Chapter 9

Author’s Note: Apologies for the long delay between chapters! I find the longer installments tougher to write because there’s more cross-referencing to make sure things are consistent. But I think it’s worth the effort. Here, we reconnect John with each of his wives. This is a bridge into greater adventures, and I hope you enjoy it.

The doctors had told me when I was discharged not to get frustrated. They told me there would be days when I felt like it was constantly one step forward and two steps back. Well, the morning I woke up at the Plaza Hotel in New York was one of those. I had felt great – I’m not sure how much of that was appropriate dosing with the ketamine for pain – and I slept like a baby. But that following day? I had regressed a week. Maybe more. My hip hurt. My whole body ached. And the six-hour flight home? Didn’t make me feel any better.

What made it all okay was having all four of my wives on the plane back to LA. Katie was relieved the tour was over. The travel crush of going back and forth from home to the tour’s latest stop almost every day ground her down. But it had been a triumph and a joy, as well. Still, Katie was a nurse by training. Her RN background really started to kick into gear that morning when we left New York, and I was feeling battered. She took charge of positioning me on the longest couch in the Gulfstream’s cabin. She padded it with extra blankets and buffered my left leg with pillows, while also keeping it raised.

I took two of the higher dosage ketamine pills I’d been prescribed and coupled it with two bumps from the nasal spray. As I felt my mind disassociate from my body, it seemed like I could see my hip throbbing. But the pain started to seem further away. And then I was asleep.

The next thing I knew, we had touched down in LA, and Katie gently shook me awake. All four girls gazed down at me adoringly.

“Was I drooling?” I said sleepily.

They laughed.

“No, daddy,” Katie said.

“Come on, darling,” Rita said. “Time to go home.”

The same Escalade that had dropped us off at Van Nuys Airport also picked us up. The transition back into our superbly secure cocoon was seamless. Twenty minutes after landing? I hobbled back inside our house, stiff from being knocked out during the plane ride and still feeling foggy from the ketamine. I managed to make my way upstairs. Katie followed me, closed the blackout curtains, and tucked me into bed.

I slept for sixteen hours, until the next morning. I heard the automatic curtains opening, and bright sunlight poured into the bedroom.

“Wake up, daddy,” I heard Kat whisper in my ear. She repeated it several times until I stirred.

“Time to move, daddy,” Katie said. “We’ve got PT.”

We? My eyes flickered open, and I saw her standing next to the bed. She was intensely awake and bubbly, her hair pulled back in a bouncing ponytail.

“Come on, slow poke,” Katie said. “I’m going with you. You’ve got ten minutes before we need to be out the door. Three hours today. Three hours every day, Monday through Friday. Let’s go, mister.”

My body was sore, but I forced myself to get out of bed. Maybe it had been an unwise indulgence to go to New York, but I felt like it was worth some short-term pain. It had been a blast. It was the first time I really believed life could be truly fun again since the accident. But, damn, the comedown was a bitch.

So Katie took me to PT. And she was as much of a task master as my therapist. Then she came again the next day. And the next. The girls were all in on it. They made sure my focus was on recovery and nothing else. They put an incentive system in place for me. Every day that I completed my three-hour PT session and didn’t complain about it? I got a reward.

The reward system had a secondary purpose, other than just pushing me to give my all in physical therapy. We all agreed it was important for us to establish a routine again. We needed that certainty in our daily lives that would help us get past the tragedy we’d been forced to endure.

My routine was physical therapy with Katie, then maybe an hour or two after lunch getting up to speed on work. But I was doing that from home, not at the office, although I would pop in maybe once a week to go to lunch with Jason and Petey, which also served as a way to confront the lingering PTSD of the accident since that had transpired after I went to lunch.

The girls got back into workout routines, and they started playing tennis more again. Kat loved going to the Santa Monica farmers’ market and returned to it every Wednesday and Saturday. Cooking took a more central role for us again. It was an easy activity that I loved and didn’t require me to be on my feet for too long at a time.

That was a reality that set in – the long, intense physical therapy really drained me. But it didn’t take too long to see the benefits of it. Quickly, I graduated from just working on my hip at PT. I took on more exercises at home. I was probably working on my recovery five or six hours a day within two weeks.

But I had the best incentives to.

