I was a bit preoccupied that evening. I remember one of the guys arrived late in the evening. Susan had taken a long bath and was wrapped in a short fuzzy robe. She went to the kitchen when she heard footsteps outside, and I saw two shapes go up the stairs. Later I found the robe on the kitchen floor. I remember making a pot of coffee and checking out what was on television. I don't watch much TV so it was a pointless exercise. But mostly I was thinking of the pregnancy issue and recalling the strange dreams I had experienced. I was thinking about two dozen more Black men. I was thinking about Mike, the large Black man with the gruff personality who was also a fine artist whose cock was so big Susan would never be able to take it in her ass. And of course, the centre of the entire combination of things, how all the pieces fit together, was my wife's body. Take away any mental or intellectual capacity and my wife was a multi-celled, self-lubricating organism designed (either by nature or some omnipotent being) for self-pleasure and the pleasure of other multi-celled organisms. It was a strange thought, and one I couldn't shake. The very purpose of her body was to reproduce itself in some form - a superior version of itself if the sperm donor was of high quality. From a basic, biological perspective, intelligence didn't even figure into it. My wife would be fucking countless men even if she didn't have a mind or a soul. In fact that would be her basic function, as it would be the basic function of all women.
And male humans would simply be the disposable tool, literally and figuratively, to complete the reproduction. I made a mental note to check that Susan was taking her birth control pills.
I must have fallen asleep on the couch. I opened my eyes, I guess, when I heard the kitchen door shut. I heard Susan in the kitchen a few minutes later, and then she was on her way back to the bedroom. She stopped at the foot of the stairs when she saw me.
"You still up, Hon," she asked. "It must be 2 a.m."
"I just woke up," I said. "I guess you're done?"
"Yeh, Jonah couldn't stay the night, which is a bummer."
She had one foot on the bottom step, paused with her hand on the railing. She started to go up, and then hesitated.
"Me getting pregnant. It's the only fantasy left, isn't it?"
"I guess so," I replied. "I think we've done everything else. Pretty much. You taking your pills?"
"If I was younger it would be something to consider, wouldn't it," she asked. "Yeh, I'm taking them."
"Yes, it would be the ultimate," I said, "especially with William and his crew, or whoever the next bunch turns out to be. A bit late now though."
"You know, I'm in good shape. I'm not worried about being too old to actually bring a baby into the world," she said. "I'm worried that we'd be too old as parents. We'd be practically senior citizens by the time the kid turned 15. That's what I wouldn't want. It wouldn't be fair. And we've been parents for more than 20 years already."
I agreed. I couldn't do it all over again. I was worn out in that regard.
"Okay, then, it's settled," she said. "Tell her we'll find room for the three extra guys and for that one week we'll have three beds in the carriage house."
"But we only have two spare rooms," I said. "One guy would have to sleep in the carriage house and that wouldn't be possible in the cold weather."
"Hon, you're not thinking straight," she said. "We have two spare rooms - and our bedroom. Don't you realize where the third guy will be sleeping? It can't be any other way. That's the only way you'd want it."
She continued upstairs but stopped again.
"Hon, you want to sleep up here tonight," she asked. "You can't use my cunt, but I'll let you cum in my ass. Everybody else is fucking my ass and I just realized you've never even had your cock in it."