Hot Java - by Specter

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Tales from the Amazon Bean Coffee Shop

(Hot Java) by Spectre

“You suddenly got very quiet,” said Stephanie to Lindsey, as she and Lindsey sat quietly together enjoying a bottle of wine. “Well babe,” replied Lindsey in a rather mischievous tone of voice, “the truth of the matter is; I was thinking about all of the deliciously wicked things that I have planned for you this evening.

Intrigued by what she had just heard, Stephanie snuggled even closer to Lindsey. As she did so, she softly giggled and said in a voice full of hopeful anticipation, “deliciously wicked. Hmmm, I like the sound of that.” This was quickly followed by “tell me more.”

Sensing that she had just been given the “green light” to proceed, Lindsey reached over and gently took the nearly empty wine glass from her lover’s hand and set it aside. As she did so, she looked directly into Stephanie’s pale blue eyes and said, “I think I would rather show you instead.”

With that, Lindsey slowly placed her hands beneath Stephanie’s bulky sweater and without saying a word, she began ever so slowly to inch the cumbersome garment upwards. As her lover’s cute little “outie” of a belly button came into view, Lindsey paused just long enough to bend down and briefly nibble upon it before continuing.

For Stephanie, the feel of Lindsey’s tongue gently tickling her exposed tummy quickly proved too much for her to take and she responded by drawing her lover into a passionate and heated kiss. “Whoa girl, slow down,” gasped Lindsey as she finally managed to break free of her lover’s tight embrace, “we have all night.”

Having said this, Lindsey then quickly pushed the eager young woman back down onto the couch and straddled her torso. With control of the situation now more or less returned to her, Lindsey quickly returned to the matter at hand. A few moments later, Stephanie’s sweater lay in a crumpled heap upon the floor.

Now that she had relieved Stephanie of her sweater, Lindsey hungrily turned her attentions towards the delicate little wisp of silk that was her lover’s bra. Though she and Stephanie had only been lovers for a short time, Lindsey never the less had become quite familiar with the size, shape, and feel of Stephanie’s breasts. As such, perched as she was above her lover, Lindsey was in an excellent position to take note of the subtle yet obvious changes that had begun to take place as a result of the small amount of reducing formula that she had coated Stephanie’s wine glass with.

Considering the situation, Lindsey knew that what she should be seeing was Stephanie’s rock hard nipples straining against the sheer fabric of her bra. Rock hard those two little nipples certainly were, but now that Stephanie had started to dwindle, those luscious little nipples now barely made any indentation at all against the silken cups of her bra.

Excited by what she knew to be happening, yet determined to make the most of the situation and to savor the thrill of watching her lover dwindle beneath her, Lindsey fought back the urge to immediately unclasp Stephanie’s bra and to feast upon the slowly diminishing breasts contained within. Instead, though it took ever once of will power to keep from doing just this, she slowly began to lightly run her fingers over the thin barrier of silk that covered her lover’s slowly dwindling breasts.

When she finally tired of this, Lindsey playfully inserted a finger into what should have been the delightfully snug little valley that lay nestled between her lover’s breasts. This time however, Lindsey found that she had room to insert not one, but two fingers. This fact excited her greatly and she responded to her discovery by slowly moving her fingers downward until they made contact with the bottom portion of Stephanie’s now somewhat oversized bra. Having reached her intended destination, Lindsey then worked her fingers underneath the small clasp that held the bra in place and gently pulled the now somewhat loose fitting garment away from her lover’s breasts.

Peering into the gap that she had just created between Stephanie’s breasts and the cups of her bra, Lindsey smiled and thought to herself, “it would take quite a lot of padding to fill all this empty space.” Still she mused, “small as they now are, Steph’s tits still look mighty tasty.” With that, she quickly unclasped the now useless garment and lowered her mouth into contact with her dwindling lover’s now much smaller right breast.

Still unaware of the fact that she was dwindling, Stephanie responded to the feel of her lover’s moist lips upon the sensitive flesh of her right breast by rising up onto her elbows and thrusting her chest forward in an attempt to force more of her heated flesh into her lover’s mouth.

Perhaps if she had not been so thoroughly under the sway of the reducing formula’s powerful libido enhancing effects, she might have realized that she was now almost a foot shorter than normal. As it was, Stephanie was oblivious to almost everything taking place, including most especially, the fact that as she writhed in pleasure beneath her lover’s talented tongue, her once fashionably tight hip huggers had began to slip downward, and in so doing, had pulled her panties down as well, seductively exposing just a hint of her downy soft fur to view.

