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The Best Thousand Dollars I Ever Spent
by Beating Off Bob (beatingoffbob@yahoo.com)
***
Brad Tarkenton was rich and powerful and... alone. He'd
lost everything that meant anything to him. Now, on a
business trip, he'd meet a woman who would surprise him
and, possibly, even make his life complete. (story
codes withheld by author's request)
***
Author's Note: Some codes, in this case, would spoil
the suspense and surprise of the story's plot. For that
reason this story may offend some readers.
***
CHAPTER ONE
Brad Tarkenton sat back in the plush seat of the
corporate jet that was winging its way through the
impossibly blue skies over the Ohio Valley. He gazed
out of the window, intrigued by the irregular pattern
of tilled and wooded land, juxtaposed against the
little lines that represented highways and county roads
that crisscrossed the earth far below him. Occasionally
there were clusters of buildings... towns, he knew...
though they just looked like patterns of dots from up
this high. The tracts of forest looked smaller than he
thought they'd be.
All in all, the land looked empty to the CEO of
Amalgamated Industries, a multi-billion dollar
consortium of companies that did business in forty-
seven countries around the world. To Brad, it looked
like nobody lived in the Midwest. His jet had taken off
from Reagan International and, for an hour, had flown
over nothing but civilization. It was what Brad had
once viewed as "progress". Now, seeing mother nature
almost everywhere, he wondered about that. He idly
thought that his view of things had changed quite a lot
in the last few years.
He was on his way to Cleveland, a big city in this part
of the country, but pitifully small from the air, when
compared to the vast concrete jungles along the Eastern
Corridor. He was on his way to a meeting with Josh
Clinton, Amalgamated's regional Vice President for the
Midwest, who was doing a truly impressive job of
expanding the business into what had been thought to be
a depressed market. He was doing so well, in fact, that
the board deemed a visit from the CEO would impress on
the young man how important it was to continue doing
such stellar work. He was making the company money, and
the board liked that.
Brad had met Josh only once, at a convention. He was
typically handsome and in shape, a hard charger, but
with a quiet air of confidence that didn't require that
he fawn around the boss. He had chatted with Brad for
only a few sentences and then, seeing that there were
others in line to speak to the big man, had wandered
off to network elsewhere. Brad had noticed he didn't
have a young buxom tittering thing on his arm, like
most of the other men who thought they were important
did.
When, several months later he'd gotten a wedding
invitation from Josh he'd had his secretary send back
his congratulations, along with an appropriately worded
apology that he couldn't attend. And a check for twenty
thousand dollars.
Brad hated weddings. He'd been through three of them
himself. The first had been wonderful, when he stood
there unbelieving as the love of his life slowly walked
toward him. Elizabeth had been everything he could have
dreamed of in a wife. They had been deliriously in love
and she had insisted that they have children
immediately. Samantha and then Phillip had swollen her
belly and the world had been complete.
Until a drunk driver had taken her from him. The
children were only seven and eight at the time, and all
of them had been devastated.
But by then Brad had been on the fast track in the
company, and was a mover and shaker. He'd sublimated
his grief in his work, hiring house staff to care for
his children while he spent nights at the office,
building a kingdom in which to wall himself away from
the world. And the pain of missing Elizabeth.
His corporate need for a wife had resulted in his
marriage to Jane, introduced to him by a man he'd
thought was his friend, but who, in fact, had convinced
his sister to marry his main competition. She'd spied
on Brad and reported everything he was doing to her
brother, who undercut Brad, or tried to steal his
ideas. But she'd done it poorly, and couldn't convince
anyone she was in love with her husband. Word got out
and there was a quiet divorce. It was quiet by virtue
of the CEO at the time informing both brother and
sister that careers would come to a screaming end if
there were any noise... or demands in a settlement.
Jane had been heard screaming clear down in the
basement, but the divorce was final with only a one
time payout of "support" to the ex-wife.
Trudy had stepped into the void from the secretarial
pool, and an affair turned into another marriage.
Samantha, ten at the time, told her father in no
uncertain terms that she didn't like the woman... that
there was something wrong about her.
He hadn't listened to her. After all she was only ten.
But time had proven Sam right when Trudy spent money
like it was growing on trees and almost bankrupted
Brad, who was making three hundred thousand a year at
the time. Trudy hung on for three and a half years
before Brad caught her with the pool boy and threw her
out. His attorney convinced hers, who was working for a
cut of the take, that the battle would be so long and
so protracted that he would be an old man before he
collected a cent if he didn't play ball.
Trudy, like Jane before her, was heard to scream for
quite some distance as she upbraided her lawyer for
being spineless. But she too settled, for a fast buck,
which she went through in less than two months. The
last Brad had heard she was living in a house trailer,
drunk most of the time, and a chain smoker. Someone
told him she'd gained sixty pounds in the six months
since he'd seen her.
By then his daughter wouldn't speak to him, and his son
had been expelled from three private schools. He threw
money at the 'problem' and went back to work, climbing
further up the corporate ladder. He also quit trying to
find a wife.
He never wanted for companionship, during those few
brief hours he'd let his passions surface. For a man
with as much money as he had there were always women
who were more than happy to grab their fair share in
exchange for spending a few hours naked with him.
Truth be told, though, Brad didn't dally all that
often. More often than not, when all was said and done,
and the girl was walking out the door, Brad felt like
all he had done was engage in complicated masturbation.
The rift between his children and him grew wider. They
wanted to go to public schools, but he invariably sent
them to some academy where they would be taught how to
be rich and successful. They hated him for it.
Nobody loved him... and he knew that. The one woman who
had loved him was gone, never to return. When Samantha
graduated from High School, a graduation he missed
because he was in Pakistan sealing a multi-million
dollar contract, he pulled some strings and got her an
acceptance letter to Vasser. For reasons he couldn't
understand, she wanted to go to a State University
instead. During the resulting argument she had stormed
out of the house and disappeared off the face of the
earth.
He paid private investigators thousands to find her,
but they all came up empty. Her social security number
was inactive, meaning she wasn't working anywhere, or
at least wasn't using that number. He still didn't know
where she was. Phillip graduated High School and
somehow managed to garner straight F's in his first
semester at Harvard, which had let him in only because
of the three million dollar gift that had come with
him. But his complete failure as a student got them off
the hook. Not even Brad could demand he be given
another chance. No one in the school's history had
failed every class he had taken in the first semester.
After that Phillip had gotten into trouble often enough
that Brad had cut him off. The last Brad had heard from
him was that he was in Arizona somewhere trying to
start a home repair business, of all things. What
Phillip knew about home repairs, Brad couldn't imagine.
Brad's dictated letter back to his son had said "Good
luck. It's a tough world out there." He had suspicions
that Phillip knew where Sam was, but he could never get
anything out of him.
Now, at age 42, one of the youngest CEOs in the big-
time corporate world, Brad had nothing to show for his
life. Except the multi-million dollar income that he
did practically nothing with. It was just money, and he
had so much that it didn't mean anything any more.
Elizabeth would have known what to do with it. She'd
have been involved with dozens of philanthropic
organizations, or would be a volunteer for who knows
how many worthy causes. She'd have given a lot of his
money to people who actually needed it to get their own
lives on some kind of decent track.
But there was no Elizabeth, and he had a hard time
caring about other people's troubles when he felt so
sorry for himself.
At some point Brad Tarkenton had realized he was a
heartless bastard. The only real use anyone had for him
was if he died, and then they could all have a shot at
getting some of all that lovely money he owned. He knew
that too. It was no wonder nobody out there cared about
anything except what he could do for them.
That realization was when he made some fundamental
changes in his attitude and in his life. And,
ironically, those changes were what had made
Amalgamated Industries the success it was. He ran his
business like no other business was run. Outsiders
looked at the kinds of things he spent money on and
shook their heads. They couldn't understand why the
company succeeded. Had any of them taken the time to
get a job inside Amalgamated... and watch, they would
have understood within a month.
***
The company stewardess sashayed back toward his seat.
The Lear jet seated sixteen in sumptuous comfort, but
he was the only passenger. A lot of CEOs carted around
an entourage large enough to take over whole floors of
a hotel, but Brad wasn't interested in people hovering
around him, sucking at his life force, trying to show
over and over how badly he needed them. He had
everything he needed on his laptop, and was glad to be
away from his office, out of the crush of admirers and
gold diggers.
What was her name? Oh yes... Jackie. Jackie approached
him. "Mr. Tarkenton we're getting ready to land. Is
your seat belt fastened? Is there anything I can do for
you? Anything at all?" she simpered.
Brad knew what she hoped she could do for him, but Brad
never played around inside the company. It was one of
his hard and fast rules, ever since Trudy. You don't
shit in the nest. It causes too many problems.
Not that she wasn't tempting. She was tall, and blond,
with breasts almost bursting from her uniform blouse,
which was tailored to fit her like a second skin. It
was also just barely translucent, enough so that one
could see the lacy pattern of her Victoria's Secret bra
through it. She just oozed sexual gratification. But so
did all those women who took his money and then either
lay there like they were bored, or engaged in theatrics
that any movie-goer would demand his money back after
enduring.
None the less, as Jackie bent over him, showing him her
cleavage, Brad felt his lap dragon stirring in its
lair, lifting its nose to sniff the air.
"Thanks, but I'm fine." said Brad in his well-modulated
bass voice. "You've been spectacular Jackie. I'll put
in a good word for you." In the beginning of the flight
she had served him a drink and made it crystal clear
that she was his for the taking if he wanted - right
there on the plane if he so desired. He'd taken the
drink and smiled that carefully cultivated smile that
made people think they'd gotten much farther with him
than they ever would. Then he'd read the Wall Street
Journal and looked out the window.
Jackie wasn't stupid, and didn't press things. She
spent the rest of the flight filing her three hundred
dollar fake nails and talking to the Pilot and Copilot,
probably seeing if they wanted to do a threesome during
the three day layover while they waited for the Boss to
do whatever he was going to do and then fly back home.
There was a limo waiting for him when he got off the
plane, sitting not fifteen feet from the bottom of the
stairs, door open, Chauffer at attention. Brad got in
and told the driver to wait for the crew. That was one
of the things that had made him so popular with his
work force. He didn't put on airs, even though airs
were all around him. They'd be staying at the same
hotel he was staying at, eating on the same expense
account as he did.
He took good care of his people and he expected them to
take good care of him. It worked. People like his 'good
buddy', who had used his own sister to try to get ahead
in the company didn't last long in Amalgamated. And
they didn't get good jobs when they left either, even
if they sought jobs with the competition. If Brad
Tarkenton didn't like you... very few people would take
a chance on you.
The crew piled in and chatted amiably on the way to the
hotel. They split off once they got there, heading for
the elevators. They already knew what rooms they'd been
assigned to, and that the rooms would be open and
ready, with a bell boy standing by to present them with
keys and handle the luggage when it came up.
Brad went to the desk, however, to let them see his
face. He'd found that that made hotel staff much more
attentive. He acted like a 'regular guy', even though
everybody in the place knew that he was somebody very
important. The Amalgamated staff in Cleveland had
ensured that. He collected the message he knew would be
there. It said "Whenever you're ready." and was signed
"Josh". Brad knew that the limo would be sitting out
front, waiting for him whenever he felt like going over
to the Cleveland offices.
On impulse Brad told the concierge to just have his bag
put in the room and then turned and went right back
outside. He hadn't made it ten feet past the front
doors when the driver was out of the car, hurriedly
putting on his cap and racing for the door. He made it
just as Brad got there and wrenched it open.
"Sorry sir... didn't expect you quite this soon."
"Relax, George" said Brad.
That was something else he made sure to do. He knew the
names of everyone he was likely to meet on this trip.
His staff was used to this quirk and had lists prepared
for him ahead of time. It was something they
appreciated and took pains to make sure got done
correctly. When a limo had been hired, the driver's
name had been added to the list.
Brad spoke to the driver. "We're not in a hurry. Why
don't you show me a little bit of Cleveland?"
"Yes sir." said the driver, surprised at how this fat
cat treated him like a real human being. That was
unusual.
There was a speaker system in the limo, which George
used for the first seven or eight blocks, until Brad
suggested it would be a lot easier if he just sat up
front. George, astonished, pulled over, but couldn't
make it completely out of the driver's door before Brad
was out of the car and heading for the suicide seat.
George climbed back in just as the customer settled
back into the front seat and slammed the door.
"Sorry sir." he said automatically.
"I said relax. We'll be all formal later. For now, just
show me your town."
Brad engaged in one of his favorite hobbies. What had
gotten him to the top was his ability to put himself on
the level of whoever he was dealing with. It wasn't
mercenary, but he applied himself to the game is if
everything hinged on making whoever he was dealing with
want to be his friend. With people like George, it was
for fun. He met some of the most interesting people at
levels of society much lower than what most people
would consider his to be. And, oddly enough, most of
those worker bees never actually wanted a whole lot
from him.
If they worked for Brad Tarkenton they were already
paid well, and knew it, and most of them had no concept
of what it was like to be able to write a check for
fifty or a hundred thousand dollars and never miss it.
And so, when he "mixed with the rabble" as one senior
vice president had once put it - a senior vice
president who was now enjoying very early retirement -
he usually had a lot more fun than when he was wheeling
and dealing with the other corporate sharks who swam in
his normal waters.
It wasn't love, but it was about as close as Brad
thought he might get to having worthwhile
relationships.
And so, for the next hour, Brad made another lifelong
admirer as George showed him what George thought was
great about Cleveland, including his own modest
bungalow, wherein sat his wife, Claudette and five "rug
rats", as George called them, named Mikey, Nicole,
Charlene, Jimmy and Jake.
"Five kids?" asked Brad. "Impressive."
"You married?" ventured George.
"Tried it three times and gave up." said Brad. "Turns
out I'm not the masochist I thought I was."
George chuckled, but then sobered. "Too bad. I don't
know what I'd do without Claudette. She keeps me
honest... not to mention worn out so I don't chase
after other women." He grinned, the equivalent of the
'wink wink, nudge nudge' that men share in bars as they
brag about their exploits or prowess. "She wants to
have another one! Claims she loves being pregnant. I
don't understand that at all. Seems like all she does
when she's all swollen up is complain about her back
and how often she has to pee." George ventured further.
"How 'bout you? Got any kids?"
"Two" said Brad. "Neither of whom wants to have
anything to do with me."
"Sucks" commented George.
"Yeah, I screwed it up." said Brad.
"Important guy like you?" said George. "I'd think
they'd be all about loving dear old Daddy."
"There's more important things in the world than money,
George. Remember that. You're richer by far than I am
just because you have Claudette and all those ankle
biters waiting for you at home." Brad could speak the
language too.
"Too bad." commiserated George. Knowing that the mood
had soured a little, and being a professional, despite
the unusualness of the current situation, George said
"Well, that's about it. Cleveland Ohio at its best.
Where to now, boss?"
"I've got a dinner appointment in an hour." said Brad.
"Just drop me at the Riverview Room at the Ritz. I'll
have a few drinks while I wait."
"You're the boss... boss, but I have to tell you, you
aren't going to meet the dress code." said George.
"That's a white glove kind of place."
"Believe it or not, George, that's one of the things
money is actually good for." smiled Brad. "I imagine
that none of the other diners will even know I'm
there."
Twenty minutes later Brad was back in the "expensive
seats" as George called them, and waited for George to
do his job. George opened the door and leaned in,
pointing. "Sir, that compartment over there... it has a
selection of ties in it. At least take one with you."
Brad opened the compartment. Selection wasn't the word.
There were probably thirty ties on a pull out rack. He
chose a muted blue, with thin red stripes that he knew
would go with the suit he was wearing.
As Brad exited the car George said in hushed tones.
"Ah... sir?... if you decide you'd like some company
while you're in town... I'm familiar with all the
best... escort services. I could make the arrangements
while you're eating."
"Thanks George, but not tonight." said Brad.
"Very good sir." responded George, firmly back in his
usual role. "I'll be here if there are any...
problems... with the dress code." George handed Brad
what looked like a cross between a cell phone and a
pager. "Just press any button if you need me."
A doorman took over five feet from the car. "Ah, mister
Tarkenton, so good you could dine with us tonight.
Andre is waiting to show you to your private dining
room." he said, making it obvious he wasn't looking at
Brad's open collar. Brad smiled as he heard George
snort softly and the limo door clicked shut.
Josh and his wife, Julie, arrived thirty minutes later.
While Josh apologized for being late, even though he
wasn't, and said that if they'd known he would be early
they would have been early too, Brad examined Julie.
If she was a trophy wife, Josh had chosen well. She was
spectacularly beautiful, with the sultry look that some
women had that brought every male in sight to the edge
of his seat. Tall and what would have been slim, but
for the bulging abdomen sheathed in a dress that had to
have cost a thousand dollars, she had long dark brown
hair that fell carelessly past her shoulders. The dress
cradled breasts that looked perfectly capable of
feeding quadruplets already, showing cleavage deep
enough to secure a Palm Pilot in.
She was obviously four or five months pregnant, and
every man who saw her had fleeting fantasies that he
had been the one to plant that baby. She was beyond
gorgeous, with makeup that looked like it had been
professionally applied. She knew how to walk, how to
smile, and how to break into her husband's babbling to
say "Hi, I'm Julie." She said it with just the right
timbre in her voice "I've heard so much about you. It's
a pleasure to meet the man behind Amalgamated."
Had Josh not been there, Brad might have asked this
vision of loveliness if she needed a husband.
But Josh was there, so Brad tore his gaze off the
stunning woman and paid a little attention to his
regional vice president in charge of development, who
was red-faced at having forgotten to introduce his
wife. They sat and talked about nothing more important
than the menu and wine list, which was as extensive as
any in a fine restaurant in New York. Then, over an
aperitif and some appetizers, Josh made a valiant
attempt at trying to find out, without coming right out
and asking, why the big boss had come to little
backwater Cleveland.
Again Julie broke into the conversation. "Darling, Mr.
Tarkenton will tell you why he's come when he's ready
to tell you why he's come. For now let's just enjoy his
company and get to know him a little."
Brad's opinion of her went up another notch. She enough
faith in her husband to believe that this visit was not
sinister. She was either relaxed and comfortable, or
the best actress Brad had ever seen.
Brad went with his impulse again. "Actually, let's just
get that out of the way right now. Then we can give our
full attention to relaxing." He turned toward Julie.
"And please, call me Brad. I don't stand much on
formality."
"How refreshing." she said in her beautifully modulated
voice. "A stuffed shirt who isn't stuffy." She smiled
beautifully, suggesting that the barb was all in good
fun.
"Bunny!" gasped her husband. "You can't talk to the CEO
of the company that way!"
"Bunny?" asked Brad. "My staff made no mention of any
name other than Julie Diane."
Julie arched her eyebrow. "Your staff... inquired about
me?" Her tone indicated that she thought such a thing
might be both frivolous and, perhaps, even
objectionable.
"Julie!" barked Josh. He was pale and was beginning to
look worried, rather than embarrassed.
Brad held up one hand, his palm toward Josh. "Let her
be Josh. She's new to the family and doesn't know how
things work."
Julie somehow looked both gorgeous and hostile at the
same time. It was disconcerting, or would have been to
a lesser man. "Yes... Josh, shut up and let MISTER
Tarkenton tell me how things work. Maybe Jasmine was
right after all?"
"Jasmine?" said Brad. "Another name my staff missed.
They'll be very disappointed."
Julie just waited, poised and cool, her dark eyed stare
firmly on Brad.
"I like to know the names of people I might meet." said
Brad. "I feel like people will be more receptive if I
can call them by name, rather than going through all
the social niceties of formal introductions."
She didn't smile. "So you game people and make them
think you care who they are."
"Oh Julie PLEASE don't do this." moaned Josh.
Julie had a mind of her own, however. "I have a friend,
a girl I used to work with. She tried to talk me out of
marrying Josh because she says the only guy she knows
who works for Amalgamated is a bastard. She says he
doesn't care about anything except making money and
being powerful. I didn't listen to her Mr. Tarkenton. I
love my husband very much, but maybe Jasmine wasn't so
far off the mark."
Brad loved this woman. She could think. She had guts.
She didn't back down or whimper at the thought that she
might be ending the career of her husband. And with a
baby on the way she HAD to know this wasn't a good time
for said husband to be changing jobs. But she had the
courage of her convictions.
"Well, you've raised several points." said Brad calmly.
"Let me take them in order. First, if I didn't care
about the people whose names I memorize, then why would
I make the effort to do that. How would I even remember
such information if it wasn't important to me? For
example, the driver of my limo is named George. He's
married to Claudette and has five children, two girls,
Charlene and Nicole, and three boys, Jimmy, Jake and
Mike.
"Now I may never need that information. But the fact is
that George is a nice guy, and if I can remember his
kids names if I ever see him again, and ask about them,
it will make George feel good. I suppose you could
assume that the only reason I'd do that is so that if I
wanted something from George I could game him. But I
don't really think there's all that much George could
do for me that he isn't already being paid to do."
