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“Lucy,” Tom said, “Please meet Amanda. Amanda, Lucy.”

They shook hands - even though Laura had told Lucy everything about their past and the demise of their once solid and trusting friendship done in by a cheating ex-boyfriend and ex-room mate, Lucy had some sort of a switch that she could turn on and off in social situations. Lucy, in fact, was preoccupied wondering where all of the men were.

“And,” Tom motioned with hands referring to Laura and Amanda, “I think that you two already know each other.”

Tom smiled warmly, and almost mockingly, which pissed Laura off even more.

“Hi,” Laura said smartly to Amanda and quickly turned to Tom and grabbed his arm.

“Can I speak to you a minute?”

Taking Tom aside out onto the balcony, the warmth of the fire under the grill made Laura readjust her stance slightly.

“What in the hell is this?!” She said at a level that she was sure was not overheard but strong enough for Tom to know her rage.

“Listen,” he pleaded, “I’m sorry. Listen to what I have to say. Please. There are a couple of things that you don’t know, and I thought about this for a month and a half, and trust me, please. Just trust me.”

“Trust you?!” Laura shouted.

“Trust you, hell, I don’t even know you!”

“Look, just listen to what she has to say. If you aren’t happy with it, not satisfied with whatever it is she wants to tell you, then blame me for it, I just want to help,” Tom pleaded.

“I do blame you, ass hole, you set me up!”

“No, Laura, I didn’t. I like you, a lot as a matter of fact. I don’t want to hurt you. I have to cook steaks. Please, just listen to her for two minutes. Please.”

“Fuck you,” Laura said, glaring into his eyes. They were soft, and gentle. It made Laura all that more determined.

Tom threw his hands up.

“Laura, if I would have told you that she was coming, you would have never shown up. And if you weren’t going to be here, she probably wouldn’t have come either. Please. She just wants two minutes.”

Laura, lips drawn tight in anger, looked away. She had to. Tom was too much, too honest, too nice. He made her melt, sexually, in every way. She couldn’t look into his eyes for more than a minute without feeling like candle wax under a flame. She had known that from about a minute after she met him one accidental day in the apartment laundry room that accidentally led to the best sexual experience of her life. Everything, accidentally.

The silence lasted long enough for Tom to plead again.

He caressed her arm with his hand and kissed her gently on the cheek. She shuddered, hoping he didn’t know that he was breaking her. Laura didn’t want that, and wouldn’t have it. She couldn’t talk.

“I have to go get the steaks, she only wants a minute or two,” he said, releasing his hand from her, as if doing so reluctantly. He looked at her while walking back into the house, almost tripping over the threshold of the sliding glass door. It took all that she could take not to laugh, while starring away pretending to be indignant and still seeing him out of the corner of her eye.

As Tom regained his balance he turned and walked past Amanda and Lucy, gracefully interrupting them and grabbing Lucy’s arm and having her accompany Tom into the kitchen. All that Laura could do was admire Tom’s ass as he walked away, and seeing Amanda take her queue from Tom she began walking toward Laura out on the balcony. Laura once again became indignant as Amanda approached.

“I’m sorry Laura,” Amanda said as Laura looked down and slightly away.

“I know I hurt you and I fucked up our friendship. I wouldn’t blame you if you never talked to me again, but I had to tell you how I felt about a couple of things, and please hear me, and then hate me if you want to, I wouldn’t blame you at all.”

Laura stayed focused on the ground. Tom had softened her, but Amanda was a different story. She had become closer to Amanda than anyone she had ever met, and had been hurt because of her, worse than she had ever been hurt before. Amanda was like her soul mate. Laura shared all of her secrets with her, everything that she ever was and ever wanted to be. It had hurt, and Laura never adjusted fully to all of what had happened. She looked up at Amanda, daggers in her eyes, and said nothing.

Amanda continued, “He told me some things. He promised me things that involved you. I love you Laura, but there’s more than that to it. You probably won’t understand this, and I even still don’t, but I have feelings for you that I don’t know how to explain.”

“What!?” Laura said. “What in the hell are you talking about?”

The moon, three-quarters full, reflected beautifully off of Amanda’s body. She was wearing a light halter-top that covered her breasts tightly, and came down less than modestly to expose Amanda’s navel. Her jeans covered her full hips tightly but not obviously, and their bodies were a striking contrast - in the opposite direction of Laura and Lucy - Laura’s compact and lovely form against Amanda’s womanly and even somewhat Amazon like body with her large breasts and her height. Laura momentarily allowed her mind to drift to the various times that she fantasized about Amanda and her ex, and then she caught herself and stopped. The heat of the grill was countering the slight breeze enough to snap Laura back into what was going on.

Their conversation was also briefly interrupted by a man walking into Tom’s front door. A silhouette of a tall man in a cowboy hat, and Tom was quickly there at the door and greeted him and whisked him into the kitchen.

“Listen, Laura, I hate to tell you this, but I was never attracted to that ass hole that you used to be with. The only reason that I fucked him was because he promised me something if I did. He promised me that I could get closer to you,” Amanda said.

“What? What kind of shit is that? You were my best friend! I confided in you! I…” Laura was interrupted.

“No, Laura, not like I wanted exactly. It was selfish of me. I wanted…” Amanda stopped, her voice cracking.

There was silence. A tear rolled down Amanda’s cheek, and the moonlight reflected off of its tiny glassy roundness. The tear stayed momentarily on her blush, tensioned perhaps by the silence between them. It finally rolled down farther and dropped out of sight into the dark floor. Another rolled out, as if on queue, as if the runway was now clear. It only stayed momentarily and then fell before two more dropped in sequence from her eye and they then quickly collided together and their weight collectively forced them down and off of Amanda’s flush and sent the mated pair of teardrops silently downward toward the abyss.

Amanda looked up finally at Laura, and somehow kept her lower lip from quivering momentarily.

“I want you, Laura, and I sacrificed our friendship for a chance to sleep with you, and I’m sorry…”

Amanda’s eyes filled like empty reservoirs and then she blinked and broke the dams. She didn’t bring her hands to her face to wipe her eyes, and Laura was again broken, and she melted, and she looked into Amanda and found her friend again somehow, at that moment, even if she didn’t understand all of it. Once by the pure raw sexual desire for a man and again by the sweet caress of a friend who had made a mistake for reasons that Laura couldn’t comprehend, Laura was broken in the same hour. Laura embraced Amanda, who was crying almost uncontrollably now. Laura’s eyes filled with saltwater too. In their embrace, Laura’s head was spinning.

Fantasizing about Amanda’s naked body for all of that time, even if there was another man involved, and now what was Amanda trying to tell her, and why did it turn her on a little bit - or maybe more than a little bit - and everything was weird but so much more than amazing than weird and she felt so good with her body pressed up against Amanda’s. Sensual, different, and arousing, thinking about exploring something with this woman who she had imagined naked and turned on while masturbating so many times after Amanda had left.

“Explain it to me later,” Laura said. “I have some things to tell you about too.”

Laura then kissed Amanda. On the lips, fully, openly, and not cautiously at all. Their lips parted more openly, and Amanda allowed her tongue to gently and slowly enter Laura’s mouth and Laura shivered. She was kissing a girl. And it felt good, better than any kiss she could remember, and her mind was racing to remember and she couldn’t so she gave up on that and gave in to the kiss. Amanda’s hot mouth gently and passionately locked with hers, perfectly. Laura pressed herself tighter against Amanda and the kiss was then deeper and hotter and she felt Amanda’s hand slowly caressing the right cheek her ass. Laura tingled, and pressed herself against Amanda even tighter, when a gentle and familiar voice suddenly caused them to part their embrace.

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“Um,” Tom started, his voice completely cracking, “I think I should put the steaks on now.”

They both turned and looked as he stood, embarrassed and somewhat exposed, steaks on a plate in one hand and tongs in the other, and a very large and obvious bulge in his pants that he could do nothing about. Amanda and Laura looked at each other, and smiled a horny smile together.

* * *

Tony arrived just before the steaks were done, and introductions were made - the cowboy’s name was Jake - and everyone was laughing at everyone else. There was tension, but it was thin, and the new company gave the tension a slack that allowed everyone to enjoy everyone else, for the most part. The wine was excellent, and Tom proved a worthy cook. After a couple of hours Jake and Lucy were inseparable (and equally in tune with the delicacies of their own type of romance) and they ran off together, to someplace else in the city, into the moonlit night.

