It's been a while since the last chapter in this series. Partly writer's block and a little bit of not being quite happy enough with how I'd approached this story.
To remind or bring up to date those less engaged with these characters, 5 years before this story began Ned and four attractive women - three of them nearly half his age - landed back in Australia after cruising Ned's yacht through the Pacific. The story of their highly erotic cruise is contained in my Unexpected Threesome series.
Two of the women stayed with Ned; Amy a now 35 year old accountant originally from the UK and Liddy a now nearly 60 doctor from New York who got trapped there by Covid closedowns while visiting her children and grandchildren.
The other two got married and had children, although keeping in close contact with Ned and often still crewing on his yacht in races. One of those was Ellen, who's doctor husband died in the second wave of COVID while on the front line of treating affected patients. An unfortunately overly attractive photo of his family in the press while praising the hero doctor caused Ellen to attract unwanted attention and flee back to the safety of Ned's large house.
After a period there, Amy arranged for Ellen to rejoin the intimacy of Ned's polygamous family.
But there was some sacrifice for Amy in arranging that and this is her story.
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Ned and Ellen are my closest confidents. But as they've both observed, I like talking to people and can be a bit uninhibited about what I reveal, especially as I get to know them. Our neighbour on the Northern boundary of our acreage - Shirley - comes closest to being the one I chat the most with. And given the my orgasmic screaming noises that she hears emanating from the pool area as a starting point to her curiosity, there's little in the way of my sex life with Ned she hasn't had some download on. It was her who put the question directly to me...
"Why would I arrange to bring Ellen back into Ned's bed when I effectively had him all to myself? Don't I get jealous?"
Of course, what she hears from the pool area represents just the start of my sexual demands on Ned. Ned's a 65 year old guy who has to satisfy the overblown sexual demands of a woman nearly half his age - me.
Two to three times a day was the norm.
And I should add, while everyone calls it screaming, it's really just very, very loud moaning. Well, maybe with a string of very loud profanities added each time I actually climax. OK, and sometimes when it's a really good one my voice might slip into the high pitched register of actual screaming; enough to have a hotel manager called on Ned and me when I got carried away while staying there. And I admit, I quite often have very good ones.
That aside, the answer to the first part of Shirley's question was simple enough. Ellen is my best friend. When her husband Harry died as a hero doctor on the front line of the COVID epidemic, she had a multifaceted need.
It was obvious to me from the time she, her kids and au pair moved into the guest wing of Ned's large house. I suppose I might have even known it before. But it became inescapably obvious to the point it couldn't be ignored any longer when Ellen, as we were lying down in our bikinis, talking on the pool sun lounge, started dry humping my leg and eventually asked me to finger her to what turned out to be a massive, highly emotional, orgasm.
There were many emotional and physical aspects to that need; they weren't all sexual, even if much of it was intractably inter-wound with the sexual, intellectual and emotional frission that has always existed between her and Ned. It was a frission largely submerged in their day to day interaction and physical relationship while she was one of the Screw Girls on the yacht and in Ned's house afterwards before she meet Harry. But once she loving hitched her life and love to Harry, the frission hung in the air like lightening in a thunderstorm every time they were together.
Harry tolerated it, and even facilitated it, because for all its power, he knew Ellen was a one man woman who loved him deeply and neither she nor Ned were going to cross the marriage boundary. Plus, he joking admitted, because he got the best, most wildest sex ever on the nights after Ellen had joined the rest of the Screw Girls on a day out with Ned; whether on the yacht or at a social at his place.
But the bottom line was, all the aspects of Ellen's need had one solution. Because of her history with him, Ned was it. I simply couldn't deny her that. I had not the slightest desire to do so, whatever impact it might have on me.
As to the jealously, well, that's a more complex issue.
Have I turned into some green eyed monster who resents every moment Ned spends fucking Ellen? No, I can safely say that's not the case; whether she has him alone or I'm sharing him with her in a threesome. Besides, a threesome can often be more fun and exciting than a couplet.
Has it adversely affected the friendship between Ellen and myself? Definitely not. Our friendship started when we first shared him on the yacht. Indeed, I was the one who invited her aboard and into Ned's bed. Nothing has changed in that now.
But in a reversion to what happened when we were first sharing Ned on the yacht and back in his house after we returned to Australia, something has changed. I can feel it and Ned is bearing the consequences of it. Even if I can't fully describe why, its physical manifestation is clear. My sexual demands on Ned have increased from their previously already excessive level. And I can't deny, there might be some trace of some primitive urge to sexual competitiveness and possessiveness in that.
While there might be an economy of scale in a threesome when it comes to satisfying sexual needs, the fact is that both Ellen and I like our one on ones with him too. Between us we are working Ned harder than any porn star; and I'm definitely the most demanding of the two of us.
I know it. I even feel a bit guilty about it. But the need arises so deep inside me, I can't really control it. And while Ned can keep - if you'll forgive the expression - rising to the occasion, there's not a lot of pressure on me to do so.
I've analysed my sexual obsession and some of the fetishes that accompany it, as much as I'm sure the others have. There's no doubt it flows from the 10 years of an abusive relationship I suffered under Frank. But I don't like to make too much of that. If Ned thinks he's taking advantage of me in a damaged state after that relationship, it inhibits him. And that's the last thing I want.
But quite apart from the physical abuse I suffered under Frank, he set out to persuade me I was physically repulsive; that I was lucky that he could even get it up to have sex with me, let alone indulge in his frequent rapes of me.
The sex and rapes were so loveless and rough that it was Ned who gave me my first ever orgasm. Why I found not the slightest feeling of any pleasure in any sex with Frank - ever during the 10 years I was with him - but Ned can easily trigger every erogenous zone in a woman's body for me, giving me clit orgasms, g spot orgasms, cervical orgasms, nipple orgasms, vaginal ones that I can't trace back to a specific site, and even just something I can only describe as emotional ones, I don't know. But his loving intimacy can easily keep me screaming in pleasure, in a state of constant and repetitive climaxes, throughout our frequent loving making sessions.
Ned says he's just an average lover and it's my body that's super responsive to even normal stimulation. I'm less persuaded. Where our opinions come together is that feeling loved and appreciated after so long may have a lot to do with it. Women's sexual response starts in the brain.
And yet, that simple truism has never really satisfied me.
Frank first won me by radiating charm and confidence; both of which I later came to realise were shallow veneers. I was 18 and still a virgin, although full of lustful thoughts. So I didn't start out with a negative view or being fearful of him. Far from it.