Thank you all again for your comments, likes, or if you read and enjoyed it. I noticed that the concept of two women fighting in front of their husbands is a favorite fantasy here, with the presumption of great sex for the couples, especially the winner. This story was me having fun with this idea by throwing in a twist. Kiva (fictional) had to find a surrogate husband and chose a very trusted gay friend partly because she expected him to not be interested in post-match sex with her. Of course, it backfired when she underestimated the powerful aphrodisiac effect of victory, and she was stuck with a dud in bed. Did you catch the self-deprecating line: "A fiction writer never would come up with this."
I like the Calvin character. I don't mean to promote the stereotype of male nurses as gay. I've had many gay colleagues. I've also worked with many guys with wives and kids. I've had special friendships with some of them over the years like I described in Part 1. Calvin is a composite of those guys. Great humans. Great nurses.