My wives came up with a series of goals for me. Each day I completed my PT without complaining? I got three points. For every hour of additional exercise I put in at home? I got five more points. When I reached ten points, I got to have sex with one of them. If I got to fifteen points? I could have two of them at once. Twenty points? Three. Twenty-five points? All four of them at once.

The problem for me was I couldn’t resist cashing in my points right away. Despite being worn out from the physical exertion, I wanted to fuck. But it actually worked out pretty well. I wasn’t only thinking with my little head. I could reconnect with each of my wives one-on-one this way, which was important. So we made the agreement that, anytime I cashed in a night with one, who it was would be randomly selected. Each girl would receive a number, and we’d use a random number generator. Kat was one. Jess was two. Rita was three. Katie was four. None of them could have a second turn until everyone had had one.

It seemed fair to me. But, I had to admit, I thought it was fair and just that the first day – I accumulated thirteen points by doing PT and an additional two hours at home – Katie’s number four popped up in the generator. She had been a no-nonsense stalwart in getting me to have no distractions from my recovery.

After dinner that night, a Wednesday, Katie and I took the unusual step of peeling off from the group. Kat and Jess retired upstairs to shower, which I knew would turn into something much sexier than just getting clean, while Rita and Stephanie took care of clearing down the kitchen.

It was true. Stephanie lived with us now, in the guest house. Her vivacious and very sweet, considerate personality meshed beautifully with us. She only had a few days of work left at KTLA, and you could see in her disposition how badly she craved being done with it. The pendulum of a schedule that she had been pigeonholed into continued until the end, with her working nights sometimes and mornings others. There wasn’t delineation or any reason for which days she worked which shift, and it was brutal for her sleep – or lack thereof. Stephanie had a deep fatigue in her eyes, but she didn’t let it affect her disposition. She was sunny and optimistic, regardless of how tired or dejected she was. Of course, I think she didn’t mind that Rita had taken to personally giving her booty bumps every morning she had to make that 3 a.m. wake-up call. She also knew that it was almost over. And once it was? She would slide into the comfort, relaxed lifestyle that we had grown to love so much.

I had to admit, I was looking forward to finally getting a chance to plunder Stephanie’s compelling and alluring physical gifts. At the same time, I couldn’t lose sight of my priorities. The accident had thrown our lives out of orbit and knocked it off-axis. We needed to get that righted before I started jumping into Stephanie’s bosom, no matter how ample or attractive.

“Do you want to join me by the pool?” Katie asked shyly as we pushed back from the dinner table.

“Whatever you want, darling,” I said.

I unwrapped an ice pack from my hip, which I had taken to putting on during dinner to help speed up my recovery each night.

“Let’s go to the pool,” she said confidently.

Confidence was something that had bloomed in Katie since the U.S. leg of the Stages Tour. She had no problem taking charge or making decisions. She refused to just go along with things. She was growing up. She was finding her voice. Literally. And I didn’t have an idea just how far she had gone down that path until after dinner that night.

“Wanting to go for a swim?” I asked as Katie and I walked through the French doors to the backyard.

“No, daddy,” she said, slipping her left hand into the pocket of her cutoff jean shorts.

They were ridiculously short, and a generous amount of her ass cheeks hung out below the cut line. She wore a beige, tank top bodysuit with it, which I knew snapped closed between her legs. She showed a ton of thigh as we sat down on a couple lounge chairs at the far end of the pool, as far away from the house as we could go. She had fished out a large joint from her left pocket, and her hand disappeared into her right pocket to produce a Zippo lighter.

“Let’s smoke,” she said.

I knew she could tell by the look in my eyes that the depths of her newfound affinity as a stoner surprised me.

“I don’t know why I resisted it for so long,” Katie said, then put the joint to her lips and sparked up the lighter.

She held the flame to the tip of the joint, and the crinkled tip of the pink rolling paper lit up and revealed the sticky, home-grown bud beneath. She took a drag, lighting up the cherry brightly, and gave a couple quick puffs to make sure the weed was blazing fully. She pulled it from between her lips, blew on the tip gently, and then returned it to her mouth and took a long, deep inhale. While she held the smoke in her lungs, she handed the joint to me.

I took a hit and enjoyed the burn of the acrid smoke. Katie was on the lounge chair next to mine, but we were turned to face each other. She rested her hands on her knees, which caused her to bend forward enough for me to get a teasing look at the ample cleavage of her tank top. I leaned my head back and exhaled high into the air, the smoke curling above the pool.

