Candy Quattro

[OZCPL]

Okay, so one of Candy’s redeeming qualities is that she lets Michael accompany her to the supermarket. What’s the other?

She's keen to impress on Teddy that his biological father isn't his Dad, even adopting Toddy (after Tod) as her 'pet' name for him. I know this was far more likely a simple typo, but the fact I'm not absolutely sure probably says everything about our expectations of her.

Chris

(And what's wrong with grocery shopping? Candy's need to share such an important part of her life with her husband is perfectly understandable in my book.)
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So Chris, I guess Cath might be planning to take Jack, Sammie and you to Tesco next Saturday night...  
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[Chrislydi]

Okay, so one of Candy’s redeeming qualities is that she lets Michael accompany her to the supermarket. What’s the other?

She's keen to impress on Teddy that his biological father isn't his Dad, even adopting Toddy (after Tod) as her 'pet' name for him. I know this was far more likely a simple typo, but the fact I'm not absolutely sure probably says everything about our expectations of her.

Chris

(And what's wrong with grocery shopping? Candy's need to share such an important part of her life with her husband is perfectly understandable in my book.)

So Chris, I guess Cath might be planning to take Jack, Sammie and you to Tesco next Saturday night...  
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We prefer Waitrose but the idea is correct

[goyse]

I'm on the same page as OZCPL and Asterix42. I've always loved Candy as a character, it's her nonsensical and twisted vindictiveness that make the story, however I have always detested her as a person. In no way is she just pure evil, so not particularly a rancid bride that once tasted so sweet, as she does have one or two redeeming qualities amongst the incalculable myriad of unmitigated wickedness that for the most part forms the basis of her character. To turn around and use the inverse of a popular idiomatic expression, Michael sees the sheep in wolf's clothing, very few others can or do, but then Michael really is a living saint.. Great writing as always.

Chris

Okay, so one of Candy’s redeeming qualities is that she lets Michael accompany her to the supermarket. What’s the other?

.....

I know that I've asked it before but doesn't anyone ever get just a little suspicious about what Michael is actually up to?

After all, didn't Gloria suggest that he has a little harem going and she wondered how she would fit into it? How many men out there can get away with that and no one ever complains? Candy, Jill, Leslie and now Gloria, now that's a lot of females for one little guy, sorry that should have been one normal guy. Sorry folks but there is not everything about Michael that can be Mr, 'we all love Michael' and yes, he is Mr, 'nice guy' by all accounts but it seems to be allowing him to get away with blue murder so much in fact that Gloria can see what she is getting into as Michael's "little harem."

I think Asterix suggested that she is away from him for almost 5 years and what does he do, he takes her on a big-guy-finding mission but in doing so he finds himself another woman. Really people is this man really the 'good guy' that he is buttered up to be? Perhaps he has other things on his mind than giving Candy what she wants or maybe they are actually working together for the benefit of both of them. After all, she and Jilly were a thing and then she and Leslie spent over 4 years in the cot together and didn't Gloria show an interest in being there to observe the seduction of Candy. Then didn't Candy invite her to lie down beside her......??? Does she have eyes for Gloria now that Michael has seduced her or was she thinking of Michael?

So the other question is, "Is it really Michael's harem?" Perhaps Michael serves a purpose for Candy to get access to that little bit of feminism she obviously desires from time to time. But I guess as with most things the truth will surface, perhaps or perhaps not. It may be up to the observer to observe or the reader to read between the lines, (or is that between the sheets?)

I guess Time with tell, as they say, or will it?

[goyse]

Candy Quattro Chapter 28

For Candy, when Mike made love to her it felt nice but her mind was on how it would feel with Derek knowing that he would stretch her more than she had ever been stretched before. Sure Tod was nearly as thick at his head as Derek but with Tod, his shaft was no bigger than his head, perhaps even smaller. Besides, it had been a long time since she had anything near that size inside her and she had tightened up. When Mike had taken her she had felt very tight with him but now she was about to take a shaft that was probably a third bigger around than Mike and Mike was no chicken.

When Derek first pushed his big purple head into her she felt stretched to the stage that she felt pain but instead of stopping him she closed her eyes and focused on the positive, the erotic feelings it gave her and there were many of those to focus on. Then suddenly the pain disappeared and the positive feelings intensified to the extent that she wanted more inside her and Derek didn’t disappoint.

Through the pleasure and the diminishing pain she heard Michael ask her, “Are you okay.” She didn’t want to move her focus so she nodded in answer to his question. Deeper and deeper she felt Derek go and tighter and tighter she felt around him. Then she heard Michael again. She didn’t understand what he said but she nodded again to say she had heard him.

It was then that she felt it. Derek had expanded inside her and that pain was back again. She knew why and she smiled. He was going to cum. That was why she was there. To let his sperm find her egg that was due to be released. She knew that it was about to happen because when she put her plan into action she had started taking her temperature and this morning it had gone up by more than half a degree, almost a full degree.

His first throb was nothing compared to his second because suddenly she felt heat as if someone had sprayed inside her with a hot hose, then another and another. That, in fact, was what had happened. Derek had sprayed her internals with his hot fertile sperm using his huge hose. Each squirt was slightly hotter than the one before and then she exploded herself. She had cum with many men in her time but this was so different, so intense, and so draining of her energy. She remembered her orgasms as a young teenager, that great explosion that took everything out of her. They were the ones that had given her this addiction, this desire to somehow recreate those orgasms by finding bigger and better men and now……., she had rediscovered it!

‘Why is he not stopping,’ she asked herself. ‘All men stop after cumming.’ At least all the men she had been with had. Greg had stopped for a short interval and then restarted but Derek didn’t seem to understand that because he just kept going. 'Not that I’m complaining,’ she thought.

Then it happened again. She saw stars this time as her body went into contractions, orgasmic contractions. She had felt something approaching this with Tod but this time it didn’t stop. It continued and it continued. The more it continued the more her body joined in, her vagina spasms moved upward through her stomach and downwards to her thighs then upwards to her chest so that her heart moved in sync with the throb in her vagina and even her breathing joined in. Finally, her legs lifted and fell with the rhythm of her sexual organs.

She heard Derek chuckle. ‘He’s laughing at me,’ she thought, ‘the bastard is laughing because my body is shaking as if I was freezing cold but the pleasure it’s just indescribable.’

“I’m going to fuck a little black baby into that belly of yours, Candy. You know it too, don’t you and it turns you on like nothing else ever could,” Derek told her.

Hearing that bought her down as if she had been hit with cold water, “What makes you think that? Did Michael tell you that,” She asked?

“No, Michael doesn’t have to tell me anything. I know that heat. I know that female orgasm. You’re fertile, I’ve been with many women some fertile many not and there is a difference. You, Candy, may not know it but you’re fertile.”

“I was with Mike first.”

He laughed again, “Mike and his stubby, his sperm would take a week to swim from that little dick to your cervix. I shot mine directly into your ovaries. Your Cervix wanted it so bad it grabbed hold of my cock head and wrapped around it. Everything I put into you went straight up to your ovaries and back out again after you conceived. Now the job is done, you and I can really enjoy ourselves.”

“Good then stop your yabbering and fuck me.”

Again he laughed and pushed into her so hard that he almost pushed her off the bed and chuckled as she burst into another orgasm when he did it. “You fucking love it, don’t you?”

“Yes, I love it so stop fucking talking and give it to me.”

He didn’t disappoint.

….

Michael and Gloria walked up the passageway with their arms around each other. Gloria looked up at her lover and could see he was immensely concerned about something.

“What’s wrong,” she asked him?

“Nothing, I’m okay.”

“Don’t try to bullshit me, Michael. Now, what’s wrong?”

“I hope she will be alright, that’s all.”

“Why all the worry, she’s getting exactly what she wanted and she’s lapping it up.”

“He’s so big. I mean his whole body towers over her. And that organ is a big as a baseball bat. She’s never had anything like that before.”

“Do you want to go back to her? I’ll be okay alone if you do.”

“No, it’s okay. There is nothing I can do anyway so I might as well forget it's happening.”

“Yeah, right,” She chuckled, “Come on, we’ll have a cup of coffee.”

“Don’t you want to make love?”

“Yes, I do but you’re not up to it at the moment. A cuppa might just fix that.”

She led him through to the kitchen and prepared a cup of coffee for them both. He stood back and watched her closely as she did so. There were no words spoken but the body language from them both was powerful and it said, “You’re special to me.”

Finally with the coffee made they took a seat beside each other in the lounge. In unison, they took a sip of the brew before she asked, “Tell me about Jilly.”

“Before I talk about Jill, I’d like to talk about you.” She smiled wondering what he was about to say. “I watched you making the coffee and although I knew it before, I have to tell you how beautiful you are.”

“Oh oh, my mum told me about moments like this where they will butter you up and then take what they want without any regard for you or your feelings.”

“Has anybody ever told you that your mum is a sceptic? I want nothing from you that you don’t choose to give but I want you to know that you’re beautiful, sensible and absolutely adorable. Now pick up the phone, ring your mum and tell her that a man who wants nothing other than what I want to give him paid me a compliment because he loves me.” She just stared at him. After a while, he asked her, “What’s wrong?”

“My mum passed away last year.”

“Oh, my God, I’m so sorry. I didn’t know. I’m sorry.” He sat down his coffee. He took her coffee off her and put it beside her on the table then took her into his arms. “I’m so sorry,” he told her again. “I feel such a fool to say that about your mum. Will you forgive me?”

“It’s okay. You are right, she was a sceptic when it came to men but she had an excuse. Men had let her down too often and she was raised in a time when women were totally dependent on men for their survival. She couldn’t get past that belief so it became easier for them to let her down.”

