Copyright Β©, 2003: Canadagander. All text in this story is created by and the sole property of the author. All rights reserved.
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Writer's Note: You might call this piece a posthumous submittal. It was originally intended to be the sequel to 'Diane's Mind'. For various reasons, "Kathy's Night Out With the Boys" was submitted first, and I've updated this story to now follow Kathy's story. If you haven't read either of the first two stories, then I recommend that you read 'Diane's Mind' first, then 'Kathy's Night Out With the Boys', and finally this one. You will get to know Brad, Kathy, Diane, and the other characters better. Consider the usual warning: this story contains sexually explicit content. Do not read it unless you are an adult.
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Almost two months have gone by since that unforgettable Saturday when my wife, Kathy, returned from her company's weeklong sales conference. If you recall from her story, on the last night of the conference, she had a very wild time with her two co- workers, David Malinovski and Allen Theriot.
But the sexual adventure out in Arizona with those three was not what made that weekend so unforgettable for me. No, it was the fact that I almost turned the whole deal into what could have had disastrous effects on the marriages of Kathy and myself, plus David and Diane and Allen and Teri as well. You see, it had been planned by the Malinovskis and the Theriots that while David and Allen were with Kathy in Phoenix, I would be engaged that same night in a mΓ©nage a trios with Diane and Teri, here in our Midwest hometown. Unbeknownst to Kathy and me, the other two couples had open, but very discrete marriages, and they wanted us to join with them to make it a swinging sextet (pun intended). These two swinging nights out with David, Allen, Teri, and Diane were to be the first of many for Kathy and me.
Only I bugged out of experiencing my first sexual adventure with two women, for reasons which you'll learn shortly. Fortunately, with what I can proudly claim as some very creative bullshitting on my part, I convinced Kathy and the swinging quartet that I had fallen in love with a married woman. Then I convinced them that if I consented to have an open marriage with Kathy, I wouldn't be strong enough to resist the temptation of having an adulterous affair with this married woman. As I counted on, Kathy (who was the key) bought into my story, and things went back to what you might call normal.
Well, almost normal. An unusual thing happened this week. After quite a few rejections, a book publisher accepted my novel manuscript. At last, Brad Worth, the stay- at-home free-lance writer, commonly referred to as the husband of Kathy Otterman, may get his own recognition. The publisher asked me to fly to New York City to sign a contract and discuss possible plot follow-ups. One never says no to requests from a publisher if you are an unknown author, so on Friday, there was another business trip separating the Worth household. Only this time I, and not Kathy, was the traveler.
It was more convenient for Kathy to drop me off at the airport while on the way to her office, even though my flight was not until 10:15 in the morning. The trip was to last only one day, so I didn't have to join the mob scene at the baggage checkin, simply going through security to my departure gate with a carry-on garment bag. Consequently, I had almost two hours before boarding to kill, pondering what to do with all that idle time. That was decided for me about 9:15, when my cell phone rang. It was Allen Theriot, from Kathy's office. I wondered why he would be calling me.
"Hey, Brad, Al Theriot here. Congratulations on the good news about your book. Kathy came in this morning all bubbling over about you finally getting published. I'll bet that you're excited as well. What's the book called, by the way?"
"Hi, Allen, I never expected that you'd be calling me at the airport. Thank you for remembering me. The title that I put on the manuscript is 'Shot Between the Ayes. That's A-Y-E-S; it's a contemporary murder mystery that has some congressmen mysteriously killed in the state capitol building. But the publisher wants to give it the title "The Deadly Dome." Frankly, they can call the book anything they want, as long as my name is spelled correctly, and they promote it to sell copies."
"Yeah, that makes sense. The boss may not always be right, but he'll always be the boss. But that's beside the point. The reason why I'm calling, Brad, is that I need to know what did happen between you and Teri and Diane on the day before we returned from Phoenix. You do realize that both David and I know that the story you told Kathy about your swing with Diane and Teri was just that, a story."
"Allen, please never, ever tell Kathy what you know."
"She'll never hear it from me, I promise. But what I'm curious about is just why you did what you did. Teri is not happy these days. She told me that the reason you backed out of partying with her and Diane is that you don't like her. If what you said about falling for another married woman is the true story, well then, she shouldn't feel rejected, should she? So how much of what you said is factual, and how much is just more of your witty fiction?"
"Allen, tell Teri that she in no way turned me off. On the contrary, I like Teri a lot, and think that she is a very sexy woman. You are lucky to have her; I guess that goes for David, too, doesn't it? But getting back to my other woman, I guess that by now it can't hurt to tell you the whole story, as long as it doesn't get back to Kathy. How much time do you have? To tell the whole story about the airport scene requires that I fill you in as well with all the transpired during the week prior to that time."
"Tell me the whole story, Brad. Take all the time you need, and I want to say again that Kathy will never hear any of this from me."
"What I have never told anybody, Allen, is that my made-up 'other married woman' is actually based on Diane. I have been attracted to her from the first time we met. But my feelings started going overboard at that party hosted the week before the sales conference your boss, Ken Carleton. Diane may have told you about that evening, where I amused myself, somewhat at her expense, by telling her a story about a dinner at a restaurant in New York, at which a woman and I had an erotic experience. It was not a big deal; I was simply trying to show Diane that her mind could be her most erogenous zone. By the end of the story, she got it that my tale was all bullshit, but her mind had gotten her really turned on."
Continuing, I said, "Diane and I shared a good laugh, and our relationship was promoted to a deeper level. At least it was for me, Allen. In hindsight, now I'm not so sure that Diane felt for me as deeply as I now do for her. She can be so playful, perhaps she thought that our encounter was just a game."
"Perhaps Diane does feel the same way as you, Brad," Allen replied. "The reason that I called was last night Teri and Diane were chatting on the phone. The way Teri told it to me, was that when Teri mentioned your name to Diane, she began to cry. She then told Teri that she should have realized that you would never consider a threesome with her and Teri. That's when Teri thought that you didn't like her, and now she's crying, too. I'm calling you to try to understand just what did happen, and how to make the girls happy. We four thought that everything was planned perfectly, but things fell apart with you and the girls. Just what did transpire?"
"Here's what happened, Allen." I began to tell him the following story:
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The Saturday after Ken's party, we spouses wished our corporate salespersons bon voyage, and I began my normal weekly routine, waiting for Kathy to return. At least I thought it would be a normal week, but the two other couples had something different planned.
The next Tuesday evening, I answered my phone on the third ring. The green LED numbers on the clock radio on the nightstand read 11:00 PM.
"Good evening, Brad," she began sweetly. "This is Diane. How are you doing all by your lonesome, like me?"