The Prodigal
Twenty-five
THE LIMO WE RENTED for the night was the closest thing to a city bus there was in shiny black. The twenty-two of us fit with no problem. When we pulled up to the curb, it felt like a Hollywood opening. People gathered just to see how many people would get out of the massive limo. It was an oversized clown car. The party seemed to double when we all walked into the gallery.
Some students leave for the summer without attending the gala. After all, school is officially out for the summer at five o’clock. But a surprising number stay through the weekend so they can attend the parties. Ours was going to be a huge party after the gala. The twenty-two in the limo were just the beginning.
Lissa and Melody on one side and Kate and Wendy on the other flanked me as we entered. I was in my leathers and boots, which I hadn’t worn since my New York opening.
We started with the fashion show. Lissa helped Melody backstage as she dressed her runway model in a new sportswear line for spring. Lissa had been negotiating seriously with Raquethon, but the company only wanted our racquetball line. As we moved toward Nationals, it appeared that line would now debut as Ice Queen Racquet Wear by Raquethon. But Melody’s new line was far more mainstream than the racquetball line. Not that the fabrics were different, but that the fashions themselves were less sport-specific. Melody said it was an ‘active-wear’ line and included a return to her original sundresses. As soon as the gala was over, Amy would activate the new page on our website and sales would begin. There were a limited number of items available for the summer and a limited quantity of each.
“Miss Anderson. Miss Grant,” a woman called when she saw them emerge from backstage. “Congratulations on a stunning premier. Will your new line be available in any local stores?”
“Arliss, how nice to see you,” Lissa said. “Have you met Melody?”
“It’s my pleasure,” Melody said. “I’ve been reading your column ever since I moved to Seattle.” Oh! A fashion reviewer!
“So nice to meet you. I can’t wait to get my own sundress for this summer,” Arliss said. “So, any local stores?”
“No, not yet,” Melody answered. “We have limited quantities for this summer, so we don’t have enough to spread around to stores. It will be available online at midnight tonight.”
“We hope you’ll consider a store for your fall collection,” said another woman beside Arliss. “Preferably ours.”
“Melody, Lissa,” Arliss began, “this is Leah Shultz from Nordstrom. Please tell me I’m getting a scoop and you’ll be releasing your fall line through Nordstrom.”
“It’s nice to meet you, Miss Shultz,” Melody said, shaking the woman’s hand.
“My pleasure,” Leah said. “Lissa, it’s so good to see you again. I wondered where you’d disappeared to.”
“Thanks, Leah. Forever Lily and I parted ways and I’ve been working with Melody and Tony on the new line. We should set a time to talk about the fall line and what Melody has planned. Would it be too late if we waited until the end of the month? We have racquetball Nationals and the summer line that are consuming all our energy right now.”
“The sooner the better,” Leah said, “but the end of the month will do.” She handed Lissa and Melody each a card then turned a questioning look toward me before tentatively holding out another card.
“Thank you,” I said. “I’m a silent partner on this, so it’s best to just work with Melody and Lissa.” She retracted the offered card.
“Well, please call to set an appointment as soon as possible,” Leah said, returning her attention to Lissa and Melody. Afraid you’ll have to wait a month for that scoop, Arliss.” We headed toward refreshments.
“Slimy dick,” I heard over my left shoulder. I turned to see a snarling Allison.
“What did I do?” I asked.
“Not you. Him!” she growled pointing to the other side of the gallery. “I went with Kate and Wendy and everyone to see the pictures while you had your little meeting. There’s a dude there pouring the attention on Kate. Saying her paintings are much superior to yours and she shouldn’t be living in your shadow.”
“Where are they?” We looked, but there was no sign of Kate and Wendy or the mystery man.
“Hey! What building is this going to be painted on?” Eric asked, pointing at Bacchanalia.
“Don’t you know?” whispered the tall elegant woman on Eric’s arm. I grinned. Kevin makes up as one of the most beautiful women ever. “Tony has to paint a museum piece every year. With that big painting hanging at SAM, this one must be destined for the Metropolitan.”