“How about her daughter how does she see the world?”

“I’m scared. I’m in love with a man who has a small harem. I don’t know how or where I’ll fit in to that. Then I look at Candy and how she is searching for something that may not even exist in this world. I don’t understand that or how you put up with it. So it scares me, Michael. If I didn’t tell you that I wouldn’t be honest.”

“Yes, I know and you are right to be scared because quite often it scares me too. But it is my life. It’s Candy’s life. It’s Jill’s life and it's Leslie’s life now as well. If I have my way it will become your life too if you let it become so. I can’t take away the scary feeling because I don’t have a reasonable answer to it or for it.”

“I worry about how Jill will feel about us falling in love. I don’t want to hurt her but I don’t want to let you go either.”

“I think Jill will be okay about it. I’ve spoken to her and told her that I’ve met someone very special and I know Candy and Jill have talked. I’m more worried about Leslie than Jill.”

“I see. What worries you about Leslie?”

“She’s had a terrible time. Her husband was seducing women and videoing them for sale through her business without her knowledge while she was going through treatment for cancer. She came out of it with a business in financial trouble, potentially in trouble with the law because of him and living on her own.”

“Chick told me that you fixed it up for her. Is that true?”

“She employed me so it was my job to fix it up for her. I have no magic wand if that is what Chick told you. It was the staff who did the hard yards. I just opened the doors for them to do what they needed to do. They all loved her so they did what was required. They still do and they will continue to do the right thing by her.”

“Yes, he told me that you wouldn’t take credit for it.”

“Okay, let me explain. Have you ever been lost and didn’t know which way to go or how to go there?”

“No, but I can understand what it must be like.”

“Good, so how do you fix it?”

“I would ask somebody the way.”

“What if nobody there knows the way? What if everybody around you is in the same boat?”

“I guess I’d just stumble on to try to work it out.”

“What would you need to find your way?”

“I’d need a GPS perhaps?”

“What would a GPS give you that would help you?”

“It would give me a map and it would tell me where I am on that map.”

“That’s right and that is what was missing from Leslie’s business. Without Leslie, there was no one to point the direction or show them how to find their way. All I did was I sat down with a lad called Ricky and I asked him how the business should be run. Together we defined the direction and wrote it up in the form of a map. I then took that map and sat with others who played a key role in the business. With Ricky and those others, we defined how to take the first steps on our journey. We then repeated that process for the next step and so on until everybody defined what they needed to do to achieve a result. The result was to make the business function again so that it made a profit.”

“Then you told them what to do and how to do it?”

“No, not at all, they told me what to do and how to do it. Because it was their roadmap they knew how to follow it. My role was to record it to make sure they did what they said they would. Part of my role became to tell them how well they did at doing what they believed should be done in the first place. Occasionally someone ran into an obstacle in which case we found out what needed to happen to fix it then backed that up with training. Everyone is proud of what they achieved and they should be! There is nothing better than to know you fixed up an ailing business and that is exactly what they achieved. Besides they profited too. They kept their jobs.”

“So you believe you let them fix Leslie’s failing business?”

“Don’t you understand? All people have abilities that they seldom get the opportunity to utilize. It frustrates them to know they could achieve but they can’t utilize that skill that we all have because others believe they know better. A good manager simply removes the impediment in a controlled manner to allow them to do what they know needs to be done. But a good manager should never steal from his people. So if I took the credit for what they achieved that would make me not only a poor manager but a despicable person to boot.”

She smiled at him and told him, “I love you.”

“Good,” he replied. “What are you going to do about it?”

Her smile got bigger. She pushed her coffee cup aside, and took him by the hand to lead him to her bed.

[Chrislydi]

St Michael is no more, preferring coffee to tea is sacrilege, he's been excommunicated. Great stuff Goyse, now sit down and enjoy a nice cup of tea

Chris

[Asterix42]

I'm on the same page as OZCPL and Asterix42. I've always loved Candy as a character, it's her nonsensical and twisted vindictiveness that make the story, however I have always detested her as a person. In no way is she just pure evil, so not particularly a rancid bride that once tasted so sweet, as she does have one or two redeeming qualities amongst the incalculable myriad of unmitigated wickedness that for the most part forms the basis of her character. To turn around and use the inverse of a popular idiomatic expression, Michael sees the sheep in wolf's clothing, very few others can or do, but then Michael really is a living saint.. Great writing as always.

Chris

Okay, so one of Candy’s redeeming qualities is that she lets Michael accompany her to the supermarket. What’s the other?

.....

I know that I've asked it before but doesn't anyone ever get just a little suspicious about what Michael is actually up to?

After all, didn't Gloria suggest that he has a little harem going and she wondered how she would fit into it? How many men out there can get away with that and no one ever complains? Candy, Jill, Leslie and now Gloria, now that's a lot of females for one little guy, sorry that should have been one normal guy. Sorry folks but there is not everything about Michael that can be Mr, 'we all love Michael' and yes, he is Mr, 'nice guy' by all accounts but it seems to be allowing him to get away with blue murder so much in fact that Gloria can see what she is getting into as Michael's "little harem."

I think Asterix suggested that she is away from him for almost 5 years and what does he do, he takes her on a big-guy-finding mission but in doing so he finds himself another woman. Really people is this man really the 'good guy' that he is buttered up to be? Perhaps he has other things on his mind than giving Candy what she wants or maybe they are actually working together for the benefit of both of them. After all, she and Jilly were a thing and then she and Leslie spent over 4 years in the cot together and didn't Gloria show an interest in being there to observe the seduction of Candy. Then didn't Candy invite her to lie down beside her......??? Does she have eyes for Gloria now that Michael has seduced her or was she thinking of Michael?

So the other question is, "Is it really Michael's harem?" Perhaps Michael serves a purpose for Candy to get access to that little bit of feminism she obviously desires from time to time. But I guess as with most things the truth will surface, perhaps or perhaps not. It may be up to the observer to observe or the reader to read between the lines, (or is that between the sheets?)

I guess Time with tell, as they say, or will it?

So, maybe Michael uses Candy as bait to attract nice women who don't like the way Candy treats him. Women who want to comfort Michael and join his harem to look after him after they see how badly Candy treats him. Maybe from Michael's perspective Candy's major redeeming feature is that she's such a mean and selfish woman that, regardless of what he does, Michael looks saintly by comparison. That would explain why Michael keeps Candy around after 5 years of her locking him out and showing nothing but contempt and dislike for him. .

If so, he's very sneaky clever!

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AMAZING chapter!!!!

HOT session between Candy and Derek! And FANTASTIC talking between Candy and Derek, and Gloria and Mike!!!

I like a lot Mike acting as an strategical business consultant!

[OZCPL]

Chapter 28
I keep thinking it cant get better and then this chapter proves me wrong again.

Your insight into multiple human feelings and emotions while exploring love lust and emotional security deserves a PHD. The only criticism I could possibly make is the very slight departing from most reality environments in being such a nice story lacking the dastardly bad people one could meet in their lives. However I do like a story with a happy ending and not too dark.

Something I feel science has not yet found a way to critically explore and analyse is "I shot mine directly into your ovaries. Your Cervix wanted it so bad it grabbed hold of my cock head and wrapped around it." I know some people have said they have known this to occur in real life but most have not. It is such an absolutely obscure and important element of love, lust, conception and reproduction, and yet here it is in just one small part of one of Goyse's chapters in just one of his brilliant stories.

Another sentence I note "It frustrates them to know they could achieve but they can’t utilize that skill, that we all have because others believe they know better." Sounds like a top formula to win a football game or even inspire a group of office workers to produce something new and innovative to achieve something that, at first, appears unachievable.

I could go on more about chapter 28 but I think I should let others have their say.
Thanks Goyse

[OZCPL]

St Michael is no more, preferring coffee to tea is sacrilege, he's been excommunicated. Great stuff Goyse, now sit down and enjoy a nice cup of tea

Chris

You need to take a trip down under and try the coffee here mate.

[goyse]

St Michael is no more, preferring coffee to tea is sacrilege, he's been excommunicated. Great stuff Goyse, now sit down and enjoy a nice cup of tea

Chris

You need to take a trip down under and try the coffee here mate.

...

Sorry to tell you this, OZCPL but I took Chris's advice and had a cuppa tea. I should also point out that I take the pot to the kettle not the kettle to the pot. You just have to get that boiling water directly onto the tea otherwise it just doesn't do the job.

As for Michael, he'll survive, I'm sure. Is he a saint? Well, that's up for debate. All I've tried to do is allowed him to do what he does best, charm the ladies.

[goyse]

Candy Quattro Chapter 29

Michael woke up at five o’clock. He took a shower and got dressed ready for the trip ahead. As he walked past Candy’s bedroom he stopped but couldn’t hear a thing so he continued on to the kitchen. Standing there watching the kettle come to a boil was Derek.

“Good morning, Derek,” he said.

“Good morning, Michael. Are you okay mate?”

“Yep, I’m fine.”

“You have an exceptional wife there. You’re so lucky.”

“Yes, I know. She is fairly special. Gloria is also very special so I do agree I am very lucky.”

“I knew you would be up to get ready for your trip so I came down to talk to you.”

“Okay, let’s make our coffee and you can tell me what you want to talk about.”

Michael pulled out a couple of mugs from the cupboard. He added the coffee grains then added a teaspoon of sugar to his then looked at Derek who held up two fingers. He then added two teaspoons of sugar to the other cup. Derek picked up the boiling jug and poured the water into each.

“Milk,” Michael asked.

“No, I have mine black like you.” He then chuckled.

“What’s so funny,” Michael asked.

“I almost said black like Candy prefers but I thought you might not like the humour in that.”

