Josie suppressed a chuckle as her husband rolled his head in orgasmic circles. He looked like a bobble-head doll.
“Want me to turn the bubbles back on?” she asked Kaz. “All it takes is the push of a button.”
“No, that’s okay,” he replied, shifting into the deep seat beside her. It didn’t seem like a big deal until she realized he was naked and she was sitting on her bathing suit bottoms. How could she squirm back into them without him noticing? Although, in the dark, did it really matter?
Chuckling, Kaz looked over to Rob and said, “Whoa, man, I think you might like those jets a little too much.”
Josie let out a weird high-pitched laugh as Rob set his head on her shoulder. “Yeah, he’d have married this tub if he’d met it first.”
“Maybe if you’d met him first you would have married me, right?” Kaz gurgled, sticking his toes out of the water at the opposite end of the tub.
The question made Josie’s spine straighten. That was exactly the kind of thing she didn’t want to get into.
“Who knows?” she said with that same high-pitched laugh.
“Take her, she’s yours,” Rob murmured as if in a dream.
With a giggle of surprise, she teased him with a playful slap to the chest. “Fuck you! Think you can go passing your wife around…?”
Hugging her, Rob replied, “It’s okay. I’m done with you. I’m ready to move on.”
“Like hell you are,” she laughed.
“I had a girlfriend,” Kaz broke in. His tone seemed sad.
Josie could feel Rob inhaling sharply as he sat up. The still water shifted around him. It was the sound of an oar in a midnight lake.
“Yeah, I remember you mentioning that,” Josie said. She would have set her hand on his thigh if she knew she could get there on target.
“Do you want to know why she broke up with me?”
“Why was that?” Rob asked, petting Josie’s leg. She always felt so lucky when other people talked about losing love. It wasn’t a sense of schadenfreude; it was more like delight in knowing she had someone as great as Rob to share her life with. She recognized how rare that was.
“There were a lot of reasons,” Kaz began. “Sure, she fixed me up, aesthetically. I looked really cool, but I was still a nerd. She kept trying to make me into something else, but we are what we are, you know?”
“Yup,” Josie replied, smiling at all the memories flooding back. “That’s what you told me when you realized I was smart. I didn’t want anyone to know. Smart and cool didn’t go together.”
Disturbing the water in front of him, Kaz said, “It wasn’t just that you didn’t want anyone else to know—you didn’t even want yourself to know.”
She smiled, realizing her eyes had adjusted to the light of the moon and stars. Kaz smiled back for a moment, but his expression became forlorn again as he said, “The other thing about my old girlfriend was that I always came in her hands.”
Rob sputtered, like he was choking on a drink. “Whoa, too much information, man!”
“Oh, shut up, Rob.” She smacked his wet chest. “What, are you stuck in the 90’s or something? Too much information…”
“Yeah,” Kaz went on, unperturbed. “Would you believe I’m still a virgin? All the years Shelley and I were together, I never got inside her. Not once. There were times when she’d get out a condom and by the time she’d rolled it down, I’d already filled the damn thing with jizz.”
“Dude,” Rob said, with a note of mockery in his voice. Josie pinched him and he straightened up to say, “That’s too bad, man. But I guess she wanted something you weren’t.”
“Yeah,” Josie picked up. “If she couldn’t take you for who you are, you probably weren’t meant to be together.”
“I know,” Kaz acknowledged. “Honestly, I always felt like I needed a really special girl to lose my virginity to. Josie, I still think that girl is you.”
Oh God.
The steam rising from the tub choked her as she struggled to get air in her lungs. She stared straight ahead, unable to succumb to the pressure of looking either her husband or her old boyfriend in the eye. It’s not that she was looking to have an affair or anything. Far from it. She was, for the most part, deliriously happy with married life. It was just… well, she felt so sorry for Kaz. Maybe if she’d been ready to share her body with a guy back when they were together, he wouldn’t be in this situation now.
Rob was the first to speak. “Wow, man. That’s a bold thing to admit in front of a girl’s husband.”
“Well, yeah, I know,” Kaz replied. The men looked around her to meet each other’s gazes. “But I wouldn’t have said it not in front of you, you know what I mean? That’s not right.” To Josie, he said, “I never brought this up behind his back, right? I never let on I felt that way.”
“No, you sure didn’t,” Josie answered.
She probably wouldn’t have invited him to stay for the holidays if he had. Sitting in the hot tub between the two men, she felt like a child strapped into the middle seat of an old car, squished in between her mom and her grandmother.
“Excuse me,” Josie said, nearly rising out of her seat before she’d put her bottoms back on. After struggling into them quick as a bunny, she hopped up on the side of the tub and down onto the deck. “You guys stay out as long as you please, but I’m…”
As she spoke, she realized she’d put her bottoms on inside out and she hadn’t put her flip-flops back on at all. The snow burned her feet. She left her towel on the chair and raced into the house, embarrassed by the immaturity of her reaction.
