Chapter 1, Stolen Moments.
One of the benefits being married to a young, female attorney making $165,000 a year at the moment with a far higher top end is you live well. You've got a nice house. New vehicles. Ethan Allen furniture. A basement entertainment room devoted to your favorite team. You generally have fine things and a comfortable life whether you decide to work – as I do – or not.
There are, as with most good things, some negatives.
Sexually, a wife hoping to become a mother, generally views some of the activities once enjoyed as inappropriate. She no longer feels the need to be that girl. A wife and mother shouldn't have to do THAT anymore. Couple that natural relationship and life progression with being an attorney at a major law firm, and you'll discover an even more prim and proper spouse than you may ever have envisioned.
Surprisingly, this is less a problem than you might believe when you have such a comfortable life. Sex, is, somehow, less critical than it was when you were poor and eating Wonderbread with Pizza Quick sauce warmed in a toaster oven. The biggest drawback, I've determined, to the comfortable life I'm situated in, is dinner parties. That's really the biggest drawback.
As a powerful little lawyer, it is the expectation you will entertain your colleagues from time to time, and be entertained in return. As the spouse of that powerful little lawyer, you are required to feign some enjoyment if no actual enjoyment is possible. The problem is I don't polish up so nice. I don't entertain. Or, better stated, I'm forced to entertain, and I do entertain very well. I just don't like it.
Though I'm something of an introvert at heart, I put on a jovial exterior that generally causes greater "dinner party" issues. People WANT to come back or have us over in return. "Bill" – that's me – is so funny. One law firm my wife left still invites us to all firm events because we just have to have "Bill" around.
I've come to dread the words, "Keep Saturday open. We've having people over."
I moan about it. I claim I need "me" time. But, when Saturday comes, I'm the clown again, and everyone has such a great time. This drawback seems to have no end. There are HUNDREDS of lawyers at my wife's firm. I try to make limits that the attorneys we have over must live close (as I don't want to drive 40 miles to go somewhere I don't want to be when the couple invites us to return the favor) or they must be in the same department or floor so I'm not entertaining some corporate attorney for no good networking reason.
Yet, being married to the primary bread winner usually quickly erases those lines. So, I continue to have dinner parties and hate that I have them, but, at least I understand them. It's networking. It'll benefit her and us in the long run. That's always been my rationale for gritting my way through these nights.
Then approximately six months ago a clear line was crossed. We had a dinner party, though not with anyone at her firm. The party was with a friend she developed at an upscale woman's retail store she shops at. One of the sales girls there and her boyfriend were coming over. I was displeased, determined to be less amusing during the dinner and much gruffer.
I hate these things anyway, but I can take them when they matter. I REALLY can't stand these things when they are with a cashier at Ann Taylor, providing no real benefit to either of us while also intruding on my pet peeve that she shops too much and driving home the fact that she shops SO much as to make FRIENDS with store employees.
I had no idea just how enjoyable this night would become and where it would lead for my wife and me. This night ultimately lead to an erasure -- over the course of a few weeks -- any negatives I could find in her shopping, dinner parties, or our sex life.
This chapter of the story speaks of the events of that first night.
My determination to be a jerk softened into a determination to be something a little less fun than normal as soon as I greeted our guests as the door.
"Oh my," was the first thought to cross my mind as I shook Heather's hand in greeting.
Heather had a lean, athletic build, slender, though not skinny. Her body on display despite a conservative outfit of tan, (I'm sure women have a more exotic color name for tan, but for me it was tan) form-fitting Ann Taylor slacks with an equally form-fitting black turtleneck. Heather had a form that assured others enjoyed the fit.
I felt a spasm of arousal in my groin as the scent of her perfume hit me. Jessica McClintock. The same perfume I buy for my wife and have her wear all the time. This coincidence becomes less coincidental as this story evolves. But, let's say, it was neither the lovely, lean body of Heather's 5-9 frame nor the sweet scent of that perfume that immediately made an impression on me.
It was the hair.
Long, full dirty blonde hair down to the middle of her back teased exquisitely to mix well the appearance that she didn't have time to do her hair up, while leaving no doubt by the body and kink, not curl as I hate curl, that the presentation took a very good perm and some time to perfect. That hair hid any potential flaws I might have found in her otherwise.
Not that I could find any true flaws. Her nose was a hint too sharply angled for my tastes perhaps, but, the package created was scary pretty. Heather was the kind of girl to drive men to distraction in the form of many fitful dreams.
The second thought that crossed my mind was, "I'd fuck the shit out of her." An appraisal of women men offer silently to themselves many times a day, rarely to have actually come true.
The second impression that was made that night, and third thought to come to my mind was, "Dude, you are out of your league." Shaking Tom's hand in introduction, I couldn't really process how he was dating her. She was 22 and finishing up college while working at the store. He was a business professional, four years older.
Tom was about 5-5. He had glasses and was extremely pale. His hair was cut in the style of Alphalpha from the Little Rascals, though, fortunately for him, without the hair sticking up in the back. She worked, so, it couldn't be that he had a lot of money. I simply filed away the odd relationship of a geeky, awkward guy with a super hot girl as being he must be hung like a horse, and Heather seemed to me to be a girl who required that attribute to be kept happy.
I found later this evening that was partially true. Heather did enjoy that trait. It was another attribute, though, which ultimately defined itself as her primary need, one that doesn't really become clear to me until a few days later. I didn't know it at this moment but poor Tom possessed neither trait.