“I doubt it’s the colour that Candy likes. I think it might be the size. She’s been searching for something for a long time. One day she may even find it.”

Derek looked at him with a serious expression. “What happens if she does find it?”

“That is the unknown. We’ll have to cross that bridge when the time comes, I guess. That is if it comes.”

“She told me that she loves you.”

“Yes, and I love her but sometimes there can be things more important than the love of one person. Come on, sit down,” They took a seat and Michael continued, “Sometimes you can love more than one person and if they can’t fit under the same roof or get along together you have to make a choice. Satisfaction is an important commodity for many of us especially so if you have difficulty in getting the satisfaction your body and mind desire.”

“Are you speaking of yourself there, Michael?”

“I thought we were speaking about Candy. We are, aren’t we?”

“Yes, of course. I’m sorry. So what exactly are you saying here, Michael?”

“You said that Candy loves me. I’m agreeing but I’m also saying that Candy seeks more than just love. She has been looking for something that I can’t give her. We survive because I will not stop her from being with other men such as you, well-endowed men.”

“I see. So are you telling me that if love and satisfaction came in one bundle then you may decide that she is better off with someone else?”

“That’s not what I’m saying, no. I’m saying if it were to happen then I’d be powerless to hold on to her if she was to choose someone else, which is quite different from me making that decision for her. If the decision was left to me then we would be together into old age.”

“I see, so you think she may leave you if that were to happen?”

“I didn’t say that she would leave me. All I’m saying is that it would be understandable if she made that choice to leave me. Besides this is all hypothetical, isn’t it because I’m just guessing. No one knows except for Candy and I doubt she would reveal what she is thinking until after she has made her decision. That decision will never need to be made until the conditions are right.”

“Are you frightened I may be that person?”

“Perhaps the better question is what leads you to ask that question? Has she suggested that she might need to make a decision?”

“No, but she certainly enjoyed the sex last night and I can’t think of any other woman I would prefer to be with.”

“Yes, I know. I’ve seen her many times and she really does enjoy sex with a well-endowed man and few men would be as well-endowed as you are. What I would need to highlight to you though is that she won’t make the decision if she ever does simply because of how much she enjoys the sex. My advice, if you want it, is to enjoy your time with her but don’t build up your expectations.”

“You talk about it all as if you’re not emotionally involved. How do you do that?”

“Oh, I assure you that I am emotionally involved. Some people say that you can only die once. I can assure you they are wrong. My emotional link to Candy has killed me many times over and it probably will many more times after today but despite that one has to still get up to continue to survive. I haven’t perfected it yet but I’ve had lots and lots of practice.”

“I like you, Michael.”

“Now hold on there. I thought it was Candy you liked,” Michael said with a grin.

Derek laughed, “No, I mean you’re okay. You and I could end up being good friends.”

“Yes, that could be possible if we didn’t live thousands of kilometres apart.”

“There is Facebook and emails and all types of communication devices available today. We should stay in touch after you and Candy head off to Phuket.”

“Fine, this here is my Facebook name and here is my email. You must have realised by now that I won’t influence Candy one way or the other.”

“I respect that and I didn’t expect it. I was just holding my hand out to you to allow our friendship to build or not. The day might come when you’re back in Sydney again and I could show you around. Then one day I may get to Perth.”

“Yep, I understand. Anyway, here come the girls.”

Once more Michael thought, ‘they all want to be your friend if they think it will get them into bed with your wife.’

…..

The flight to Brisbane took a little over an hour. At the start of the flight, Mary rambled on about anything and everything. Michael was wondering if she was in fact as crazy as she sometimes made out to be but then Gloria whispered in his ear, “I think she has never flown before so she is worried.”

Michael smiled finally starting to understand. It surprised him though as her boyfriend was a pilot. “Here,” he told her, “hold my hand. There is no reason to be worried. Some people fly every day and live to die of old age.”

“It’s not the flying. I’ve done that heaps of times but always up front with the pilot. I’m claustrophobic in this box of an aeroplane.” Michael couldn’t understand it. The plane was a Boeing 737.

“Here, put your head on my chest, close your eyes and relax. Pretend we’re in your bed at home and you’re wondering what will happen next.”

She did exactly as he asked, pushing the armrest up into the seat. Michael could actually feel the stiffness and stress leave her body. That’s how they stayed until the plane hit the tarmac at Eagle Farm airport.

As the plane stopped and the doors opened, Mary sat up and said, “I think we should have a coffee before we head for Surfers.” Michael chuckled and nodded as Gloria burst out laughing. It had just been an act to get Michael to hold her.

[Chrislydi]

Thanks Goyse,

You're prolific output is massively appreciated, great writing as always.

Chris

[Asterix42]

Great stuff, thanks Goyse. It’s good to get a glimpse of what goes on in Michael’s head.

Sounds like Michael's quite resigned to Candy leaving him one day. “I doubt it’s the colour that Candy likes. I think it might be the size. She’s been searching for something for a long time. One day she may even find it.” and “You said that Candy loves me. I’m agreeing but I’m also saying that Candy seeks more than just love. She has been looking for something that I can’t give her. We survive because I will not stop her from being with other men such as you, well-endowed men.”

Michael's comments makes it sound like he sees Candy as being on a perpetual quest to replace him with a better hung man. Seems like he thinks she's only with him because she hasn't found a guy large enough AND nice enough to leave him for. Whatever it is, it appears Michael doesn't see Candy's love for him as being particularly strong or everlasting. Understandable really after she sidelined him for 5 years. Maybe that's why he took her on the trip, to give her an opportunity to meet the man of her dreams?

Still, regardless of all that, the question remains; why is Michael still with Candy? Seems to me that he'd be better off boarding the first flight home with Gloria and leaving Candy behind. It'd probably take her a few days to figure out he was gone.

That reminds me: whatever happened regarding the airline ticket Candy bought to support her lies to Michael about the trip to Europe? Can't believe that he didn't find out about it, given the state of their finances back then. As a particularly elaborate (and expensive) attempt to cover her lies, it would have been interesting to hear what Michael thought of it all.

[OZCPL]

Well here I am caught up again and as usual it was great to read left me with a warm feeling.
I do get the feeling Michael thinks that real men drink coffee. Derek drinks it and thinks it stimulates him enough and look at the harem Michael has.

[OZCPL]

Great stuff, thanks Goyse. It’s good to get a glimpse of what goes on in Michael’s head.

Sounds like Michael's quite resigned to Candy leaving him one day. “I doubt it’s the colour that Candy likes. I think it might be the size. She’s been searching for something for a long time. One day she may even find it.” and “You said that Candy loves me. I’m agreeing but I’m also saying that Candy seeks more than just love. She has been looking for something that I can’t give her. We survive because I will not stop her from being with other men such as you, well-endowed men.”

Michael's comments makes it sound like he sees Candy as being on a perpetual quest to replace him with a better hung man. Seems like he thinks she's only with him because she hasn't found a guy large enough AND nice enough to leave him for. Whatever it is, it appears Michael doesn't see Candy's love for him as being particularly strong or everlasting. Understandable really after she sidelined him for 5 years. Maybe that's why he took her on the trip, to give her an opportunity to meet the man of her dreams?

Still, regardless of all that, the question remains; why is Michael still with Candy? Seems to me that he'd be better off boarding the first flight home with Gloria and leaving Candy behind. It'd probably take her a few days to figure out he was gone.

That reminds me: whatever happened regarding the airline ticket Candy bought to support her lies to Michael about the trip to Europe? Can't believe that he didn't find out about it, given the state of their finances back then. As a particularly elaborate (and expensive) attempt to cover her lies, it would have been interesting to hear what Michael thought of it all.

Good questions, no doubt we will find out.

[goyse]

Candy Quattro Chapter 30

As Michael, Gloria and Mary landed at Brisbane airport Derek filled Candy for the second time that morning. By the time Michael had collected the hire car, driven to Surfers and booked them into their unit he had filled her for the third time.

“I think that’s enough for now, Derek. I really need a break. I’m becoming sore.”

“Sure, we need to go have lunch anyhow. Let’s have a shower and we’ll go out for the afternoon.” He looked at the time and said, “Michael and the girls will be booking into their unit by now.”

“Yes,” she answered disinterestedly, “if we spend the afternoon down at the beach I will have recovered by the time we get back. Remember you were going to take me to a nightclub last night but we ended up spending the whole night making love.”

“There’s a show on in town tonight so maybe we can go there to make up for it. I can get tickets. With Mary gone perhaps, we should invite Mike to join us.”

“Sounds fair to me but remember he may want his share of me if we invite him.”

“I’m not greedy if it’s what you want.”

“Okay, I’ll call him.”

….

The unit was to the north of Surfers situated on the canals. The area was quiet and had easy access to the channel past the breakwater with a marina to the north of them and a restaurant and a shopping centre around the corner. Although the unit had three bedrooms when Mary went to put her clothes in one of the other bedrooms Gloria asked, “Don’t you want to bed down with Michael and me?”

Mary smiled, turned around and took her bags into the master bedroom and sat them down beside Gloria’s bags. “What’s on the agenda today, Michael,” she asked.

“I thought that we might have a look at the marina and see if there are any boats to hire. If so then we can book one for tomorrow to head up through the channel toward Brisbane. There are heaps of islands and interesting things on the water up there. After that, we might go shopping in case you ladies have withdrawals from your favourite pastime.”

“Funny,” Gloria told him.

“Yes, I love shopping,” Mary told them.

“Right, it looks as if we’re going shopping then,” Gloria told them although she was not overly impressed.

Having booked a boat for a day out on the water, Michael took them into the centre of Surfers Paradise and let the girls loose in the shops. He pulled out a book he had been reading and took a seat away from the crowds. The afternoon went quickly for them. Michael finished his book and then walked around looking in the windows of the shops waiting for the girls to tire of shopping.