Tom, Tony, Lucy and Laura sat in the living room, sharing wine and laughing at the evening. Laura and Amanda hadn’t had a chance to talk all evening, and that made it even better for Laura because she knew that no matter what happened in Tom’s apartment this night, that she would probably get a chance to be with Amanda later. That turned her on, remembering the kiss and wondering what would happen next. Tony was sitting next to Tom but practically in Tom’s lap, and now starting openly and obviously touching Tom, teasing his thigh with one hand and dramatically illustrating a point in conversation with the other. Tom just sat and enjoyed it, it was obvious to Laura that Tom was aroused in his slacks, and Amanda and Laura sat in different chairs taking it all in.

“So, you two petfish are like long lost friends, eh?” Tony would tease every now and then, just to get a reaction, and they would all laugh.

Laura was quite aroused now at the sight of Tom’s obvious hardness, and it turned her on even more to noticed that Amanda was watching as well. She wondered if Amanda was as turned on as she was. Tony’s effeminate voice and mannerisms made Laura feel completely at ease somehow, and she had let her mind wander back to six weeks ago. She hoped that something would happen, to the point that she wanted to suggest it, but she didn’t dare. Amanda was quiet, and smiling, and Laura kept trying not to notice Tom’s cock, which Tony would occasionally brush lightly with his hands while rubbing Tom’s thigh. Laura also was trying not to stare at Amanda’s breasts that now revealed her hard nipples through the fabric of her halter top.

Tom kept staring al Laura, and Laura was aware of it, and she knew that she was wet and she guessed that Tom might also know that. Tony was masterful, knowing exactly at what point to turn the conversation, he entertained with such skill, guiding the evening along to the exact point of no return. Tom was obviously almost fully erect, and Laura was practically sliding off of her chair, and she noticed Amanda squirming around quite frequently now.

And Amanda, to the surprise of everyone, finally broke the ice.

“Tom,” she said, “I bet that your cock weighs more than any of the nice steaks that we ate tonight, so why don’t you get a scale from somewhere and let’s find out.”

Everybody laughed, even Tom before be blushed behind his embarrassed grin, Amanda fiddling nervously with her hair afterward.

“Better yet,” Tony said, “Let’s get a ruler and measure that beautiful monster!”

And the laughter continued and Tom turned red and laughed too.

And Amanda leaned over to Laura and purposefully said loud enough for all to hear, “God I want to see that without those pants.”

“Maybe together we can talk him out of his pants,” Laura responded smiling.

They both got up and playfully walked over to Tom, and Tony stepped aside, mocking defeat, laughing. Amanda and Laura started undoing Tom’s slacks, and Laura couldn’t stop her right hand from gently feeling the enormous erection in that Tom had. He started breathing a bit faster now, smiling and closing his eyes, Tony watched, fascinated with it all.

“Hey, petswish,” she teased, why don’t you come over here and help us.

Tony laughed, and grabbed a pant leg.

* * *

They quickly went to the bedroom because the sofa was too small. The clothes had quickly all come off in the living room and Amanda and Laura, hand in hand, gently pushed Tom and his massively erect cock into the bedroom, and Amanda pulled Tony behind her as he mocking acted like a reluctant participant, his cock also erect and sprung and moving as he walked like a rod on a bobble.

With Tom pushed onto the bed, Laura led Amanda to Toms swollen cock, and Laura licked the head while Amanda licked the base. Tom moaned, and grabbed Laura’s waist and urged her gently to mount his face. Laura was tingling and her clit was swollen and she could feel her cunt pulsing with anticipation of Tom’s tongue licking her pussy. While Laura mounted Tom, Tony took the head of Tom’s cock, erect fully three inches above his own navel, and engulfed it into his mouth - slowly, and sweetly - until the base of his cock was barely visible. And then brought it out again, slowly, revealing his cock now covered with Tony’s saliva. Amanda groaned, imagining how it must have felt.

“Amanda,” Laura said, noticing it, “Come here, I want to taste you.”

Amanda moved to present her naked body to Laura, who, while Tom’s delicious tongue teased Laura’s clit, began kissing Amanda’s body. Laura began on her totally erect nipples, and her breasts swelled even more than their largeness normally was, and then she rapidly worked her way down until Amanda repositioned her body to allow Laura to go lower. Amanda was dripping wet. Laura tasted Amanda for the first time, Amanda’s swollen clit was quite large, larger than Laura had imagined, and Laura licked it teasingly which sent a shudder up Amanda’s spine.

“Baby, I come very easy,” Amanda confessed as she threw her head back and closed her eyes.

Laura moaned and continued, and Tom had Laura on the brink of a huge climax. Laura watched Tony sucking Tom and Laura was on the threshold of a huge orgasm, and she licked Amanda harder and Amanda’s hips shook.

“I’m coming,” Amanda said, pressing her hips toward Laura’s mouth, as Laura watched Tom’s body tighten, and Tony masturbating furiously while Amanda was pressing her tongue now directly on Amanda’s swollen clit.

Amanda shrieked and squirted juice on Laura’s face which was something that Laura hadn’t expected, and it heightened her ecstasy knowing how big of an orgasm that she’d given Amanda, and she screamed because she couldn’t help it and Tom’s tongue was so perfect.

“I’m fucking coming!”

And Laura came while watching Tony come, Tony was silently but obviously shooting all over Tom’s tight ball sack Tom’s thighs and Amanda started to help Tony now as Laura watched. Tom’s body was taught and his eyes were closed and his breathing was so rapid that he couldn’t even make a sound. Amanda shoved Tony’s head out of the way and worked Tom’s throbbing cock as deeply as Tony did and even faster, and Tom yelled.

Amanda threw her head out of the way and jerked Tom’s convulsions rhythmically and they watched Tom come all over his chest and part of his stomach and even on his own face and in his own hair.

They were all panting. And Tony went and got some towels.

Tony then stripped the comforter and the wetness off of the bed, and they rolled around there naked for a while, laughing and embracing, and teasing each other because it felt good to do that.

It always feels good to do that.

The End

Soldiering to Union

There I was walking in the door to my office, right on time. Double checking the watch on my wrist, yep, 5:30 AM. I am thinking, “Who goes to work this early? Oh, yeah, that’s right, I do. Damn military contract.” Don’t get me wrong, I was very proud to serve, loved my job actually, but morning person I am not and the military does everything at “O” to early. Anyway, after I get to work I realize I do like this shift because I can get a lot of work done before the rest of the crew rolls in. Then, I am off work by 3:30 PM to enjoy the rest of my day. So goes the cycle of my life at work.

One day, I get a visitor to my office as soon as I arrived. I am a little annoyed by the fact he is hovering before I even get my morning coffee. I mean, come on. Can a girl have some coffee and settle in at her desk? Check some e-mail? I whipped around after setting my keys down on the desk, hand on my right hip. I turned so fast, I could tell his eyes hadn’t been focused on the back of my head. I was wearing my usual, “dress blues” uniform - skirt hemmed just below the knee, short sleeve shirt adorned with my name tag and ribbons, sheer hose, and black patent leather two and a half inch heels. Working among lots of men, I preferred being easily identified within my gender group and dressed accordingly.

My dark brown hair, trimmed to just above the collar freely swayed when I tilted my head toward my right shoulder, “Can I help you?” I nearly sneered.

Taken a back by my attitude, he stammered a bit flashing a pair of lovely clear blue eyes my way, “I…uhh…I am starting in the training office this morning and they told me to see you.”

Realizing I would be working closely with this man, I decided it would be in my best interest to ease up and be nice. I was just in a mood anyway and it wasn’t his fault now, was it?

A quick once over told me his name was last name was Lawman (no one used first names on active duty; even friends called each other by their last name), he was in the security field, and we were the same rank (E-5). That is one thing I liked about my job, you could tell all you really needed to know professionally just my checking out the uniform the troop was wearing.

“Oh, I see, “I said flashing a smile and trying to apologize with my glassy green eyes, “Let me get you started with the transfer packet.”

I turned around and pulled a blank set of forms from my desk file drawer. I was certain I could feel him checking out my rear as he had a full view of it from across the counter. When I turned around he quickly shifted his eyes back to mine. I felt the heat hit my face from the excitement.

“Here, you need to complete the highlighted areas on each page and sign,” I instructed.

