Melanie stood naked in the foyer of John’s house, her clothes strewn on the floor.
She was just as beautiful as he anticipated she would be.
John’s penis stirred. It had been too long since The Lion had feasted.
Chapter 1
John Lyon was an attorney in Chicago. His practice always involved taking on big companies on behalf of the little guy. He took on all shapes and sizes. Drug companies, insurance companies that consorted to cheat customers, automobile companies, and more. He was a ferocious litigator and became aptly named The Lion. He virtually never lost. And even a “loss'' usually resulted in his client being well compensated in some manner by the guys he took on, admitting at least partial guilt and paying for the wrong.
He’d practiced in a large firm for a while then left with only his brilliant paralegal and started on his own. His cases sometimes took years to litigate, but when he won, the settlements would be in the millions and millions of dollars. As he worked on contingency, he made millions and millions. By all accounts, he was a wealthy man.
He grew up in Chicago and played tennis and golf, but golf was his love. He played in college, not a star but a good solid player, never wanted to go pro, and carried his passion into his later years.
He married Cindy O'Neill, another law school classmate. She went to work in a succession of nonprofits helping them grow. She became a beloved feature all around the Chicago area known for the causes she helped. She was kind, caring, beautiful, and loved to fuck John’s eight-inch dick, hard, fast, and long. She was adventurous, rude, and crude around John, but gracious and charming to all people. She fucked, sucked, anal-ed, toyed, did it often, and always with a brazen joy. John was smitten and bitten by the love bug and never relinquished it.
Until she died.
After leaving the large law firm, John started a private practice with his paralegal Margaret (Maggie) Shell. Margaret was brilliant. Once John went into private practice and he had more choice on the clients he represented, and they had more time, so he sent Margaret to Law School. She graduated Valedictorian in two years and the firm became Lyons & Shell. John was the largest stakeholder, but over time Maggie became wealthy too. John was approaching age sixty and was done. He wanted to slow down. Maggie could run things easily and he could take a back seat. Besides, the last case almost killed him, literally.
He was suing a trucking company for a wreck that occurred leaving their client, a driver paralyzed after the truck hit head-on. Turns out the trucking company was self-insured, and they used the case to file bankruptcy and tried to rid themselves of the suit in that manner. The trucking company w also a front for a sex trafficking operation run by some real nasty people. The truck that hit his client was carrying Honduran refugees, primarily women, destined for the sex trade. Most were killed in the wreck. It was a mess.
As John and Maggie started pushing through all the ownership of the company, it got even messier with offshore accounts, shell companies. The Russian mafia was involved. But, there were a few “real” companies involved and so they went after them. The Russians weren’t happy that their legitimate businesses were being attacked. Intimidation, threats to not only the client but to John, Maggie and their team of four people mounted and mounted. Maggie even had her car run off the road one night. The driver didn’t stop. It was a warning.
One trying day, John received a cryptic text message from a friend who was in the FBI. It said only, “Want help?” This case didn’t seem destined for the feds, but John knew this was a real guy so he called him. It was not what he expected. John’s friend told him that a security firm had noticed some really dirty online traffic (their description) and offered to help. John queried for more and the FBI agent couldn’t or wouldn’t give him any more information. He did say, “These guys are friends of mine from college. I trust them with my life. Just say, yes.”
So John did.
Within days the pressure relented, it actually disappeared. The illegal business fronts that John had found were basically gone. One of the remaining “legitimate” companies offered to settle with John’s clients for many millions of dollars more than was asked.
John accepted for his client, knowing that was what was right, but he didn’t feel particularly good about it. He did send his friend in the FBI a simple, “Thanks.” No reply was needed.
With that, John announced his “semi-retirement”. He and Cindy headed to Europe for two months. Three weeks into the trip, his wife received an urgent message from her doctor. She replied and found that she had pancreatic cancer.
Cindy fought like hell for almost two years. In the end, it was peaceful.
After, John didn’t leave the house for months on end. His son, daughter, and son-in-law were the only people he had even minimal communication with. They made sure he had food.
A little less than one-year into his mourning period, John arose. It was a beautiful spring day. The sun was shining. It was still cold, but you knew spring was around the corner.
John felt a little less dead.
He called his daughter first and asked her to help him clean out the house. He called his son and asked him where he should start working out. He opened a window, took a deep breath, said a prayer, and returned to the living.
Fast forward, two months later John was much more fit, he was eating well again and even was putting on a bit of weight he had lost during his mourning period. He called his buddy Craig, the head pro at the country club he belonged to and set up some golf lessons. He hadn’t touched a club in almost three years, he was rusty.
He headed to the club a few days later. Craig was a college golf teammate, a better player than John, who went pro, was not quite good enough for the tour, but a great club pro and earned enough to provide for his wife Annie and their three children. John helped Craig get the job at the club, a perfect position for a good man who loved his family and loved golf. They were best friends. Annie had been Cindy’s close friend too.
John and Craig hugged for a long time when they saw each other at the club. There was nothing to say. But it was nice for John. They went out and hit some shots. John was rusty, but soon his natural swing with a little adrenaline and some instruction and he was hitting the ball passably well. He headed out to play nine-holes. It was good.
As spring turned into Summer, John got in eighteen holes two-three times a week, always alone, hit a lot of balls, and saw his game round back into good shape. He was in his early sixties, fit, had an all new wardrobe to adjust for his new weight and he was well off financially. He’d even started to work a day or so a week at the office helping Maggie and her great team now expanded by two-more lawyers and four paralegals, all women. John actually liked that quite a bit.
