Over the next two days I revisited the houses I was interested in and finally decided on a three bedroom ranch with an attached three car garage, an in-ground swimming pool and a hot tub. I put a hundred-fifty thousand down on it which just about knocked the socks off of the real estate agent. I had already arranged for the bank where I had my accounts to finance the house I picked and I figured that we would close in thirty days or so.
Samantha’s mother told me that she didn’t want any of Samantha’s stuff so I went to the storage unit and dug through everything there to sort it out for Goodwill and a couple of other charitable organizations and in the course of digging I found out another lie that Samantha had told me. She said Barrington was going to give her twenty-five thousand for what she had been doing. I found two bank books with over eighty grand between them. Samantha told me she was trying to get the twenty five thousand so we could put a down payment on a house. If she was looking down or up from wherever she was she couldn’t miss the smile on my face. She had just paid off my new house. I’d move into it free and clear.
I decided to get my meeting with Connie’s mother out of the way. I called and we made a lunch date for one the next day. We met at the Hilton and Maggie was all ready there when I got there and she stood up, smiled and offered me her hand. I took it and then surprised her by kissing it in the continental fashion and then we sat down.
It is said that if you want to know what you wife is going to look like twenty years down the road look at her mother. Maggie was a fox! She was a forty-four year old woman who looked all of thirty and a quick glance around the restaurant showed that almost all of the males there were looking at her. A waitress appeared, took my drink order and then left.
“I’ll just bet that curiosity is driving you nuts right? What on earth could Connie’s mother want to talk to me about and in private, right again?”
“That’s pretty much it.”
“Well it is the last thing in the world that you would expect. Are you sure that you want to marry my daughter?”
That caught me flat footed and I said, “What?”
“A simple question that only requires a simple answer. Are you sure that you want to marry Connie?”
“It isn’t a question of want. It is something that I have to do to make things right. Why would you ask such a question?”
“Because you are a very nice guy and I don’t think that you know what you are getting yourself into. And don’t pooh pooh the nice guy thing. I know why you did what you did and yes, it wasn’t a nice thing to do, but once you found out the circumstances you manned up. That makes you special in my book. Robert of course put you down as another fortune hunter try to sieze the opportunity to get your hands on Connie’s trust fund, but you very effectively shot him down on that subject. One more reason to see you as a good man.”
The waitress showed up with our drinks and took our luncheon order and when she was gone Maggie said:
“I had to ask myself if I wanted to see a man with your good qualities saddle himself with Connie and the answer I came up with was that it wasn’t any of my business, but I talked myself into at least giving you fair warning.”
“I don’t understand? What is wrong with Connie?”
“To put it frankly she is a slut.”
“She told me about that. She said she did it to get back at me for dumping her. I was supposed to see it and. get pissed. The only problem with that is when I walked away I didn’t look back so I never knew what she was doing.”
“And you believed that?”
“Why not? She wasn’t like that when I met her and she wasn’t like that while we were together.”
“That was then. It is now that counts.”
“Now?”
“Are you aware that at your first public appearance with her after putting a ring on her finger and her telling all the people that she talked to at the event that she was engaged to you that she snuck off with Mike Bolla, Billy Sheppard and Jamie Ogden and screwed them in the coat room?”
I was of course aware that she had screwed someone, but she told me that it was only one.
“No, I wasn’t aware of that” I said.
“And I’ll bet that you aren’t aware that even as we sit here and talk she is upstairs in room 407 with Mike Bolla and Jamie Ogden.”
“I had no idea.”
“I picked this restaurant and one o’clock for a reason. I also got here early enough to get this specific table. You will notice that you can see the elevators from here. If they stick to their normal schedule – they take long lunches from work – they will be coming down within the next ten to fifteen minutes. I figured that the best way to handle things would be to let you see for yourself.”
Our meal came and as we ate and made small talk I kept one eye on the elevators and at one-twenty the doors opened and Connie and two guys came out. I recognized both of them from the charity event I had attended with Connie. I looked over at Maggie.
“It changes nothing. I still need to make my child legitimate and then a reasonable time after the child’s birth a quiet divorce can be arranged.”