Soon after Michael’s phone rang, without looking he answered and asked, “Are you ready to call the shopping quits yet,” assuming it was the girls?

Candy’s laugh came to him clearly then she asked, “Have the girls got you out shopping, honey?”

“I thought it might be a good idea to allow them to do some shopping early on the weekend. How has your day gone?”

“It’s been very good. We went out for lunch and then spent the early part of the afternoon at the beach. Tonight Derek is taking us to a show in town.”

“Us?”

“Yes, Mike is coming with us so there will be three of us.”

“If Mike goes out with you he will expect a little attention when you get home.”

“Yes, Derek and I talked about that and he is okay about the three of us spending the night together.”

“That’ll be a new experience for you, a full night with two men.”

“Yes, I’m looking forward to it.”

“Are you holding up okay?”

“I got a little sore this morning but I’ve recovered alright so I think I’ll be okay tonight. I’ll miss you though. How’s it going with the girls?”

“There is nothing to report, actually,” Michael told her as he adjusted himself, “Tonight the three of us will be in the same bed so that should be okay.”

“You’re trying to make me jealous, aren’t you?”

“I thought you might be too busy to get jealous. Opps, there is a call coming in. I’ll bet it’s the girls calling to be picked up.”

“Okay, I’ll let you go and talk to you tomorrow then.”

“Alright, we are on the water tomorrow but should be home by four.”

“I’ll call you at four thirty and tell you about the show and the rest of it.”

“I’ll be looking forward to it.”

“Okay, enjoy your night.”

“You enjoy your night too, talk tomorrow.”

“Okay, bye, I’m missing you.”

“Okay, bye. I’m missing you too.”

Michael swapped calls. “Hello, girls.”

“Where are you, Michael. We’re at the seat where we left you.”

“I’m just around the corner. I’ll be there in half a minute.”

He walked around to find two women with their arms full of clothes and jewellery. He took some off Gloria and some off Mary to lighten their loads then led them back to the hire car. They spent the remainder of the day touring around the coast before heading back to a restaurant around the corner from the unit as night settled in.

…..

Candy hung up her mobile.

“Who was that,” Derek asked.

“I called Michael to see how his trip to the Gold Coast went.”

“What are they doing with themselves?”

“Michael is waiting for the girls to finish shopping.”

Derek laughed, “So he takes two hot women to the Gold Coast and the best thing he can come up with is to go shopping. Your husband is a really exciting guy, isn’t he? Well, it does explain why you’re here.”

“Don’t ever underestimate Michael. He knows exactly what he is doing.”

Derek chuckled again, “Yea, he really is an exciting person, isn’t he, running around playing shoppies with his latest flame.”

Candy looked up at him with a serious expression on her face. “How many permanent women do you have, Derek?”

“What sort of a question is that?”

“It’s one designed to show you that you should not underestimate Michael.”

“I’m single. I can have any woman I want at any time I want.”

“So that’s the way it is, is it?” she turned and headed towards the door.

“What are you doing? Where are you going?” Derek followed behind her. She stopped with her hand on the door handle and turned back towards him.

“You don’t need me, do you? You can have any woman at any time you choose. I’ll go spend the night with Mike. He appreciates my company and he doesn’t boast about having any woman at any time he suits. With your ability to win women, you don’t need me.”

“Woo, hold on. What have I done that has fired you up?”

“My husband has four women. He has three permanents and is about to win over a fourth unless I’m mistaken. Each one of them loves him and respects him. I’m the only one of the four who has ever had an issue with him in many, many years and that was my doing, not his. Yet you think you can talk about him as if he is some fool.”

“He has given you away. How can you justify that if you think he is so great?”

She smiled up at the big man towering over her. She shook her head as she told him, “Love and sex are two different things. Occasionally the two come together as they have with him and Gloria but for Michael and me that is not the case and so he knows to keep me he must allow me some limited sexual freedom. Why do you think I am so dedicated to him?”

“I see.”

“Do you?”

“Honestly, no, I don’t but I don’t want you to leave so I apologize for what I said wrong. I do like Michael but I may never understand how he can give you away the way he has.”

Again she smiled, “So you gave me away to Mike last night and now you tell me you don’t understand Michael. You really need to rethink that I believe.”

“Well, that was different. You wanted that and you needed that to handle me.”

She burst out laughing, “So it’s okay for you when it serves your purpose but not for Michael when it serves mine, is that what you’re saying?”

“I see your point. Come on honey, let’s go get Mike and head for the show. Dinner will be served shortly and we don’t want to be late for supper do we.”

“No, we don’t do we?” She shook her head, “anything to avoid the issue.”

“I apologized. I made a mistake in not understanding your relationship with your husband. I may never understand it but I will not comment on it again. Isn’t that enough?”

“I guess if that is the best on offer. Come on, let’s get Mike and get going then.”

[goyse]

Candy Quattro Chapter 31

The cool wind ruffled Gloria’s hair as Michael gunned the boat along through the Broadwater past Stradbroke Island. He looked at her and said, “You’ll need a hairdresser's appointment after this.”

“Who cares about my hair? I love it, the warmth of the sun but the coolness of the air. You have surpassed yourself, Michael, with your idea of renting a boat.”

“I’ll second that,” came the voice of Mary who sat inside the cabin looking out through the cabin windows.

“What are you doing locked away inside there,” Michael asked her.

“I can’t swim so I need to be sure I don’t fall overboard,” she replied.

Michael reached down and picked up a water-ski jacket. “Here, Gloria, get her to put this on. It’ll give her some feeling of security and maybe she will come out of the cabin.”

Gloria moved into the cabin and helped Mary put on the life jacket. “Now, come out and join us, Mary,” Gloria told her.

“Thanks,” Mary replied and gave her a quick kiss on the lips.

“Behave yourself, Mary,” Gloria told her.

“You didn’t say that last night.”

“Well, last night was an exception and we don’t talk about exceptions, do we?”

“Whatever you say, sweetheart.”

Michael smiled, “Come on, Mary stop embarrassing Gloria and come out to join us. You’re safe now.”

“Okay, so where are we heading?”

“I’d suggest a cup of coffee on Russel Island and then Lunch at the marina at Manly Boat Harbour then we refuel for a quick run home before the wind strikes up too much. I have a friend at Manly Boat Harbour who will join us for lunch.”

“A friend, what’s his name,” Mary asked as she came out of the cabin?

“Jonny. I have known him since I was a young lad and today he works at the marina. I haven’t seen him since I was a teenager.”

“Obviously you still stay in touch.”

“Yes, we talk from time to time by phone.”

“What’s he like, this Jonny?”

“He’s about your height and…., “Michael hesitated as he looked Mary up and down. “Actually he is a lot like you Mary except he’s a man, not a woman. He usually wears stubby shorts and a tee shirt with a pair of thongs. If he goes somewhere special or with someone special, he will occasionally dress up but otherwise, it’s stubby shorts and a tee.”

“Oh, I think I’m going to like Jonny.”

“Yeah, I guess you’re right and I think he will like you too, Mary.” Michael slowed the boat.” It looks as if we’re at Russel Island. Can you tie us up, Gloria? I’ll pull us up beside the jetty.”

…

Candy enjoyed the show. She also enjoyed the meal so all in all, she knew it would be a memorable night. Mike, unfortunately, had to sit in the back of the car. Candy knew he would feel left out so she made every attempt to involve him as they drove to the show and on the way back home by turning in her seat and striking up a conversation with him. Derek stayed quiet most of the way not wishing to put his foot in it again as he had done by criticizing Michael.

This made Mike feel he was Candy’s preferred company and so it added to his enjoyment of the night. Despite Derek’s caution he always enjoyed a night out on the town with a beautiful woman and this night for him was no different. He insisted on paying for everything and Mike with his limited income as a young married man didn’t object. In fact, he couldn’t afford to.

Despite giving Mike most of her attention in the car Candy walked beside Derek outside the car with Mike on the opposite side of her or tagging along behind when that wasn’t possible. With their bellies filled and a few drinks to cap it off after the show, they headed off back to the unit.

Those couple of drinks that Candy partook of despite her initial caution about the impact it may have if she were to become pregnant had Candy eager to get into the cot with her two suitors. The moment they got out of the car, Candy took control of the proceedings and neither man was willing to stop her.

It all started with her saying, “I must pee. Why don’t you guys get undressed and I'll join you shortly.”

Derek led Mike into the bedroom where he quickly dropped all his clothes to the floor. Mike was a little more cautious taking his boots off first and then setting them aside near the wall. He then removed his shirt that he folded neatly beside the shoes. He then looked across at Derek who was standing there proudly with his huge eleven-inch cock standing out from his body too heavy to stand straight up as is the case for normal-sized men with an erection.

Mike started to undo his belt while Derek smiled across at him. Mike then turned his back to the bigger man and slowly dropped his pants and underpants to the floor wishing that Candy would return to take Derek’s attention away from him. After folding his pants neatly and placing them on the floor on top of his shirt Mike turned slowly back towards Derek while looking at the floor.

“Hhmm,” Derek said, “I guess you had better go first then.”

“Yes, that would be nice,” Mike replied.

“Well, it would be necessary because Candy won’t even know you’re there if you don’t go first.”

There was a long hesitation as Mike tried to come up with an appropriate answer but finally settled on, “I guess.”

“Hey,” Derek called across to him. Mike looked up in response, “There is no guessing. That little stubbie won’t touch her sides after this,” he took his thick long cock and gave it a shake to emphasise his point. There could be no debate and Mike knew it.

“Maybe I should go then and leave her to you.”