There was a momentary startled look in Julie's eyes,
and they lost the hard glint that had been there
before. Brad also saw her jaw unclench slightly.
"Now," he went on, "my staff knows how I feel about
that. They like me to be prepared, because they like me
to be happy. So they take their responsibilities
ridiculously seriously. That's what I meant when I said
they'd be disappointed to find out you have a nick
name. What's listed in Josh's employee records is that
he's married to Julie Diane. I imagine there's no
information there about "Bunny". But that's OK. I like
to talk to people to get to know them, and too MUCH
background information can be detrimental there. For
example, if I knew all about "Bunny" I couldn't be
curious and ask you how you got that name.
Julie's blinked. She was thawing, but still pretty
cold.
Brad smiled again. "And I was kidding about how my
staff will be unhappy because they didn't know about
'Jasmine'. They don't pry into what your friend's names
are. If you were a business competitor, perhaps, but we
don't do that to a member of the family. If your
birthday, or anniversary was coming up soon, or had
just passed, they'd have told me about that. But that's
about as far as they go in their inquiries."
Julie sat back in her chair and her fingers relaxed
where they were interlaced over her baby's bulge. It
was a protective posture, but her relaxed frame made it
look loving, rather than defensive.
Brad continued. "As for what Jasmine thinks about the
man she knows, that's important to me. If she's right,
and all he cares about is making money, then Josh and I
will have to do something about that. That's not the
kind of employee I want working for me. Money is
important, but not more important than our relationship
with our customers. It is, after all, our customers who
bring us repeat business, and its repeat business that
generates profits. So while I may not have needed to
know about Jasmine before I met you, I certainly need
to know now."
Julie was less belligerent. "Jasmine isn't a customer,
and never will be." she said. "So why care?"
Brad nodded. "We certainly don't need Jasmine out there
in the world telling people that Amalgamated has a
bunch of bastards running the show. That's not good for
business either. And, for that matter, she's a
prospective employee, but only if she thinks well of
the company. So her opinion DOES matter."
Julie laughed then. "I doubt seriously that Amalgamated
could afford to hire Jasmine. Not if they're going to
pay her more than she already makes."
Josh jerked. "Julie, I'd like it very much if you were
quiet now."
Julie laid one hand on his arm. "Oh darling, you're so
up tight sometimes. Brad isn't mad at me, and I don't
think he's mad at you either." She looked at Brad with
eyes that were somehow very cognizant that she was
correct.
Brad smiled widely. "Josh, she is completely correct.
You can learn something from your lovely wife tonight,
and that is that I appreciate candor, and I want people
to be able to tell me what they think without being
afraid of retribution. If I'm acting like a rat
bastard, how will I ever know if nobody ever tells me?"
Two waiters appeared with a flourish and began serving
them. There was too much activity to continue the
conversation until the table had been set and the
dishes arranged to everyone's satisfaction. The food
was excellent
Again it was Julie who spoke first. "So? You never did
say why you were here." She dabbed her perfectly
lipsticked lips with one corner of a linen napkin.
Josh choked, but got himself under control.
Brad chuckled. "You're right. I got distracted." He
looked at Josh and cleared his throat. In a very
serious voice he said: "Josh, you're doing a great job
and the board is very happy with you." Brad went back
to eating, forking a piece of prime rib into his mouth.
Julie had frozen, her fork halfway to her mouth. She
put the fork down on her plate. "That's it?" she asked.
"Good job? Pat on the back? You came all this way just
to say 'Attaboy!'? No promotion?"
Josh started choking again.
Brad looked up and swallowed. "Julie, he's a regional
vice president at age thirty. That's phenomenal. To
move up he'd have to displace a person with ten years
seniority over him and three times the experience."
Julie picked up her fork again. "Good. I don't want to
move away from Cleveland just yet." She smiled her
dazzling smile and began to eat.
Josh slumped in his chair.
Brad spoke one last time before giving the prime rib
the attention it deserved. "Josh I can see part of why
you're doing so well." It was an unabashed compliment
to the woman who had just bearded the lion in its den.
She knew it, and she flushed with pleasure. That flush
went clear down to her chest. Somehow it made her
breasts look even bigger.
The rest of dinner was pleasant, and Josh actually got
to say some things to his boss, instead of trying to
ride herd on his wife. Julie, for her part, said
little, though everything she did talk about was light
hearted and non-controversial.
Julie did prompt her husband occasionally, such as when
she said "Josh, aren't you going to ask him about
tomorrow night?"
Josh looked uncomfortable as he faced his boss. "Well,
there's a get together with some of the customer base
and some contractors we do a lot of subcontracting
with. But it's one of those couples buffet dance kinds
of things, so I didn't know if you'd be interested in
attending or not." He left unsaid that Brad didn't have
a wife to take to such an affair, and Brad knew it.
"I'm used to attending such functions stag." said Brad.
He looked at Julie, who had perked up at the statement
for some reason. "I've been married three times and two
of them didn't work out." he said.
"Well, then that means one did." said Julie, using that
engaging smile she was so good at. "It's a shame you
didn't bring number three along on this trip. I'd love
to meet her."
Josh groaned.
Brad was slightly disappointed in his regional vice
president for development in Cleveland, who had not
explained some things to his wife that would have
prevented her from making the social gaff she had just
committed. But it wasn't Julie's fault. "It was number
one who worked out, but she died. I tried to replace
her twice, but it turned out she was irreplaceable."
Julie paled. "Oh Brad, I'm so sorry." she said softly.
"I didn't know."
Josh jumped as his wife's foot connected solidly with
his shin. Brad pretended he hadn't seen it. "It's OK."
he said.
"It's sad." she said back. "And what makes it even
sadder is that you've given up on women, haven't you?"
"Oh Julie, for pity's sake!" moaned the Amalgamated
vice president for development in Cleveland.
"Well, it's true, isn't it?" she said, all perky again.
"I have to admit you're correct." said Brad. "The women
I meet now just seem interested in either power or
money, but not in me."
"Well, we're not all like that." said Julie. "You're
too nice a man to go through the rest of your life
alone."
Brad laughed. "Suddenly I'm a nice man?"
"I think so." said Julie, as if he hadn't referred to
her confrontation of him only half an hour before. "And
I know several women who would think so too."
"Ohhh I'm toast" moaned Josh.
His wife shot him a look and then centered her
attention back on Brad. "How about I get you a date for
tomorrow night. I can think of several women I used to
work with who would be perfect."
"BUNNY!" croaked Josh.
"Oh hush." said Julie. "Brad is the kind of man who
will find out about it some day anyway." She faced Brad
and took a breath. It did fabulous things to her
cleavage. "Before I married Josh I worked for an escort
service."
Several things became clear in Brad's mind immediately.
Her suave demeanor, her appearance, her familiarity
with formal dining, her excellent taste in clothing.
All those things, despite her youth, were explained by
the fact that she'd been a hooker. No, not just a
hooker... a call girl, and an expensive one, if Brad
knew his stuff. And Brad knew his stuff when it came to
expensive call girls. She hadn't completely adjusted to
her new life, though. She was tense again, nervous,
expecting her husband's boss to sneer.
Brad didn't sneer. "Well, that suggests that you didn't
marry Josh for his money." he said. "Based on our short
acquaintance I'd bet that you took a cut in salary when
you married him." He didn't suggest she was still
employed. She didn't seem like the type.
"Why thank you." she beamed. "I DID lose money on the
deal." She winked at Brad. "But he was such a sweet
boy, and so needy, and there ARE certain
compensations." She patted her swollen belly.
"And I'm sure your friends are just as beautiful and
educated and fun to be with as yourself," said Brad,
"but I've tried that too, and it has left much to be
desired."
"Well," said Julie. She was sizing Brad up like she'd
have sized up a customer in her sordid past. She had
been very good at sizing up customers, which was why,
when Josh had begged her to leave that life, she had
taken the chance. "There are escorts, and then there
are escorts. Here in Cleveland sex is optional, and the
girl I have in mind for you is fun to be around under
any circumstances. In fact, I don't know if she'd even
agree to go. I was thinking of Jasmine. You said you
cared about what she thought of Amalgamated, or at
least the guy she was talking about. This would be your
chance to find out. What do you say Brad?"
For a third time on this trip, Brad went with his
instinct. "Call her."
Julie smiled. "Don't you even want to know how much she
charges?"
Brad smiled tightly. "If you have to ask, you can't
afford it."
Julie smiled again. "Yes... there is that."
Julie went to the powder room while the men paid the
bill. Brad looked around for the waiter, but Josh laid
one hand on his arm. "It's already arranged." he said.
"They're billing it to my account." He looked nervous.
"About Julie..." he said.
Brad stood up. "Josh, who you marry is your business.
That you chose well is something I applaud. If you're
lucky enough to be in love, don't ever let anything
tear you apart. I like her Josh."
Josh was so relieved that there were tears in his eyes.
"This is so stupid." he said, wiping them.
Brad clapped him on the back. "Love leaves us big tough
men defenseless. Don't worry about it." Then he
whispered. "Tell me about 'Bunny', quickly, before she
gets back."
Josh's head jerked. But then he smiled. "It was her
working name. So the men wouldn't know who she really
was. Those women get stalked a lot."
Brad nodded as they both watched Josh's beautiful
pregnant wife walk gracefully across the room. The eyes
of every man in the place followed her. "I can see why,
Josh... I can see why."
***
Somehow George knew that Brad was coming out, because
the limo was parked at the curb and George was standing
at attention with the door open. Josh and Julie walked
Brad to the door.
"Hi George, isn't it a beautiful night?" asked Julie.
George didn't bat an eye. "It certainly is Miss Bunny.
Congratulations to you both about your baby." It was
obvious, thought not surprising, that George and Julie
knew each other. After all, women who charged what
Bunny had charged to be with a man most often got
picked up and dropped off in limousines.
"Thank you George" said Julie and she kissed him on the
cheek as he blushed.
"I'm telling Claudette the next time I see her." joked
Brad getting in the car.
"We'll call you about tomorrow night." said Julie.
George closed the door and Brad watched Josh put his
arm around his wife's waist and walk her toward the
parking garage.
George knew where to go, and started there without
being told. The ride was silent, but when they stopped
and George opened the door for him, Brad spoke as he
got out. "Is she a good woman George?"
They both knew he was asking about Julie, and not
Claudette.
"Yes sir, that whole bunch are good women. They have
class sir."
"Good... that's good." said Brad. Then he went into his
hotel and to bed.
CHAPTER TWO
Brad spent the next morning being shown around the
various departments and offices in which Amalgamated's
Cleveland operation was housed. Brad worked his magic
with various people and left a trail of happy employees
in his path. Josh trailed along, watching how it was
done.
"You really do care about people, don't you?" he said
at one point.
"They're who make you look good." said Brad simply.
Josh invited Brad out to lunch at another fancy
restaurant, but Brad insisted on eating in the company
cafeteria, where he sat with and talked to three of the
janitorial staff, telling jokes and listening to
several comments and complaints.
As they left the cafeteria Josh's phone went off and he
answered it. He listened and then said "You're kidding.
She said that? OK.. I'll tell him. Yeah, I'll call you
right back if there's a problem. OK, I love you." He
turned to Brad. That was Julie. Jasmine agreed to
escort you tonight, but there are a couple of
conditions."
"Conditions?"
"Yeah. Julie just said to tell you what they were and
for me not to ask any questions. If you don't want to
do it, then I'm supposed to call her back."
"What conditions?" asked Brad.
"First of all, it's costing you a thousand dollars."
Brad nodded. He wasn't surprised.
"Second, you have to wear a charcoal colored single
breasted suit instead of a tux. Oh, and your cuff links
or other jewelry cannot be gold colored."
Brad nodded again. For enough money a suit could be
tailor-made in three or four hours.
"And lastly, you're to keep your mouth shut." Josh
looked helplessly at Brad.
"About what?" asked Brad, intrigued despite himself.
"She didn't say. Julie said she asked the same
question, but all Jasmine would say is that you have to
promise to keep your mouth shut. Maybe she means about
Amalgamated... like she's afraid you're going to try to
change her mind or something."
"How strange." said Brad. This wasn't the way the
average high class hooker behaved. "What the hell? I'm
in. I haven't had a date for quite a while. Maybe
she'll challenge me enough to make it interesting."
Josh sighed. "Julie said you're supposed to pick us up
in the limo. She arranged it all with George. Sometimes
I wonder if I did the right thing." He was obviously
referring to marrying a former call girl.
"You did the perfect thing, as far as I can tell." said
Brad. "You did the perfect thing, Josh."
Brad had George take him to a little shop George knew
about and he ordered the suit. It would be delivered to
his hotel room by six thirty. Then Brad made some grip
and grin calls in the afternoon, meeting with the Mayor
and a few other politicians who appreciated the jobs
and revenue that Amalgamated was creating in the city.
After that he surprised George again by inviting the
whole family out to an early dinner that evening.
George made a call and talked quietly for a few minutes
before hanging up. He looked a little uncertain. "She
was reluctant. Riding herd on all the kids in a
restaurant is a chore." he said. But she said to call
back and tell her where we'll be and she'll meet us."
"Nonsense" said Brad. "You're my guests. Have the kids
ever ridden in the limo?"
"Not a chance." said George. "They pester me about it
all the time, but I know better."
"Well today they get their chance." said Brad. "I'll
square it with your employer." Brad made a phone call
of his own, which George didn't hear.
To be honest, it WAS pandemonium when the limo pulled
up to George's house and the whole clan came screaming
out, followed by an obviously frazzled Claudette.
George was mobbed by all his rug rats.
Brad helped get all the kids strapped into the seats
and called up an address to George. "One more stop" he
said to Claudette, who was nervously watching the
children to make sure they didn't damage anything.
George scratched his head, but drove to the address,
which had nothing to do with eating. There was a group
of five women standing on the curb waiting.
Brad told him to stop and let the women in. "I'd like
you to meet your babysitters for the evening." said
Brad. I arranged for them through my company. They'll
each take a child so you two can relax. The women
climbed in and there was a disorganized game of
choosing which woman would go with each child. Both the
women and the children negotiated until everybody,
meaning the kids, were happy.
"Pufferbelly's, George" announced Brad. There were
shouts of approval from the kids.
It was a great time for all of them. The children got
to play on the trains and firefighting equipment
Pufferbelly's was famous for, as well as choose
whatever they wanted for dinner. George and Claudette
were nervous at first, but the nannies, and whatever
child they were tending, checked in frequently with
them. Soon it became obvious that the children were in
good hands and the adults got to enjoy their own food.
When it was all over Brad got a kiss from Claudette.
"You're a nice man." she said, being a woman of few
words. Then she herded the kids back into the house and
Brad went back to the hotel to get ready for the party
that night.
George picked Brad up at eight. There had been a change
in plans, and Josh and Julie were already in the limo.
Julie looked fabulous, in another gown that had been
tailor made for her pregnant body. It glistened in the
interior lights of the car and was cut so low between
her breasts that the top of the bulge made by her baby
was visible.
Brad could see the undersides of her bountiful breasts,
and they weren't sagging much. The material of the gown
was thin as well, and her nipples showed prominent
bumps through it. She wore a diamond choker and her
hair was up, with glistening diamond pins in it to hold
it in place. He felt a tightness in his groin as she
smiled at him.
"You should save those kinds of looks for your date,
Brad." she said as she batted her eyelashes at him,
teasing.
"If my date looks half as good as you do I may not make
it through the night." he said back.
Josh just beamed. He was proud to be with this woman
and it showed. "Jasmine is almost as beautiful as my
lovely bride." he said, looking sideways at Julie,
quite obviously at her breasts.
"Jasmine has always made me look like a hag."
complained Julie, but she smiled.
"Well she has interesting rules." said Brad. He had
fifty crisp hundred dollar bills in the inside pocket
of his new suit. Ten of them were for Jasmine. The rest
were for contingencies. You never knew for sure what an
evening would entail when you were with a girl like
Julie and her former peers.
"I had to talk hard to get her to come." said Julie.
"You'd better be nice tonight. My reputation is riding
on you."
"I'm honored that you have such faith in me." said
Brad.
"I'm a fair judge of character." said Julie, making it
a compliment. "And Jasmine knows that. When I told her
you were OK she said she'd trust me, but would reserve
judgment on an Amalgamated bigwig until she actually
spends some time with you."
It was a short drive to one of the other fine hotels in
town. Brad knew that a lot of the higher class call
girls lived in hotels, but if Jasmine lived in this
one, she was very high class indeed. When they arrived
Julie jumped for the door before George could even get
his opened, and she dashed toward the long red carpet
that led to the entrance of the hotel. "Be right back!"
she yelled.
The dichotomy of a woman dressed as well as Julie was,
and pregnant to boot, sprinting along the red carpet
like a little girl, made both men laugh. The doorman, a
silver-haired gentleman of at least sixty, looked up
with a frown, but his face creased into a grin as Brad
heard him call Bunny's name. She crashed into the
liveried man, giving him a hug that pressed her baby
well against his stomach. He protested, and pushed her
back, as a good doorman would do, but it was clear they
were glad to see each other. She took his hand and put
it on her swollen abdomen. The men in the car heard her
say "Feel! Isn't it just WONDERFUL?!"
"That's one of the things I love about her." said Josh.
"She's just so full of life. She makes everything into
a game about being happy and loving people.
Brad felt tears trying to build up in his eyes. That
was how Elizabeth had been. She had loved everything
and everybody, almost never seeing the down side of
anything. His vision blurred a little as he blinked
away the tears. He left his hands in his lap. No sense
letting a subordinate know that he was an emotional
boob.
It was for that reason - the half formed tears in his
eyes - that when Brad saw two women walking toward the
limo he couldn't see them as well as he'd have liked.
One was Julie. Her form made that obvious. She was arm-
in-arm with another slightly taller woman and they were
walking in step. They walked in that gait that runway
models use, a long stride that makes everything move on
them and draws the attention of everyone within sight.
The other woman had raven black hair that hung straight
to the tops of her buttocks. It had to weigh four
pounds, even though the wind created by their ground-
covering walk made it fan out behind her a little. She
was wearing high heels and a dress that looked for all
the world like it had been liquid at some point and was
poured carefully onto her shoulders. Then it had flowed
down, covering most of her breasts, to mold itself to
her flat stomach and hips that swelled suddenly
outwards to become the base for long slim legs. The
dress ended in an uneven hem, made up of strips of
flimsy cloth that fluttered as she walked.
Both women looked like any two young up-and-coming
twenty-somethings, their hips rising and falling like
those of a hunting cat as they strode confidently
toward the limo. There was no girlishness about Julie
now. She was all grown up, and she and the woman with
her were the very picture of sexuality. That Julie was
pregnant, and the other woman's stomach was board flat
just set each of them off in their own way. Both were
beautiful in the way that feminists just hated, because
all little girls dreamed of looking like that, even
though most had no hope.
Brad couldn't decide whether to watch Julie's bobbing
breasts, or those of his date. His date's dress didn't
cut quite as low as Julie's, but it went to the bottom
of her breasts and then scooped widely out, turning
into spaghetti straps that went up and over her
shoulders. The gown was various shades of blue, some
going to gray, which explained why she had specified
his suit be charcoal colored.
Her dress would be set off by his suit like she was on
display, not that any man would be concentrating on the
dress. Her breasts, too, lifted and fell as her stride
lifted them and then fell away, letting them drop. They
didn't so much bounce as jiggle delightfully. She
obviously wasn't wearing a bra, and the dress was so
flimsy that it didn't have the strength to control her
breasts.
There was a little breeze and her long hair flowed away
from her body a little. It was like a cape. She
suddenly stopped and turned, waving at the doorman, who
was standing there with a smile on his face a mile
wide. There wasn't a man in the world who wouldn't
smile as he watched these women walk. "I may be late."
her tinkling soprano voice called to the man old enough
to be her grandfather. "I don't know for sure yet."
Brad blinked. There was no back to her dress.
Literally, the spaghetti straps came over her shoulders
and fastened to the sides of the dress under her arms
where it wrapped around her sides. But those sides did
not come together across her back. Rather they dipped
down so low that you could see the crack of her ass, or
could if her hair wasn't covering it. No bra, and no
panties either. Sex might be optional, but she was
dressed for the occasion if it arose.
Her statement to the doorman had not been necessary
either. She was letting Brad know that nothing was a
sure thing about tonight.
Brad blinked again as the women started to climb into
the limo, George now tending the door for both of them.
Brad knew he'd be treated to hanging breasts in dresses
that weren't designed for bending over, and he wanted
to be able to see them, Julie's included.
"Good evening George." said Brad's date, obviously
familiar with him like Julie was.
"Good evening Miss Jasmine" he said. "It's always good
to have you riding along."
There was something about her voice that made Brad's
ears perk up. And, when she entered the limo, she did
indeed show off just about everything she had. The
dress fell away from full breasts, dark nippled. Those
nipples were long and looked erect to Brad. The woman
was excited. Brad had a quick glimpse of dangling
silver earrings and a necklace that had a dark blue
stone in it as big as a hen's egg, surrounded by silver
and diamonds. She began to settle herself beside him as
Julie climbed in. Brad grabbed one quick glimpse of
Julie's breasts and then turned his attention to
Jasmine.