As he got lost in the paperwork, I pretended to be checking e-mail, but was taking a closer look at my new co-worker. High and tight soft brown hair, over six foot tall, and slender. Damn, I hated the fact that fatigues hid so much of the body and it was near impossible to know his actual build. Oh yeah, then there was the wedding ring on the left hand. I had no idea who his wife was, but suddenly I realized I was very jealous of her. I also quickly returned to my work, he was off limits. Damn!

The days and weeks, turned to months. Lawman and I worked closely together, but we left it at that. Yeah, sure there was the casual flirting. Me walking down the tiled hall, my heels clicking away; him peaking his head out just to watch me go by asking why I didn’t stop in to chat. Him tapping away on the keyboard; me half leaning against and half sitting on his desk watching.

Things began to get more intense when we were both working a late night. As I was on my way out the back door, I saw he was still in…and alone.

For the first time, I saw him in just his black t-shirt he wore under his fatigue shirt, which was hanging on the back of the chair at this hour, “What are you doing?” I asked.

Stunned at the sudden break in silence, he turned to me, “No, what are you doing?”

After some idle chit chat, things turned personal. He revealed he was having problems at home. He was working late so he had some time away to think. He just wasn’t focused on his marriage like he should be.

“Why? I thought she was a great wife? I thought you were very much in love with her? What ab…”

“That is what I want people to think,” he interrupted, “Truth is, I have been thinking about you for months. More and more. I wonder where you are, what you are doing, if you are dating someone. All the time, I am thinking of you. Not her,” he looked very sad by this revelation, but also finally relieved he had said it. Then he looked to me waiting for a response.

My head now reeling from this information and my heart racing. I walked over and took his face in my hands. I wanted so badly to kiss him, instead, I said, “I have a lot about you too, but you need to think this through. You need to be sure you want to do this. We won’t be able to stop once we start. There will no going back to just being friends.”

He stood up so he was now towering over me looking in my eyes with a fierceness I had never seen from him before, “I have thought about it.”

In one motion he bent over, grabbed each one of my legs just behind the knee and picked me up like I weighed ten pounds. Caught off guard, I wrapped my arms around his neck to keep from falling back. I giggle nervously and he quickly planted his soft lips on mine. His kiss hot and, oh so inviting.

Regaining myself, I asked him to put me down. Almost feeling rejected, he demanded to know why.

“I told you to think about this very hard. IF we are going to take this to another level, I don’t want our first time together to be here, at the office. Go home, look at your wife, have a conversation with her. If you still think you want more with me, you know where I live.”

I didn’t even give him a chance to respond. I turned and darted out the door certain our encounter was a fleeting moment and he would get himself together, go home, and make love to his wife. Me? Another night alone.

After arriving home, I took a long hot shower. Every time I closed my eyes and let the hot water run over me, I could see his face and feel his kiss. I did ache for him. Was that wrong?

I settled into bed, the coolness of the sheets felt good against my naked body after the long shower. “What a day?” I thought. I was just ready for it to be over and I thought it was.

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Just as I was drifting off, there was a tap on my window. In the darkness outside, I could see him. My heart began to race. I grabbed my fluffy white bath robe and was tying it around my waist as I arrived at the door.

I opened the door. I could tell he was freshly showered now in blue jeans, logo t-shirt tucked in, Dr. Marten’s boots, and brown leather bomber jacket. In the moonlight I could see his hands were buried in his front pockets and those blazing blue eyes looked at me almost in apology for showing up at my house. That was the first I had seen him in anything other than a uniform and was pleasantly surprised. I invited him in offering him a seat in the living room.

He sat on the edge of the couch, elbows on his knees, hands clasped together, starring at the floor. I was curious if he could see I was as nervous about his presence as he appeared to be. I sat in the chair across from him, much in the same pose he was, but looking at him.

I didn’t know what to say, neither did he. Finally, he met my gaze. I tossed my hands out to the side and shook my head in a gesture of, “What happened?”

He broke the silence, “I don’t know. I had to come. I tried not too, I did.”

“You’re sure,” I asked a final time.

“Yes,” he replied almost pleading.

Without another word, I took his hand and led him to my bedroom. He sat on the down comforter at the foot of the bed in the still dark room. I grabbed the book of matches off the vanity proceeding to light the three candles that would add a soft glow in the room.

Once they were lit, I walked over to him, placed his face in my hands, and pulled his head toward me. He held my hips in his hands and rested his forehead against me. I could almost hear him smell my freshly washed skin. I bent over slightly and pulled his face to mine. Our lips met will the same intensity and passion as earlier that night, this time we stayed locked and I didn’t pull away. I offered my tongue and he was quick to accept it.

His hands moved to my head to ease me out of our kiss. He opened my robe to reveal my body to himself for the first time. He blushed when he was greeted with toned soft curves, large full breasts, and a neatly trimmed pussy.

He sensed I felt vulnerable to him now. He pulled me back to him and brought his lips to my right nipple. He kissed it lightly, then took the now fully erect nipple into his mouth. He cupped the other breast in his hand gently kneading it. He then moved his lips to the nipple he had been neglecting. I gave a couple of groans to show my approval.

He placed his free hand between my quivering thighs. My heart racing and my breathing heavy in anticipation. He slowly moved up the inside of my thigh, the side of his index landing squarely on my throbbing clit. Pressing against me harder, he could feel the wetness oozing from me. He looked at me, mouth still on my nipple, but smiling knowing he was the cause of it.

After a few minutes of rubbing my pussy and flicking my clit in a methodic rhythm with his fingers, he brought me to the edge cumming all over his hand. He stopped, saying if he couldn’t cum yet, neither could I.

I laid down on the bed now very frustrated, yet so horny I couldn’t lay still. He stood up to undress. I had fanaticized about seeing him fully naked for months. As he revealed himself to me, I realized every second had been worth the wait. Solid, well defined chest and arms, six-pack to boot. He even had definition in his oblique muscles that were reminiscent of shark gills. Long strong legs, tight ass, and a perfect seven inch long, thick, and very hard cock.

I couldn’t contain myself when he asked if I liked what I saw, “Fuck yeah! You can stand there all night for all I care. Looking at you will easily send me over the edge.”

Pleased with my response, he settled on the bed, his face between my now open legs. I was always nervous when being eaten, but now I craved it. I grabbed the back of his head and grinded my hips as his tongue danced with my wet hole. Taking my clit gently between his teeth, yet still flicking it with his tongue, he allowed me to cum. There wasn’t a doubt I was going too. My moaning and grinding had increased to a forceful pace. I felt my juices flow out and run down my crack headed for the sheets. Before, the stream made it, he took a long lick from back to front taking as much as possible into his mouth. He sucked it down like he had a thirst to quench commenting on how sweet it was.

No longer able to contain myself, I pushed him on his back and wrapped my hand around his awaiting cock. I stroked it at a moderate pace while I kissed him tasting what was just between my legs. I made my way down to his chest and stomach. I had to kiss and tongue him all over there before I made my way further down.

I stopped briefly to look at him in the soft light. He looked at me almost begging to be sucked. I opened my hot mouth and placed his shaft inside. In a single motion, I took all I could at one time. I couldn’t take all of him in my mouth, but damned if I didn’t try. He gasped with pleasure. I kept at it, long slow strokes, using my hand stroking below my mouth to compensate for the portion I wasn’t able to suck in. I began to twist my hand slightly while stroking and fastened my pace, sucking even harder. The cut head was now very purple ready to explode. I wanted to feel him in my pussy, but more so, I wanted to taste him as he tasted me. He tried to warn me and pull out before he shot his load in my mouth. I dove my mouth deeper and held him there while he shot the hot cum filling my mouth full. When I felt the convulsions stop, I sucked all I could off of him with the last stroke up. He looked mortified that he let go in my mouth, until I swallowed every drop.

I positioned myself next to him thinking we were done. I had never been with a man that could go more than once in a single session. I soon learned different. Placing his hand around my waist, he scooped me so I was under him. He worked his legs between mine and held my eyes in his as he slid his still hard shaft in me not stopping until he was all the way in. I felt my lower lip tremble in ecstasy. I tilted my head back, exposing my neck which he planted with a hot warm kiss. Each thrust was amazing. He touched spots I had never knew I had. Feeling his body against me and the muscles flex with each stroke was more than I had ever hoped for in a lover. I buried my face in his shoulder and dug my heels in forcing him deeper.

His pace quickened as I demanded more, my pussy tighten and my thighs held him against me. I felt his body tense and he grunted a few times as he came a final time, draining everything he had left to give me. He remained on top holding me as we both were now exhausted.

