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My love affair with Jack Taylor was over, as was the remodel job on my house that heād been commissioned to do. Small wonder, since Iād been leading a double life with him, fucking nearly every man I came across, without him knowing. It was Jack whoād set my libido free. Jack, only the second man Iād ever made love with. And maybe the only man Iād ever loved, truly loved, with a rich, mature love rather than a childish, virginal, Catholic girlās love. But just like losing oneās virginity makes it easier to make love to a second and third man, I imagine that violating my wedding vows made subsequent infidelities seem somehow less sinful. But I loved Jack. Iād wanted to marry him. Iāll always love him.
But when heād caught me screwing his Russian construction foreman, Sergei, on Saturday afternoon, it had destroyed whatever was left of his tender feelings for me. At least thatās what I thought was the reason for our break-up. I felt nearly suicidal, just imagining the future without Jack.
āClaudia, what am I going to do?ā I tearfully asked my 24-year-old roommate that Saturday evening. āThe main reason I divorced Frank ā other than his abuse and weird fetishes ā was because of Jack!ā She was nearly as shattered as I was. Part of her sorrow, of course, was because sheād previously joined Jack and me in a threesome. That was one of the reasons sheād welcomed the opportunity to move in with me when my husband had leftā¦to have more such chances.
āWhy did you have to fuck those guys?ā I asked her, sorrowfully. I was lamenting the fact that Iād discovered the gorgeous, chestnut-haired Claudia carnally entertaining three of Sergeiās workmen in her bedroom that afternoon. The sight had turned me on so much that Iād dragged the stocky Russian into my bathroom, of all places, so that I could get a little sexual enjoyment of my own. Thatās when Jack had caught us.
Though I held her in no way responsible for my actions, her initial justification was: āWell, I thought that if you could do six guys at a time at the Club, Iād see if I could handle at least three!ā Claudia was jealous of my new membership in an exclusive sex club for the rich and influential, and constantly asked if she could visit the clubhouse, hoping eventually to become affiliated.
Regardless of Claudiaās competitive nature, my life was in a shambles. My affair with Jack had been pivotal in it being turned upside down. In addition to my adultery, such an absurdly distant possibility a few months before, Iād been raped, developed a drug dependence, become addicted to sex ā which was now being further fed by the Club affiliation ā and had divorced my husband. The only outstanding plusses were the divorce, since my abusive husband had been cheating on me for years, and my house remodel project, which Jack, as its designer, had managed. I still questioned my decision to gain membership in the sex club, though I was assured by my boss ā a dentist and my Club sponsor ā that it would help me because of the wealthy, powerful contacts I could make in the future.
I had fallen so far, it seemed, from being the naĆÆve, faithful, working housewife of a few months before. My once pristine speech had also suffered. I not only thought in the most prurient of ways, but had also become a āgarbage mouth,ā using the filthiest of language. Yet I wondered if all these things were the true reasons for Jack pulling away from me. My fear of him prevented me from questioning him too much on Sunday. Heād come to the house himself to finish up the dining room, the last remodel task, since the previous day heād thrashed Sergei in a rage and banished him from the site, and had fired the workers whoād gang banged Claudia upstairs. Heād also offered my 19-year-old neighbor, Billy, a job on a large, out-of-town project, since the young man had proven himself on my remodel job. Iād seduced Billy weeks before and, on occasion, heād shared my bed when I desperately needed affection, but now he was gone too! As a nagging reminder, Billy had convinced us, for our own protection, to adopt his Great Dane, Thor, a giant, even-tempered dog whoād become a devoted companion to Claudia and me. Thor had immediately taken up residence in my roommateās bedroomā¦something that I now suspected was due to a devotion deeper than one finds in a typical canine-mistress relationship.
As so often happens, I thought, now that Iām divorced, Jack may possibly have become afraid of getting too closeā¦too close to committing to me. In any case, when he left Sunday evening ā though heād said heād call ā I didnāt expect to hear from him soon, and my spirits once again plummeted. With the exception of Claudia and my work mates, I felt friendless and ā worse ā loveless. I was afraid that Iād drift into bitter isolationā¦and develop even more onerous habits.
āDee Dee,ā Claudia said, āweāve gotta get you into social circulation to improve your outlook. Between the two of us, guys should be breaking down the doors. We should have a party!ā
I flattered myself in thinking that I might be a bit more discriminating than my young roommate when it came to men but ā on reflection ā that wasnāt so, since it seemed I was the bigger slut of the twoā¦and I should know better. Besides, whom would we invite to a party? My conservative Italian parents, who were heartbroken by my divorce?
On Monday I told my boss, Dr. Neil, about losing Jack...but spared him the dirty details. Though he showed much empathy, his optimism overcame everything else, and he tried to convince me that my love life would improve, that it would take time, and ā because of this experience ā would next time have a more ārationalā basis. At the end of the conversation I felt as if heād somehow missed a meeting when it came to discussing matters of the heartā¦and sensed that he was relieved that Jack and I had split up.
My work mate Mandy ā herself a member of Dr. Neilās sex club since his father had inducted her in her early twenties ā felt sorry for me. She liked Jackā¦and thought he was very sexy. Ultimately, she thought that the relationship had been good for me. Otherwise, she said, Iād probably still be married to my duplicitous husband, Frank. Her solution was for me to jump immediately into Club activities and not look back. Mandy, herself, had done that very thing a generation ago ā as a single mother ā right after her daughter had been born. I shuddered at the thought of my life paralleling hers, although thus far, because of my exās inadequate sperm, I was still childless, a status about which I was now ambivalent.
Nevertheless, I prepared to follow her adviceā¦without a child, of course, regardless of my desire to be a parent. Though I cried myself to sleep the next few nights after masturbating in bed, on Thursday evening I happily looked forward to helping a new friend, Emilie, who was assistant directing a show in the Clubās āWildlife Room.ā Emilie, a tall, statuesque, bisexual blonde, had played a female supporting role in my audition skit, and was a real pro. I had to be careful with her, though, since she lusted after me, and the last thing I needed was a lesbian relationship; another one, that is, in addition to the times Claudia and I had been together. As a new member, barely familiar with the organizationās entertainment offerings, I didnāt actively participate in Emilieās showā¦and itās a good thing I hadnāt been asked to. It involved lewd scenes with animals, and after it was over I felt repulsed and a bit sick to my stomach. Neither Dr. Neil, my sponsor, nor Mandy, herself an accomplished play director, was there to see it. But the following day at work theyād heard about it. Privately, they soothed my ruffled feelings and asked me just to chalk up the event to experience.
So, I took Claudiaās advice and decided to have a backyard party on Saturday. Since notice was so short, and part of the reason for the party was for her to meet club members, I invited Dr. Neil, Emilie, and Mandy. That way they could meet my roommate away from the clubhouse, take her measure, and see if ā at some point ā she might be membership material, given her extraordinary beauty, love of sex, and credentials as an architect. I informed her and she was overjoyed. We planned a backyard barbeque ā also using my new hot tub and spa in the gazebo ā and she requested that her twin brother, Benjie, be invited for the weekend from L.A. She didnāt have to sell me too hard on that idea, since weād had a sensational threesome that had included him a couple of weeks previously, plus my dawn quickie with him the next morningā¦and I knew that Iād be unbearably horny by Saturday. At the same time Iād have to restrain my lascivious behavior. Iād also need to limit my drug intake to alcohol, to adhere to Dr. Neilās explicit ārules,ā since he was my club sponsor as well as my boss, and had recently given me a huge raise, dependent on my following his therapeutic dictates.