When Margaret told Mark she'd invited someone over for dinner, he barely looked up from his laptop.
"Anyone I know?" he asked, typing as he spoke.
"No," she replied, her voice careful. "Someone I've been seeing."
Mark paused. Turned. "Seeing?"
She met his eyes. "Yes."
The word hung between them like a second heartbeat. He stared, but she didn't flinch. Margaret never flinched.
"I thought," he began, but stopped. "I thought we were okay."
"We are," she said. "But that doesn't mean I don't want more."
Mark stood slowly. "And now I'm meeting him?"
"Yes." She smoothed the fabric of her dress. "His name is Edward."
"Jesus, Margaret."
"You said we could be honest," she said, softly. "You said that, years ago."
He remembered. In the middle of one of their long, whiskey-fueled conversations back when everything felt malleable, like clay. The deal they made in theory, never meant to test in practice.
"No secrets. But no lies, either."
At exactly 7:00, the doorbell rang.
Edward was tall. Handsome in the way men in old photographs are handsome--
angular, self-assured, slightly out of time. He wore a charcoal blazer and carried a bottle of Barolo.
"Mark," he said, extending a hand. "It's good to meet you."
Mark shook it. Firm. Warm. Real.
"Likewise," he said. And then to Margaret: "Dinner?"
"In the oven," she replied. "Come in, both of you. Make yourselves comfortable."
They sat in the living room first, drinks in hand. Margaret poured wine, barefoot, effortlessly hosting while standing at the center of a storm she'd invited. Mark watched her, watched Edward watching her. The familiarity in his gaze. The small smiles. The coded glances.
"So how did you two meet?" Mark asked, finally.
Edward glanced at Margaret. She nodded.
"At a bookshop," Edward said. "She reached for a copy of The Master and Margarita at the same time I did. We talked. It turned into coffee. Coffee turned into something else."
Margaret didn't need to say a word. When Mark dropped to his knees, he saw her expression shift--not surprise, not pity. Satisfaction.
Edward stood behind her, arms folded, like a lion watching the pride unfold.
"This is what you need," Margaret said, fingers curling gently under Mark's chin. "Isn't it?"
Mark nodded slowly.
"Say it."
His voice came out low, hoarse. "Yes, ma'am."
She smiled. "Good boy."
Then she turned to Edward and, in one smooth motion, slipped the strap of her dress off her shoulder. "Undress me."
Mark watched, breath tight in his chest as Edward stepped forward--assured, calm--and peeled the dress away from her body like it was a ritual he'd done many times. Reverent, yes. But he wasn't worshipping her--he was claiming her. Every touch was unhurried, confident, deliberate.
Mark's pulse roared in his ears.
"Keep watching," Edward said, voice deep and smooth as velvet. "You don't get to touch. You get to witness."
Margaret turned, completely bare now, her body bathed in soft candlelight. She reached down and brushed her fingers across Mark's cheek.
"You had me for years," she whispered. "But you never took me like you could have. Edward does. Edward knows I'm his."
Mark flinched slightly, but the heat in his stomach betrayed him. He didn't look away.
"Look at him," she ordered.
Mark turned to see Edward stripping now--shirt off, then belt. Everything about him radiated control. There was no shame, no hesitation. Just a man fully inhabiting his role. Margaret's bull.
"He takes what I give him," she said, stepping to Edward and kissing him slowly, her body arching into his. "And I give him everything."
Edward didn't glance at Mark--not once. His focus was only Margaret. He lifted her easily, carrying her to the chaise lounge like she weighed nothing. When he laid her down, her legs spread in invitation, Mark's throat went dry.
"Take your clothes off," Margaret said without looking at him. "Slowly."
Mark obeyed.
"You will kneel there," she gestured to the corner near the foot of the chaise, "and you will not speak unless spoken to. If you touch yourself, I'll stop everything. Understood?"
Mark nodded, hard. "Yes, ma'am."
Edward positioned himself between her legs. Margaret looked down at Mark, her voice almost a purr.
"You're going to watch my bull take what you never could."
She pulled out Edwards cock, showing it to Mark. It was the biggest, thickest cock that he had ever seen,