Before giving in to sleep, he had no choice but to dress and head back home to his wife. At the end of the day, she was still his. For now anyway.

The End

We Saw Fireworks

Burned out. That’s what I was on the occasion of my boss’s 4th of July party last year. I was twenty-six years old, just three years out of UC Heritage’s school of Business, a junior accountant at one of the most prestigious firms in the greater Heritage area, and I was just as burned out as a man could be and still drag himself into work each day.

I had been at Breckman, Remington, and Dowel since my graduation and I had been working a minimum of eighty hours every week since. My wife, who had been my high school girlfriend and had put me through college by working as a waitress, had put up with my extended absences for sixteen months before packing her bags and boogying on down the road to greener pastures. Our divorce had been finalized just weeks before the party. I think the lack of any social life in the wake of our separation contributed to what happened that night.

Stephen Remington III was one of the senior partners of the firm and was the direct boss of my division. He was a chubby, balding man in his fifties and a stern, unforgiving taskmaster to his underlings. He was also a very rich man, as were all of the partners, and he owned a winery in one of the lush valleys of nearby Lake County. It seemed that in order to reward the efforts of the sixty-one accountants that had spent the past year slaving under his command, he decided to throw us an Independence Day party at his spread, complete with barbeque, drinks, dancing, and fireworks. Attendance at the event, as was the case with any company function, was pretty much mandatory.

And so it came to pass that instead of sitting at home and enjoying one of the few days that the firm’s offices were actually closed down and locked, I put on a stylish pair of khaki shorts, a stylish blue polo shirt, and hopped in my car for the ninety minute drive to Lake County.

The winery that Mr. Remington owned sat upon five hundred acres of prime real estate nestled against the side of a valley. Most of the land was taken up by the vineyards, which stretched up and down a series of gently rolling hills along the main road. The winery itself—a majestic, three-story building of classic Spanish architecture—sat on the far west end of the property, right off the paved entrance road. It was surrounded by a huge, immaculately maintained lawn that was landscaped with hedges, flower gardens, palm trees, and a large brick barbecue enclosure. Just beyond the lawn, between the winery building and the start of the vineyards, was a round duck pond, about three hundred feet in diameter. In the center of this pond was a small island that was covered with more of the hedges and five or six of the palms. In all, the property was a very impressive chunk of land, an opulent display of our boss’s considerable wealth; wealth that we peons at the bottom of the ladder had been responsible for earning for him.

It was ten minutes after four when I pulled into the winery and parked my Mercedes (which was leased of course—my ex-wife was entitled to alimony and child support that amounted to nearly forty percent of my salary) among the other high-end automobiles of my peers. A short walk brought me to the barbecue area, which seemed to be the center of the activity. A bar had been set up here and two uniformed bartenders were on duty, mixing and serving drinks. There was also a bandstand upon which amplifiers, microphones, a drum-set, and a keyboard set were sitting idle. Recorded music was currently playing at soft volume from the speakers. Milling about everywhere, in groups of four or six or eight, were my co-workers, mostly men but a few women as well. Nearly all of them had a spouse or at least a significant other hanging on their arm or hovering close by. I felt a small pang of regret that I had been forced to attend alone but my busy schedule of late had precluded the possibility of even digging up a platonic date, let alone an actual one. I greeted people as I entered the crowd, shaking hands here, giving hugs there, passing a few phony words as if I really liked them. In truth, I detested almost everyone I worked with. They were money-grubbing back-stabbers who would do anything it took to get ahead and who would do anything they thought they could get away with to keep others down.

I found Mr. Remington near the bar and headed over to make the obligatory greeting. He was dressed in his own pair of khaki shorts and his own polo shirt with the firm’s logo upon the breast. His ample stomach, forged from years of three martini lunches, bulged over his waistline enough to conceal his belt. He was sipping what appeared to be a scotch on the rocks and puffing on a large cigar. Standing next to him was his wife, whom I had never met before but who I recognized from the pictures on his desk. She was a trophy wife in every sense of the word. A striking brunette, she was slim and petite, her body firmly toned, undoubtedly from sessions with a personal trainer. Her breasts were small but firm, an aristocratic size that did not have the unnatural symmetry of enhancement surgery shaping them. She was decked out in a cute but fashionable summer dress. She looked about twenty, twenty-four at the oldest, but I knew from company gossip that she was actually thirty-one. That same gossip had informed me that she was his second wife, replacing an older model about five years before, and that she herself was now approaching obsolescence and eventual replacement.

“John,” Remington greeted when I walked up. “Glad you could make it, son. We’ve got quite a party in store today.” He held out his hand to me.

“Uh… it’s Jeff,” I corrected, shaking with him.

“Sorry, Jeff,” he said, shaking his head in amusement. “That was some good work you did on the Feller account last week. We couldn’t have wrapped that up without you.”

“Thank you, sir,” I mumbled, doing my best to appear gracious even though I had not done any work on the Feller account or anything remotely related to it. “It’s nice to be here. A beautiful place that you have here.”

“It’s a good hobby,” he said, looking around in pride at his acres. “Not a bad tax write-off either. Have you met my wife?”

“No, I don’t believe I’ve ever had the pleasure,” I said, casting my eyes on her and smiling.

“I’m Suzanne,” she said, returning my smile and holding out her hand to me.

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I shook it, feeling the soft skin of one that has never done a day’s work in her life. I told her that I was pleased to make her acquaintance.

“Are you here by yourself, Jeff?” she asked me. “Surely a good looking guy like you didn’t come stag.”

“I’m afraid I have,” I told her. “I’ve been working kind of hard lately and wasn’t able to find a date.” I shrugged as if it didn’t matter. “What can you do, huh?”

“Well hopefully we’ll keep you entertained,” she told me.

“Yes,” Remington cut in, “I’ve hired some professional pyrotechnic technicians for the fireworks display tonight.”

“Really?” I said, as if interested.

“Indeed,” he assured me. “Of course I had to apply for a special permit in order to have a professional quality display, but it helps when you’re poker buddies with two of the county supervisors.” He laughed at his own wit. “Anyway, these guys are from Ukraine and they have ten years of experience in this sort of thing. They help with the New Year’s Eve show in downtown Heritage every year. They’ve promised me a hell of a show.”

“Is that right?” I asked, marveling to myself over the thought of Ukrainian pyrotechnicians running an American Independence Day show.

He nodded. “They’re going to set everything up on the island out there in the duck pond and shoot them straight up. It cost me a pretty penny but it should be well worth it I hope.” He winked at me. “Besides, it’s all a write-off, right? Since this is a business gathering.”

I spent another minute or so making idle chitchat with the two of them and then Steve Randall and his wife showed up to make their own niceties to the boss, allowing me to slip away. I immediately headed for the bar and ordered a stiff drink.

Soon, the barbeque was fired up, filling the air with the odor of burning briquettes. As the fire roared and then settled down, bringing the coals to optimum cooking temperature, I mingled with my co-workers, as was expected of me, mostly listening as they talked of upcoming projects, past projects, current projects, and their own hopes and dreams of someday making partner in the firm. It was a commonly accepted notion that that particular reward could conceivably come after only twelve to fifteen years of eighty-hour weeks. They all seemed excited by this thought. It only served to depress me.

Most of the other accountants and their significant others visited the bar infrequently, getting a single drink and then sipping on it until the ice was completely melted. This was a company function after all and the boss was present. Nobody wanted to be seen swilling down the booze like they were having a good time. It might reflect badly on their careers and add a few years to that twelve to fifteen that making partner took. They did this despite the fact that both Mr. Remington and his wife were pounding down scotch like it was going out of style. I made no such accommodations. I put away four whisky sours in my first hour there, getting myself a premium, grade-A buzz going. I received a few strange looks from my peers for doing this but I ignored them, caring less with each sip that I took. I figured that since I had been forced to be here, ninety miles from home on a work holiday, I was going to have myself a good time and fuck what people thought.

