I woke up with the thought of 'did I really make Nancy pregnant?' Was she really ready? Would they really do that?
That line of thought would have continued except that a mouth was slowly sucking me. It felt very, very good, but different than Jan and different from yesterday morning. I petted the head of the sucker. Short hair, a smile on her face. Oh my, so good. As I got closer and closer, a dark face appeared over me to smile at me and give me a kiss. When I was swelling to let loose, the lips came off me and Nancy straddled me, sliding down on me then pumping her hips to finish me off.
I launched a good morning load into Nancy once again. That's three in less than twelve hours. If I'm not shooting blanks and if she's ready, the deed is probably done.
Once again, I was treated to multiple kisses and I found out who had been prepping me. It had been Brandy. She was grinning from ear to ear and asked, "Did I do a good job? I could even feel when you were going to let loose. That was fun and the stuff you leak tastes pretty good."
Tiani said, "I taught her. I had to show her again just a little, but she was determined. We'll teach her to do it good. We'll take care of you."
I had no doubt of that. This was a crazy place.
"How about a swim? You guys make my legs rubbery every morning, and I can hardly do any Tae Chi feeling like that."
We went out to the pool and were joined by Wanda and friends. As I lazily swam up and down the pool, Tina swam up to me and said, "Thank you for inviting me last night. It is very special to be around a bunch of like minded ladies. My schedule is too busy for much fun, but if it were right here, I might get to enjoy more of it. Can I move in here? I'll be pretty boring, but I will be a good housemate."
Wanda said, "You sure can. I'll get you a key and you can move in today. I'll have to teach you about the alarm system, but it's easy. Chuck will figure out which slot you can park in. The boyfriends will have to figure out where to park, as I think there is space for only eight cars and Chuck has two."
Brandy said, "Take your Mustang out to the house. Daddy has a giant building with his toys in it. He would let you park your car out there."
"We'll figure something out. You know, Angie will probably want to buy a car one of these days so we'll have to figure on that too."
We had a big breakfast and left for our offices. The girls had all brought their clothes to dress at our place this morning. I guess we had an "our" place and a "their" place.
About noon, Metarie called and said, "Take a long lunch today. Come by Reggie's for lunch, I want to talk to you."
Seeing Metarie was almost like business, so I didn't feel guilty about taking a long lunch. When we were eating a great soupy roast beef sandwich, covered with gravy, Metarie asked, "What are you doing with my girls? All five of them are acting like high school kids, except they're not talking about whatever it is they are happy about."
"I'll tell you, Metarie, but you have to let them tell you in time."
"I'll keep quiet, but I'm just concerned for them, especially Nancy and Tiani, because they can be taken advantage of so easily."
"Not to worry, I don't think."
"I think you know a little of their history from Florida and their lifestyle."
Metarie said, "I do, but I keep thinking they're over that and have gone to find other men."
"This is kind of off the wall, but Brandy wants me to be like her husband. At the same time the five of them all want to be my wives together. The way they've made me understand it, what's happening is that Brandy will be with me almost all the time, with Tiani also staying with me most of the time. The other three will circulate in and out as the need and whim hits them. They have promised that they are all available and willing to join me on demand or request."
I let what I had said soak in while I took another bite, then added, "They are very firm in their belief this will work. They have some personal goals they want to work out within our relationship. Right now we are supposed to be experimenting to see if we are compatible and whether we will work out together."
Metarie looked at me, "I can imagine what some personal goals are. Nancy wants a baby and she'll damn near do anything to get one. Are you willing to give her what she wants?"
"I may not have a choice."
"That could be, but you can always abstain."
I thought Reggie was going to spit across the table. Metarie said, "Stop it, Reggie, this is serious. Just think of sweet little Nancy getting pregnant by this man. He can say no."
"We've done a lot of talking about it, Metarie, but they sort of waited to tell me the whole plan."
Metarie asked, "So what's this about being like a husband to Brandy."
I shrugged, "As close as I can tell, it means that she will be with me all the time or at least almost all the time. She does not wish to get married and is very firm about that. If any of them would get married it would be Tiani or Frieda. Do I think this will work? Who knows, but we can only hope and be patient."
