"Darling, I love the stories you make up for me in bed, they really bring me off but I'd also love for you to go out one night and well, have another man. If you brought a guy home that would be even better."
"It's not going to happen honey, I promised myself and I promised you that yours was the last new cock I would ever have. After I had been taken by three men in quick succession in my late teens I was worried I was turning into the slut my mother was, so I set myself a limit of nine and no more. You're number nine so you are the last."
Disappointed but not surprised I let the matter drop and contented myself with the confessions from past relationships she had been in and with the fiction she had become a mistress of.
The years ticked by. I had reached an age where her tales became a necessary part of our lovemaking, I was reliant on the verbal stimulation of her stories and of course the images they conjured in my mind. She always seemed to orgasm more when her stories were based on the reality of her experiences before she got with me. This was especially the case when she was relating how she had cheated on her fifth boyfriend and how she did things with the guy she was cheating with that she refused her then boyfriend.
So that is where we are now, or rather it is where we were. Three days ago we boarded the Britannia in Southampton for a Med cruise. Yesterday, as we sat in Brodies Bar a dark-skinned guy, slightly older than ourselves, came across and said "Hello Elizabeth."
Never have I seen my wife colour up so fast or blush so deep a shade of red.
"You remember me then Liz?" said this well built but fit looking stranger in his velvet baritone voice, "I hope so because I have never forgotten you. Is this your husband? I'm Mike" he said offering me his hand to shake. The tone of his voice and the firmness of the handshake were his, probably unconscious, way of showing that he was the alpha male here.
Before I knew what I was doing I said, "Mike? You must be the guy Liz cheated on her boyfriend with years ago."
Liz shot me a look that I interpreted as "Shut up" and "Why did you say that?"
I shot her one back that I hoped she'd realise meant "You never told me he was black."
Liz shrugged a "You never asked."
Mike took hold of Liz's hand and pulled her to him, closer than was necessary, and kissed her on the cheeks. It didn't escape my notice that in keeping hold of her hand between their bodies he was effectively rubbing her nipples with the back of his hand. Liz wasn't making a fuss about it, in fact she had developed a glow about her.
He sat down next to Liz. I may as well have been elsewhere. They virtually ignored me as they caught up, telling each other about their lives since the had last met. Whenever he deigned to include me in the conversation he had Liz's hand in his or he had his hand on her thigh. When he had started touching her leg in was fleeting and near her knee. A drink or two later and he could almost have stroked her crotch with his little finger. He was daring me to say something without actually saying so.
Mike was charming and amusing, though not as amusing as Liz was finding him. At one point she laughed so hard she spilled some of her tequila sunrise on her rather twee blouse and on her calf length skirt. She giggled and said, "I better put these to soak or they might stain."
She came back from our cabin in a change of clothes or rather a change of style, a low cut top and an above the knee skirt. I reminded Liz that we were due at the theatre to watch the resident comedian.
"Think I'll stay here darling but if you still want to go I'm sure Mike'll keep me company."
I decided to stay with them. My feelings were all over the place. I was, at the same time, hoping she was going to take Mike to our cabin and hoping she wanted me to take her to our cabin instead to get the obvious lust out of her system. I wanted to tell Mike to fuck off but also wanted him to fuck Liz. My cock was as rigid as it had been in years seeing her flirt like she was doing with Mike. Being torn and in turmoil inadequately described my situation.
"Be a love and go get my cardigan from the cabin darling" Liz said through a smile. I did as I was told. When I got back to the bar Liz and Mike were nowhere to be seen. For the next hour I searched the ship to no avail, checking our cabin regularly. I ate alone at our table in the restaurant hoping she would join me. She didn't.