It was then that things clicked in his mind. He
suddenly knew why Jasmine hated Amalgamated. And he
knew why he was required to keep his mouth shut
tonight... and what he was required to keep his mouth
shut about.
Jasmine... his beautiful sexy date... a thousand-
dollar-a-night hooker... was, in reality, Samantha
Tarkenton, his daughter.
***
You couldn't tell it from the way she acted. "Good
evening Brad... I'm Jasmine." She held out one slim,
manicured hand. Training brought his own hand up and he
touched his daughter for the first time in five years.
"I'm truly astonished." he managed to say.
Julie giggled. "I told you she put me to shame."
The ride to the hall was a dark, mist-filled time for
Brad, as he tried to wrap his mind around the events
unfolding around him. There was chatter between Julie
and Jasmine, with Josh chiming in occasionally. He had
obviously met... perhaps even... well, suffice it to
say Josh knew Jasmine. Brad wasn't sure how he felt
about what Josh and Jasmine may have done together.
He knew he commented about something, though he had no
idea what it was, or what he had said. Both women
laughed, though, and he felt a strange warmth in his
chest as Jasmine's smile lit up the inside of the car.
Otherwise he was silent as thoughts and emotions chased
themselves around in his mind, like ghosts he couldn't
quite see, but knew were there.
Julie noticed. She looked at him strangely, as if she
didn't understand what kind of man she was seeing. "I
know she's beautiful Brad, but I didn't think you'd be
struck dumb."
Jasmine's laugh tinkled. "We'll have plenty of time to
talk later, when he gets more used to me. Brad probably
hasn't been around a woman like me much before." She
turned to Brad and her eyes nailed him to the seat.
"Have you Brad? I'd imagine you have more dates with...
secretaries... or perhaps women introduced to you by
colleagues... isn't that right... Brad?"
Brad woke up enough to hear the daggers in that simple
suggestion. "Not any more." he said heavily. "Not for a
long time."
Jasmine laughed again. "Goody. I just love being with a
man who hasn't... dated... for a long time." That
brought a giggle from Julie too.
The limo was rolling to a stop in front of another long
red carpet. Brad was beginning to get himself back
under control. He took Jasmine's hand and said "Well,
then, I'm sure you'll have a fabulous time tonight."
That brought a laugh from Josh and a long drawn out
"Ooooooo" from Julie.
Jasmine didn't say a word.
She did, however, let him get out first, and help her
out, and she took his arm and matched her steps to his
as they walked toward the hall where, Brad realized,
they'd spend the next few hours together. That it was
under circumstances where everyone would believe they
were an important man and his lovely date, rather than
a father and his lovely daughter, would make it
interesting, if nothing else.
Brad knew full well that she would have the opportunity
to make a fool of him in front of important people.
There was every likelihood that there would be women
and men at this affair who knew her, and what she did
for a living. She could simply announce who she was,
and there would be scandal. The businessman in him
recognized the dangers in that, though they wouldn't be
as bad as if he were in D.C.
But the father in him recognized that, if she did that,
it would be only what he deserved, for having been a
failure as a father. On the walk into the building, her
arm nestled into his, her fingers lying possessively on
top of his wrist, her breast pressing against his
bicep, Brad Tarkenton decided that if she did that,
he'd just take it.
"I'm sorry" he said as they approached the doors being
swung open by uniformed attendants.
"We'll have plenty of time to talk about that later.
Right now you need to act like my date." came the voice
from the gorgeous woman beside him.
"I just wanted you to know." he said.
She grunted. "I've known how sorry a man you were for
years." But her arm tightened and she smiled widely as
the doors were opened for them. They swept into the
room, already packed with people of all types, and were
immediately the center of attention.
It was always like this when Brad went to a party. He
was usually the richest, most important and most
powerful man people had ever met, and they flocked to
him like moths to a flame, trying to touch him, hoping
that some of his fabulous luck and wealth would rub off
on them. Many times the women who attended these things
with him were put off by the crush, but Samantha worked
the crowd like a pro. Brad noticed that some men she
addressed by their first name.
He soon figured out that these men were not with their
wives. The men she knew who WERE with their wives, she
addressed by the honorific and their last name. In
every situation like that she followed that up by
asking about some project they were involved in, as if
she were a consultant they'd worked with, or had drawn
the designs they were using to build something.
Never was it obvious that she'd slept with a man, not
even to Brad. But she knew a lot of people. And a lot
of people knew her. Brad saw only one frown from a
woman who interacted with the woman everyone called
Jasmine. There were a lot of wistful looks thrown her
way, and Brad realized that most of the people who were
in this room couldn't afford to hire Jasmine.
Then Brad began to listen to what she talked with the
women in the crowd about. He soon realized that she was
involved in a number of women's groups, including a
breast cancer awareness organization, some kind of
children's burn victim group, a club that was trying to
revitalize green spaces in the city and, of all things,
a quilting guild.
Later in the night, when he was at the bar getting a
drink for himself and his daughter, he'd find out what
everyone in the room thought she was. A man who had
obviously already had way too much to drink leaned over
and asked, with alcohol fumed breath, "What's it like
to be with one of those rich girls, who have rich
daddies, and never have to work? Are they too spoiled
to suck your dick? Do they even fuck?"
Brad, not knowing who the man was, and not wanting to
be thrown out for putting his fist in the guy's face,
just said "I don't know. It's my first time. I'll let
you know later."
So everyone thought she was wealthy, by virtue of
having a rich father. Just a flit-about rich socialite,
who could sleep as late as she wanted, and go out with
lots of different men because she was too spoiled to
pick any one of them.
But that was later. For now Brad just watched a
professional people person at work. She was good, and
though conflicted, Brad felt proud of his daughter.
The initial chaos of being important faded after about
half an hour and, when the crowd thinned out, Sam
turned to her father. Here, in the light, she took his
breath away. The dress didn't so much cover her
nakedness as advertise it while teasing the observer by
showing what her body would look like if she was
wearing paint. Her nipples were spiked and showing
clearly.
Sam settled her gaze on the man she was with. "Aren't
you going to ask me to dance?" she asked. "People will
talk if you don't have anything to do with me."
Brad ignored her jibe. "Nothing would please me more
than dancing with you." he said.
She arched one pencil thin eyebrow. "Nothing?" she
teased. She was good at her job, and the fact that her
date was her own father didn't slow her down even a
little.
They moved to the dance floor, where a small orchestra
was playing music to dance slowly to. There would be no
rock and roll at this party. As she melted into his
arms he found his mouth by her ear.
"I've missed you." he whispered.
She stiffened, but then relaxed. "Yeah... right." She
was an exquisite dancer and they moved like they'd
studied and trained together.
"I spent over half a million looking for you." he said.
"You always did try to throw money at a problem." came
her retort.
There was a tap on his shoulder and he turned to find a
man half his age asking to cut in.
Jasmine smiled sweetly at the young man. "Thank you so
much, but I couldn't bear to tear myself away from my
date." she said. "I'll be sad about it for days,
though, thinking of what I'll miss." The would-be
suitor, for having been rebuffed, left feeling
surprisingly upbeat. Jasmine had a way of saying "no"
that made men think she'd said "later."
"If you hate me so much, why didn't you dance with
him?" asked Brad.
"I'm not sure I hate you." she said back. "A lot has
happened since I left. I won't say I've kept an eye on
you, but some of what you've done has come to my
attention. I know, for example, that you didn't marry
again after Trudy the turd."
Brad swung her around hard enough to make her hair fly
out, hitting a nearby couple. They laughed.
When she came back to him he felt her hand lower on his
back. "I should have listened to you about her." he
admitted. "I should have done a lot of things
differently."
"Do you believe in Karma?" asked his daughter, holding
him close. He could feel her breasts, rubbing against
his chest. His hand was in the middle of her naked
back.
"I don't know." he answered truthfully. "I know that
what goes around comes around. Is that the same thing?"
"Pretty close. As I look back on things I think there
was some kind of Karma at work. I didn't like my life
then, or you. But Phillip and I were forged by that
pressure, and fired in that kiln. You were too Daddy."
He felt an unaccountable thrill shoot through him at
her use of "Daddy". He'd assumed he'd never hear that
word again, applied to him, anyway.
"That doesn't mean I feel good about it." he said. He
felt her tense up again and guessed that she had
interpreted him as saying he didn't feel good about how
she and Phillip had turned out. He hastened to correct
that, if, in fact it had happened. "What I mean is that
you have grown into a beautiful and successful woman,
perfectly capable of taking care of herself. You're
popular and sought after by the good elements in our
society."
"I'm a hooker, Daddy." she said, but there was no heat
in it. "A lot of people here know that. Not all, but a
lot."
"That's how you make a living. But that's not all you
are. From what I've heard just tonight you're important
to a lot of people and it has nothing whatsoever to do
with sex."
"So if I announced to the people here that I'm your
daughter... you wouldn't be embarrassed?"
Brad felt his positive mood sour. So that was why she
was here after all. Well, he'd already decided he'd
take it, if that's what she wanted to get her revenge.
"If you felt it was important for people to know that
then I'd gladly claim you as my daughter." he answered.
Sam snuggled in against him and put both her arms
around him. That led him to put both his hands on her
naked back as they swayed to the music. "Why haven't
you contacted Phillip?" she asked his chest.
"When I couldn't find you I knew you were either dead,
or didn't want to be found. And when I cut Phillip off,
I figured he'd seen all of me he wanted to. I also
assumed he'd come back, looking for more money. I was
wrong about that too. I've been wrong about so much."
She looked up at him. "I changed my name legally and
then asked the court to seal the records. I told them
there was a stalker who would try to find me. I was
notified twice that someone was asking about it. I
convinced the man who kept the records not to release
them. That's why you couldn't find me. I knew you were
looking, but I thought it was just to drag me back
home.
"I would never have done that Sam." he said.
"Jasmine" she corrected. "Even Phillip calls me Jasmine
now."
"You see him?" Brad was surprised.
"About every three months. I fly down and we spend a
few days... catching up. He's very successful now."
"He's successful at home repairs?" Brad was again
surprised.
"Daddy, he fixed everything in the house when we were
young. The contractors would come in and screw things
up, or use cheap materials. They were all trying to rip
you off. So Phillip learned how to do things. He's a
genius, you know. Maybe you don't know. Why were you
like that Daddy?"
Brad sighed. "I never got over your mother. I'm still
not over her. I tried to find somebody who could be
like her, but there aren't any women like her. She was
one of a kind." He squeezed Jasmine and felt her rub
her breasts against him. 'She must do that from habit'
he thought. He went on. "When you were seventeen you
looked so much like her that I thought I was seeing her
ghost. But you hated me, and that hurt more than
anything else. I was looking at her, but feeling your
hate."
"I didn't hate you Daddy." she said. "Well, OK,
sometimes I hated you. But mostly I was disgusted with
you. I had all these dreams... Phillip and I both
did... but you wouldn't let us pursue them."
"Was that what State college was all about?" asked
Brad.
"Yes. I wanted to be an interior designer and Phillip
wanted to be an engineer."
"Phillip could have done that, if he hadn't gotten in
so much trouble."
"Phillip was trying to get your attention so he could
tell you what he wanted. But the only time you ever
talked to him was when you were pissed off."
"So why didn't you go to college where you wanted to?
You know... after you changed your name." asked Brad.
"When I left, I left your money behind. I was broke and
homeless. I was running away from an angry hot dog
vendor when I ran in front of George's limo one night.
He hit me. I wasn't hurt. Scraped up a little, and I
didn't need to go to the hospital, but George was
scared half to death. He took me home and Claudette fed
me and cleaned me up. I stayed with them for a few
days. I wouldn't tell them who I was, but it was pretty
clear that I didn't have any skills. It was George who
introduced me to Madeline. She trained me to be... what
I am."
"So she takes a cut of what you make?" asked Brad.
"No, she's an incurable romantic who thinks that every
man should have a mistress. She says it brings out the
real man in him and makes his home life better. Sort of
like therapy. We're all independent operators. Madeline
has friends powerful enough to protect us, and we play
things pretty close to the chest."
"And a beautiful chest it is." Brad said, without
thinking.
Jasmine looked up at him again, and her dazzling smile
lit up. "Why Daddy, you're FLIRTING with me." She was,
for some reason, pleased by that.
Suddenly she started looking around. She didn't make it
obvious, but she was clearly looking all around them as
they continued to dance.
"You've made me forget to watch what I'm doing. No man
has done that for so long I can't even remember the
last time. People are watching us. Kiss me."
"What?" he asked, stunned.
"People expect to see us cuddle and kiss. You're mister
big, and I'm your expensive plaything. Kiss me."
"But..."
He was cut off as she stood on tiptoes and kissed him.
It was no pretend kiss either, with stiff lips. She all
but ate his lips off as hers sucked and closed over
his, her tongue darting into his surprised mouth. He
actually heard two couples nearby sigh as they watched.
She pulled back. "Is that the best you can do?" she
asked. "No wonder you can't find a wife." Her eyes
clouded instantly. "I'm sorry Daddy. I shouldn't have
said that."
They danced for two hours, never taking a break,
standing close together between songs. Every ten or
fifteen minutes she demanded that he kiss her. She
instructed him each time exactly what kind of kiss they
should be having, based on her experience. He laughed,
but began kissing her back like he meant it. He was
delirious that she even let him talk to her. That she
was willing to kiss him, he chalked up to her desire to
maintain her professional image.
She told him everything she was involved in and he was
amazed. He told her how his philosophy had changed. At
one point she said "That's why I decided to escort you
tonight. When Julie asked me to do it I talked to
George about you. He loves you. And I trust George."
"I'm going to have to tip George very generously." he
said.
She squirmed against him.
"You know, you've been rubbing those delightful breasts
against me for over an hour. I'm only a man, Sam." he
said.
"Jasmine" she reminded him. "I like rubbing them
against you. My therapist says that I wanted your
attention when I was younger because I was trying to
take Mommy's place when she died. And when you didn't
accept me as a sexual partner it caused me to try to
find that acceptance in other men."
"Wow." said Brad. "And what do you think?"
"Up to now I thought he was a quack." she said. She
didn't go on, leaving Brad trying to figure out exactly
what that meant.
It was then that the orchestra took a break and Brad
went to the bar to get them each a glass of wine. It
was then that the man brought out a rage in him he
hadn't felt for years. He was actually almost pleased
by it though. Any man would be incensed when his
daughter was talked about like that. And now he was a
man who had a daughter again.
On his way back he could see that, in his absence,
Jasmine had been surrounded by men, all trying to talk
to her. Julie walked up beside him and took his arm
carefully, to keep from making him spill the wine.
"Jasmine likes you." she said confidentially. "I can
tell."
"I think that remains to be seen." he said.
"You don't know Jasmine like I do." said Julie. "She
almost NEVER kisses a man in public. She has to like
him a LOT to do that."
Brad felt a tightening in his chest again. She'd said
people would expect it, but did it because she wanted
to. He felt light headed.
"Well, I have to admit, I'm having the best time I've
had in a lot of years." said Brad.
Julie squeezed his arm against her pregnant belly. "I
knew you would." She broke away. "Damn, I have to go
pee again. Why do you men do this to us?" she asked in
mock agony, stroking her belly with both hands.
"Because you love what it takes to get you that way."
said Brad.
Julie laughed and then winced as that put pressure on
her bladder. As she left she whispered "Maybe Jasmine
will love it too."
Brad reared back. Of course Julie would think that he
and Jasmine might have sex. Jasmine was acting like she
did when she was with other men, so it would be natural
to assume they would end up in bed. Brad almost spilled
the wine anyway when he realized that some part of him
kind of liked the idea.
That part caused blood to rush to his cock the next
time Jasmine announced it was time for another "make
believe" kiss.
By midnight the party had thinned out, as husbands and
their wives left, having to go to work the next day.
Only the young and restless stayed to try to banish
whatever ills they thought they suffered, with wine and
beautiful members of the opposite sex.
They were dancing when Jasmine pushed her father back
from her suddenly. "Oh!" she said, as if she'd just
thought of something. "Julie is probably dead on her
feet and I bet her back is killing her." She pulled
Brad toward where Julie and Josh were sitting at a
table. They watched father and daughter... not knowing
they were father and daughter... approach.
"You two make a handsome couple." said Julie.
"Julie has been trying to marry me off for over a year
now." said Jasmine, laughing.
"You could do worse." said Julie.
"Why, I believe you're right Julie dear." said Jasmine,
playing her part to the hilt. "But we've been
positively rude to you both." she went on. "I bet
you've been wanting to go home for hours, and all we
did was dance the night away."
Josh actually nodded, but Julie wasn't biting. "I've
been having a lot of fun watching you two." she said.
"I think Brad's going to be a very happy man after
tonight."
"If I were any happier they'd have to take me away to
the happy farm." said Brad.
Jasmine actually blushed.
They gathered up belongings, though, and left the
party, again to find George magically parked at the
front. It was a quiet ride, with soft, meaningless
conversation, mostly between the women, while the men
lay back against the cushions, totally relaxed. When
they arrived at the Clinton home, Julie fiddled with
her purse and then, on her way past Brad, pressed
something into his hand.
"Just in case." she said.
He didn't have to look at the item to know it was a
foil-wrapped packet with a donut shaped bulge in it. He
palmed it into his suit pocket and accepted a much more
platonic kiss from Julie as she said good night.
"See you in the morning?" asked Josh as he got out.
"He may be a little late." said Jasmine, smiling that
blazing smile.
CHAPTER THREE
The limo drove off smoothly, heading for downtown.
"Sam, I can't tell you how much this night has meant to
me." said Brad. "I thought I'd lost you forever, and
that you hated me too much to even put eyes on me. Can
you ever forgive me for how stupid I was back then?"
"I'm already working on it." she said, leaning against
him. "Take me home."
Brad picked up the phone and called up to George.
"Jasmine is ready to go home George." he said into the
phone.
His daughter took the phone away from him. "His home,
George." she said curtly and hung the phone up. She
turned to her father. "You bought me for the night."
she said.
Brad thought she was reminding him that she was a
prostitute... that in one way he was just another John
to her. Saddened, he reached into his pocket and
brought out a thousand dollars. He held it out. She
took it and tucked it into her purse.
"I didn't buy you at all." he protested.
"Yes you did." she said back, with no heat in her
voice. "And the night's not over yet."
"I would love to talk to you some more." he said.
"Talking is nice." she responded.
George dropped them off at Brad's hotel and, as he let
them out, Brad saw that he had a small suitcase in his
hand that he'd gotten from the trunk. As they
approached the doorman, George handed the bag to the
man. It soon became obvious that Jasmine was not only
known there, but welcome as well. Brad wasn't surprised
to find that she knew the names of bellboys. One, by
some signal unknown to Brad, hurried over to them as
they approached the elevators.
Jasmine bestowed a glorious smile on him. "Bently,
would you be so sweet as to see that a bottle of Dom
Perignon is sent up to Mr. Tarkenton's room? Oh, and a
box of those lovely Maison du Chocolat... chocolates."
She giggled.
"Aren't they the ones flavored with brandy?" Bently
nodded smiling. "Thank you Bently. Oh, and one more
thing. We'll need a can of that whipped topping... you
know, the kind it's fun to squirt in your mouth? And
maybe a bowl of Andre's cherry tart filling. Would you
do that for me?" Brad was betting that "Andre" was the
hotel's five star chef, and that Jasmine was on a first
name basis with him.
As for Bently, he would have jumped off a building for
her, and it was obvious. He left at a flat out run.
In the hallway upstairs one of the maids even said
"Good evening Jasmine, it's good to see you again." The
woman then sized up Brad, and nodded, though she didn't
say anything. Brad suddenly knew what it felt like to
BE the one under evaluation, and to wonder whether or
not he'd made the cut. And from hotel staff!
It was an odd feeling, but at the same time he realized
that his daughter was considered to be a good judge of
character, at least according to the 'little people' of
the world. He ruefully admitted to himself that
sometimes those 'little people' were the better at
judging character than some of the movers and shakers.
Another bellboy appeared like magic with the bag George
had handed to the doorman. The young man opened the
door for them and entered, setting the bag on a low
table. He fiddled with the thermostat and then bowed to
the couple.
"You're a sweet sweet boy, Jeremy." said Jasmine. She
kissed him on the forehead and the man, who had to be
at least in his forties, left, a grinning idiot.
The door was no more than closed before Jasmine turned
to her father and attacked his tie, untying it and
pulling it from around his neck. Then she unbuttoned
the stiff shirt, never worn before this night, opening
it two buttons.
"I want you to be comfortable." she said. "We have a
lot to discuss. Now, if you'll excuse me. I want to be
comfortable too.
She picked up the bag off the table and disappeared
into the bedroom. Brad hardly had time to wonder what
she was doing in there when there was a discreet knock
at the door. He opened it to find a cart with all the
things she had asked for on it, pushed by Bently. He
brought the cart in and opened the box of chocolates,
putting them on display. While Bently poured two
chilled glasses full of champagne and iced the bottle,
Brad pulled out a hundred dollar bill. Bently made it
disappear smoothly.
