. It took a couple of rings for him to remember that he would rather the call go into voice mail, anyway. He had had voice-mail on his old home phone for twenty-five years, and he had only given up the landline six months ago when he moved to this apartment, but old habits die hard.
A few minutes later, he found the phone in his jacket pocket and checked for messages. Immediately, he was glad that he had let voice mail pick it up. The call was from his son Ryan. Which normally wouldn't be such a big deal. But he hadn't spoken to his son for a month.
Not since before he had started fucking Ryan's wife.
Nevertheless, he fiddled with the icons until he brought up the message for playback. "Hey dad," came the voice. "It's Ryan. So I was wondering... well, Michelle and I were... we were hoping you would like to come over for a visit again sometime soon. Like... maybe one of the next couple of weekends? Or whenever. Just... well, call me back. Okay? Thanks. Bye."
He listened to it twice. His son's voice did seem a little shaky, a little uncertain. Which made sense. Michelle had assured him that his son knew what was going on. Apparently they had a kinky arrangement; she had Ryan's permission to sleep with other men. He even seemed to enjoy it, according to Michelle. Well, he could get his head around that. The idea that she had chosen to seduce her husband's father -- that he had allowed it to happen, had gratefully and then greedily enjoyed his own son's wife, sexually -- well, he still hadn't completely reconciled that part of it.
He knew that at some point he would have to engage with his son again, but he was glad that he hadn't picked up the phone and been thrust unprepared into a conversation. He would probably have sounded even more nervous and uncertain than Ryan had in his message.
At least by being the one to initate the return call, he would have time to get his wits about him. Still, he wasn't eager to jump in to it. On the other hand, a trip to his son's house meant seeing Michelle again, and he liked the idea of that. He wondered... would he be able to have sex with her, there, under her husband's own roof? He felt himself thickening and stiffening inside his trousers at the thought.
So instead, he scrolled through the numbers in his phone and found his daughter-in-law's number, and sent her a text. "Are you free to talk?" he asked.
A few minutes later she called him back. "Hey there," he said. "Are you where you can talk?"
"Yes," she replied. "I'm out on the patio. Ryan's inside."
"Okay. So, he called me this morning."
"Uh huh."
"Good, so you know. He invited me over."
"Yes, I know," she replied, sounding ever-so-slightly impatient. "That was my idea." Then, in a more conspiratorial tone, she added, "He told me he just left a message. So how did he sound?"
John breathed a sigh of relief and chuckled. "Pretty nervous," he admitted. "So... he absolutely knows what we've been doing, right?"
"Oh, he knows," Michelle assured him.
"Hmmm," he replied. "And, um, I gather... I hope... we'll get a chance to do some more of that... when I visit?"
"In your son's house?" she asked, in mock surprise.
"Well... yeah."
"I'm counting on it."
John exhaled loudly. "Good. And... he knows that, too?"
"I'm pretty sure he assumes it. Keeping him off-balance is part of the fun."
"It's going to be... weird."
"That's part of the fun, too. Remember... we're three consenting adults, playing a kinky game."
"All right then," John agreed, shaking his head. "Next weekend?"
***
I hung up the phone and walked back to the bedroom. Michelle was already in bed, reading, wearing an oversized t-shirt. And what else, under the sheets, I couldn't tell.
"Okay," I told her. "He's coming next weekend."
"I'm sure he will be," she teased. I quivered.
"So how did he sound?" she asked.
"Umm... a little... unsettled. Probably not as much as I did," I admitted. My head had been spinning ever since she had made this suggestion, this inevitable next progression in our unthinkable adventure.
"Good," she smiled. "You know he'll be sleeping in this bed, don't you?"
I was expecting that, but I still felt a little jolt.
"It's what you want, isn't it?"
I swallowed hard. I couldn't deny it, but I couldn't say the words. I just nodded.
"Are you excited right now?"
I nodded again. I was. I was as physically aroused as the now-ubiquitous cage would allow.
"So am I," she informed me. "God, I can't wait."
"I... I could help you with that," I said, hopefully.