The end of the week
"Night-night, Daddy." Polly was wearing just her nightdress as she came into the sitting room, bent over her father and planted a big wet kiss firmly on his lips. She smelled clean and fresh from her shower, and her unblemished skin seemed to glow.
"Goodnight, sweetheart. Sleep well." Graham watched her lithe figure as she left the room and thought, not for the first time, that she was no longer his little baby. Her childhood innocence was changing, along with her child's body. Curves were developing in all the right places, and all the signs promised she would be a beautiful teenager.
"But I'm biased, of course," he thought. "She's like her mother."
And it was her mother who came into the room moments later, calling to the bare legs now seen retreating upstairs,
"I'll be up in a moment." Beth was thirty-six, and not quite as slim as she had been when Graham and she were first married twelve years previously. Bearing two children inevitably takes its toll on a woman's body, but she'd borne them well and she could still be called a fine woman. Graham loved her sensitive face with its sensual lips, her fine fair hair that fell so gracefully over her shoulders when she let it down, and the candid gaze of her round blue eyes. And he loved the round fullness of her hips and breasts, and the knowing maturity of her bearing.
"Did you manage to help her with her homework?" she asked.
"I may have forgotten everything I ever learnt, but I can still do year six maths, thank you!"
"I'm not sure I could. I couldn't even understand the question."
"Well no," he agreed. "It was a bit odd, but once you'd worked out what they were on about it was easy." Beth went round the room picking up discarded mugs, children's clothes and school books with a casual and practiced air, and in no time the room seemed tidy again, reclaimed as a space for adults.
"I'll go and kiss her good night. You could open a bottle of wine."
She disappeared upstairs, and by the time she reappeared Graham had poured two glasses, lit the real flame gas fire and dimmed the lights.
"Is there anything worth watching on the telly?" Beth asked.
"Not much. We could watch a film," Graham suggested.
"Or we could sit and talk."
"We could." Beth sat down next to him on the sofa and snuggled up to him, drawing her feet up beside her, her wine glass cradled in her hands and the deep coloured liquid seeming to draw the soft light into it. Graham put his arm round her shoulders and pulled her to him, and they talked quietly for a while, about the week just ending, about the girls' school, about friends, about everything and nothing at all.
The wine bottle was two thirds empty. Beth leant against Graham with her back to him while he nuzzled his face in her hair and breathed in her distinctive familiar scent. His arm around her shoulders naturally allowed him to cup her breast with his left hand, gently squeezing it, revelling in its softness. It was so perfect in the hand, seemingly designed solely for the purpose of being held and handled and caressed. Even through the fabric of her shirt and her bra he could feel the nipple slowly hardening, and when he ran the tips of his fingers over it, he was pleased to feel Beth's tiny acknowledging squirm of pleasure. With his other hand he began to trace the outline of her ear, lightly stroking the side of her neck with the back of his fingers.
"Mmmm, that's nice," Beth murmured. Graham started to massage the nape of her neck and the back of her head with the tips of his fingers, running his fingers through her hair. His touch sent a shiver of delight through Beth's whole body. His hands felt soft and warm and gentle, but charged with a fresh energy, an electricity that stimulated the nerve endings in her skin and revealed new nerves that weren't there before. She hardly dared move for fear of interrupting the spell.
But Graham had other ideas. Breaking off from his caressing for a moment, he pulled her shirt free of her jeans and ran his hand up the smooth skin of her back to the clasp of her bra. It's almost impossible to unhook a bra with just one hand so he had to move his other hand from her breast to complete the job, but when he replaced the hand it was inside the shirt and inside the newly loosened bra. Oh the feel of a woman's breast in a man's hand! A hard nipple pressing into the palm, the fingers squeezing the soft flesh, and the skin like silk! A hand on each breast, arms circling her body, lips kissing her neck, mouth gently nibbling the lobe of her ear.
As Graham gently palpated her breasts and took both nipples between thumb and forefinger, squeezing slightly and turning them, Beth felt all the strength leave her body as pleasure coursed through her from her neck to her nipples and on down to the heart of her sex. She relaxed completely and slid lower against him. As she did so, her shirt rode up taking the loose bra with it, exposing the glory of her chest. Her breasts were wonderful voluptuous mounds of flesh, each crowned with a large dark circle, and at the centre of each her nipples, normally little soft beads, stood out hard and puckered and proud. Graham played his fingers over the areolas and kneaded the roundness of each breast, cupping it in his hand and feeling its heaviness. He played with the nipples, pushing them from side to side with his thumbs, pressing down on them with the palms of his hands and making little circular motions. Beth lay with her head on his lap, her eyes closed as she concentrated entirely on the intense sensations Graham was inducing in her. She was conscious of the growing heat and pressure beneath the zip of her jeans as the lips of her vulva responded.
Graham was not immune to the feel of her breasts, the hardened bud of her nipples under his hands and the weight of her head on his lap. As she pressed her chest up in response to his fondling and arched her back, he felt the press of her head downwards into his crotch increase, and the pressure in his trousers increased under her.
Almost as a break to let his penis swell and move to a more comfortable angle, he pulled Beth's shirt and bra up over her head, coaxing her arms up to stretch back over the arm of the sofa, and discarded the garments onto the floor at his feet. As he resumed his fondling she left her arms stretched out above her, luxuriating in the feeling of freedom and abandonment. Graham stroked from her breast to her armpit and back again, appreciating the graceful curve as arm became chest became breast. He could not resist putting his fingers to his nose to inhale the heady scent of her body aroma, a subtle mixture of deodorant and his wife's raw female smell. He wanted to bury his face in her armpit and lose himself in that delicious perfume, but the angle was wrong.