The Wages of a Divorcee's Sin

Shell shocked, Jere read her email again and then actually stood up at his desk and screamed to no one, "Hooray!" He then gave his address so that her GPS could find his condominium and concluded, "I will be here all evening working so come at your convenience and call me if the GPS instructions are obfuscating - this is Boston, you know."

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Saturday afternoon had finally arrived when Kathy knocked on her Dad's office door. He said, "Come in, Dear."

"I am leaving for work now, Daddy, and I just wanted to say goodbye."

Jere stood up and hugged her and said, "Oh thanks for dropping in and I am sorry I have been so busy until there has been no time for us to do many things together - as I have been playing catch up. Did you fix yourself a good dinner to eat on your break?"

She replied, "Yes. I made a sandwich from the spiral ham you bought. Its very good."

He said, "Uh Kathy, I will have a female overnight guest tonight. Don't be surprised when you arrive to find us together. Have you talked to your Mom since last Sunday afternoon?"

"Yes, once. She came by the shop and I took a break with her - but I have been taking my breaks mostly with a young man I met. Mom now has had a second date with a man she met on the Internet Dating site, and she talked a lot about him."

Jere mused aloud, "Good for her, as I hope she lands on her feet."

After Kathy had left the condo, Jere refreshed himself and had a sandwich and then went right back to work. The passage of 5 hours of time happened unconsciously as he created the variables the graphics of the equations he had created on one of his monitors. His cell phone rang and he jumped from being startled at the interruption. When he saw the LCD said the caller was June Chin, he smiled broadly and relaxed inside himself. He answered, "Hello Dear Lady."

"Hi Jere, I am leaving my son's apartment in Brookline and the GPS estimates the driving time to your condo is 24 minutes. You ready to see me?"

"Oh yes! yes! yes! I have now put my work aside and will straighten up the house to greet your arrival. Call again when you are in a visitor's slot of our parking lot and I will meet you at your car. "

She replied, "See you soon, Dear Jere."

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June Chin was in Brookline driving her sedan towards the address that Jere had given her. The thoughts jackhammered in her head as she ask herself, "Is Jenkins a stable person love-wise. He says his wife left him for another man and then there was only one intimate lover afterwards. Well, we are almost even! I have an ex-husband and one 15 year committed relationship with a math professor plus one brief affair with a man I met in a Trust manager's office after my lover had declined physically to the point that he specifically told me to take a lover - whew! I will satisfy myself with my dildo before I just 'have an affair' again. But I love Jere, and that frightens me. How is it that a woman whose IQ is as high as mine is stymied and doesn't know what to do? Do I allow myself to be giddy and act like a teen again, or should I hold back my feelings? I couldn't bear being dismissed from this man's life and desires again. "

"And then there is the matter of getting along. We cannot engage in shoptalk everyday. What are we going to do - I am not interested in kinky sex and I am quite certain he is not? So, what else is there? Are we esthetically compatible? I do know that when the trumpet player blew the soft notes of 'Never Let Me Go' Saturday night, we both shivered with pleasure at his extreme ability to play the delicate notes on that instrument - Jere looked into my eyes and squeezed my hand as we sat listening and the unspoken thought we both had was that that song was 'our song.' At that moment I was sure that love had come to me again. And, our emotional reaction to the music being the same was the catalyst leading to my being in love."

At that point her GPS told her to exit the freeway and drive east and she noted that she was 5 minutes from his address and only then did she focus on driving and getting to his condo safely.

When the GPS said, 'You have arrived at your destination,' she pulled into the parking lot of a medium-rise Condominium Building that must have backed up to Boston Bay. June saw Jere standing under a streetlight in a visitor's parking lot wearing his heavy coat. A big smile broke out on Jere's face as soon as he saw the Connecticut license plates and he waved her into an empty visitor's parking slot besides him. She stopped the car and got out and the two lovers just froze in their tracks looking at each other with a big smile on the two faces.

He walked up and said, "Thank you for visiting me, June!"

She replied with the brightest smile possible, "Thank you for inviting me to spend the night with you, and for this first day of your being in my life. Jere, this past week was dreadfully long! I can see by the look on your face that you feel the same way."