“That is not the reaction that I expected.”
“No? What did you expect?”
“Anger, rage or something like that. In fact that is what I was hoping for and not the calm acceptance that I’m seeing.”
“Why were you hoping for anger and rage?”
“Because those emotions might have led you to go along with what I wanted to do.”
“And that would be?”
“Go upstairs and do the same thing that your intended was doing.”
“Why on earth would you want to do that?”
“Revenge.”
“I don’t understand.”
“It is simple really. I am a healthy woman and I enjoy sex. I will not allow my husband to have sex with me so I take care of my sexual appetites by entering into affairs with the husbands, fiancées and boyfriends of the women my husband has sex with. That is my revenge.”
“And he doesn’t care?”
“He doesn’t know. He thinks I lost all interest in sex after the last time he gave me gonorrhea.”
“Connie told me that you and Robert hadn’t had sex in over ten years. I didn’t believe her.”
“It is true. Robert gave me sexually transmitted diseases four times over a six year period and after the last time I refused to let him touch me any more. I told him that the last disease he gave me made me lose all interest in sex.”
Why then do you stay married to him?”
“Money for the most part. Barrington Industries used to be Barrington Manufacturing. My family owned Stowe Industrial and my parents and Robert’s parents wanted to see us married and the two businesses merged. It didn’t hurt that I loved Robert and I thought he loved me. It was a convoluted deal that saw that when the two companies merged the new company was named Barrington Industries in exchange for my family receiving fifty-one percent of the stock.
“I’m an only child and when my parents died I inherited their stock. With the prenuptial agreements that are in place if Robert and I divorce for any reason whatsoever the company would end up being broken up, Financially I wouldn’t be hurt, but a lot of good people would be put out of work. I couldn’t let that happen just because Robert couldn’t keep his dick in his pants. Besides, having affairs with different men is exciting and I get to experience a lot. Kind of a sexual smorgasbord.”
“Why not just one full time lover? God knows you are beautiful and sexy enough to land any man you want.”
“Yes, but where would be the revenge in that?”
“So this lunch was all about landing me to satisfy your need for revenge?”
“That and I really did think you needed to know what you are getting yourself into. As I said earlier; I liked the way you stepped up when you could have walked away.”
“So it is about you getting revenge on your husband and not because you have something against your daughter.”
“I am upset that my baby has turned into what she is, but no, I have nothing against her. She was just my way to try and hook you.”
“Why have you been keeping an eye on her to begin with?”
“When she told me she was pregnant I put a private detective on her. I wanted to know what kind of man she was going to end up dragging home. I was afraid it would be another loser like both of my other daughters ended up with. Someone I’d have to find someway to break her away from. I was surprised that it was you. I’ve had private investigators on Robert since I cut him off so I would know who the men were that I needed to seduce for my revenge. I knew about your wife and Robert and the investigators found out quite a bit about you. I was already planning your seduction when your wife was killed and I dropped my plans.”
“Why?”
“Two reasons. One, it would have been crass to try to move in on a recent widower and two; the fun part of the revenge is doing the man while my husband was doing the woman. When I found out that you were the one who got Connie pregnant and then found out what she was doing I decided to take a shot at you and so here we are.”
“Indeed we are and I guess I need to see about finding us a bed unless of course you want to do it right here on the table.”
“That easy? I thought for sure I would have to work harder.”
“I see no reason to remain true to Connie if she isn’t going to be true to me and then of course there is fact that I also owe your husband a little revenge. What better revenge than to do to his wife what he did to mine.”
I got up and said, “I’ll get us a room.”
Once in the room we undressed and I told her to leave her high heels on. “Nothing sexier than a naked woman in high heels.”
“My kind of guy. We are going to have so much fun together.”
I went down on her and then fucked her. She sucked me hard and I fucked her a second time. When I finished she asked:
“Are you kinky enough to eat me with your cum in me?”
I smiled at her and said, “Spread ‘em sweetie.”
“Oh no lover; I’m thinking of one of my favorite numbers, sixty-nine.”
When she had me tall again she asked me how many times I was good for and I said:
“With you for inspiration? Only God knows.”