It was during one trip to the bar that I encountered a man that seemed very out of place at the gathering. He was short and rounded, about forty years old, and dressed in a pair of ratty blue jean shorts and a tattered T-shirt. He held a whispered conversation with the bartender and I heard a distinct Russian accent drifting over, though I could not make out the words. He must be one of the pyrotechnicians, I figured. I thought briefly of striking up a conversation with him. After all, how often does one get a chance to talk to an actual fireworks lighter? I was pretty sure he would be more interesting to talk to than anyone else at the party. But then the whispered conversation with the bartender took on the tone of negotiation. They bantered back and forth for a few minutes and then some money exchanged hands, moving from the Ukrainian’s to the bartender’s. After that a bottle of expensive vodka and a bucket of ice changed hands, this time moving in the opposite direction. The Ukrainian made a hasty exit, disappearing in the direction of the maintenance shacks near the back of the winery.

The bartender saw that I had witnessed this and paled a little.

“Don’t worry,” I told him, setting my empty glass down. “I didn’t see a thing.”

“Thanks,” he said gratefully, filling me up with a fresh whiskey sour and going heavy on the whiskey. “Just making a few extra bucks on Mr. Remington, you know? You accountants are lousy tippers.”

“Yep,” I agreed, tossing a buck into his jar. “Never bartend at a function where CPA’s are the guests. We’re the cheapest motherfuckers on Earth.”

We had a laugh about that and I took my drink and disappeared. Later, when I went to the restroom near the rear of the winery I heard laughter and excited Russian phrases drifting from the maintenance shack. It seemed that they were well into the vodka they had acquired. More power to them. I never considered for a minute that it might not be a good idea to supply men who were going to be lighting off airborne explosives with alcohol. Apparently, neither did the bartender.

It was on my sixth or seventh trip to the bar, as the steaks and chicken were being cooked on the barbeque and the bowls of potato salad were being hefted onto the serving table, that I found myself standing next to Suzanne Remington. She was a bit unsteady on her feet and her face was a little flushed. The hem of her summer dress was just above her knees and she wore no nylons. I took a moment to admire her legs, which were toned and very shapely. I couldn’t believe that old man Remington wanted to trade her in. She was a definite hottie. If she had been mine, I would’ve been banging her every night and twice on Sunday.

“You’re… Jeff, right?” she asked me as we waited for the bartender to produce our fresh drinks. “The one who came by himself?”

“That’s me,” I confirmed. “This is a really nice party you’ve thrown.”

She shrugged a little, giving a cynical look. “The best part are the drinks,” she said. “We have an absolutely wonderful bartender, don’t we?”

“I’ll have to agree with you there,” I said.

She looked me up and down for a moment. “You seem a little different than the rest of the guys. You’ve been over here to the bar as much as Stephen and I. Aren’t you afraid he’ll think badly of you?”

I hesitated for a moment before answering, wondering what her intentions were in asking me that. She didn’t seem to be grilling me, she just seemed pleasantly curious. I didn’t sense that she was going to go report what I said to her better half. “Well,” I finally said, “when you’re divorced and paying alimony and child support, you take all the free drinks you can get your hands on. Who knows when you’re going to get offered some more?”

She smiled, a genuine smile and not the phony hostess smile she had offered before. “You’re refreshing,” she told me. “An accountant with a sense of humor. I thought you had to turn that in when you graduated.”

“Not when you graduate,” I said. “Just when you get hired at BR&D. But I put a claim check on mine and I take it out with me once in a while. Today seemed a good day.”

“Careful,” she said playfully, “don’t let Stevie hear you badmouthing the company. You might have to put in another two years before they make you partner.”

“That’s another 8000 hours of work,” I said reflectively. “If I sing the company song during the fireworks show do you think that’ll make up for it?”

“Only if you do it in red, white, and blue underwear,” she told me with a giggle.

We got our drinks and she walked back to the main part of the party with me. Her husband was currently on the other side of the crowd, regaling a few of the hard-core brownnosers with tales of his climb up the fabled ladder. His voice was loud and drunken and even over the babble of dozens of other conversations we could hear a few words drifting over. Remington was definitely one of those people that loved to hear himself talk.

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Suzanne stayed next to me and we talked, our conversation taking in more neutral topics. We discovered a mutual fondness for exercising and we spent a few minutes talking of our favorite techniques for engaging in that activity. As I had suspected, she employed a personal trainer who came to her house three days a week to supervise her workouts in the fully equipped gym on the bottom floor of her house.

“He’s a gorgeous hunk,” she told me, “right out of a Chippendale calendar, but he’s as queer as a three-dollar bill.” She shook her head in amusement. “That’s what I get for letting Stevie pick the trainer for me I guess.”

“He’s just trying to keep the competition away,” I said, and then, thanks to the alcohol coursing through my body, I added: “Can’t say that I blame him, either.” I felt a little burst of adrenaline as I realized that I’d made a half-assed pass at my boss’s wife, but it eased up when I saw her smile instead of frown.

“You’re sweet,” she said, tapping my arm with her hand. “But I’d rather have someone training me who liked to look at me instead of you, you know what I mean?”

“How much does the boss pay for that?” I asked her. “Maybe I can take a shot at it?”

She giggled, slapping at my arm again. “You’re a flirt,” she told me, not seeming to mind in the least. “I can’t believe you couldn’t get a date.”

“Strange but true,” I said, looking at her glass. “Would you like another drink?”

“I’d love one,” she told me.

Dinner was served a few minutes later. Suzanne went back to sit with her husband while I joined a group on the other side of the gathering. We sat at picnic tables and munched on the food and the conversations about mergers and acquisitions and tax-free municipals went on and on. A few people gave me thinly veiled warnings that maybe I was drinking a little too much. A few gave me more specific ones.

“You better be cool, Jeff,” Mike Wilmington said softly. “Remington might be drunk but he sees everything.”

“I’m cool,” I assured him. “Alcohol consumption was what I majored in at CSUH. I can handle it.”

“Shit,” scoffed Wilmington, who was the closest thing I had to a friend at the firm. “You can’t handle anything. You were flirting with his wife man. His wife!”

“We were just talking,” I protested. “Is there any law against that?”

“There is if you want to keep working here,” he hissed. “Don’t be stupid. Lay off the booze and stay away from his piece. This is a company function, remember? It’s not a kegger behind the frat house.”

“I’ll take that under advisement,” I promised him.

And I did, deciding that he was probably right and that my judgment just might be a tad bit affected by the alcohol. I vowed to stay away from Mrs. Remington and be a good little accountant, worthy of the great BR&D name.

My vow lasted until shortly after the dinner plates were cleaned up and carted away. The band took the stage and began belting out classic rock and roll tunes from the seventies and eighties. Couples formed up in the area that had been designated as a dance floor and began to move to the beat. That was when Suzanne came over to me and asked me to dance.

“Sure,” I told her, casting a quick glance over at Mr. Remington. He was out in the dance area as well, moving and grinding with the young girlfriend of Aaron Rivers. “Let’s do it.”

The song was Too Much Time On My Hands, a good beat to dance to. We moved our hips and shoulders amid the other couples and Suzanne’s face lit up with a pleasant smile.

“You’re pretty good at this,” she told me.

“My ex-wife and I used to go out dancing a lot when we were first married,” I replied.

“Let me guess,” she said. “It was one of the things that she missed when you gave your soul to the company, right?”

“You must be psychic,” I answered.

“Nope,” she said, “I’m just a corporate wife too, from a long line of them.”

The next song was That Smell and it was followed by 867-5309 Jenny. Suzanne and I stayed together out on the dance floor through both of them, moving our bodies and sweating a little in the summer heat. A few times during our motions our hands or our hips came into contact with each other. Each time this occurred it was like a spark of electricity had fired, like some charge that had been building had been allowed to ground. Those brief touches of her flesh, of her body against mine were making me randy, my lust directed at her tight body. I could tell that I was having a similar effect on her. By the time the band struck up Everybody Wants You the contacts were more frequent and no longer accidental. I was also sporting a respectable semi-erection in my khaki shorts.

Of course our antics did not go unnoticed by the other members of the party. I can’t even begin to count the number of disapproving and scandalous glares I received from my peers and their dates. I ignored them for the most part, even the throat-cutting gestures that Mike Wilmington was sending at me. The only time I became seriously worried was when Suzanne and I, both sweaty and breathing heavy from the dancing, took a break to get a drink and rest for a few moments. It was then that Mr. Remington came over and pulled me aside.

Uh oh, I thought worriedly as he took me out of earshot. Now I’ve gone and done it. But the conversation that ensued was not at all what I was expecting.

“Jim,” he said, his breath strong with the odor of scotch, “I notice you’ve been dancing with my wife quite a bit.”

“It’s Jeff, sir,” I said slowly.