“Thanks, Kevin. I’m thinking you should be the centerpiece of my next museum piece. You look beautiful.”
“Thank you, Tony. You know I’ve always wanted to get naked for you.” We laughed but I think Eric was just a little bit jealous as he pulled Kevin closer to him.
“Don’t worry, Eric. Any pose I put Kevin in, you’ll be in, too.”
“It took me a long time to find a girlfriend with the right equipment,” Eric said. “Sorry if I get a little possessive.” The two kissed and we moved on.
We continued to explore the exhibit. I kept getting stopped by people every time I tried to locate Kate. Jack arrived, and after strolling through the gala, took the boys home. Clarice stopped to talk a few minutes as did Bob Bowers. I was constantly surrounded by people. Wendy slipped under my arm and buried her face against my side. I turned to her to find she was crying silently. I quickly excused myself from the people around me and led my Tiger out into a hall.
“What is it, Tiger?” I asked. “I thought you were with Kate?”
“She… sent me away,” Wendy said.
“What do you mean? Where is she?” There was only one ‘she’ that could be referred to.
“With that awful man from New York. She said, ‘Tiger, go to your master.’” Wendy looked up at me with something approaching dread in her eyes. “Tony. She ordered me to leave. Kate never does that.”
“Where are they?” I asked. I was getting mad. No one had the right to give my Tiger orders—even her lover. I was shocked at my reaction. My Tiger. Mine to command. No one else’s. Shit!
“They’re in the auditorium. We watched the dance recital and they stayed there to talk. I don’t like him.”
“We need to go pay a visit.” I took Wendy by the hand and we headed toward the auditorium. Bree separated herself from my other side and disappeared into the gallery. Shortly, I could feel the presence of the rest of my crew emerge to follow.
We walked in the left door of the auditorium and quickly spotted Kate talking to a guy near the back. I recognized Neil Stedman, the New York agent that tried to recruit us last spring. I turned down the row of seats toward them and heard him say, “Ah. Here come your babysitters. Consider what I’m saying, Katarina. I’ll talk to you soon.”
“Don’t call me. I’ll call you,” Kate responded. He stood up and was moving down the row away from us before I reached Kate. When he got to the end of the row, he had to pass between Lissa and Melody, then Bree, Whitney, and Allison in order to get out of the auditorium.
“What’s going on, Kate?” I asked a little harshly.
“I knew you’d come. Thank you,” she said as she hugged me.
“You ordered Wendy away.”
“I know. I’m so sorry, sweetheart,” Kate said to Wendy. She opened her arms to our lover and Wendy stepped warily into them. “I don’t ever want to order you around. It was the only way I could think of that you would get Tony and bring him. Please forgive me.”
The two girls held each other as Melody and Lissa reached them from the other side.
“What’s going on?” Melody demanded. “What did that… what did you call him, Allison?”
“Slimy dick.”
“What did that slimy dick want?”
“He wants me to go to New York and then on tour,” Kate said. “I was just being polite. He caught us when we were in the gallery. When he started talking business, I told him we were going in to see the dance recital. I figured he’d leave us alone, but he followed us right into the auditorium. He kept whispering to me during the recital and when I started to get up to leave, he grabbed hold of my hand and held me in place. I didn’t know what to do, so I ordered Wendy to leave and go find Tony. I’m so sorry, honey.” Kate squeezed Wendy closer to her.
“Why did you send Wendy away?” Lissa said. “She’s your best defense.”
“She was also the only one who could get reinforcements. I thought she’d be so shocked she’d get Tony and you’d rescue me. I didn’t mean to hurt you, Wendy. Please forgive me.” Wendy nodded and held herself closer to Kate but one hand stayed firmly in mine.
“Maybe you want to go wash your hands,” Whitney drawled. “I certainly would if he held mine.”
“You’re right,” Kate said. “But would a couple of you stay with me? I wouldn’t put it past him to be hiding in the women’s restroom.”
We laughed a little and the tension broke. Kate headed to the restroom with Melody and Lissa. Wendy stayed firmly attached to me. It was about half an hour later that we gathered everyone together and headed for the limo to take us home for the after-party. When we left, more people than our crew headed for the door. A lot more people.
