I looked over at John, sure I misheard him. "What?!" I said a little too loudly.
"Thanks for the ride the last few days. I would love to repay you if you'll take me home with you." John smiled at me in a way that I recognized as more than a simple offer.
"Take you home? To do what?" Despite the certainty that my instincts were correct, I wanted him to say it out loud and directly.
John spoke as if he were thirty rather than eighteen. "To see what's under your clothes, of course. I've wanted to see you without them for two years."
Looking back toward the road as I drove, I hesitated. "John! You're only eighteen. And I'm married."
"That wasn't exactly a no, Mrs. James." I saw that John was looking at me intently as I drove.
I gripped the steering wheel harder. John was a very good-looking young man, well-built and funny. It didn't make me less married, though.
When John's left hand moved behind my neck and rubbed under my hair, it caught me off guard. But at the same time, his fingers touching me intimately sent a shiver down my spine. His fingers caressed and played with the skin seldom touched by another person.
I didn't protest. I should have. Someone as confident as John would take my lack of a rebuke as an invitation to continue.
"I'm married," I repeated.
"I know," John said. "He's a lucky man even if he doesn't appreciate how beautiful you are."
"Do you think I'm beautiful?"
"Of course you are. All of my friends think so, too. How they failed to hit on you is a surprise. And seeing Mr. James sleeping around with Stella Jackson reminds us you're not being appreciated at home."
My head swam in shock. "Steve is sleeping with Stella? How do you know that?"
"Everyone has seen them together. They go to Hollis to eat. And his car is in her garage a lot." John paused. "I'm sorry. I thought you knew."
"No, of course, I didn't know. I've been faithful. I assumed Steve was working too much. I had no idea."
"Mrs. James. I learned that if you're not getting it, someone is, or there is a lot of porn. People don't like confrontations and do things they shouldn't to feel alive." John spoke with confidence.
The way John spoke matter-of-factly about my husband's cheating convinced me he was telling the truth. What he said about human nature rang a bell in my head, too.
"Stella is a beautiful woman. A bit wild."
"Yes, she is. And men don't cheat for better. They cheat for easier." John again sounded utterly confident that he was speaking the truth. "But you're right there at home, lonely and much more attractive than Stella. You can sleep with anyone, but being with someone who knows you well beats a fling."
"How'd you get so smart, John?"
"I had a good teacher. Pay attention to what you have, and it won't get lost." John's fingers continued to rub the back of my neck.
I turned my head briefly to smile at John. "Thanks for letting me know. I suspected but never would have believed that other people knew without telling me."
"Would you have believed them? You're not wired to do that sort of thing, so you wouldn't want to accept the truth." John nodded, moved his right hand to my right knee, and patted it.
I looked down at John's hand on my knee. "Is that why you wanted me to take you home? To have sex with me?"
John's hand squeezed my leg lightly. "Of course, I want to sleep with you. You're beautiful. You need to be appreciated. I'm a man. We both have needs that we can take care of."
I drove, thinking about John's straightforward honesty. I sighed. Fuck Steve, I thought.
"Okay, John. You're right. If Steve isn't going to love me like I deserve..."
John ran his right hand along the inside of my right thigh, almost under the hem of my skirt that reached mid-thigh. I flinched but thankfully didn't jerk the steering wheel.
A part of me demanded that I make him stop. Another part of me wanted to see how far he would go to erase Steve's cheating from my head.
John's fingers continued to caress up and down my thigh. I could claim it was involuntary, but my legs opened wider as his fingers made contact.
Not wanting to waste an opportunity, John's fingers moved under the hem of my skirt higher and higher as his hand went back and forth across my leg. There was no mistaking the tingle between my legs.
To my surprise, despite my legs opening for him, John took his time with his fingers. His left hand continued to rub behind my neck softly.
I know that I was wet. The pulse of my heartbeat between my legs pounded in my head.
"Do you want me to stop, Mrs. James?"
I shook my head.
John's fingers moved higher and rubbed on the inside crease of my thigh. Then, his middle finger ran vertically directly between my legs. I let out a little gasp.
John continued to alternate his fingers along my thighs and up and down the outside of my panties.
"You're wet, Mrs. James." John's voice deepened.
I held my breath as his fingers moved again. When his fingers went under my panties on the right side, I wanted his finger on me. John didn't disappoint. Despite his age, he knew female anatomy well. The tip of his finger ran lightly across my clit.
I flinched from the sensation. Turning on my right blinker, I slowed and turned into a parking lot.
John mistakingly assumed I was going to stop him. He pulled his fingers from my underwear and sat back in the passenger seat.
Finding a space facing the road, I parked the vehicle but did not shut off the engine.
Instead of reprimanding John, I removed my glasses and put them in the door holder. Lifting my hips, I ran my hands under my skirt and pulled down my underwear. The look on John's face when my underwear reached my knees was priceless. I pushed them past my knees, wiggled them down to my feet, and stepped out. Hooking them with my left foot, I reached for my panties and tossed them onto John's lap.
Brazenly, I looked at John. Scooting my legs forward in the seat, I pulled my blue skirt up. John's eyes locked on my clean-shaven pussy. His eyes widened.
"Put your fingers on me, John. If you could make me cum, I will return the appreciation."
John visibly gulped as he leaned toward me and ran his fingers up my thighs. "You keep it modern," he said as his fingers nervously ran along my legs.
"Have you seen a lot of women my age naked?" It felt like I had taken some of John's confidence.
"Two in real life, yes." His eyes traveled across my legs.
"Oh? Did they let you touch them, too?"
An odd look passed across John's face as he nodded.
"Anyone I know?" I was as much curious as turned on. Not being his first MILF must have been where he got his confidence.