"I'll have another bottle chilled and ready to bring
up... if you need it." said Bently. He looked around,
obviously looking for Jasmine. He was obviously
disappointed that she wasn't in the room.
Bently left and Brad turned to see the woman he still
thought of as Samantha glide out of the bedroom. She
had changed. There had been clothes in the bag.
Well, perhaps 'clothes' wasn't the right word. Jasmine
was now dressed in dark nylons, held up by a lavender
garter belt. Over those were a pair of dark purple
panties, above which there was a matching quarter cup
bra that cradled her breasts, but did nothing to hide
them. Over the whole outfit she wore a pale lavender
jacket that had a representation of a dragon woven into
it. The dragon, embroidered in shades of magenta that
matched the bra and panties, wrapped around her body,
with its head coming to rest on her left hip, as if it
were guarding the treasure encased in the panties. She
also had on high heels.
Brad instantly understood why Bently had been
disappointed that she wasn't in the room. He felt an
ache in his groin that he tried unsuccessfully to
banish. This was his daughter he was looking at. Then
it struck him that this WAS his daughter, and that she
knew who he was... and had donned this outfit anyway.
"I must have grabbed the wrong bag." she said, her hips
rising and falling as she walked toward him. "I have
different bags prepacked for different kinds of dates.
I guess this will have to do. It doesn't show too much
more than the dress did, though, and you ARE my Daddy.
It's not like you've never seen me naked."
Brad swallowed. Then again. He cleared his throat and
had to cough. His mouth was dry as a bone. He lifted
the champagne and took a sip. Then he could talk.
"Father's don't usually get to see their daughters as
naked as that." He felt like a little boy, seeing his
first naked woman.
"Well, it IS more comfortable than that old dress." she
said, picking up a chocolate and biting it in half.
"Mmmmm these are just divine." she said, savoring the
fine chocolate. "I meant to grab the other overnight
bag... the one with jeans and a sweatshirt in it. I
hope you don't mind that I got the wrong one." She
turned around, her hair flowing away from her body. The
panties were actually a G-string and her pale buttocks
were bare. When she faced him again her big brown eyes
stared into Brad's and he almost fell into them.
"It's... ah... fine," he blurted. He grabbed a
chocolate and popped it in his mouth. Flavor burst in
his mouth and he was startled. "Aren't you chilly?" he
asked. It looked like she had more skin showing than a
fat man at a nude beach.
"Oh no. Jeremy turned up the thermostat. He knows just
what temperature I like." She looked at her father and
stepped toward him. Her fingers went to his suit jacket
and pushed it back, off his shoulders. She caught it
deftly and flung it towards a chair. "You might get a
little warm, though... in all those hot clothes."
Next her fingers went to his shirt buttons and he felt
cool air caress his chest. He managed to get one hand
up to stop her.
"Sam, what are you doing?"
"My name is Jasmine," she said. "I'm doing my job."
"I didn't hire you to do this." he said.
"What?" she pressed up against him and her arms went
around his neck. "Julie told me to pack a bag."
"Yes... but I didn't know it was going to be you," he
said.
"Well, I knew it was going to be you." she said simply.
She leaned in and kissed him full on the lips, just
like she had done while they were dancing. Her tongue
flitted deftly into his mouth, darting, teasing as she
pressed her breasts into his chest.
Brad suddenly realized he was rock hard... harder than
he could remember being in years. He felt... brittle.
He felt her press her mons against his hardness.
"My therapist says I do what I do because I wanted your
attention and couldn't get it." she said, her lips
brushing his as the kiss ended. "But now I have your
attention. Don't you want to know if my therapist was
right?" She kissed him again and it was a passionate
kiss for both of them.
When it ended she breathed into his mouth. "I do."
Brad didn't know what to do. He had found his long lost
daughter, whom he thought had hated him. She HAD hated
him, but now she was here, offering herself. And he
wanted her. His mind denied that, but his body betrayed
that mind, screaming to touch her, caress her, possess
her.
His yammering mind bubbled to the surface long enough
for him to say, "Jasmine... Sam... you don't have to do
this. I love you. I've always loved you. I just didn't
know how to show it. But you don't have to do this to
get me to love you. I already do."
Her dark eyed stare, so close to his face, transmitted
emotion almost like electricity. She licked his lips.
"That just makes me want you even more," she whispered.
She pushed him away and assaulted his shirt, shoving it
down off his shoulders, like she had the suit coat. It
hung up on his wrists, because the cuff links were
still in place. That bound him, in a way, and he could
do nothing as her nimble fingers went to the fastening
of his suit pants. He felt cool air wash over his knees
as his pants dropped to his ankles.
He felt her fingers at the waistband of his briefs and
sucked in his stomach automatically. But her fingers
just slid down the sides of his underwear, off of them
and onto his outer thighs as her hands dropped to
remove his shoes and then drag the pants off his feet.
Then he felt her fingers first at one sleeve and then
the other, and he was free. While he shook off the
shirt, her hands stripped his underwear down in one
swift jerk.
Brad looked down to find his daughter staring at his
erect cock. Her hands came up to cup his balls, and one
hand stayed there, while the other drifted to encircle
his shaft. She pulled his foreskin back off his glans
and a bead of silver collected at the slit at the tip
of his cock. As if it was in slow motion, Jasmine
leaned forward and her tongue darted out to capture
that bead, before sliding back into her mouth.
Then she kissed the tip, like she had kissed his lips
only moments before. She kissed his prick like she
loved it... adored it... lived for it, cupping his
balls like they were the last two eggs in the universe,
and she wanted to protect them.
It was almost anticlimactical when her lipsticked lips
slid over the head of his cock and she sucked gently,
coaxing another dribble of precum out of his aching
prick.
Events were beyond Brad's control now. He felt
helpless, and that terrified him in a way. He was a
powerful man, who was always in control. But right then
he could have been slaughtered by a child with a pocket
knife, so incapable of movement was he. His whole
universe centered on the warm mouth that was enveloping
his penis.
"Ohhhhh Saaaaammmm," he groaned.
She pulled off his cock and stood up. "I don't want you
cumming too soon. You're older now, and it might take a
while to get you ready again. And I need you now Daddy.
I need you to make me feel good way up inside me. She
pulled him toward the bedroom, shedding the jacket,
with it's protective dragon. Her hand reached behind
her and her bra went slack, She pushed him to the bed
and, quicker than he would have believed possible
removed the panties.
She somehow pulled him down with her, on top of her,
her thighs on either side of him. He felt the
suspenders from the garter belt scraping his hips as
she pulled him upward. His face went past perfect
breasts and he had to taste, dropping his head to
suckle one long hard nipple. It had some kind of
flavoring agent on it... orange... no lime maybe...
something citrus-like.
He was rewarded with her coo of enjoyment and her hands
on the back of his head.
Then she was pulling at him again, getting him into
position to claim her as a woman. He felt her hand on
his hardness, and felt the tip dip into wet heat. There
was no transition between that feel around the tip of
his cock and his lunge that skewered her in one
frictionless thrust that drove the tip of his prick
into her cervix. Both of them made sounds that were at
the same time agonized and joyful beyond belief.
Brad felt like he was home. He could die this instant,
and he wouldn't mind. He was buried in a woman who
wanted him for who he really was, rather than what he
could do for her. It was the first time since Elizabeth
that he had truly loved the woman who was sheathing his
manhood in her welcoming pussy.
There was a period of time that night that was lost to
Brad in many ways. He would always remember the feel of
her skin against his, her voice in his ear, her
fingernails digging into his buttocks and back. He
would always remember the peculiar little series of
high pitched grunts she made as she approached her
orgasm, but which vanished from her vocabulary when she
tumbled down the slope of her climax.
She sounded like she was terrified one moment, and then
moaned long loud sobs of joy as she not only grabbed
her orgasms, but wrung every drop of delirious feeling
out of each one. He would always remember comparing her
to the women he'd been with before, who pretended to
have orgasms, or even managed to get to the pinnacle
with him, but only shuddered quietly as they
concentrated on their pleasure, while dismissing him
completely.
And in that comparison he found a woman who was on fire
with emotion, whose cries and sobs and moans were
either real, or the stuff of Oscars. He would always
believe she was not acting as he reached for him again
and again, always asking for more.
But, he could not have told anyone the story of what
happened that night. He could not have described how
they made love, or what she said, or even what they
talked about between the times they thrashed together,
almost tearing the sheets in their passion. And, he
could not have told anyone exactly how many times he
pushed his rampant erection deep into his daughter and
strained his muscles to push more of his cream into her
womb.
He remembered being amazed at one point, a point long
past what he thought he was capable of at his age. But
that's it.
She blew his mind, and he lost some of his thoughts in
that emotional windstorm.
Brad was, indeed late getting to work, as Jasmine had
predicted the night before. When he walked into Josh's
office he had a level of energy about him that Josh
recognized from his own life.
"I trust things went... well," he said.
Brad just nodded. "Had a great time. Tell Julie thanks
for me."
"You can tell her yourself." said Josh. "She informed
me that we're eating lunch together... the three of us.
It's one of her traits I haven't been able to break her
of... putting things on my schedule, I mean." he said.
Brad frowned, and Josh thought that wasn't a good
thing, but Brad's words didn't match his face. "Don't
try to break her of that Josh. She's doing you a bigger
favor than you can imagine. She's more important than
your schedule. Well, most of the time anyway." he
added, the businessman in him rising to the top of the
choppy surface that was a sea of competing emotions.
"OK, I'll try to remember that." said Josh, feeling
distinctly like something had happened that he should
be able to see and tuck away in his mind, but which
eluded him. He did, in fact, idolize Brad Tarkenton,
and wanted to be that rich and that powerful when he
was Brad's age. But the man, in person, wasn't quite
what Josh had anticipated he would be.
Something in Josh was elated that this big, important
man was thoroughly human, with human emotions. Josh
didn't want to give up that part of his own life, and
if Brad Tarkenton had time to be emotional, that meant
Josh didn't have to be ashamed of his personal and
social urges.
But, in competition with his personal side, the
businessman side of Josh Clinton scoffed at all that
sappy emotion. He was a shark, and sharks didn't let
emotion get in the way of successful feeding.
It was the shark that asked the next question. "So, if
all you're here for is to give me a pat on the back...
you've already done that. Why are you still here Brad?
You could be winging your way back to the coast right
now."
Brad recognized the shark, but wasn't worried. "While
I'm here I may as well take a look at the operation. I
have a lot of faith in you Josh, but sometimes things
slip through the cracks, even when there's a top notch
rooster guarding the henhouse."
They then went over Josh's business plan with a fine
tooth comb. Several cracks WERE discovered, with things
lying in them and Josh was abashed. His enthusiasm
about having Brad as a boss mounted even more.
Both were surprised when Josh's personal secretary
opened the door and announced it was time for their
"lunch meeting". Brad glanced at the woman, who he'd
seen only in passing. She was a statuesque blond,
beautiful in the same way that Julie and... Jasmine -
he had to remember to call her Jasmine - were. She
oozed sexuality and passion. When she closed the door
he looked at Josh with a raised eyebrow.
Josh seemed to know what he was thinking. "Don't worry.
Tawny was chosen specifically for the job by Julie. I
had to pay her an awful lot to get her away from...
well to hire her. But she's loyal to a fault to Julie,
and believe me, there's nothing going on there. Not
with me anyway. I get the feeling she's still working
on the side once in a while, but it isn't interfering
with her performance. In fact, she's brought us quite a
bit of business."
Brad shook his head, but smiled. "Julie is turning out
to be a much bigger asset to the organization than I
would have believed a wife could be."
"Well, you know what they say about every great man..."
joked Josh.
Since George had been retained for the exclusive use of
Amalgamated Enterprises for the four day period Josh
had scheduled to be in Cleveland, Tawnee had arranged
for him to pick up the men and take them to the
restaurant where Julie was waiting for them, sipping a
very small glass of golden wine. There was a circle of
empty tables around her, but all the businessmen who
were taking lunch seemed to be facing her direction at
the tables beyond that. Brad asked her what she was
drinking when he sat down and she blushed.
"It's Liebfraumilch," she said. "It's nothing special,
but I just love the sweetness of it." She glanced at
her husband. "I'm allowed a few sips a day until the
baby is born." she said defensively.
"Drink what you like," he said. "That's always been my
motto. I developed a taste for it when I was in Germany
myself." He smiled. "That and Pilsner too."
Julie was flushed with enthusiasm. "Imagine that Josh,
a millionaire who likes beer!"
Brad grinned, "I'm just a man, Julie. I put my pants on
one leg at a time just like the rest of them."
Julie smiled wider, "Speaking of which, Josh, go wash
your hands or something. I need to talk to Brad about
last night."
"What? I can't hear all the gory details too?" Josh
asked with forced hurt in his voice.
"You mean you didn't already? I thought all you men
compared notes as often as you saw each other." said
Julie, looking at Brad. She looked back at her husband.
"Isn't there a rule or something that you have to strut
and stick your chest out and crow about what a stud you
are when you meet each other?"
Both men laughed at her reference to a rooster, but
neither admitted that Brad had just called Josh one
only fifteen minutes ago.
"Not a peep." said Josh. "The man either has discretion
or nothing happened and he's too embarrassed to admit
it." He grinned to show he was posturing. He was moving
away from them though, respecting his wife's desire for
privacy.
Julie looked at Brad with a calculating gaze. "Well? Is
he right? Jasmine didn't call me. She usually calls me
to tell me how things went."
Brad was suddenly uncomfortable. Talking about what had
happened with his daughter wasn't something he
relished, even if Julie didn't know she was his
daughter. "Things went well," he tried, and then took a
sip of wine from her glass. His wasn't there yet.
"You're not getting off that easy," she said. "How long
did she stay?"
"Well, when I left this morning she was throwing
pillows at me for making too much noise," said Brad,
thinking that would sound normal enough.
Julie's face went slack. "She stayed all night?" It was
obvious she was surprised for some reason.
"Uh, yes," said Brad.
Julie thought for a minute. "I can only think of two
times that's happened." she said. The calculating look
was back. "It's a good thing I gave you the condom. She
doesn't carry them. She says it's a sign of a man's
breeding when he has his own."
"Oh" said Brad, his eyes wide. "Well... um... that
subject sort of never came up."
Now Julie looked positively shocked. "Are you telling
me she let you in her without a condom? Brad she NEVER
lets a man in her without a condom! She's almost
paranoid about it. She even carries spermicide with
her. It has to be used within a couple of hours and she
does that religiously, even IF the condom is intact
afterwards." Julie suddenly blushed again. "I shouldn't
have said that. It's a professional secret."
Brad just stared. "Surely she's on the pill." he said.
Something in his voice made the hackles on Julie's neck
rise.
"She didn't go to the bathroom after you... finished?"
"Julie, it took us all night to... finish. I've never
been with a woman like her. Not since my wife died."
"Oh my." said Julie softly. "Oh my." she repeated
herself. "She's allergic to the pill... can't take
them." She sat up straighter in her chair. "Brad,
please tell me she took the money."
"What kind of thing is that to say?" asked Brad,
injured somehow. He'd forgotten about the money, and
that she HAD taken it.
"Did she Brad?" Julie's voice was low... serious.
"Yes she did," he said, miffed that she had to know.
Julie sat back, more relaxed. "Thank goodness for
that." she said.
"What's going on Julie?" asked Brad.
Julie looked at him with something that looked almost
like sympathy. "Jasmine is very... particular about
men. There are some men she won't sleep with, no matter
how much they pay. Men who want to do it bareback, for
instance. She just won't. She's walked out, leaving as
much as five grand on the table before. But sometimes
one of the girls gets a little... shall we say starry-
eyed? She gets it in her mind that things could go...
um... farther than... well, farther than a business
relationship. When that happens they do things that
aren't good for them. They get hurt. I don't want
Jasmine hurt Brad. She's my best friend."
Brad's response was instantaneous. "I'll never hurt
her... NEVER!"
Julie used that calculating look to devastating
advantage. "Even if she gets with your child Brad?
Suppose a few months from now she turns up too pregnant
to do anything about it? Suppose she shows up on your
corporate doorstep with her belly looking like mine?
How would you feel about things then Brad? She was
STUPID! And YOU were stupid too!" Now there was heat in
her voice and anger in her eyes.
Brad was shocked again. He had a mental image of Sam,
looking like Julie looked now. He felt his dick getting
stiff and was shocked that the idea of Sam pregnant
with his child was so erotic.
But Brad couldn't explain why the scenario Julie had
just hypothesized would only make him happier. For lack
of anything else to say he said "It happened to you
Julie."
Julie looked down at her own pregnant body. "Are you
saying you'd MARRY her Brad?!" she said incredulously.
"What the hell HAPPENED last night?" she said, sitting
up again.
Just then Brad saw Josh heading their way. He was
smiling. All was right with the world for Josh Clinton.
He had a beautiful pregnant wife, a great job, a boss
he loved. Everything was coming up roses.
Until he saw the look on his wife's face. There was
consternation, maybe even a little fear on her face.
"OK, whatever it is he did last night, it can't be that
bad," he said smiling as he walked up to the table and
sat down between them.
"You have NO idea Josh Clinton." she said heatedly. "Go
wash your hands again!"
Josh just sat there. "Look, you didn't hurt her,
right?" he said looking at Brad. "I mean she's not
bleeding or in the hospital or anything, right?"
"Of course not," said Brad, disgusted at the idea.
"OK, then. You paid her to have a good time. If you had
a good time and she's OK then what's the big deal?"
Julie tossed him a scathing look. "You, mister, are
going without sex for a long LONG time."
"Come on Bunny, don't be that way." said Josh,
realizing that she was seriously worried about
something.
"Men!" said Julie. She dug into her purse and pulled
out a phone. She punched in numbers and then waited,
listening to the rings.
"Hey, it's me," she said into the phone. "How are you?
You didn't call me." Julie's eyes went to Brad and
locked with his.
"So? How'd it go?" asked Julie to the phone. Her voice
was almost too casual.
She listened for what seemed like twenty minutes to
Brad. The waiter came and Josh ordered for everybody
while he was ignored by his lunch partners.
"Jasmine, you aren't doing something stupid are you?"
asked Julie.
There was a pause as she listened.
"Where are you now?" she said a minute later.
Another pause and she said "He's sitting across the
table from me right now. We're having lunch with Josh."
Julie put her hand over the phone. "She wants to see
you again." She said it like it was an indictment.
"I want to see her again." said Brad. It was true. He
wanted to see her every day, and not just for sex
either.
Julie went back to the phone. "As soon as we're done
here I want to see you. OK, You're sure you're OK?...
OK OK, don't get huffy. I'll see you later."
She punched the phone off and put it back in her purse.
Then she leveled her gaze on Brad again. "I like you
Brad, so I'm going to give you a little friendly
advice. Don't fuck with my friend's emotions."
Josh gasped and started to apologize for her, but she
cut him off.
"I've never heard her sound like this Brad. If you hurt
her I'll cut your balls off. I don't care how much
money you have, or that you're my husband's boss. I'll
do what I can when I see her, but she likes you... a
lot."
"Why do you have to do anything?" asked Brad. His mind
was in the process of trying to make a decision... a
decision that no one would understand, much less
approve of. But he had just found his daughter, whom he
had believed he'd never see again, and what he felt for
her was white hot on a multitude of levels. There was
the chance he could even reclaim his relationship with
his son. Suddenly 'business' didn't seem as important
as it had in the past.
Julie was floored and it showed. "You want me to
believe that a man like you... a man in your
position... would even CONSIDER having a... long term
relationship with... with a woman like Jasmine." Her
eyes were wide and then they narrowed. "You never
answered my last question, did you?" she said, her
voice level.
She darted a nervous glance at her husband, who was
trying to figure out what was going on. Her threat
notwithstanding, she did care what happened to him.
Brad chose his words carefully. He couldn't seem too
enthusiastic, or she'd think he was bullshitting her.
"Jasmine will never have to worry about her future, no
matter what happens to her."
This was language that Julie both understood, and
interpreted completely incorrectly. "She's not that
kind of woman Brad. Jasmine will never allow herself to
become a... kept woman."
"I didn't say she'd be a kept woman." said Brad. "It's
complicated. I can't explain it right now. Jasmine and
I have to talk about some things."
"You didn't have time to talk last night?" asked Josh,
in things way over his head.
"They apparently didn't spend a lot of time...
talking." said Julie in a huff. But the guarded look in
her eye faded. The calculating look was back. "OK. I
trust you. I don't know WHY I trust you, but I do. I'll
know a lot more after I corner that girl and talk to
her face to face." She smiled, but it was a
professional smile, rather than one she felt down deep.
"Now, why don't we enjoy lunch?"
"How can I enjoy lunch when I feel like I'm swimming in
water filled with chum?" asked Josh plaintively.