"Oh yes! Lets go in so you can see where I hope you will be spending a whole lot of time in the future.

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As Jere sat her overnight bag down and was giving a tour of his condo he said, "June, for your information, I made an offer to the half owner of this condo and she has accepted in her response to my email. The only thing that remains for me is to visit with her attorney at the title company to finalize the purchase as soon as an appointment is set up."

June said, "Then she really is out of your life. Fantastic!"

He said, "Yes. No pain there - we were not in a committed relationship and when she took the position in Europe I knew the probability that this would happen was very high."

Her first stop in the living room was Jere's bookcase. The technical books were interesting of course, but the most rewarding was to see so many fiction titles she owned or had read. The next stop was the CD collection - which numbered over a thousand. Jere said, "I have them indexed on a spread sheet so that if I am in the mood for a piece of music I bring up its rack location and Wallah!"

"That is fantastic, Jere. You really don't waste any of your time, do you?"

"Well I have been known to waste time - like being married to the wrong woman for 12 years. You don't know it, June, but you are going to help me reclaim that lost 12 years."

"Consider it done, Doctor Jenkins."

Stopping at the small bedroom he continued, "This is the room my 22 year old daughter rents from me. So far she has done none of the things that young people do that get on my nerves. She gets home about 11 on evenings she works." Closing her door and moving to the middle bedroom he said, "Feel free to hang some clothes in the empty closet here if you start to spend a large amount of time with me. My internet speed is 100 MBps which means that you can even set up your office away from your home office in here if you wish."

She smiled and said, "Well. Be careful what you invite me to do because I might take you up on that. But,

Looking at that table and chair in here, it appears that this must have been your roommate's workspace. Right?"

He replied, "Yes."

In the master bedroom Jere turned on the electric blanket to high and then opened the drapes to see a few boats docked in the Marina below, beyond a small balcony as the winter lights twinkled in the cold air. He said, "For 8 months of the year every dock has a yacht tied up, but now most have taken theirs out of the water or sailed them to Florida."

She said, "Hey! The balcony is shaded in the summer afternoons and it extends to your dining room. Oh Boy!"

Standing beside Jere, looking at his king-size bed she decided to take the initiative by starting to unbutton his shirt. As if that were a signal both started using both hands to take each other's clothes off. When both were naked his erection was at its largest and pointing above the horizontal. After their first passionate kiss, Jere asked, "How do you manage to keep your youthful body? I know you said that your marvelous boobs have been enhanced but the sight of your whole body has given me the kind of erection I had as a very young man. Thank you. "

June had grabbed his penis and said, "Back when 15 thousand dollars was a lot of money my late significant other sent me to a cosmetic surgery clinic for a week. This is what I came out with and I have maintained it - I work out regularly and hope you do as well. I am glad you approve. In case you are wondering, his eyes were the only one since my husband who saw this body until his awareness and consciousness fled his body."

"I wasn't wondering, June, but can only say thanks to him."

After about 15 minutes of foreplay Jere rolled on a condom and started pressing her entrance. She said, "I am too small and it has been 2 years since a man has been in me you will need to get some lubricant for me."

Jere stopped and opened the bedside drawer again and brought out the tube. After using his finger to lube her internally, he tried again. He finally eased the head of his cock into June, and then gently rolled onto his back with her now on top of him. This allowed her to control the pace at which he would enter her. By this time her verbal outcries were loud and continuous and her first orgasm happened before half of his 8 inches were inside of her.

An hour later they had made love twice and June had orgasmed 3 times. They then took a shower together and the erection and the excitement started again for both. This time, however, she dropped to her knees and took him in her mouth as the shower rained on his back. Jere said, "There is nothing left in me..., but what you are doing is still wonderful." They dried each other off wild with laughter and pleasure."

Later both June and Jere sat at the dining table sipping a glass of Chablis in their pajamas. June said, "I have drafted a grant request for 3 million dollars to develop and get approval for funds to design and build a working model of a nano surgery device where many infected cells are repaired while healthy ones are left alone. I need to drop this off in the Foundation Offices in the financial district of Boston tomorrow before I head home. I must physically travel to work in the lab near Hartford Monday morning. Would you read my draft tomorrow and tell me if my technology and wording is right - you will find that I have paraphrased you in a half dozen places?"

