Fucking dopehead. You left your laptop on the kitchen table, and there, open and ready for all to see, your sleezy 'Memoirs of a Rock Star.'
What sicko records, in gooey detail, all their infidelities? Then 'accidentally' leaves them for their wife to find?
I'll tell you who. The kind of man-child who still defines himself by his sexual 'prowess'. The kind of passive-aggressive gaslighter who buys me, his wife, a dildo and sex-therapy sessions on our son's 1st birthday. Who winks at pretty girls over my head, and then blames me for his lechery... because I don't "milk" him enough! The kind of man who, interviewed on TV, describes me as having: "Succulent lips... at both ends." And, after the show, finds himself--and I quote: 'Under a restaurant table, sucking the interviewer's love-bud like a greedy child on a nipple.'
'A greedy child on a nipple' I can believe from you -- a weirdo fucking baby — but 'love-bud'?
The only surprising thing about this fresh humiliation is that you've bullied (sorry, 'seduced') so many groupies into sixty-nining you. While I'm home with the kids.
And by the way, how come you get to boast about my 'succulent lips' to the public, like I'm some prized possession, yet when I suck your cock you complain my 'massive mouth' makes you feel small?!
Thing is, I've buried my doubts for the sake of our family, and because I loved you. And in a fucked-up, bruised kind of way I still do. I've put so much work into keeping us together, it's hard to give up on the dream of us.
But I now know for a fact what you get up to on tour. For all your skype-the-kids-at-bedtime pretensions, for all your: "This one's for my wife! The real hero!" shout-outs. It's all bollocks. Because according to you: 'My favourite thing in life, bar none, is the saucer eyes, then hungry pout, of a fan presented with her idol's naked, rigid manhood.'
You know you used that phrase four times?
Tosser.
All those dirty little secrets... You can't be serious about publishing them, can you? Have you not heard of #MeToo? No, you write them for yourself, to get off, and you wanted me to find them. You wanted me to read them and -- like one of your star-struck harlots -- think, "Oooh, yes... now that does it for me... my idol's rigid manhood... hmm let's get dirty!"
Pathetic.
No. I'm the pathetic one for putting up with you for so long.
Well, let me type my little story for you, right here as your last chapter. A story I'd buried and promised never to repeat. It seemed like the worst mistake I ever made, but now I realise it was the best.
It's about that picture I hung in our bedroom, the one of the whole family in the church, at your Goddaughter's wedding in the summer. Go look at it now. It will be the last time you'll be able to.
See how I'm standing? In front of your colossal cousin, Bill? See how I'm slightly stooped, holding one of the kids to face the camera? Remember that pose.
Bill and I have secretly had the hots for each other since the day you introduced us all those years ago. Actually, six years, eight months, two weeks, 1 day, five hours, 3 minutes, and 6 seconds, 7 seconds, 8 seconds...
And every awkward, shaky moment in his presence I just... tingle. But we've behaved. We've behaved like responsible adults. He might be single, but I'm a mum. And a wife. Or I was.
I lost count of the number of times he's been here for us, taking us wherever we want like our personal chauffeur. Fixing the boiler, building bikes for the kids. You know they call him 'Big Daddy'?
What's that other line of yours? 'A girl knows in her sex when a man desires her.' Fucksake. Well, in this case, you can consider yourself proved right. Pussy-man. I know it in my love-bud. Bill desires me.
And I fantasise about that great big sexy bastard all the time. Just the smell of his cologne can get me wet. It's shameful, I know, but that's why I gave you that same cologne for your birthday. Imagine all those times you thought I was dripping for you. Nope. That was for Bill. I shut my eyes and took intoxicating breaths of the man I would never have...
Except for that one time. In church.
You were giving your Goddaughter away in place of her actual dad, who'd made that shabby deal with the tabloids, remember? Bill and I were ushers and had nowhere to sit once the church was full, so we went up onto this mezzanine. We were the only ones up there, sat above and behind everyone. No-one could see us, except maybe the priest, and he was busy.
We hadn't eaten at the wedding breakfast. I'd caught you stroking the knee of a hysterically squirming bridesmaid. She'd politely declined to prove to you -- on demand -- that she wasn't 'commando' and you were threatening to check for yourself. Bill caught my gaze. He pressed his lips and rolled his eyes as if to apologise for you. Then he grabbed two glasses of champagne from a passing waiter and shoved one in my hand. We glugged.
So with only booze in our stomachs Bill and I were giggly and jittery. Bill looked edible in a neat, light suit that stretched too tightly over his arms, and I felt a little exposed in my summer dress; the silky thing with big flowers on it. Naturally, you'd told me it looked better without underwear, and I believed you, mostly, so dumped my bra and stockings. Though when I wouldn't go knickerless, you slammed the door on me, remember? Hence why you hassled the bridesmaid in front of me, I guess, in some fucked-up kind of blame game.
You and the bride arrived, and you sashayed up the aisle, wafting your brightly feathered cavalier hat at her as if you weren't stealing her limelight. Bill and I watched from our heaven, and goosebumps prickled all over my skin. Thing is, I was stood too close to this man to be so lightly dressed. I wrapped my arms around myself. Tugged at a hem that I wished was below the knee. My body was on tenterhooks, straining out its little feelers into his aura. And you know what? He noticed!
He struggled off his jacket and draped it over my shoulders. Bad idea. The light graze of the fabric sprang my nipples to bullets. They were so unavoidably pronounced that he faltered and raised his eyebrows, but politely blinked away. I breathed his scent, while my pores gulped at his lingering warmth, and I swayed woozily. I crossed one foot over the other and locked my knees together while the priest began: "We are gathered here today..." and I drifted into a lascivious dream. But then we were asked to sit, and Bill's leg rested against mine. My hips warmed in the most furtive of all blushes, and I wished I had gone knickerless after all. For him.
He's got the sexiest hands, hasn't he? Big palms and thick wrists. Thick fingers. I say this because, catching us both by surprise I think, he put his hand on my knee.
My heart stopped. It was like some sleek, wild wolf-cub had settled on my lap and I couldn't move in case I startled it and ruined the moment. Bill's great paw was warm leather against my skin, and it wrapped half round my leg. His ruddy hairiness and veins looked primitive against me. Perhaps he was being playful, mocking your fake-fun pass at the bridesmaid. But it asked an important question, nonetheless. Did I want him?
And the question wasn't going anywhere. His hand stayed put. Bill left me to answer. No pressure. He didn't even look away from the altar, his expression fixed. He wears stoic well, your cousin. A gentleman hulk.
My answer to his bold move? I relaxed for the first time in years. I sighed right from my belly, from the interior tips of my fingers and toes, from the roots of my hair. I sighed from my fucking love-bud. And that long trembled breath carried out all the doubt and worry you ever caused me. Because right then, I knew Bill wanted me. And there was nothing I wanted more than that. And that's how I betrayed our marriage. Not, like you might, with a creepy invitation to, "sit on the lap of a legend". I betrayed you by finally letting out the breath I'd held since the day you married me.
My legs sagged open. And Bill cleared his throat.
He gulped.
Then he put his hand up my skirt.
Fuck. When his work-hardened fingers hit the secret, tender skin of my inner thigh, I had to bite my lips to stifle a whimper. With a sensation of blossoming, I opened wider for him, dizzy with what we were doing amongst the chanting and candles and incense. He stroked slowly but definitely upwards and it was electric. Just this bold touch was better than any fuck I've had with you. Better than our first time. Better than our fucking honeymoon.