"Let me get the wine," I offered and moved back to refill all of the glasses. Ryan was adjusting something on a black box on a shelf of the enormous entertainment center that surrounded the giant video screen and held several of the speakers and the assortment of digital components that controlled it all.
"Uummmm, Ty," Ryan got my attention more with his tone than just saying my name. He sounded uncertain, so I looked over at him quickly. He was holding up a black thumb drive between his fingers. "First, this is the absolute only copy," he said reassuringly. "Second, I just forgot about it until I saw the tiny red record light after everything . . . happened." He looked apologetic, but then that innocent grin of his flashed and I figured that whatever he was about to tell me, it was going to be ok. "So Joy and I like to record ourselves sometimes and I saw this unit in the room and before we left for dinner I set the motion detector to auto-record because I didn't want to have to fuck with it when we got back and I actually forgot about it when I was hooking up your phone and I'm sorry if I've screwed up in any way." The words tumbled out of mouth as if he was afraid to stop before he got everything out.
"Uh, thanks Ryan," I answered. "But what the hell are you talking about? Set what to auto-record?" As I said the word I understood what he meant even if I didn't understand the technical details. My realization must've shown on my face because Ryan and I said to each other the exact same words at the exact same time, "I/You recorded us." We stared at each other for a couple seconds, each trying to figure out what the other was thinking.
"Did Joy know?" I asked, immediately unsure why that even mattered.
Ryan shook his head. "I knew she wouldn't mind, but I don't think I told her."
"Where is it?" I asked as I scanned the unit looking for the camera. I felt like I just needed some details.
"The camera's built into the frame at the top of the video screen. "I'm sure it caught everything. The resolution is actually really good on these."
I stood there, wondering what Jill would think. "Any chance at all that it could be hacked?"
He shook his head again. "Not any chance in hell. I set it to record directly onto this flash drive and not to send the signal wirelessly, which it can also do." I could hear his enthusiasm for the technology rising in his explanation, but he caught himself. Like I said, this is absolutely the only copy."
"Thanks Ryan." I appreciated his honesty and apparently genuine concern about whether I'd be ok with had happened entirely by accident.
He reached out and handed the small black drive to me. "You take it. I trust you with it and you just met us tonight."
"No, it's fine. We interrupted your anniversary plans. You can hang on to it." I tried to hand it back
I wasn't just trying to be nice. I would have been ok with him keeping it, but I have to admit that I was a little relieved when he didn't take it back from me.
I put the drive down on top of my phone that Ryan had connected earlier and left both sitting on the ottoman. It was the one place I knew I wouldn't forget it and it wouldn't fall out of my pocket when I got dressed.
I handed Ryan a full glass of the cabernet. "We actually have quite a bit of wine left," I informed him. "About a full bottle." We sat down on a couple of the chairs in front of the glass patio doors and continued to get to know each other. We talked about the freakishly large number of things we had in common like the Steelers, our knowledge of wines, our preference for synthetic boxer-brief underwear, and even our voices. At times it really did feel like I was hearing myself in a recording as he spoke. I knew he and Joy were high school sweethearts and he asked how I'd met Jill. He delicately asked if we had ever done anything like this before. I knew from the conversation downstairs in the bar that he and Joy had been intimate with others at least several times, so I appreciated that he asked 'if' rather than 'how many' times we had done this. I told him we had not and decided to leave Jill's experiences at the cabin for another time. I was just about to tell him about Jill's airport greeting the night before when Ryan's gaze shifted and he stood up . I rose knowing he'd seen them returning.
He and I had been talking for a while, but the time had flown by. I didn't realize how long they'd been gone until I looked at our wives. They were just entering the room casually holding hands. Jill had obviously showered because her now-brushed hair was still not dry. Blue was clearly a great color on Joy. It matched her eyes perfectly and that was the color of the loose-fitting satiny tap shorts and matching camisole she was wearing. The top was so short it barely covered her nipples, leaving the bottom half of her impressive breasts in plain view.
"Sorry, honey." Jill apologized as she snuggled close and wrapped her arms around my waist. "Joy doesn't have much that fits me and," she smiled teasingly, "I didn't pack anything."