"I need to know whether the girls will continue to work for me. Will they decide to be housewives or just mothers? What do you think?"
"Metarie, right now, they will continue to be your employees. They have even said that their kids will need to know the value of employment."
She was shaking her head, "That's all I need is to have those five come up with babies, to all be unwed mothers. They are all nuts, totally nuts, but then they have always been off the wall. Keep me posted, let me know if something goes wrong. Um, I'm not supposed to know, but I do know the five have some money from somewhere. I think I know, but I do know they own that big house free and clear, and it's in all their names. I know they are very much into each other, but are not radical or militant lesbians. I guess that's obvious. You've been the surprise when it comes to those five. Please, take care of them and be patient with them. They are all precious to me."
"I know, Metarie, they are to me too. We've had some good times and I look forward to more. I think I have to do what they ask, to see if the experiment works out."
"And meanwhile, I'd bet Nancy is doing everything in her power to get pregnant."
"We'll see."
Since we were down by the clothes warehouse, Metarie and I stopped in. I bought some slacks, a few sport coats, and a dozen shirts. The way I wrecked clothes, I was barely keeping up. While they did the alterations, I got some shoes, several ties, another belt, and even found another sport coat that fit great right off the rack. I used the credit card as I had no idea how much I had in my checking account.
I went back to the office and was told to get out as I was still on half days for at least another month. That wouldn't last, there's no way I could go that long without something coming up.
I decided to take my clothes home and get the amps to a place I had found out about. Tina was at the house, sunbathing in the nude out by the pool. I waved and she wasn't bashful at all. I put the clothes in the closet and loaded the two amps.
The shop where I took them had guitars and basses hanging from the ceiling in groups of classics. There was every kind of classic guitar and bass available in what looked like perfect condition.
The man had the fronts off the amps in a second and was testing the cones. He measured the cones and gave me a price. He said he would go over both amps, give me two sets of tubes and replace the cones for a very good price. I said to do the work. He smiled, "I don't work for just anybody. Jimmy said you were okay, but you gotta play for me to see, to hear."
He took a nice old Strat fretless down and handed it to me and pointed to a big bass amp. There was a row of effects on the floor, all labeled. It took me a little to get the guitar tuned, and I was soon able to find how to set the controls. I did some standard bass string pulling, then progressed to some walking with my right hand. I soon had the sustain and the sensitivity up and began playing with just my left hand until I began to make it sing. I made music by playing only the bass part. I couldn't tell whether someone else could tell where the riff was going, but I was satisfied.
When I was done he reached out his hand, took the bass and handed me an old Gibson Les Paul. It wasn't tuned either, but he did hand me an electronic tuner.
This was easier, as all I had to do was to do a couple of copycat riffs that would sound good with little effort. The more I played, the more my own style came out until I was playing with my eyes closed, sliding my fingers on the frets. I stopped, opened my eyes and took the guitar off. "Sorry, I got lost in there somewhere. Nice guitar."
"You got it, man. That's the way it should be. Get lost in the music. Jimmy said you and a chic did some awesome jammin with the boys. He said they might release a recording of it. That's a compliment like you wouldn't believe. I'll get these fixed up. If you have any axes that need work, bring em. That's what I do, man."
Funny, I had not played any music for years and years and now I'm thinking that I want to play more. I wonder if a decent keyboard would be expensive. A nice set of drums would be good too but where could I put those. I could turn the media room into a music room. The audio and video stuff could go into the living room or the family room.
There is a big music store that advertises new and used instruments on the way to the air park so I stopped in. They had some decent keyboards, but I wanted to get one with a decent Rhodes sound and possibly a B-3 sound too. I didn't like the three octave keyboards. I wanted a full keyboard with all eighty-eight keys.
A man who obviously didn't know anything about pianos or keyboards waited on me and said he didn't have any used ones but had a new Roland that I thought was really expensive. He said, the Rhodes only had a sixty-six key keyboard, you could do with one like that. I said to him, not to embarrass him, but to be informative, "Actually, the most popular Fender Rhodes model was the 88 with 88 keys. When Columbia bought out Fender Electronics, they did produce some other sizes like the early 61 key similar to the harpsichord, and when Fender bought Rhodes they made the 70, 73, and model 74. All model numbers were for the key sizes back then. Now that division was bought by a company by the name of Helpinstil, I think." The guy looked at me with that glazed, too much information, look. I thought I could wait for a toy like that. Possibly ebay, there might be a deal there.