“Whatever,” he said dismissively. He looked around, seeing if anyone was in earshot and then leaned in conspiratorially. “I really appreciate what you’re doing.”

I wondered for a moment if I’d heard him correctly. “You do?”

He nodded. “Of course,” he nearly whispered. “I see where you’re coming from, and let me be the first to tell you that I appreciate it.”

“You do?” I repeated, trying to keep my mouth from dropping open.

“Hell yes,” he said. “There’s a cornucopia of young poon at this place tonight, just ripe for the picking. It’s very decent of you to keep the old ball and chain occupied for me while I go… you know… fishing.” He winked at me. “Keep up the good work, son. You keep taking care of the boss man like this and you’ll be up for partner in no time. No time I tell you.” With that he clapped me on the shoulder as a father would a son and then headed back for the crowd.

I stared after him, flabbergasted. He actually thought I was dancing with his wife so that he could hit on the other accountant’s wives and girlfriends. He had actually thanked me for doing it. Fucking amazing.

The band struck up Burning For You. I walked over to Suzanne and asked her to dance again. She smiled knowingly at me and a moment later we were back on the dance floor.

“Okay, I’m going to be psychic again,” she said as we held hands and moved to the music. “He told you to keep me entertained so he could try his luck with the younger ladies in the crowd, right?”

“My, you seem to have a shallow opinion of your husband,” I replied, refusing to answer her.

She scoffed a little. “You reap what you sow in this life,” she said. “I stole him away from his first wife when I was twenty-four. She was thirty-three at the time. I have no illusions about my fate as Mrs. Remington. Stevie doesn’t like them any older than mid-thirties. In fact, the older that he gets, the younger he seems to like them.”

“Doesn’t that bother you?” I asked her.

She shrugged, managing to make it to the time of the music. “Why should it? Do you think I married him because I was in love with him? I married him because he’s rich. When he tosses me aside I’ll be well taken care of. My lawyer insisted upon it in the pre-nup. Of course his lawyer tried to balk at it but we insisted and eventually wore them down.”

I looked at her pointedly. “You had a lawyer conference just to get married to him?” I asked.

She shrugged again. “That’s life in the upper crust for you. Romantic, isn’t it?”

“It makes my heart melt,” I told her, causing both of us to laugh.

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We danced and danced, working our way through two or three more songs. As we moved our way across the dance area, our hands together, our legs and hips occasionally making brief, exciting contact, I happened to glance towards the duck pond a few times. I saw the four Ukrainians that made up the pyrotechnic team loading boxes into a rowboat that was resting on the shore. Even from a hundred yards away I could see the high explosive label on the side of the boxes. The Ukrainians themselves seemed a bit unsteady on their feet as they made first one then two then three trips across the water to the island, dropping off the boxes each time. They carried the boxes to the middle of the island, where the palm trees and the hedges were the thickest.

“Has Mr. Remington ever contracted with these people for a fireworks show before?” I asked Suzanne, my voice a little breathless from the exertion.

“No,” she said, breathing a little hard herself. “He’s never arranged for a fireworks show before. He thought it would impress everyone, give them something they’ve never seen at a party before. Why do you ask?”

“Oh… no reason,” I said dismissively, casting another glance at the Ukrainians, noting that one of them had actually tripped over his own feet and fallen down while carrying one of the boxes. “No reason at all.”

The sun gradually dipped below the horizon, imparting first an inky twilight upon the landscape and then a humid darkness. Mosquitoes, which were particularly heavy this season thanks to a wet winter without many frosts, made their appearance as well, feasting on the legs and arms of the guests. The temperature dropped from the low nineties to the low eighties and then even further when a pleasant breeze kicked up from the south. The guests of Mr. Remington actually seemed to loosen up a bit with the coming of the night, making more frequent trips to the bar and coming out to the dance floor in ever increasing numbers.

The band played on as the evening progressed and I continued to dance almost exclusively with Suzanne Remington, when we weren’t hitting up the bar for more drinks that was. Finally a slow song was played—Waiting For A Girl Like You—and she and I found ourselves facing each other as the other couples held onto each other in intimate embraces. I took a glance over at Mr. Remington, seeing that he was still holding on to Aaron Rivers’ girlfriend, who didn’t, I might add, seem to be upset by his advances. I looked back at Suzanne and she held her arms out to me.

“I love the slow dances,” she said. “Would you?”

“I’d be honored,” I assured her.

I put my hands on her lower back and she put hers around my neck. We pulled together, our thighs touching lightly, her breasts pressing against my chest. I could feel the heat coming off of her skin from our exertions and could smell the pleasant, exciting odor of her perspiration filling my nose. My penis, which had pretty much behaved itself for most of the night, suddenly awakened and began to fill with blood.

“This is nice,” Suzanne said dreamily, her chin resting on my shoulder as we swayed to the gentle beat. “Nobody’s danced with me like this in years.”

I pulled her a little tighter to me, unable to help myself, feeling the firmness of her skin beneath her dress, feeling her legs push a little harder into me. “It is,” I agreed.

We didn’t talk much more during the dance but we shared a certain sort of communication nonetheless, a communication that was dangerous on a primal level. She snuggled her head up against my neck, her chin resting on my shoulder. I could feel the moist warmth of her breath against my skin, a sensation that was far from unpleasant. Her arms tightened up around my neck, her soft fingertips softly caressing me in a manner that could only be described as sensuous. She pulled in tighter, allowing me to feel the full press of her breasts against me. I could feel the weight of them, the softness of them, the feminine intimacy of them as they rubbed in gentle circles on my upper stomach. I could also feel the push of her soft thighs against mine, the whisper of her thin dress gliding up and down, back and forth. More blood rushed to my penis, turning it into a full-fledged hard-on that pushed insistently into her stomach.

“Mmmmm,” I heard her whisper in my ear, her voice with a tremor of excitement in it, “it feels like you’re enjoying the dance as much as I am.”

“I’m sorry,” I said, a little bit of sobriety coming back to me, and with it, nervous embarrassment. This was my boss’s wife, I had to remind myself. This was madness. I tried to pull away a little bit but she wouldn’t let me.

“No, no,” she whispered, her lips just touching my ear lobe, just enough to leave a kiss of saliva on it. “Don’t pull back. It’s been so long since I’ve felt a man react like that to me, and I’m just drunk enough that it feels really good.”

“But I don’t think Mr. Remington would appreciate it very much,” I whispered back.

“Then don’t rub it against him and he’ll never know,” she told me, snuggling in even closer and giving a deliberate grind against my groin.

I almost groaned at the sensation. I stopped trying to pull away from her. It just felt too damn good to hold her in my arms, to feel her softness pressing into me. As the song played on the caresses on the back of my neck grew softer, more sensuous, and her slow grind against my erection continued until I was almost panting with desire for her. Had she been anyone else, I would have kissed her, just angled my jaw downward and put my lips to hers, but I restrained myself from this despite the fact that I suspected that was exactly what she wanted me to do.

Finally, to both my relief and my consternation, the song ended, forcing us to break apart. We did so with a certain reluctance. I looked around in the darkness at the other couples on the floor, who were also breaking apart from their own dances. I could sense the disapproval and the disbelief radiating from most of them at my blatant flirtation with Suzanne. Apparently our indiscretion had not gone unnoticed. But Mr. Remington, in whose name the disapproval was being registered, remained oblivious and uncaring. He was escorting Rivers’ girlfriend over to the bar, his hand resting on her lower back, just above the swell of her shapely ass. No one seemed to be projecting hostile feelings at him for his indiscretion. Not even Aaron Rivers himself, who was standing over by the food table talking to one of the other accountants. An interesting bit of hypocrisy on my colleague’s part I thought bitterly.

The dancing went on for another forty-five minutes or so, during which time I enjoyed four or five fast dances and one more slow dance with Suzanne. During the slow one we once again pushed our bodies together, breasts to chest, groin to stomach, and she once again gave me a tremendous erection that almost throbbed with intensity. Just as the song was coming to a close, she reached between us for a moment, her fingertips seeking out and finding the bulge in my shorts. She gave it a gentle squeeze, palpating it up and down in a way that made me groan in her ear.

“This is so nice,” she whispered to me, her tongue reaching out to lick at my earlobe again. “The things I could do with this.”

I pushed my pelvis into her hand, trying to increase the contact. She obliged me by squeezing a little tighter.

