A completely unnecessary addendum, but it was in my brain and had to come out. No sex.
By the time I got home from the airport, I was feeling pretty low. The house smelled of her perfume and the bedroom smelled of sex. My office seemed the safest place.
I didn't know what the future held, but I knew there was one person I had to talk to. Turning on the computer, I sent a video call to Janice.
After a few seconds, she appeared on the screen, adjusting her wonderful white hair.
"Hi, Jan. Do you have a few minutes?"
"Sure, Lover. But if you're calling for video sex, I should warn you, Jordan is home."
Her 20-something daughter appeared quickly behind her mother, wearing nothing but blue-white-striped bikini panties. She waved, "Hi there," and disappeared again.
"Blue stripes? Not black."
"What can I say? Our little girl is growing up. Somewhat thanks to you, I hear."
"She told you?"
"She's my only daughter. We tell each other everything."
"Everything," Jordan shouted from the other room. "Lover."
"I think I heard air quotes in that."
"You did. If it's not virtual sex, then to what do we owe this call?"
"There's a woman."
Jan stared at the camera, waiting.
"We've spent some time together and she is really something special."
"Is there any chance this is the young woman you met with Meryl and Mitch in the middle of a mini-orgy? In her early 30s, you said?"
"Thirty-three."
"The woman who got sexually aroused when you sucked another man's dick?"
"Cock. Mitch has a cock, you said."
"Don't quote me back to me when I'm mad at you."
"Sorry," then, "Wait, mad?"
"Uh-huh. So, let me guess. This woman, I think you said her name was Carmella."
"Carm."
"Carm! That's right."
"She asked me to."
"Of course. So this, Carm. Young, beautiful, sexy... is the woman of your dreams."
"I thought so."