The Astarte Nunnery was gravely hit by the current economic crisis: the real estate value dropped, and the rent of the San Francisco condo owned by the nunnery barely covered its maintenance.
So they had to draw on their savings in order to survive, thus reducing the interests earned from them. Abbess Chang Lequ reckoned that, at constant prices, they would use up their 5,6 million dollar savings by the year 3008 -- an unbearable perspective for an order which wanted to last no less than the human race.
On Mondays Jane made love with Chang Lequ and Edna Rosenthal, while John was making love with Veronica.
Veronica enjoyed orgasm, but not emotional satisfaction, while making love with John, and talked to him, "John, I notice that you prefer your wife to me. And not just because she is better breasted than me."
"I like you."
"That's the problem. You may like my body, and bring me to orgasm, but you don't love me.
Sharing me was your wife's way to let you join her swinging, not the satisfaction of a genuine desire."
"You've never behaved as you had been forced."
"I enjoyed your body, but the lack of emotional connection is even impairing physical satisfaction."
"What are you going to do?"
"I have a similar problem with Jane, John. The more we know each other, the less we love each other. Only physical satisfaction binds us nowadays, and it's vanishing."
"That's why didn't you join us in our trip in Scotland [see "Ghostlover Ch. 01"]?"
"It wasn't just that -- I had met a cute girl, and I thought that your leave was the occasion to spend some time with her and know her better."
"Did you tell that to Jane?"
"I did. She told me that, provided that I were honest, I could behave as I wished."
"Are you moving out?"
"Next Saturday. I didn't want to interfere with Jane's pleasant duties towards the nuns."
"You haven't much to move. I'll miss you, but I'll be glad to help you."
"Chang Lequ won't miss me, because I'm just a mouth to feed for her."
"Jane could nourish us both."
"It is not just an issue of food. Unlike you and Jane, I don't share the Astarte Nunnery ideology. Sorry, I'm out of place here."
"Ok. On Saturday you'll come back to your apartment with your belongings."
After sex with Lequ and Edna, Jane entered the room in which John and Veronica were talking.
"Dear hubby, dear girlfriend, the nunnery has curtailed kitchen expenses, and is not providing us with food anymore.
I'll nurse you. Come here, sit on my thighs and grab my nipples."
John and Veronica did that, and sucked their fill of Jane's milk. Sucking aroused all three, but John had to immediately flee to the bathroom, leaving Jane and Veronica alone.
Though somewhat estranged, the women could still have sex between them, so Jane first suckled Veronica's dry tits, and then they ground their mounds together until they enjoyed orgasm.
After that, John came back, Jane welcomed him, and let him penetrate her vagina and hug and kiss her.
The intercourse lasted more than an hour, during which Veronica went to the bathroom and then couldn't help masturbating while watching John's and Jane's intercourse.
It was much more exciting than making love in person with either, as she felt they were really in love with each other, and emotional involvement was magnifying physical satisfaction. After orgasm, John and Jane hugged Veronica, and Jane told them what she, Lequ and Edna talked about in the other room.
"I knew that they badly needed to talk, so I managed to please them in less than a minute -- had they been men, they would have been diagnosed with ejaculatio praecox.
They told me that they feared that the nunnery was about to close, and that they should use the next months to prepare a 'soft landing' for the nuns, i. e. to find them a job and reintegrate them into the society at large.
I asked them how much money were they losing each month, and they told me that, if they could eat for free, they would be in the black, not in the red."
"Were they politely asking you to nourish them all?" John asked.
"Probably, but I told them that I was going to make a counter-offer.
Veronica, I'm sorry to ask you to leave us alone. As you're going to leave us, the counter-offer doesn't concern you."
Veronica went out and took a shower, while Jane told John, "Darling, my conspecifics are still interested into studying human sexuality, and would especially like to learn how to have an orgasm -- among themselves."
"Are you going to start a relationship with a shapeshifter?"
"Not just me. I think that I'll share her with you."