“Sit with me when it’s fireworks time,” she said softly, her tongue actually probing inside my ear for the briefest second. “Sometimes all of those explosions scare me.”

At last the band finished up the tune and cranked up one last fast dance—R.O.C.K. in the USA—for their grand finale. By the time the last instrument jangled to a stop my erection had subsided to about half-staff. It would go down no further than that.

Mr. Remington, still oblivious to the activities between his wife and his junior accountant, broke himself away from Rivers’ girlfriend long enough to take the stage and grab one of the microphones. In a drunken, slurred voice he announced the beginning of the glorious and final stage of the party: the fireworks show that he had arranged for at great expense and trouble.

“This will be a professional quality show,” he said proudly, having to hold onto an amplifier to keep from falling over, “different only in scale from that you see on New Year’s Eve in Heritage. I have the same pyro-tic… uh, pyro-tok… uh… fireworks guys that do that show with the very same fireworks for your enjoyment. So let’s turn off all the lights, find a place to sit that faces the pond, and let the action begin.”

“Let the action begin,” Suzanne said with a giggle.

Someone inside the winery clicked off all of the exterior lights, instantly plunging the night into a near perfect blackness. There were no streetlights or anything else in the vicinity and the only illumination was from a quarter moon that hung in the sky behind us. Everyone found seats on the lawn near the barbeque and the picnic tables. I started towards the main group but Suzanne grabbed my arm and pulled me in a different direction.

“Let’s sit over here,” she told me, guiding me to a spot at the very back of the crowd, more than fifteen feet from any other person and well out of their view unless they happened to turn all the way around.

I sat down on the grass, my legs sprawled out before me. I felt a little nervous about just what she had in mind. The fact that she was the boss’s wife came back to me again, making me wish I hadn’t started hanging out with her in the first place. This nervousness was increased when she did not sit down next to me as I’d figured she would. Instead, she plopped down in front of me and slid backwards, compelling me to open my legs. She slid back until her firm bottom was pushing softly against my crotch, her hands resting on my knees.

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“This is cozy,” she said with a sigh, leaning back so her back was against my chest.

“Yes,” I said nervously, knowing that Mr. Remington would seriously disapprove if he saw us seated in this manner. But at the same time the feel of her body against mine, coupled with the alcohol in my system, clouded my better judgment. Blood began to fill my manhood once more, making it bulge outward again and press against her butt. My hands, seemingly of their own accord, dropped down onto her lower thighs, just above her knees. The skin there was deliciously soft, deliciously feminine. She made no protest at their being there.

We sat like that for the next two or three minutes, not moving, not talking, me enjoying the feel of her firm legs beneath my fingers, her presumably enjoying the feel of my hard-on pushing into her ass. And then the first of the fireworks arced up into the sky from the center of the island. It shot out from just behind the stand of trees and bushes, a purple flare that went up five or six hundred feet and then exploded in a brilliant star of lights. The flash momentarily lit up the night, just long enough to catch the briefest of glimpses around us. The concussion followed a second later, a loud boom that rattled the chest. The crowd all gave an “oooh” at the sight of it.

Two more shells quickly followed, and then two more right behind it. The flashes and booms continued, as did the “oohs” and “aahs”.

Suzanne didn’t ooh or aah. Instead she slid back against me a little more, increasing the pressure on my turgid cock. She began to shift back and forth slightly, just enough to impart an unbearable friction upon me. I didn’t ooh or aah either. As more shells went up my drunken horniness got the better of me. I began to move my right hand up her leg.

I did it slowly at first, as it was only accidental, my fingertips gliding gently over the front of her thigh until they encountered the hem of her dress. She made no move to stop me; in fact she opened her legs a little, allowing me a corridor between them. I was quick to take advantage of this. I slid my probing hand inward, onto the baby-soft skin of her inner thigh.

“That feels nice,” she whispered to me between concussions. “You have gentle hands.”

“I give a great massage,” I replied to her, giving a little harder squeeze on her thigh.

“How interesting,” she said. “I have something that could use a nice massage about now.”

Able to take a hint, I slid my hand higher up her leg, beneath the hem of her dress and onto her upper thigh. She forced her legs open a little more at my intrusion, so that her knees were now nearly as far apart as mine.

It was here where the team of Ukrainian pyrotechnicians made their first error of the evening. They lit off one of their shells but instead of flying straight up it flew ninety degrees to the right, going up at a shallow angle. It streaked out over the vineyards and then exploded about sixty feet off the ground.

“What the hell was that about?” I heard Mr. Remington—a stickler for every last detail—demand in his gruff, manager voice while the other members of the party chuckled.

A drunken Ukrainian apology came drifting over from the center of the island. A moment later another shell went up, this one more or less as it was supposed to.

I ignored the brief departure from the plan, instead concentrating my attention on the sensation beneath my fingers. I had reached the edge of her panties and I let my hand roll inward, so that the back of my knuckles were pressing against the crotch of them. I could feel dampness on the cotton material. Suzanne sighed at the contact and pushed her pelvis forward a bit, urging me on. I rubbed up and down a few times, gathering her wetness on my skin, feeling the damp heat of her, making her moan lightly.

Slowly I turned my hand back to the neutral position and probed under the elastic at her crotch with my index and middle fingers. I felt more wetness, and crinkly hair. I probed further, at last coming to her saturated slit, which I rubbed up and down a few times, relishing the feel of the slippery, swollen lips. Still receiving nothing in the way of protest from her, and confidant that I was unobserved by the others, I put my index finger between those lips, searching out the source of the wetness. Millimeter by millimeter, I inserted my digit into my boss’s wife’s pussy, feeling the muscles clench at me, hearing her breathing kick into higher gear.

“You have no idea how good that feels,” she panted to me. “Keep doing it.”

“My pleasure,” I assured her, probing in a little deeper.

I began to move my finger in and out, imparting a little twisting motion to my hand as I did so. She really seemed to like this. Her wetness increased, soaking my hand in her juices and her hand began to squeeze tighter on my knees.

Just then another one of the fireworks went awry. This one apparently was launched too close to one of the trees. It hit the trunk and bounced to the right where it hit another tree and then headed directly towards the winery building itself. There was a high-pitched whine as it passed less than fifty feet over our heads. It missed the roof of the winery by less than ten feet and exploded over the road, showering a row of palm trees with flaming debris.

“Goddammit!” screamed Remington in outrage. “What the hell are you people doing over there? Are you trying to kill us?”

“Sorry,” drifted the Ukrainian voice. “Won’t happen again.”

“It goddamn well better not!” Remington threatened. “I paid you assholes two grand!”

I couldn’t help but chuckle at the display but Suzanne hardly seemed to notice it.

“Put another finger in,” she told me. “Do it harder.”

I slid my middle finger into her alongside its neighbor. I began to push and pull with more force. A distinct squishing noise was now audible with each stroke.

“Yes,” she moaned, pushing her crotch to meet each of my strokes. “I love it. I fucking love it.”

The fireworks started back up again. Two of the shells went up just as they were supposed to but a third was launched at an improper angle. It shot off to the left this time, streaking out over the adjoining property and actually striking the ground before it exploded. This prompted another scream of outrage from Remington and another drunken apology from the island.

Meanwhile, Suzanne reached back with her hand and had put it on the bulge of my cock once more. She was now squeezing and stroking me through my shorts, driving me into a frenzy of lust. Unable to help myself I lowered my lips to the back of her neck and began to kiss her there, nipping and biting and licking right at her hairline. She began to pant faster.

Suddenly, as another barrage of fireworks went up into the sky, she pulled my hand free of her. It was dripping with her juices. She took her other hand off my cock and then reached up under her dress. She shifted and shuffled for a moment and suddenly her white panties were in her hand. She set them down on the grass next to us and then turned to look at me in the dimness.

“Take out your cock,” she told me.

“What?” I asked, looking around at the others in the strobe effect of the fireworks. “We can’t… you know…”

“Do it,” she said pleadingly. “I have to have you. Take it out! Please?”

Unable to resist a woman begging, I reached down and unzipped my shorts, pulling my hard-on through the flap and baring it to the night. It was too dark for her to actually see it, but her hand went directly to it anyway, finding it my feel. Her fingers grasped me, stroking up and down, smearing the pre-come that had oozed out over the shaft. Now it was my turn to groan as I felt the touch of someone beside myself for the first time in forever.

“Sit still,” she told me. “Let me do it.”

“Okay,” I grunted, actually fucking into her hand.