For Lindsey, seeing Stephanie like this excited her more than she ever would have believed possible. As to why this should be the case, Lindsey was unable to say.

Perhaps it was the knowledge that she was responsible for what was happening to Stephanie that excited her so. Then again, perhaps it was the way in which Stephanie’s dwindling body lay sprawled beneath her, eyes squeezed tightly shut, her tiny breasts heaving and jiggling like two small mounds of jello as she fought to bring her ragged breathing under control that had caused Lindsey’s own sex to moisten and quiver in anticipation of pleasures soon to come.

On the other hand, it could have been the way in which Stephanie’s once skin tight jeans now gave the dwindling woman the look of a little girl playing dress up in her big sister’s clothes that had caused Lindsey’s nipples to nearly punch through the fabric of her own bra.

Or maybe, it was the fact that Stephanie’s unclasped bra now lay draped around her small torso, the straps dangling about her elbows and the now quite useless cups resting lightly against the small of her back that excited Lindsey so much.

In any event, what ever the reason or reasons might have been, all that Lindsey knew for certain at this point was that she had to have Stephanie soon or she was going to explode.

As such, she quickly ceased her nibbling upon her lover’s now plumb sized breasts and like a moth drawn to a flickering flame, she began to ever so slowly kiss her way down Stephanie’s increasingly petite body, moving with each gentle kiss, ever closer to the downy soft patch of damp fur that now lay so enticingly exposed to her view.

As she reached her intended destination, Lindsey slowly and with great enjoyment reached into Stephanie’s now quite roomy jeans and gently slid her hands beneath the equally roomy pair of panties and into contact with the two quivering mounds of flesh that lay nestled within. With her hands now in the correct position, Lindsey proceeded to give Stephanie’s pert little bottom a gentle squeeze before she lifted the tiny woman out of her oversized garments.

With nothing now in the way to hinder her access to her dwindling lover’s delicate little sex, Lindsey quickly slid between Stephanie’s small thighs and lifted her lover’s tight little pussy into contact with her lips.

Her efforts on her little lover’s behalf did not go unrewarded, for soon, the welcome sounds of Stephanie’s high pitched little moans and whimpers filled the room. These sounds, combined with the fact that the air surrounding her was now filled with the intoxicating fragrance of Stephanie’s musky scent, drove Lindsey to become even bolder.

Placing her tongue squarely against her lover’s diminutive swollen outer lips, Lindsey gently began to slowly force her tongue into the moist and heated depths of Stephanie’s little pussy. As she did this, she quickly zeroed in upon her lover’s miniscule pleasure button and having done so, she speared it with the tip of her tongue. This proved too much for Stephanie to take and she soon screamed out in ecstasy as her first orgasm of the night came crashing down upon her.

“While that certainly was delicious,” murmured Stephanie as she lay recovering from her orgasm, “it certainly wasn’t something that I would consider to be all that wicked.” Laughing in response, Lindsey leaned forward and said in a voice full of mischief, “well my cute little munchkin, if you would care to open your eyes and take a look around, you might feel differently.”

“Munchkin!” Quipped Stephanie somewhat indignantly, “Who are you calling a munchkin? Just because your tits are bigger than… What ever else Stephanie might have intended to say died upon her lips as she opened her eyes and found much to her surprise, her height, or rather her lack of it, definitely placed her well within the munchkin category.

“Oh my god!” she squealed upon regaining her voice, “I’ve shrunk!” This was quickly followed somewhat angrily by “you witch! I can’t believe you did this to me without asking my permission first!”

Sensing that Stephanie’s outrage was more for show than real, Lindsey quickly slipped into the role that the moment seemed to call for and responded in a somewhat haughty tone of voice, “well babe, I told you that I had some deliciously wicked things planned for you tonight and besides, weren’t you the one who told me that you enjoyed being my little plaything?”

When Stephanie failed to respond, Lindsey began to worry that she had totally misjudged the situation and that Stephanie really was angry at her for slipping that reducing formula into her wine. As things turned out however, she need not have worried, for Stephanie’s next words quickly showed that she was anything but angry.

