For a while it seemed Amy and I were, in nearly all respects, lucky relative to the rest of the world in seeing out the Covid 19 virus lockdown.
We lived on an acreage in Bayview Heights, a sparsely populated Sydney suburb. We had our own pool and tennis court and Amy her own horse to ride, so we weren't lacking fresh air or exercise, even if we missed our sailing. Shopping was tolerable at the nearby stores in Mona Vale.
Personally I felt blessed to have Amy as my lock down partner. Some relationships were strained by being confined in close proximity. Not ours. It deepened and developed. More and more I came to appreciate what a beautiful person she was; kind, generous, and thoughtful of others, brilliant and just plain good and entertaining company. And then there was the fact that, really for the first time, I got to see her professional side as she worked away in her home office. Her dedication to seeing to the needs of her clients astounded me. It was small wonder she was so successful, even if it did amuse me to see her working at her desk in one of her tiny bikinis, or even topless, as she spoke on the phone with her clients.
And while her need for sex may have increased exponentially during the lock down, she did everything she could to help an older man like me find the drive to satisfy those needs.
That's not to say we didn't miss the social aspect of life. I had kids and grandkids I had to communicate with only over Skype, all our friends were reduced to telephone calls and of course, most importantly, Liddy was trapped in New York, living with her daughter and their new baby. And Amy, an inherently social creature, certainly felt the pain of reduced human to human contact.
The on-line threesomes we'd engaged in, where I made love to Amy while Liddy used a dildo to stimulate herself and 3-D enhanced reality goggles to give her an Amy point of view of our love making, continued. It became like a weekly date to supplement our daily skype calls with Liddy.
I managed to get the girls to discard the bikini top as part of the routine, but the need for the bikini bottoms to hold Liddy's dildo in place continued, giving Amy an ongoing excuse to at least partly satisfy her fetish for bikini sex.
The passionate approach we'd used in the first episode of the enhanced reality virtual sex always struck me as the most effective. My exaggerated, whole body, thrusting of Amy, and the rag-dolling of her that produced, provided a visceral visual impact for Liddy that she reacted to as if it was actually her underneath me. Indeed, the way her body reacted to each thrust eventually itself became a complete exaggeration of what I was doing to Amy; every thrust lifting her hips up and throwing her whole body back up the bed. It was fun for me to watch it on the screen too; although I always had to remember that, if I looked up at Liddy on the screen, her point of view perception would actually be that I was looking away from her.
And the orgasms they produced for Liddy became ever increasingly intense. Indeed, she was getting more than a few "aw mum" complaints from her daughter about the noise.
But her needs went beyond that and we'd often experiment with something else. One Liddy seemed to like was nothing more than I would describe as intimacy. I'd lay deeply penetrated on Amy and just caressed and kissed her while lightly screwing my shaft around inside her.
It was certainly a lovely way to make love to Amy -- one of my favourites -- but even though I tried to make the screwing motion apparent through my upper body movements, I wasn't really sure why it worked so well for Liddy. After all, she didn't have my weight on top of her and couldn't actually feel it as I stroked Amy's hair, kissed her cheeks and bent down and drooled over her breasts.
For Amy it produced what, for once, were fairly clearly cervical orgasms; a rolling series of deeply felt, highly emotional, climaxes that, while obviously intense, didn't produce the almost manically screaming that more passionate sex draws from her. So Amy proved herself right in arguing against Ellen's suggestion that her continuous orgasms while I went the animal on her had to be cervically produced. It seems Amy is one of those rare women who just completely gets off on vaginal sex. Well, actually, if the truth be known, Amy seems to really get off on any sex at all.
But surprisingly, for me anyway, it also produced some pretty intense reactions for Liddy too. And with that giant, long, rabbit eared equipped dildo she was using, it was hard to tell just what was triggering them for her. Although, one time she squirted as the mid length expanding bulge in the dildo, that was clearly targeting her g spot, had the desired effect and triggered a massive g spot orgasm.
What, between the crotch being stretched by the handle of the dildo and the various discharges Liddy put into them, those poor tiny little black bikini pants of Liddy's copped a terrible hiding. Not the Amy's got off lightly either.