“Um… How many people did we invite over tonight?” I asked.
“Oh, uh, quite a few,” Melody said. “You did say we had plenty of food and punch, didn’t you, Lissa?”
“I knew you wouldn’t be able to resist,” Lissa laughed. “So as long as it’s under fifty we should be fine.”
We piled into the limo and Kate squirmed into my lap, hanging on to Wendy.
“I love you, I love you, I love you,” she said, kissing first one and then the other of us. “Don’t ever let me go. Please don’t let me go.”
There weren’t quite fifty of us at the party, but nearly double the number that rode in the limo. Kate and Wendy stayed plastered to my side all evening—or early morning—with occasional breaks to hug and kiss Melody and Lissa. There was a hint of urgency—maybe desperation, now that I think about it—in Kate’s kisses. She acted like she’d just had a narrow escape and couldn’t get enough of the people she loved.
There was a clinking of a spoon on a glass and we all quieted down to look at Thor and Sonia. Thor cleared his throat.
“We have an announcement. Sonia and I are going to be married in August. I’ve got a teaching position in Bakersfield, which is close enough to LA that we can go see Sonia’s family without living next door. I know most of you won’t be able to make it to the wedding, but we want you to know that you are important to us and we’d like to have you attend. We say goodbye to SCU in June and will be here for a while before we head south. We’ll have a big party before we leave.”
Everyone applauded as Thor kissed Sonia soundly. I looked over at Amy. Her lip was quivering, but she was standing straight. Right at that moment, I could see her in her roller derby pads and skates bearing down on Thor to do a full-body check. She turned abruptly and went upstairs for refreshments. I pressed Kate and Wendy into Melody and Lissa’s arms and ran upstairs to find her.
“AMES? ARE YOU OKAY?”
I finally found her on the deck. We’d had a couple of heart-to-heart talks out here. I hoped that was where she’d be.
“I knew you’d come, Ames,” she said.
“Please tell me they didn’t just spring that on you without you knowing,” I said, wrapping my arms around her. She hugged me.
“I knew. I just didn’t want to hear it. They’re leaving me, Ames.”
“You’re breaking up?” She nodded and shook her head.
“I don’t know. They said I could come with them.”
“Drop out of school?”
“Yeah. But that’s not all. They said I could come with them if I was with both of them. I don’t know if I can do it, Tony.”
“Amy, you have to follow your heart, but you have to follow your body, too. I know you love Sonia and that you love Thor, but not that way. It’s not fair of them to make you choose.”
“Will you help me, Tony? Help me with… my first time? I’m so scared.” She looked up at me with tears running down her cheeks. I reached in my pocket for a clean handkerchief and dried her eyes.
“I don’t know what to tell you, Amy. I feel guilty even thinking about you that way. I know who you really are.”
“But I trust you.”
“If you truly want that, I can’t do anything else but help. But be sure, Amy. I don’t ever want to see you hurt, and I sure don’t want to be the one who hurts you.” Her eyes held mine and she nodded slightly.
“Before… Before the wedding.”
She pushed me back into the house and went to freshen up in the guest bath. I headed back for the party and met Sonia on the stairs.
“Were you comforting my little toy?” she asked with a smirk.
“Amy isn’t a toy, Sonia. She loves you.”
“Of course. And I love her. We play together. So, we’re both toys.”
“Okay,” I said. “She’s freshening up. Your little announcement shook her up.”
“You know,” Sonia said, moving closer to me until she pressed me into the wall, “we still haven’t completed the circuit. I liked the way you taste, but I want to take you the rest of the way around the world.”
“Shit, Sonia! You just announced your wedding. Don’t you think Thor would object to you trying to make it with someone else?”
“He and Amy might want to watch. He’s become a lot more broadminded the past year.”
“Yeah. I’ll bet.”
Downstairs, Thor was being assailed by well-wishers and people with lots of suggestions for a happy married life. I wasn’t sure I had any, but I joined my four queens as we listened and laughed.
“Do you snore?” Sandra asked.
“No! Hardly ever,” Thor laughed. “At least no louder than Sonia does. How about Walt? Does he snore?”