“I didn’t realize you were a silver tongued devil. I may just have to keep you.”
“I like the sound of that.”
“How do you feel about anal?”
“I like everything when it comes to sex, but I don’t often do anal because a lot of the ladies I’ve known didn’t like it and wouldn’t do it.”
“I used to be that way. I would never let Robert do it, but once I hit the revenge trail I decided to do it. I needed to give my lovers something that Robert never got. After a bit I learned to like it.”
“This your way of telling me what you want to do next?”
“Clever boy” she said as she got on her hands and knees and presented her heart shaped ass to me.
As we were dressing she said, “I do hope that this is not a one time thing.”
“That will depend on how often you can get free to do it and on when you can do it. I can’t always get free from work like I did this afternoon and I’m assuming that Connie is going to be keeping my evenings full.”
“Long lunch hours? Working late a time or two each week? Get her in the mind set that it is part of the job? Plus I can always give her a task or two to take care of as far as the wedding is concerned that will get her out of the way for a while.”
“How long do you usually hang on to your revenge lovers?”
“Until they get tired of me.”
“I can’t see any one ever getting tired of you.”
“They usually want more than I can give so they fade away.”
“What you are saying is that it is pretty much up to me.”
“Pretty much.”
“And if I never get tired of it? How will you handle your need to get revenge with the men of the women that Robert scores with if I never get tired of you?”
“As long as I’m with you I’ll still be playing with a man whose wife Robert had sex with.”
We exchanged a passionate kiss and then left the room.
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The next two weeks were busy ones. Connie was tied up getting everything done that needed to be done to make the wedding come off the way she wanted. I was able to get together with Maggie two or three times a week and she kept me up to date on what her investigators were reporting about Connie’s activities.
Connie met with Bolla twice, once each with Sheppard and Ogden and twice with all three. The second time she met with all three was four days before the wedding and according to Connie what she had going that night was a bachelorette party given by the girls she worked with. A day later she thought that I was at a bachelor party thrown by the guys I worked with. She was half right. It was my bachelor party, but there were only two people there – Maggie and me.
The wedding went off without a hitch and Connie and I left the reception, drove to the airport and headed off on our honeymoon. We got to our hotel in Aruba, checked in and unpacked. Connie put on something filmy and see through, struck a pose and said:
“Ready to consummate our union sailor?”
She was shocked and stunned when I said:
“Not tonight. We won’t be able to consummate the marriage until I see something in writing from a doctor or laboratory stating that you are disease free. I have no idea who Sheppard, Ogden and Bolla have been fucking besides you and I’m not going to take a chance on catching anything they, or who ever else you have been fucking, might have given you. See the hotel doctor. Maybe he can clear you quick enough that we might be able to consummate before we have to head home. I’m going down to the bar and have a drink or two. You can join me if you wish.”
I left the room and left her standing there opened mouthed in shock. She surprised me. I didn’t think she would come down, but twenty minutes after I got there she slid onto the barstool next to me. The bar maid took her order and when she left us to go mix it Connie said:
“Why are we even here? Why did you waste the money on this trip if you never intended to do anything?”
“We are here for the same reason we got married. For appearances sake.”
“You aren’t making sense. You have been making love to me all along. What is different now that we are here?”
“I didn’t know about your three bed buddies until the night of your so called bachelorette party. You have noticed that we haven’t had sex since that night haven’t you?”
“I thought that you were saving it up for a memorable wedding night.”
“Well I guess, depending on your take, tonight will be memorable in a way.”
“I don’t understand what is going on here. You made it plain to me that you are only marrying me to give the baby legitimacy. What do you care what I do if you planned on leaving me after the baby was born anyway?”
“I never said that. What I said was that the decision on how the marriage was going to go and how long it would last would be up to you. I had no intention of ever going for a divorce. I told you up front that any decision to divorce would be on you. I also told you that if you were going to play around on me that you needed to be discrete. I told you I would not stand for people smirking at me and laughing at the poor, dumb cuckold. I also told you I would take vengeance on any one who exposed me to public or private ridicule.