Katie was still holding her first hit, the joint delicately dangling between her left thumb and forefinger. She leaned forward and blew the smoke out from deep in her lungs into my mouth. Then we kissed before she stretched back and pulled on the joint again.

“It suits you,” I said. “You look sexy.”

“I really, really love getting stoned,” Katie said, batting her eyelids at me. “It’s like the most pleasant fog. And I totally love fucking on it. My god.”

She shot-gunned her second hit with me, and I smiled at her. We kissed more.

“I think I’ve only fucked you stoned a couple times,” I said. “You must have been getting fucked on tour.”

“Oh, daddy,” Katie said, her kisses becoming more urgent. “Not really. I was too consumed with going back and forth. I’d smoke a ton of weed to deal with the anxiety and worry about you. I’d do some coke on the plane to stay awake. Then smoke more to calm down and get some sleep. Then more lines to get up for the concert again.”

“Not really?” I said, focusing on the wrong thing that she had said.

“I think you’re missing the point, daddy,” Katie said flirtatiously. “I put my body through a ringer for you. It’s the first time in my life I ever felt that kind of sense of purpose. Do you understand that? The girl you met originally was just a party girl looking for a good time. Yeah, I was a nurse, but that was just a means to an end. I could fuck doctors and get coked up. I never thought I’d be using uppers and downers to regulate myself so that I could come take care of my husband and our family.”

“You did put yourself through a ringer,” I acknowledged while Katie took another hit off the joint. “And you have been such a rock during my rehab. I don’t know how to thank you.”

Katie smiled and blew a cloud of smoke in my face. I smiled back at her. We kissed again.

“Let’s cash this joint,” Katie said, “and go inside. I’m so wet, I’m going to cry if I don’t get you inside me soon.”

We polished off the weed and, pleasantly stoned, walked back into the house. We found the freshly showered Kat finishing up the dishes in the kitchen, while Jess, Rita, and Stephanie sat at the bar chatting with her. I guess Kat and Jess had shown some restraint in the shower. They were also indulging in some dessert. Their favorite one – cocaine. Stephanie had just polished off a line, and Jess had her head down, inhaling with her usual vigor.

“Do you want some, Katie?” I asked.

“I do, daddy, is that okay?” she said.

“Of course, sweetheart,” I said.

We walked around the side of the bar together, and Jess pulled me closer to her with one arm. With the other, she handed off the glass straw to Katie, who sidled up to the bar between Rita and Stephanie. That’s when I noticed what Rita was doing on her phone. The screen was familiar to me. It was a bluetooth vibrator remote control app. I caught Rita’s eye, and she flashed me a wink and glanced to her left. That’s when I noticed Stephanie squirming in her seat and biting her lip. Her eyes were glassy, and I could tell she focused desperately on not trying to scream.

“I see what you’re doing there,” I said to Rita, as Jess moved her hand, which had gripped my side, to between my legs to feel for my balls.

“You don’t quite,” Rita said confidently. “It’s not a vibrator. It’s a vibrating butt plug.”

I raised my eyebrows and said, “Sexy.”

“It feels so good,” Stephanie gasped.

“Getting her ready for me?” I asked.

Rita smiled at me, the cocky, cool smile I knew so well.

“Maybe,” she said. “If you’re a good boy.”

Katie helped herself to two long, thick lines, then turned around and kissed me.

“Come on, daddy,” she said. “I’m claiming my prize!”

We slipped our hands together and dashed upstairs to one of the guest rooms – leaving the primary bedroom for the others.

“Get on that bed, daddy,” Katie said, pushing me toward the mattress.

She slipped her arms through the strained straps of her tank top and pushed down the thin fabric. At the same time, she moved forward, causing me to bump up against the bed. She shoved down her cutoff shorts, then leaned down and pulled my shirt over my head before pushing me down.

“God, your tits are so fucking fine,” I said, reaching my hands to cup them.

“I want your dick inside me so badly,” Katie said, now working on my pants.

Her pussy glistened with arousal. Her eyes were wired and full of lust. I wanted to be inside her. I wanted to feel that connection with her. I had missed this. Katie had, too, because she didn’t even tease me for a moment.

