That night Jo and Claire were trying to be intimate but Jo was having problems. Claire was working hard between Jo’s legs, but Jo just couldn’t let go. In the end she pushed Claire to stop
“Baby, I’m sorry.... I just can’t get it. Please don’t be upset...I just”
Claire sat up and touched Jo’s face “what’s the matter?”
Jo shrugged “I don’t know... just tonight... seems to be difficult”
Claire sat back “it’s not just tonight Jo. We’ve been having trouble for a while now”
Jo shook her head “I’ll try harder.” She grabs Claire and kisses her passionately, and the moment Claire returned the passion, Jo backed away.
Claire dresses and starts to leave. Jo whines “please don’t go. I know I have some moments but
Claire sits on the bed and grabs her hands “they are not moments, its issues... and every time we try to be intimate you either freeze or you just seem disinterested”
“What... no that’s not true”
“Look if you don’t like sex”
“I love sex... I do... just...” Jo felt like she was losing the battle, running out of excuses. “yes I guess I do have issues. Are you gonna break up with me?” Jo whimpers
The thought had crossed Claire’s mind a few times “no.... but we need to address and fix this. I think... maybe we should see a therapist.... sex therapist.”
Jo jumped out of bed “what.... are you kidding?”
Claire got up “yes... of course.” She sends back sarcastically “let’s do nothing, then I can feel even more inadequate because I can’t get you off.”
“but you do... and I get you off.... right”
Claire shrugged “sometimes.... but you just seem to miss the spot. I get frustrated. You and I make a great couple, I want our love life to be just as great, I’m even happy to settle for ok”
“So our love life isn’t even ok” Jo felt even more anxious
Claire kisses her head “I have an early start in the morning. Just think over what we talked about.”
Jo couldn’t sleep, she did nothing but think about it. She had no idea what to do, how to improve herself. She knew it was all her, so for Claire and their relationship she would seek help
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Cate was riding her client hard, she bent down and kissed him “c’mon sweetie, do it” she encourages him.
“ok ok, nearly there” he groans
Cate could hear the buzzer to her intercom but ignored it. She only had this client for today and continued on with him. He was getting close to eruption.
Cate heard her mobile phone ringing. But it was her personal phone, and the ring tone was one she had not heard in a long while. Cate carefully gets off her client
“nooooo” he protests
She leans down and kisses him. She strokes his cock a few times “I won’t be a minute, hold that position” looking at his hard on
She rushes to her phone, the caller ID displayed it as Jo. She answers it “hey.... Jo.... this is unexpected. I’m fine, things are ok now” trying to rush her off the phone. “That was you on the intercom, oh.... now, you want to come up now.”
Cate looked at the bedroom “sure, I’ll buzz you up”
Cate returns to her room just as her client sits up “hey Jez”
Cate strokes his shaft firmly “just a moment, I have.... to get rid of someone. Just a little longer. There is porno in the VCR, just hold that explosion until I return. Cate puts her robe on and closes the bedroom as a knock came at her door.
Cate opens the door allowing Jo in. Hands in pockets, her shoulders slumped forward. She knew from Jo’s demeanour she was upset over something.
“Joanne what’s the matter, talk to me... at least look at me”
Jo eventually looks up with tears in her eyes. “Oh Joanne what’s happened?” Cate’s voice softens.
“I just need to talk ... I don’t know....” she runs hand through her hair grimacing, looks away embarrassed with herself falling apart.
“Alright, you take a seat and I just need to take care of something, won’t be a moment.”
Jo heads over to the huge windows that overlooked the city. She still wonders if someone could see her from out there. She is disturbed by another voice, male and unhappy. Jo faces and felt even worse that Cate had a client.
Cate gives back the money to him “I’ll rearrange John”
John groans and leaves unceremoniously
Jo shook her head “you should have told me you had a client.” Jo now makes her way to the door.
Cate grabs her “Joanne.... it doesn’t’ matter, I can rearrange him. Just talk to me. I can’t help you if you don’t talk to me.”
Jo sits on couch with a glass of wine. Cate sits opposite her trying to pry something, anything from her “is it the business...... do you need money?”
Jo looked up “no.... it’s not that.”
“I am happy to give you a loan”
“It’s not the money” she reinforces
“please don’t make me play 20 questions.... ” pleads Cate
“I am having trouble with....I am.... I seemed to be having issues when being intimate with Claire and I don’t know what to do.”
Cate stares at Jo in disbelief, then takes a mouthful of wine. She had given up an easy $800.00 only to hear her ex talk about her intimacy problems with her new girlfriend.
