For a couple of days after the last evening with Kayla, and despite the almost overpowering thrill which it had generated, all three of us had perhaps predictably, found ourselves somewhat ill at ease in each other's company.
We were of course, nervous as to the consequences of our getting so carried away with lust that evening when Kayla had been shared between Jake and me. That first experience of Kayla had been exciting in the extreme - thrilling to the point where I'd almost completely lost control of my shaking hands.
Yet now the aftermath of worry and doubt about what had occurred was temporarily dampening our pleasurable recall of the event.
Fortunately, the subsequent progression of events over the next few weeks was to eventually lead to our discovering a deeper and infinitely more satisfying arrangement than any of us could possibly have foreseen. This was almost certainly brought about as a result of our refusing to let matters fester in our minds unattended and instead, we 'took the bull by the horns' so to speak, and held an open discussion during which we freely expressed our innermost feelings and shared individual reactions.
It was truly cathartic and just as it had been with Greg and me after we'd shared my wife some years before, an open recognition of how we felt had immediately reduced both the tension and the worries and put the situation into a proper perspective.
With considerable initial reluctance on both of their parts Jake and Kayla had eventually managed to rationalise things through truly frank discussion. They'd taken the first step by revealing with gradually increasing detail - the secret erotic fantasies which each had harboured from the other for so long.
But before this and sensing initial reluctance on Kayla's part, I thought that perhaps the example of my own previous experience might persuade her that all was not actually lost as a result of what had happened - and that it might even expand her mind into accepting the thrilling possibilities which could follow.
I explained to her how some years before, a mildly inebriated wife and I had got so carried away with wine and lust one afternoon, that events had taken their course with a close friend - and as a result, Mandy and I had subsequently enjoyed an intermittent and intensely thrilling sexual relationship with Greg which had lasted for over ten years until we'd moved away.
Understandably, this really surprised Kayla and she asked me - was I not insanely jealous of someone else being so intimate with my wife, even when it involved a guy who was as close a family friend as I had described?
I explained that not long after he first came to work for me, Greg himself had got married - albeit that he later confessed to me when drunk one evening, that it was to a wife whose post-marriage interest in sex had turned out to embrace a reluctant maybe-once-a-week routine which left him entirely unsatisfied and increasingly frustrated.
I knew from the first time they'd met that Greg was strongly attracted to my young and very beautiful lady and I also recognised that the attraction appeared somewhat deeper than that of any of my other friends - none of whom had ever tried to hide how hot they found her, or how they'd jump at the chance to bed her. Whilst all their aims tended to be a basic physical lust, I sensed that there was more involved in Greg's attraction to my wife-to-be. Yet for some reason which I didn't quite understand at the time, I never felt he posed any threat to our future marriage. Perhaps it was because he appeared a sensitive person who always showed enormous respect to both of us.
Having soon discovered not long after Greg started working for me that he had a fine sense of right and wrong, I suspect he was quite concerned at how he felt about another man's young wife and this probably guided his initial reluctance to follow it up with any attempt at taking it further. Nonetheless, as time went on, I did notice him occasionally flirting with Mandy when he thought I wasn't looking - yet to my surprise, I found myself increasingly turned on whenever she failed to discourage him.
I explained to Kayla that when I'd laughingly asked Mandy about their flirting, she'd denied any interest absolutely and played it all down as simple and harmless 'social flirting' - the type of thing which many wives and girl-friends often indulge.
On one occasion, after I'd gone to the bar for another round in the pub one evening, she did tell me later that while I was away from the table, Greg had been sufficiently inebriated to quietly whisper his lust for her and had even nervously hinted at the possibility of a meeting on their own.
I immediately became extremely excited at thought of what might have happened next and wanted to know more.
Frustratingly for my newly developed fantasy however, Mandy said she'd immediately turned the idea down and pointedly tried to lighten their conversation by telling him that she was happy in her relationship with me and didn't foresee any need to augment her sexual life with the inclusion of an affair - secret or otherwise. Further, she told him that if she did ever feel the wish to have a liaison such as he'd suggested, it would most definitely have to be conducted a long way away from home, because she'd never want to hurt me in any way.
Despite his inebriation, and in light of his later approaches, I suspect Greg had picked up on my wife's use of the word 'if' when referring to any distant relationship and that there'd been no suggestion anyone else might be involved other than him. Her hint, in so far as I was concerned, was that there could very well be a later possibility and I felt a further frisson of excitement at the thought of Mandy enjoying Greg's cock at some time in the future.
I went on to explain to Kayla that I'd developed an increasingly strong arousal each time I thought of Greg having my wife; but despite various attempts to encourage her into investigating things further and perhaps even letting Greg feel her up when dancing together, Mandy had been absolutely adamant in her refusals and at one stage had become quite agitated with disbelief that I could possibly want another man to kiss her - let alone fondle her, or even worse, that I should suggest she should let him go still further.
Anyway, things calmed after that and we had duly got married. So it was not until a year or so later that things changed one afternoon after a particularly heavy lunch, when we forayed into a spontaneous threesome with Greg.
In cold afterthought, I had at first been deeply worried that our lustful behaviour might have caused a problem between Mandy and me. I was further worried lest Greg may have become more emotionally involved as a result.
Fortunately (I told Kayla), and once the inevitable nervous post-event discussion had taken place, Mandy and I had opened up our thoughts to each other and were reassured to discover that nothing seemed likely to pose any threat to our own relationship - on the contrary, it seemed to have added spice to our sex life.
We were however, obviously unaware how it may have affected Greg.