Julie's laugh tinkled, and heads - male heads - turned
to look wistfully at her smile, which was genuine this
time. "You don't' have to worry about being bitten...
until later tonight. Don't be too late tonight. I may
be... excited... after I talk to Jasmine."
"I thought you were cutting me off for months and
months." said Josh, actually confused.
Her laugh tinkled again and it sent chills down the
back of both men. "Silly boy. You just let me decide
when you need to be punished and when you don't."
The rest of lunch was much more pleasant, and Julie did
give Brad the benefit of the doubt. But she also
hurried through her meal, leaving a lot on her plate
when she pushed it back.
"Gosh, I'm full," she announced. "Junior here is taking
up more and more room. It's been fun boys, but I have a
date to find out how Jasmine's appetite is."
Josh looked at her confused. Brad just looked at his
plate.
Two hours later Josh got a phone call on his private
line.
"Hi sweetheart," he said into the phone. "Everything
OK?... Yes, he's here with me. You want to talk to
him?... OK, I'll see you in a while."
He hung up. "She's on her way down here. She wants to
see you." He paused for a minute. "Is there anything we
need to talk about?"
"Not that I know of," said Brad. But his emotions were
roiling underneath his cool exterior. What had Jasmine
told Julie?
CHAPTER FOUR
About twenty minutes later Julie breezed into the
office like she owned it. Her attitude was one that was
professional in some senses. She walked like she had a
purpose... a mission perhaps. Her face gave nothing
away. She closed the door to Josh's office. "Should I
go wash my hands again darling?" asked Josh. There was
just the hint of a smile at the corners of his mouth.
"No," she said tersely. "I want you to hear this." She
turned to Brad. "Mister Tarkenton, do you love
Jasmine?"
"WHAT?!" gasped Josh.
Brad gave her a look that most of his employees would
have quailed from. It bounced off of her like water off
a well-waxed Rolls Royce.
"Yes," said Brad, with finality in his voice.
"I have to sit down," moaned Josh. He did, thumping
into his leather chair.
"You'd better," said Julie. "Because she's in love with
you."
"After ONE NIGHT?!" moaned Josh.
"It's complicated" said Julie, using Brad's earlier
words.
"I love her." said Brad. The sound of the words made
his heart leap. He had no idea how this whole charade
would play out, but saying that he loved her to someone
other than her... making it public knowledge of a
sort... made him feel better than he had in a long
time.
"She said she'll be in your room when you get back."
said Julie. She dug in her purse and pulled out another
condom. She extended it to Brad, as if there weren't
fifteen or twenty employees around the place who could
see what she was handing him. She didn't have to say
anything, and he took the little foil packet from her,
slipping it into his pocket. "Use it... please." She
said the last word as a real entreaty.
Then she pressed herself against him, her bulging belly
firmly against him and kissed him on the lips. No one
was more astonished than Brad, not even Josh. "That was
from Jasmine." she said, her face a little pink. "And
from me for making her happy. I love her too Brad."
Brad caught his breath, and before he could think about
it he said "In that case I'm going to try to make her
happy a lot."
Julie's thousand-dollar-a-night smile lit up the room.
"Flirt!" she accused. Then she went to her husband and
kissed him even more firmly. "Don't be late. I was
right. I'm all excited." She unceremoniously walked out
the door, leaving it open so that both men could see
the sway of her baby-bearing hips as she called out
greetings to several employees by name and headed for
the elevator.
Tawny came in shortly afterward. She waited patiently
as Josh and Brad finished talking about the advantages
of using small businesses in subcontracts instead of
dealing with the more bureaucratic larger ones. When
the men turned their head toward her she said "I've
cleared your calendar for the rest of the afternoon
Josh. Mr. Tarkenton, I believe George is waiting for
you downstairs.
Josh looked at Brad, who shrugged his shoulders.
Neither man had seen Julie talk to Tawny on her way
out. She took a step toward Brad and held out her hand
as if to shake his. When he automatically clasped hers,
he felt another foil packet being transferred to him.
"I'm supposed to remind you to use it." she said
sweetly.
Brad felt distinctly like he was being watched as Josh
laughed out loud. He was already neatening up his desk
in preparation for leaving. "I don't know about you,
but I'm not keeping her waiting." he said.
Brad found himself about to be the only man in the
office and started toward the door.
When George let him out of the limo at the hotel, he
handed Brad another condom. "Sorry sir, just following
orders. I'm supposed to remind you to..."
"Yes I know George... use it!" finished Brad. "Does
everybody in town know about this?"
"Only the important people sir." came back George's
completely sincere answer.
If Brad thought he'd have time to prepare himself, he
was wrong. He smelled her perfume as soon as he opened
the door. He followed his nose, calling out and hearing
nothing. She was in the bedroom... on the bed. She was
naked. Her hair was artfully spread out on both sides
of her body, setting off her pale naked skin against
the black background.
Her arms came up. "Hurry" she said throatily. "I need
you now."
Brad's heart was in his throat. He was still clasping
the condom George had handed him. He set it on the bed
by her foot and began to disrobe. One feminine,
delicate foot kicked the condom to the floor as she
spread her legs open, showing him her glistening pussy.
Her pussy lips were engorged and flushed. She'd been
playing with herself as she waited. Her hands came up
and tweaked her nipples, now devoid of any coloring and
so pink that they almost disappeared against the pale
skin of her breasts. She had tiny areolas that were the
same pale shade, just slightly darker than white.
"How many condoms do you have?" she asked.
Brad's heart waqs conflicted. She'd never shown any
interest in using condoms before. Maybe she'd changed
her mind about... things. "Three" he said.
"Julie and George... who else?" she asked, panting with
her need.
"Tawny" he said.
"Take them back. Take every one of them back. You tell
Julie she doesn't own my womb and tell the rest to mind
their own business. Now, come to me. I WANT you."
"But Sam, what about..?"
"Daddy, don't ruin this for me... please. I'm so horny
I want to rub myself. But I don't want that. I want
YOU. I want your big hard PRICK in me Daddy... and I
want it right NOW!" she arched her hips up off the bed,
presenting her pussy to him in all its glory.
Brad was inflamed with lust. He almost vaulted onto the
bed and she caught him, squeezing him and tugging him
to her opening. He slid home with a grunt and, in the
split second before he began hammering her with his
prod he thought to himself "This IS home. THIS is where
I belong."
Samantha cried out as she was filled and she felt at
once the conflicting emotions of relief and heightened
lust. She had needed to feel his hardness in her, but
now it wasn't enough. Her body jerked as she almost
lifted him with her pelvic thrusts and she opened
herself to let him pound her. Faster and faster they
went until he was exhausted and had to slam in and
grind against her sex. That flipped a switch in her and
she let herself cum, wailing and raking his back with
long manicured fingernails.
As her pleasure reached a pinnacle she felt him stiffen
and emit a series of grunts as he tried, fully seated
in her, to dig his way even deeper. There was a long
hot flow of wet that she felt to her core and she
almost screamed. Then she felt four more jets of his
seed bursting out of his prick to inundate her womb and
she cried tears of happiness.
Again, their lovemaking had left them both almost
lifelessly limp. This time, though, they managed to
roll so that she was on top, still firmly ensconced on
his maleness. Her hair flowed over them both, like a
blanket that tickled, but was welcome anyway.
"Oh Daddy I love you so much." she cried.
"I love you too baby." he replied, wishing he could
think of some more grand way to say it. "I'll never
sleep with another woman." he added, in his male-
thinking way.
Sam giggled, and her muscular contractions forced him
out of her. He felt wetness begin to drool out of her,
onto his pubic hair. "Men always say that, but they
never mean it." she said, still panting into his neck.
"I mean it." he said. Then what he had learned came
rushing upon him. "Julie says you never let a man
inside you without a condom."
"That's true." she said simply. "But this is
different."
Women thought that way. The fact that something was
true, but untrue at the same time was logic only a
woman could understand.
"Why is this different?" he asked, stroking her smooth
back.
"You and Phillip are the only men allowed to put their
seed into me." she said, as if that explained
everything. "I love you both."
"And you've never loved another man?" he asked. She
raised her head and her piercing eyes locked with his.
"Never." she said. Her voice had a note of finality in
it that brooked no argument.
"That's silly." said her father. "You're beautiful and
smart. A lot of men would kill to have you for their
wife. Why waste your youth on two men who could never
marry you?"
"I don't love a lot of men." she said, raising herself
enough to support herself with her elbows tucked up
against her breasts, and lying on his chest. Her arms
acted like a wonder bra and forced her breasts up and
toward Brad's face, as if they were suddenly huge. He
had an insane urge to suckle her nipples, but forced it
down to continue the conversation.
"My name... my legal name... is Jasmine Trudeau. My
life as Jasmine Trudeau has no connection whatsoever to
Mister Brad Tarkenton or Mister Phillip Tarkenton.
Phillip has a girlfriend, though, and I think he's
going to marry her. She thinks I'm a silent partner in
his business, and come to visit three or four times a
year to check up on my investment. She's right about
that, by the way, but she doesn't know about the rest.
There is only one place where the record shows what
my... former name was. The man who has that record will
do whatever I tell him to with it. Records get lost,
you know.
There was a pause and her face took on a look of
something close to fear.
"Julie told me she asked you what you'd do if I got
pregnant. She said you never answered her." The
repeated question hung heavily in the air.
Brad's mind was going at mach three, trying to examine
what she was saying between the lines. His heart
hammered in his chest... so hard she had to feel it
through her elbows. It was impossible. What she was
suggesting could go wrong in so many ways he couldn't
think of them all. There could be scandal. He could
lose the company. No one would ever believe he didn't
know who she really was. And... after what he'd done to
her... why would she even want to do what he thought
she was suggesting. He had to know and the fear was
building in her eyes. He could feel her body
stiffening.
"You'd consent? You'd even think seriously about being
my... wife?"
"I've wanted to be your wife ever since that cow Jane
came into our house and said she was my mother. I'd
have made a better wife for you then, and I was only
ten. And then you chose Trudy to try to fill Mommy's
shoes. Phillip and I plotted ways to kill her, but we
never could figure out a way that wouldn't have gotten
us caught."
Brad thought she was kidding, but couldn't tell for
sure. He didn't know what to say. His body felt so full
at the thought that he might have Sam on his arm all
the time... might come home to her every night... he
was sure he was going to go insane with the tension
that was bubbling just under the surface. He
concentrated on her role as his lover and his prick
surged toward erection.
Sam thought he was waffling. His eyes were darting all
about. She used the last argument in her arsenal. "You
need a wife Daddy. People will treat you different if
you have a wife."
"I don't care what people think." he growled.
He pushed her off of him and she cried out, her fear
breaking loose as she assumed he was rejecting her. But
then he was on top of her, kneeing her legs apart
roughly.
"I don't need a wife." he said harshly. He saw the
tears in her eyes and realized what she was thinking.
"I need you." he said more softly. "I need you with me
every day. I need you every night. I need you to live
with me. Other people might call you my wife, and you
can wear that name if you want to, but all I need is
you. Please Sam, don't ever leave me. If you want me to
marry you I will. If I have to pay off what's-his-name
to bury your name change I will. But I don't care if
we're married or not. I just want you to love me and to
let me love you.
He lay on top of her and felt his prick at her
entrance. He hunched forward and felt the sweet heat of
her body taking him in. "Sweet, dear Samantha" he
whispered. "Nobody will ever take your mother's place.
But you don't need to baby. I love you just as much as
I loved her. I'll do whatever you want me to do, but
please don't ask me to use you to replace Elizabeth. I
don't want to use you at all. I want to love you." She
bit her lip as she felt herself being filled up again.
"But you'd marry me if I asked you to?" she begged.
Brad shoved hard. "Yes!" he grunted as he bottomed out.
"And you'd get me pregnant?"
"Yes!" he lunged again.
"And I could live with you?" she whimpered, more tears
forming in her eyes.
"Most DEFINITELY!" he lunged a third time.
"You have to ask me Daddy." she whined.
"Sam... will you marry me?" he asked, lunging a forth
time.
"Sam CAN'T marry you." she cried.
"JASMINE TRUDEAU, WILL YOU FOR PITY'S SAKE MARRY ME?"
he yelled.
"YEESSSSS!" she screamed. She went wild, shaking and
jerking so much that he almost came unseated. She
screamed her way through an orgasm that was completely
emotional in nature. Then she bawled, though her body
kept thrusting at him, doing what she had trained it to
do. He began to pant as he neared his own release and
she grabbed his face with her hands.
"Daddy" she cooed. "I had to hurry you. I'm sorry
Daddy. But I'm at my most fertile today. I want your
baby Daddy. I want to feel something living inside me.
I want you to put OUR baby in me Daddy. I want our baby
today! I've waited so long for this Daddy, please,
don't make me wait any more."
Her words rang in his head like a huge bell and he felt
his balls lurch as they supplied the substance she
craved. In his mind's eye he saw his sperm mixed with
semen rushed through his prick like a freight train and
felt sweet release as it thundered into her womb. Like
a S.W.A.T. team those sperm began fanning out,
searching for their prey, hoping to find the egg they
wanted to attack. Brad would have sworn he heard them
screaming "HALT - SPREAD 'EM" as they surrounded the
egg he hoped was waiting for them, trapped in her body,
unable to defend itself.
He relaxed as he felt his last surge of seed flow into
his willing daughter. He kissed her long and
passionately as he used his muscles to try to force
even one more drop into her receptive womb. Their kiss
broke as they gasped for breath together. "I did my
best sweetheart." he panted.
Jasmine laughed breathlessly. "You're not done yet. Not
by a long shot. I ordered three dozen oysters. They
should be here any minute."
Brad didn't want to get up, but if there came a knock
at the door someone would need to open it or the bell
boy might use his pass key. Suddenly Brad didn't want
any other men seeing his lover undressed.
He had a horrified thought. "What about your... work?"
he asked.
Jasmine slapped at him. "What work? I'm retired." He
was still kissing her when the knock came. He lurched
away from her, landing on his feet as she went "Ooofff"
from the strain of taking his weight. "Daddy!" she
yelped.'
"I don't want him to see you." he explained hastily as
he grabbed up his pants.
"They know never to come in unless invited." she
chided.
"Well then, I don't want those oysters to go bad. I'm
suddenly starved!" he said, pulling on the pants.
Jasmine's laugh tinkled and it made shivers run through
him as he went to the door and opened it, bare-chested.
It was a bellboy he'd never seen before, and he held
out the covered platter. "No signature necessary sir."
he said with a grin, and turned on his heel as soon as
he was sure Brad had a good hold on the platter.
She laughed at him again as he set the platter down on
a table and whipped the lid off, grabbing up shells and
slurping the meat as quickly as he could. Her laughter
was music in his ears.
"Daddy, we have all afternoon." she said, stretching.
He glanced at her and saw that her pussy lips were wet
with his spend. She looked so erotic lying there, pale
against her black hair. He had a sudden thought. "What
are you going to call me?" he asked.
"I don't know if I can call you Brad or not. That would
be too weird." she said.
"After all this, you think it would be weird?" he asked
between slurps. "You can't call me Daddy."
"Why not?" she pouted. "A lot of women call their
husbands Daddy."
"Those women have children." he shot back between
gulps.
"Then you'd better get finished there and make sure I
have one too." she said, spreading her legs again. It
didn't happen quite as soon as she wanted it to, and
not anywhere as soon as HE wanted it to, but eventually
she got him hard again and coaxed another thick load of
his creamy spunk into her. during the shower afterward
he tried and tried to get hard again, and she laughed
at him as he scolded his penis. She sucked it lovingly,
and laughed again as he flopped uselessly.
"I killed it." she said, with mock sadness. "Or maybe
it will take a little while for the oysters to kick
in."
While they waited for that to happen they got dressed
and he took her to dinner. She made one phone call
while they were waiting for their food. "Can I tell
Julie?" she asked as she punched numbers.
"Julie has been bullying me." he said. "Let's make her
wait."
Jasmine grinned and then had a conversation with her
friend that Brad could tell was plainly designed to
mystify and confuse her.
"Hi, it's me... Yes, everything's all right... Yes,
we're together. We're having dinner... Julie! I said
everything's fine. What do you want from me?... What do
you THINK we did? What did you and Josh do?... Yes, it
was nice... OK it was BETTER than nice... Of COURSE I
still feel the same way. Oh, gotta go. The appetizers
are here. See you later? OK, Bye."
She flipped the phone closed and looked at Brad. "She's
going to kill me when she finds out. I all but cried on
her shoulder when I saw her after lunch. I was a basket
case."
"I told you I loved you." he said, reaching for her
hand.
"Yes, but there's a difference between a man telling a
woman he loves her, and telling a woman he'll marry her
and give her children. I wasn't sure you'd... I wasn't
sure it would work out."
"I'll have to take some steps to ensure your... uh...
past identity... is securely buried." he said.
"I wouldn't have it any other way." she said. "I didn't
like being that girl."
"Sam... Jasmine... you know I have to go back to the
coast tomorrow. This was just a short trip, to reward
Josh for his good work."
"I need some time to finish things up here anyway. You
know, wrap up some loose ends." she said carelessly.
"Well, I hope those loose ends don't involve any men
who will expect you to... escort them." he said. "I'm
very jealous, suddenly."
Jasmine got up and came around the table to kiss him.
"After what I've experienced with you, other men would
pale to insignificance. I've always been a sexual girl,
and I won't lie to you... there have been men who
brought me to orgasm. But no one... no one, Daddy... no
one has ever made me feel like you did in the last two
days. I'd rather rub my own pussy... I WILL rub my own
pussy... before I let any other man touch me."
She looked suddenly astonished. "Wait. I do have to see
another man."
Brad looked at her, waiting.
"I have to go see Phillip." She looked nervous. "I have
to tell him what happened Daddy."
"And if he wants to..." he couldn't say the words.
Both her hands grabbed his and she squeezed. "I told
you Daddy, I love him too. He's been my lover since he
was fourteen. We took each other's virginity. I can't
shove him away from me Daddy. Please understand that."
Brad thought about what she was saying. She was telling
him that he wouldn't always be the only man who had
access to her naked body. And with Phillip she didn't
use protection. He tried to envision Phillip, hunched
over Jasmine as she spread her legs and invited him in
to her sexual core.
He couldn't do it. He couldn't dredge up a picture in
his mind of his own son. He could remember Phillip at
seventeen, but he would have changed in the time that
had passed.
Maybe it was his inability to put a face on the figure
that was ravishing Jasmine. Maybe that made it less
personal somehow. Maybe it was that he knew, deep in
his gut that she loved him and would always love him.
And maybe it was something in his subconscious that
recognized that he had loved Elizabeth with all his
heart... and now loved Jasmine with all his heart,
which diminished his love for Elizabeth not at all.
Maybe it was the realization that, when you pulled love
out of your heart, there was always more there the next
time you reached in... would ALWAYS be more when it was
needed.
Whatever the reason, he arrived at the conclusion that
her love for her brother was no threat to their
relationship, regardless of what form their love took.
If Phillip made her pregnant before he did, then he'd
be a grandfather. If not, then he'd be a father... AND
grandfather, come to think of it. Regardless, he would
manage to father children on this lovely woman. And
then he'd father another... and another... and
another...
"Daddy!" his reverie was broken by Jasmine, who was
staring at him. "You haven't heard a word I said!" she
said.
"I was thinking of babies." he said.
"Awwww" she cooed. "Our babies?"
"Ours and yours and Phillip's" he said automatically.
"Daddy!" she gasped.
"Well, you said you love him, right?"
"Well, yes, of course. I DO love him." she said, off
balance.
"And you said you've been lovers for years, right?"
"Yes, but that doesn't mean..."
"And you said he's the only other man you have
unprotected sex with, right?"
"Well yes, but he'll understand if I don't want to do
that any more." she said.
"Jasmine, honey, why did you have unprotected sex with
him before?" asked her father.
"I don't know. We just started that way I guess. And
after that it just seemed normal." She looked puzzled.
"And did you ever worry about being pregnant by your
brother?" he asked.
"Well sure. There were a couple of times I was late for
a period and panicked, but it always turned out OK."
"But you never... graduated... to safe sex with your
brother?" He seemed to be trying to make a point, but
she wasn't seeing it.
"Of course not. He was Phillip. He was my brother. I
loved him."
"And that meant that if you got pregnant, you... got
pregnant." He looked at her.
She opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came
out. Her eyes took on a far away look and then snapped
back to the present.
She frowned. "You know, I spent a hell of a lot of
money for that therapist, who told me I was trying to
get my father's love by fucking men for money. And then
you came along and I fell in love with you... again.
And I thought to myself that I hadn't wasted that money
at all. But now, in two days, you managed to see more
of my psyche than that damn doctor did in five YEARS!"
She closed her eyes, pressing them with her forefinger
and thumb, as if she had a headache. She opened her
eyes and looked at her father. "In answer to your
hypothesis, yes, if Phillip would have knocked me up
I'd have kept the baby and loved it as much as I love
him. And yes, maybe I had some kind of subconscious
wish that he WOULD knock me up. And yes, dammit, if I
had a period and then went down there and he and I made
love and then I missed a period I'd want to keep the
baby to raise as ours when we're married. OK? I'm a
slut. Now that that's taken care of, what are you going
to do?"