“I apparently don’t satisfy her.” hissed Jo
Cate still listened, partly angry that Jo had a nerve to approach her about this.
“I don’t know what to do” innocently looks up at Cate
Cate desperately wanted to scream ‘what the fuck do you want me to do about it.’ Instead she took a breath
“ok... well to speak from experience, I don’t recall us having any issues in that department, not until.”
Jo looked away and Cate stopped that part of her answer “Well what could she be disappointed about Jo.... I never was” She blushed then regained her composure “maybe she just too fucking fussy. Perhaps you should tell her to do it herself” getting agitated over the whole conversation
Jo shrugged “well it seems to be the only way she can get off, because I can’t, not regularly and I, myself just take too long, if at all. Claire then gets frustrated and then I. Ahhhhhh you get what I’m saying”
“Well maybe you are just not attracted to her” Cate grumbles
Jo piped up a little too quickly “oh I am, yes definitely attracted to her”
Cate drained her drink and calmly put down her glass, knowing she was at the point of throwing it at Jo’s head.
“Joanne I don’t honestly know what to say, or what I can do for you, or her.”
“She wants me to see a sex therapist.”
Cate couldn’t help but laugh out loud
“Don’t laugh, it’s not funny, this is serious....”
“I bet that put a dent in your ego huh”
Jo dropped her head “there’s a dent in my libido.” Then looks directly Cate
Cate growled “don’t you look at me like that.”
“What?”
“You blame me for this..... ”
“noooo” Jo’s tone was unconvincingly
“Jo... I can’t do this. I cannot talk to you about this.” Cate stands
“Cate” pleads Jo
“no.... uh uh, I think it’s time for you to leave”
“Cate, I’m broken, sexually.... I don’t know how to fix it.”
“Well how in the hell should I know?”
Cate heads into the kitchen to grab herself another glass of wine. Jo chases after her
“I was hoping .”
Cate faces her “hoping what”
Jo blushes “Claire, she’s adventurous, she likes trying different things... I mean she let me take her rock climbing recently.”
Cate growled “Jo this discussion is not working for me.”
“She once told me that she would like to ummmm” Jo blushed “try a threesome”
Cate shrugged “so what... you need to get over your hang ups on fetishes and participate.”
“I am... I'm going to, but I need your help.....for this to happen” she speaks slowly and carefully
Cate’s jaw drops “oh no.... no way, no fucking way” She pushes past Jo back towards the couch
“I want to hire your services for me and Claire”
“oh my god.... you dumped me and now you want me to make love to you and your girlfriend. You must think I’m a real idiot”
Jo shakes her head “I know it sounds absurd”
“oh the word fucked up more than describes it Jo”
“I don’t want you to make love to us, it’s just sex that’s all” she says as if it didn’t matter
Cate mimics “just sex, that’s all.” She looks hard at Jo “oh my god, you are serious about this”
“yes.... you the expert in sex which is why I’ve come to you.”
“and your girlfriend knows about the situation”
“I haven’t told her about seeing a prostitute yet”
Cate eyes watered briefly, she huffs “no Jo, about us.... you and me.”
Jo swallows “no”
Cate bit her lip. She wanted to throw Jo out, as the stitches in her heart rip further apart.
“I will pay what you want, just help me out”
Cate took another mouthful and shook her head in disbelief “wow she must be some girl for you to go to this much effort.”
Jo didn’t get the depth of the remark “she is, I don’t want to break up over sex”
Cate stared at her coldly “you are such a fucking hypocrite Joanne McFarlane.”
Jo now understood how her reply sounded, but she didn’t let it drop “If you can’t do it, that’s fine just say so”
Cate could have sex with any client, it didn’t either bother her that it was Claire but having Jo back in her bedroom, she didn’t know if she could stand for that.
“Cate..... yes or no”
Cate swallowed “fine.... yesss....if she agrees to that, then we will take the next step.”
“You mean come here”
“No, I want to meet Claire first”
“but why?”
Cate hissed and snapped at Jo “because I screen my clients, because I’m very fussy on who I open my legs to remember.”
Jo nodded “ok”
“If she agrees, then we will meet somewhere and have a chat about things.”
“What type of things” Jo became nervous again
“For fuck sake Jo, do you want me to do this or not, because I don’t have to.”
“Alright, I’ll call you”
Jo went to leave “did you get a security guy to help out”
“Like you really care” she closed her eyes regretting that comment, opening when she heard the door close.
Cate collapsed straight to the couch crying. Her heart broken beyond repair now”