Destinbury

"Thank you, but I think I'll stick with Owen for now."

"Ah, so I do have a chance with you another time."

"Only if you survive Kathy."

They had just gathered in the den when Molly arrived, and Char talked to her for a minute before they joined the others and Molly sat next to Owen, and handed him a file saying, "This is about the party. We can go over it later or tomorrow night."

"Poor Owen," Dan said, "You're working so hard and you have to suffer through dealing with the likes of sexy Char and priceless Molly. How do you do it?"

"Dedication is the key Danny," and he slipped his hand behind Molly's back.

"Molly, you just said party, so does this mean you have a booking?"

"Owen has changed his mind, so yes, we have a party booked, but this will be quiet compared to any of our others."

"So no more naked wait staff?"

"Not this time, but Kathy and Alana, you can appreciate this. It's for a lady's birthday, so there will be a staff of hunky waiters for the women to tease."

"Now that sounds very interesting," Kathy said quickly.

Char saw to their drinks and then went to her room, and the six friends talked, sipped and laughed, and Owen enjoyed every second of the evening. He didn't think about it, and in fact wasn't even aware how much things had changed for him, but he was ready to take on the world again and without Nila jumping into his thoughts.

The chatting group lasted until ten when Molly and Owen walked the others to the door, where first Perry and then Dan surprised Molly with firm tongue sharing kisses before the smiled at her, kissed her cheek, and Dan told her, "I hope you and Owen have years together as partners."

"Thank you, I do too."

Owen slowly closed the door, and holding Molly close to him he told her, "Just for the record, I hope you and I have a long and wonderful life together."

She smiled and kissed him before she said, "That almost sounded like a proposal was coming."

"Okay, let's see. I propose that you and I..."

"No I'm not sleeping in your bed tonight."

"I do like what you came up with, but I was going to say I propose we go talk about the party and enjoy a little time together before you run away."

"Oh. Well you usually come up with something much more dangerous than that."

"Something more like this," and he surprised her with a deeper and more dangerous kiss than she expected from him, but she surprised herself when she responded to his sweet advances as much as she did. "Oh honey," Owen finally said as they looked into each other's eyes.

"Shh, don't say anything okay? We just better go talk business or about the weather or whatever," but as they walked back toward the den she kept her arm around his waist and leaned into him until they reached the sofa.

Chapter Two Hundred Thirty Seven

"Owen, I need to talk to you about something," Char said as she poured his coffee Friday morning. Leaning against the counter she asked him, "What if I was to meet a guy?"

"Well first of all," he said putting his cup down, "I'd have to approve of him," and she watched him smile as he stepped in front of her and rested his hands on her hips. "But okay, where are we going with this."

"Well I really don't have a home to take him to for example."

"You sure as hell do, right here, and if you mean for privacy, you have the whole second floor and the third floor unfinished area. Of course you'd have to share the next time my family comes up. Now be honest with me, do you have a guy in mind?"

"Not really, but I have met a couple, and of course that's what started this. Are you sure that if some guy comes to see me we can...I mean he can just come upstairs?"

"Of course, but try to keep the lovemaking sounds down so I don't get jealous. Oh, and he has to accept the idea of you and I being naked together a lot."

She kissed him and said, "I promise that will be fully understood before things could get too serious. I'm not giving up my wonderful lifestyle."

"Seriously Char, think of this as your home, and come summer, take your stud out to the pool and swim naked, screw in the shade, whatever you might do if you lived alone here."

"You do know of course that I love you."

"You tell me everyday when you look at me and do things for me, and that stud, whoever the lucky guy might be, has to understand that I love you very much."

"I know, but I hope you remind me of that every so often, and even in front of the yet unnamed stud."

"I'll be sure to do that just to help you keep him in line and never take you for granted."

As busy as Owen was through the day, and as he drove home just after six, Char came to his thoughts a couple of times and he had to smile each time. As he went in, Char met him and handed him the phone telling him it was his dad.

"Hi, what's up?" Owen asked as Char relieved him of his tie. Then with her eyes dancing, she continued to slowly undress him as he listened.

