ONE
We all make mistakes in our lives and right now I'm very aware of two really big ones, and it looks as though my marriage is being torn apart because of not getting these two things right.
My first big mistake was to chose the wrong sister, ignoring the urging of a mother trying to marry off her less attractive daughter. My mother-in-law had confronted me about this when Gloria and I were wallowing in ongoing discussion about setting a date to announce our engagement. Our cuddling and sweet talking send her po-faced sister Liz stomping through the house in fits of pique and tears. Liz hated me at that time when wedding bells were in the air, the jealous bitch.
The second mistake came later, eight years more or less. We were childless – I blamed Gloria and she blamed me but neither of us had the guts to be examined medically in case the blame came home to roost. Who wants to find out their powder is wet and useless, huh?
Well, I would rue the day about being pig-headed and refusing to be tested.
It all began when one of Gloria's friends announced she was expecting her third child. Gloria started to panic as she'd just turned twenty-eight and worried that the cut-off date for successful conception was looming. I reckoned that date came nearer the age of forty but she asked how would I know and anyway why argue over numbers - but we did.
She tried a new ploy in pressuring me to get my gear tested, promising if I was certificated as being A-1 for producing babies she'd get tested, but we both knew she was lying.
There has to be trust and understanding to make a marriage work as well as cooperation and goodwill, right? Great textbook stuff, but you know textbook authors are often insulated from reality.
Being a victim of ear-bashing and in sexual denial because Gloria wouldn't roll over meant my life sucked, so at work when the CEO bribed me with an under-the-table offer of $10,000 cash if I worked a 12-hour night shift as project engineer on a highway by-pass of the small town of Oakland Ridge, I took the 13-month contact.
That ten grand slipped into my secret boat fund. I would also be able to get my tax-paid night-shift and living away from home allowances paid into that account.
Gloria would find out about my deceit when I bought the boat but would be delighted, as she was also crazy about fishing; I knew she was embarrassed that we fished from an aluminum 9-footer with an outboard only a little more powerful than her cake mixer. Good for trolling, though.
My business-like decision to take the contract produced the inevitable row.
"Why did you accept that job away from home without discussing it with me?" she ranted.
I could have said to get away from your constant bickering over reproductive tests, darling, but instead I lied and said, "The CEO said 'take the job Mike, otherwise go find yourself another employer'."
"But he can't do that, can he?"
Yes, but not without leaving the company open to me claiming big damages in the employment court for breach of my personal employment contact. But why tell her that? She'd suggest accept the situation and then we'd engage a top industrial relations lawyer and seek a million bucks or more in damages for wrongful termination and loss of earnings and future benefits.
"Er, yes, he can do that."
"That's criminal."
"Yeah, another example of white collar crime, eh love?"
She became sympathetic and for one hopeful moment I thought I was going to be offered sex.
Three weeks into my night shift job two hundred miles up country I receive a phone call from Liz.
"Gloria has a lover."
Now, I did say Gloria's sister Liz at one time hated my guts, but she'd got over that by the time of the engagement. Six years later Liz got married but the sod bashed her and it all turned to custard, ending in divorce last year.
When Gloria began to keep her legs closed on me recently, I'd idly thought that Liz might help milk my balls as she was probably missing being humped as well. But she's a hard-nosed bitch and I thought she'd probably end up telling Gloria I was bonking her. Well, here she was phoning me, attempting to be my closest confidante.
"Pardon me?"
"You heard, but you really don't want to hear it: Gloria is being screwed by a guy. I thought you should know. Will you divorce her?"
"Er, I'll think about it, Liz, but would need proof that it's happening."
"Perhaps I can help get proof?"
"Yeah, why not?"
"You don't seem to be particularly worried about my disclosure?"
"I'm in a state of shock, Liz. Also Gloria hasn't been particularly warm to me in recent months so she'd probably got randy through not getting it."