“That’s your call, not mine,” came the answer just as Candy entered the room.

Mike slowly made his way across to his clothes intending to get dressed to leave.

Candy looked at Derek and then across at Mike finally looking back to Derek, “What’s his call mean,” she asked, Derek.

“Mike was thinking of leaving, I think,” Derek told her.

“What’s wrong, Mike,” Candy asked.

“I was going to leave. I can’t compete,” he pointed across to Derek, “with that.”

“I don’t know. I thought you did fairly well,” she told him.

Mike smiled at the vote of confidence but still prepared his pants to be put on. “Thanks for standing up for me, Candy but that thing is inhuman. He’s more donkey than man.”

“Yep, I agree but it doesn’t change anything for me. I enjoyed you and you should know that because you made me cum and I suspect you won the sperm race.”

“What do you mean by I won the sperm race?”

“Shortly after you filled me with your sperm I felt a sharp pain right here,” she pointed to where she believed her ovaries would be. “That was the exact moment that I ovulated. I was so filled with your sperm that if I’m right then your little swimmers did the trick. Now I don’t want the potential father of my child to leave me when I want him to make love to me again.”

Mike smiled and set his pants down again after neatly folding them. He looked across at Derek who smiled but said nothing. He walked back towards the bed as Candy undressed dropping her clothes on the floor exactly as Derek had done. She then moved over to put her arms around Mike and said, “Kiss me, daddy.” Mike smiled and was happy to oblige.

As they kissed he turned slightly and then laid her down on her back. He went to move down to lick her pussy but she stopped him. “That is not necessary, Mike not after last night with Derek. His sperm is still leaking out of me.”

“I’d like to look at you, Honey.”

“Don’t call me honey, please Mike. That’s reserved for Michael. Call me sweetheart, lover or bitch if it suits but not that word.” She pushed him down along her body. He bent his legs at the knees to allow him to get down to examine her. With her legs apart for his body to fit in between, she gaped open and he could see inside her to her cervix.

She was very wet. He put first one finger inside her but it didn’t touch anything so he put three inside her and noted that there was little resistance. He withdrew from her and rubbed his fingers together. They were unnaturally slippery telling him that the trip to the bathroom was for more than a pee. She had lubed herself up.

He looked up at her and smiled. She understood that he had woken up to the purpose of her trip to the bathroom and a big smile spread across her beautiful face.

As he moved up along her body he told her, “You’re so beautiful, Candy. I have to fight so hard not to fall in love with you.”

Her smile got wider as she told him, “You have my permission to fall in love with me, Mike but remember before you do that I will always be Michael’s wife no matter how much I enjoy sex with you.”

“I’ll remember. I would never do anything to hurt you no matter what.”

“Good,” she told him as she took hold of his stubby and guided it to her entrance. He went to put his face beside hers but she stopped him and led him to her lips. They kissed and kissed and kissed as they made love.

When she could feel him approaching his orgasm she whispered in his ear, “If I didn’t love Michael so much Mike, I would want to be with you every day. It would be so easy to fall in love with you.”

“Yes,” he told her, “and I could fall in love with you too.”

“Oh God, fill me with your sperm, Mike. Think about our baby growing right now inside my uterus.”

“Oh yes, ooohhhh, yyyyeeesss, ooohhhh, yyyyeeesss, ooohhhh, yyyyeeesss, ooohhhh, yyyyeeesss……,” he cried as she also moaned in her orgasm at the feel of his sperm shooting inside her.

They lay dead still with her holding him tightly against her. Time passed. His breathing gradually returned to normal as he felt the softness of her breasts against his chest. He thought of getting off her but her grip on him was too tight for him to move. He realised that he was breathing into her ear. He felt a shiver run through her body and then she surprised him.

Her hips lifted towards him and then pulled back slightly then she repeated the movement over then over again. It stimulated him and his erection returned so he joined her in her movement.

Then she whispered something in his ear that he will take to his grave as the most exciting and best moment of his life. “Yes, Mike. I could fall in love with you and I understand exactly what you meant.”

He went to speak to tell her the same but as he went to speak she went, “Sssshhh, let's enjoy the moment and the beautiful feelings running through our hearts and through our bodies. Make love to me, Mike, real love. Make it last.”

Derek had watched for almost an hour before he turned. He walked to the kitchen and boiled the jug to make himself a cup of tea. He went to the refrigerator and found some ham and butter. He took it out and then looked around for the bread to make a sandwich.

After pouring a tea and taking a bite out of his sandwich he walked up the hallway to see that Candy and Mike were very slowly making love as they whispered things he could not hear to each other. He watched for a while as they kissed then whispered more to each other. He chuckled and then returned to his tea and his sandwich.

Derek thought of going home but he knew if he did he might not be welcomed back so eventually after checking out the lovers again he went to the spare bedroom. He yanked a blanket off the bed and then settled in to sleep on the lounge room chair.

It was a little after three o’clock, two hours later when he heard Mike yell out, “Oh, Candy I love you.”

The answer came, “Oh, Mike you’re going to make me cum with you again. I love you too.”

Derek pulled the blanket over his head. Closed his eyes and went back to sleep. What else could he do? As he dozed off, he swore that he would never, ever criticise a lesser endowed man again as long as he lived.

It was around five o’clock when he felt someone blowing into his ear. He shook his head, opened his eyes and there was Candy. “I thought that you wanted to make love to me,” she said.

“I thought you were going to spend the night with Mike.”

“Yes. Mike has gone to sleep and I’m still as horny as hell. Pregnant women always get horny and I believe I’ve conceived.”

“Congratulations.”

“Thanks, Derek. But just in case I’m wrong you had better make sure. Are you up for that?”

“Okay, lead the way.” She smiled and led him to the spare room.

[Asterix42]

Thanks Goyse. A couple of hours in a nice rental car would see Michael, Gloria and Mary enjoying themselves in the luxury of Noosa. A couple of hours on a plane would see the three of them in the Whitsundays. Wonder how Candy would take hearing that Michael and the girls are on a tour of luxury resorts in those fantastic places while she’s hanging out with Derek the Neanderthal and insecure Mike?

[goyse]

Candy Quattro Chapter 32

Mary looked across at Michael’s friend Jonny and realised that Michael’s description was exact in every way. He wore stubbie shorts and wore thongs. She looked at his height and he was no more than an inch taller than she was and by her estimates, he would weigh just a little over her weight. Although small for a man his arms were all muscle and his chest had ripples of muscle showing through his tight tee shirt. When he walked his arms were set out away from his body and she imagined that was because of his muscly body and his powerful frame.

As she looked at him he looked back and his eyes met her eyes first off but then they travelled down her body and she could tell by his expression that he liked what he saw.

He stepped away from Michael and looked again into her eyes then thrust his hand out towards her, “I’m Jonny,” he said. “You’re Mary I assume. Michael told me about you on the phone. Your husband is entertaining Michael’s wife, Candy. At least that is what Michael told me.”

“Yes, that’s correct.”

“I’ve been looking forward to meeting you.”

“You have? Why?”

“I need someone to help me with my paperwork here at the marina and I thought that if your husband is busy you might like to spend a couple of days here with me to help me out.”

“Well, that’s the best offer I’ve had for a while.”

“I’d pay you of course for your efforts and I’d make sure you get back on the plane to Sydney when we’re finished with the books.”

“Did you and Michael plan this? Is that why he has bought us up here?” she looked across at Michael who shook his head.

“No, Michael had no idea of what I needed and I actually just made the decision right now to ask you.”

“I see so you haven’t thought it through.”

Jonny snickered as he told her, “That’s me, love. I never think anything through. I never get time for that convenience. This here is a big marina and I’m on the go as much as sixteen hours of every day and the other eight hours I eat and sleep unless something terribly important comes along.”

“So if I did accept where would I stay?”

“You could move into my unit on top of the hill over there and I’d move into the work caravan over there.” He pointed to the top of the hill in the distance.

“Do you only have one bedroom in the unit?”

“No, it’s a three-bedroom unit.”

“Then all you need to do is give me one of the other bedrooms. I’m tempted to take you up on your offer but I have nothing with me, not even any clothes.”

“It’s less than sixty kilometres by road back to the coast from here and I’d run you down to pick up what you need tonight. We’ll stop at the shop up the road there and buy you the clothes you need for the night so that we can have dinner on the Coast. Cav’s Steak House has the best steaks in Australia and possibly the whole world. Every time I go there he gives me special treatment. He’ll love you.”

“Well, how can I refuse that? You say you’ll pay me but I only have one more day before I fly back home.”

“I’d need you for at least a week if you’ll stay and if you do agree I’ll make sure that you get home okay. I’ll pay you three hundred dollars each day in cash. All I need is for you to sort out the books on the business and occasionally I need someone to hold a bolt or a spanner or something similar.”

“I’d need to talk to my husband.”

Jonny handed her his phone. “The call is on me.” He smiled knowing she would do everything in her power to convince her husband to let her stay. Jonny had been around and he knew people. He could tell that she was as attracted to him as he was to her. He could tell that by her body language.

….

Candy lay back in the spare bed. Derek had been up for at least an hour. She felt about as satisfied as she had been for at least half a decade. If only she could feel that way every day. Then she thought about Mike and what had happened to them both last night. It didn’t feel real in the light of day but she knew that last night nothing could have been more realistic. She felt ashamed of the way she got carried away. That was not her. She always maintained control and it worried her a great deal. How could she face Michael after that?

She pulled the blankets over her head and closed her eyes to think about the wonderful feelings that she had experienced. Today those feelings had disappeared but last night they were very real indeed. How could a woman fall so deeply in love so quickly and then recover from it almost instantly? She dozed off feeling as if the shame of it took away her energy from her body. 'Fuck I have to face Michael,' she thought and then she dreamed of him appearing at the airport. ‘What do I say to him? I must look him straight in the eye or he will suspect,’ but in her dream, she couldn’t look him in the eye without crying.

