She stood up and pulled me up off the bed. "What's for dinner sweetheart? I'm famished."
"Pork Schnitzels, German-style, new potatoes and salad. I've opened a nice bottle of red to compliment it."
"Mmm, sounds wonderful, let's clean up and go take a quick shower, I'll wash your back and you can wash mine."
I laughed, "Mmm, that sounds wonderful too, you've got a deal."
Veronica and I showered together for the first time that night. Afterwards we got dressed, went into the kitchen to sit at the kitchen table, eat my carefully prepared dinner and shared a bottle of South African Merlot. I was a little concerned that the schnitzels may have suffered from their prolonged stay in the oven while Roni and Ron had been fucking but, no, they were perfect.
After dinner we moved to the living room. I chose an album of Chopin piano sonatas to play on the stereo which set the mood for us to then sit on the couch together. Veronica read a romance novel while I took advantage of the quiet time to mark my students' homework papers. It was a lovely way to spend the evening.
The selection of music came to an end and we went to the bedroom. I couldn't fail to notice that the unmade bed had been used earlier but I chose to make no comment and Veronica certainly didn't say anything about the stains that were evident on the sheets. All was ignored and as soon as I pulled the covers up over us Veronica cuddled up next to me with only the illuminated dial of my alarm clock to light the scene. As we lay there I could feel Veronica's gentle breath against my cheek and the warmth of her soft body pressed against mine. I felt like I was in heaven.
After a few minutes Veronica whispered; "Dougie, I think I might be falling in love with you."
I smiled and said; "Good, because I'm absolutely certain I'm falling in love with you."
For a few moments we lay in silence and then Veronica said, "Dougie did you enjoy what we did today?"
I thought about her question. I knew what she was really asking. I gave it a few seconds before I answered, "Yes, I think I did."
"I mean the part when Ron was here and the part just after he left."
"I understand. Why are you asking?"
"I'm afraid I might have been too mean to you." She was quiet for a moment and then she said, "Dougie this is so confusing. I like you more than any man I've ever met and yet I have this incredible desire to be mean to you."
I laughed, "Don't worry about it, I suspect that's part of our attraction to each other."
"I don't understand."
"When you're being mean to me I think I might find it to be even more exciting that you do."
"Really?"
"Oh yes, I loved it when you made me to choose between masturbating tonight or getting a blow job tomorrow night."
"Dougie, right now I feel so guilty about pushing you to make that choice."
I shook my head. "Well don't because I think it very well might be the most exciting choice I've ever had to make."
"Really?"
"Yes, really."
There was silence. After a moment Veronica said, "Dougie, I need you to know something. It's important to me."
"What is it?"
"Anytime you ask me I will gladly do anything for you that I do for Ron or any of my other lovers. Sweetheart, I want you to always know that you can fuck me anytime you want to, all you have to do is ask."
"Considering the games we both like to play, that might be a little difficult."
"No, not at all."
"What do you mean?"
"I have an idea."
"Okay, what is it?"
"You heard Ron call me Roni tonight, right?"
"Yes."
"All my friends and all my lovers call me Roni."
"Okay."
"But you call me Veronica."
"Yes."
"Well anytime you call me Roni, that will be a sign that you need me to love you." She sighed, "Legless, I don't ever really want to hurt you. I need to know that you have a way of letting me know when you really need me."
I smiled at her using my newly acquired nickname but said nothing. She kissed my cheek. "Baby, anytime you call me Roni, I promise to become the most loving woman you have ever imagined."
"I like this plan, but what do you get out of it?"
Veronica grabbed my nipple, gave it a vicious twist and started to laugh, "Whenever you're calling me Veronica, I know that it allows me to become the most evil bitch you've ever imagined!"
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I awoke just before six on Tuesday morning with the morning sun already streaming through the curtains and lighting up the room. I lay in bed and gazed at Veronica for a few minutes while she slept and smiled as I thought about the incredible turn of events that had occurred over the past several days. I felt like I was the luckiest man in the world
Finally I slipped out of bed and quietly tip toed into the bathroom trying to avoid disturbing my goddess and even though I had enjoyed the most agreeable shower just before bed I took another before having a shave. Once that was done I went back into the bedroom and silently dressed in the morning light.
I was brewing coffee when I heard sounds from the bathroom and a moment later Veronica came into the dining room. She was naked and looked wonderful. She gave me a quick good-morning peck on the cheek and stumbled sleepily passed by to go and open one of her suitcases which was still standing in the hallway. I watched her as she took out a cotton top, held it up to inspect it. After a moment she shook her head and said, "Bother!"
I looked at her and asked, "Problem?"
"Look at this. I forgot to unpack last night, everything is creased."
I walked over and kissed her cheek, "That's a funny way to say Good morning."
She looked at me for a moment, smiled and said, "I'm sorry Dougie, good morning."
She kissed me and then inspected her blouse again, "Dougie, what am I going to do? I was going to wear this to work."
"Not a problem, let me have it." I took the blouse from Veronica.
She looked at me suspiciously, "what are you going to do?"
"I'll press it for you."
"Really?"
"Sure, it's not difficult. If there's anything else that's creased, I'll iron that too."
Veronica passed me the blouse, returned to the case and pulled out a skirt. She handed it to me and said, "Dougie, you're a life saver and now you've also become my domestic slave."
I laughed, "I don't know about that, but I do know how to iron a blouse. That's one of the things that I am grateful my mother taught me."
She shook her head and still smiling went back to the bedroom to do those things that women do like putting on makeup and doing her hair. I went to the utility room and got the ironing board out and switched on the iron.
I'm actually very skilled at ironing. When I was growing up I got a lot of practice. In addition to having to take care of my own clothes, my older sisters bullied me to do their ironing. So for various reasons it didn't take me long to have Veronica's skirt and blouse neatly hung on a hanger waiting for her to emerge from the bedroom.
As soon as she saw them hanging off the kitchen cabinet where I hooked them she came over in her lingerie-clad loveliness and hugged me. I hugged back delighting in feeling her body once again close to mine me and she blurted out, "Dougie you might just make the best housewife a woman could ever hope to find." As soon as she realized what she had just said she let go of me and started to laugh.
I looked at her with a big smile on my face and said, "I think I'll take that as a compliment."
Veronica quickly put on her skirt and blouse and sat down at the head of the dining room table. I brought her the morning newspaper, poured a cup of coffee for both of us and sat down next to her.
She took a sip of coffee. As she set her cup down she casually said, "Yesterday when I was at Zizi's I ran into my friend Jeannie. I invited her to dinner tonight."
She paused, I guess to gauge my reaction, and not seeing any change in my expression continued, "Dougie, I told her all about you and she's so excited to meet you." Another pause and a smile, "I'm excited to have her meet you too. Jeannie is my best friend. She's almost like my sister...I guess she's the closest person to family that I have."
I smiled at Veronica. "Then it's very important for me to meet her."