When she arrived in the master bedroom, she sat down wet before the mirror just to look herself in the eye. She could hear the jets come back on the tub, but she didn’t budge. So much could happen, if she let it.
Chapter Five
When Rob came into the bedroom, Josie was still at the mirror in her inside-out bathing suit.
“We’re all pruney!” he teased, tickling her neck with waterlogged fingers.
She brushed them away a little harder than he deserved. “Oh, we are, are we? Who’s we?” She didn’t give him the opportunity to answer. “And what have we been doing all this time?”
He shook his head. “What are you talking about?”
When she looked up at him, she felt tears welling in her eyes. Kneeling beside her vanity stool, he threw his head in her lap and she watched her expression soften in the mirror.
“I don’t know,” she replied, watching a smile grow across her face. “I’ve been up here thinking what you might say about me, what kind of deal you men would cut with me as chattel. Maybe you’d trade me off in exchange for a good noodle recipe.”
“What?” he chuckled softly, adjusting the towel around his middle. “Do you not realize how silly that sounds?”
“Yes,” she admitted.
“Josie honey, you make way more money than I do. Even if I did trade you for noodles, you could easily buy your way out of the purchase arrangement.”
“I know,” she laughed. “And still, I depend on you. It isn’t money I come home to at the end of the day. Not even a house. I come home to you and this little family. If you weren’t here, I would…” The images scratching like beetles across her heart were so horrific she had to repress them even before their veils had lifted. “I need you.”
“I need you too,” Rob said, nodding in her lap. “I wouldn’t trade you for all the noodle recipes in China.”
“What about Japan?”
“Throw in Korea and I’d be tempted,” he joked. “No, I wouldn’t sell you off to Kaz. All we were doing in the hot tub was trying to get his cock under control.”
As she threw her head back, laughing out loud, a chill breezed across her skin. “Oh, let me up, will you? I need to throw on a sweater or something.”
“You shouldn’t laugh, you know,” he called as she tossed her bathing suit over the towel bar. Slipping inside her super-soft terry robe, she picked up her toothbrush.
Rob came to join her, hanging his towel over the shower rail. Almost in a whisper, he said, “Your man Kaz is really sensitive about the whole premature ejaculation thing.”
As he sauntered naked from the bathroom, Josie brushed her teeth and puzzled through what he’d just said. With her toothbrush hanging out the side of her mouth, she asked, “What are you talking about, Rob?”
He jammed his feet into Christmas tree sleep pants and dove like a child into bed. “Oh, you know,” he replied, watching her in the open door. “He was just telling me more about that girlfriend situation, and we figured he could do with a lesson in restraint.”
Josie just stared at her husband as he opened the covers for her. She had no clue what he was talking about.
Spitting into the sink, she rinsed her mouth and walked into the bedroom. “I’m missing something, here. What were you doing?”
“Okay,” he said as she sat on the bed. “Sometimes a guy has problems holding back, you know, when he’s with a woman.”
“Yeah.”
“And when he takes matters into his own hands, everything seems fine. He thinks the problem’s solved when he’s jackin’ it himself, so he goes back to the girl and—pow!—he comes in her hands.”
“Okay…”
Rob took a big breath before going on. “Sometimes it works to seek help from an outside source.”
“Like a hooker,” Josie said with a nod. Hell, she was no prude.
“Well, that’s what I said, but he says he’s never been keen on the idea. So I figure, hey, help a brother out.”
“Don’t say brother.” It irked her when white guys talked that way. Still, she couldn’t keep herself from smiling at the idea of her husband jerking Kaz off right there in the hot tub. “When you say help out, you mean, like, hands on?”
“Yeah, and I really think it helped.” For a second, his face turned to stone. “Wait, you’re okay with all this, right?”
“Yes, yes, yes.” She threw off her robe and snuck beneath the covers.
Josie loved the image of her man with a man. She’d always told him she wouldn’t consider it cheating if he got with another guy. Hey, guys had parts she didn’t. They were altogether different animals. As long as he told her all about it, she was cool as a cucumber.
“So, what did you do, just jerk him off? Oh my God, you have to tell me everything.” But before he had a chance to reply, she interrupted him. “Hey, wait… where is Kaz?”
“He went up to get his laptop. Did you know that guy has three separate businesses?”
“Yes,” she said. “I was there when he told you that. Please, please, please, just tell me what happened. I’m dying here!”
After he’d shuffled out of his sleep pants, Rob wrapped his fist around his cock. “I told him to imagine I was a pretty girl while I did this to him. I told him to feel how soft my skin was, and imagine red polish on my nails.”
As Rob squeezed his cock, it grew in his hand. Josie didn’t keep measurements or anything, but it seemed like his erections had a magical ability to grow infinitely large.
