Dick

They dropped their robes as the door closed and Meg led him to the bathroom and ran the bath.

Dick had time to think 'What now?' when she turned, kissed him and said, "Don't worry, I know that beneath this revival your body will be very tired. Lick me darling." She dropped down on to the bath towel she'd folded over the edge of the bath and leaned forward, spreading her knees. He dropped behind her and found a very moist pussy and had her screaming to a finished before there was need to turn off the water.

They bathed together and Dick learned a technique to do with feet that he thought he must try to lead Kade into without her realizing he must have learned something from another source.

In bed it was great and Dick found enough staying power that it was Meg that finally said they should go to sleep. She woke him in the morning and said, "Ready to go again. That was so wonderful last night -- you were so slow and gentle about what you were doing. I can't recall having anyone who's fulfilled me quite like that."

Although gob-smacked, Dick didn't say anything and wondered if he'd learned another lesson -- that not all woman believed great sex was receiving a tumultuous pounding. Well, well. He decided to talk to Meg about that, like at the coffee shop as he now had something else to focus on. He ran his tongue gently over her top lip instead of ramming it into her mouth and she shivered. Yes shivered. And then clung to him as if she thought he was about to leave her. No way! She kissed his eyes closed and murmured, "This is s-o-o-o lovely."

That's exactly what Kade said the next evening. She'd come in to the apartment -- he had boxing on TV up loud and hadn't heard her arrive. They'd slammed into each other, stripping and were into it like a Tsunami heading towards a palm-fringed beach. Regaining their breath they kissed and she said she'd missed him so much although they'd had such a fabulous time and Carolyn had been with them from midday Friday until Sunday night.

"Fetch me a drink darling."

When they'd finished their vodka and tonics Kade pulled him to her so Dick licked her top lip and kissed her eyes shut and listened to her murmurs as he gently ran his fingers around her pussy but made no attempt to enter. He kissed her eyes shut again, she having her hand around his dick and squeezing it so tightly his eyes watered. He blew softly into her ear and she murmured, "This is s-o-o-o lovely." He dragged his tongue over the top of her panting mouth ever so slowly and she jerked against him twice. Her eyes popped open in astonishment as she sighed, "Ohmigod, I've just climaxed." Dick showed her a big grin and as he slid down her trunk he thought he must really have some long talks with Meg. She really seemed to know about the finer points of, er, life.

* * *

Dick spent much of the morning at the Council offices inspecting the public record of property owners. He concentrated entirely on the commercial area, making notes. He then phoned Kade who asked could he make it fast because she was in a meeting with Meg Tompkins and Rosalie.

"Meg Tompkins is sole owner of fifteen business premises in this town, including Arrow & White's department store."

"Ohmigod."

"Take her to lunch and then ask her if you should invite me. She knows me."

"Why?"

"I'm not sure yet but something in my mind is working on this. Bye."

Dick went to his outdoor office on the terrace of the coffee shop opposite the hotel. An assistant came and he asked for Dinah. The assistant returned and said Mrs Ross was disputing an invoice so he should place his order and she'd join him for coffee when she came off the phone.

Dinah joined him, limiting her greeting to 'Hi."

"Your husband's name is Andrew, right?"

"Yes. I call him Andy."

"Big into sports I understand."

"Was, and professionally. He now works for the Council. Look, I don't know what this is about but perhaps I could short-circuit it by saying I don't play around. At least I haven't yet."

Dick grinned and told her to keep her knickers dry. For a moment he thought he'd blown it but she finally grinned and dipped her head, blushing.

"I apologize for embarrassing you."

Dinah, without her apron and her hair pinned up looked quite attractive. She had dark eyes and they focused on Dick. "Apology accepted. You must understand I'm not used to other men talking like that to me. I must confess I find you rather attractive -- you're not like most of the males around here. You are big city and have a charm and confidence that makes you stand out. As well as your charm I find you express yourself a little differently and what you just said to me about my...was actually quite funny. Well, it was rather shocking but I knew exactly what you meant. Look, I shouldn't be talking to you like this. I'm married."

"I'm glad you are."

"What?"

Dick smiled and they both sipped their coffee. "I'm interested in your husband."

"Oh God," she said, almost spilling her coffee.

