Dear Readers: Please read parts 1-3 to better comprehend the context of this story. Thank you for all the wonderful comments. For those that don't like stories mixing the Christian faith and sexuality, this isn't for you.
Part 4
After returning home from an exhilarating evening at Jack and Kim's house, Joe and Liz were physically and emotionally spent. So much had happened in just the past two days and to Joe he was starting to have internal questions about whether this was the right path for them.
It wasn't about feeling any guilt about what they had done. It was more about everything happening so fast for them and not taking enough time to sort out their various emotions and concerns.
Liz seemed to be in a quiet state of bliss. Her eyes and slight smile were indicators to Joe that she seemed very happy with the current state of things. Admittedly, to himself, this bothered him.
Joe laid in bed naked ready to finally get some sleep. He watched his lovely wife as she brushed her teeth and hair at their large shared sink. Liz was naked as she did this and he still enjoyed the sway of her breasts as she moved the toothbrush back and forth in her mouth.
"Damn baby, you know how much I love watching those tits when you move them like that!" Joe exclaimed. Liz smiled brightly as the white cream of toothpaste began to leak from the sides of her mouth. Quickly she got a rag and cleaned off the corners as Joe still stared intently at her nude form.
Tomorrow was a work day. However, for the Carters, work meant going to their office at the opposite end of their split wing home. Both Joe and Liz were accountants and had been operating out of their home since their son Josh was in Kindergarten. This afforded Liz the luxury of being a stay at home mom as well as an income earning mother.
Most of their clients were small businesses and often a whole day could go by without a single client coming to visit. Sometimes one of them would go to a job site but a vast majority of time was in their home office. The office was a converted bedroom with two desks, two computers, and four tall file cabinets. It was somewhat cramped, but it beat having to pay the lease prices on office buildings in town. Plus, there were many tax advantages to operating out of a home.
This also afforded the Carters the luxury of setting their own hours most of the time. The exception would be if a client had an early morning appointment or one of them had an appointment at a job site.
Although they were in business together, they each had their own clients. Planning time off required a coordinated effort to know one another's schedule.
Joe knew that Liz had no scheduled appointments the next day and he had just one lunch appointment with a prospective client for himself. He took advantage of this knowledge to stop Liz from shutting off the night light and asked her if she would take the time to talk.
"Sure, but you look so serious. Is everything alright sweets?" Liz asked detecting a sense of unusual seriousness in her husband's voice. Not unusual that he was serious, but unusual, at least to her, considering the exhilarating events of the day.
"How far can this go, Liz?" her husband asked with a sense of worry. "Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed the past two days as much as any man could. I'm thrilled that you are enjoying this as well. However, and maybe it's just because this is so different for us, I do wander how far we should let things go."
"Is it a good idea to have any more partners? It seems we've enjoyed the ones we've had so far, but does it ever reach a point of too many? And, if so, where is that point?"
Liz laid there listening to her husband as well as studying his face. He wasn't sounding jealous or possessive.
"Babe, I don't have an answer for you," began Liz, "however, I will never do anything that you wouldn't approve of doing and I know I can trust the same from you, right?
"Liz said this is all about fun and friendship. Ken and Barb were saying the same."
"Think about it Joe. How long have we been good friends with Ken and Barb? Haven't we always been able to trust them? If they have bought into this lifestyle and are still strong in their marriage then I see no reason we can't either."
Liz was making some valid points. Joe had to admit to himself that his love for his wife hadn't waned at all, in fact he noticed how much open he had become with her in just the past two days. Joe was normally more emotionally detached. He wasn't one to share what was on his mind. Maybe it was just a man thing,many men don't just don't share feelings, not even with their spouses.
Somehow, he now had easily approached his wife about a delicate subject and he had done it with ease. Maybe the apprehension was due to his acknowledgment of his changed emotional state. Was his renewed energy for Liz a result of his openness or was it a result of a need to maintain possession of what was his?
The conversation lasted into the early morning hours. Not only were their bodies bare, they both literally bared their souls to one another. Both found themselves fighting back tears at times as they realized that now, more than ever, they were still so much in love. This kind of conversation was healthy for them, yet it never would have happened without the events of the past couple of evenings.
They agreed to set their alarm for 10:00 AM so that they could get at least some reasonable sleep before starting their work day. Although there was no sex that night, both were satisfied with being able to hold each other as well as grasp for body parts as the mood would arise. Joe was simply too tired both physically and emotionally to even get hard this time. Liz probably could have gone another round but she was very content in spending this quality time with her beloved husband.
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Joe and Liz are still in deep slumber when the 10:00AM alarm goes off. This sets off the classic rock radio station playing the Eagles hit "Hotel California."
Joe awakens to the tune and when the chorus arrives, he begins singing along, "Living it up at the Hotel California. What a lovely place....."