“I need you,” I said, my breath heavy.

“You have me,” she said, shifting her hips to put the tip of my cock at her slippery opening. “All the way.”

With that, she smoothly bottomed out on my erection. It felt like heaven. Genuinely. Katie was always extremely tight, given her petite build. Her vaginal opening was simply very small physically, and I pushed my hips up to savor it. A dull pain shot through my left hip, so I pulled back.

“Just lie back, daddy,” Katie said, sensing it. “I’m taking control.”

“Jesus, kitten, you feel so fucking good,” I said, pushing my head into the soft mattress.

“I love when you call me kitten,” she sighed, running her hands through her hair and allowing her tits to jut out invitingly.

“You’re so tight,” I grunted as Katie started to move back and forth in long, deliberate strokes in and out of her velvety pussy.

“I haven’t been fucked in too long,” she said. “God, nothing feels better than sex on coke. It feels so fucking good.”

“I’ve missed you,” I said. “I love being inside you.”

“I need you, daddy,” Katie said. “I’m so horny for your dick. You are stretching me out!”

“I love my coked up slut,” I said, grasping for her tits.

“Daddy, I’ll also do coke and be your fuck toy,” she moaned. “I’m cumming! Fuck! I’m going to cum!”

It came out of nowhere, and her body spasmed. A gush of fluid came from her pussy and oozed down my cock, covering my balls. But Katie kept riding me, and I was ready to curse myself for being so close to my own climax so quickly. She sensed it, too.

“I’m going to take your load, daddy,” Katie said and leaned forward, pressing her breasts into my chest. “Then I’m going to clean your dick so I can taste us both together. Next I’m going to do a couple more lines of blow to help you get hard again, and I’m going to tell you about a fantasy I’ve been having while you put that big dick in my even tighter asshole. Okay, daddy?”

She spoke in low tones, whispering to me in a husky, smokey voice. The faint aroma of weed still permeated between us.

“I want to hear this fantasy,” I said, my words forced as my breathing became rapid and shallow.

“But, daddy, it’s so naughty,” Katie said, becoming a bit of a vixen. “I’m sort of embarrassed.”

“Tell me,” I said.

“Daddy,” Katie said, feigning reluctance.

“Kitten,” I said plaintively.

“I haven’t told you this,” Katie said, squeezing her kegel muscles as she moved up and down with incredible discipline. The friction was exquisite. “But I get so turned on watching you with other girls. It makes me wetter than anything else in the world.”

“Well, that’s a lucky thing,” I said, “since you live with three other girls.”

“Daddy, I’m serious,” she complained, never stopping the deliberate motion of her hips. The conversation was helping stave off my building orgasm.

“I am a bit of a pussy hound,” I said. “I always have been.”

“It’s the girls who fawn over you that turn me on the most,” Katie said. “Like Crystal. And oh my god when you get with Stephanie? I’m going to fucking cream myself.”

“One day that’ll happen,” I said with mock ruefulness. Rita tightly controlled Stephanie. It was part of the fun.

“I want to taste other girls on your dick, daddy,” Katie continued. “I want you to tie me up and fuck some hot little slut in front of me like you did with Kat in Vegas.”

My eyes got wide.

“Yes, daddy, we were talking about fantasies and fun memories while you were in the hospital,” Katie said. “You should have felt how wet Kat’s pussy got when she told me about that one. We really are your cuckqueans, Kat and I.”

“You’re really more vixens, you know,” I said with a chuckle. “I love when you fuck other guys. Especially Henry.”

“Oh, daddy,” she moaned, grinding against me harder, like she was going to cum again. “Henry has that dark side like I do. It’s a safe way to scratch that itch.”

“I hope you kept scratching it for the whole tour,” I said.

“Sorry to disappoint you, daddy,” Katie said. “I was too focused on getting back to you. Well, except for a couple blow jobs.”

“I like slutty Katie,” I whispered, my orgasm now bubbling up to a point where I couldn’t control it. I wanted her to talk dirty to me.

“I’ve always been a slut,” she said, sensing I was close and increasing her pace accordingly. “I cheated on my first boyfriend and have always been a slut since.”

“Have you cheated on me, baby?” I asked.