The weight of his body woke her immediately. She felt a hand on her crotch and a finger move down to her slit. She smiled thinking that Derek was back. It took the stress away from her concerns so she pulled the sheet down to her breasts. Her heart jumped as if it was going to leave her chest. It wasn’t Derek. “Oh God,” She mumbled, “I still love him.”

With those feelings came a desire to have him inside her. She couldn’t resist. She rolled over and he fell onto his back smiling up at her. She grabbed the sheet and yanked it out of the way, taking his thick stubby in her hand to drop down on top of it. It penetrated her even though he was not fully erect but that changed within seconds.

“Fuck me,” she said. “Fuck me as you’ve never fucked a woman before.”

He didn’t disappoint and once more their orgasms happened at exactly the same time and once more she felt the deepest most intense feelings of love and desire inside her chest that she had ever felt.

They lay together holding each other tightly. “I’m sorry,” he said.

She looked at him, “Why are you sorry?”

“You’re married, I’m married. I didn’t have the right to tell you how I felt. We could hurt a lot of people.”

“Did you mean what you said, Mike or was it just a spur-of-the-moment getting carried away thing?”

“Yes, I did mean it but it can never become anything. There are too many people who depend on us so I should not have got carried away like that.”

“Mike, don’t be gutless. If you meant it then don’t turn turkey on me now and run away like a gutless freak.”

“It is just that Michael trusted us. Mary trusted me. How can we come to terms with that? They are the ones who allowed us to be together.”

“Mike, just because I feel this enormous attraction to you doesn’t mean that I’m going to hurt anybody and you must realise we can enjoy each other’s company and love without messing up anyone else’s life. I just don’t want to give it up until I have to, that’s all.”

“Okay, no promises, no commitments just enjoy what we feel. Is that okay?”

“Yes, that is more than okay. Now fuck me again.”

Candy closed her eyes as the emotions and feelings coursed through her body. Sex was not new to her. It was an old friend that visited her life in many forms with many different people but this was somehow different. She had come close to this in her early days with Michael but it was never as intense or as long-lasting. It had been short-term. She recognised it with Michael as love and so she wouldn’t let him get away from her. But now she realised it was just the tips of love not the full body of love. This time it was real. This was whole. This was unique but the thing that worried her most about it all is she didn’t understand how it happened or why.

It had devoured her and pulled her in as if it was bait on a fish hook and she was the fish. She didn’t expect it. She didn’t even want it but she had it and it was impossible for her to deny it now. It pulled her closer to him every time there was contact. What was amazing about it was their sex without the emotion was nothing spectacular but when one added the emotion it was inexplicably magnificent but would it last?

She had lost understanding of space and time by the time that her orgasm raced through her body. She heard Mike announcing his orgasm as men often do as hers took her to a different place, a place of intense pleasure dominated by this intense love of the man who was seeding her body. She held him tightly to her body as she felt the warmth of his seed inside her. Nothing had any meaning to her at that moment except to hold him, the man who gave her meaning to her ability to feel this intense love.

She didn’t know how long they lay there holding each other. It didn’t matter anyway to her because he was there and she could hold him. “I love you,” he whispered into her ear.

“Yes, I know and I love you but it is so cruel.”

“No, I don’t feel as if it is cruel. It gives my life meaning that it didn’t have before last night. Why do you say it’s cruel?”

“I have to leave you tomorrow and that’s cruel.”

“Yes, I guess that’s true but isn’t it better to have loved than to never have loved at all.”

“The man who said that had obviously never really loved someone he had to leave.”

“Tennyson”

“Sorry?”

“Alfred Lord Tennyson said something like that in a poem he wrote.”

“He must not have loved her or had to leave her.”

“Him.”

“You say he loved a man but did he have to leave him?”

“He wrote the poem as an elegy to a friend who attended Cambridge with him.”

“I see. It’s not the same, is it?”

“Maybe that’s true.”

“Mike.”

“Yes, Candy, love.”

“Can we spend the day just holding each other?”

“Hhhhmmm.”

“Good.”

“What about Derek?”

“If he comes looking, tell him to fuck off. We’re busy.”

Mike chuckled but nodded his head in agreement. Holding her was a great pleasure to him but having her tell him to tell Derek to fuck off intensified it a good deal more. Revenge is sweet, they say.

[goyse]

Candy Quattro Chapter 33

“Will Mary be okay,” Gloria asked.

“Yes, of course, she will be.”

“Jonny looked so, I don’t know, rough I guess.”

“Yes, Jonny strikes people that way but he is honest as the day is long and very dependable.”

“Did you see the way they looked at each other when they first met?”

“Yes, it was a primal force at work called sexual attraction.”

“So you think he is going to bed her?”

“No, He won’t do it because he knows she is married and he would never make a move on a married woman. She will take control and bed him. That is why she told him not to move into the caravan. You should understand that force at work.”

“Yep, I knew the first moment I met you.”

“What if I had rejected you?”

“I somehow knew you wouldn’t.”

“It’s hard to explain, isn’t it, how it all comes together so rapidly and so easily as if it is preordained.”

“I don’t think so deeply about it. With me, I just enjoy the feelings and if it works I let it all happen. Mary is about to do the same I suggest. What I found amazing was before she met Jonny she was all over the place like a mad woman’s shit but the instant they met they focused on each other as if they were magnets. I feel for Mike though.”

“Mike is a strong character. He will be okay and who is to say if it will impact their relationship? Mary might just have a fling and then go back to Mike as if nothing had happened.”

“I doubt that. That magnetic attraction doesn’t come along very often so one can’t afford to throw it away when it does.”

“Yes, I guess so.”

They sped along through the Broadwater on a dead calm sea. An occasional ripple thumped on the hull of the boat as it gave a little lurch upwards to then settle down again as the mighty Mercury motor roared behind them. Slowly she moved across until their arms touched. He lifted his arm and wrapped it around her pulling her body in against his.

“I love you Michael but I’m frightened. I don’t want to lose you.”

“You won’t lose me. I’ll always be there for you, no matter what.”

“But what about Candy and Jilly and Leslie? How will all that work out?”

“I’m capable of loving more than just one woman and you need never worry about Candy. She is searching for something and I suspect that she may have found it.”

“You mean Derek?”

“Yes, when I talked to her on the phone she sounded somehow different. I can’t explain it but she seemed to just be carrying out a duty in contacting me. There was no emotion to the phone call. I’ve expected this for some time now but I didn’t expect it so soon. I thought it may happen in Phuket.”

“Why Phuket?”

“There is a man there who is renowned for his ability to seduce women and I’m told they are almost powerless to resist him. I know how Candy can draw men in to her and they get trapped like insects in a spider’s web. This was to be the meeting of those irresistible forces.”

She pulled back from him, “You were purposely taking her there knowing she may not come away?”

“Yes.”

“But why would you do that? How can you say that you care for her if you purposely put her in such a position?”

“She has been searching for something for so long and even when she finds it she may walk away from it just so she doesn’t hurt me. That is so wrong! I would rather see her have what she wants and needs to make her life complete.”

“But shouldn’t it be her choice?”

“What am I if I care for someone but try to stop them from having a complete life just for my benefit? Sex with me for Candy is not what it is for you and me. Sex with me for Candy is her duty, not her desire.”

“But even so the decision should be Candy’s and not yours.”

“It will be. All I can do is present the opportunity to her. The rest is up to her.”

“So instead of this Marcus bloke, it looks as if it may be Derek.”

“Yes, it does look that way. I guess, he is single so no one gets hurt in the process so it is what it is, I guess.”

“Will we still go to Phuket?”

“What would you like to do?”

“I’ve been there a few times and I liked it but there are better places to be.”

“Better places, where?”

“Perth for instance, that place is a wonderland lost in the annals of time.”

“Well, maybe if Candy decides she doesn’t want to go to Phuket we can exchange our tickets and fly over to Perth.”

“I’d like that.”

“The girls will be waiting for us when we land to take us home.”

“If we do this couldn’t we keep our return quiet so that you and I can spend our week enjoying the sights and the nightlife of Perth?”

“Yes, we could if that is what you want.”

“Good so if Candy decides to not go to Phuket then we can spend a week together in and around Perth before joining Jilly and Leslie.”

“Okay. I'm all for that.”

[goyse]

Candy Quattro Chapter 34

Michael and Gloria didn’t leave the unit the next day. For the first time, they were alone together. Until that day they always had someone around them so they had ignored their desire to avoid the outside world to stay in bed to make love. But today was different. They had time to make up for and they did exactly that.

As the day passed their orgasms became better and more in tune with each other. For Gloria, this was a new experience for her. She had many lovers in the past but they were all short-term. She had never really become tuned in to any of her previous lovers so this was a new and wonderful country for her. Michael of course had been there before but it had never been better for him with any of his previous lovers.

Around one in the afternoon Michael suggested they get up for breakfast which raised a laugh from Gloria. “We should call Mary to make sure everything is okay for her,” Gloria told him.

“Okay, you call Mary while I make us eggs and bacon with toast.”

Again Gloria chuckled while thinking how different Michael was from other men she had known. No man had ever made breakfast for her before especially in the afternoon. This was as if she was living a totally new life and she liked it.

When Gloria called Mary’s mobile there was no answer the first time. She decided to wait fifteen minutes and try again after she cleaned herself up a little. She was about to get into the shower when her phone rang. It was Mary.

“Hello Mary, how’s it going?”

“It’s absolutely marvellous,” came the reply. “I’m sorry that I missed your call. Jonny and I were busy.”