"Surprise, surprise – she's told me about putting you on hold; she thinks your sperm is no good so why should she bother having you ruining her hair and scratching her insides because you are lazy about cutting your finger nails."
I was shocked: Liz tells her sister things like that?
"Did Gloria tell you that?"
"Come on, Mike, you know it's the truth and yes she has mentioned it from time to time, quite often in recent months actually."
"Hmmm."
"Is all that you can say, Mike?"
"I'm in shock."
"Should I come up and attend to your needs?"
I almost dropped my phone. Liz offering her pussy to me?
"It's all work, sleep and no play here, Liz. The weather's put us two days behind schedule already and I have to crack the whip."
"Well, it's an open offer, Mike. I love you. Give me a call some time.
"Bye."
I put the phone down in a daze. Life can get so damn complicated.
No, you can't come up here Liz as I've got a dishy senior engineering student who is also, um, attending to my needs. The student came on site, took one look at the hairy and fat day project engineer and then saw me and said she preferred to work nights; so we agreed she could. I had no idea at the time she considered field experience included testing the strength of her boss' bed.
I suddenly wondered had Gloria had taken a lover hoping to get pregnant? The idea of some meat-head ramming her cunt with his sausage on ovulating days and squirting semen up her tubes made me see red.
After throwing rocks at a tin can, I came to a decision. I arranged with the day project manager to sleep in my quarters overnight to be on hand for emergencies. I briefed my student babe in detail about what to do throughout the night and to refer to Sam if she had any doubt about anything. Fortunately the work at this stage was mainly routine compacting of base layers; there was a competent engineer supervising the construction of the four bridges.
I then left on the 446-mile round trip to my hometown which would have me back on-site at the project eleven hours later for a four hour sleep.
Naturally I wanted to end this thing of Gloria's. I felt betrayed – not because she was playing around as doesn't everyone do that? No, the deep hurt came from my theory that she was attempting to get some dung-head to father our first child. I had no idea how I would prove that intent, other than wait until she announced she was pregant!
TWO
I had plenty of time to think about the mess as I drove towards my little fucker of a wife.
I went back to the beginning. Gloria and I met shopping. I was entering this store when my attention was diverted temporarily when I saw this new model Dodge pick-up rumble by – it was painted shiny black and looked very sexy. My hand was out to pull open the screen door when it opened and someone walked straight on to my hand; in surprise I looked down to see I had a handful of tit.
How embarrassing.
"Pardon me, ma'am, my fault entirely. I was looking at that sexy new model Dodge and..."
"That's my dad's new vehicle; he's come to pick me up. If you think that's sexy, then what about me?"
Huh?
She sounded that she wasn't going to call a cop or call me all the names under the sun. Boy, was this little lady cool! Actually, she looked rather young.
My hand had come off that boob as if it were a hot rock from a campfire. So I checked her out and saw two pert breasts; I lifted my gaze to find her looking at me with a smile posing as a question.
"Haven't you touched a boob for a while?"
I thought, what a question to ask a guy when he'd out shopping and you don't know him from Adam.
I think I said something like "Huh?" She smiled and walked by saying, "I'll see you around, I hope."
Flustered, as dames normally don't say to me I'll see you around 'I HOPE' even if I know them, I stepped back on to the sidewalk scratching my head and looking at her walking to the black pick-up. Then darn me if that cute little bum didn't do a couple of real sexy waggles – no babe even in four-inch heels would walk with a waggle like that. She turned and grinned at me; my dick half rose up as if about to whistle at her. Oh boy.
If she was expecting me to run to her and get her phone number she must have been disappointed. Actually Gloria told me later she thought I'd not be forward enough to come and ask for her number. However, just in case I became proactive, she got her dad to wait a minute before telling him to drive off.
I went inside the store not knowing what to think, but fortunately my mouth did.
"Mrs Lamb, do you know the name of that customer who just walked out – the cute little blonde?"
"Yes Mike I do, and if you purchase more than twenty bucks of my deli lines I'll tell you."