"Owen, Linda said you were trying to get down to see us. Do you have something in mind? We're eager to see you of course, but also I just want to be sure we have the family together when you get here."

Would this weekend work for you Dad or is that too soon?"

"It sure would work."

"Let's plan on me being there by about noon Saturday."

"See you then."

Owen went to find Char, and met her between the kitchen and the dining room. "I was coming to give you a message," she told him, and he smiled as he said, "I was coming to give you one, so you first."

"Molly called to say she was stopping by in a few minutes with a couple of party changes and a question. What's my message?"

"That I'll probably be in Carmel for the weekend so you can have men in and have your way with them."

"Oh no, if I had a man here he'd have to have his way with me."

"Oh baby, you better warn him that you can be pretty dangerous."

"You're supposed to say something about him finding me irresistible or sexy."

"Honey, if he's met you and he isn't blind and deaf, he already knows those details."

"Thank you," and as Molly walked in, Char put her hand between his legs and teased him for a second, and then he watched her swaying her hips as she headed toward the stairs.

"Owen, only in this house would I ever see something like that and not be shocked senseless."

"Oh hi," he said turning around. "I think Char is feeling pretty lively today. Let's go to the office and you can share your news with me."

"Could I talk you into slipping your slacks on? This will only take a minute, but I was coming down your street so I decided to deliver the details to you in person."

Obliging her by pulling his pants on he told her, "You look fantastic by the way."

"Thank you, I'm coming back from meeting with a couple about planning their anniversary celebration, and no, they can't afford and don't want the kind we would want to have here."

"Too bad," and they dropped onto the love seat as he added, "This seems to be our place now."

"The only safe place I believe I told you once. Okay, so the party has expanded to twenty, and I told them no change in the price, so I hope that's okay."

"That's fine."

"They were very animated and seemed excited about the party, so if enthusiasm counts for anything, they're going to have fun at the least, though I have no idea of what to expect from the event."

"This is certainly going to be a low stress event for you and me, and I'm very okay with that. In fact, I don't see why we can't just hang out in here at least part of the time."

"Well we have until a week from tomorrow and I have about everything lined up. You remember that Art won't be here. The new guy goes by Gus, so that's the only name you have to remember."

"Okay, anything else?"

I had something else, but I didn't bring in the file. I'll think of in a minute."

"Okay, while you're thinking about that, I have a question for you."

"I'm ready."

"I'm going to Carmel next weekend to see my family."

"Yes, and?"

"I'd very much like you go to with me."

"You what? Owen, it's traditional that the woman or guy goes to see family only when they're serious about each other."

"Sorry, I didn't mean to shock you. It's only about...two and a half hours from here so we'd have Saturday afternoon and evening with them and come home Sunday."

Owen had her undivided attention and she had turned toward him, and in a softened voice she asked, "What ever made you decide to ask me?"

"Well I was telling Char that I would be gone, and then you came in and that idea just popped into my mind and I liked it a lot. Would you go with me?"

"Okay, so I'm past the, I want to take you to see my parents shock, but still, this is so far out of the realm of our working on parties together. Are you sure you've had time to think this through?"

"I don't need to Molly. I'd love for you to go with me and see all of them."

"But Owen...oh my God, the nudity thing. All of them? Oh Owen, you really haven't thought this through. My God, when I met them here, there was that thin pretense of spending time with Cliff to work on his party and that helped, but down there everything would be different."

"But they can't get more naked," he said almost pleadingly.

"That might even be funny if I wasn't so rattled right now."

"Please hon?"

"Hon? Owen now I have to think about this. No wait, let's just talk about other things for awhile and you can fix me one of your tequilas on the rocks to help me get a grip on all of this."

"Drinks coming up, but what do we talk about?"

"I'll have a list of things to talk about by the time you get back here with my medicine."



Chapter Two Hundred Thirty Eight

"Okay, what are we going to talk about?" Owen asked through his best smile as he handed her the potent drink and sat close to her.

"Let's talk about Elise for a minute."

"Okay, but why her?"

"Because she popped into my mind, and it doesn't involve me or parties, or your family or other hot button subjects."

"Okay, what about Elise?"

Well an obvious one would be are you seeing her?"

"As in dating and more?"