“You were seen going into a hotel room with a man who wasn’t me by some one who knows me so I put a private investigator on you and that’s how I found out about your three lovers. I took care of Sheppard the day before the wedding and I’ll take care of the other two when we get back home.”
“What did you do to Billy?”
“I beat him so bad he had to go to the hospital emergency room.”
“That wasn’t fair! I told him you were okay with it. I told all three of them you were okay with it. You told me that it was my body and I got to make the choices as to what to do with it.”
“I did, but I also told you to be discrete and not cause me any public humiliation. You could have gone into that hotel room and the guy could have followed you in ten minutes later or he could have gone in first and you could have joined him later, but that isn’t what you did. You walked into that room hand in hand and you were seen doing it so now there are at least two people out there who know my wife is a cheating slut and that she has cuckolded me. I told you I wouldn’t stand for it and I won’t.”
“So I’m in for a sexless honeymoon.”
“Unless you show me that the guys you have been fucking haven’t given you a disease.”
“Why does that matter to you now? We have been making love for three months now and I have been seeing those guys for the entire time you and I have been together so if they did give me something I’ve already shared it with you.”
“Maybe, but then again maybe not. Anyone of those three could have fucked some girl a week ago and picked up something that they gave you at your party. I had myself tested on Saturday and I’ll call them Tuesday for the results. If I’m infected I had to have gotten it from you so if I’m already infected you are too and we can have sex after the phone call. If I’m not infected we don’t have sex until you are cleared. If you aren’t cleared we won’t have sex until you can bring me proof that whatever you have is cured.
“We can still have a honeymoon. We can enjoy the beach, the nightlife, the sightseeing and whatever else the place has to offer.”
“That’s not good enough for me. I’ll call home tomorrow and call the family lawyer. The moment I said “I do” I came into my trust fund. I’ll have money transferred into my checking account so I can buy a ticket and fly home.”
“No need for that. Just use the return portion of the ticket that got you here.”
“I forgot about that.”
She got up and walked away without touching her drink. I nursed my drink and watched one of the several TVs that were in the bar while I made plans on what to do the next day. I thought scuba diving would be a good way to start what was obviously going to be a two week vacation for me instead of a two week honeymoon for us.
Connie was back in thirty minutes or so. “I’m listed on the first flight out in the morning. It leaves at ten-ten. That gives you plenty of time to change your mind about consummation.”
“No problem. If you can get tested and cleared by then we will be good to go.”
“Okay then. I’ll use the time until you get back to look for a suitable house.”
“Don’t waste your time. I’ve already found the one I want and I’ve put up the down payment. Should close in thirty days or so.”
“What if I don’t like it?”
“You probably won’t. It is one of the ones that we looked at and that you decided against.”
“How could you do that without talking to me?”
“Easy. Once I found out about your three playmates it was obvious to me that we are going to end up in a divorce so if I’m going to get stuck with a house it ought to be one that I want. What you can do when you get back is warn Bolla and Ogden I’ll be coming after them when I get home. It will give them time to run and hide and I’ll have to hunt them down. I like to hunt. You didn’t know that about me did you? The thrill of the chase as I track them down one by one.”
“No way I can talk you out of it?”
“You care that much about them?”
“Not really, but I feel responsible. I led them on and when they were reluctant I told them that you and I had an arrangement and that you were okay with me playing.”
“I’ll think about it. No promises, but I will think about it.”
She got up and left and she wasn’t in the room when I got there. I took a shower and went to bed. I slept soundly and didn’t wake up when Connie came in, but she was in bed next to me when I woke up. She didn’t wake up when I got up or while I was dressing. I left her ticket on the bedside stand and went down to have breakfast.
After breakfast I headed for the beach and the dive shop that the girl behind the reception desk told me about. It was close to two o’clock when I got back to the room and surprise, surprise, Connie was in the room.
“I thought you were gone.”
“Changed my mind. I saw a doctor this morning and for a thousand dollars he promised me an expedited test. He said I should hear late Wednesday or early Thursday.”
“Why did you change your mind?”
