“I’ll have another scotch, thanks” Bette answered. 

“Back in a minute,” Michaela said before planting a quick kiss on Candace. 

Watching their women walk away, both sighed.  ‘Damn, Tina looks good in those jeans’ Bette thought. 

‘Michaela is so sexy with her back out’ Candace thought.

“They seem to be clicking, huh?” Bette voiced to Candace.

“Yeah,” then looking around she said about their wives’ numerous admirers, “Let the drooling begin.” 

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At the bar Michaela turned to Tina and asked.  “Were you attracted to Candace when you first met?”

Immediately Tina’s face flushed and she looked like a deer caught in headlights.  Michaela had her answer, “No, don’t be embarrassed Tina.”

“Did she say something?  I, I…” Michaela smiled and cut her off.  “No Tina, relax.  She just mentioned that she ran into you in the lobby of the CAC before she met Bette and realized you were her wife.”

“Oh,” was all Tina could say.

Michaela put her hand on top of Tina’s, “I asked because sometimes we meet people who we’ve found attractive or vice versa.  It’s always has been that way but when we were having problems it became almost dangerous.  Or at least we let it become dangerous.  Remember, when I said that I gave Candace an ultimatum?  Well, there Candace and I were, married 3 years and we hadn’t been intimate in about 4 months.  Back then, she was traveling, I was traveling and we talked more on the phone than in person.  It was nothing for me to be out until 2 or 3 am at a club after a show with other models, very attractive, and some not so straight, if you know what I  mean.  I got hit on all the time, but I was never interested in anyone but Candace.  The same happened with her except once I’d accidentally come across a name and phone number that I didn’t recognize.”  Michaela took a breath and sipped her martini.

She continued, “When I confronted her about it, she said that it was just a friend.  We went through the whole rigmarole as you can expect and Candace as it turned out was right.  The woman was just a friend, then.  But I knew from past experience how people try to wriggle into your life with the expectation of more.  I told her that she should never have a friend that I didn’t know and the fact that I had any suspicion at all spoke volumes of the state our relationship was in.  She tried to argue that no, we are fine, it was just a misunderstanding and that as soon as our schedules settled down, we’d reconnect like we needed to.  That weekend she was scheduled to go to Canada for a shoot and I demanded she cancel.  Well, Candace was irate and needless to say we argued.  It was then that I put my foot down and gave her an ultimatum.  That was the first night we slept apart in anger.  Candace didn’t even come home.  As it turned out, it wasn’t all that bad that she didn’t.  She spent the night at her friend Yolanda’s house who just went through a breakup with her partner.  At the time she was 7 months pregnant.  Thankfully, Yolanda talked some sense into Candace and she came home with her tail between her legs and agreed she’d stay and we’d make major changes for the sake of our relationship.”  Michaela went on, “A couple of those changes were with honesty and communication.  Now, talk about being careful what you wish for, Candace actually told me that she never cheated on me, never wanted to but she’d found many women attractive and at times even wondered what it’d be like to be with them.”