“You’re at the marina, are you?”

“No, we’re still at the unit.”

“Oh, I thought Jonny said he worked around sixteen hours a day.”

“No, what he actually said was he worked up to sixteen hours a day unless something important came up.”

“Alright, so something important has come up, then.” Mary giggled at that making Gloria realise what may be so important. “You haven’t, have you?”

“Yes, we had a great time at Cav’s Steakhouse and they treated me like royalty so I had to do something to repay Jonny for taking me there.”

“You’re a naughty girl, Mary. What will Mike think?”

“Fuck Mike. He screws every woman who will have him so it’s time I repaid him in spades.”

“He’s your husband, Mary. You shouldn’t be talking about him like that.”

“Yes, he’s my husband but until last night I didn’t realise what I’ve been missing all those years.”

Gloria chuckled, “It was that good was it?”

“It was fucking marvellous. Jonny is such a wonderful man. You know he told jokes to me all night long. He told me about all the things he had done while working in the Northern Territory and in Western Australia in between telling the jokes.”

“That sounds as if you didn’t get time to screw.”

“Oh, yea, we got time to screw all right and he made me cum so hard that my body aches this morning.”

“I’ve got some important news for you, Mary.”

“Oh, what’s that?”

“It’s almost two in the afternoon.”

They both burst out laughing. When the laughter died down Mary said, “I’d better get off the phone. I think Jonny wants to go back to bed again. He’s got another erection and we don’t want to waste it.”

“Half your luck girl, go get him.”

“Yes, my husband demands sex once every ten days. Jonny wants it ten times in a night then another ten each day.” She lowered her voice, “But with my husband, I only want it once every thirty days but with Jonny, I want it thirty times a night. He’s not good….,” she hesitated for a few seconds then told her, “He’s fucking great.”

“I’d better let you get back to work then while it is still hard.”

“Hard, it never goes soft with Jonny.”

“Okay, enjoy and we’ll talk more when I get back to Sydney.”

“Alright, have a good trip and don’t worry about me. Jonny is very good to me.”

….

Candy lay in bed looking at the ceiling wondering how she was going to tell Michael that she was not going to return home with him. She didn’t want to hurt him but she knew that no matter how she went about it there would be some distress for both of them. They had been together for so long even as children that Michael felt more like a brother than a husband. ‘How do you separate from your brother,’ she thought. 'You can’t pretend that someone so close is not part of you.’ She knew in her mind that Michael would always be a part of her and yet she wanted this new and unbelievable love that she was experiencing to grow. She didn’t want to lose it.

Then it came to her. She didn’t have to separate from him. All she needed to do was to let him continue on his trip without her and then keep delaying going home. Sure it was the shirker's way of dealing with it but it could minimise the pain for Michael and she did not want to cause him more suffering than was necessary. If she could just delay long enough eventually he would understand and accept that she was not coming back to him.

But then it struck her! Until now she hadn’t realised that she too would suffer. It may be easier for her but thinking about not having her mainstay in her life made her wonder if she could do this thing. She rolled up in a ball like a baby in its mother’s womb and tears flowed down her cheeks. ‘Why does life have to be so complicated,’ she thought. ‘Why can’t we just love the people we wish to and not get so emotionally tied to them?’

She knew the answer but it still didn’t solve the problem. ‘If only we could be a huge commune where we could make love to whoever we wanted to whenever we wanted to, our life would be so less complicated.’

Her phone rang. She picked it up and looked at it and immediately recognised the number. It was Michael! She wiped her tears away, took a deep breath and pushed the green button.

“Hello, Michael,” she said.

“Hello, honey,” came the reply. “Are you okay?”

Without thinking she felt she had to counter his suspicions. “Oh, yes, I’m fine.”

“That’s good. I was worried about you. You didn’t seem your happy self when we talked last time.”

‘Oh fuck, he knows,’ she thought and in a panic, she asked, “Why did you think that?”

“You just seemed so different, so cold compared to how you usually are when we talk. It took me back to the days when you were with Tod and I could tell there was something bothering you.”

“No, I’m okay.” She realised she had let the perfect opportunity bypass her but she didn’t know how to approach it.

Michael could tell she was taken off guard about something so he continued to probe. “You would tell me if something was bothering you, wouldn’t you? You know that you can speak openly to me about anything, no matter what?”

“Yes.”

“How is it going with Derek?”

“Alright.”

Michael chuckled in his usual way, “It’s just going alright. That doesn’t sound like you. Are you sure that you’re okay?”

“Yes, I’m better than just okay. I’ve had some long nights so I may not sound like myself but other than being tired, I’m okay.”

“Derek is big, isn’t he? I bet you love that feeling of being stretched to the limit.”

“Yes, he is a big boy.”

“How is Mike taking being locked out by Derek?”

“Oh, he’s not being locked out. He’s spending every night with me.” Finally, she realised that she had this opportunity to break the news to her husband so decided to test the ground with a little more information.

“Oh, I thought that Derek with his cocky way would not want Mike hanging around like a bad smell.”

“Honey, I like Mike. He’s important to me. I made sure that he was not locked out.”

“Good for you, Candy. Mike is a nice bloke. He doesn’t deserve to be discarded. I’m so proud of you for protecting him against Derek.”

“Actually,” she said, “It was more Derek who was pushed out.”

“Wow, that must have sorted out the cocky shit. I hope you don’t mind me calling him that but he is as far as I could tell. They all get that way when they have those overgrown penises like donkeys. They think they are the king of the world, in control of the universe.”

Candy laughed. “More like a donkey than a man.” She laughed again then decided to test him out a little more, “Honey, I really like Mike.”

“That’s good. He’s a great bloke. I like him too.”

“No, honey, you’re not understanding what I’m saying to you. I really, really like him as in very, very much.”

Michael was quiet for a time wondering what she was trying to convey to him. She waited to wonder if he would get angry or if he actually understood what she was trying to say. “Sooooo…,” he said. “You mean you really, really like him as in more than just sexually?”

“Yes.”

Again Michael was quiet waiting and hoping she would tell him more but she didn’t. “Are you going to explain to me what that actually means?”

“Do I have to? Can’t you work it out for yourself?”

“No, I can’t tell from this distance what you mean but I’d like you to explain it better for me.”

“I’m falling in love with him.”

“Yes, I know that you get emotionally involved with all your lovers. Is this any different?”

“Yes, Michael. This is the one that you have always feared and dreaded every time. I know that you knew it would happen one day if we kept doing it and finally it has happened. Mike is the one.”

Michael laughed, “My God. I’m so happy for you. You could never understand how happy that makes me to know that finally you have found the man of your dreams. I wish I was there with you. I’d take you and put you in my bed and make violent love to you. I’ve got the hardest erection that you have ever given me hearing what you just told me.”

“Michael are you crazy? I have just told you I have fallen in love with Mike and all you can think about is how hard your fucking cock is.”

“Well, what do you want me to say? I love you and I always have and I always will but I want you to be happy. I want you to have what I can’t give you even if it means that I lose you in the end. Mike is a perfect choice. He and his wife care about each other but obviously, it doesn’t work for them so if you were to elope with Mike she might even be happy about it. Makayla of course would be torn apart by it but she understands that she doesn’t own him as a wife might. I wish I was there with you to hug you and tell you how proud of you I am.”

Candy was quiet. Michael waited for her to speak but she said nothing. Eventually, Michael asked, “Are you still there, honey?”

“Yes, I’m still here but I’m dumbfounded. I thought you would break down and become distressed.”

“Of course, I will be if you leave me but I have known for a long time that one day you would meet someone and fall in love with him. Our relationship is different from what most people have. You allow me the pleasure of falling in love and never once have you stopped the women that I love from moving in with us so I will welcome Mike with open arms.”

“Oh, I see.”

“Explain what I see means. You do expect him to move in with us, don’t you?”

“No, I don’t think Mike has that in mind at all. We haven’t discussed anything but I think he needs to keep his job here because it’s an important part of his life.”

“So this is a dear John letter equivalent then?”

“No, please Michael, don’t take that approach. I don’t know exactly what it means for you or for me or for Mike. We don’t even know if anything will change at all. Other than discussing how we feel nothing else has been discussed. I needed to prepare you for how I feel, that’s all.”

“Okay, well, I now know and you know that I’m happy for you and you know that you can talk to me about it when you need to. You don’t need to hide anything from me.”

“Yes, thanks for listening and being so reasonable about it. You do know that I still love you, don’t you?”

“Yes, and you know that I will always love you too no matter what you decide in the end. I’ll see you tomorrow when our plane lands. You will pick us up, won’t you?”

“Of course, I’ll pick you up. I love you too and all the more for not getting angry with me.”

“Okay. You have a good night.” He pushed the red button then sat down with his head bowed and his eyes closed to hold back his tears.

[goyse]

Candy Quattro Chapter 35

“Oh, Michael, you must be so distraught.”

“No, I’m not distraught but I do feel sad on one hand but at the same time, I’m so happy that she has finally found someone who she loves more than me. I told you that one day it would happen so I knew that eventually, I would need to deal with it.”

“You’re so strong. If it was me in your position I’d be crying and falling to pieces.”

“I shed a tear but I don’t want to destroy it for her. I want her to make the most of it but at the same time I would like to continue to be part of her life if she will let me even if that means we only remain friends.”

“That decision may not be up to her. If Mike is like many men he would put pressure on her to break away from you.”

“Yes, I know. That is why I have to play my cards right. She needs to know that I will not put her future at risk. If I do it right even if he does put pressure on her she will resist him.”

Gloria looked at him with her head leaning to the side. “So your cool approach to all this is all about trying to keep her as your wife?”