But the bottom line is that the way Liddy could react so powerfully, merely to the visual suggestion of intimacy, just shows the importance of the brain in sex.
The impact of the virus got a bit more real when, in the second wave of the pandemic in Australia, Harry, Ellen's husband and the father of her two young daughters, caught the virus and after a traumatic three weeks, died. He was a doctor at the hospital and working on the front line of treating patients.
It was more devastating still for Ellen, because he'd quarantined himself from her at an early stage, so Ellen had been denied much intimate contact with him in the months leading up to his death and none at all after he fallen sick. He had truly been a hero; knowingly risking himself to help others and it was unfair that the virus chose him as one of the unlucky fewer younger people to strike down.
Ellen was and is a strong woman. As much as she loved him and was dedicated to him, I don't doubt that, had she been left to herself, she would eventually have gone on to find another loving young man to act as a supportive step dad to her kids; and perhaps, given she was still young, give her more.
But she was played a crueller hand than that. As the first doctor to succumb, the press were all over the story of the hero medic and the left behind family. To back up the story they pulled a family photo off the internet.
It was a lovely family photo if viewed in a private or restricted setting. A handsome dad, beautiful mother and two gorgeous young daughters. Unfortunately, that was part of the problem. It had shown that he left behind a truly stunningly beautiful wife who, no doubt, was perceived to be vulnerable by some.
I'd taken that photo on Ellen's phone. Harry had come down to the marina with the daughters to pick up Ellen after an afternoon of her crewing on my yacht in a beer can race. She was dressed, as she always was around me, in a variation of her 'fuck me' clothing. The reason for that goes back in history, but rest assured it had nothing to do with any likelihood of carnal activities between us.
In this case, she had nothing more on than her white micro mini A line skirt and one of her small bikini tops, with the flare of the skirt lifted by a gust of wind to show even more leg and just how little she had on underneath.
It was a stunning photograph of her. Like my late wife, Ellen had carried her two babies as if she had simply stuffed a basketball up her t shirt for the duration of her pregnancy and taken it out at the end; no additional weight and with her stomach bouncing back to its slim, flawless perfection within two months after she'd given birth. Still breast feeding at the time, and indeed on her way to give her youngest a catch up feed when the photo was hastily taken, her breasts were swollen to impressive proportions and slung teasingly by the bikini top. With her long legs, clear alabaster skin and naturally blonde long hair blowing wistfully in the wind, she was the perfect image of a Nordic supermodel on a professional photo shoot. Indeed, the whole thing looked like some advertising executive had brought together in one place for a photo shoot some idealistic, too perfect to be true, Northern Beaches family; which is probably why Harry had posted it.
Harry and Ellen had never been security conscious. In Australia, it's not that necessary and they didn't regard themselves as significant enough to draw attention. So their phone number and address were readily searchable.
The phone calls to their house started that same evening; suggestive calls, heavy breathing, at home in the middle of the day and in the dead of night. You name it, she had it. Plus Ellen had the sense there were people watching her house.
Clearly she couldn't stay there by herself, so she moved to her parents' house in Narrabeen. But it was a small three bedroom house which didn't really fit the extended family, which included an Italian au pair who, given what was happening in her country and Ellen's on going need for help while she continued her own medical practice, had become as trapped in Australia as much as Liddy was in New York. Nor did it provide a space for Ellen to run her on line medical practice from. When, after several months, her parents were clearly becoming impatient with the young granddaughters constant presence, Ellen knew she had to move again.
In some ways, my place was perfect. Because I'd purchased it as it was, I don't know how it came to be designed and built, but it always struck me that the house was like two standard houses joined together. It had three wings. The first two were in a U shape; master bedroom and on suite at one end, two bedrooms and another bathroom at the other, with the base of the U being an enormous living and dining room and kitchen. But sort of bolted to that was like a whole another house which flowed from one end of the base. It had you walk through a lockable door into a partly fitted out kitchen (sans cooktop and oven), then through a living room and then a corridor containing three bedrooms and a bathroom. And all double brick to minimise noise transmission.
That extra wing would give Ellen just enough room for her family and an au pair, plus an office out of which to work and let her quarantine herself should she wish or she could extend into the spare wing of the main part of the house for more room if required.