Home plate was ninety feet away. I licked my chapped lips. Dare I make a dash for it? Even at my age, could they really throw a softball that fast? Eddie Feigner this guy wasn't. But, then again, I was no Brett Gardner. Still, what's the worst that could happen? The score was tied and if we won, we'd be out of last place. The last time my hospital softball team was out of last place in our league,
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
was at shortstop.
Strike one. Another meeting on the mound between pitcher, catcher and the entire infield allowed my mind to wander back to my recent encounter with my boss, where she gave me oral pleasure of the like I had never experienced. My heart still ached for her embrace. My lips had been spoiled by the tenderness of her kiss. I needed more. The scent of her being captivated my senses. I, once again, felt her cool hands on my cock and balls.
And then I remembered the ring. The substantial wedding ring on her left hand. A sudden roar from the not-so-sparse crowd watching our game snapped me back to the present. I started tracking the fly ball toward centerfield. It bounced twice and hit the wall. Victory would be ours. I shifted gears into my home run, foregone conclusion trot toward home plate and victory.
My trot came to a crashing halt as my foot stumbled in a rut on the base path. My ankle went left and the rest of me went right and flat on my face.
"Godβbless, America!!" I screamed. Six feet from home plate and I was paralyzed. The ball arced home from the outfield. I started clawing at the dirt. I wasn't going to be denied. Handful after handful, I scratched the ground, moving slower than the proverbial molasses in January. The second baseman caught the relay, spun on his heel and fired the softball toward the stocky catcher blocking the plate. Only it bounced to his right. By the time he snatched it and slapped the tag onto my bruised and bloodied hands, they had touched the plate.
Paramedics were called. A man, stout with compact, economical motions arrived first, followed by a gorgeous brunette, filling out her uniform shirt in every conceivable spot. She was all woman but I was old enough to be her very young grandfather. Such was life.
The girl knelt beside me and placed her medical bag next to her. As she bent down, I stole a quick look down her shirt and saw the smooth flesh of youth in two very mouth-watering mounds. She snapped her fingers. "Up here, sport. Eye contact. My name is Jean. What's the problem?" she said, in a voice mimicking velvet on satin. I pulled my uniform pant leg up. "Oh, that looks nasty."
During the trip to the hospital ER, she took all of my information. When I was waiting for x-rays to be confirmed, all of my friends and co-workers from the OR just had to come over and slap my back for the grit, then laugh at the fiberglass cast they were putting on my ankle. No need to keep me in the hospital, only a severe sprain. I had the unit clerk call for a cab. I wish Marjorie had been there to kiss and make it better. But my boss was out of town at a conference.
A minivan pulled up to the curb. "How are you doing, hero?" said the paramedic. "Need a lift?"
"No thanks. Got a cab coming," I said. Briefly, I felt like a dirty old man, only briefly.
"Cancel it. Heroes don't ride in cabs. They get chauffeured home," she said, and opened the passenger side door. "Get in."
Small talk made the trip to my apartment all-too- quick. Jean helped me into my place. She surrounded me with all of the amenities and placed my crutches nearby. "Thank you. That's great."
"Glad you're all set," said Jean. It was warm enough for her forearms to glow with perspiration. She smelled like a freshly opened bar of soap. I thought of her washing my back in the shower. That dissolved rapidly into the reality that I wanted it to be Marjorie, but the ring still got in the way. "Just one more thing." With that, the lithe brunette reared back and slapped me full across the face with the flat of her hand. I somehow kept my head from doing a 360.
"What the hell was that about?"
"You don't know who I am?"
"Give me a hint, Thelma or Louise? Mind telling me why the slap?" I said, more confused than angry.
"My name is Jean Whitcomb, Marjorie Whitcomb, your boss, is my mother," she screamed. "And you fucked her! I read it in her diary!" Her hands went to her face and she fell back onto my recliner, sobbing in earnest. Her shoulders heaved up and down for the better part of ten minutes. Eventually, Jean came up for air.
"Are you alright?" I said, unsure of what to expect. "I mean, you aren't going to go Kill Bill on me anymore, are you?"
"No, I wouldn't waste my energy on you."
"Look Jean, I don't know what to say," I said.
"You could say you're sorry."
"That would be a lie. I'm not sorry," I said. My courage was flowing through my veins at breakneck speed. "I know you don't understand, but your Mom and I are two consenting adults."
"Bastard. What about my father?" she spewed.
A third voice entered the fray. "What about him?" said Marjorie Whitcomb, sunglasses in hand and cheeks reddened from the wind riding over here in her convertible. "What about your father, Jean Alyce?"
"You cheated on him," she said.
Marjorie arriving felt like Rin-Tin-Tin getting the cavalry to help get Rusty out of a jam. She stepped further into the living room, placing her purse on a nearby table. Her windbreaker went over a chair. She was wearing a very tight tank top that showed off her glorious tanned shoulders, and a flouncy pleated skirt of a contrasting color.
My boss leaned over the back of the couch and kissed my cheek. I resisted pulling her down over the couch onto me. "Hi Barry. I got back early from the trip and your little act of heroism at the game is the talk of the OR. How's the ankle?
"It only hurts when I get slapped in the face," I replied.
She pointed to her daughter. I nodded. The resemblance wasn't striking, but there was no doubt they swam in the same gene pool. The daughter had more breast, mom more rounded ass cheeks. Each had that slightly off-center smile that rocked my world.
"Mother? About Daddy?" insisted Jean.
"You've noticed that your father has been spending less and less time at home and more and more time on the road building up the business? That was by design. There are peaks and valleys in every relationship. We are in a definite valley, but before thinking about divorce, we thought we'd take some time apart to see if this was worth saving," said mother to daughter.
"It is," said the daughter.
"Respectfully, that isn't your decision to make. Anyway, your father and I decided that we would have no restrictions on each other during this time. So in our current circumstances, what Barry and I did was not cheating," said Margie. Her arms were now across her chest accentuating her breasts. My heart rate doubled. Jean had adopted a similar pose and had more to accentuate. Each set of nipples needed a mouth. "And what possessed you to invade my privacy and read my diary?"
Jean's reply was a typical hand-in-the-cookie jar response. "I don't know."
"It's off-limits. Are you having dinner with Troy tonight?" she asked, trying to ratchet down the rhetoric.
"Troy and I broke up. He said I wasn't hot enough in bed."
"I find that hard to believe," I blurted out. Both women looked at me. One was a glare and the other said, let me handle this.
Mom embraced daughter. "Oh honey, I'm so sorry." The embrace got closer and Margie kissed Jean's cheek. "Maybe I can help. Did he at least say you kissed all right?"
She smirked. "No, Mom, actually he said I kissed like a dead mackerel," she confessed.
"Son of a bitch," replied Mom. "Maybe a pointer or two is in order."
Mom took a step back and jerked down the straps of her tank top, exposing faint copper skinned shoulders, not a tan line in sight. My hand rubbed between my legs. Then she stepped forward embracing her daughter as an intimate lover gently pressing her lips against the younger woman's. A tongue outlined their shape. A hand went behind her head in case she rejected the lesson.
But Jean Alyce was more than up to the challenge. Both of her hands cupped her mother's blonde head and she kissed each closed eye in turn then each cheek and ran her tongue from the ear lobe down the curve of her neck to the shoulder.
"That's it, Jeannie. You are making me so hot!' said Mom, her head tossed back as Jean went from lips to nape of neck to tongue right down between her breasts.
"How's that Mom?" she smiled.
Mom smiled back. "Don't tell me you're going to stop after getting me this excited?"