“I just took hold of him like this, and he got huge just like I’m getting huge.”
“What about you?” Josie asked, pawing at his belly. She kissed his lips as he stroked his cock. “Did you get huge too?”
“A little bit,” he admitted. “But I was still pretty gone from you jerking me off.”
“But it turned you on, right?” she asked, planting a trail of kisses down his chest. “Touching another guy’s dick and making it all nice and hard must have got you so horny.”
Rob chuckled as she shuffled under the covers. She placed her hand on top of his and took his cockhead between her lips. When she took his fingers and guided their motion, he gasped. “Honey, I think me jerking your friend off is making you horny.”
“You can say that again.” She licked the gourmet quality precum from his tip before swallowing the monster.
Rob arched his back and moaned. That meant she was doing a good job—or, rather, giving a good job. As she pumped in time with his rocking hips, she sucked him like a big ‘ol candy cane. She plunged her face on him, thrusting her hips as his fingers reached up to tickle her clit.
“I guess you’re taking me all the way home like this,” Rob said as she rocked her pussy on his hand.
“Oh, you’d like that, wouldn’t you?” Sitting up in bed, she traced her fingers all the way up to his cockhead, and then pressed her palm down on the wet tip. Just as she threw one leg over him, thunderous footfalls came down the attic stairs. Their bedroom door burst open.
Josie froze. She didn’t need to turn around to know what had happened. Rob looked beyond her naked body and hissed, “Kaz, close the door, will you?”
“Dude, I am so sorry!” But instead of slinking sheepishly out of the room, he came inside and closed the door. “I just came down to say goodnight, but I can see you’re having a good night without me.”
“Yeah, that’s right.” Shaking off her stupor, Josie rolled off Rob and pulled the bed sheets over her naked breasts.
She chuckled nervously as her gaze slid down Kaz’s silk pyjamas. The shining red fabric draped over his limbs gave her an even better idea of his essence than his nudity had. She still couldn’t get over how cool he’d become.
“Did Rob tell you about…?”
“The hot tub,” she said. “Yeah, it’s totally fine.”
“Yeah,” he replied, taking a seat at the foot of their bed. “Trust me, I didn’t come here thinking I’d seduce your husband, but he said you were cool with stuff like that.”
“I wouldn’t say you seduced me. I mean, let’s be fair,” Rob interrupted. “It was a practical matter of cock-training.”
Josie smiled at her husband. It was so cute how he’d suddenly come down with a case of don’t-call-me-gay. One little incident in a hot tub hardly coloured her view of his sexuality. If anything, the incident gave him a heightened sex appeal. She guessed he’d jerked off with guys back in university, but now she knew for sure. It happened in her own backyard.
“If we’re talking practicality,” Josie chimed in, “why don’t you just jack off before your dates? I’ve heard that really helps. That way, you don’t get too excited and you’ve got a little more control when you get naked with a girl.”
“Oh, yeah?”
“Yeah,” she replied. “I thought that was common knowledge. Why is it that girls know more about dicks than guys do?”
Rob said, “It’s the plight of the modern woman. You know everything there is to know about dicks except how to grow working ones for yourselves.”
“Fuck you,” Josie chuckled, smacking his hand away from his adorable face. “Don’t get all Freudian on me.”
“What? That’s the quandary of the information age. We’ve got all the facts, but we don’t know how to use them.”
She liked the way Kaz looked at her, with a combination of adoration and awe. It made her wish she could go back in time and fuck him in high school. Of course, she couldn’t make that happen. But there were other options. It’s not like he’d died and gone to heaven. He was right there in front of her, sitting on her bed after jacking off with her husband.
The possibilities were endless.
“You know, Rob,” she said, never unlocking her gaze from Kaz’s. “Maybe you were on to something with that whole cock-training idea.”
“Was I?” he asked, like he was stunned to be right for once.
“Yeah,” she replied, letting the covers fall to her hips.
She watched Kaz’s gaze swerve to her bare tits, then back up to her eyes. He smiled, but she raised an eyebrow. They were co-conspirators, but not to Rob’s exclusion.
“Maybe all Kaz needs is a little experience.”
“I know,” Rob said. “I think so too.”
He shot her a sly smile, and she knew right away he was on board and ready to roll with whatever she had up her sleeve. Not that she was quite sure what that was yet…
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“What would help?” she asked, crawling out of the covers and down the mattress. “Do you think it would help if I sucked your cock?”
Rob rolled out of bed to lock the bedroom door as Kaz squeaked, “I don’t know if I could handle that.”
“Sure you could, man,” Rob chimed in, curling back into bed behind Josie. He ran his hands across her ass, giving the closest cheek a loving bite. “Are you concerned about diseases or whatever? Because we’re both clean and you’re virgin.”
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