“I don’t want a divorce. I only messed around with those guys because I was pissed at you for what you did to me. It wasn’t even me you were pissed at. All I ever did to you was fall in love with you and then you deliberately knock me up and then take off on me. I owed you! It wasn’t fucking those three that was important to me it was fucking you after fucking them. Fucking you while I still had a little of them still inside me. I felt that I owed you that. I had no intention of keeping on with them after the wedding. I fully intend to honor the vows I made.”
I looked at her for a few moments and then asked, “What do you want to do this afternoon?”
Tuesday I called home and found out I had tested clean. Thursday morning Connie found out that she was clean and we spent Thursday afternoon and evening consummating our union. The rest of our time there was as good of a honeymoon as you could have hoped for.
The day we flew home I called Maggie and told her that I couldn’t see her again, at least not intimately, and then I told her why.
“If Connie really means what she said and stays faithful I will too, but if she doesn’t and you haven’t already taken up with some other guy for revenge I will definitely give you a call.”
“I always knew you were a good guy. I’ll tell you this. If my daughter does back slide and you call and I am with some one I’ll drop him in a heartbeat and we can get back to having fun again.”
“Thanks love; I needed that.”
“Needed what?”
“To know that some one really cares for me.”
“You don’t think Constance does?”
“I don’t know love. I can only hope and then wait and see.”
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Three weeks after we got home Connie told me over dinner that she’d had lunch that day with Sheppard.
“He wanted to know when we were going to get together again. I told him never. I told him I was a married woman now and that I was going to honor my vows. He didn’t take it well. He said I owed him for the beating you gave him.”
“Why are you telling me this?”
“Because some one might have seen us and told you about it and I do not want it to look like I’m hiding anything from you. I will be occasionally seen with Billy, Mike and Jamie because I do work with them and I do end up having working lunches with them and others from time to time. Also I will sometimes stop after work for drinks with the people from the office and they will probably be there. I know how fragile our relationship is because of what I did before the wedding so I have to be completely open with you if I don’t want things to go to hell.”
“I can’t ask for anything more than that.”
The next day around noon I got a call from Maggie on my cell. After exchanging greetings she said:
“Constance had lunch with one of her old lovers yesterday.”
“You still having her watched?”
“I paid for six months surveillance and it still has two months to go. When they aren’t watching Robert they watch Constance and since Robert is out of town this week they are on my daughter. Anyway, the guy watching got the booth next to them and overheard most of the conversation. Constance shut him down and told him no way ever again. I thought you might like to know.”
“Thanks. It is good to hear.”
“Not to me sweetie. I was hoping that she would take up with him again.”
“Whatever for?”
“So we would have a reason to make sweet music again.”
“I can’t believe that you would want to waste your time on me.”
“I’ve got news for you lover. If I could have found some way to bump off Robert and get away with it you would not have become Constance’s husband. You would have been her new step-father.”
“Oh wow!”
“Yeah lover; and don’t you ever forget it. Take care of my baby. Bye.”
As I hung up the phone I began to think that Connie and I just might make it.
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The ultrasound showed that it was a boy and we started talking about names. Connie asked if I would mind if we named him after her father and when I asked why she said:
“He was the one who got us together.”
I didn’t care so the name she came up was a mouthful. Robert Conner Ellsworth Smythe-Barrington Walton. I had my doubts about giving the kid that name. I could just imagine the fights he was going to get into when the other kids started making fun of his name until I realized that it would rarely get used. When he started school he would register as Robert Walton and use one of the other names as his middle initial. And knowing kids since my name was Robert Walton he would probably get hung with the tag of ‘Junior’ and end up being called JR.
Robert C.E.S-B.Walton came into the world at a health eight pounds and nine ounces and immediately became the apple of his grand parent’s eyes. Connie’s sisters all had girls so Robby was the only male grandchild and he was doted on and I could see the poor kid being spoiled rotten.
Connie took a nine month maternity leave and then she went back to work. They had a day care center in the building so Robby went to work with her. A couple of times she called me and asked me to come by and pick Robby up so she could stop for drinks with the people from the office. And she always filled me in on what happened. Sheppard kept trying to get her to give in and once she had to throw a drink in his face to get him to back off. When the others from her office saw that they started to police things as far as Sheppard was concerned.