“Plaything!” snorted the little woman, “I guess I did say that, but just because I did, doesn’t mean that I’m going to forgive you for doing this to me…that is, at least not until I make you pay!”

With that, the little woman jumped from the couch, turned to face Lindsey and said in a voice full of challenge, “ok you oversized nymphomaniac, you want me, then you are going to have to catch me!” Having said all that she intended, Stephanie then bolted from the room.

“Why you little vixen,” roared Lindsey as she leapt from the couch and dashed after her diminutive lover, “run away from me will you; I don’t think so!” With challenge now issued and accepted, Lindsey easily slid into the role that Stephanie seemed eager for her to play, that of a cat chasing a mouse.

As befitted her role as the mouse in this little drama, Stephanie squealed in mock terror as she bolted from the room and ran as fast as her small legs would carry her down the hallway that led towards the imagined safety of her bedroom.

Lindsey on the other hand, made no sound at all as she slowly closed in upon her giggling prey. Since she knew that Stephanie could not possibly get the door to her bedroom open before she reached her, Lindsey decided to behave just like a cat would and toy with her shrunken lover a bit before closing in for the kill.

As such, she made a rather halfhearted attempt to grab the still giggling little woman. “Face it Lindsey,” quipped Stephanie as she easily dodged Lindsey’s attempt to capture her, “You are simply too big, too slow, and above all else, simply too FAT to catch little old me.” With that, Stephanie boldly stuck her tongue out and then scooted through the door into her bedroom.

“I’m going to make you pay for calling me fat,” said Lindsey somewhat ominously as she pushed her way into Stephanie’s room. “Ooooh I’m soooo sacred,” replied Stephanie somewhat sarcastically, as she boldly climbed up onto her bed. Once there, the little woman grabbed hold of a pillow and playfully tossed it at Lindsey. Though less than half her normal size, the diminutive woman still had sufficient strength to hurl the deadly feather laden pillow all the way across the room.

“Take that! You FAT cow!” Squealed the little woman in obvious delight as the terribly soft missile of destruction hit Lindsey squarely in the face. “That will teach you to not to mess with me! I may be small, but I’m still more than woman enough to deal with you.”

“Oh really?” replied Lindsey somewhat sarcastically as she bent down and picked up the lethally plush pillow, “those are bold words, especially coming as they are from someone as small as you now are.” This was quickly followed by “I had intended to go easy on you, but now that you have insulted me and attacked me,” honor demands that you be taught a lesson.”

With that, Lindsey playfully took aim at her still giggling little adversary and hurled the pillow that had so far wrought so much terrible destruction back at her tiny lover. As planned, her throw went wide of the mark. “Miss me, miss me, now you have to kiss me,” chanted Stephanie as she easily evaded the deadly incoming missile. With her attention focused as it was upon the pillow, Stephanie failed to notice Lindsey dashing across the room.

“Got you!” Yelled Lindsey in triumph as she leapt onto the bed and tackled her tiny lover. “Hey!” Squealed Stephanie in surprise, “no far! You cheated!” Laughing evilly, Lindsey leered down her struggling little captive and said in a rather ominous tone of voice, “well babe, as they say, alls fair in love and war, and this, my brazen little vixen is both!”

Secure in the knowledge that she now had the upper hand, Lindsey quickly set about showing Stephanie the error of her ways by unmercifully tickling her tiny captive until the poor little woman was close to tears.

“Stooooooooooop!” Squealed Stephanie as she wiggled and squirmed beneath Lindsey’s devastatingly effective tickle attack, “not until you apologize for calling me a fat cow,” roared Lindsey. “Never!” Was Stephanie’s defiant answer. “Well then,” laughed Lindsey, “perhaps this will make you see reason then.

With that, Lindsey leaned forward and brought her lips squarely into contact with her tiny lover’s heaving little tummy. With lips in place, she then performed that most dreaded and most feared of all tickle tortures, the wet willy.

As expected, such diabolical torture soon proved more than little Stephanie could endure. “Ok! Ok!” Squealed the helpless little woman, I give up!” “Not until” thripppft, “you” thripppft, “apologize” thripppft, “for calling me,” thripppft, “a,” thripppft, “fat cow!” Murmured Lindsey as she continued to administer Stephanie’s punishment. “Ok” squealed Stephanie, “I’m sorry you are a fat cow!” Thripppft, “not” thripppft, good enough,” was Lindsey’s response.