A big smile broke out on his face and he said, "It would be my pleasure."

At that moment the front door opened after the sound of a key in a lock and there stood Kathy, surprised since she had forgotten her Dad had a visitor. "Hello Daddy. I sure hope I am not interrupting anything."

Jere smiled as he walked to her and they embraced and said, "You are not - the fireworks recently ended and now we are resting. June meet Kathy. She has rented a room here for three months almost."

June said, "Kathy, your Dad and I met in Chicago at the convention and the magic happened; and here we are together. I live in Hartford but Jere says I will be spending the night here from time to time - as he will be sleeping over at my apartment as well - so I hope we get to like and trust each other!"

Kathy said, "Wow. You have to be somebody special or you wouldn't be here. I am overawed. Glad to meet you. You guys will need to excuse me because I smell like I have spent the day in a used coffee cup. Heh heh See you in the morning."

It was almost break time for Kathy on Tuesday afternoon at Starbucks when her Mom, Megan, came through the door and ordered a 'tall drip' and sat down at an empty table. Kathy took off her apron and joined her Mom.

After some small talk Megan said, "Hi Dear. Saturday night was my third date with my new found internet date. He is really a great guy: I insisted that he tell me about his job and he finally broke down and told me."

" What is his job, Mom?"

"He is the shift supervisor at the North Side Waste Water Treatment Plant and has been in municipal utilities all of his working career - since he got an associates degree."

"Well Mom, that is a very important job just imagine what would happen if he, too, just sat around and watched the clock???? Does he feel good about his career?"

"You know, yes he does! And my first reaction was to think of that as a turn off, but remembering the words of your Daddy - 'the most important ingredient of a successful life is to enjoy one's work done at the limit of one's ability - it suddenly doesn't bother me at all."

"Do you have another date planned?"

"Yes, he is cooking dinner for me at his apartment on Saturday afternoon. I look forward to it."

Her daughter asked, "Are you ready for another man in your body?"

"I think so and he is ravenously ready for that. To be crude, he is as horny as a goat in Spring. But, if we 'get it on' at this stage it will only be a matter of time before I meet someone who will sweep me off my feet and I will again be the one devastating him this time - I am the first candidate since his ex-wife. I am afraid this gentleman can not accept a round of casual sex and then move on - and that worries me."

"My recommendation, Mom, is that you continue to use your dildo to relieve your tensions while thinking about your youth spent with Daddy. Hey, it's not worth getting your life entangled with another trying make yourself feel good. It may be quaint to think like this, having had the sexual experiences I have had, but one is suppose to feel good and then have sex - not vice versa. The hard reality of experience, though, changes one's views on many things. I sure wish I could have understood the importance of feeling good about my life when I was a 7th grader."

Her Mom asked, "Speaking of 'not worth it,' anything new happening with your Daddy?"

"Oh he introduced me to a woman dressed in her pajamas when I got home from work on Saturday night. I excused myself and took a shower. She seemed nice enough though."

"Was she beautiful?"

Kathy replied, "Yes, sort of," and then changed the subject. "How are your courses going?"

"I feel very good about something. I announced to all my students at the North campus that I would be grading papers in a big study hall on campus Sunday afternoon; and, invited whoever wished to come in and ask me questions while I worked could do so. Amazingly, about a third of all my students showed up. It really made me feel good! One particular incidence was this kid who was really trying to grasp subject-verb-object sentence structure and I saw the light of, 'I got it' in his eyes finally. That incident along convinced me to make this study hall weekend a routine."

"Good for you, Mom. With that kind of thoughtfulness, it's only a matter of time before you are in a salaried position, I feel sure."