Things were going good for us and then came Connie’s company Christmas party. We hadn’t gone to the last one because it had taken place during her maternity leave. I wasn’t looking forward to it because it was bound to be an awkward time for me. All three of Connie’s ex-bed buddies were going to be there including Sheppard whose ass I had stomped so bad that he’d had to go to the hospital.
Connie didn’t share my concerns.
“It is a big ballroom and we will sit as far away from them as possible. I admit that I expect them to try and tweak your nose a bit if they can by asking me to dance, but I will always ask you if you would mind when they do. Feel free to say no. I want to enjoy myself, but I do not, under any circumstances, want to do anything that will bother you or hurt us. I will be expected to dance with my bosses and it would be nice if you were to dance with their wives, but you don’t have to if you don’t want to.”
“I’ll behave. I’ll do my best to be charming.”
“Don’t be too charming. Andy’s wife is a stunner and I don’t want her thinking of taking you for a test drive.”
“She play around?”
“Not that I know of, but she hasn’t met you yet.”
It went pretty much as I expected. There was a cocktail hour followed by dinner which was followed by speeches and then the live band took over. I was introduced to a bunch of people whose names I promptly forgot. I met her boss Andy and his wife Jessica and she was indeed a stunner. If I had been in a girl chasing mood she would have been the one I would want to chase.
Sheppard, Ogden and Bolla sat together with their dates (and in Bolla’s case his wife) on the other side of the ballroom from us. I did notice them looking our way from time to time and I would have to say that the looks were nasty and I wondered if the women at the table had a clue as to what was going on.
The dancing started and I danced the first three numbers with Connie and then Sam, her office manager, asked her to dance so I asked his wife Sarah. Then another guy she worked with asked her and she looked over at me and I nodded a yes. When she got back to the table we had another drink. I’d been drinking vodka tonics with a slice of lime and after two I’d slipped the waitress a twenty and told her to make sure all my future drinks were a glass of water and a slice of lime. I was in dangerous territory and I knew it and I wanted to keep my wits about me. I knew Sheppard had to be seething over the beating I’d given him and I expected that he would enlist Ogden and Bolla to help him get back at me (I’d bowed to Connie’s entreaties to leave Ogden and Bolla alone). Whether or not they would try something at the party I didn’t know, but I needed to be ready just in case.
I expected either Bolla or Ogden to ask Connie for a dance so it was a surprise when it was Sheppard who showed up at our table and asked Connie for a dance. He had bigger stones than I had given him credit for. Connie looked at me and I think I shocked her when I nodded yes. As Connie and Sheppard moved out onto the floor I noticed that Andy’s wife Jessica sitting alone so I went over and asked her to dance. As she moved into my arms she said:
“You are a bit of a surprise.”
“Oh?”
“I wouldn’t have pictured you as a wimp.”
“You say that as if you do picture me as one now. Care to enlighten me as to why?”
“The rather docile way you let her dance with one of her lovers.”
“One of her ex-lovers. What she did prior to saying “I do” is not something I let bother me any more than I would expect my dalliances before we were married to bother her.”
“Are you all that sure that he is an ex? My experience is that a girl who has done two or three at a time rarely gives them up.”
“She knows that I know about them and she knows what will happen if they stop being exes. Might I ask why the interest?”
“Andy has the hots for Connie and he has been working on her. Without any luck I will add.”
“You know this and it doesn’t bother you?”
“We have an open marriage honey and we have been known to swing with certain select couples. I’m kind of hoping that Andy scores with her because then I might get a taste of you.”
The music stopped and I started to walk her back to her table, but she stopped me.
“One more please?”
The music started up again and as Jessica moved into my arms I saw Connie move out onto the floor with Andy. I smiled as I said:
“Keeping me away from Connie to give your hubby a chance to try and work his magic?”
“Am I that transparent?”
“You must love him a lot to let him run free like that.”
“Oh I do sugar, but I do have an ulterior motive.”
“Oh?”
“He gets her I’ve got a shot at you.”