"Not like that," he said calmly. "I've never seen him to my knowledge."

Dinah said she was sorry, that her thoughts were running away on her. "Just say what you want to say but try not to confuse me."

"Okay. Are you a local girl?"

"Yes, very much so."

"What school did you attend?"

"The Catholic school."

"Ah, excellent. That means you'll know the land occupied by the seminary and the old school."

"Yes, of course. I attended that school."

"Well, I've purchased all of that land."

"What? You can't have, it's a huge area."

Dick smiled reassuringly. "And that's why I'm interested in your Andy. The announcement about the purchase will be in the newspaper this Saturday. I completed the purchase some weeks ago on the understanding no announcement would be made until the seminary had relocated elsewhere. That will be completed on Friday, so please keep this information confidential. Don't even tell Andy until Saturday."

"Okay, I promise. But why your interest in Andy?"

"What I'm about to tell you is even more confidential."

Dinah shifted uneasily and said was there really a need to load her with confidential information. She was told yes, that he wanted an introduction to Andy. Perhaps he could take them to dinner on Friday night."

"Come to our home for dinner -- I don't work Friday afternoons or the weekends."

"I'll be accompanied by my fiancée Kade and perhaps another person, depending how my lunch meeting today goes."

"Three extra for dinner is no problem. I've been talking to Kade a little. She's very nice. Who is the other man?"

"A woman and you know her --Megan Tompkins."

Dinah looked at him sharply. "Meg? Then you are out to develop that land commercially -- a mall. No, you wouldn't need to talk to Andy about a mall. Ohmigod, a sports stadium -- ohmigod, how wonderful."

"Shhhh. Remember this is confidential. We are surrounded by people."

"Oh Dick, I'm sorry. I..."

"Initially I though stadium but now am thinking of a multi-purpose events center -- perhaps one section devoted to horses and show cattle and the other half to sports and community gatherings. A lot of work needs to be done before that is decided so in the meantime I'm just thinking events center. I'm the developer and am hoping to persuade Meg to join me in a partnership on this one and to sell it to the Council to own and lease out to an entrepreneur."

"Andy?"

"I hadn't thought of that. As he was into sport and worked for the Council I wanted to consult with him but first need to find if he's onside."

"He will be if there's a chance of you setting him up to lease the center. I'd sell out of here and join him. We've talking about running a sports arena. He hates working for the Council, finding the political overtones stifle his feeling of self-worthiness and freedom."

Dick laughed and said it certainly sounded as if Andy was not gainfully engaged and he could see he'd scored well with Dinah with that comment.

When she stood to return to work he stood and kissed her lightly on the cheek and she smiled at him beautifully and remained relaxed and thanked him for his openness. Dick was sure she'd be telling her husband that evening about her amazing conversation with a guy called Dick but he figured the husband, being trained for discipline in sport could be relied upon to keep his mouth shut.

* * *

The woman were on to their first wine and had one waiting for Dick when he arrived and he admired Kade for her tact -- a corner table whereas for lunch most patrons gravitated to tables at or near the windows. He kissed Kade and she said he knew Meg of course, tempting Dick to almost say, "Intimately."

"Hi Meg, nice to see you so soon and she, too, was kissed on the lips lightly but quickly.

They lifted glasses in a toast and Kade said happily, "The revised CAD sketches of the total hotel interior look great and the foyer looks fabulous as does the lounge-fine dinning restaurant."

"Good."

"Yes, it really does," Meg said. "Pity about the exterior."

At that Dick knew he'd been set-up expertly.

Kade said, "Rosalie is very worried. She's biting back her criticism of you. That curtain glass wall sketch looks amazing."

"Hotels everywhere have that look," Dick said evenly.

Neither woman replied.

He took the plunge. "Okay, we keep the total brown glass and timber look but the name Cattleman's goes."

The women looked horrified and together hissed "No!"

Kade said to him angrily, "Everyone and I mean everyone is addicted to the name Cattleman's."

"Well it's like great sex and mess -- you can't have it both ways, you are limited to one choice."

Kade and Meg leaned into each other, clutched and laughed almost hysterically. It was done so well Dick was almost encouraged to think it had been rehearsed.

Kade actually had to wipe away tears. "You stupid man, you can be so funny at times."

