Rik had almost pulled Rahim chacha, the locksmith, out of his creaky bed when he visited his humble home next morning and showed him the wax impression of the key that Rina had brought back last night. Now he watched impatiently as the old man took a blank key and slowly and carefully filed it to match the profile of the impression.
"How does this look?" Rahim finally handed over the rough key to Rik who was fidgeting around in front of him.
"Will this open the lock?"
"Not immediately. We need to to actually put it in the lock, keep trying and making small changes until the levers finally match up."
"So please let us go out to our flat and do that right now."
Rina's back was aching! She was sprawled on the bed, on her back, with her legs spread out and dangling over the edge. She was naked, of course, but for the belt at her crotch and Rahim was sitting on the floor, between her legs and trying to force the lock with the makeshift key. She had tried to retain her blouse and bra, and a modicum of modesty, but after an hour of futile struggle, the humid, stuffiness of the hot afternoon had made her shed that residual coyness by taking them off as well. A thin patina of sweat gleamed on the chocolate swell of her chocolate breasts and the wrinkled disc of her aureola.
Rik and Rina had almost given up hope when with quiet 'click' the lock opened and the sheet covering her vagina fell out!
"Got it!" shouted Rahim and Rik jumped up in joy! Rina scrambled out of the bed and tossed away the belt and started rubbing her crotch and thighs! Then she suddenly leaned forward and kissed the bearded Muslim locksmith on his mouth!
"But now I want my payment in kind." The old man was grinning from ear to ear. "Never have I unlocked such a treasure as this."
"It is all your's Chacha, go ahead." She leaned forward, grabbed his head and placed it between her thighs and immediately felt the coarse, hot tongue of the hungry old man licking her cunt. After the initial excitement of freedom and cunt sucking, Rina went off to make some tea while Rahim, professional as ever, relocked, opened and relocked the belt a number of times to make sure that no one would ever know that now Rina was again the mistress of her own chastity!
Rina had the ten thousand rupees that Mohammad had given her for the tiger penis that was supposed to be delivered to her and she gave half of it to Rahim, something that she would regret later, and the locksmith went home as a very happy man. Now it was time for mother and son to celebrate their new found freedom!
"Yippee ...." screamed Rik as soon as the door had closed behind Rahim and jumped on his mother, pinning her to the bed. She had not put on any clothes yet and she savored her son's hand as they roamed over her naked body, fondling her breasts, tweaking her nipples and more importantly, squeezing her pubic mound, twirling her bush and teasing the folds of her vagina. Somewhere along the line, his pants had dropped off and his penis, now hard, erect and throbbing was rubbing against her cunt. Danger! A warning went off in her mind.
"Kiddo, listen. I have something important to tell you."
"I know the Lakhsman Rekha Ma, the line that I must not cross, Don't worry, my penis will not penetrate your cunt."
"No listen, it is something more important than that."
"What?"
"Listen carefully and understand what I am staying."
"I am all ears, even though my mind seems to be on your naked body."
"Look, this Mohammad will never be able to put a child in my belly."
"You would know best."
"But that means that we will never be free of him."
"So you want someone else to do that ... without him knowing about it."
"Yes."
"Who do you have in mind?"
"Would you do it?"
"What?" Rik jumped. "You want your own son to put another child in your belly?"
"Who else can I ask without people getting to know."
"I am sure that are many who would love to sleep with you."
"But why would I want to sleep with them?" Rina's voice was down to a whisper.
"Why not?"
"I have always been sleeping with men as a matter of necessity and never out of choice."
"You choose to sleep with me? Your son?"
"Yes, if it is OK with the boy, the kid, who is the light of my life, who has been my one and only true friend and lover all these years."
"Ma, I am touched ... I don't know what to say."
"Don't say anything, just lie in my arms and let us plan an escape from this hell."
"Tell me Ma, tell me what should I do?"
"We have time until my next visit to Mohammad. To think through all this."
"What will people say, if you bear my child?"
"Does anybody ever say good things about us? And who would know anyway?"
"So do we start right away?" grinned Rik. "Just wave the green flag and my prick shall be buried inside your cunt."
"Wait!"
"Aw, do not be a spoilsport."
"I am not, but believe me kiddo, this is the first time in my 35 years that I am about to be fucked by, to make love to someone whom I really love -- not a customer but a friend, a boyfriend, my lover, the husband that I never had." There was a hint of melancholy in her voice. Rik noticed a tiny tear forming at the corner of her large, limpid eye.
"Don't cry Ma," Rik wiped the tear away with his finger. His libido was giving way to a feeling of love. "I will be your lover, your husband, just as you want it to be."
"Then I don't want to make love to you without getting married to you!"
"Marriage? You mean a legal and social ceremony? Where we invite people."
"No, no, no -- this is just between us and the God that looks over us."
"You mean we will go to temple and go through the religious ceremonies?"
"No, I do not believe in such ceremonies but I do believe in that omnipotent, omnipresent transcendence that guides our destiny."
"I do not understand what do you mean."
"Leave it to me, I know what I am doing."
"But why? Why go through all this hassle?"
"You would not understand it, or perhaps you will. It is about legitimacy."
"Of what? our relationship? it will always be illegitimate in the eyes of the world."
"No kid, it is about the legitimacy of the child that you will father."
"Father?"
"Look, you are my most wonderful son but you do not have a father."
"Someone must have impregnated you."
"Of course, and it must have been someone very nice as otherwise you would never have been as good as you are, but whoever he was, he has never staked his claim on you, never owned up to his relationship with you."
"But I would not be like that ..."
"I know but it would be wonderful if we could formalize our relationship and more importantly your's with your child in the presence of the Lord Narayana and Agni, the Lord of Fire -- as is the case in all Hindu marriages.
"If you want we can also have a civil marriage."
"If possible, why not, but that may take some time and we do not have too much of that. God is in our heart and in the palm of our hand."
"So what do we do now?"
"Wait for an auspicious day?" Rina was grinning but Rik failed to notice the thin stream of blood that was oozing out of his mother's slit. "I will tell you when I am ready for you."
The next few days were humdrum and mundane except that Rina made Rik sleep in the drawing room because, as she jokingly remarked, she did not believe in premarital sex! If Rik had been fidgety about this, he hid it very well in his immersion in a series of events at his college.
A week later, on an auspicious Tuesday, Rina told Rik that she was at last ready.
"Ma, why don't you get a bridal makeover at a beauty parlor?"