FANNING THE FLAMES ONCE MORE
"You can't say that we haven't tried to end it."
Stan waited for the few words he had spoken to fully register with her. Gemma gazed back at him, her lips pouting as if she was keeping a ready answer from being shouted back at him. She did not like to be reminded that he was not the only one to want to rediscover the wasting passion that they had so often succumbed to.
He had, once more, become direct in what he had to say, and nothing else dominated the conversations that they could so often fall into than the affair that they had conducted in secrecy and that had produced two children. Being a
'donor'
, or
'keeping it in the family'
, as he had suggested, and after his son Jake had pressed him for possible solutions to the problem, he and Gemma faced in having kids. What had been an arrangement, unlikely and at first reluctantly agreed to by Gemma, had become so much more.
"You only have to touch me, and I'm lost...get lost with you being in me...time and time again,"
He heard both dismay and wonder in her soft voice and knew that he had only to claim her, for his penis to slowly but purposefully enter her slicked heat and her breaths would catch in her throat, Gemma's hands gripping his sides and her abdomen tensing before she succumbed to the waves of an orgasm that wracked her body. She would buck her hips, clamp her muscles on his probing length to keep him so wonderfully deep inside her. She'd become vocal, act wildly in ways that Betty, his wife, no longer did, and they would each be overwhelmed by the potency of his ejaculation, the crash of his hips against hers or her buttocks, if Gemma was made to rest her legs on his shoulders and he found her as she submitted to him.
They would couple furiously, rampage over the bed in the guest bedroom in pursuit of pleasure that had long ago replaced the purposeful intercourse that she had sought of him, and for only one purpose. To become pregnant. That she had succumbed to wanton pleasure, as their couplings were pursued until that moment, was something that she had struggled to accept, but moments of consummation were always heightened by her gradual submission to him, and they finally shared in the act.
"You always become someone else, a different man," she would tell him as they lay in each other's arms, and the pleasure they had discovered slowly ebbed away. Their couplings were furtive; they had to be, and where and how they shared the heat could be unpredictable; hurriedly and in the hallway, or on the sofa with her straddling him and her work dress gathered around her hips when he had work to do in the house for her and Jake, or on the bed. In short, wherever time and his coaxing words allowed it.
According to the woman he now gazed at, her breasts shaped by a clingy tank-top and her slender legs flattered by a flouncy hemmed mini skirt, he became someone else when he took to loving her; passion being combined with sublime skill and attentiveness. He took delight in her, and she had found herself succumbing to his ways and needing them; to renewing their times together when she had resolved that his place in her life was confined to the act, or moments, of
'finding her'
and getting her pregnant.
Sex with him, after the birth of her kids, continued sporadically but passionately; the break in relations was soon made up for in tempestuous moments that left her weak, and he tiringly pleased and satisfied. Their eyes would meet, and the question to be read in them had been only too clear.
They were lovers, their age difference and who they were to each other no barrier to what they sought and what they had soon shared once more. Her full-breasted, slender, body could take him; anticipation along with his swirling and flickering tongue and probing fingers slowly opening the way for his entry; a well-endowed and insatiable man taking her to heights of pleasure that broke down her resolve to deny him a repeat of what had been shared so often that it was like she was pursuing an extra-marital affair because of the lack of attention to her needs within her marriage to Jake.
The truth of it, he had sensed often enough, was that Gemma wanted both men in her life; one was true and commonplace, and the other a raging counterpoint to all that prevailed in what she maintained to be an ordered life. It took a few words from him, a look, or a moment's caress to her bare arm, and the meeting of his gaze upon her for Gemma to know what was again on his mind and that she wanted to surrender to the moments to be spent again in his arms.
"We're both caught up in this, Gem..."
"Yes, and damn you for knowing me so well!"
She pouted a smile with her full lips and flicked back her long auburn hair, tilting her head coquettishly as she gazed at him. The ruggedly handsome man with his greying stubble beard and closely cropped hair still got to her, occupied her thoughts in the most destructive of ways. Stan's work toned his body and maintained the strength in his arms, roughened his large hands and his self-confidence, bordering on arrogance, seemed to equip him with an answer to every situation that might face him. Was he as horny with other women customers of his contracting business as he was with her? She hoped not; being unfaithful to his wife, Betty, was more than enough to take in and accept, difficult as that was to do.
But she had been persuaded by the idea of Stan being the man to impregnate her, even if Jake was unaware of what had happened, and about which there remained a nagging doubt. She wanted to keep it that way. She also wanted Stan to be her lover; to bring to her ways of loving that left her weak and left her conscience raging. Then, at such times, she would call a halt to what had again been shared, only for the absence of the man soon wrecking her resolve.
What happened between them could become a two-way street; she pursuing him when Stan did not expect it, or he sought her out and arrangements made. Furtiveness heightened the pleasure of all that would then follow.
"Well, shall we?" he asked, suggestively, in a voice she had learned to know so well and as his fingertip caressed her throat and making Gemma look at him as they stepped closer.
She shrugged her slender shoulders. "Well, yes, I guess we'd better get on with it."
For only a moment, they locked eyes and silently confirmed what they wanted once more from the arrangement so hastily made over the telephone the day before, and when they were both at work.