On the way home, I wanted to figure on something good to eat, so I went by a little meat market I had seen. I bought a bunch of ribs, along with some chickens and some wings.
At home, I rubbed the ribs down real quick with some spices and put them on the grille at the lowest temperature. The grille is a big one with three burners, so I put the center one on low and turned off the two outer burners and that's where I put the ribs. I skinned the chicken, spiced them up with some Cajun pepper, then put them on a spit to turn slowly. I took my time with the wings as I would do them on the direct heat. I made half to taste like fire and the other half to be normal. While the ribs and chicken were cooking, I ran up to the grocery store for some hot Greek peppers and another case of beer.
It would almost be two hours before the ribs would be ready, so I made about half the wings as I was hungry. With them out on the bar, and an ice cold beer, I snacked before the crowd began coming home.
While I was waiting, I changed clothes, slipped on my peg, and put my new clothes in order. I would have to get my shirts washed, and after shining my shoes, everything was neat and ready.
The girls were all home first tonight. They began sampling the wings as soon as they saw them. I asked if they were up for the gym and all agreed they should work out. They disappeared into the bedroom, but Tiani and Nancy came back, each carrying a new sport coat. "Hey, you went shopping without us. You can't do that. We have to pick out your clothes."
"Are those all right?"
"Well, yeah," Nancy said.
"Then next time I will. I didn't know you liked to shop for me."
Tiani said, "Okay, but I'll bet you went to the warehouse. We need to go there too, as they have women's suits cheap."
Brandy came in with Frieda and dragged me toward the gym room. Frieda said, "What did you tell Mrs. White? When she came back from lunch she was staring at all of us and admitted she had been to lunch with you."
"The truth, I told her that you girls were all going to be my harem. Brandy was going to be my closest wife, with Tiani staying here about as much. I was honest with her and told her it was an experiment. We were testing the waters."
"You didn't tell her about Nancy did you?"
"What about Nancy?"
Frieda said, "You know, about getting her pregnant."
"Did I? Did I make her pregnant?"
Brandy said, "You better have. She's all upset that you might not finish the job."
Frieda said to Brandy, "We'll tie him down and let her sit on him every couple hours for the next couple of weeks. We'll get her caught one way or another."
"Why is it so important Nancy get pregnant?"
Brandy said, "Her sister died last year and she wants a baby so her mom will be happy again. She says a baby will bring her mom back to life."
"How's her mom going to feel when a little baby pops out and is part white?"
"She's light-skinned so it won't make much difference, but her mom will know you're the daddy. We're bringing her over later tonight to meet you. She wants her mom to know we're all going to be your harem. I like harem instead of wives better. Having a bunch of wives sounds dirty, sort of illegal. Having a harem sounds manly, sexy."
We exercised and were joined by Wanda and Angie. Tiani, Judy, and Nancy finally came in to use the treadmills and bike for a while, but not for long. We went out to get into the pool and I stopped to put the rest of the wings on. They all liked the broiled hot wings that were not deep fried.
Tina came out and swam with us. She said, "I like all this naked stuff. I love to take my clothes off. I like what we did last night too."
After getting out of the pool, I kept checking on the ribs and chicken while we snacked on wings. We made some potato salad and warmed up some baked beans to get ready for the ribs. Don and Jan came in from the Dojo about the time the food was done.
I had not noticed that Nancy had left and returned, as I was pulling the food off the grille. Her mom was with her. Nancy's mother was a very attractive lady with nice hair and a very nice figure. Everyone welcomed her and she even felt comfortable enough to have a drink. I made everyone except Nancy a drink. She said, "I may be with child and I don't want to hurt it."
Nancy's mom would have dropped her teeth if they had been false. She gasped so loud she sucked all the air out of the room. Nancy went to hug her and said, "That pretty white boy and I are going to make a beautiful baby."
I must have been blushing as she said, "Your pretty white boy is more like a redskin."
