Page 39 of Naked

“God, I love those phases,” Carrie said wistfully. “Wake up ready. Can’t get through lunch without a quickie, can’t go to bed without a good pounding...so fun!”

Everyone nodded.

Part of me felt like an outsider who shouldn’t be here listening to any of this, part of me was fascinated and wanted to know where this had been all my life.

“So...this is normal?” I asked.

All eyes swung to me. “Which part?” Eve asked.

“All of it?” I waved around the room. “Sharing. The fact that I can’t get enough Hunter?”

Carrie grinned. “Yeah, girl. I mean, you’re in the young new love phase. It’shot. But normal.”

“But,” I glanced at Zoe first, then each of the women as I spoke, “you’ve all been together for a while. It can still be like this?”

My eyes landed on Eve. She was the oldest and had two kids. Her answer held the most weight. “Uh, yeah. The kind of sex you’re having is different than the sex Jake and I have now simply because of everything we’ve been through together. But we still can’t get enough.”

I almost couldn’t begin to imagine wanting Hunter this intensely foryears.But I also got a thrill knowing it wasn’t a one time thing.

Carrie replied next. “Well like I said, we just had a big old dry spell, which for us was particularly weird, but in general, I still want that man’s cock like I did the night we accidentally got married.”

“Yeah,” Zoe sighed, “there are phases. I like that there are phases. Sometimes everything is sweet. There’s lots of cuddling. Sometimes there’s nothing. Sometimes we have sex four times a day and it’s still not enough.” She shrugged. “We’re human. Life means that our bodies and minds need different things at different times. But the hot and horny intense sex doesn’t disappear...if you don’t let it.”

“I think our situations are alike,” June said. “Roman and I have similar careers but different enough that we’re apart a lot. It affects things. He’s gone and I’m all focused on work, then suddenly he’s home wanting to bang in the middle of the afternoon and I’m likewhat the actual fuck, dude.Or I’m on the road with the team, with the guys, and get home and just want to be with my husband who’s been focused completely on work and suddenly he has a sex crazed woman gyrating on his lap. I try not to take it personally when he doesn’t immediately change gears. We eventually get on the same page and all is well again.”

The front door opened and closed once more, and a woman I didn’t know rushed in, throwing down her purse. “Sorry I’m late!”

“That’s Eve’s best friend, Marie,” Zoe explained.

I watched as Marie grabbed a glass of wine and shoved in next to Eve. “What are we talking about?”

“Tilley was curious about whether we still have hot animal sex after years of knowing how weird our men are,” Eve laughed.

“Oh god yes,” Marie nodded, “we had sex at lunch today. It. Was. Incredible.” Then she looked around the room and finally landed on me. “Oh hi! I’m Marie!”

“Tilley.” I waved back.

“She works with Adam,” Eve offered.

“OhTilley!Marie replied.

Apparently I was known.

“Tell us about the lunch sex!” Carried said.

“Well. I was in my office and Greg showed up unannounced with sushi. Last night did not go as planned. I thought we were having hot shower sex, he thought we were having a quickie and going to bed. So to make up for it he came to work, took my clothes off, pet and pawed at me while I ate lunch, and then he bent me over the desk and took me hard. I think I saw stars.”

“Good man, Greg!” June held up her wine. “I love makeup sex.”

I put makeup sex on my fantasy list. Perhaps Hunter and I could manufacture an argument in order to test it out.

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