Meg showed that with age comes wisdom and recognition that one sometimes has to look at compromising. "Perhaps if the chuck wagon..."

"Yes," Dick sighed. "I've been thinking about that myself in recent days. I'll go to Rosalie when we finish here. If she'd worked up she'll be running the gambit looking for an armful of possible compromises. Well Meg we have invited you to lunch for a special reason."

"Oh, I hadn't realized this cozy meeting was a set-up."

Dick smiled and said Kade and he wanted to sound her out about joining them in a project that was too big for them to handle alone. Dick said he didn't like the thought of approaching institutions for a mega-loan because their thinking was universally the same: high on attractive returns and low on any risk element.

"Why are you talking to me?"

"Well Meg, a little bird told me you were big into property so this morning I checked Council property tax registers and found you were listed all by yourself in the roll against fourteen properties."

"That's soon out-of-date," Meg said, showing no dismay that Dick had been nosing around. "I've sold Arrow & White's department store to an insurance company and settlement is at the end of next month."

"Have you a replacement property in prospect?"

"Not yet."

"Well Meg, here's something of possible interest," Dick said, as the waitress arrived to top up their wine glasses and take their orders.

They left the restaurant almost ninety minutes later. Kade hugged Meg excitedly and when Meg and Dick touched lips Kade called, "Kiss her properly Dick as one would expect to kiss a prospective business partner."

"Okay, how's this," he said, and pushed back harder at Meg.

"That's better -- you two look great together," Kade said. "Come Meg, I'll walk with you and look around your samples for our ranch house while Dick goes off and upsets Rosalie."

Dick sat beside Rosalie on the sofa and looked at the sketch projected on to the nearby wall that was actually a high quality screen set within a black frame. He casually placed his arm around her shoulder and groped for a bulging breast but just as calmly she withdrew his hand and lifted his arm back over his head. She smacked his hand lightly and told him to be a good boy. "People see into this room when they walk along that corridor over there and anyone can burst through the door at anytime. This is a working office, not a bedroom. Anyway, I'm scared my husband will learn about you as you're too noticeable."

Dick had thought he was merely being polite, and acting as she'd want him to act but he'd really not been looking for casual pussy. "I'll be a good boy," he promised.

She said, "I want to talk to you about this careful design."

Dick sighed but not rudely and said, "Shoot."

He received quite a lesson in design and was rather impressed and said so when she finished. "I'd been under the impression you guys largely pinched someone else's work and modified it a bit to avoid accusation of a straight steal."

"But now you know better?"

"I do indeed. I had no idea the eye of the beholder could be so discriminating."

"But you do now?"

"At least something of what you've been trying to explain to me."

Rosalie turned and kissed him.

Dick asked dryly wasn't she uptight that someone walking by may have seen her.

"Everyone here knows I have the cutest client in town so would not be surprised to see me kiss you. But you playing with one of my tits would be viewed differently."

"I didn't think women liked them being call tits."

"Well, if I'm an exception. Now, with this next drawing we discuss a facade that everyone associated with me agrees is a mess, and is now called 'The Mess'. However, professionally I'm prepared..."

"Cut the psychology, let's look at it."

Rosalie pushed at a hand control and Dick murmured, "Nice perfume" and they laughed when she said, "My decorative fragrance I hope you meant?"

Dick looked at the screen and thought it was rather a mess of uncomplimentary styles.

Rosalie asked her client carefully, "What do you think of The Mess?"

"A mess."

He heard her breath out and murmur, "Thank God.'

"Can Maxine edit what we see on screen?"

"Yes, I'll brief here and you can instruct her on the phone."

"I'm ready Mr Savage."

"Dick will do Maxine. Now we're editing a copy, right?"

"For sure."

"Right, remove the replica chuck wagon."

Dick thought he heard another 'Thank God' beside him. He said 'Coffee?" and Rosalie went to fetch them coffee.

She returned and they sipped and she remained soundless as Dick gave instruction after instruction. There was now sound beside him when he requested the name be shortened to Cattleman's.

"That's is from me thanks Maxine darling, I'll have the phone over to the boss who doesn't look totally unwell."

