Chapter 1

It was a warm Tuesday afternoon, around 2:00 I would say. I was out front of my place, cutting the grass when I saw Amber pull into my driveway.

Amber (named after her hair color) was my brother’s wife and they lived across town in one of the nicer neighborhoods in the city. My neighborhood wasn’t that bad – it was a clean, friendly, blue-collar ‘hood – but theirs was more upper class and wealthier. My brother was a doctor, you see, while I was a firefighter/paramedic. We used to kid around that I brought all my “problems” to him!

I shut off the mower as she approached. “Hi James, how’s it going?” she said.

“It’s going. How are things on the nice side of town?” I joked.

“Oh you know, it’s all champagne and caviar!” she mocked.

“Tough break. What can I do for ya, Sis?” I asked.

“Can we go inside and talk for a bit?” she asked.

Hmm ... something’s up I thought. “Sure c’mon in.”

We went inside, me holding the door for her. Mama brought us boys up to be gentlemen!

“Can I get you something to drink? I have soda and some sweet tea I made this morning.”

“I’ll take a glass of sweet tea, thanks.” So she sat at the breakfast bar while I got us both a glass of sweet tea.

“So, what’s up Amber?” I asked.

“James, I don’t know what I’m going to do. You know your brother and I are trying to have a baby. We’ve actually been trying for about a year now. But so far we haven’t been able to get pregnant. We have tried everything. Every position we think might help, we have tried timing my ovulation days, we’ve tried porn movies and different sexual aids, anything and everything that we think might help. But so far, nothing has worked.

“So a couple of weeks ago I went to my OB/GYN and she tested me. I came back fine – according to the tests, there’s no reason why I can’t get pregnant. Which leaves only one possible answer. Robert must be shooting blanks. For some reason, his sperm isn’t up to the job.

“Now he hasn’t been tested – he doesn’t even know I got tested. As far as he’s concerned, we just haven’t gotten lucky yet. But I’m worried, James. I know he wants a family more than just about anything. He wants to have kids and so do I, but if we don’t get pregnant soon ... I just don’t know.”

“Well, Amber honey, I wouldn’t worry about it too much. Robert is a smart guy and a good man. If you two can’t get pregnant, I’m sure he will understand.”

“I don’t know James ... he’s pretty set on having kids and you know as well as I do, when Robert sets his mind on something, everything else better get outta his way!”

“You don’t think he would leave you thinking it’s your fault he can’t have kids, do you? I mean not Robert...” I said.

“I don’t know James. I know he wants kids really bad. He thinks it will make him less of a man if he doesn’t have a child ... if he can’t reproduce. And if he ever found out that he was the problem ... I hate to think of what he might do. He is a proud man James, as you well know. I am scared ... really scared.”

“Do you want me to talk to him? You know, brother to brother.”

“Oh no James, please! He can’t know about this! He can’t know that I came to you with this and that I got tested! Oh, that would really set him off! He can’t ever know he is the reason we can’t have children.”

“Well, what can I do then Sis? I want to help somehow ... you guys deserve to be happy.”

“That’s what I wanted to talk to you about. I have an idea ... it’s kind of radical and unorthodox, but it might just work...”

“What is it Amber, you know I’ll do whatever I can do to help.”

“Would you ... fuck me?”

“What? Are you crazy Amber? Robert is my brother!” I said, shocked at such a suggestion.

“No, James, I’m not crazy, I’m desperate. I love your brother with all that I am. I couldn’t stand it if he was to leave me. I can’t let him leave me. Now you two look a lot alike – the same features and hair color. You are bigger than him body-wise, but other than that you could almost be twins. If you were to get me pregnant, I can’t believe we couldn’t pass the kid off as his. He would think he was able to get me pregnant and he would think it’s his baby. Only you and I would know the truth.”

“Still, Robert is my brother. What you’re asking is...”

“Look James, I wouldn’t ask this if there was any other way possible. But we have tried everything, Robert and I, and I have thought long and hard about this. I have tried to come up with every possible scenario that I could think of and cover every what if. And this is the only way I can find that I can keep my Robert.