She turned back towards the island and raised her butt up. With her free hand she pulled the back of her skirt upwards, baring her naked ass and her dripping crotch from behind. She eased herself backwards, until she was sitting on my lap, her back to my chest. My hard-on was now between her thighs, the shaft nestled against her wet lips. She raised up a little more, pulling upward on my cock, until the head was pushing between her lips. Teasingly she rubbed me back and forth a few times.

“Do it,” I commanded, putting my hands on her waist and pulling her downward.

She came down willingly, my cock sinking slowly, deliciously into her tight box. We both groaned at the connection. My lips went back to her neck as my hands began to prod her to move up and down.

She began to rise and fall, slowly at first, with short strokes. Her juices were now running down my cock, into my shorts and probably staining them. I didn’t care. The friction of her tight passage felt so damn good.

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Out on the island, the fireworks continued to ignite and the Ukrainians made another error, this one much more dangerous than the other. One of their fireworks hit the top of a tree as it launched and was deflected back towards the ground. It hit just on the shore of the pond, less than fifty feet away from the nearest of the crowd. It bounced back up again and streaked over our heads, twisting and turning and showering us with sparks and smoke. Everyone except Suzanne and I hit the dirt. It then slammed directly into the winery building where it exploded with enough force to break a window. Glass fragments came raining down on those sitting near the building.

“You assholes!” Remington screamed at them. “That is enough! Stop lighting those things and get off of that island immediately!”

But the Ukrainians didn’t listen to him. Instead, they lit off another two shells, both of which managed to make it to the quadrant of the sky to which they were assigned. Remington didn’t say anything else.

I continued to fuck Suzanne through all of this, my pelvis rising up and down while hers ground atop me, clenching and releasing my cock. Though a few pieces of burning firework had drifted down around us, we had been untouched by the barrage.

“Make me come,” she told me. “Oh God, make me come!”

I began to pull her down harder into me, grinding myself upward with more force. Our strokes became faster and the juices from her pussy began to flow more copiously, until both of us were drenched in them. She turned her head towards me and started kissing me, her tongue shooting into my mouth and attacking mine. I returned the kiss greedily, no longer caring that anyone who happened to glance over at us during one of the fireworks flashes would easily see what we were doing.

We kissed and fucked, our tongues probing each other’s mouths, our crotches mashing together in a wet union of cock and pussy. My hands left her waist and wandered beneath her skirt once more, traveling upward, over her hips, through her pubic bush, across her soft stomach, and up to her breasts. I pushed them forcibly beneath her bra, grabbing her tits roughly, squeezing them and pinching the hardened nipples between my fingers.

“Yes, yes, yes,” she panted into my mouth.

She came just as another errant firework streaked off to the south of us and blew up in a row of grape vines. Her pussy clenched around my thrusting cock, her hands tightening against my legs, her teeth clamping down on my lower lip nearly hard enough to draw blood.

“Mmmmm, ohhhhhhh,” she groaned, shuddering all over, her legs spasming between mine.

Her clutching vise upon my tool set me off as well. Just as her spasms were dying down, mine began. I began to thrust upward with more force, actually bouncing her into the air now. In response she grabbed the bottom of my thighs in order to leverage herself down upon me.

“Come in me,” she told me, biting at my lip again. “Shoot your come in my pussy!”

The filthy mouth on her high-class face served to speed my release. The waves of pleasure began to build within me, rising to a peak of ecstasy. I let out my own groan and my hands squeezed extra-hard upon her tits. The peak was reached and the pleasure exploded outward. I began to shoot, blast after blast of hot come into her clutching chasm.

“Ohhhh,” she moaned, feeling it. “That is so fucking hot!”

I shot what seemed a gallon, until it was overflowing and running down into my crotch. Finally the last dribble spurted out and the last thrust of my pelvis wound down to a halt. I slumped down a little bit, feeling our combined juices soaking into my shorts and my crotch. She slumped against me, giving me one last teasing kiss.

Just as she eased off of me and back to the ground the Ukrainians made their final mistake of the night. They launched one of their fireworks into one of the island’s trees again. This one bounced back and forth between several of the trees and then went straight down, right to where the Ukrainians were all standing.

Remington’s yell of outrage was easily drowned out by the screams of panic from the Ukrainians themselves. The firework, which had yet to explode, had landed right in the midst of their supply of unfired goods. They broke and ran, busting out through the shrubs as if they weren’t there and diving headlong into the water of the duck pond, where they began swimming madly for shore. They were about halfway across when the firework exploded, igniting the rest of the stockpile that was stacked around it.

Suddenly fireworks were streaking off in all directions. No less than five of them streaked directly towards the crowd. Some went into the air and slammed into the winery building, others skipped over the water and flew only feet above our heads. Shrieks of simple rocket motors and booms of concussions filled the night. Flaming pieces of gunpowder and cardboard were flying everywhere.

This time I did get down, pulling Suzanne with me. I landed with my face directly against her discarded panties, the smell of her musk in my nose. A firework exploded less then thirty feet above me, showering me with burning debris. I had to stamp out several small fires on my clothing with my bare hand. Suzanne had to do the same. Despite the danger of the situation, both of us were laughing madly as we listened to the panicked screams of the others.

A few more explosions rocked the night and then it was over. The roof of the winery building was afire in two places, the shingles smoldering with smoke and flame. Two or three fires had also sprung to life in the vineyards, which were dry this late in the season. But the most impressive fire of all was on the duck island. Most of the fireworks that had been ignited had exploded right there and had showered the dry palm trees and brush with flames. They had lit up like tissue paper in response and were now blazing away, the flames shooting thirty or forty feet into the air. The Ukrainians, perhaps knowing when to cut their losses, had all made it safely to shore and were now nowhere to be seen.

“Is everyone all right?” I heard Remington yell at the crowd, most of whom where still in a state of shock at what had happened.

Several people cried out that they had been wounded but no one seemed to be seriously injured.

I looked over at Suzanne, who was still giggling as she lay next to me on the grass.

“My husband throws a hell of a party, doesn’t he?” she asked playfully. She picked up her panties and balled them up.

“You got that right,” I told her, giggling a little myself.

She looked down at my crotch, which was now plainly visible thanks to the various fires that were burning. “You’d better cover up a bit,” she said.

My cock, now wilted but still quite wet, was hanging out of my fly. If it had had a face, there would have been a satisfied expression upon it. Quickly I stuffed it back inside and zipped up. I could do nothing however, about the huge wet patch that ran from my upper thighs to nearly the button.

“I think it’s about time I made my leave,” I told her. “You’ll give my regrets for not saying official good byes?”

“Of course,” she told me with a smile. “It’s been fun. You’re a good dancer.”

“Maybe we can dance again some day,” I said.

She gave a cynical smile. “Maybe,” she said, without much conviction. “But in the meantime, why don’t you take these to remember me by.” She handed me her panties.

I took them and stuffed them into my pocket. A moment later I was walking towards the parking area and my car. Five minutes later, though I was undoubtedly well beyond the legal limit for driving in the state of California, I was on the road.

As I headed for the highway I passed several fire engines and ambulances heading in the opposite direction.

*****

That was pretty much the end of my career at BR&D. Somebody—probably more than one somebodies—had apparently seen what Suzanne and I had been up to and reported it to Remington. Or maybe Remington himself had seen us. I don’t know. No one ever told me. No one ever said anything about it to me. But all the same I found myself ostracized at the firm. No one would talk to me anymore and I wasn’t given any more assignments of any importance. Two weeks later I was told by a senior partner (not Remington) that things just weren’t working out with me, that I wasn’t quite BR&D material. I was given a decent severance package of course, but I was fired all the same. Truth be known though, I didn’t really care.

These days I’m still an accountant but I work in Sacramento now for the State Franchise Tax Board. I actually make more than I did at BR&D although the potential for advancement is no longer there. I’m doomed to spend the rest of my career there making $75,000 a year with only step and cost of living raises to look forward to. I still don’t care. I live comfortably and, most important of all, I work forty hours per week. No more, no less. I go into work at 8:00 AM, Monday through Friday, and I emerge at 4:00 PM. There are no exceptions, no mandatory overtime, no pressure from above. To me it is paradise.

I never saw Mrs. Remington again although I heard that Mr. Remington divorced her about a week after my severance from the firm. I still have her panties though and every once in a while I still take them out and give them a little sniff. The smell of her still remains on them to this day.

The End