“Walt sleeps like a baby,” Sandra said, giggling and hugging Walt to her. “He wakes up every two hours to suck on my tits.”
Kate had been antsy all evening. She practically dragged us into the bedroom when the last guest left and was pulling at our clothes, running from one to the other of us to kiss us and say “I love you.” Lissa was the first one undressed and Kate was all over her. Wendy, Melody, and I pulled the covers back and got in next to them careful not to interrupt their loving. We became so involved that I hardly noticed when Melody rolled off of me and Lissa rolled up against me.
“Oh my,” Lissa whispered. “When that girl puts her mind to something, there is no stopping her. Don’t… don’t touch me there. I’m way too sensitive right now. Wait. Just a little.”
Wendy took the opportunity to mount me and gently ride. She had such a blissful look on her face. She pressed down on me as far as she could go then stretched out to lie on top of me from chin to toe.
“Thank you, Tony.”
“For what, Tiger?”
“Everything. Thank you for being my… mine. For making me yours.” She turned her head and kissed Lissa. I could feel her pussy muscles rippling along my cock. It was so intimate and close. “Thank you for letting me be part of us—my little quirks and all.”
“Wendy, we wanted you to be a part of us from the first time we saw you flirting with our man at the restaurant,” Lissa said. “We’re so glad you are with us.”
Moments later, Melody was with us and Kate was pulling at Wendy. She’d no sooner disengaged than Melody was on top of me making little gaspy-panting noises as she pressed down onto my erection. She was barely seated when she shook in an orgasm.
“Oh, she kept this nice and warm and ready,” Melody whispered.
“How could you stand it so soon after?” Lissa asked.
“Gently. Really gently. What got into her tonight?”
“I think she might have been a little scared with that Stedman guy,” I whispered. “She’s acting so desperate to be with each of us.”
“Well I’m just keeping you warm for now. You’re going to need everything you’ve got. She’s intent on giving us all as many orgasms as she can, but I don’t think she’s had one yet. Get ready.”
“It’s hard to think of anyone else when your pussy is pulsing around my cock, Melody. Be with me. Be with us and make love.”
We did make love, first Melody and then Lissa as Wendy squealed beneath Kate’s onslaught. Neither of them had another orgasm, nor did I. We just joined with each other in long gentle loving. So nice. Lissa caught Wendy as she rolled toward us and Kate ran for the bathroom.
“Is she okay?” I asked.
“Had to pee,” Wendy said. “Come over here and get ready. You’re next for the mighty Kate fucking machine. And may God be with you.”
I disengaged from Melody and Lissa and let Wendy have my place with my two lovers. They cuddled together in a little ball softly kissing and caressing each other. When Kate came back from the bathroom, she rushed straight to me. I’d wilted a little as I was waiting and Kate sucked me into her mouth returning me to full attention.
“Mmm. All the best flavors in the world on one big lollipop,” she said as she crawled up to kiss me and straddle my renewed glory. “Ohh. I needed that. I love you, Tony.”
“I love you, sweetheart. You can relax and enjoy things now. I think you’ve licked everyone into submission.”
“Are you submitting to me, lover?” she asked. “I love you. You’re my only man, Tony.”
“Make love to me, Kate. Not frantically, but like you mean it and enjoy it. Be yourself, Kate.”
We locked eyes as Kate rocked back and forth on me. With as long as I’d been hard and stimulated, it wasn’t going to take long in this position. I flexed my butt and we both felt my cock expand inside her. I could see the signs of her approaching orgasm. She was flushed. Her breath came in little gasps. She bit her lower lip and I could see her eyes filling with tears. The climax was almost silent but I felt her grip me as the floodgates opened and her tears began to fall in earnest. It was too much for me and my own orgasm ripped through me, bringing tears to my eyes as well. She was sobbing when she collapsed on me and hugged me to her.
“Hold me. Hold me, Tony,” she cried. Melody, Lissa, and Wendy cuddled up next to us and wrapped their arms around the two of us. “Hold me,” she whispered again. “Hold me and don’t ever let me go.”
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