“Besides James, I see the way you look at me. When we come over for a barbeque or something, I see those sly, furtive glances you give me. You can’t sit there and admit you wouldn’t like a crack at me. Well, if you help me with this, you can have me whenever you want as long as Robert is gone to work at the hospital. I do get lonely when he has to work the night shift, you know. Or when he has to attend some medical convention, which happens about twice a year.”

I had to admit she was right about the glances. I had always been a little jealous of my big brother for hooking such a beautiful woman as Amber. And I had wondered what it would be like to have her in my bed instead of his. Robert had told me on more than one occasion – when she wasn’t in the room, of course – what a hot little firecracker his redhead was. Which only fueled my fantasies even more. I wasn’t much of a one-night-stand kinda guy, but if the promise of more return visits was on the table...

“I’ll tell you what, Sis. I’m not saying no, but I need to think about this for a bit. This is a big decision, and I want to weigh it out for myself before I decide one way or another.”

“Fair enough. But don’t take too long. I want to get this deed done and get on with having ‘Robert’s’ baby.”

She drank the last of her sweet tea and set the glass down. “Well, James, I’d better get back and get dinner started. Thanks for the sweet tea and thanks for listening.”

“That’s okay, Sis.”

I walked Amber to the door and just as we got there she turned. “Oh, one more thing...” then she pulled me into a deep, powerful kiss – a kiss that made my cock hard and made fireworks go off in my mind. I felt her mouth open, a clear invitation for my tongue, and she devoured it when it accepted. We kissed hard like that for several moments.

“Holy shit, Sis, what was that for?” I gasped when she finally let me up for air.

“Just wanted to give you a little ‘preview’ of what’s in store for you if you agree. And if you think I kiss good...” she said with a sly smile. Then she turned and walked off to her car leaving me standing at the door with my mouth hanging open.

The next week was a busy one at the department. Which was good, I guess, it helped keep my mind off Amber’s proposal. It helped, it didn’t wipe it completely away and it didn’t help me make a decision. But at the end of my work week, I came home with my answer.

“Hi Amber, it’s James. Is Robert at work?” I asked, calling her on the phone.

“Yeah, he should be getting home around 6:30, why?”

“Good, that gives us a couple of hours to talk. Can you come over and discuss the matter we talked about before?”

“Sure! I’ll be over in about ten minutes!” she hung up the phone.

She sure sounds excited I thought. I hope she’s going to be as excited when she gets here!

It took her less than the ten minutes she had allotted to get to my house – either she hit all the lights just right, or she straightened out a corner or two on her way to my place! In any case, she arrived, and as she pulled into the driveway, she barely let the car stop before jumping out of it and scampering up to the door. I was watching for her so she didn’t have to knock, I already had the door open for her.

“I’m here! What is it James?” she panted for breath.

“First off, come over here and sit down and catch your breath! Damn Sis, I didn’t say you had to run over here! Sit down and calm yourself. Do you want some sweet tea, maybe a Valium?” I chuckled.

“A sweet tea is fine. Sorry, but when you said you wanted to discuss the matter we talked about before, I knew why you wanted me to come over. So what did you decide?” she asked.

“First the sweet tea.” I went to get us a couple of glasses of sweet tea and brought them back to the sofa and gave her one.

“C’mon James, don’t keep me in suspense! What did you decide?”

“Okay, okay. Amber, I have thought a lot about your problem and your offer. And even though it goes against my grain, I understand and appreciate the necessity of what you are proposing. I will help you, but I have a few conditions.

“First and foremost, you have to swear that Robert will never, ever find out what we are about to do. I mean it – even if, God forbid, you and he should get a divorce down the line sometime, this goes with you to the grave. Even if it’s a messy, nasty, hateful divorce, this subject is off-limits. Robert is my brother and I do not want a family dispute over my trying to help you two.”

“Agreed. The last thing I want to do is to come between my two favorite guys!”

“Secondly, any playing between us has to be done here at my house. People around here are used to seeing you and Robert come over so they won’t think anything is weird. But we can’t be seen going in and out of a hotel room or anything.

“Check. Anything else?”

“We will have to make sure that Robert is safely at work or gone so that he won’t be making any unplanned trips home to find you not there and then come over here looking for you. That wouldn’t do at all, finding you and me in bed together.”