“No, daddy,” Katie said. “I don’t have to. We encourage each other. It wasn’t the sneaking around and cheating that did it for me. It was being a slut. I just wanted a lot of dick. I wanted different guys. It’s why you’re the first person I’ve ever truly loved. Because I can just be me and be valued for it. Not judged.”

“I do love you, kitten,” I said.

“If you love me, you’ll fill me with that load of cum, daddy,” Katie said, her voice taking on a deeper, more urgent tone. “I want to feel your sperm shoot in me. Then I’m going to snort some lines to get your hard again and make you take my asshole. I want to give you all my holes.”

“Fuck, that’s going to do it,” I grunted.

Normally, I would have bucked up my hips, but pain shot down my leg. Katie could tell. She pushed her pussy hard on my cock, her wetness coating me generously. I didn’t want to hold back, so I let the pleasure wash over me. My sperm felt hot and forceful as I ejaculated into her, and Katie threw her head back in joy as I filled her. She squeezed her thighs tightly, milking my cock with greedy skill.

“That’s it, daddy,” she said with a deep sigh. “Fill up your cumslut wife.”

She rolled off me and snuggled up against my side, her breasts mashing against my rib cage.

“Goddamn, I needed that,” I said, breathing heavily.

“So did I, daddy, so did I,” Katie said, giving my shoulder little kisses.

“I love thinking about what a slut you are,” I said, my cock already stirring again.

“I’ve always been a slut,” she repeated quietly. “Like, god, in college? It kind of makes me tingle to think about it.”

“Tell me,” I said.

“Fuck, I barely know where to start,” she said. “I was such a slut, daddy.”

“Tell me,” I repeated.

“So my long-term boyfriend?” she began. “He must have thought I had so many sorority things going on. I totally didn’t. Sometimes, I’d tell him there were sorority meetings two or three times a week. And I’d go out to a bar to meet up with a guy I’d found on Bumble or a sugar daddy site. I was totally transparent to those guys what I wanted. If they could get me coke, I’d fuck them. I would totally meet up and fuck for coke.”

She glanced down at my cock and saw it hardening again.

“I’m turning you on, aren’t I, daddy?” she said, sliding a hand down to touch my balls, still slick with our combined juices.

“I don’t think you’d ever told me that you literally fucked for drugs,” I said, my cock beginning to throb under the attention of her gentle hand.

“Oh, I did, daddy,” she said, shifting now so she could kiss me on the lips. “Sometimes I was a good girl for a week or two or even a month. But other times? I would fuck different guys two or three days in a row.”

“What excited you about it?” I asked.

“You know what excited me, daddy,” she said. “It wasn’t the cheating. It was the sex. And fucking on coke. I just loved it. My boyfriend was fine, but I needed way more sex than he would have ever given me. He got coke dick so badly, anyway, but even if he hadn’t, if he knew what a fucking nympho I was, he probably would have fallen so in love with me. And you know how I was about that until we met. I really didn’t form attachments to people. I had a huge sex drive, and I didn’t want to get a shitty reputation, so I targeted older guys and fucked a lot of them.”

Her breathing was getting more rapid again, too.

“I know I’ve told you that’s when I figured out I liked getting fucked rough,” she continued. “Fifty Shades was huge when I was in college, and it seemed like every guy fancied himself a BDSM expert. Mostly they were just lame as fuck, but there was one guy – I called him CG for Christian Grey – was so, so rough. He would spank me so hard that I had to make sure my boyfriend didn’t see the hand marks he left behind. But more than anything he would choke me. Holy fuck, did he choke me. Like, to the point of almost passing out. I liked the thrill of it. It felt dangerous. And he got great coke. So of the like fifty guys I probably met up and fucked for coke in college? He’s probably the only one if I saw him again, I’d ask you to let me fuck again.”

My cock was fully erect again now.

“Henry reminds you of him,” I said.

“He does,” she admitted. “But better. Henry reminds me of that whole time, and when I’m with him, it’s like I’m reliving that. It’s such a nice outlet, daddy, I’m not going to lie.”

“I like that you scratch that itch,” I said.

“Well, right now, I’ve got an itch for anal to scratch,” she said whimsically. “Do you think you can handle that?”

“I love your ass, my sweet wife,” I said.

“Take it then,” she said, “because it’s yours.”

