I am getting some feedback from readers, which I do appreciate. For those of you with constructive comments, thank you! To all the other authors, my congratulations on your courage. It takes guts to put something that you create in the public domain. You inspired me to take the plunge, myself.
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When Nicole returned to the bedroom she found Rick and Cathy cuddling on the bed. Rick was behind Cathy, spooning her, with his hands on her breasts. Cathy's hands covered Rick's and she was grinning at Nicole.
"You two certainly didn't waste any time getting comfy." Nicole observed.
"Come and join us." said Cathy, patting the bed in front of her.
Nicole paused to give the impression that she was unsure and had to think it over, but her inner child was jumping up and down at the thought of making out with Cathy again.
As she made her way onto the bed, Rick wondered how she managed to transform herself into a stunning beauty again in five minutes when she went into the bathroom a disheveled mess. Her hair was now brushed, and looked like she just returned from the beauty shop. The circles of mascara were gone from around her eyes and it seemed she had reapplied both mascara and lip gloss.
Nicole noticed Rick was staring at her so she leaned over Cathy and gave him a lingering kiss on the lips. Rick tasted minty mouthwash, and whiffed a fresh application of cologne. If she could do all of that in five minutes, Rick thought, why did it take a woman two hours to get ready to go out? It was indeed one of the great mysteries of the female sex.
Cathy was impressed with Nicole's confident attitude towards Rick. She had to beg her to agree to bring the them to her room earlier, and now Nicole had settled comfortably into orchestrating the sexual activities for all three of them.
Cathy turned Nicole's face toward hers and covered her mouth with her own hungry lips. The two women embraced and Rick watched them resume the slow, sexy seduction of each other that Nicole started earlier.
While they were busy, Rick took the opportunity to use the bathroom himself. The light over the vanity was unforgiving, and Rick did a critical appraisal of how he looked. He worked out because his advancing years were beginning to take a toll, though he looked younger than most other 45 year olds that he knew. His belly was flat and he had a lean physique, but he was both heavier and less toned than he had been when he turned forty. Still, he must look okay to the ladies to convince two gorgeous women like Cathy and Nicole to spend an evening romping in the sheets with him.
He squeezed some of Nicole's toothpaste directly onto his forefinger and "brushed" his teeth with it. Then he washed the pussy juices off of his face and crotch and combed his hair with his fingers. It would have to do, he thought.
When he returned to the bed, Cathy and Nicole were still making out like two high school girls. In addition to the kissing, their legs were intertwined and they were scissoring erotically with each other.
He didn't want to interrupt them, so he climbed back on the bed behind Cathy and just watched. The stimulation must have gotten too intense for Nicole, because she suddenly drew back from Cathy and pulled her pelvis from around Cathy's thigh, where she left behind a pretty prominent patch of wet skin.
"Why didn't we ever talk about that kiss at the party when we were in college?" she panted.
Cathy fell back on the pillow and pursed her lips, thinking. "I don't know. I think we were both embarrassed about it maybe. I know I am much less uptight about a lot of things than I was back in college."
"Yeah, I guess that's how I feel too." added Nicole. Then she looked down at Cathy and said, "It's sad that we missed out on what could have been. Do you and Steve ever talk about you and another girl?"
"Oh my God." laughed Cathy, rolling onto her side. "He brings that up almost as much as me being with another man."
"What do you tell him when he asks?" queried Nicole.
"I usually tell him that I will go down on a girl when he agrees to go down on another guy for me. That always stops the discussion cold."
Nicole shivered and asked,"Does that turn you on too?"
"Not as much as it does for you, apparently." replied Cathy.
Both women turned to Rick and waited for him to wade in on the topic.
"The answer's to your unspoken questions are no, not really, and maybe." he grinned, and followed up with,"No, I have never sucked another guy's cock. No, I am not really excited by the idea or attracted to other men sexually. And maybe, if my wife asked me and I thought it was important to her, I might do something with a guy to make her happy."
Cathy turned to Nicole and said,"We gotta find you another guy just like Rick." as she leaned over and gave Rick a hug.
At that moment, they heard a cell phone go off in the sitting room of the suite. Rick jumped up and headed towards the front room. "That's my wife's ring tone."
Cathy and Nicole looked at each other. There was concern in Nicole's eyes, and Cathy just shrugged her shoulders.
They heard Rick answer."Hi hon," then a pause. "Nothing much. Just hanging out with a couple of friends."
Rick returned to the bedroom and found the girls looking at him with concern. He smiled and held a hand up to indicate he was okay.
"No, not coworkers. Two girls I met in the lounge at dinner." he said. Then he added, "One of them, her name is Nicole, asked about the bracelet."
He paused, then replied to the question the girls couldn't hear. "Yeah, she did. We ended up in her suite."
There was a pause, then Rick said, "Yeah, the other girls name is Cathy."
There was a longer pause, and Rick replied,"Cathy is Nicole's best friend. Nicole was interested, but she wouldn't come back with me without Cathy."
Rick listened for a minute then said, "I am following your instructions to the letter. I am only doing what Nicole is telling me what to do, including the things with Cathy, and I am wearing the cock ring."
He listened for a while, then turned away from Cathy and Nicole and said to his wife in a low voice, "If you want me to stop, just say so."
There was a long interval where he just listened, then he said, "You know you are my angel and nothing in the world will ever be more important to me than you, don't you?"
He turned back to the girls and his expression softened. "Of course. Yes. I love you too."
He smiled and looked at the floor. "I am looking forward to it too." Another pause and he added,"If you do, tell them I said hi. And go easy on them. They are in the foursome with me at the golf tournament this weekend."
Another pause, followed by an "I love you too" and Rick ended the call.
He looked at the two girls and sighed.
"Is everything okay?" they both asked in unison.
Rick smiled at their concern, and considered how the conversation must have sounded to them. "Yeah, Kim is fine. She was surprised that I was with two girls, and started to accuse me of breaking her rules, but after I explained, she reconsidered and said 'What the hell, it's not like I don't have the same opportunity'. What you didn't hear was that she told me to remember every detail so I can tell her about it later."
"I heard you offer to stop. Was that just with us, or the whole arrangement?" asked Nicole.
"I meant both," replied Rick, "but she said not to worry and that she was fine. I mentioned earlier that she has jealousy issues sometimes. She knows that as much as I enjoy the lifestyle, I would give it up in a heartbeat to keep her and make her happy."
"She did say she might get together with my friends Alan and Rob, though." Added Rick. "I think she chose them because she knows that I get jealous of Rob."
"He owns his own construction business, and is very successful. He is a self-confident, single guy, and makes no bones about his desire for my wife. He likes to joke with her and tell her that he will make her happy if she ever decides to 'kick my sorry ass to the curb.' Even though we are friends, we are both very competitive with each other. She likes him a lot, and he is one of the guys she sees that she allows to take control during sex with her."
"Alan is a good friend too, but he is more like me, willing to let her take charge. The funny thing is that even though I know she was trying to make me jealous, I am also very excited by the idea of her meeting with them."
"What will she do with them?" asked Cathy.