“That’s honest enough so I’ll be straight with you. If Andy succeeds our marriage is over and I will consider that I have been released from my vows. At that point I’ll be more than happy to give you your shot. That of course assumes you will still want a taste if I’m not part of a couple.”
“I said we had an open marriage and that means I free to do what I want as long as I don’t hide it from him and I always go home to him so yes, if you ever consider yourself released from your vows make sure that you give me a shout.”
The tune ended and I escorted Jessica back to her table and then returned to mine. Connie was seated when I got there and the next tune started and I offered her my hand and we moved out onto the floor.
“Enjoying yourself?” I asked.
“Yes I am. How about you?”
“It has been an interesting evening for me.”
“So has Jessica captured you yet?”
“Why would you ask that?”
“She is the only one here besides myself that you went out onto the floor with and stayed out there for two straight dances.”
“She is an interesting lady and we had a very interesting conversation.”
“About what?”
“About you for the most part.”
“Me? Why would she talk about me?”
“I’ll let you think about it for a bit. Maybe I’ll tell you when we leave.”
“That’s no fair.”
“Depends on the way you look at it. Am I asking you what you talked about with your dance partners?”
“No, but I’ll tell you if you want to know.”
“Well I don’t. I am of course curious, but I’m not that nosy.”
“There is something not being said here.”
“You are right about that.”
She cocked her head and gave me a look when I said that, but I just smiled and kept on dancing. When we got back to the table and sat down I noticed that Connie’s drink was empty so I went and got her another one. When I got back to the table Bolla was there and he looked at me and asked:
“Mind if I have a dance with Connie?”
“Not all at” I said which surprised Connie and as they moved out onto the floor I decided that it would be a good time to go to the men’s room.
As I was shaking off the last few drops Sheppard and Ogden came into the bathroom. I zipped up and turned toward them and Sheppard smirked and said:
“Its payback time mother fucker.”
I put my hand in my pocket and said, “You really don’t want to do this.”
“Oh yes I do” he said as he moved toward me. I took my hand out of my pocket and gave him a shot of pepper spray in his eyes. As his hands went up to his face I kicked him square in the nuts and he screamed, clutched at his groin and fell to the floor. I turned to Ogden and made a big production out of putting the pepper spray away and then I smiled at him and said:
“I really like a good one on one fight don’t you?”
I started toward him and he ran from the room. I stepped over the moaning Sheppard, washed and dried my hands and then went back to the party. I headed for the table where Sheppard, Ogden and Bolla had been sitting and saw Ogden’s face lose color as I approached. Everyone else at the table, with the exception of Bolla’s wife, looked a little nervous as I approached and I guessed they all knew what was suppose to happen in the bathroom. I stopped at the table and addressed Bolla’s wife.
“I know we’ve never met, but since your husband is dancing with my wife I thought it only fair that I ask you to dance.”
She looked me in the eye, smiled and said, “I’d love to.”
She moved into my arms, told me that her name was Gwen and then said:
“You are a bold one aren’t you.”
“Why would you say that?”
“The way you walked up to the table after what was supposed to happen in the men’s room. Poor Jamie was white as a sheet when he came back to the table and it was of course noted that Billy wasn’t with him. Then here you come unruffled and smiling.”
“Sorry to ruin everyone’s evening.”
“Not every one’s. Certainly not mine. I can’t stand Billy and I can barely tolerate Jamie, but they are Mike’s friends so I have to grin and bear it.”
“I was surprised that Mike didn’t come in with them.”
“Mike told them not to do it and told them he’d be no part of it. So why did you ask me to dance? Going to ask for quid pro quo?”
“What?”
“You know; he had yours so you have his?”
“It is tempting because you are one fine and sexy looking lady, but I am one of those weird ones. I made some promises when I said my ‘I Do’s and I keep my promises.”
“She the same?”
“Only time will tell. Obviously you know. You have one of those open marriage things?”
“No. I caught him and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.”
“Oh?”
“He is a marvelous father and dotes on his kids. I told him that if it ever happened again I’d leave him and take his kids so far away that he would never see them again.”
“Effective. Very effective.”