It was 2:00 P.M. the following Friday in a condo in a Hartford suburb when June Chin was planning dinner she would be cooking for her lover, Jere Jenkins. One part of her wanted to wear her Chinese New Year's Eve costume and prepare her favorite ethnic dish. But she knew that the only 'Chinese' that Jere had experienced was from those restaurants whose clients were largely Caucasians. She reasoned, "I like my traditional food and will not give it up as long as it's healthy even for a Nobel Laureate. So, I will steam a whole fish, heavily spiced, along with some American side dishes. When he gets here about 7:00 the house will reek of spices he has never experienced before, but I will be dressed in Western clothes. So, I am curious if Jere can take in stride the fact of my being at heart an Ethnic Chinese."

At 10 minutes until 7:00 the doorbell rang, and June ran towards the door. She was wearing a cobalt-blue gown that floated about her body and her freshly shampooed jet-black hair floated up and down as she ran. When she opened the door Jere quickly came inside carrying his sling pack and a small over night case. He dropped the 2 weights and picked her 105 pounds off the floor and turned round and round kissing her, 'Hello.' After about 10 minutes of greetings where June resisted his attempts to drag her to the couch, Jere sniffed and said, "You have cooked something good, I can tell!"

She replied, "Yes, I decided to introduce you to real Chinese food - distinct from 'take-out' - and just cross my fingers that you will like it - or, at least, tolerate it - because its my favorite main dish."

As they walked into the kitchen, Jere saw the whole steamed fish laid out on a platter where its eyes seemed to be looking at the two Humans. She said, "Pour the wine that is on the table already and refresh yourself for dinner in 5 minutes - the toilet is the first door on the right down the hall. After dinner I will give you a tour of my condo, O.K.?"

The two lovers sat at the dining room table at a right angle to each other often holding hands, June said, "I hope you enjoy my main dish, Jere."

He watched her expertly flake the meat off the topside of the fishes skeleton and put half of the meat on each of their plates. This left the skeleton lying on top of the bottom half of the fish. Jere tentatively took a bite and said, "Wow! That is good. I can taste several spices here."

She replied, "Five to be exact. Its called steamed fish and two of the spices came mail order from China - my mother taught me that dish with the caveat that fresh fish and spices improve the taste. The critter was swimming in a giant commercial aquarium when I selected it this morning. Then the market man caught and slaughtered it for me at noon today. I brought it home and marinated it until I steamed in about a hour or so ago."

Jere could only say, "Fascinating," as he continued to eat with gusto. After the Caracas had been turned over and the meat flaked off again, only the head and skeleton remained. Jere and June finished off the whole fish along with the side dishes.

As part of the home tour later Jere looked at her bookcase in the living room and was pleased and shocked that she owned two English language books of his favorite author and smiled. She also had a number of books written in Mandarin. He did note that her music equipment consisted of a Bose Wave Radio and smiled and said, "Good quality on a budget," pointing to it.

"Thanks. I bought it on eBay used and it has worked flawlessly for 5 years."

In a smaller bedroom that was her office, the first thing Jere noticed above her computer monitor was a snapshot of him giving his presentation that she had taken in Chicago, obviously using her cell phone. She was pretending embarrassment and said, "Hey, I meant to hide that because I wouldn't want you to think I spend lots of time thinking about you. But now you know my secret."

Not to be outdone, Jere brought out his cell phone and showed her a snapshot of her he had cropped while Keith and her danced that Saturday night in Chicago. It was now his wallpaper. In response she said, "That reminds me I got an email from Dimple - remember her? - and she said, and I quote, '...you two look like a couple in love...'"

Faking insincerity, Jere asked, "Was it that obvious?" Both had a chuckle.

The master bedroom had a faint scent of jasmine and a few decorative Chinese paper lanterns hung from the ceiling and two vases were sitting on the floor. Jere's unconscious reaction was to reach for her and start taking off her beautiful clothes gently. She said, "Let me take them off and hang them in the closet, because this is my favorite dress and you are my favorite math geek."

She again stood naked in front of him, and he hadn't moved since he was mesmerized at the show. She noticed his erection through his trousers and then started to unbutton his shirt. At this point, Jere took over and hurried the process.

Two hours later both were spent after engaging in every kind of lovemaking they knew about two or three times. The cover was on the floor and the bottom sheet was slightly damp from their body fluids. They sat up in bed sipping the third glass of wine each for the evening and talked about themselves for an hour.