Craig and Annie invited John to dinner at the club with them one Friday. John met them in the bar, and as he walked in he was warmly greeted by all of the members that he’d known for all the years, that he and his wife had known for all these years. It was a homecoming of sorts, it was warm and welcoming and… nice. They sat and had a wonderful meal though they were continually being interrupted by well-wishers, both for the pro and for John. It was… nice. It was... normal. John knew he’d never forget Cindy, but realized it was time to live again.
A week later he went to a party at the club. It was a nice large party, so John could blend in easily. It was fun. There were some really good-looking women there too. John even felt something stirring, but there wasn’t much he could do as all of them were married. He made the rounds and at one standing table was Melanie Johnson by herself nursing a drink.
Melanie was one of Cindy's best friends at the club. She’d married young to Ben Johnson, a trust fund baby, and total asshole. Ben’s father was an asshole. Melanie bore three-fine young men who were all totally ignored by their father and grandparents. He was a womanizer and drunk. Why she stayed with him was a mystery.
Melanie was strikingly beautiful.
John walked around and said hello, Melanie was a bit taken aback as she’d not seen John for so long. She recovered, hugged him, and then began quietly crying on his shoulder telling John how much she missed Cindy. John teared up immediately, they stepped apart so as not to cause a scene, but both were happy to see the other.
Melanie caught John up on the kids, not a word was spoken about her husband other than he was on a golf trip in Palm Springs and she wasn’t sure when he’d be back. Melanie never said a bad word about Ben, but what she didn’t say was the truth. John spoke the truth that after his wife’s death, he hadn’t ventured out for a long time, but now he thought he was ready. He was mostly.
They ordered another drink and moved to a more comfortable table away from the noise of the party. They talked of nothing and everything. They had a few snacks, another drink and kept talking. John had forgotten how nice it was to talk to a beautiful woman. He felt his penis stir again.
Finally, they said their goodbyes with a nice hug, a quick sniff by John of Melanie’s perfume, and off they went in separate directions.
John got home and poured himself a good-sized glass of bourbon. A bit of ice was added and he headed to the den. Just as he walked in, his alarm system sent a beep. Someone was driving up the long driveway to the house.
Since the last case, John had installed a security system that monitored everything moving in and around the house. The house was big, it was somewhat secluded so being cautious seemed prudent after what they’d been through. When he took on the trucking company, and following a text from his FBI buddy, a security company had shown up at this door the next day to hook up his house and surroundings.
They secured his house, his kid’s houses, Maggie’s house, and all of their employees' houses within a couple of days. The tall young man who orchestrated it all assured him he didn’t think this was anything but precautionary, but still smart to do. John agreed. John’s smartphone became his tool to monitor the safety and security around the house, plus more. John looked at his phone and it had already sent to him the license plate number and the car owner’s name: Melanie Johnson.
Perplexed, John strode to the front door. Melanie had been to the house many, many times as a close friend of his wife’s and at a bunch of fundraising parties and events. She knew her way to the front door.
She stepped out of the car and walked purposefully to the door. John was waiting. She was a bit unsteady walking up the steps. She may have stayed for an extra drink, John thought. When she reached the door, she glanced at the drink in John’s hand and said, “Can I get one of those?” He opened the door so she could get through, but once in, he thought better of it.
“Melanie. What are you doing here?”
Melanie turned. She stripped her jacket off and laid it on the chair nearby. She reached around and unzipped her dress, letting it fall to the floor. She undid her bra. She bent over and pulled her thong to her ankles and kicked them away. She stood there, naked.
She said nothing
John’s penis was now aching inside of his pants. But caution remained. He pulled out his phone, focused it on Melanie’s beautiful body, and took a picture. He then started to shoot some video with his voice-over, “Melanie. Please say that you came into my house without invitation, you are here of your own volition.” She did so.
He stopped recording.
He hit a couple of buttons on his phone and said, “Melanie, I am getting ready to send the picture and video to a secure location. I will never use this for any purpose other than if you make any claims in the future about how you arrived here and what you are going to do. Do you agree with that?” She said yes.
He reached for her hand, then said, “Let’s get you a drink.” and then pulled her into his den. He poured a drink for her, sat her in a chair, pulled a blanket from the back of the sofa, and covered her so she’d stay warm. She thanked him. He sat in a chair across from her. He waited and she began to tell her story.
“I loved Ben when we met in college. He was so kind and generous. It didn’t matter to him that I was a scholarship girl with no money. We were so in love. We dated all through the four years. I never met his parents, I was never asked to come to Chicago, I was his at school.
“I was careful, but I got pregnant my senior year. Ben was ecstatic. He asked me to marry him. I loved him and agreed. We went to the courthouse, got a marriage certificate, and got married. Until that time I didn’t know how much money he had. I kept bugging him to meet his parents, but it was almost like he was ashamed of them. In a way he was. They had always controlled him with money.”
“He reluctantly took me to his home and we suffered through the most miserable experience with his father and mother. They weren’t happy Ben married below his state, I couldn’t be good enough for him, and on and on. Right in front of me, right to my face. They wanted Ben to get an annulment and for me to get an abortion. For once in his life, he refused them something. They threw us both out of the house. They cut Ben’s money off.”