“God no! My cool approach as you call it is about not putting her under undue pressure. She has the right to make a life for herself. I don’t own her. I’m only her husband, the man who has loved her through thick and thin. That doesn’t give me the right to control her or control her life.”

“Don’t you think it would be difficult for her to form another relationship if you’re there looking over what she is doing?”

“I wouldn’t be, would I? I will be thousands of kilometres away with you and Jill and maybe even with Leslie although I believe Leslie will move on soon. She will recover from her marriage break up before long and go find herself a life somewhere else, with someone else.”

“What about Mary? Won’t she be traumatised if she loses Mike?”

“I don’t believe so. From what you have told me, I think she is already plotting to stay in Manly with Jonny. He’s a great guy so if she does, not only will he look after her but it will give her meaningful work. Jonny is a great tradesman but is totally useless at organizing an office. Mary has organizing skills in that area so it is obvious that she may wish to stay where she is.”

“So in your mind, everybody lives happily ever after?”

“Most people can get along okay. If two people both put the effort in they can be happy. People can even be satisfied with each other but perfection is not only hard to achieve but almost impossible. That is something that takes hard work and not everybody is willing or able to work hard at it all the time.”

“I guess that is probably correct.”

“Well, are you ready?”

“Ready? What do you mean?”

He took her by the hand and led her to the bedroom. With a big smile on his face, he told her, “It’s time for us to work hard at it to achieve perfection.”

“Yes, I should have guessed. We achieved perfection last night so why not tonight!” with that she wrapped her arms around him, kissed him then pulled him down onto the bed on top of her.

….

“Jonny, you know that I’m married, don’t you?”

“Yes, I suspected as much. Michael mentioned something about your husband being with his wife but I didn’t know if you were separated or not.”

“Yes, my husband is with Michael’s wife, Candy but they are heading to Phuket in a couple of days and then my husband, Mike may want me to go back to Sydney.”

“I thought that you talked to him about that. Didn’t he say he was okay about you working with me for the week?”

“Yes, but I’m not sure that he was listening because Candy was there with him so I was just getting yes or no answers out of him.”

“So what happens if he insists that you go home?”

“I’d like to stay here with you. Last night and today have been very special for me.”

“They were very special to me too. I’d want you to stay. In fact, I may not want you to leave at the end of the week if it continues to be as great.”

“Okay, well tonight I want to have a bit longer conversation with Mike, my husband. I need to tell him that you and I are getting it on together.”

“Is that necessary?”

“Yes, it is. He doesn’t hide things from me so I should be honest with him. When I talk to him I want you there with me. Is that okay?”

“Yes, if that is what you want. I’ll be there.”

“Good.”

[Chrislydi]

Wow Goyse,
I wake up and there's not just one but two chapters from the master. I'll be reading them both later today but wanted to post a quick thank you for such a bountiful harvest ..

Now I need to get making that pot of tea as I promised.

Chris.

[Asterix42]

OMG you've been busy Goyse. Saying thank you seems totally inadequate!

PS: Great to see that Aussie fashion statement "Stubbies" making and appearance!

[goyse]

Candy Quattro Chapter 36

Mary reached for her mobile but before she picked it up it rang. She looked at it and told Jonny that it was Mike, her husband then she pushed the Green button. “Hello, Mike," she said.

“Hello, Mary.” Mary realised immediately that something was wrong because he always called her sweetheart.

Suspecting that someone may have told him that she and Jonny were getting it on she asked, “What’s wrong, Mike?”

“What makes you think something is wrong?”

“You called me Mary.”

“Yes, I did, didn’t I? Well, Candy is here with me and things have got a little complicated for us.”

“Complicated, what do you mean by complicated?”

“I don’t know how to tell you, Mary.”

“Well the best way of telling someone you have always told me is simply to tell it as it is. Take your own advice, Mike and spit it out.”

“Candy and I have decided that we want to spend more time together.”

“Okay, how much more time together?” Mary looked over at Jonny and grinned. Jonny smiled back and gave her the thumbs up.

“We want to start by letting Michael and Gloria go to Phuket together and Candy will stay here with me.”

“Okay, well that tells me very little. Are we talking days here or weeks, months or years? You’re not giving me much to go on, Mike.”

“I don’t want to hurt you. It could be a long time but we don’t intend to cut you out, Mary.” He repeated again, “No one wants to hurt you. It is just working well for us both and we want to give it as long as it takes to work out our future.”

“What about Michael?”

“Candy talked to him and he is okay with it and has wished us well.”

“Okay, well I have a job up here in Brisbane so I may as well stay here until you and Candy get your shit together, don’t you think that makes sense?”

“Are you angry with me, Mary?”

“Well, let me ask you, Mike would you be angry with me if I told you that I have a new lover and I may not want to come home to you.”

“I guess that I probably would have been before yesterday but today I would wish you luck and be happy for you.”

“Well?”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean you said that if I found a new lover and I may not be coming home to you, you would wish me good luck and be happy for me, so.”

“I don’t understand.”

“Well, I’m about to hang up on you so you spend some time thinking about it and one day you might just happen to wake up to what I’m saying.”

“You’re angry with me.”

“No, I’m not angry, not the least little bit. I just think you probably just did me a favour. Now think about that. Once you and Candy work out what you really want then give me a call and we will work out how we sell the house to split up the assets.”

“You’re angry. Is that really necessary?”

“Oh, one more thing, Mike, Thank Candy for me, will you? I appreciate what she has done for me.”

“Will you be okay, Mary? I’m worried about you.”

“Yes, I’ll be fine. But remember that you weren’t worried about me while you and Candy were making plans, were you? So don’t forget to thank Candy for me.”

“She is listening to us.”

“Hello Candy. Is Michael okay?”

Candy took the phone off Mike. “Yes, Michael said he is happy for us. I talked to him earlier in the day. He’s going to be alright. Just hold on a moment, please I want Mike to leave us so we can talk in private.” Mary heard some talk in the background and then a door shut. A Moment later Candy told her, “Mike has gone out to the kitchen. I need to tell you Mary that we didn’t plan for this to happen. It just happened. If it causes you too much distress I will go back to Perth after Michael comes back from Phuket.”

“Weren’t you going to Phuket with him?”

“No, I explained what has happened with Mike and me so he is going with Gloria. I’m sorry about all this, Mary. It just got so out of control emotionally. I didn’t want to take Mike off you but I can’t deny my feelings for him. Give us some more time together and then you and I can sit down and try to work something out.”

“No, you and Mike do your thing. I have a job here up near Brisbane and I think I may not want to go back to Mike. Let’s leave it a few weeks and then you and I can talk it through then. Is that alright?”

Candy giggled, “You’ve met somebody, haven’t you?”

“What makes you think that?”

“You’re taking this too well.”

“Let me put it this way Candy, if I have met someone I would be a fool to admit it to Mike’s new woman, wouldn’t I?”

“I would never tell on a woman that I consider a friend.”

“Thanks for saying that, Candy but you should know that friends do not steal a woman’s husband.”

“I deserved that and yes you’re right so you just told me that your new boyfriend is not a friend of Mike’s.”

Mary laughed. She realised that Candy was no fool. “Anyhow, I meant it when I said for Mike to thank you for me. Thanks, Candy for solving a problem for me. I hope it works better for you than it did for me. I need sex more often than once every ten days.”

“So you think I should hold on to Michael then, do you?”

“If it works out for you as well as it did for me you should hold onto Michael and Derek. I really don’t think you’re a once-a-week woman. If I’m right you’re more a seven times a night lady not a once every seven days one.”

“I guess I should not burn my bridges then. Maybe you should do the same thing.”

Mary looked across at Jonny. “I don’t really think I’m going to have a drought up this way. What do you think Jonny?”

“Tell the lady it rains a lot up in sunny Queensland.”

Candy laughed then told her, “Tell Jonny I hope it pours for you. It’s been good talking to you, Mary and I hope the rain continues. I like you a damn lot and I’m sorry about what has happened. I didn’t want it to happen this way for any of us. Oh, one more thing. I won’t talk about the Queensland weather with Mike. That is just between you and me.”

“Don’t stress. I’ll be okay. I’m being looked after very well. Thanks for talking to me.”

“Yes, we should talk more often.”

“Yes, we should. Bye for now.”

“Bye.”

Candy shut down her phone and then closed her eyes as she bowed her head. She felt a terrible sense of relief knowing that all appeared to be well with Mary. It was the one thing that she was very concerned about and she had sensed that she may need to walk away if Mary suffered too much but now if Mary was not disguising her pain and suffering all would be well. After sitting prone for several minutes she felt all of the built-up stress leaving her body. She stood and then went out to the kitchen to start her new life with her newly found love.

She felt as if she was a new woman. The desires that she had felt for many, many years that she needed more love than Michael could provide to her had suddenly disappeared. It was as if she had been reborn a different person.

She walked up to her newfound lover put her arms around him and said, “I love you so much, more than I have ever loved anyone ever.”

“I love you too, Candy but I’m worried about all the pain and suffering that we may be causing Mary and Michael.”

She looked at him and told him, “Michael knew that one day this would happen and he still encouraged me so we never have to worry about him. He has Gloria and Jilly to look after him and they will. I have talked it through with Mary and she indicated to me that she would be okay and we could not wish for anything better than that. It’s me and you now Mike. Everyone else is going to be okay. Are we going to be okay too?"

He smiled at her. They kissed then he told her, “You’re an incredible woman, Candy.”

“Thank you but I’m just an ordinary woman madly in love with an incredible man that I’ve finally found after many years of frantic searching.”

Mike picked her up and carried her back to his bed. He knew that life for him would be much better now he had Candy by his side and she knew that from that moment onwards he would be the only man in her life.

The End.