Realizing that her torment would not stop until Lindsey got the apology that she wanted; Stephanie quickly capitulated and did as her giant lover demanded. “As much as I enjoyed that,” murmured Lindsey as she ceased tickling Stephanie, “it’s not exactly what I had in mind when I promised to show you a deliciously wicked good time tonight. Oh well,” she chuckled as she leered down her now child-sized lover, “guess I will just have to remedy that.”

Though still somewhat exhausted from her recent tickle session, Stephanie never the less had sufficient strength remaining for one final counter attack. Determined not to submit until she had at least tried to even the score, she scooted out from beneath her giant lover and as she did so, she grabbed the collar of Lindsey’s sweater and yanked with all her might. As one might expect, her action caught Lindsey completely off guard and as a result, the larger woman quickly tumbled back onto the bed.

Laughing and squealing at the top of her small lungs, Stephanie then quickly followed up her initial assault by scampering around behind Lindsey and grabbing hold of the tail end of her lover’s sweater. Pulling as hard as she could, the little woman quickly yanked and tugged the sweater upwards until she had a clear view of the rear portion of her lover’s back, and perhaps more importantly, a view of the waistband of Lindsey’s panties as they peeked out the top of her jeans.

Realizing that she had at best a few seconds left to her before Lindsey recovered and recaptured her, Stephanie, quickly reached for the dainty bit of lace that was the top of Lindsey’s panties. Giggling at the thought of what she was about to do, the diminutive woman took hold and pulled on her lover’s panties as hard as she could; administering in the process, a rather substantial wedgie to her lover’s backside.

“Hey!” Yelled Lindsey as she felt her panties start to intrude into areas that panties are best left out of, “you are going to pay for that you little demon!” “Of that, I have no doubt,” giggled Stephanie as she leapt down off the bed and scampered towards the door. “But, before you can make me pay,” she said somewhat sarcastically, “you have to catch me first!” With that, Stephanie opened the door and bolted from the room squealing and giggling as she ran looking for yet another place to hide.

“Things definitely aren’t going the way I planned,” thought Lindsey as she watched Stephanie dash from the room. “But then again,” she said to herself, as she slowly began to remove her own clothing, “chasing a naked three foot tall Steph around the apartment certainly has turned out to be quite an adventure.”

Though eager to continue their little game of cat and mouse, Lindsey deliberately took her time undressing so as to give Stephanie sufficient time to find a suitable place to hide. “Well,” chuckled Lindsey as she tossed her panties aside, “at least Steph won’t be giving me any more wedgies tonight.” This was quickly followed by, “guess I’ve given the little vixen enough time to find her next hiding place.” With that, the now naked young woman headed out of Stephanie’s bedroom and once more resumed the hunt for her diminutive lover.

As things turned out, it did not prove too difficult to locate Stephanie. Rather than hiding as expected, Lindsey discovered the diminutive woman calmly sitting on the couch enjoying another glass of wine. “It’s about time you showed up,” said the little woman somewhat mischievously as she took another sip of wine.

“Steph,” said Lindsey in a somewhat amazed tone of voice, “you do realize that I coated your wine glass…the very same glass that you are drinking from now, with reducing formula, before I served you the wine tonight.”

“Well duh!” Giggled the little woman, “tell me something I don’t know.” Shaking her head in utter amazement, Lindsey looked down at her diminutive lover and said, “if you knew that, then why are you deliberately drinking from it again?”

“Well,” responded Stephanie somewhat impishly, “I was going to hide again, but then I thought, what’s the use in that, since you would eventually find me. “Besides,” she giggled, “I got to thinking about all those deliciously wicked things that you keep promising to do to me, and well…I decided to let you catch me.”

“Uhm….that’s…nice…Steph,” said Lindsey in a somewhat puzzled tone, “but what does that have to do with you drinking more wine out of that glass?”

“Oh that!” Exclaimed Stephanie rather enthusiastically, “As I said, I’m dying to find out what sort of deliciously wicked things you have planned, and since you seem unable to control me at my current impressive size, I decided to make myself easier for you to handle by cutting myself down to a more manageable size. Otherwise,” she said in a somewhat challenging tone, “you will be chasing me all night!”