I used my cum that was leaking out of Katie’s pussy to lube her asshole and shove my cock inside her. She took control again, and I didn’t last very long again. It felt like heaven being intimate with her again, alone. It made me miss my other wives, too. We needed this reconnection after all we had been through.

“Wow, wow, wow,” Katie said as she popped my cock out of her ass after I had shot a load of cum inside it. “Fucking incredible.”

“God, that was hot, babe,” I said.

“I thought I was almost going to pass out. I came so hard,” she said, still breathing hard as she put her sweaty temple against my chest.

“It feels so good to be with you, kitten,” I said.

“I love you, daddy,” she said.

We were quiet for a while, just feeling our hearts beat in rhythm. Then the inevitable topic crept into my mind. There was no reason to avoid it. We were going to have to confront it eventually, and the sooner the better.

“Has Riley talked to you about the European leg of the tour?” I asked.

“Not yet,” Katie said. “I mean, I think it’s just sort of, like, presumed.”

“I can’t imagine they were anything but over the moon to have you with them,” I said.

“It was fun,” she said. “And really special. I had no idea this could be something real for me, you know what I mean?”

“I do, darling,” I said, stroking her cheek lightly.

“I know it’s probably hard to do Europe,” she said. “For us, I mean. But the good thing is it’s only like six weeks. Way shorter. And Asia and Australia are even shorter still, with more time in between.”

“We’ll figure it out,” I said. “We always do.”

The quiet passed over us again. My thoughts drifted to my dreams of Katie and Henry, and it didn’t put me in the grips of fear. And I realized it – I was starting to feel more like myself again. Maybe, just maybe, the fog was starting to lift. Maybe there was some light at the end of the tunnel. Then Katie shifted a bit, and pain shot through my hip. The pain was deflating, and, in a flash, normalcy seemed miles away.

“Are you okay, daddy?” Katie said, seeing me wince.

“Yeah,” I said, grimacing. “I may need some K.”

“Do you want me to get it for you?” she asked, moving seamlessly into caretaker mode.

“No, no, I’m okay,” I said.

We fell silent. Katie looked at me with searching eyes. I couldn’t think of anything to say through my jumbled thoughts. She finally spoke up.

“Did I tell you what I’ve been doing when you all aren’t out on the road with me?” she said.

I looked at her quizzically, torn between the alternatives on how to respond, but Katie didn’t let me.

“Of course I didn’t,” she said. “I haven’t told anyone.”

“What is it?” I asked.

“I’ve been writing,” she said. “Songs. Like. An album. Maybe an album. But you know Riley has a piano in her suite always? Well, she’s been encouraging me and, actually, kind of helping me. Fuck, I really could use a line.”

She spoke quickly, the words pouring out in a torrent. Her cheeks flushed red. She was embarrassed.

“Really?” I said, smiling and perking up. “That’s incredible, Katie!”

I ran my hand through her hair, then touched her cheek.

“How could you not tell us this?” I said.

“I mean, it’s probably not any good,” she said, rolling her eyes.

But I could see an eagerness and excitement on her face. She thought she had something here.

“Don’t put yourself down,” I said. “You have more talent than you’ll ever give yourself credit for.”

“I don’t know, daddy, it’s just that,” she said and stopped. “Just because I’m hanging out with musicians who are really successful doesn’t mean I could be one, too.”

“Why not?” I challenged her.

“I don’t know,” she said again. “It’s funny, though, since I started smoking pot, I’ve felt really creative. Like it really sparks my creativity. Isn’t that so weird?”

She lunged forward slightly, like she was about to say something else. Then she held her tongue. It was too obvious for me not to notice.

“What?” I prodded her.

“What what?” she said innocently.

“What were you going to say?” I asked.

“Oh, um, nothing, really,” she said, the words coming haltingly.

“Kitten,” I said, narrowing my eyes at her. “I can tell when you want to tell me something.”

“I don’t really want to tell you,” she said quietly.

We paused briefly, and I looked at her with warm, adoring eyes.

“When you don’t want to, that’s the best indication that you should,” I said.

“I know,” Katie said.

She took a deep breath.

“A lot of us were talking about what’s next,” she said. “You know, with the U.S. tour being over. I mean, it’s less of an issue to me. I’m in Riley’s entourage. But BauHaus, with Emily and Jake, in particular ... well, you don’t usually get to be the opening act except on your home continent, you know?”