"He just don't know me yet, Ma. You know me, I'm not bashful when I want something. He can tell you, Ma, I wasn't bashful at all."
"Now hush, Nancy, you'll embarrass me if you talk like that."
"Well, don't cha think we'll make a pretty baby?"
Mrs. Atom said, "What are you going to do about a name? Your name's going to be wrong if your baby takes your man's name."
"I'll change mine if necessary, Mom."
"Why won't he marry you?"
"Nope, none of us are going to marry him. We're all going to be his harem wives. If any one of us marries him, it's going to be Brandy or Tiani. You know the rest of us will be happy not being married."
Nancy's mom said, "How come you can still be like that, like that kind of stuff, but want to be a harem wife and make babies. Something's wrong with this approach."
"Eat up, Mom, my man made us some good food. Eat."
Soon there was a pile of bones where all the ribs had been. We even ate the two chickens down to the bones. We were all full, but not overly so.
All the girls except Brandy got up to leave. Nancy asked, "Would you mind doing the dishes? We want to take mom to the house. We'll see you in the morning. Oh yeah, come to think of it, we might be back later."
Brandy was in a great mood. I asked her what was making her so happy. She said, "I talked to my financial advisor today. He has made some investments that have really paid off."
"You already have a lot of money so why would that make you happy?"
"He was telling me about a new client he has. He was bragging on how much he had already made this new client and how he had gone from just a regular deputy marshal to an important deputy marshal in a very short time and that this man had an enormous amount of money. More than each of us has individually. The way the man, Ben Phillips, kept referring to this guy, it has to be you."
I frowned.
"This is great. Now we never have to worry that you will like us only for our money. Don't you see? It's like the perfect scenario. If you have money, ours won't be important to you. You must think you have to work to be happy, because you are still working. That's important to us. The other girls don't know about this, but I want to tell them. Can I? I know it will make them all even happier."
"If you do, they have to keep it quiet. I can't tell anyone where I got it, and I would prefer no one knows that I even have it."
"I promise and I know they will too. Can't you see how perfect this is?"
"I guess it's weird, is all. You girls are all nuts. Or maybe I am."
We were sitting in the living room when I heard my cell go off. I quickly went into the bedroom to answer it. It was John. He said, "Sorry about this, but you're going to have to get on your horse and get out to San Diego again. One of the judges who had been threatened is out there and it looks like at least one of our guys is dead and an agent also. You're going to need help, so get somebody you can trust. This won't be nice either. I'll try to get out there to help, but I have to kiss ass all day tomorrow. You need to get out there as fast as possible before we lose anyone else."
I said, "Give me some details, what am I running into?"
John said, "A big shot drug guy decided he didn't want to be in jail and tried to break out. He became neutralized, but his father is now on the warpath. The Bureau and the Service are working together and I thought you might get Homeland involved, perhaps even those Pendleton troops. I did call out to the base commander to advise him that we may need some of his troops for a support training excercise."
"Can't the agencies out there just cut them off at the border?"
"The bad guys are trying to organize a bunch of gangbangers like before."
"If the guy's dead, what are they going to do? Get his body out of jail?"
John said, "That and try to kill those that were involved in his son's death."
"John, give me some contact numbers so I can talk to people before I get there or even leave here."
John gave me a bunch of telephone numbers of contacts out there. I began calling to see what information I could get. I talked to the Station Chief and the Bureau Chief and neither one gave me definitive reasons to even pack a bag. I knew there was more there but I needed to know what was happening. I remembered someone who could help me.
Hal answered his cell phone on the first ring. "This is Hal."
"Hal, this is Chuck Johnson, can you tell me what's really going on out there? Is it serious, is it life threatening?"
"God, it's good to hear from you. Yes, it is serious, and yes it is life threatening. We've lost a border patrol agent and we lost one of ours. The Bureau has a man down and we have a couple of men with minor wounds. We're getting shot at from strange locations and places you wouldn't suspect. I've heard the Cuevos have hired a bunch of trained Mexican army types to act as snipers. Can you help us? This is serious."
I was thinking as fast as I could, "Tell you what. I'll get out there as soon as I can. Make sure everyone keeps their head down and pays attention to their surroundings. Carry the message back that they are not to take chances. I'll be there by morning, one way or another. I have to round up some help and I'll get out of here."
