After Lori's encounter with Marcus at the lab, she went back to the nurses' station and ran into Donna, who was reading charts on a screen. She was alone.
Lori sat down next to her and whispered to her, "I just ran into your friend..."
Donna smirked without turning to look at her and said, "Oh? And how did that go?"
Lori told her about the quick conversation in the lab, his flirting with the young lab tech behind the counter, his offer for "coffee" and her shutting him down telling him she was married.
Donna laughed and said, "Oh, you're in trouble now, girlfriend. He loves little blondes like you - hell, he likes all white women! And now that you've refused his advances, you're his latest challenge. He's such a little slut! God, Lori...I don't know how good your marriage is but if you're looking for something on the side, Marcus will rock your world! I've never been with anyone like him in my life."
Lori pursed her lips but didn't say anything...She sighed and thought about Ryan - Ryan and Marcus were so different...They were both flirty, but Ryan was smart and classy and self-effacing while Marcus was loud, boastful and cocky. Each guy had their appeal and if Donna's description of Marcus' sexual prowess was accurate, it did make her wonder what he'd be like in bed. And for a very evil second, she wondered what it would like in bed for them to tag team her!
Oh my god, she thought - where do these ideas comes from? Lori shook her head, disgusted with herself - what happened to the conservative, Christian married wife and mother who never thought things like this, who never looked at another man, who never touched another man?? She didn't recognize her own mind anymore, even less how her body was deceiving her at every turn. She guessed what they said was true about women getting hotter as they get older...It's true - she was just entering her sexual prime!
She thought about the conversation with Duane and his saying he was okay with her flirting with Ryan - and whatever happened, happened. Such a strange discussion! If she were honest with herself, a part of her wanted to flirt with him, in FRONT of Duane. There was a wickedness to that - a sensuality, a sinful lust that made her feel so differently.
On the other side of town, Duane was also at work, deep in thought. The conversation with Lori was so delicate...he felt like he was walking on eggshells with her. And he wished he had the guts to just be honest with her about his thoughts, his fantasies. He had told her that he is was okay with her flirting but when she asked him if he was okay with it going further, he balked and said no, of course not.
But what did he really want? Did he want his wife to sleep with Ryan? Take him as a lover? From a very selfish standpoint, he wanted the best of both worlds. He wanted to see his wife on her knees sucking Ryan's black cock, to have Ryan ravage his sweet innocent wife and bury his cock deep inside her. He wanted to give Lori an amazing time - a hot night of sex and then he wanted her to come back to Duane sated and satisfied and get on with her life with the experience behind her as his loving wife and the mother of his children. He just wanted her to have the experience - the one time sex, the amazing adventure of being "blacked", taken and fucked hard.
In the back of his mind, Duane wondered if he was being a fool...if it were possible to have this adventure and then move beyond it - to not change his wife in any way or affect their marriage in any way. He worried that Lori would like it too much - that Ryan may be an amazing lover and she would want him again and again, pushing Duane aside or just giving him pity sex once in a while. He wasn't a "cuck", didn't want to be abused or made to feel inferior in any way or to be insulted or secondary to anyone.
In his mind, Ryan was the perfect choice for Lori's adventure - he was a friend to Duane and would never betray him, would he? I mean, Duane was the one who approached Ryan in the first place and knew what his expectations were. It was Duane's plan for Ryan to seduce her - he didn't pursue Lori in any way unless Duane asked him to, did he? Ryan was smart and discrete - they were partners in this plan - brothers in seduction.
The "eggshell" conversation between Duane and Lori that sort of fell by the wayside was still hanging in the air but neither party was ready to come back to the discussion without it becoming an argument or weirdness. Duane contemplated how to move off that - move on to either the next step or at least to move beyond it. He decided to email Ryan:
"Hey buddy, sorry again for abandoning you last Friday. Work turned out to be a real issue, but I think it's resolved for now. Had an interesting conversation with Lori about you and was teasing her about you massaging her feet and dancing with you. She really likes you and I got thinking that it would be okay if you want to flirt with her a little, even in front of me to show her I'm okay with it...maybe turn it up a notch and see what happens? I'm not expecting her to fall at your feet or jump in bed with you, but I'm sort of curious to see how she'd respond to it, you know? Anyhow, I'm going to check with her and see if she'd be cool with the idea of you stopping over for a cookout next Saturday? It's sort of our thing - the kids will be there but they're usually off playing in the yard or with the neighbors. Around 2PM work for you? Let me know...Duane"
Ryan happened to be on email and saw Duane's come in almost immediately. He just happened to be looking at the pictures of Lori Duane had sent him weeks earlier - especially the naked one and thought, "oh, hell yeah!' - he sent a reply to Duane that he'd love to stop by and just let him know what he could bring after talking to Lori. He asked Duane what Lori said that made him think she was attracted to him, and didn't he tell him that she didn't find black guys attractive or had some racism in her family or something?
Duane read Ryan's response and typed back that her attitude toward Ryan seemed to have changed a little and that he was as surprised as Ryan - he credited Ryan's dancing skills or something for the change with a "ha-ha"...
Ryan read Duane's comments and thought, "Or my mouth on her breasts and my cock in her mouth!" smiling to himself... His 'official' email response was, "Well, let me know what she says...maybe you can grease the rails a little - show her some internet porn or something to whet her appetite!" When Duane responded, he said that they didn't watch porn together.
Ryan thought about it a minute and told him to queue up some Friday night soft porn movies like the one with that little blonde Jaime Pressly and Michael Jai White or just about anything on late night Maxx - something mainstream but hot. Duane thanked him for the suggestion and said he'd let him know about Saturday.
Later that night, after the kids went to bed and they were watching television, Duane casually mentioned how nice the cookout was last week and what a good cook Lori was - She agreed it was fun and that they should do it again soon. With that still in the air, Duane looked at his phone and saw the weather was supposed to be perfect on Saturday and said, "Hey, how about Saturday? We could have a couple of couples over, the weather is good..."
Lori crinkled up her nose, "This Saturday? Not much time to get ready or get the house cleaned...? Who were you thinking?"
Duane already knew that both the Gerhards and MacElbergers were going away - it had come up during their last get together - the Gerhards had a place in the mountains they frequented and the MacElbergers were going on a cruise.
But he said, "How about Jim and Ginny and Michelle and Roger? Plus, we owe Ryan for saving your clutch and that great wine last week. We could invite him and a plus one as well?"
Lori's heart started racing at the thought of Ryan over again, but she asked, "Ryan has a plus one? He told me that night he was here that he wasn't dating anyone right now..."
Duane said he had no idea if he was dating anyone but thought they should offer to be nice.
He said, "I'll check with the Gerhards and MacElbergers and Ryan and you figure out how to feed everyone...How about two PM?"
Lori nodded - "Guess since we'll have the kids, we should invite their kids too or is it better to just say adults?"
Duane said, "Why don't we see if your mom could watch the boys this weekend? Give you a chance to relax as well? That way, it can just be adults."
Lori thought about it a little and agreed. In her mind, she started working on a menu and a mental checklist of everything she needed to do before Saturday. She kept thinking about Ryan and his imaginary "plus one" and surprised herself that she was a little jealous of the idea of that.
Two days pass - Lori had arranged for her folks to watch the kids and when Duane got home from work, she asked him about the Gerhards and MacElbergers...