My travels resumed with a vengeance. The following Friday I returned to find Linda having her period. Uncomfortable and irritable, she invoked the "if I can't have it, neither can you" model of familial relations. I flew off again. She picked me up at the Marta station the next Friday.
"Jack, you don't look too good."
"It must have been the lunch I ate. I've been feeling worse all afternoon." When we got home Linda read 101.5 degrees off the thermometer. I crawled into bed and was dead to the world for the next two days.
Sunday afternoon I was still queasy but recovering. I was supposed to be in Baton Rouge for a meeting on Monday morning. I packed and decided to drive myself to the airport. Before I got to I-285 I realized that I had left my briefcase.
I parked in front of the house and ran up the walk. As I entered the house I heard Linda talking on the phone in the kitchen.
"Let me finish cleaning the house and I'll be over. With Jack sick all weekend, I've been stuck inside but not stuck inside if you get my meaning. I need a little extra relaxation."
"Hey, honey," I called out. "Forgot my briefcase." I grabbed it from where I'd left it by the stairs. "Call you when I get there." I kissed her goodbye again.
"Call me on my cell," she replied. "Becky invited me over for a late afternoon snack with them."
"OK," I replied.
Seven hours later I was finally in my motel room. I was hungry. Although it was only 7PM in Baton Rouge, it was 8PM in Atlanta. I needed to call Linda before I went to eat. She was probably worried about me.
"Hi ... honey," she answered her cell.
"Hi, Linda. Wow! What a rough time getting here."
"Really ... Bad?" Linda sounded funny, somewhat spacey.
"Yeah. The flight was delayed, and finally cancelled. I had to fly to New Orleans, then rent –"
"Ooooohhh. Right there. Yes!"
"Linda, are you okay? You sound sort of strange."
"I – I – I'm fiiiiine. Becky's giving me a foooooot massage. You need to learn how to do me this way. Yes! Yes! Ooooh, god. What were you saying?"
"I had to rent a car in New Orleans and drive up here. That's why I'm so late."
"Ooooh. ... That's tooooo bad."
"Look, I haven't had anything to eat since I left. I hate to not talk any longer, but I'm feeling a lot better and I'm really hungry."
"That's okaaaaay. Baby, why don't you run along. I'm fine and I'm ... glad ... you're feeling better. This massage is making me feel reeaal gooooood, toooooo."
"I'll call tomorrow night."
"Yessssss. Yesssss! You do that."
I thought I heard her giggle as I hung up.
The next weekend was normal. However, Monday evening I caught the late flight to Baton Rouge. On Tuesday a working lunch and dinner put me on the last puddle jumper to New Orleans and then over to Mobile. Puddle jumper is a benign term for a noisy, vibrating, cramped torture rack of an airplane. Wednesday's schedule was similar, putting me in Tallahassee about midnight. Thursday was work until late and Friday until after six as my team and I hacked out a new proposal. I got off the plane in Atlanta at 8PM almost dead. Linda met me. When we got home she warmed my dinner while I mixed a stiff scotch. Afterwards, a second stiff scotch put me to bed. Just before I dozed off, Linda climbed into bed also.
"Honey, we're going out to dinner with Becky and Frank tomorrow. Maybe, we'll play some more games."
"Uh-huh," as I fell asleep.
The honey-do list took up Saturday. About 5PM I was putting away tools and cleaning up when Linda appeared, wearing only a bra and panties.
"Jack, you need to go get cleaned up. We're going out about six-ish."
We both knew that I would only need about 20 minutes to get ready, if I were slow. The reminder was a simple female control mechanism over the social graces.
We were seated middle-class style, boy-girl-boy-girl, around a four-person table in a trendy, upscale restaurant. Sipping coffee, the women were indulgently letting the conversation go briefly to the Hawks.
"I don't know how much longer they'll keep Lenny if the numbers don't improve," Frank opined.
"But the front office traded away everybody over the summer. Shouldn't they take some blame?" I had met Lenny once and shook his hand. We were buds. The wives were now leaning forward talking under their husbands' conversation.
"Well, that's true, but he's still ..."
Frank's words dropped into background noise as a feminine hand rested on my knee. Given the knee and the direction of the hand it was Becky's.
Frank's voice droned on as Linda's hand claimed my other knee and stroked up my thigh. Her hand slipped off one thigh and slid to the other where it found Becky's fingers. I held my breath waiting for some startled response. Instead, she pushed Becky's hand higher on my leg.
"Don't you think so, Jack?" Frank looked at me expectantly.
"Well, I'm not sure, but you could be right."
We were back in Frank and Becky's den and dance music was playing. I was nursing a scotch while sitting on the couch. Becky bumped and jiggled and spun in time to the music as she slowly came back from the CD changer. She was wearing a black, shimmery dress. It fitted her snugly above the waist but flared out fully below and stopped about halfway down her thighs. With every twist the skirt twirled up giving me flashes of red panties above those slender, tanned legs.
"Party time." Becky grabbed one of my hands and pulled me off the sofa. She maneuvered me to the middle of the room and spun around backing up against me. By now my hands automatically went to her waist. I alternately stroked her tummy and up and down her sides.
"I'm beginning to feel warm. Why don't you unzip me?"
I pulled the zipper down a little and then back up a little in time to the music. I was into the party spirit tonight. Becky laughed deep in her throat as the zipper slowly moved to her waist.
"Teasing me," she asked as she backed up against my semi-hard cock.
"Just getting you back for tonight at dinner."
"You mean when I squeezed your little head?" She danced away towards Frank. Linda moved to me.
"Having fun?"
"Well, when your wife puts another woman's hand on your cock, it is a pleasant surprise." Linda's blouse was unbuttoned to her waist and her front-hooking bra was also open. It looked like somebody had been pinching her nipples. "You seem to be having fun, too."
"Sauce for both, right?" She grinned. She twirled around and backed up against me. "Take off my blouse and bra."
When the song changed, the partners did too. Becky had lost her dress. Her red bra and panties contrasted nicely with her skin.
"Linda's ahead of me. I wanna catch up."
"I'll be happy to help you get the lead." I decided to do this backwards. I knelt and pulled down her panties. She stepped closer to help me. Stepping out of them, she ended up inches away. I was staring at her sparse, trimmed bush. She surprised me with a bump and grind that caught my nose in her lips.
"Want to put it in?" She laughed again from deep in her throat.
As I stood, my hands caressed all the way up her legs. The world contracted to this luscious body in front of me. "I'd put it anywhere you want it, any way you want it."
"I want ... my bra off."
I stepped against her as I reached for the hooks in back. Shortly, the bra skimmed away.