Dave answered on the first ring too. "I know this is late but I need a sidekick and back up out in San Diego. I'm hoping to get some help from Pendleton, but you never know. The government might not accept that we are doing a training exercise. It's not going to be nice. Can you do it?"
"I'll be ready in an hour. Can I check out any weapons for us?"
"Good idea. Have Sarah take you to the station and get a couple of MP5s and one of the 308s. Make sure you get five magazines for each of the MP5s and about two dozen rounds for the 308. I saw some clip pouches, so get those with some combat vests. I'll get a plane going."
I called John direct instead of the charter office. "John, I need to be in San Diego by morning, earlier if possible. What can you do for me?"
He didn't mince words, he just said, "I'll call you back."
When he called back he asked, "Are you going to be able wrap this up so you can make the Spain trip?"
"I better, that would be far too long for what this is going to be."
"Okay, get out here. I'll have something warmed up for you when you get here. I'll get you there as fast as possible."
I turned to see Wanda with a packed bag. She said, "I've put khakis, jeans, and boots in there. Wear some slacks with dress shoes and a decent shirt and you'll be fine. Make sure you wear your vest."
Brandy and Tiani were standing there watching with a look of apprehension. I gave each a kiss and told them not to worry. If everything went the way it should, I would be home day after tomorrow. I showered quickly and dressed in some decent pants and a knit shirt.
Out at my car, Brandy kissed me again and hugged me. She said, "I don't feel good about this. I know I don't know what's going to happen but I don't feel good about it at all. Please be careful. We've just about worked this out and you may be a dad. The kid will need his dad. Come home."
At the station, Dave was standing at the back door with Sarah. They embraced and I knew he was going through the same thing I just had.
I told him to drive so I could make a call while we drove out to the air park.
Thank goodness I had stored the telephone number when I had originally gotten it. "Major Selby."
"Major, Chuck Johnson the Deputy Marshal, again."
"Need some people hauled to Colorado?"
"Something a little tougher. Have you been keeping up with the nonsense that's been going on with the South of the border gangs?"
"I keep hearing about people getting shot. How does that affect you?"
"Kind of the same thing as we did before, but no visible force. They have snipers that are trained Mexican army rangers. I need trained men to search out from our federal building until they find the source of our trouble. If we can capture a couple of them, we should be able to find out where they are headquartered and then I can go in and take them. I have to make sure your men are not in danger as it would look really bad for you guys to have casualties on our own soil."
The Major commented, "Especially if it were by some illegals that are AWOL from the Mexican army. Are you here in San Diego?"
"No, I've just heard about this and am on the way to a charter. I'll be there tonight sometime. I'm in Tampa, around four hours away, I think."
"Do you have a contact that I can get in touch with and have some men begin searching?"
"Yeah, I do. His name is Hal and he's an old pro. I'll make him the liaison between you and the Service. Can you get away with your guys wearing civies?"
"No sweat, we'll make it an urban training mission. Uh, we'll keep anyone we get in a command truck until you get here. The way you are thinking is probably the way we'll work it. We'll take four teams and circle out. We should have something fairly fast."
"Thanks, Major, you are a life saver."
"No sweat, you gave all my men and the transportation group a Homeland commendation and I think you've helped me toward that silver leaf that's so hard to get."
"Good, I'll help some more. This is important to get in and get out. I want to clean this up out there so others won't be so interested in messing with us."
The Major said, "Let me go. I'll get this going quickly. I have antsy men just dying to do something. It will be fun."
We were pulling into the air park and I directed Dave to the air charter office. We pulled our gear and luggage from the car to haul it to the Lear that was sitting with the engines already at idle. We stowed our gear but I had to run back to the car to get my vest and extra magazines for my Glock.
I made sure Dave was buckled up in one of the communication seats and slid into the right seat. John said, "I'll bet you had something to drink tonight didn't you?"
"I did."
"Thank goodness I didn't. I'll let you do the deed in this thing, but you have to fly from the right seat. How much did you have to drink?"
"A drink before supper and a beer while I ate."
"So two hours ago?"
"Over that."
"You should be good. Let's go."
Primary editing by Pepere
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