Brad wanted to laugh. She was so young, and took so
many things so seriously. The young did that. Some day
she might grow jaded, like he felt sometimes, but for
now everything mattered to her. She was disgusted with
herself for being willing to let her brother impregnate
her while she was in love with her father and trying to
have HIS baby. Yet, she was honest enough to be honest
not only with him, but with herself.
Oh, what tangled webs we weave... and in which we are
sometimes caught.
"I," he said solemnly, "am going to marry the second
love of my life, and I am going to do my double D best
to make sure she is so pregnant that Phillip won't have
the glimmer of a sliver of a chance to knock her up.
And, after I've harvested maybe six or seven little
copies of myself from her great big beautiful swollen
up belly, and gotten my fill of milk straight from her
twin fountains of youth, I MIGHT give Phillip a chance
to get her with child. Just so he doesn't feel left
out. He can huff and puff and shove and shake all he
wants, but if I've already got a bun in your oven, all
he can do is wait his damn turn. THAT's what I'm going
to do."
Jasmine looked shocked at first, but then she giggled,
and that turned into a laugh until she had to cover her
mouth with a linen napkin while she shook with
laughter. Finally she took a deep breath. "Thank you
Daddy. I'll go see Phillip and tell him the good news
and let him huff and puff. Then I'll come back here and
tie up loose ends. I need to let the hotel know when
I'm leaving."
She looked startled again. "When AM I leaving? We
haven't planned ANYTHING yet Daddy!"
"Here's what I think. You can talk this over with Julie
later, but here's what I think you should do. I think
we should get married here, where all your friends are.
Then I'll whisk you away on a honeymoon of sorts. I
need to live back east for the present, but there's no
reason we can't have homes spread around the country.
And there's no reason I can't live in those homes for
at least half of the year. My vision is to wean the
company off of my undivided attention. I have several
folks who are coming along nicely - Josh is one - who
should be able to run things without my constant
surveillance. Eventually we can live wherever we like
the best for most of the year and I'll just fly in for
board meetings and supervision trips and such. How's
that for a plan?"
"I want to make love to you... right now." said
Jasmine, staring doe-eyed at her fiancé'.
"We can't. We have to eat lunch first. I'm getting back
my strength while the oysters kick in... remember?"
"Can't we just have one little orgasm first? You only
have to squirt once. You can save the rest for later."
she whined.
"If you're going to be Mrs. Tarkenton, you're going to
have to learn self control. If you're anything like
Julie... and I believe with all my heart that you
are... You're going to want to stick your pretty little
nose into my business. And I don't mind you doing that.
I've seen you at work on people, and you're fabulous.
But you ARE going to have to learn to be patient. If
you rush things you can spoil them." he said sagely.
Jasmine looked grumpy. "I fall in love with my Daddy.
He doesn't notice me and marries two horrible witches.
He ignores me and I run away from home, where I pine
after him so much that I let any old man stick his
peter in me. Years and years go by and then I see him
and fall in love with him all over again and I FINALLY
have sex with him. And that's not PATIENCE?!"
"You just eat lunch like a good little girl, and then
Daddy will fuck your socks off, OK?"
Now it was Jasmine's thousand-dollar-a-night smile that
lit up the restaurant.
After lunch Jasmine held his hand, pulling and tugging
him back to the room. For over an hour she tormented
him, stripping slowly for him, but forbidding him to
touch her. Then she took his clothes off and kissed his
body everywhere, still demanding that he just stand or
lie there with his hands at his side. Finally she took
his penis in her mouth and sucked it gently, licking it
like a lollipop sometimes.
She built him to a drawn out climax that he thought
would cause the top of his head to blow off, but
wouldn't let him cum. She jacked on his prick with her
hand until his back arched, and then stopped. It was a
sweet torture. It was while she was squatting over him,
her hand firmly gripping his erection while she teased
her clitty with it, never quite letting him go inside
her, that he moaned "Why are you doing this to me?"
"I want your lovely balls packed so full of juice that
they get double their normal size. I want your balls to
make extra potent sperm for my pussy to gobble up. I
want a baby, and, old and broken down as you may be,
you're the only donor I have. I may only get one squirt
out of your poor tired penis, so I want that one squirt
to be a good one." She flipped her hair so that it
showered down on his chest and face, and her fingers
found his nipples, stroking and pinching lightly.
"Do you think you could give me that squirt Daddy? Do
you think you could do that for poor thirsty Jasmine?"
"I'm going to EXPLODE if you don't let me cum!" he
yelled.
She reached down with her free hand and supported her
weight while she started jacking him with her other
hand. He begged her not to stop and, with the
experience of years she gauged when he was actually
going to start ejaculation. Then, just before he
erupted, she slid her hot pussy down over his shaft.
Brad went crazy. First he fountained his spunk deep in
her belly. Then he pulled her down and rolled with her,
not even thinking that he might have nothing to work
with as his cock softened. But his cock DIDN'T soften,
and he began rodding Jasmine's pussy with long clit-
pounding strokes. She was so soaked with his cum that
there was almost no friction, but neither of them
cared. They were surging against each other and the
feel of skin on skin was almost as good as the feel of
dick in pussy.
Because of that lack of friction, Brad was able to go
so long that he finally just got tired. His mind was
willing, but his body began to fail as first one, then
another muscle started complaining that they had been
tense too long.
He told Jasmine he just couldn't cum again and she
stopped having orgasms long enough to instruct him on
what to do. She closed her legs as he put his knees
outside them, placing a knee by each hip. Then she
clamped her legs together and tightened her inner
muscles and... suddenly... there WAS friction. She was
still slick and hot, but Brad could just lie on top of
her and rock back and forth.
She began telling him how good he felt in her, and
reminding him that she was unprotected, and that he was
probably making a baby in her that very instant. She
described how her abdomen would lose its flat
appearance, and how the child would grow inside her
until she was huge and ungainly. She described how her
breasts would begin to leak milk and how he'd have to
help keep them full for the baby by suckling if the
baby didn't eat enough in the beginning.
It was her description of her feeding both him and the
baby at the same time that brought the precious liquid
she wanted from his body. So tired he couldn't thrust
hard, he just rocked upward and held himself deep
inside her as he bathed her pussy with one more load of
warm spunk.
CHAPTER FIVE
By seven that night both Brad and Jasmine were
exhausted from their efforts to drive each other
further and further into the arms of ecstasy and they
collapsed in slumber together.
It was only an hour later that the phone jarred them
both out of their nap. They had fallen asleep with
Jasmine lying on top of him, still firmly penetrated by
his cock, which had delivered yet another helping of
his incestuous spunk into her pussy.
When she jerked awake and pushed up off of him there
was a wet squelch as their sexual organs separated.
Then there was a muted "Ow!" as Jasmine tried to push
herself up and found that her hands were pinning her
hair to the bed. The phone had rung five or six times
by the time she stumbled to it and lifted it.
"WHAT!?" she snarled into the phone.
Brad could hear the laughter on the other end from ten
feet away as he rubbed his muzzy eyes, trying to wake
up.
"Oh, it's you." said Jasmine, her voice a little more
hospitable. "We were sleeping." she said.
There was a pause as she listened and her free hand
automatically started straightening and combing through
her long, tangled silky hair. "Do we have to?" she
complained. Another pause and then she sighed. "Oh, all
right. We'll be there."
She hung up the phone and Brad watched, still in awe
over her beauty as she came back to the bed. She put
her hands on the bed and leaned down to kiss him. "That
was Julie. She says because it's your last night in
town we have to get together with them at their house."
Brad sighed too. "It's one of those obligatory things.
You'll have to put up with that all the time when we're
married." he warned.
She kissed him again. "Well, if that's the worst thing
that happens to us then married life won't be so bad at
all." She kissed her way down his chest, heading for
his groin. He grabbed a handful of hair and stopped
her.
"If you do that we'll never get there." he said. "I
just love it when an old broken down man gets all hard
and excited for me." she said sweetly. Then, like a
snake, she darted her mouth to his cock, trying to get
him inside her. She only partially succeeded as he
surged to a sitting position and grabbed her head. They
wrestled playfully as she got the side of his cock
between her lips, but then his strength won out and all
she could manage was to slide her lips and tongue along
his flaccid length before he pushed her away.
She smacked her lips theatrically. "You taste like both
of us." she said. "We taste good."
It only took them half an hour to make themselves
presentable. Both were expert at the quick makeovers
that were sometimes required in the business world.
They dressed casually. Somehow a lot of Jasmine's
clothing had managed to find its way into Brad's hotel
room. Brad was in the bathroom combing his hair when
she came in dressed in a sweatshirt and jeans.
Even in such rough clothing she was fabulously
beautiful and Brad felt his cock stir with interest.
Amazed, he tried to count back the number of times he
had ejaculated inside her unprotected and particularly
fertile slit just this one day. He quit trying when he
got to four. Four times in one day! At LEAST four times
in one day! He could hardly believe it. Maybe there was
something to oysters after all.
"Do I look OK?" she asked, peering past him into the
mirror.
"Sir John is trying to stand at attention in honor of
your beauty this very second." he said.
She giggled. When she turned around he could see
writing on the back of the sweat shirt and turned to
read it. It said "The beatings will continue until
morale improves" He laughed at the similarity between
that statement and her demands on him sexually.
George was magically out front waiting for them again,
and he smiled as he opened the door of the limo. "You
two look good together." he said as they approached.
Jasmine dimpled at him. "Thank you George. I have a
secret. Do you want to know it?"
George, ever tactful, said "Well, miss Jasmine, if it's
a secret, and you tell me, then it won't be a secret
any more."
Jasmine turned to Brad. "Please, can I tell him? George
is special."
Brad smiled. "George IS special, and he deserves to be
the first person to find out." Brad saw George's eyes
dart to Jasmine's left hand. George was very
perceptive. But there was nothing there to see, and his
eyes darted away again.
Brad stole a march on his bride to be. "We haven't had
a chance to go shopping for a ring yet."
Jasmine was incensed that he had blabbed the secret SHE
was supposed to blab, but she was a smart girl, and for
the first time she used his name. "BRAD!" she barked.
"I was supposed to get to tell him!"
She was interrupted by what might have looked like an
assault to a bystander. That bystander would have seen
the limo chauffer suddenly grab the beautiful woman who
was about to get into the car and crush her in a hug
that lifted her off the ground as he swung her around.
"Oh Jasmine, I'm SO HAPPY for you." George gushed.
To his surprise Jasmine kissed him on the lips and then
laughed at the look on his face. "Thank you George.
You're sweet. You've always been sweet to me George.
I'm going to need somebody to walk me down the aisle.
Would you think about doing that for me?"
The look on George's face was classic surprise,
gratitude and elation all rolled up into one look and
Brad knew that Jasmine had done something for him that
would eclipse any tip of any size that someone might
offer him. "I don't have to think about it. I would be
honored." he said.
Then he was suddenly all business again, ushering them
into the car, telling them they had to hurry, that they
would be late for their engagement.
Brad and Jasmine were necking in the back of the limo
when it stopped. Neither thought about the fact that
the trip had been short, and were surprised when George
opened the door and they realized they were in the
shopping district, down town. As they peered out they
saw they were in front of Gino's, one of the premier
jewelers in Cleveland. Brad looked at his watch. It was
late... much too late for the store to be open. But as
they got out the door opened and a man dressed in a
three piece suit stood there, inviting them in.
"I made a call." said George. "I thought you might want
to make a purchase before I deliver you to Miss
Julie's." he said, somewhat abashedly.
Brad grinned. "You're a smart man George. I may need to
just hire you away from the outfit you're working for."
George showed genuine surprise. "I'd have to talk with
Claudette about that sir. She's pretty happy where we
are I think." He looked a little sad.
"We'll talk about that later... with Claudette." said
Brad. Then he ushered Jasmine toward the open door. She
was like a kid in a candy store. Fine jewelry was no
stranger to Jasmine Trudeau, and she had shopped in
this very store often enough that she knew the name of
the man holding the door open for them. He knew her
name too, which was the more telling thing to Brad, but
he treated them with the utmost respect. It turned out
he knew her well enough that, within ten wedding sets,
he produced something that Jasmine sighed over. To Brad
it was just a ring, but Jasmine discussed the color and
clarity of the huge diamond that was the centerpiece of
the engagement ring and the simplicity of the flowing
design of the wedding band that nestled beside the
sparkling stone.
"I love this one." she moaned. "But It's so expensive."
No prices were displayed, or had been discussed to this
point. The jeweler tossed his head. "Expense is not an
issue. This ring was made for your finger Miss
Trudeau." The man sounded arrogant, but he could read
his clients. Brad didn't even ask how much it was.
"She'll wear it out." he said.
Jasmine turned to him, a small pout on her face. "Not
unless you put it on my finger." she said.
Brad felt a little stupid for what he was going to do,
but he did it anyway. He turned to Jasmine's surrogate
father and said "George, may I have Jasmine's hand in
marriage? I promise to love her, and care for her and
make her as happy as I can for as long as I live."
A flicker of surprise flashed in George's eyes, but
then he stuck out his hand and said "You have my
blessing sir."
Then Brad dropped to one knee and stared up into the
dark green eyes of the woman he loved. As she bent her
head to look at him he knew he had done something she
would treasure forever. "Jasmine Trudeau, I love you.
You would make me the happiest man on earth if you'd
consent to be my bride."
There was a brief pause as Jasmine seemed to think
about it. Three men waited breathlessly to hear what
she'd say, though none doubted she would accept.
"Bradley Tarkenton, I love you as well. Nothing would
make me happier than to marry you and bear your
children."
Brad slipped the ring on her finger, stood up and
kissed her. When that kiss was done both George and the
jeweler's eyes glistened. The jeweler coughed and
blurted "You know, in thirty-five years of being in
this business I must have sold thousands of engagement
rings, but no one has ever proposed in my store. I'll
send you a bill. Now, if our business is concluded, I
believe I'd like to go home and remind my wife of how
much I love her."
Jasmine's knockout smile lit up. "Why Thomas, you
sweet, naughty man. You'd better do a good job of it,
because I'm going to ask Marge how convincing you
were." She kissed Thomas on the cheek and turned
around, holding her hand out, admiring her ring. "Oh,
lets go!" she yipped. "I can't wait to get there."
Naturally, Jasmine insisted that no announcement be
made when they got to the Carter's home, at least not
until Julie had had time to notice the new jewelry on
her own.
And, naturally, Julie noticed the ring within twenty
seconds of their arrival. She shot one brief look at
Brad, that had in it a number of messages, among them
"Thank you" and "This had better be real" and even a
touch of lust. Then she squealed and whooped and
generally made noise, while Jasmine joined her and they
both jumped and danced all around the entryway to the
handsome house. Then there was twelve year old scotch
for the men and carrot juice, of all things, for the
women as toasts were made.
Julie quite unashamedly explained that women in her
condition shouldn't partake too much of the fruit of
the vine, and that she had planned on wine with dinner.
And, she went on to say that since Jasmine had been so
completely inattentive to proper birth control
procedures, it was only fair that she be included in
the restricted alcohol diet.
She handed Jasmine the orange liquid. Jasmine wrinkled
her nose, and gave a longing glance to the amber liquid
in Brad's glass, but toasted with the carrot juice
anyway. "I guess you can't be too careful." she said.
The women disappeared into the kitchen to make up some
snacks, leaving Josh and Brad to sit and sip their
whisky.
"I'm surprised." said Josh.
"Were you surprised when you proposed to Julie?" asked
Brad.
"That's not fair. I didn't even know I was proposing. I
just told her I couldn't live without her." said Josh.
She accepted what she called my odd proposal of
marriage and I suddenly realized that's exactly what it
had been! And by the time I realized what I had gotten
myself into, I knew that I really COULDN'T live without
her. You know what I mean?"
"I know exactly what you mean." said Brad. "It must be
something they teach in courtesan school."
"Don't ever say that to Jasmine." warned Josh. "She
wants to believe you were overcome with love for her."
"I was." said Brad. "I have to say I was."
By then the women were back with little grilled cheese
sandwiches, and black olives, and sweet pickles, as
well as baby carrots and Liebfraumilch, which Julie
explained each woman could have just a taste of since
the carrot juice was so positively awful.
It was while they were eating that Julie said "It's
just such a lovely night, why don't we all jump in the
hot tub?"
Josh agreed enthusiastically and Jasmine thought it was
a great idea too. Brad looked a little uncomfortable.
"We don't have suits." he commented.
Julie laughed. "We're all adults. Who needs a suit?"
Brad's eyes widened and he looked at Jasmine, who was
looking back at him through lowered lashes. "Josh isn't
like other men." she said. Besides, Julie won't let him
look at me." she teased.
Brad coughed. "OK, that's fine, but I'm not so sure I
can keep from looking at Julie."
Julie giggled. "You're sweet Brad, but I'm all fat and
ugly now."
Brad choked on his sip of scotch and spewed whisky into
his lap. Both women laughed and, as one, stood up.
Jasmine got her sweatshirt off first, and stood,
hipshot, dressed only in her jeans and sneakers. She
hadn't put on a bra. Julie unbuttoned her blouse,
revealing a powder blue bra that was bulging with her
enlarged breasts. It had a front catch on it which she
deftly released. The bra cups sprang back and she
shrugged the garment to the floor. Julie's nipples had
darkened, like a lot of pregnant women's nipples do,
and her breasts looked swollen and full as she stood
beside her friend. Jasmine's flat stomach made a
shocking contrast to Julie's round one.
"See?" pouted Julie, putting her arm around her best
friend.
Both men forgot to breathe. Both men felt their hearts
hammering in their chests. Both men felt erections
bloom.
Brad dragged in a labored breath. "You're neither fat,
nor ugly, and I'm going to be in a lot of trouble if I
have to take off my pants." he croaked.
Both women laughed gaily and began getting rid of the
rest of their clothing as the men sat, stunned and
frozen. The thought occurred to both men that the
practiced ease the women showed as they disrobed
together, suggested they might have disrobed together
before... professionally. And, being men, that thought
only heightened the eroticism of the moment.
Josh finally cleared his throat and voiced that very
thought. "Brad, I might get in trouble for this too,
but does it look like they might have done this
together before?"
"Yes" said Brad, feeling his erection reach full hard.
"Josh, I need to apologize to you." he added.
"We're both going to have to apologise to each other."
said Josh in a strangled voice. "This is the first time
I've ever seen Jasmine in her working clothes." he said
unthinkingly.
The women giggled again and reprimanded the men as they
stood side by side in their unblemished glory. Julie
was completely shaven clean in her pubic area, and her
pouting pussy lips looked plump and fleshy. "You're
staring." accused Jasmine. "I just put on my engagement
ring and you're already staring at another woman." She
was smiling though, and added "Though I have to admit
she's beautiful."
Then, to the astonishment of both men, the women
embraced and kissed each other. Julie broke the kiss
and said "I'm so happy for you." Then she kissed her
again.
"I didn't know." stammered Josh.
His wife's lips left Jasmine's almost reluctantly. "We
haven't done this for over a year." she said to no one
in particular. "I think I've missed it a little. But
we're not lesbians, dear. We just love each other a
lot."
Jasmine sighed. "Your baby feels so good pressed
against me. I can't wait until I'm pregnant."
Julie laughed. "I think that will have to wait... at
least until after we get out of the hot tub." She
turned to the men. "Quit drooling boys, and get naked.
I want to feel that hot water all around me."
Each woman went to her man and began undressing him.
Jasmine got to Brad's penis first as she squatted in
front of him, dropping his pants to his ankles. His
boner sprang up and pointed at her. Before he could do
anything she leaned forward and engulfed him in her
mouth, pulling her lips off of him in one long sliding
suck. "Mmmm you taste so good." she murmured.
"JASMINE!" croaked Brad, conscious of the other couple
nearby. He automatically looked to see Julie doing
exactly the same thing to Josh.
When Julie let him out of her mouth she said "I know
that's for me, isn't it darling?"
Josh's eyes were closed at the time, but they snapped
open and he looked down at his naked wife. "YES!
Absolutely! You know it is." he gurgled.
"Liar" she accused him. "But I'll take what I can get."
She sucked him in again, but then let him go quickly
and stood up. "Come on, let's get wet."
"I'm already wet." crooned Jasmine as she stood up to
embrace and kiss Brad.
"Later, you hussy." said Julie laughing.
The women led the way, while the men followed, their
hard pricks bobbing as they walked. Both men watched
both sets of naked buttocks in front of them. And,
somehow, the ladies managed to show off their pussies
as first they bent over to check the water temperature,
and then lifted a leg to climb into the tub, which was
on a patio with an ivy covered lattice enclosure around
it for privacy. It was obvious that both women were
teasing the men. They entered and sank down into the
hot water causing barely a ripple, somehow being
sensuous even in so normal an act as they were doing.
