Sherri is a Sgt working for the same Police Department as my husband. A five-foot five inch black woman with caramel colored skin, brown eyes, an athletic figure, and a no nonsense attitude. Her hair, makeup, and uniform always impeccable, which for the most part hides her luscious figure. My husband was her Sargent and training officer when she was hired and from the day they met the chemistry between the two of them very evident. Despite this neither of them admitted or acted on it other than becoming extremely close friends and being very protective of one another.
Sherri rose through the ranks becoming a Sargent around the same time my husband received a promotion to shift Lieutenant, being assigned to supervise all the School Resource officers in their department, thus leaving the patrol division.
We enjoyed each other's company, the shift parties, dining out with her and her husband, and having fun. Sherri had her suspicions about my open relationship with my husband, but other than a few hints, she never brought the subject up to either one of us. The hints starting after a party we had at our home on the lake when she saw our neighbor Bill and I disappear behind my husband's tool shed, showing back up a bit later with our clothes and hair messed up.
My husband and I had talked numerous times about the two of them, but he refused to become involved with her due to the nature of their work and Department policy forbidding fraternization between officers. Then Sherri and her husband started having troubles, she came to my husband and I to talk, vent, and ask for advice, at times showing up with little or no warning, but we always welcomed her in our home with open arms. At times it was just me, or my husband, other times both of us were there. She had always worked out at the same gym we did, and as mentioned earlier she had an amazing figure, and I didn't realize how amazing it was until I saw her in at the gym.
Her legs, arms, shoulders and back feminine, but muscular, her backside plump and firm from lifting weights, and her breasts round, perky, and perfect, which she admitted were that way with a bit of help from a highly recommended plastic surgeon. But I digress, and after a long night of fun and frolicking with a retired Army officer I got home around nine in the morning finding my husband and Sherri asleep in bed, both naked, entangled in the sheets and chose to leave the house, call my husband, and drive around for a while to give Sherri time to make her exit.
The following is my husbands detailed account of what happened that night.
Sherri rang the doorbell around seven in the evening wearing a short, low cut blue dress, her hair fixed, but her makeup in a mess from the tears streaming down her cheeks, holding a bottle of expensive wine,and clutch purse. She smiled through her tears when my husband opened the door, telling him hello, that she was in a mess, and asked if I was home, and started to walk back out when my husband told her I was spending the night with my parents. He stopped her, asking that she please stay for a while, calm down and they could talk, or just sit down and relax for a while. She said I've got a bottle of good wine and intended to get drunk and cry on my shoulder, that her husband had left, packing all his clothes and wouldn't be back. So she got all dressed up to go out, have a good time dancing with strangers until she was tired and go home. She fell apart, bought the wine and decided to come to our house, get drunk, and borrow the couch for the night if we didn't mind, that she hated to impose but she didn't know where else to go and not wake up next to a stranger with no idea where she was at.
I've done my best to be a good wife, making sure Rufus was happy, healthy, and well taken care of, but I can't tolerate his drinking, gambling, and lies anymore. He's my second husband, who I thought I'd be with for the rest of my life and I love him still but we're at a fork in the road called life, heading down different paths. Sherri tearfully explained, her husband had filed for divorce and she was served earlier that day. My heart is broken, I'm angry, and afraid of spending the rest of my life alone.
Her one time training officer, mentor, and boss, sitting across the center island of our kitchen listening intently, the only advice offered was she should go easy on the wine as she finished her third glass, getting up to fix her a plate of cheese, ham, and crackers and asking her to have something to eat.
Sherri smiled, wiped her tears away, telling him you always take care of me, your other officers and anyone in need, never wanting anything in return, the one man who has never let me down.
She went to the bathroom washed her smeared makeup away, straightened her hair and dress, came back and ate the food he offered, poured herself another glass of wine, and walked out on the deck to get some fresh air watching a crescent moon over the calm waters of the lake, her friend standing beside her, asking her if she felt any better.
I do, but I don't, I had every intention of getting drunk and letting the first decent looking man who came along take me home and do anything he wanted, laughing at herself when she said it, looking at the tall, handsome man standing beside her, a hint of mischief in her eyes, when he told her he was glad she hadn't, that she was in a safe place with her friend, and she was always welcome to get as drunk as she wanted, fall asleep on the couch or our guest bedroom as long as needed.
I really appreciate this, but my plan was to drink, dance, and find out how much trouble I could get in. So if you don't mind, I'd like to go inside, finish my bottle of wine, dance with you and go to sleep.