Chapter 12

For the next several days either Jessica or David was constantly by Gwen’s side. She still shivered when she heard the doorbell and became anxious when left alone even for a moment, but gradually the love and devotion of her son and future daughter-in-law began to restore some degree of normalcy for her. Three weeks after the incident Gwen began sleeping by herself as long as Jessica and/or David was in the house. Well meaning neighbors who knew nothing of what had happened but had not seen Gwen, asked and were told she was “under the weather” and simply needed rest. A couple of casseroles and an apple pie appeared and three of her neighbors dropped by to see if they could help. Gwen was not up to visitors but Jessica and David thanked and assured them she was recuperating and they would be seeing her again soon.

Slowly the old Gwen began to reemerge. Four months later as the snow was falling outside and the three sat around the fireplace having wine Gwen made her announcement.

“I’m so very grateful for all the two of you have done for me these past months. I know it’s been hard on both of you. I ... want very much to bring things back the way they were. I know you postponed your wedding to take care of me. I will forever be so grateful to you both. But now I want us to be the way we were. I want you to go forward with plans for your wedding, and I want us to revive our ... arrangement.”

“You mean... ?” asked Jessica.

“Yes, I’m ready to stay by myself. I admit I love having either or both of you here with me, but I also know how unfair that is. I want you two to resume your normal life and I will resume mine.”

“All of it?” asked David.

“All of it,” she answered letting her robe fall open and reveal she wore nothing underneath.

Their lovemaking, the first in months, was slow and gentle and Gwen’s first orgasms were certainly pleasurable but not intense. That changed however over the course of the evening as the wine and the long absence of intimacy combined to bring Gwen as well as Jessica and David orgasms they would not soon forget.

A month later Jessica and David were married in a small simple ceremony with only a handful of friends present. Gwen gave the bride away as Jessica had never known her father and her mother had died several years before. Howard was nowhere to be seen even though he had told Gwen and David he would try to make the ceremony.

While on their honeymoon Gwen realized how much she loved and missed them both. For one uncomfortable evening memories of Katka came rushing back, but she busied herself with housework and TV and was able to ward off the near panic which tried to overtake her.

Two weeks later the three were reunited and life settled into a wonderful combination of romance and eroticism. Gwen always looked forward to Mondays with David and Thursdays with Jessica and often the three would go out to dinner or take in a movie or concert. Gwen marveled at how lucky she was to have not only a son but a daughter-in-law who loved her enough to include her in their lives in the way they did. She knew it was highly unconventional and some would say perverted, but while she still lost herself in the sensual aspects of the arrangement, she knew it was love and compassion which kept them together and afforded the true pleasure and satisfaction which they all derived from each other.