The ease and comfort of the women, being naked
together, with the other's naked man, bespoke of their
former occupations and somehow made it easier for the
men to be naked together in a setting other than a
locker room. The result was that Brad and Josh
scrambled into the tub like boys, splashing water
everywhere, including all over the women. There were
complaints from the women, who surged forward as if
they had planned an ambush and enveloped their men in
warm, slippery embraces.
There was a lot of kissing that went on then, and,
despite Julie's prior announcement that sex was for
later, a lot of groping and caressing too - on
everybody's part. Each of the movements of the couples
created little waves that affected the other couple
and, even though the two couples weren't touching each
other physically, there was a feeling of closeness that
made it seem like they were.
At one point Josh moaned that if Julie didn't stop what
she was doing they'd have to change the water in the
tub. Julie gave a little "Awwww" and accused him of
being no fun. She pushed him backwards and, as he
flailed for balance, squatted and put her hands under
his buttocks, lifting his hips upward. His stiff penis
broke the water and she grabbed it with one hand,
holding him up with the other. All he could do was move
his hands to keep his head above water, like he was
treading water on his back.
"Now you won't get the water all messy." she crowed and
her mouth dove onto his erection.
Jasmine had her hand around Brad's prick too and was
jacking him slowly while they kissed. She took her lips
off his and they looked over to see what the commotion
was about.
"They're playing submarine commander." whispered
Jasmine to Brad. "His periscope came up and now she's
depth charging him." She giggled like a little girl.
"Wanna play?"
"Here? Now?!" said her father.
"They are. Come on Daddy, play with me." she said in a
little girl voice.
Brad shot a look at the nearby couple to see if they'd
heard her use of the word that could cause them
problems, but they were engrossed in what they were
doing. Josh had given up and was lying back in the
water, a smile on his face.
Jasmine pulled and Brad couldn't help but let her bring
him to the surface too and he lay back in the water
like Josh. He was close enough to the edge of the tub
that he could grasp it with both hands to hold his head
up. Jasmine greedily swooped and began sucking him.
He'd been excited for quite a while and both her
actions, and the fact that there was another naked
couple nearby formed an erotic atmosphere that brought
him to climax much sooner than he would have wished.
Jasmine, when she felt his spend spurting into her
mouth, sucked harder and gulped audibly. She deep
throated him and he spurted again. Then she pulled up
and off of him and her hand jacked him as she lapped
and sucked the cum that still oozed out of his cock.
Jasmine lay her head down on his thighs, looking at his
face past his penis, which she still had a firm grip
on.
"It was a shame to waste it, but I had to know what my
new husband will taste like. You never know, I might
not like it and then I'd have to break his heart." She
bent his prick toward her mouth and she sucked the tip
again, peeling back his foreskin to do so. "But I do
like it, so I guess you don't have to worry."
Then she let him go and he sunk back in the water as
she squealed "I sank a submarine! I sank a submarine!"
Julie was still working on Josh, whose face was showing
signs that she wouldn't have to work much longer. She
pulled her mouth off him and snarled "Showoff" and,
before she could seal her mouth back over her husband's
penis it began spurting long strings of thick white cum
up into the air. Julie yelped and dove for his cock
again, getting a shot right in her eyes and then
blindly found his cock and sucked him back in. Her face
went under water as she tried to wash her eyes clean
and then she came back up coughing. She coughed and
white sperm mixed with spittle and water sprayed out of
her mouth, splattering Jasmine's arm and left breast.
<cough cough> "Sorry" <hack hack> coughed Julie.
Jasmine cleaned a glob of white off her breast and
stuck her finger in her mouth. "Mmmm her husband tastes
pretty good to!" she announced grinning at Brad. When
he opened his mouth to complain she went on "But I like
yours better. Please sir... can I have some more?" she
aped the well known little English ragamuffin.
Julie finally caught her breath and scolded Josh. "I
went to all that trouble to keep the water clean and
you had to go and spoil it!" she groused. "You're in
big trouble mister." she said ominously.
Brad asked out loud. "How do men play submarine? I mean
are there female submarines?" he asked hopefully. His
inhibitions had been laid low, and weren't even making
a peep any more.
Jasmine purred "Well, we don't call it submarine
commander, but there is a little thing we girls enjoy
called "cooking with mamma". It's kind of hard to play
in the water though."
Julie stood up, water dripping from her heavy breasts.
"I'm all warm now. We could go back inside."
There was general unspoken agreement as everyone moved
toward the edge of the tub and began climbing out. It
was cool outside, and no one had thought to bring
towels, so four naked bodies scampered back into the
house and to the master bathroom, where the linen
closet was raided for big fluffy towels. Jasmine
insisted that she wanted to dry her hair, which would
be cold and clammy against their skin if she didn't.
Julie shooed the men out, telling them to have another
drink and see if there was any chocolate sauce, or
strawberry preserves and whipped cream in the fridge.
Brad grinned as he walked through the deep carpet
toward the kitchen behind Josh. "I know how to play
this game. Jasmine taught it to me yesterday."
Josh grinned over his shoulder. "We play it a lot since
she's gotten so big. I make sure we have all the
ingredients necessary. I even have maraschino
cherries."
The men got a tray fixed up and took it back into the
bedroom, where they set it beside the king sized bed.
There would be no inhibitions about sharing the bed.
Then they peeked into the bathroom to see Jasmine
holding the hair dryer, running it up and down a
handful of hair while Julie reached around her and
stroked her breasts, pinching Jasmine's nipples gently.
Julie's breasts were pressed firmly into Jasmine's
back. Jasmine turned the hair dryer off and reached for
a comb.
"Your breasts are going to look fabulous filled with
milk." said Julie, looking in the mirror at what she
was playing with. "I can't wait until Josh can drink
milk from my titties." she sighed. "And the baby too,
of course."
Jasmine smiled. "I plan on breast feeding for about
four or five years straight. I want to be pregnant all
the time with Brad's babies. I love him so much Julie."
The men ducked out of sight as Julie's head began to
turn toward the door. They heard her say "Are you sure
baby? Is he for real?"
"Oh, he's for real." said Jasmine, turning off the hair
dryer. "I can't explain it, but I know he's for real.
And I know he loves me Julie. I wouldn't do this
otherwise."
"Oh I know it's OK." said Julie, pulling Jasmine's hair
back and kissing her on the neck. "I just worry about
you so much. I'm really happy for you though. But don't
be surprised if I call you a lot. I won't be able to
keep from checking up on you."
Jasmine stood up and turned around to embrace her
friend. The men peeked and saw a long sweet kiss. Then
Julie pushed her back and said "Let's go get our
pussies eaten."
The men hopped backwards and tried to look like they
hadn't been eavesdropping. Both were half hard from
seeing that kiss.
At first Brad couldn't help but watch Josh and Julie as
Josh dripped chocolate sauce all over her and then
licked it off. But Jasmine had some ideas too. She took
six maraschino cherries and warmed them in her mouth
and then inserted them into her pussy. Brad's challenge
was to get them out with only his lips and tongue... no
fingers allowed. Unknown to Brad, she could control her
muscles well enough to keep them there, or expel them,
one by one.
She had become talented in many ways he was not yet
aware of. But he tried his best and she loved him for
it. He licked and sucked and nibbled, particularly her
large fleshy clit. When she had her first orgasm she
lost control of her muscles and a cherry dropped into
her pussy's opening, touching Brad's chin. He saw it
when he pulled back to take a breath and dove, sucking
it into his mouth.
Another orgasm... and he got another cherry. Along the
way he paid some attention to her breasts, particularly
her small hard nipples. After sucking them both for
long moments he found another cherry available to him
in her pussy. He sucked too hard, trying to get it, and
sucked it straight down his throat, never getting to
chew it at all.
Brad felt the last cherry against his lips and sucked
it in, chewing it and then went up and kissed Jasmine
with the flavor of the cherry and her pussy still in
his mouth. He heard a groan and looked over to see that
Josh had gotten Julie on all fours and had just slid
his prick into her from behind. He turned back to
Jasmine to find her reaching for him. He let her socket
him and then pushed, once again feeling the fabulous
heat of her body taking him in.
Ten minutes later both women lay side by side, their
legs not quite together. They were holding hands and
smiling at each other. The men stood at the end of the
bed, whisky in hand. Both pussies gaped and ran with
milky white sperm. Both dicks were shrunken and
wrinkled, worthless for probably quite a while.
Josh shook his head. "I never did anything like this
before." he said.
Brad agreed. "I never would have believed I'd be
standing beside my Regional Vice President for
Development... naked... looking at his naked pregnant
wife... and my own naked and probably pregnant wife-to-
be. This is just way more strange than anything I
anticipated when I boarded that plane."
Julie had heard them talking. She called out from the
bed. "Well I don't want you boys to get the wrong idea
about us girls. WE'VE never done this either!" Jasmine
laughed. Julie glared at her and smiled at the same
time. It was an odd look. "In fact, we were both
VIRGINS until tonight... weren't we Jasmine?"
Jasmine dipped a finger into her sopping pussy and then
licked it clean of Brad's cum. "Yup, until tonight I
never even saw a man naked."
Julie moaned. "But now look. I got all pregnant
tonight. What would my daddy say if he saw me now?"
Jasmine played it like a pro. "Well I don't know about
YOUR daddy, but I have a pretty good idea what MY daddy
would think."
Josh joined in. "Well I'm getting ready to be a daddy.
What should I think about you naughty naked girls?"
Julie sat up. She tried to seal her pussy closed with
her fingers, but had a hard time reaching around her
belly. She had to lean sideways to get it done. Then
she stood up. She looked deformed somehow. She started
whining like a young girl. "I know what I want you to
think. I want you to think about what I should know
about men. If they're going to get me all naked and
make me pregnant and stuff, I need to know how that's
going to happen. So daddy, when you're ready, you can
show me, OK?"
Brad took advantage of the situation. "How about you
Jasmine? Do you want Daddy to show you what to expect
from men?"
She stood up, sealing her pussy closed with three
fingers. She waddled over to Brad and kissed him. "Any
time Daddy... any time."
CHAPTER SIX
Neither woman had actually planned on the amorous
activities that ended up taking place that evening.
Julie had thought they'd just have a nice quiet night
together before Brad had to leave and go back to the
world of business. Jasmine just wanted to be with her
father and liked both Julie and Josh, so she knew she'd
have a good time. The women's emotions, though, had
been in overload because of the fact that Jasmine had
found what Julie had found. And their emotions only
spiraled higher and higher as their lovemaking grew
more and more frenzied.
The situation almost got out of control.
There was a time, after both men were worn out, that
Julie and Jasmine had gone for one last orgasm
together, as the men lay back, exhausted, and watched.
Jasmine had gone first, licking and sucking Julie's
bald pussy, smacking her lips and remarking about how
good Josh's cum tasted. She'd never tasted him before.
As it had happened, Julie was the first of the women
Josh had hired as an escort. He had been immediately
smitten, and had insisted on her the few times he had
hired a woman after that. It had taken him six months,
but he'd finally convinced her of the veracity of his
emotion, at which point she had let herself revisit her
dream about what it might be like to have a steady man
in her life.
When Josh had proposed to Julie, he was automatically
put off limits by all the other women in the escort
service. It was an unwritten rule with them, even
though they were used to 'sharing' their customers and
even though he hadn't shown any interest in any of
them. He, too, had been the first man in many years who
Julie had decided to engage in sex with bareback. So,
this was the first time Jasmine had had anything to do
with Josh sexually, even if it was second hand, so to
speak.
Then it had been Jasmine's turn to lie back and moan as
Julie sucked up Brad's cum from Jasmine's overflowing
pussy. At one point she lifted her face and licked her
lips, looking up into Jasmine's eyes.
"After you've had your first baby, I might be convinced
to let you get some of Josh's cum fresh from the source
if I can do the same to Brad. He tastes good too."
Jasmine's eyes had glinted. "We'll see. Right now I'm
feeling pretty proprietary about where he deposits his
cum."
Brad had looked over at Josh to see what he thought of
them being traded like baseball cards. Josh had grinned
weakly and just shrugged his shoulders. Both men had
felt the urge to harden again, but just couldn't at
that time.
After that they all showered together and, though there
was a lot of care taken to make sure that each and
every part of their lovers were nice and clean when
they were done, it was more sexual play than any actual
attempt to extend the orgy further.
After they were out of the shower, the women dried each
other's hair again and there was an hour of talk, as
the women cuddled up next to the men and wished that
this could go on forever.
But Brad did have to fly back to the corporate
headquarters the next day. It would have looked too odd
if he hadn't. And, being an important man, he knew that
his activities were under observation, whether it be
from his own people, or competitors. He also knew that
a big wedding, with hundreds of guests, would produce,
out of the woodwork, reporters, who would be ravenous
for details about the important man's new bride.
Neither of them were interested in that scenario. The
subject had been broached before they left. As they had
talked, Julie asked what kind of wedding they were
planning.
Jasmine had spoken first. "Something very small... less
than fifty guests... and very private."
Julie's eyebrows had climbed. She herself had had a
huge wedding, and over three hundred people had shown
up. It was the pinnacle of her life as she became an
'honest woman'.
Again Jasmine spoke before Brad could. "Public scrutiny
is not something we need. I just want to be married to
this big teddy bear. Nobody needs to know where I came
from and I don't have anything to prove to anybody."
Julie frowned. "You make it sound like I was showing
off."
"You were." said Jasmine. Then, to take the sting out
of it she said "But that was what you wanted, and that
was perfectly OK. It was a gorgeous wedding. It made my
pussy wet when you came down the aisle and all those
people sighed. But I don't care about all that. And
Brad is already in the public eye. There are a lot of
people who would love to splash it all over the papers
that Brad Tarkenton got married the fourth time... and
to a hooker."
Julie nodded. "There is that." she agreed reluctantly.
Jasmine's brilliant smile bloomed. "Don't worry. You
and Josh will be there. I have to have a maid of
honor."
"And I need a best man." said Brad. "I'd actually like
to have Josh stand beside me. But if people from the
company were there and saw that, he'd be the target of
every corporate mercenary I haven't identified yet.
They'd assume I was grooming him for something and try
to take him out, just to eliminate competition." He
thought carefully about the next thing he said, but
said it anyway. "And I may just want to groom Josh for
something in the future, so I don't want him taken
out." He smiled. "So nobody from the company needs to
be there... except for Brad."
There was both promise and an admonition that continued
excellence in Josh's performance would be necessary in
the future. Josh understood that completely. Oddly, at
least compared to most wives, Julie and Jasmine did
too.
In the limo Brad asked Jasmine. "So when do you want to
have this small wedding that we only invite special
people to?"
"How much notice do you need?" she asked.
"I'd like to have a couple of weeks. I have to come up
with a plausible reason to be out of town - I assume
you want to get married here in Cleveland. If I just
start canceling appointments and take off people will
want to know why. They'll think I'm putting out some
fire and want to find out about it. Everybody likes
dirt."
"OK, I'll talk to the people who have to know when it's
going to be and try to set it up so that we can do it
any time. If you get a chance to leave for some reason,
just let me know a couple of days in advance and stop
by here on your way to wherever. The plane will take
you wherever you tell them to, right?"
"Sure, but are you certain you want to do it this way?"
His offer to give her a more conventional wedding was
implicit.
She leaned over and kissed him. "I'm sure. Let's just
make it before I begin to show... OK?" she grinned.
Jasmine was convinced this thing WOULD happen, and that
was all she cared about.
In fact, Brad surprised her. He had been back in his
office for only a week when Emma, his personal
secretary, came in and closed the door. "Hey boss, I
just heard a vicious rumor."
Brad sighed. He'd been afraid they couldn't keep it a
secret for long. She went on without waiting for him to
say anything. "There's one of our branches in the
Bahamas that hasn't had an oversight visit in over two
years. They're doing just fine, but oversight visits
ARE important... aren't they boss?" Emma knew her boss
very well.
"Wouldn't it seem strange if the CEO went on an
oversight visit?" he asked.
Emma waved her hand. It's not so odd that anybody will
take immediate notice. When you get back, of course,
the shit will hit the fan, but by then there won't be
anything anybody can do about it then except wonder how
it happened without them noticing. It did seem to
happen rather... quickly."
Her unspoken question was answered by Brad with a
simple "It's one of those love at first sight stories."
"How romantic" said Emma. "I can't wait to meet her."
"Mum's the word Emma." he said.
"Boss! I'm disappointed that you'd even THINK I'd say
anything." Emma pouted.
"You heard about it didn't you?" he reminded her.'
"Yes, but that's different. I have sources everywhere,
and they all know I'd better hear about things before
anybody else does. They also know they'd better not
blab things around or I'll know they did and then
they'll be out of a job."
"Did your source happen to mention how he or she heard
this particular rumor?"
Emma looked stunned. "You know, I was so surprised and
excited I forgot to ask. I'll call him back."
"Please do. There weren't that many people there who
knew what happened and I'd like to know how it got
out."
Emma sniffed. "OK. In the meantime I'll make
arrangements for a suite in one of those hotels down
there I'll never get to see... for one." she said
pointedly. "I'll code it as vacation time. Nobody will
think a thing about it. It'll look like you're visit is
a sham just so you can be in that part of the world."
She waited, expecting something. When he didn't say
anything she said, with exaggerated patience, "So when
exactly did you want to make this oversight visit?"
"Do you think we have two weeks?" he asked.
"I'd rather have you gone in less than that." she said.
"I'll know more when I find out how my source got his
information. How about you find out if the sixteenth is
too soon and let me know."
"Thanks Emma. I'd invite you to the... vacation, but it
would be strange for us both to be gone at the same
time."
"Oh, I'll get to know her when you get back, all
right." she said ominously. "Since this is number four
and you've stayed single so long, I assume she's a good
deal better than the last two."
Brad heard her mutter as she left the office "She'd
damn well better be." Emma protected him from people,
and she took her job seriously, but Brad wasn't
worried. Even if Emma found out who Jasmine really was,
she'd never admit it, even under torture. That was only
one of the reasons Emma was paid an exorbitant salary.
Brad made a call on his cell phone. The sixteenth was
just fine. He was half deaf in his phone ear when he
hung up.
Thinking about what he'd have to have taken care of
when his plane 'stopped for fuel' in Cleveland, Brad
picked up the phone and called a number in his Rolodex.
When the phone was answered he said "Charley, Brad
Tarkenton. I want to make an investment in real estate.
Someplace nice, around here. You know the deal, good
schools, close shopping, not too much traffic to get to
work."
He listened. "No, it's not for me, but I owe somebody a
favor and I'm going to hire him to take care of the
place."
He listened again.
"Somewhere in the one to three million range I think.
That would appreciate in this market wouldn't it?
Yeah... cash. You think you'll have something within
two or three weeks? Getting it in a timely manner is
more important than getting a deal. OK, thanks Charley.
When you get something give my secretary a call. Her
name's Emma. She'll know what to do."
He made another call. "Josh?" He held the phone away
from his ear during the loud congratulations that came
through the phone. "Yeah, news travels fast, but then
I'm not surprised, considering who you're married to.
Hey, I want to hire a permanent driver. Seventy
thousand a year, home furnished, and he can have his
pick of vehicles. See if George is interested, OK? Tell
him I need to know by the sixteenth. If he has any
questions have him fax them to Emma."
Brad decided to go home early. He stopped at Emma's
desk and told her about the property deal he was trying
to work and why. She didn't seem to think it was odd at
all.
Brad hadn't been home more than an hour and a half when
Emma called. She sounded worried. Brad perked up. When
Emma was worried, he took her seriously.
"Boss, I called my guy. There's an enterprising society
reporter for the News-Herald who snoops around every
week in some of the better jewelry outlets to find out
who's been buying wedding sets. Apparently some
employee gave up your name, not knowing who you are."
Brad thought back to the transaction. Thomas had taken
his credit card information. He obviously knew Jasmine,
but her name had not been written down on anything. And
Thomas wouldn't give up Jasmine's name to anyone. The
only name the employee could have known, and that the
reporter would have gotten was Brad Tarkenton. But that
reporter would be burning up the wires to points back
east, trying to unearth who Brad Tarkenton was going to
marry.
That would put the smell of blood in the water in
places where the reporters had a lot more assets and
knew a lot more about how to find information. And Brad
would have to apply for a license sooner or later. At
that point they might have only hours before the news
got out. Their fifty guest wedding might have a hundred
reporters show up clamoring for entry.
Brad had a lot of friends in high places. And most of
those friends hated the news media. One of them was the
Attorney General for the great state in which Brad
Tarkenton had established his headquarters. In a short
phone call to him, the problem was discussed. The
Attorney General said he'd make some calls to his
associate in Ohio.
***
Two hours later Brad got a call. He was given a name
and an address, where he could apply for the license.
It would be misplaced for a period not to exceed two
weeks, and then found and duly filed, as the law
required. By the time anyone could request a copy of
the document, Brad and Jasmine would already be in the
Bahamas.
When Brad got to work the next day there was a man
loitering around the front doors. He was on the public
sidewalk, so security couldn't do anything about him.
Brad had made it a habit to use the same door anyone
else did. He knew the man. He was Fred Granger, a
Reporter for the Times.