The music stopped and she said, “Don’t take me back just yet.” The next tune started and as we moved to the music she said:
“There’s more. I told him that there was a price to pay for my forgiveness. I told him that he owed me one and that some day I was going to come home freshly fucked and he wasn’t to say one word about it or the kids and I would disappear.”
“Did you mean it or was it just a way to make him sweat?”
“Oh I meant it alright and when you asked me to dance I was hoping that it would be tonight.”
“Sorry to disappoint.”
“Keep me in mind if things don’t work out with your wife. I’ll hang onto my get out of jail free card for a while just in case.”
As we walked to the car Connie said, “I guess it wasn’t as bad as you expected. You seemed to have enjoyed yourself.”
“I had a good time, Hell, anytime two good looking ladies offer to play with me is a good time.”
“Who!! I’ll scratch their fucking eyes out!”
“Bolla’s wife for one. She knows about you and her hubby and she offered me a little payback if I wanted to even the score.”
“How could she know? We were very careful to hide things from her.”
“Not careful enough it appears.”
“You going to do it?”
“That depends on you.”
“Me? Why does it depend on me?”
“Simple. You honor your vows and I’ll keep mine. You don’t and that releases me from mine.”
“I told you that I did all my playing before the wedding and that I had no intention of ever doing it again after the wedding.”
“I know that is what you said, but can you do it? A rather experienced woman told me tonight that after a woman experiences threesomes and foursomes and has liked them she will always want to do them again and again and again.”
“Who told you that?”
“Andy’s wife Jessica.”
“How in the world did you ever get in a conversation like that with her?”
“When she asked me how I felt about my wife dancing with her lover in front of me I said ex-lover and that is what got the conversation going. I had it right didn’t I? Sheppard is an ex-lover right?”
“Of course he is.” She paused for a second or two and then said, “He doesn’t want to be. He spent the entire time we were dancing trying to talk me into seeing him again. I left him in no doubt that it was never going to happen. Jessica knew? I wonder how?”
“Guys talk and Andy works with your three ex studs. I’m sure that he found out from one or all of them.”
“But why would he tell Jessica?”
“They don’t keep secrets from each other. According to her they have an open marriage and each of them is free to go out and play as long as they don’t hide it from each other and they always come home to each other. Andy told Jessica that he was going after you and she told me that she hoped he was successful.”
“Why would she tell you that?”
“She thinks if he gets you she can get me.”
“That bitch!!! She better stay away from you or I’ll hurt her! I’ll hurt her bad!!” She paused and then said, “Could she get you?”
“Only if Andy was to score with you.”
“No way! And for a bunch of reasons.”
“A bunch?”
“First is the fact that I’ll die before I break my vows. Second there is the fact that I want to climb the ladder in the company and if I slept with Andy it would be assumed that I’m trying to sleep my way to the top. The opposite side of that coin, given the current atmosphere concerning sexual discrimination and sexual harassment, is that if I fucked Andy and got promoted some one who felt the promotion should have been theirs could file a complaint. Last and by no means least, I don’t much like Andy. Of course that opinion was formed by the way he was always sniffing after everything in a skirt when he had something like Jessica at home. Doesn’t change anything now that I know Jessica doesn’t care. He still seems ‘smarmy’ to me.”
She paused and then said, “Does that bother you?”
“Why would it bother me?”
“Maybe you were hoping I’d give you a chance to try out that sex bomb.”
“I won’t deny that she turns me on and for that matter so did Bolla’s wife, but when it comes to sex bombs I already have one and she’s enough for me as long as she stays my sex bomb and mine alone.”
“Then you are never going to get to try on either one of them. I admit that I was a little loose before the wedding, but I felt that I owed you that for what you originally intended to do to me.”
There was another pause and then she said, “I will tell you this. Jessica was right. Once you do threesomes and foursomes and like them you are always going to want to do them again. I do want to do them again, but the only way I ever will is if you are one of the men.”
“Then you are shit out of luck my little sex bomb, because I am just not wound that way.”
“You do of course realize that all this talk about sex has gotten me horny and you have your work cut out for you as soon as we get home.”
“I can live with that.”
And they lived happily ever after.
Or did they?