"Well yes."

"No. Well I'll modify that a little. We've gone out for dinner a few times and we've talked on the phone."

"And made love of course."

"Only a couple of times early on. We talk about her posing for me again one of these days."

"Erotica or porn?"

"Erotica for sure. Well and maybe just a taste of porn, but really both of us are more interested in the sensual idea. The teasing touch or sexy pose. She likes to be in front of the camera and she's very good at it. I'm learning a lot from her."

Molly tasted her drink and smiled as she said, "That just invites sleazy comments from me, but I'll resist the temptation. So let's see, so you don't see you two as romantically involved then."

"Molly, I really like her. I like the way she dives into life and doesn't spend a lot of time looking back. She's smart, intuitive and more, but I also have to say we haven't spent a whole lot of time together. Nothing like you and I've shared."

"Why did you compare her to us?"

"Just that. How much time is not a lot of time? Well, an easy way to clarify that is with comparison."

"Oh."

"Molly, I did a large very intense and over the top photo session with her, Marcie..."

"Her daughter, right?"

"Right, and Nila."

"Nila? Seriously? Let's not get into the fine details of that one okay?"

"Thanks."

"What does she look like?"

"Tall, leggy and attractive, a few years older than me, and very sexy when she wants to be."

"Really? With her daughter?"

Owen laughed and kissed Molly's cheek and then said, "We stepped back to that I take it."

"Sorry, but that really begs more detail, but not tonight. Okay, I can see that you really do want to try some things with her...that's bad phrasing, but you know what I mean, and I think you should do that."

"I'm glad you think so. It would be fantastic for you to pose with her in a few sexy shots."

"Whoa lover, that would require a whole lot of answered questions and of course meeting her."

A smile exploded across his lips as he quickly said, "You're not saying no, and that's fantastic."

Holding her glass close to her lips, she told him, "But also notice I'm a long way from saying yes," and then she took a taste of her drink

"I'm really enjoying sitting here and just talking."

"It might even be educational, at least for me. I still don't really know what makes you tick. Well beyond anything to do with sex that is."

"You know, part of my problem is, I don't enjoy sports of any kind beyond maybe half an hour of college football. I don't golf and I don't play a musical instrument. I didn't even have a hobby until this photography thing came into being."

"Which you seem to have a natural feel for, which could be good or bad depending on the point of view."

"Thank you. I mean I think I want to thank you."

"So who else in your life can we talk about? That Wendy? Kiley? Oh the list of women is long. No, let's talk about your friends. Start with Perry," and on they went, babbling about anything other than her going to Kokomo with him. That topic scared her when he brought that one up.

Twenty minutes later they were deep into him telling her how he was sure he hated his parents for a long time. "So that's when Linda came back into your life."

"Like a storm Molly."

Then half an hour later. As she stared at him she said, "You did what with Alana?"

"Well like I explained, none of that was planned or even hoped for. I wanted to help her through her mess."

"My God, that all sounds so sexy and hot, but she's your best friend's wife."

"I know that better than anybody, but also like I said, Alana loves to tease."

"So it's partly her fault."

"Not really. She had that whole June issue working for her though."

"What?" so they talked through that Pornocopia event.

When it reached one in the morning she said, "Okay, it's very late," and looking at her watch she said, "My God, it's very early in the morning. Okay, let's talk about your parents and then I have to get home before the sun comes up."

"I just want you to go with me to see them. You've met all of them, they love you, and once you recovered from that incredibly awkward situation, you seemed to like them."

"Well I did, but I still had it ringing through my head that your parents had done porn movies or whatever, and I had visions of strange peckers dancing through my mind like sugar plum ferries at Christmas."

He had to smile at that and added, "You were phenomenal Molly, and I mean that. We were pretty cruel to you, but I didn't realize just how much so until it was far too late."

"You were, and Cliff was just persuasive enough to scare me. My God, I was naked in front of your whole damn family."

"I know, and I'm sure they'd be naked when we were there, but you by no means will be expected to do the same. They really mean it when they say do what you can be comfortable with."

"That's good to know. To bad it wasn't like that when they were here."

"It should have been, and I'll always shoulder the blame for that mistake."