Granger approached him smiling. "Heard you're getting
hitched." he said confidently.
"Really?" said Brad. "How long you known me Fred?"
"We met at a conference three years ago. You were the
first executive from Amalgamated to ever grant me an
interview." said Fred.
"And in all that time, have you ever known me to be
hunting for a wife?"
"Can't say I have, Mr. Tarkenton. But I got a call from
some hick named Jerry something or other who calls
himself a newspaper reported in Cleveland Ohio. He says
he saw a receipt that indicated you paid a hell of a
lot of money for a wedding set."
"That I did Fred." Brad nodded.
"So you gonna tell me who she is?" asked Granger.
Brad looked around like he wanted to make sure no one
could hear him. "Off the record Fred?"
Fred appreciated Brad Tarkenton, because Brad had given
him some stories in the past. "Depends on who she is.
If she's somebody famous I can't sit on it."
Brad chuckled. "You know my personal secretary, Emma?"
Fred frowned. "You mean that woman who gives me such a
hard time about everything? I call and she asks me more
questions than I ask her. The one who's probably twenty
years older than you? Don't tell me you're gonna marry
your secretary." He looked morose. That wouldn't be a
story in anybody's newspaper.
"OK, Fred, I won't tell you." Brad smiled sadly. "Off
the record?" he asked again.
"Yeah, sure, what the hell." said Granger. Then he
perked up. "Let me know when she kicks you out or you
divorce her, OK? I might be able to get a column or two
out of that."
Brad tried to look hurt. "Fred, you're talking about my
marriage breaking up and I haven't even gotten it going
yet!"
Fred grinned. "Well, look at your track record. I'm
surprised any woman would marry you after all that.
Thanks Mr. Tarkenton. Good luck."
Brad smiled. He hadn't told a single lie. He'd have to
give Fred a story when things settled down.
When Brad got into his office he called his vice
president in charge of acquisitions into his office.
They talked for a few minutes and the man left. He had
an acquisition to make.
CHAPTER SEVEN
On the fifteenth of the month Brad Tarkenton, CEO of
Amalgamated Industries, left town on his corporate jet
to go to the Bahamas and do an on-site survey of
operations there, or what was called an oversight
visit. The flight plan his pilot filed indicated a stop
in Cleveland Ohio for refueling. A few employees
noticed and a couple grumbled about the boss having
perks. Others looked at them with frowns. What the boss
did was his business. They liked their jobs and didn't
think much of people who didn't appreciate what they
had.
The pilot and copilot didn't bat an eye at the flight
plan which called for refueling in Cleveland. They knew
about the luscious little thing who had spent so much
time in his hotel room on the last trip. Any man would
want to go back for seconds. They also knew that
telling Jackie about that luscious little thing would
have caused her to be less than happy... so they
hadn't.
Brad smiled at Jackie, when she welcomed him onto the
plane. Again she made it clear that whatever he needed,
including her, naked on the plush rug, legs spread wide
for him, all he had to do was ask. He smiled because
she was going to be one pissed girl the next time he
boarded the plane.
When they landed it was about nine in the morning. As
the jet was taxiing toward its parking place Brad saw,
out a window, a brand new Viking Chrysler 300 limo
waiting for him. It was painted in Amalgamated's color
scheme and George was standing beside it, wearing a
uniform that matched the car's color scheme. He knew
what George's answer had been before he stepped onto
the tarmac.
George opened the door as Brad walked toward him. "Good
to see you again, sir." he said formally.
"Thanks George, how did Claudette take it?"
"Your secretary sent us pictures of the house and a
contract that even we could understand. Claudette said
if I didn't take the job I could go live in the garage.
We've been a little cramped since Jimmy and Jake came
along."
"I didn't know how she'd react." said Brad. "A lot of
women don't like moving around when they have
children."
"The moving company called and said they could have us
there lock, stock and barrel in three days. They just
said throw out anything we don't want to take with us
and to leave the rest to them. Josh said we could move
the family up there in the limo. Isn't she beautiful?"
"It's a car, George. It's just a car."
"It's my office sir, and it's gorgeous. Thank you for
everything Mr. Tarkenton."
"Thank YOU, George." said Brad and got in. After all,
it had been George's seal of approval that had tipped
the scales in Jasmine's decision on whether to 'escort'
one Brad Tarkenton to a dance. Brad felt like he owed
George a lot more than he could ever repay.
When he got to the hotel there was a message waiting
for him from Jasmine. It said "Don't contact me and
don't try to find me. George will pick you up at one
and take you where you need to be. Your clothes are in
your room. I love you."
He followed the instructions and George delivered him
to the hotel where Jasmine had been living for the last
few years. George parked and they started towards the
door when a two men approached them. One had a camera.
He was holding it like a weapon, ready to use.
"Mister Tarkenton" said the other man. Even if the
photographer hadn't been there, Brad would have smelled
reporter before the man said another word. "I'm Jerry
Renner from the News-Herald. Are you here to get
married Mr. Tarkenton?" The photographer took a picture
of George and Brad. "Is it true you're marrying a
prostitute?" asked Jerry, with a slight sneer.
Brad reached into the inside pocket of his suit coat.
"I have something here for you Mister Renner," he said,
smiling. He unfolded the tri-folded documents and
handed them to Jerry. "You'll have plenty of time to
read over these documents, because you are not invited
to this wedding. As you can see, I have purchased the
News-Herald and am now the owner and Publisher, as I
believe I am titled now. You work for me now, Jerry and
it is my opinion... as the Publisher... and your
employer... that this wedding is not news."
Jerry was looking skeptically at the pages in his hand.
Brad didn't let him speak though. "Now you have two
choices... both of you..." he included the
photographer, "... you can forget this story, and go
about reporting some real news. That also means you
will not... I repeat will NOT... share ANY of the
information you may THINK you have uncovered... with
any other person... anywhere in the world... under any
circumstances. I now own all information you have about
this wedding and about me, and it is not for sale to
any person at any price. It is confidential
information."
Brad was moving into a voice his employees had learned
to recognize, based on reports from other employees who
had actually heard this voice, usually to their peril.
It was called his 'you-fuck-this-up-and-I'll-have-your-
balls-for-dinner' voice.
"And, if asked about it, you will respond that you are
not at liberty to talk about it. That is a condition of
your continued employment. The other option you have is
to try to make a splash, at which time you will be
fired. My litigation division will then ruin your lives
gentlemen. Who I am marrying is my business and nobody
else's unless my wife and I decide to involve them. I
remind you again, gentlemen, that any notes you have,
are property of the News-Herald and, therefore, MY
property. Should those notes be left lying about where
someone might find them, option number two, which I
mentioned before, will kick in."
Jerry was now frantically trying to read the documents
that he'd been handed. His mouth was hanging open. Brad
said "Oh, I almost forgot. There's a third option. You
can quit. Of course the materials I mentioned still
belong to me, and if you think you can quit and then
try to make a splash, you'll get to meet my litigators
then too. Now. You're wasting your time around here. I
don't pay people to waste time. Go find some news."
Jerry tried once. "But it IS news! She's a hooker and
you're an important man!" Jerry, like many in the
media, thought that anything he knew, or thought he
knew, was vital knowledge that the public had a right
to know. And a NEED to know too.
Brad gave him a level gaze. "She's a human being who
found a man who loves her. I'm a man who found a woman
I love. That's news? Who actually cares about our
pasts? Some high society freaks who have nothing better
to do than titter behind closed doors? You'd give up a
good job just to give them something to gossip about
for a couple of weeks? We're just two people trying to
find a little happiness. You screw that up and I'll
crush you. It's that simple Jerry. At least it is to
me, and I'm the Publisher. You can do what you want to.
This is America. But I can do what I want to as well,
and that includes going after somebody who tries to
mess with that happiness."
The photographer, possibly a lot smarter than Jerry,
had already pulled open the back of his camera and was
pulling a strip of film out into the daylight. "Damn, I
ruined the film." He looked at Brad. "Sorry... boss. I
promise I'll be more careful in the future." Brad
turned and walked off. He could hear Jerry whining and
an explosive "Shut the fuck up, you idiot." from the
photographer.
George accompanied Brad to the ballroom, which was on
the floor directly beneath the penthouse. Josh was
waiting for him when the elevator doors opened and
escorted him to a small room where he said "Now we
wait. I brought cards. You play Hearts Brad?"
Brad was uncharacteristically nervous, and not just
because he was marrying his own daughter. His last two
marriages had seemed routine somehow... just another
business transaction to get through so he could move
forward. But this one was different. He was madly in
love with Jasmine and waiting to see her was what got
his heart rate up.
Just about the time Brad began thinking he might
actually throw up, a beautiful young woman came to the
door and told the men they should follow her. She took
them through a side door in the ballroom, which had
been decorated with streamers and other things. The
odor of fresh flowers was almost overwhelming.
There were probably thirty or forty people sitting in
chairs lined up in rows, leaving an aisle between them.
An official was standing at the head of that aisle. As
the men took their place to the left of the official
music started up from a small orchestra that was off to
one side. Brad examined the people who had been invited
to his fourth wedding. He had only seen six of them and
didn't know any of the rest, but that didn't matter a
bit. This ceremony was for the bride and he knew it.
There were about ten women who Brad assumed were
Jasmine's former peers. They were almost painfully
beautiful in general, but each was gorgeous in her own
way. Some were short while others stood taller, some up
to six feet. There were large breasts and small
breasts, and curvy bodies and slim almost boyish ones.
Some were dressed elegantly, while others wore more
simple costumes. There was hair of every hue. Every
race was represented. It was like a small female United
Nations. Brad was amazed that a town like Cleveland
could support that many high-priced call girls.
Well, after today there would be a little less
competition.
Other people present included Claudette and her
children, and pairs and clusters of other people Brad
assumed meant something special to Jasmine.
He saw movement at the back of the room and looked to
see Julie strolling toward them, a bouquet of flowers
in her hands. Her hair had been done up in some way
that used sparkling stones on a net made of gold
thread. Her gown was made to display, rather than hide
her pregnant condition, and there was just enough
cleavage to display breasts ready to do their duty when
that stomach flattened. She looked like the poster
woman for achingly beautiful mothers-to-be, a living
billboard that urged women to become like her, and men
to do their best to make women's bellies swell with
life.
Brad started to feel some small shame as his prick
lurched, looking at his wife's best friend. But then he
relaxed. There wasn't anyone in this room who would
hold an erection against him.
Julie winked at him and took her place on the
official's right, turning to face the back of the room.
Two women opened the double doors in the back and
Jasmine stepped forward, her hand laid lightly on
George's arm. For once she was the one being escorted.
She was dressed in a dark forest green colored gown
that was cut like a wedding dress, with a train. It was
sleeveless, and appeared to be hanging on her body only
by virtue of some unknown magic. It came around her
back and crossed over about half of each of her
breasts, dipping down to a point below her breasts.
It looked amazingly sexy, but somehow didn't look like
it was showing that much skin. She had strings of
pearls that started almost as a choker and then dipped
lower and lower until they rested between her breasts.
Dangling pear shaped pearl earrings matched the
necklace and hung from her ears, swaying slightly as
she walked. Her hair was in a simple, but long French
braid that hung down her back to her buttocks. She
looked like a simple peasant girl, who had tried on a
glass slipper that had fit. Now the simple peasant girl
was a princess, about to become a queen.
His erection became complete.
Brad somehow missed the actions it took to end him up
facing halfway between the official and Jasmine, while
she faced the opposite direction. She smiled at him and
he thought he might faint. "I see you're happy to see
me." she whispered. Her eyes dropped and then bounced
right back up. The official coughed.
Then it was a simple set of vows, wherein they promised
each other the things that all brides and grooms
promise. And, like all brides and grooms, they meant
those things. Time would tell if this marriage would
last, but its chances were better than many.
When the ceremony was complete there was a very short
reception line in which Brad was treated to a kiss from
each of those gorgeous women who, while they varied in
appearance, all exuded sexuality. Quite a few of them
kissed Jasmine too, some on the cheek and some on the
lips. They were kisses that were both sad and happy at
the same time. Jasmine got a kiss from Josh too, and it
was obvious they both enjoyed the excuse to do that.
As George took them back to the plane Jasmine settled
in the seat beside Brad and, for the first time since
he'd seen her, looked a little frazzled. "We had a near
miss with the press." she said.
"They were diverted in the parking lot." he said.
"My information was that the little shit was going to
try to embarrass us, and that he couldn't be talked out
of it." said Jasmine. "He's gay, so we can't use our
normal methods of persuasion to keep him quiet."
"He may be gay, but he likes his job. He found out he
wouldn't have it any more if he reported the story."
said Brad.
"How in the world did you do that? I know Bill Sudduth,
the publisher. He's an honest man who wouldn't quash a
story for his best friend." Jasmine looked as surprised
as she sounded.
"Bill Sudduth IS an honest man. But he's also a man
near enough to retirement age that he decided my offer
to buy his newspaper was too good to pass up. The good
news is that you STILL know the publisher. In fact,
you're going to get to sleep with the publisher." He
grinned.
Jasmine shook her head. "Remind me to be wary around
you. You're a very devious man."
Brad barked a laugh. "My daughter lets me buy her for a
night and then ends up driving me insane with lust for
her so that I violate a very serious taboo. Then,
somehow she gets me to propose and marry her. And she
calls ME devious?"
Jasmine ignored him as if he'd said nothing at all. "I
was afraid to take the time to change. Can I change on
the plane?"
"Yes." he said.'
"Can we make love on the plane?" she asked, a note of
slyness coming into her voice. "I noticed you're ready.
I've never made it with a publisher before."
"We can, though there will be a thoroughly disgusted
stewardess named Jackie who will then understand why
she couldn't get me to let her "see to my comfort" on
previous flights."
"Do I need to find you a new stewardess?" asked Jasmine
sweetly.
"Jackie has struck out a number of times already. When
she sees that rock on your finger I think she'll
finally lose interest." he said. "But it's up to you."
"We'll see. Maybe Jackie likes girls too." said
Jasmine. "Then she can be hopeful about me AND you."
"This is going to be an interesting marriage." said
Brad.
"This is going to be a VERY interesting marriage." said
Jasmine, kissing him.
When they boarded the plane, Jackie did, in deed look a
little disgruntled. She was a good sport about it,
though. "Welcome back sir." she said formally. "I
understand completely now."
Jasmine laughed. "I don't blame you. He's very
handsome, isn't he?"
Jackie looked at her calculatingly. "He's very rich
too."
Jasmine smiled. "I have enough money. What I want is
this man's babies. Speaking of which, I need to change
clothes, and I have a suspicion that, when I do, this
man we're talking about like he isn't even here will
probably get all frisky. I don't suppose you'd like to
visit with the pilot and co-pilot for a while."
Jackie grinned. "Make you a deal Mrs. Tarkenton. I'll
do that, if you and Mr. Tarkenton would think about
visiting the pilot while the co-pilot and I... discuss
some things back here afterwards."
"My my," said Jasmine. "A woman of many interests.
Jackie just smiled and went up front, closing the
curtain that separated the cockpit from the cabin.
Jasmine began getting out of her gorgeous green wedding
dress. All she had on under it were dark thigh-length
nylons and a garter belt. Brad just stared. Her nipples
were once again the same color as her lips. And, inside
the heart-shaped tuft of black hair on her mons, the
letter "D" had been carefully clipped clean. Jasmine
saw him staring at it.
"D is for Daddy" she said softly. Her hand went to
ruffle the hair and she slipped a finger between her
pussy lips. "This belongs to Daddy now." She pulled her
finger through her vulva and drew it up, between her
breasts and then into her mouth. "I taste lots better
with Daddy's cum in me. Do you have any cum for my
pussy Daddy?"
Brad was almost frantic as he tore his clothes off.
Jasmine giggled and tried to help, pulling at this, and
tugging at that, but she was ineffectual because he was
moving around so much. Finally he lay back in the seat,
naked, his erection straining away from his body.
"Oooo you DO have some cum for my pussy." she said. She
bent over and kissed the tip of his cock and then
looked up into his eyes. "I've never been married. I've
never been fucked since I got married. I'm almost a
virgin. Do you want to be the very first man to have my
pussy since I got married?"
Brad lurched up out of the seat and growled as she
laughed at him and ran towards the back of the plane.
She flopped in a seat and slid her butt to the edge,
opening her legs wide and exposing her pussy to him.
She pointed to it, her finger landing on her clit.
"Mmmm right here. Here's where I want you to put that
big nasty Daddy cock."
Brad complied with here wish. He almost sobbed with
relief as he sank into her heated depths. "Oh baby I
love you so much." he moaned.
Her reply was physical and ardent. She shoved her pussy
up at him and hugged him to her fiercely. "I love you
too Daddy, and now we can love each other as much as we
want."
This first time since the ceremony was violently short,
each of them primed to burst already and their orgasms
coming quickly. Brad groaned as his prick shot streams
of cum into her sucking pussy and she whined about how
wonderful his liquid heat felt packing her womb. When
it was over he had to pull out of her to kneel on the
carpet because he was so weak.
Jasmine reached between them and sealed her pussy
closed with her fingers, not so much to protect the
upholstery, as to ensure his sperm had a chance to soak
into her womb. It was late in her cycle, and, within a
few days she'd know if her efforts to get her father's
baby in her belly before they were married had worked.
But she didn't want to lose even a drop of that
luscious nectar. She had a lot of unhappiness in her
past to make up for.
Jasmine insisted that they did, in fact, get dressed
and go to the cockpit, where she sat behind the pilot,
while the co-pilot got up and gave his seat to Brad. He
and Jackie did, in fact, go into the cabin. The pilot
turned to Brad. "Welcome to the Mile High Club, sir. It
was close, but we made it to that height in time."
There was a thump that caused Brad to turn around, but
the pilot said "She's putting down the bed."
"There's a bed?!" asked Brad.
"The seats slide on runners, and the bed folds out of
the wall. You didn't know that?" he asked.
"Nope. And Jackie didn't tell us either."
"She's the jealous type." said the pilot. Don't worry,
I'll pay her back for you." He made an adjustment to a
knob. Mrs. Tarkenton?" he called Jasmine's name.
"Yes?" she said.
"If you'll peek through that curtain and tell me when
some turbulence would interrupt things, I'd appreciate
it. And both of you... be sure to fasten your seat
belts tightly."
Jasmine giggled. It took ten minutes, because Jackie
liked to cuddle and suck before she fucked. "OK" said
Jasmine suddenly. The co-pilot had just sunk into the
stewardesses pussy.
"Hold on." warned the pilot.
He banked the plane so suddenly that it seemed like
they had fallen on their sides. There was a thump and
cursing from the cabin. Then the plane was on an even
keel again. The pilot spoke into his microphone. "Sorry
kids... flock of birds."
Jackie tried again, this time sitting on the rampant
prick she wanted in her. The pilot banked again and
Jasmine felt herself become almost weightless. There
was another thump as Jackie went flying herself and
landed in one of the seats that had been moved forward
to make room for the bed.
The pilot got on the intercom again. "Must be migration
season."
"Billy!" came a strident female voice. "You're an
asshole."
Billy keyed the microphone again. "And you should have
told the boss about the bed."
Jackie's naked upper torso thrust through the curtain.
Her hair was a mess. But her admittedly fabulous bosom
was heaving from her exertions and would have been a
magnet to any man's eyes. She looked at Jasmine. "OK,
I'm sorry. I was a little disappointed, OK? Now will
you please tell him to fly this damn airplane straight
for five minutes?
Jasmine noted that her husband turned his head to look
at Jackie's fabulous tits, but then looked back out the
windscreen of the plane instead of staring. She would
have to reward him later.
"OK, Bill, she apologized. But I want you to do that
with us later. I think I know how to make that work for
us."
Bill laughed. "Not the way I did it with them. I banked
and pushed downstick. It's dangerous, but it doesn't
make you weigh more. In fact it makes you seem to weigh
less and it makes it very difficult to control your
movements. With you I'd bank and leave the stick level,
or even pull up a little. That would drive you into the
bed hard."
"Even better" said Jasmine with a throaty purr.
The rest of the flight was more or less normal. They
had their whole honeymoon ahead of them and both were
at once relaxed and impatient to start their married
life. Jasmine said she hadn't been able to go and see
Phillip because she was too busy. She'd called Phillip
and, after apologising to him for telling him on the
phone, told him everything. He claimed he was happy for
her and she promised that they'd get down to visit him
soon. Brad agreed that it was long overdue.
Just before they landed, Jasmine dug into her purse and
got something out. "I believe this is yours?" she said,
her voice flat. She opened her hand and, lying in it,
folded twice, were ten one hundred dollar bills.
Brad looked at the money, and then up at her eyes. He
smiled.
"Sweetheart, I can't take that back... that's the best
thousand dollars I ever spent."
END
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It's okay to *READ* stories about unprotected sex with
others outside a monogamous relationship. But it isn't
okay to *HAVE* unprotected sex with people other than
a trusted partner. You only have one body per lifetime,
so take good care of it!
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