For the rest of the afternoon, Michael found it hard to concentrate on his lecture preparation. Neither did he allow himself any planning for the sexual adventure that awaited him. He had never been in a threesome. So he hoped that he would not have to take the lead in initiating the action. When he went down for an early dinner, he saw neither Lisa nor Rita. Gerd said hello and tried to invite him for a post-dinner drink...

Michael arrived in Austria three weeks before the beginning of his guest-lecturer ship at Innsbruck University. He decided to pay a brief visit to the small town he had grown up in, and which he had left twenty-six years ago. He was nineteen then. He thought he would be away for a two-year working holiday in Australia. But then his mother died; she had been in poor health. Michael stayed in Australia. He studied, gained a...

The next evening, Michael had an early dinner. On his way past the reception to the lift, he made sure that Lisa saw his greeting nod. She responded with a smile and a quick look at her wristwatch. Not expecting her arrival before ten, Michael had a leisurely shower. Then, in his dressing gown, he sat down at the desk and opened his iPad Air to check his mail and to go over some of his prepared lectures for Innsbruck. How...

On the fifth day since arriving, Michael put in some work on his lectures. It was raining and after twenty laps in the municipal swimming centre, he cut his morning run short and returned to the hotel. He met Rita in the entrance hall. They had a brief, friendly chat, with neither mentioning the night they had spent nor Lisa’s threesome proposal. While Rita flirtatiously smiled and seemed to encourage him, Michael was ret...