"I'll try hard to get over my disappointment," I assured her as I cupped a breast with my free hand. I enjoyed the feeling of her beneath the black lace camisole she was wearing. I couldn't say it was covering her because the mesh-like design showed far more skin than it covered. The camisole was also so small on her that her aroused nipples were poking through those empty spaces between the webbed lace. I teased each nipple briefly with a fingernail which elicited a sigh from both of us.
"And I didn't have any extra panties, either." I drew back, looking down her body. The black garter belt framed her newly-bald mound. The clips fastened to a pair of sheer black stockings that came up well short of their usual height on her thighs. I knew everything she was wearing was on loan from Joy, but Jill looked exquisite.
"I know it's not my usual attire when we go out socially, but if you like it I would consider wearing it again to your next faculty party." In addition to the sexy lingerie, my wife was also wearing a seductive, playful smile.
"Don't know about you, Ty, but I'm feeling underdressed here," Ryan joked. "Maybe we should see if Joy has any thongs we could slip in to." Everyone laughed easily and the room seemed to have gotten several degrees warmer.
"Where are my manners," I asked rhetorically. I retrieved the other two wine glasses and handed one to each lady.
As we enjoyed the excellent wine and chatted mainly about the girls' amazing choice in clothes, Joy and Jill kept sharing conspiratorial looks with each other over the rims of their glasses.
"Refills? I asked since we had all practically gulped down our first glass.
"Actually, Joy answered, "If we're going to have more, I think you two should just sleep here tonight." She was looking at me.
I looked at Jill and saw her bright eyes shining with anticipation. She raised her eyebrows hopefully. Obviously she and Joy had already talked about it and I had promised to go along with whatever Jill wanted that night.
"No need to drive across town tonight and ..." Joy didn't have to finish her sales pitch because I interrupted her.
"Thank you. That's a great idea," I accepted.
"In that case," Jill picked up her part of the plan. "Joy and I had a fun idea, but we should to go to the bedroom so we can all be more comfortable." Jill raised her eyebrows again, but this time she wiggled them up and down, imitating Groucho Marx' famous suggestive look. It's a good thing I had just swallowed my wine or it would have come spurting out of my nose
"All you need is the cigar," I laughed.
I grabbed the wine bottles and followed the sexy trio back toward the front door of the suite, then to the right to the bedroom area. 'Why is that women's butts are so sexy and men's are so not?' I wondered.
"This is the master bedroom," Ryan informed me as we entered. "There two other bedrooms on the other side off the tv / kitchen area. Just in case you want to use one of them," he explained thoughtfully.
"Wow, again," I enthused. The master bedroom was shorter than the other rooms I'd seen, but it was almost as wide. And like the other rooms, there were glass doors at the far end that looked like they led out to another, smaller patio balcony. Along the right side of the room were a series of doors that I assumed were all closets except in the middle third of the wall. There was a sizable sideboard with drawers and more freshly-cut flowers and, I had to look twice to make sure, a high-end digital camera on a short tripod facing the bed!. Well there was no mystery about that!
In the far corner was large desk with an office-grade leather chair behind it. But the room was dominated by probably the largest bed I'd ever seen. It was considerably wider than a king-size and longer than a California king. It was also covered in at least a 20 pillows, about half of them decorative and the rest functional. Of course everything in the room from the bed skirt to paintings on the wall screamed opulence and an attention to detail.
I noticed that two armless chairs were sitting side-by-side on the other side of the bed facing the balcony. I thought they'd probably been moved from in front of the desk in the corner.
"Ty, you have to see the bathroom," Jill said in impressed awe. She drew me around the corner from the bedroom door and into the ensuite. Two large sinks with gold (real, I wondered) fixtures set in a single marble counter on the left. A smaller door opened on the right. In the middle was an enormous tub with a step that ran all the way around it. At the far end was a clear glass enclosed shower that could easily hold a half a dozen people. "The shower has about 10 spray nozzles on each end plus a waterfall fixture on the back wall!" Jill gushed.
It was impressive to say the least. "Hey Ryan," I said loudly over my shoulder. "Can you put one of these in our house?"
"Sure, man!" Ryan answered. "All you have to do is give me your address and write the check!"
Jill slapped my shoulder playfully. "Why do always tease me like that? You know I won't convert the whole upstairs into a bathroom! But it was great to be able to try it out."
I was still holding both wine bottles and Jill was carrying both of our glasses as we moved back into the bedroom.