With that, Stephanie calmly set her wineglass down, jumped down off the couch, and issued her final challenge of the evening. “Ok my fine buxom giantess,” she said with just a hint of defiance in her voice, “the time has now come for you to put your money where your mouth is. Either play me or trade me!”

“Why you little egomaniac!” Snorted Lindsey, I’ll show you!” With that, she reached down and scooped the little woman up and tossed her over her right shoulder. As she did this, she chuckled evilly and said, “when I get done with you my tasty little minx, you will be begging me to trade you!”

“Now this,” squealed Stephanie in obvious delight “is more like it!” Though amused by her diminutive lover’s sudden enthusiasm, Lindsey never the less took great care to ensure that Stephanie would not escape again. As such, upon entering her bedroom, she quickly set about immobilizing her tiny captive with several old pairs of silk stockings.

“And now, my helpless little beauty,” chuckled Lindsey somewhat evilly as she finished securing her tiny lover to the bed, “prepare for the ride of your life!” Though totally at the mercy of her giant-sized lover, Stephanie never the less remained as feisty as ever. “Well it’s about damn time,” replied the immobilized little woman somewhat petulantly, “outside of one teeny, and I do mean teeny orgasm, this so called night of deliciously wicked pleasure has so far been a waste of time.”

“Well then,” purred Lindsey, “we will just have to see if we can do something to make the rest of the evening more to your liking.” With that, Lindsey leaned forward and began to ever so gently kiss her diminutive lover’s tiny breasts. Taking first one and then the other breast completely into her mouth, she playfully teased Stephanie by alternately sucking upon and then lightly biting down upon the helpless little woman’s taut and increasingly sensitive nipples.

As she did this, Lindsey took full advantage of the little woman’s current predicament by allowing her right hand to slowly slide and tickle its way up the inside of Stephanie’s immobilized inner thigh until it finally made contact with the soft moist flesh of the diminutive woman’s quivering little pussy.

With her hand now in the correct position, Lindsey quickly placed her index and middle fingers astride Stephanie’s swollen outer lips and proceeded to tease the helpless little woman by slowly dragging her nails across the delicate little cleft of her lover’s miniature sex. “Yesssssssss, oooooooooh yessssssss,” murmured Stephanie in response to her lover’s actions, “that’s it, don’t stop!”

Sensing that she now had the tiny woman exactly where she wanted her, Lindsey decided that the time had now come to show Stephanie just exactly what she had meant by the words, deliciously wicked. As such, much to Stephanie’s dismay, Lindsey suddenly and without warning ceased what she was doing.

“Lindsey!” Moaned Stephanie rather plaintively upon realizing that she was about to be denied the orgasm that she so desperately wanted; “please, please, please, don’t leave me hanging like this; not when I’m so close to the edge!”

“Well since you asked so nicely,” chuckled Lindsey, “I guess I can see my way to finishing what I started.” With that, she calmly leaned forward and once more began to lightly drag her fingernails along the entire length of Stephanie’s much diminished but oh so sensitive little cleft.

“Is this what my baby wants?” Murmured Lindsey as she slowly pushed a finger past her lover’s swollen outer lips and gently began to slide her finger into and out of the diminutive woman’s slippery little pussy. Though unable to voice a coherent response, it soon became quite evident to all concerned that Lindsey’s actions were exactly what Stephanie wanted, because almost immediately, the little woman began to softly moan and in so much as her bonds would allow, she began to thrust her small hips against her lover’s giant-sized finger.

“Now, now!” Chuckled Lindsey somewhat evilly, “none of that! This is after all, supposed to be a night of deliciously wicked fun, and how can it be that?” She mischievously asked, as she slowly withdrew her finger from within her little captive’s moisture saturated sex, “if I don’t tease you a bit first?”

“Lindseeeeeeey!” Wailed Stephanie as she ineffectually struggled to free herself, “I’ll do anything you want….but please…oh god…please don’t leave me hanging like this!” In response, Lindsey, leaned forward and gently began to stroke and caress the frantic little woman’s tiny erect nipples. As she did this, she laughed and said, “Steph, I promise you, before the night is over, you will get to experience an orgasm the likes of which you have only dreamed of, but for now, you will simply have to wait.”

With that, Lindsey got to her feet and headed over to her closet. Once there, she spent the next several minutes playfully rummaging around, casually tossing bits of clothing here and there before she finally found a small brightly wrapped package. “What have we here?” She asked rather mischievously as she made her way back over to the bed. This was quickly followed by, “hmmm, the note on it says for Stephanie, but since you are, hehe, rather tied up at the moment, guess I’ll just have to open it for you.”