Rosalie looked at the total frontal, now two-thirds wall to ground in solid adobe. She said too much and instructed Maxim to place a run of glass matching the entrance at one-third of the distance on the adobe wall in from the boundary wall. "Good, but a little wider. That's it. Now angle the entrance canopy down at the boundary wall slowly until I tell you to stop. Stop! Now the name Cattleman's, lower it, that's it and now curve it to the right ending high. Perfect. Now scrub the bull and find a graphic of a sexy-faced Angus cow and thank you. Please load the revise on to a DVD for our client."

The screen went blank and straightening a stocking over her right shin Rosalie said, "What do you think?"

"Nice lower legs, thighs a bit heavy."

"No you fool, the finished concept."

"Oh, I am invited to comment? I'd left the glass over the entrance to give the 'Welcome in, this is what you get' look that you went on so much about. I guess the glass you added achieves balance. The signage change gives the name immeasurably more graphically impact and the change from bull to cow suggests ladies are welcome?"

"Oooh, you are a quick learner. 'To wink a touch of...' That's sexy and what you say about the word Cattleman's is true but will be larger and hand-drawn for uniqueness before it is hand-cast in aluminum in a black matt finish and a cow is more friendlier than a bull and I thought cows outnumber bulls many times over on a ranch."

"Then I'm finished here?"

"Yes, go suck some other woman's tit, I've told you no more of that with me. You're not mad at me for taking this stance are you?"

"No, of course not and I'll probably bang you sometime when you're not looking."

"God Dick, how can you bare to touch another woman when you have dear sweet Kade?"

Standing and sweeping back his hair with both hands, Dick said, "Just lately I've began wondering about that myself. Come on, show me to the door and kiss me like you would a cooperative client."

"A cooperative and significantly contributing client to help dig us out of a hole, if I may say so. Kade is very lucky to have you. Sensitivity lurks under your brave façade, just try to show it at appropriate times, huh?"

At the door two women were approaching so Dick shook Rosalie's hand and she eyed him solemnly as he said goodbye. Her eyes widened as he said in an equally loud voice, "Nice tits." The voices of the approaching woman stopped abruptly and Dick walked away whistling and with a naughty boy feeling. He also grinned, imaging the foot of red-faced Rosalie aimed squarely at his butt.

* * *

Walking away slowly from the restaurant Meg said to Kade who was flicking a comb through her hair, "Dick's proposal has excited me no end. He seems so confident and so focused in talking about property. He gives me confidence he knows what it's all about."

"What he doesn't know he makes up or seeks advice. I need to warn you Meg he's a bit of flying-by-the-seat-of-his-pants operator. He thinks laterally and forward with vision I am almost totally without and he had no problem flying in the face of opposing opinion and takes risks, sometimes I think scary risks but flits this way, that way and seems to come through unscathed. I know for a fact in his last business in the city he sometimes had to take financial losses but from what I was told he never blamed anyone and would just say they had to bite the bullet on that one and make sure the next project was bigger and produced profit to cover that last loss and returned a good result for itself."

"That is scary," Meg said, 'but why are you telling me this? As his partner aren't you suppose to be helping to sweeten my up?"

"Meg, you are a lovely lady. I want you to come in with us, I really do, but with your eyes open. You mentioned you purchase buildings, have some work done on them and sell them on. You said 'God no' when Dick asked do you ever pull any of them down and redevelop the site."

"Yes but I explained I relied on property values rising to benefit from my investments and often made fifteen and even up to thirty percent on my investment when I on-sold."

"Yes, and when Dick asked had you ever thought of working to make 100% or 300% or more you turned very pale."

""You noticed? I did feel my stomach turn."

"Look at it this way Meg, what you are doing is playing Monopoly and what Dick is doing is playing the game without a board and making up the rules as he goes. You are the tidy, careful investor and he's the entrepreneur willing to take calculated gambles. Whatever the economic climate you will emerge at the other end, perhaps with burn marks on the edges, but still stable and sound whereas Dick could nosedive into the fire at any moment or ride the updraft and double to treble his millions."

"Millions you say -- how many millions?"

Without thinking Kade took Meg's arm as they crossed the busy street. Although they were isolated in the middle for almost a minute they crossed safety. Kade pulled her arm free.

"That was lovely of you."

"What?"

"Taking my arm like that as if thinking if we were linked we would be safer."