Chapter 1
"You drive a hard bargain," I said, taking a long sip of my drink.
"I saved your butt on this one and you know it," Christine said. "It's time to pay up."
Christine and I worked for the same bank. She was the branch manager at a location on the opposite side of town from my bank, where I served as an assistant branch manager. We went through orientation together and had remained friends for the past five years.
A few months ago I approved a loan that totally backfired on me and it would have been career threatening if Christine hadn't pulled some strings behind the scenes to get me out of a very bad situation. I told her at the time that I'd do anything to thank her for allowing me to stay employed.
Unfortunately, now she was aware of Chad, a gorgeous, young teller at my bank who I'd gone out with more than once following my divorce. Christine was in her early thirties and Chad was in his early twenties. But I swear she looked his age and he looked hers. To put it bluntly, Christine was a babe; long blonde hair, perfect tits and ass, and legs that made me sick.
I think she guessed that Chad and I were having sex, which was true. Great sex, I might add. Now, she was using Chad as a bargaining chip.
We were sitting in O'Neal's, my favorite spot to unwind after work.
"You're asking me to 'give' you one of my employees...for your own personal pleasure? Isn't that, like, against company policy or something?" I argued.
"Wasn't that bogus loan against company policy?" She knew she had me. She drank her beer and waited for an answer.
"How do you know Chad will even want to meet you?"
Christine laughed out loud. "God, Rachel. Didn't you see him the first time I was in your office? I thought he was going to jump right over the counter and do me on your desk."
My mind instantly went back to the stormy evening that Chad did exactly that to ME. God, what a fuck. I was really torn now because I hated to lose the best lover I'd ever had to Christine, but I also wanted her to experience what he was capable of doing with his incredible cock.
"Well, he acts that way around EVERY female," I said without much conviction.
"I'm not every female," Christine said. "And I want his body. I think it's the least you can do for a friend—a friend who saved your career. Just set us up and let me take care of the rest."
There was no getting out of this one. It was simply a matter of finding the least painful way to get Chad and Christine together. I would have to think about it. Maybe—just maybe—we could all benefit from this.
Chapter 2
"Hey, Chad. Do you have a minute before you go?"
I waited at my office door for his nod of confirmation, then sat at my desk until he strode in. He looked his usual impeccable self, even at the end of a long work day.
"What's up?" he asked.
"Close the door," I said. "Sit down.
"Do you remember Christine Payne from the other day? She's the manager of the Elm Street branch...blonde, beautiful." He was nodding his head before I even finished.
"Yeah, I remember."
Like there was any doubt. "Would you like to meet her? Socially?"
The look on his face was priceless. I could see the wheels spinning in his head. He had to wonder why I, of all people, was offering to set him up with a beautiful woman. But if he had any second thoughts about this ending our 'relationship', he didn't show it.
"Uh, yeah," he said. "Sure."
I shouldn't have expected anything else, but it was kind of deflating all the same. I mean, I'm thirty, have a great body, and am described as 'cute' by most people. And here's my latest partner taking no more than two seconds to decide he'd be more than glad to cheat on me just because I suggested it. The nerve of this dude!
"Good," I said with as much enthusiasm as I could muster. "I'll set it up and get back to you. Or she will. I'll talk to her."
"What brought this on anyway?" he asked, looking a little less confused.
"She saw you the last time she was here and mentioned you to me. We're friends so I said, 'Do you want to go out with him?' She said, 'Yeah' and here we are. It's that simple," I said, leaning back in my chair knowing it was far from that simple.
"Thanks. I owe you," he said. "Is that all?"
I let him go home, while I sat in my office and repeated his words in my head over and over: 'I owe you.' Damn right you do. Now if I could only keep track of who owed what to whom.
Chapter 3
"Cool. Thank you for talking to him," Christine said.
We sat in the family room of my house on a Saturday afternoon for the sole purpose of finalizing the plans on how to get Christine and Chad together. But, it was always nice to get with Christine away from the work environment. She looked stunning, of course, in her designer jeans and top. Sometimes I felt so inadequate around her.
"No problem. So how and when do you want to do this?" I asked.
"I've been thinking about this." Christine took a drink and looked over at me as if preparing either herself, or me, for her next thought. "You certainly don't have to agree to this if you don't want to. I'd understand."
"God, Christine. Just say it."
"Well, I thought maybe you could just invite Chad over here one day and we could all...you know, all be here together."
"And...," I said after a short pause.
"And see what happens," Christine said timidly.
I stared at her, considering all the possible meanings of her suggestion. The only one that kept floating to the top of the list was 'threesome'.
"I thought you wanted to take Chad out?" I said.
"I do. But I don't want it to interfere with our friendship. I thought the best way to handle that would be if we could both, you know, see him at the same time."
"You mean date him at the same time?" I asked.