This is a work of fiction. All characters are 18 or older.
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Mark
always
leaves the front door unlocked for me on Saturday afternoons so I can let myself in and get ready to play. When I discover it's not, I know that I should be a good girl and walk away like I've been instructed. But I've waited all week for this, so I shift my bag to my other shoulder and knock, even if it means a punishment.
Especially if it means a punishment.
The approaching footsteps are too light. My stomach drops. The door opens just as I spin around to retreat.
"Yes?"
I turn sheepishly to see a woman in the doorway. It's Katherine. I've seen pictures of her before, but they did her no justice. She looks tired and puffy faced but she is beautiful without a stitch of makeup, her sharply cut hair even sexier looking all mussed up. In her early forties, Katherine has maintained her lithe, curvy figure well over the years. I can tell because the silk robe she's wearing leaves little to the imagination.
"Oh, pardon me, I think I have the wrong house," I say hoarsely, watching as she takes out a cigarette and lights it, holding it between her elegant fingers that have been tapered into red points.
Katherine exhales, her eyes growing more focused as they roam up and down my body. "You must be Miss Saturday," she pronounces at last.
"Sorry, I don't-"
"Mark isn't here," Katherine drawls over my lame attempts to lie. "There was an emergency at work."
I blink hard, remembering when I used to be the 'emergency at work'.
Katherine chuckles, but if I'm not mistaken, I detect a hint of sympathy. "You want a drink?" she offers, opening the door a little wider. Mark's scent wafts out, and I can't help but inhale deeply as it does.
"No, really, I think I wrote down the wrong address or something..."
"What's your name? I'd tell you mine, but I assume you already know who I am."
"Alice," I mumble.
"Well, Alice, you're not the first pretty girl to 'accidentally' turn up at my house, and I doubt you'll be the last. Now, I was about to pour myself a stiff one and I'm assuming that's what you came here for, so do you wanna come in or not?"
Glancing up from my shoes, I accept because she's right- I am in need of alcohol, post haste. After another puff, she stubs the cherry out on a brick and tosses the butt into the hedges before letting me inside.
***
I've always thought of everything in the Brookfield residence as being his- his sofa, his carpet, his bed, his kitten. But now that I'm here with just his wife, I can see her influence in the decor, detect her perfume in the base note of its fragrance, feel where she softens the sharp edge to Mark's aesthetic. When Katherine pours a drink for me from their crystal decanter set, her adept movements are so much more graceful than Mark's that I will never think of it as his again.
I thank her when she hands me the heavy glass tumbler and watch as Katherine sits at the end of the sofa opposite me with her back against the arm, legs stretching out so her lovely pedicured feet press against my thigh. I'm wearing a short dress that rides up whenever I sit down, so our bare skin is touching; a small intimacy that spread its heat the longer it burns.
"Are you a student?" Katherine asks softly.
I shake my head. "I graduated a few years ago. I'm a digital artist and I just started working with the medical University visualizing data gathered during clinical trials," I explain out of nerves, knowing that Katherine has no interest in my profession outside of being a mistress. "Anyways, that's how I met Mark."
"Hmm, you look young, and Mark does like them young, but you seem smart too, and that's not his usual type."
"I can't be that smart if I'm having an affair with a married man, can I?" I take a large gulp of whiskey, shuddering as its harsh flames lick my throat.
Katherine shrugs. "Only if you expect him to be faithful."
"Are you faithful to him?" I inquire before I can stop myself, but instead of seeming offended, his wife just laughs.
"He has his kittens and I have my cubs. It doesn't bother me as long as he keeps laying pipe when we're together. My only condition is that we don't shit where we eat- no friends, no neighbors, no one from church." I'm surprised to hear that Mark goes to church, but then again we are south of the Mason-Dixon line.
"I suppose this is his chicken-shit way of breaking up with me, huh?"
"This is just his way of weeding out girls with any self-respect. Sorry, you must think I'm a bitter, catty bitch; and you'd be right."
"Why do you stay with him?"
"Oh, you are young, aren't you? Do you think I'll find anyone that's as rich and sexy as Mark who doesn't screw around? Besides, you know how good he is in bed."
Katherine gives me a meaningful look and I can't help but squirm in my seat. Mark has the biggest cock I've ever taken, period, and he knows how to use it.
"Plus he's charming," she adds a touch wistfully.
Her husband has this sort of arrogant charisma that drives me wild. Not that he can't be romantic and kind, but I'm not interested in Mark because he's a sweet guy. I want him because he treats me like his whore and fucks me like an animal.
"He's a dick."
"That's what we like about him, isn't it?" Katherine points out. The balls of her feet caress me while she speaks, and they are so soft and pretty that I want to touch them. "Some women want their men to be clay they can mold to their liking. But we're the kind of women who want the statue. We don't want to change them, but god, if only they wanted to change for us..."
Taking her touch as an invitation, I let one of my hands fall onto her slender ankles. "Does he ever tie you up?" I ask, having wondered for a long time what his sex life with his wife is like; if it existed at all.
"No. Is that what he does to you?"
I nod, blushing all the way to the back of my neck, skin hot as fresh sunburn.