“Damn it Lindsey!” Pleaded Stephanie somewhat desperately, “don’t do this to me. Can’t you see that I’m in agony here!” In response, Lindsey chuckled rather evilly and said, “Steph, as I see it, you have two choices; you can either be a good little girl and wait for me to open your present for you….or…I will end things right now and leave you tied up here for the rest of the night. The choice,” she said rather ominously, “is yours.”

“Since I really don’t seem to have much of a choice here,” grumbled Stephanie, “go ahead and open that damn present!”

“I knew you would see it my way!” Exclaimed Lindsey quite happily. This was quickly followed by “I just know you are going to love it!” With that, Lindsey quickly tore open the package and extracted from within the contents of the mangled wrapping, a slender four inch long vibrator.

Without saying a word, Lindsey then eagerly activated the little device and having done so, she gently placed the pulsating vibrator astride her captive lover’s diminutive cleft. Though a bit on the small size for her own tastes, Lindsey noted with great satisfaction that it was exactly the right size fill Stephanie’s tight little pussy to capacity.

“Oooooooh, Lindsey!” Squealed Stephanie as a shiver of pleasure ran through her tiny body, “that…that feels wonderful!” Laughing in response, Lindsey smiled down at the squirming little woman and said, “I told you that you were going to love this.” When no response was forthcoming, Lindsey reached down and took hold of the humming little device. As she did so, she chuckled once more and said, “lets see how well it fits, shall we?”

With that, Lindsey proceeded to gently push the vibrator past her lover’s swollen outer lips and into contact with the little woman’s miniscule pleasure button. As she did this, she once more leaned forward and began to nibble upon Stephanie’s diminutive breasts.

Soon, even the merest flick of her tongue upon Stephanie’s taut and swollen little nipples was enough to cause the little woman’s entire body to shudder. This, combined with the manner in which Lindsey continued to relentlessly probe her pussy with the vibrator, was enough to cause Stephanie to start to moan and plead with her giant lover to let her climax.

Considering the intensity of the situation, it should perhaps come as no surprise that Stephanie, focused as she was upon reaching her goal, should fail to notice that thanks to those few additional sips of wine that she had taken, she was once more starting to dwindle in size.

As a result, she failed to take notice of the fact that the once slender little vibrator now plunging into her hot and moist depths was becoming longer and stretching her wider with each passing minute; or of the fact that the silken bonds that held her captive had begun to tighten as well.

As for Lindsey, so intent was she at pushing her little captive over the edge, that not only did she fail to notice that with each passing moment, less and less of the vibrator was fitting into Stephanie’s increasingly tight little pussy, but that her tongue was now almost wide enough to completely cover the diminishing breast now contained between her moist lips.

Fortunately for Stephanie, just when she felt that she could endure no more, two things happened. The first was that her slender wrists slipped from within the knots tied around them, relieving the pressure that had threatened, if she diminished much further, to dislocate her arms and legs. As for the second, just as her arms slipped free from their bonds, the wave of pleasure that had been building for some time within her dwindling body came crashing down upon her and she climaxed.

“Now that!” Sighed Stephanie contently as she lay recovering from her orgasm, “was delicious…and…wicked!” In response, Lindsey lifted her now eighteen inch tall lover off the bed and hugged her tightly. As she did so, she playfully began to tickle the tiny little woman’s tummy. “Hey! Stop That! No Fair!” Squealed Stephanie as she unsuccessfully tried to keep Lindsey from tickling her, “I’ll stop on one condition” chuckled Lindsey, “anything you want!” Squealed Stephanie, “just quick tickling me you big meanie!” Laughing in spite of herself, Lindsey, carefully dropped her doll-sized lover onto the bed and said, “well babe, you have had two orgasms tonight and I’ve yet to have even one!”

“That” giggled Stephanie as she struggled to lift what was from her perspective a three foot long vibrator over her shoulder, “is something that we will just have to remedy now won’t we?”

“It certainly is babe,” chuckled Lindsey, “but before I set you to work,” she chuckled rather mischievously,” how about I slip back into the den and drink a glass of wine first?

“Works for me!” Was all Stephanie said in response.