"Well… I hope the two of you can see just how foolish you've been."
Kate lowered her eyes and smiled. Mark did indeed feel foolish, and he resolved then and there that he would never leave his wife alone when she wanted him. Hell… life was too short not to take all he could. His marriage was more important than his job, and being a little late wouldn't make any difference at all.
Siegfried began to grow more and more impatient. With the scent of two naked women filling the room, it was all he could do to control himself, and he was certain that everyone had forgotten him. He leaped down from the couch where he had been patiently waiting and snuggled up tight against Niven.
"Well… looks like we have someone here who would like another round," the young blonde girl said with glee.
"He's such an amazing little cunt licker… Did you train him yourself?" Kate asked with admiration.
"Uh huh," Niven answered. She told the red-haired wife how she had run away from home and was picked up by the police. Since her parents didn't want her back, she had been put in a home for runaways, and one of the women there had a dog. "So when Martin found me, I had him get me Siegfried."
"Ooooooohhhhhh… you've really had a bad time of it," Kate said, feeling sorry. "I really wish there was something we could do for you."
"I'll second that," Mark said. "Kate and I… we owe you our marriage."
"I think something could be worked out," Martin said.
"And you would be the person to come up with something," Mark said pleasantly. "You're quite a bright young man."
Martin beamed. He had known all along what he was going to do at this point. "Suppose the three of you go into the bedroom and take care of Siegfried. I'm certain Niven will have some pretty interesting ideas in that department."
"Good idea," Mark said. "But what about you?"
"I have to go to the apartment for something, I'll join you a little later," he answered.
Niven squealed her delight and brought her arms around Kate and Mark. The three of them went into the bedroom, followed by Siegfried. Niven was already suggesting things that the four of them could do.
Martin waited until they were out of sight, and then he gathered his clothes. Slipping into his pants, he slinked through the hall to pack those things he really wanted. All the rest could be left behind. He really didn't need anything that he couldn't buy later, and he still had more than enough money to buy what he had to…
EPILOGUE
The morning sunlight streamed in through the bedroom window of the Hutchs' apartment. Siegfried who had fallen asleep on the bed sandwiched between the naked bodies of Niven and Kate, opened his eyes and looked around. It smelled like early morning to him, but he was eager and ready to get started on another day. He couldn't remember a time when he had had so much fun as the night before. He was totally exhausted from licking and fucking the two women, sometimes sharing them with the man who was still asleep on the other side of the bed. He liked the new people he had spent the night with, and he could sense he would be spending a lot more time with them. His animal mind noticed that a strong bond had been formed between the young blonde girl who was his mistress and the two people who lived in the apartment next to his. And the new man didn't mind at all sharing either of the women with him.
He got to his feet and went over to sniff at the blonde girl, his actions waking her. When Niven stirred, she woke Kate and Mark.
"Uuuuuuummmmm… good morning," Kate said in a sleepy voice, looking at the clock and noticing that there was a good hour before Mark had to get up and go to work.
"Good morning, love," the husband said, slipping his arm around his wife's naked waist. "Shit, I don't think I'll ever recover from last night."
"Where's Martin?" Niven asked, a slight panic giving an edge to her voice.
"I don't see him," Kate said, lifting her head and looking around. "Didn't he come back at all last night?"
"Jesus," Niven said, pulling herself off the bed and wandering out of the bedroom into the living room. "I thought he did, but there was so much fucking I couldn't tell which end was up."
Kate and Mark followed her out of the bedroom, both of them slipping into their bathrobes. Even though they had just spent a passionate, lust-filled night with her, they still felt a little uncomfortable about walking around in the nude.
"It doesn't look as though he was here at all last night," Niven said. "All his clothes are gone."
As though she were in a panic, she bolted from Kate's and Mark's apartment through the hall to her own.
Everything was still there, though there was no sign of Martin. A closer, more careful look revealed that his suitcase and some of his favorite clothes were gone. Kate and Mark came up behind her, looking around for some sign of the man who had completely changed their lives. Niven was so distraught that she looked like she would go all to pieces, and this baffled Mark. She had seemed so strong, so confident. He didn't think it was possible for her to fall apart like this.
Kate was in possession of herself a little more than Niven, and she found an envelope addressed to the three of them, and Siegfried! Opening it, she quickly read through Martin's poor handwriting, trying to make out what he had said. Niven was leaning up against Mark for support, trying her best not to cry. It seemed to her as though her whole world had collapsed around her. She had known that Martin would leave someday, but she had not wanted to think about it until she had to. Now, the only thing on her mind was that she was alone, and the possibility that she would have to go back to the half-way home depressed her terribly.
"It says here that he thanks us all for being such good sports about his adventure," Kate said. "He wishes the four of us the best, and he hopes that Mark and I will look after you."
"He what?" Mark said, still trying to clear the cob-webs from his sleepy mind.
"He mentions something about adopting Niven," Kate continued. "He thinks the two of us will give her the guidance she still needs."
"Adopt…? How old are you, anyway?" Mark asked the lovely naked blonde girl.
"You mean you can't tell? Really? I'm… I'm sixteen," she said, as though she were ashamed to admit it.
"I thought you seemed a little young," Kate remarked. "You may have seen a lot of the world, but there are still some things you haven't done… important things that were pretty obvious to me."
"Martin's gone," Niven said, not wanting to believe it but not really having a choice.
"Hey… come on now," Mark soothed. "You think that Kate and I would just put you out of our lives? After all we've been through, that could never happen. I like the idea of having you around. You might be a little young but there's plenty we could learn from each other."
"You… you mean that?" Niven was beaming. Martin had been the only good thing that had happened in her life and the thought that something good was going to happen again was almost too much for her to hope for.
"Sure he means that," Kate told her. "And if Martin hadn't suggested it, I'm sure one of us would have thought of it."
"Tell you what," Mark said, coming next to his wife and circling his arm around her. "I'll look into the paper work today at work. There should be some legal problems, but nothing to serious."
Niven was speechless. She couldn't believe that these two wonderful people were actually going to take care of her. It was too much! She couldn't hold back her tears of happiness.
As she laid her head against Mark's shoulder and cried, Kate leaned over and whispered into his ear. "You think you'll have time for that?"
"Babe, I'll make the time… for that and a lot of other things," he answered. "We were really lucky. We nipped our problems in the bud. Things could have gone sour before the marriage was started."