LACTOGENESIS XIII: THE PHONE CALL A thin film of sweat covered Christine's face. Her hair, where it brushed against her neck, was also wet with sweat. Her breathing was heavy, bordering on panting. Her breasts heaved and shook with the effort. Her hips surged in a rhythm that was steadily increasing. Faster, faster... Chris tossed her head back, grunting in synchrony with the movements of her lower body. She was quickly building toward her peak... A tone sounded. The Stairmaster stopped speeding up and went into the cool-down phase of the workout program. Chris groaned in relief as she felt the burning in her legs gradually subside. She used the towel draped around her neck to wipe away the sweat that threatened to drip into her eyes. Not bad, she thought. I'll be maxxing this thing out before long. She heard the warbling of the telephone, but decided to let the answering machine pick it up. She wasn't cooled down enough and feared cramping if she suddenly stopped now. A different kind of tone sounded as her recorded greeting ended and the machine awaited a response. It was a couple of seconds in coming. The voice issuing from the speaker was halting, almost tentative. "Chris? Uh, hi, it's Carl. I'm, uh, I'm really sorry I haven't called you before now. I heard about your accident and have been meaning to get in touch, but business is really booming these days, and uh, well, you know how it is. Anyway, I'm in town for a couple of days meeting with some people about a new product line, and, uh, well, I'd really like to see you while I'm here. Would you mind? I know it's been a long time, but I'm not sure when I'll be in the area again. Boy, you'd think a salesman would be used to answering machines, but I still hate these things. Uh, I'm at the Sheraton until Tuesday afternoon. I'd sure like to have dinner, talk, uh, whatever. Give me a call, OK? Hope we can get together. Bye." Chris hopped off the Stairmaster, crossed to the answering machine, and replayed the message to make sure the voice was who she thought it was. My God. Carl Banks, she thought. Back from the dead. Tail between his legs, too, by the sound of him. Quite unbidden, Chris's memory called up the file, up to now thought closed, on Carl Banks. He and Chris had met at a health club, back when that was *the* place to meet "swinging singles". Could it be almost three years? He was working as a semiconductor salesman at the time; she was still at the paper editing copy. Their relationship had been tempestuous, exhilarating, spontaneous, and almost entirely physical. It had lasted five months before he got an opportunity to move up the corporate ladder and took it. He'd left for the other side of the country almost without a word, and hadn't been in touch since. She smiled sourly when she replayed him saying he was still a salesman. So much for upward mobility, she thought. She remembered the pain -- she had been something of an old- fashioned girl then, a one-man woman, and even though there wasn't much more than sex to their relationship, she had enjoyed it, and had not appreciated the abrupt way it had ended. Her finger hovered over the "erase" button as she considered what to do about Carl. She noted with some satisfaction that there was no trace whatsoever of any feelings for him; there would be no regrets if she didn't return his call. Still, her curiosity was piqued. Whatever else Carl had been, he had been pretty good in the sack, and it had been, after all, a long time since Chris had gotten her ashes properly hauled. The incident at the Decade Eight Club three weeks before had shaken her up more than she'd thought. The attack by the crazed seltzer guy had been too close to rape for comfort, enough so that she'd not been out with a man since. Carl was a pretty safe bet. Chris hit the "save" button instead and started getting ready to shower. As the water cascaded over her and she ran the bar of soap over her body, Chris suddenly realized that Carl would have no idea about what she looked like now, or better still, what she could do. As far as he knew, Chris was still a woman with a rather ordinary body and rather ordinary sexual habits. Wait'll he gets a load of these, she thought slyly. She squeezed her boobs playfully, causing a dribble of milk to wash the soap suds from her nipples. She passed a hand over her baby- smooth mons, remembering how Carl used to complain about getting her pubic hair caught in his throat. Oh, now I've done it, Chris said to herself, as her random hand motions and memories of how good it had felt to bury Carl's cock in her pussy began to catch up to her. Might as well finish the job... Chris's shower was a hand-held water massage. She took it down from its mounting bracket, dialed for a hard pulsing spray, and began playing the shower head over her body. The jets of high-pressure water kneaded her breasts like thousands of tiny fingers, tingling the skin from without and starting the familiar tingling from within. The drops falling from the dark red tips of her bosom turned gradually from the colorless clarity of water to the opaque whiteness of mother's milk as she willed the letdown to proceed. Chris leaned back against the shower wall, causing her breasts to point slightly upward and sending a spray most of the way up the far wall as she masterfully milked herself with her free hand. She planted her feet at the corners of the small stall, bent her knees slightly, and slowly guided the pulsating shower toward her naked pussy, whose lips were now slightly puffy and whose clit now peeked out from their uppermost junction. As the blasting water struck it, Chris gasped from the force and redirected the spray for less direct contact. In only a second or two she had found the right combination of pressure and flow, and was well on her way to yet another satisfying orgasm. As she neared the magic moment, she bent her head and brought one breast up to her mouth (they were almost too firm to allow that). She encircled the nipple with her lips and drank of herself, marveling at the warmth and sweetness of her milk as she had on several previous occasions. As it had in the past, this was enough to complete her journey to orgasm. Her cunt poured forth its bounty, rivaling the shower in the intensity of the flow. Chris's legs, weakened from her workout, could barely support her as she shook with the force of the orgasm. She felt the flood of juices running down them, to be immediately washed away by the shower. As the peak passed, Chris released her nipple, which continued to drip. She spent the next few minutes emptying both breasts -- the shower was a good place to do that, even when she wasn't masturbating. She did a good portion of this by suckling herself, as the workout had made her thirsty. The last few ounces she expressed by hand. She allowed herself another, less intense orgasm while doing this, then snapped out of it when she realized she'd been in the shower for over half an hour. My water bill's going to be unreal this month, she said to herself as she turned off the water and reached for a towel. She was still drying off as she walked through her apartment, heedless of the open windows, to her telephone. She dropped the towel as she picked up the phone book and looked up the number for the Sheraton. She dialed it and asked for Carl's room, but he was not there. Probably down in the bar trying to score, she thought scornfully. She left a short message: "Carl. Chris. Welcome back. Yes, I'd love to see you. How about tomorrow night for dinner? I'll come by your hotel at 7:30. See you then." As she hung up, she caught a glimpse of her nude body in the hall mirror, droplets of water still gleaming here and there on her skin. Carl, lover, she thought, you are in for one hell of a surprise. Her nipples began hardening again as she considered her plan of attack. She looked down at them and noticed tiny white droplets appearing. She shook her head and wiped them away with the towel. "This is ridiculous," she said out loud. As she dressed, she realized that even though she felt nothing for Carl, she knew that the anticipation of getting him into bed was going to make it a long day at work tomorrow. I can't believe how worked up I'm getting over the prospect of shocking the crap out of this jerk, she told herself. I have *got* to start meeting new people. Immediately a part of her mind began working on how that would happen. She wasn't even aware of it, but her subconscious had just started her down a path which would take her places the old Chris would never have considered.