"So we'll go down there, visit, spend the night and then come home, right?"

"That's totally it. Just sit back, talk and have a drink and talk more."

"If you're not telling me the truth there will be hell to pay."

"Are you saying you'll go?"

Standing up she told him, "Yes, I'll go with you, but now I'm going home."

Joining her, he said, "Stay here and get a thirty minute head start on your sleep."

"Owen, I..."

"I don't mean sleep with me, though you know I'd much prefer that."

"We both know we wouldn't behave."

"The first guest room at the top of the stairs is just waiting for you and you'll find what you need in the bathroom and a robe in the closet."

"Okay, that sounds too good to say no."

"Then good night hon, and thank you."

"You still worry me when you call me hon, but you're welcome. I may even get to know you more during this little adventure."

"I'm an open book."

"You may think so, but you're not to me. Night Owen, see you in a few hours."

Chapter Two Hundred Thirty Nine

It was a little before nine Saturday morning when Molly came downstairs and was met by Char. "How about some fresh coffee to get you going."

Seeing Char naked no longer bothered Molly, so she just smiled and said, "Actually I don't feel that rough, but coffee sounds perfect. Owen still in bed?"

"I checked on him a minute ago and he'll be out in a minute."

"Morning," Owen said as he shuffled into the kitchen and Molly stared at him standing there with his soft cock on display. "Oh, morning Molly, I'll just get my coffee and go put something on."

"I might as well get used to this, so join us."

"Thanks, I'm showered, but I still need coffee to wake up this morning. Nice robe by the way."

"You think you're so funny. Robe in the closet he told me Char, but he didn't tell me it wasn't much more than a shirt."

"I'm surprised he left you with that much."

"Like I said, I might as well get used to this because it's never going to change."

"It isn't likely."

"Char it really doesn't bother you to be seen naked?"

"Not one whit Molly. I have what I have and I am what I am. I like the freedom I feel when I'm naked like this. I'll go all day today with nothing on but maybe an apron, for obvious reasons if I do any cooking."

"She's very sexy in just her apron too and I have photos of her sweet backside like that."

"I'm sure you do boss."

"Nope, I'm nobody's boss today. I'm just me today and tomorrow."

"You heard that Char, so he can't fire us today."

"He's even admitted to me that he'd die without you and me to keep him going so don't worry too much."

"Well there are times when he needs a collar and a leash."

"Hey, I'm right here remember."

"Oh right, I'll rephrase that. There are times when you need a collar and leash. Is that better?"

"No," and he gave up and sipped his coffee.

Molly stood up saying, "Well I'm going home in this robe get ready and I'll be back here a little after ten."

Owen smiled and straightened up as he stared at her nearly naked lower half saying, "Damn, you're going home like that? Damn, very sexy and I love this, but don't forget your purse."

"Here's what it's going to cost you to have me along. I'm going to pump you until I've learned every little dirty secret about your past."

"Then you're going to come home and share it with me, right Molly?" Char said as she watched try not to smile.

"Right Char."

Owen stood up then as he offered, "Okay, every little detail, so you have to listen to me as I describe everything about how and to whom I've made love right up to the most recent, so we'll need all weekend."

"Oh my God, listen to him boast. See you soon super stud," and he smiled as he watched her leave the kitchen.

"Damn she's something."

"What was that Owen?"

"What? Oh, nothing Char, just babbling."

"How did you talk her into going with you?"

"I came very close to begging."

"You? Interesting."

Owen took fresh coffee to his bedroom, threw a few things in a small tote and went back out for toast and jelly and was in the living room when Molly returned. "I'm ready," and she held up a small bag. "Your robe is in here to, so I'll use that down there."

"Whatever works for you love." He kissed Char, patted her butt and he and Molly were soon on the road south.

They were just south of U.S. six when Molly said, "Owen, unless you really don't want to get into it, tell me about the mess with Nila. Like what really did happen at the end?"

"I don't mind, but allow me to make it brief and bear with me as I mention a few things I'm sure you know. She refused to live with me because, according to her, she was a little traditional about that. Wait until we're married thing. Okay I said. Then as I was really into photographing women, I all but begged her to pose for me."