"Let's go to sleep."

"Huh?", Ivan's chin dropped when he saw her nonchalantly sitting down on his bed, seemingly getting ready to sleep.

When Lara saw his reaction she laughed out loudly. This shook Ivan out of his shock. Even though she was laughing at him, he still was happy to have been able to make her laugh. The only times he had seen her laugh were in their daughter's presence.

"You should laugh more often. You are beautiful like this.", he unconsciously voiced his true thoughts.

When she heard these sentences, she abruptly stopped laughing. This was the first time he had complimented her and it made her aware of the current situation. Here she was, sitting on his bed and laughing at him, but not only wasn't he angry, but he also complimented her. She smiled sweetly as the last bit of tension left her body.

"Don't misunderstand. It is only sleeping and nothing more."

"But why?"

To his question, she answered with what Mia had said as well as some of her own thoughts. "And that is why I think we should sleep together for a start."

There was no reason for Ivan to reject him. After all, who wouldn't want to have a beautiful wife sleep with oneself?

Still, he felt a bit awkward, when he laid down beside her on the bed, keeping some distance.

Both of them didn't manage to fall asleep for a long time, because they were well aware of the unfamiliar presence of someone else on the bed.

The next morning Ivan was woken up by the ringing of his alarm. After waking up he felt something pressing down on his body. Still half asleep he didn't know what it was and tried to push it away. When his hand came into contact with a silky surface he suddenly heard a small sound besides his ear.

He fully opened his eyes and turned his head towards the source of the sound. In front of him was a beautiful face, with eyes still closed. Only now did Ivan remembered that Lara had proposed that they sleep together.

He hurriedly tried to take a look at what his hand was touching. As he had feared, it was her skin. Her pajama leg had been moved upwards, freeing her beautiful leg, which was now positioned on top of him. Just when he was contemplating whether to move her leg or keep it as it is, Lara opened her eyes.

Unlike him, she wasn't out of it after waking up and instantly remembered what had happened yesterday. "Good morning.", she greeted him.

"Good morning.", Ivan hurriedly tried to move his hand but in his haste all he achieved was him stroking her leg, as he tried to move his hand upwards. He nervously looked at his wife's face. But there was no anger in it but instead a slight smile.

Without saying anything she moved her leg away and sat up. "Come let's get up."

Thankful that she hadn't said anything, he hurriedly got up too. He then escaped into the bathroom, missing the movement of her lips, which slowly curbed into a full smile. She then released a completely untypical giggle, before getting up too.

After getting up, she went to her own bathroom to get ready. She had to go to work as well as have her meeting with Tanya.

While they had breakfast, Miranda called to tell them, that Joseph had found out about them and that he had invited Ivan to a meeting.

"Will you be alright?", Lara asked slightly worried.

Hearing her worried tone, Ivan's heart warmed. It felt truly great to have someone worry about you. "I'm sure I will be fine. After all, Miranda didn't sound that worried.", he rea.s.sured her.

He was right. If the meeting would be something bad, then surely her mother would have sounded different. As such Lara discarded her worry and instead concentrated on eating this breakfast, together with her family.

It was midday when Lara got the call from Tanya that she was waiting for her in a cafe downstairs. Since she had already expected her, she had deliberately kept her schedule empty. This way she could easily go downstairs to meet her friend.

After entering the cafe she could easily identify where her friend was seated. The gazes of all the other patron were oriented towards him. While the gazes of the men were filled with appreciation or l.u.s.t, these of the women were filled with envy or surprisingly also l.u.s.t. This state of affair was mainly because of Tanya's look coupled with the way she dressed.

She had blond hair that was cut into a bob and framed an absolutely stunning face, part of which was hidden by the shades she always wore. Her body with its hourgla.s.s figure fitted well with her face. But what really created most of these gazes was the fact that she loved to wear tightfitting leather clothes. Lara had asked her before why she would wear these and the answer was that she loved the feeling of them clinging to her skin.

Today she at least didn't wear one of her super short skirts and instead sported long pants. Her top too was relatively modest for her as it was a simple s.h.i.+rt with a jacket on top. Of course, both of them were tightfitting and made of leather. This a.s.semble was completely in black with just some red as an accent.

"Hey, there s.e.xy.", Lara greeted her as usual while sitting down opposite of her.

"Hey, sweety. Long time no see.", Tanya happily greeted her back.

It was true, they hadn't seen each other for more than a year, which was mostly Lara's fault as she was busy and after she had met Ivan, she unconsciously avoided her friends.

"Sorry, it's my fault. How about I buy you a meal as an apology?", Lara apologized.

"Haha, don't sweat it.", Tanya looked her up and down, "You look good. Enjoying your married life?", she asked, her voice filled with mirth but also some hidden bitterness.

"You know how this marriage happened. But he is a really nice guy.", remembering his reaction this morning Lara couldn't help but smile.

"That's great. You know that you can always count on us to help right?", Tanya asked while referring to her former adventurer party.

"Of course. I know."

They chatted some more about what had happened to them during the time they hadn't seen each other.

"Alright, let's get to the main point. What did you want to tell me?", Lara asked.

Tanya nervously played with her fingers and then blurted out, "I love you."

When these words left her mouth she stared at the woman opposite of her, trying to catch her reaction, but unexpectedly there was no change in her expression.

"You don't seem to be surprised."

"How could I? We all knew about that.", Lara said. One would have to be blind to not see that Tanya had been in love with her for a long time. They had just chosen to ignore it since this was the best way to keep their friends.h.i.+p. She had feared that if she rejected her, she would lose her as a friend.

"Huh? You mean, all of you already knew about it?"

Lara nodded. In their group, the only one who still believed that it was a secret was Tanya herself.

"Then why didn't you tell me? Do you know how worried I was of showing anything in fear of losing you?", she whined.

"You think it was different for us? We to didn't want to lose you."

Tanay took a long sip of her beverage.

"Then you don't have a problem with it?", she then carefully asked.

"I don't. Who you want to love is your responsibility. You only have to accept that I don't like you this way. To me, you are only the best fried, similar to a sister."

"Then your offer still stands? The one to marry your husband?"

"Of course. If you really have no other idea and still want to."

"Of course I want to. This way we will at least be family and one can even say that we are married to each other.",Tanya exclaimed happily before slyly adding something else in a low voice, "Besides if we do a threesome I would even get to have s.e.x with you."

Although she had lowered her voice, Lara could still clearly understand what she said and spurted out the mouthful of tea she had just taken. This girl was just too brazen. Not even married yet and already thinking of having a threesome with her and her husband.