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I Can Only Love You Twice
Raymond Simpkins
Our story starts off like a lot of others, a wild first three years of college and then settling on a lover for the last year. We got married right after graduation and began our careers in Dallas. Danielle worked in Campaign Design for an advertising firm, while I worked as an actuary. Both of us traveled, I was a junior consultant for pension plans and insurance companies, while she helped with client presentations for sales or marketing, no matter what the product. We both ended up with a lot of traveling throughout Texas and Oklahoma, with occasional forays into neighboring states.
Dani, as everyone called her, and I worked hard both for professional success, but also to accumulate a nest egg for when we began to have children. Dani was a little concerned about giving up her career, and even though I was sure we were financially secure, we were soon approaching our fifth anniversary without the presence of children. We finally agreed that we could hire a nanny/maid with our combined incomes and that she could take a three month maternity leave during the summer.
Dani
After three years of fucking almost everyone on campus with a cock, I decided to go for a double degree of BBA and Mrs. Ray seemed to be the man. He was a unusual combination of nice and sexy. It didn't hurt that he was smart and cared about my orgasms. We got married right after graduation and settled down to jobs in Big D.
Our plans for accumulating a nest egg for a down payment on a home came to fruition and we even had some extra for our future children' s post-secondary education. I also participated in the planning of the Regional Marketing Conference, which was a conference for coordination across the twenty-five offices in the Southwest Region. The conferences were rotated among the larger offices in the region, even though the regional headquarters was located in Los Angeles. I was well aware that influential executives from both the regional and national headquarters would be in attendance.
We decided that I would go off the pill at the start of the Summer, which would be after the Regional Marketing Conference. I was slated to lead a working group on Marketing Campaign Design, which was one of my strengths. Early in the conference I made it a point to meet C. Averill Hansen, the regional chief of Campaign Design. That made him my immediate superior in my functional area, although my direct reporting responsibility was to the head of the Dallas office.
Ray
It was our fifth Spring as man and wife and we decided that she would go off the pill in the middle of the next Summer and that should allow for delivery early in the following Summer after she returned to her normal fertility cycle. Our decision came just before the regional marketing conference which was being held in Dallas. The Southwestern Region contained thirteen states and was headquartered in Los Angeles, but the Regional Conferences were rotated among the larger offices in the region.
Virtually everyone in the Dallas office was working to make the conference a success, and their efforts were heightened by the knowledge that there would be executive contingents from both the Los Angeles Regional Headquarters, but also the New York City National Headquarters. The conference was slated to last five full days with the out-of-town contingents flying in Sunday afternoon and flying out Saturday afternoon. The social events, including a kick-off dinner Sunday night and a breakfast Saturday morning, which would be potentially attended by fifty or so out of towners, and thirty or so locals, including employees and spouses.
Dani
Both Ray and I met C. Averill Hansen at the Sunday night kick-off dinner, and I thought he was an attractive, confident, highly competent young man, probably a few years older than Ray and me. I looked forward to working with Avie. I looked at his attendance at the conference as an opportunity to make an impression on someone who could help me in my career. I hoped he would be impressed by my workshop leadership.
Avie and I ate lunch together several times during the conference and we seemed to have a special rapport. Some of it was just casual flirting, but even that was fun. I would also talk to him between presentations and workshops.
Thursday night Ray seemed to be a little put out with the two of us. I guess he thought he was afraid our casual flirting wasn't entirely harmless. That night I tried to reassure him by making love to him especially passionately. I have to admit that Avie did seem to be getting a little more serious in his flirting and even a little touchy, although it was still low-key, like placing a hand on my arm when he was trying to make an important point. The thought that it could become more than casual did cross my mind but I don't think either of us was very serious about it until the Friday night dance.
Avie was an excellent dancer and I very much enjoyed touching and being touched as we danced several dances together. I could tell Ray was getting a little upset. Perhaps he was justified, I don't think Avie nor I knew where we were going with this or if we wanted to go anywhere. I did drink enough to feel a bit tipsy, and I guess it was enjoying the mutual touching more than I should have. Perhaps I should have suggested the possibility of this being more than a casual work relationship before I introduced the possibility while dancing with Ray. Maybe I wasn't completely understanding what Ray was saying. At first, it seemed that he was fine with Avie and I going extracurricular, but then he got angry. When he got angry, I got angry.
Ray
I was pleased to see Dani revved up as she was leading a workshop on Campaign Design, and also that she wanted me to be at her side for the six evening socials and the Saturday morning breakfast. I fully expected to be dutifully entertained by advertising campaign mumbo-jumbo and repeated explanations of just exactly what it is that actuaries do. Beginning with the Sunday evening kick-off it seemed that Dani was constantly running into C. Averill Hansen, the regional chief of campaign design.
Avie was a very confident, somewhat brash, know it all. I could tell that he was intelligent, but he seemed more interested in slogans than substantive matter in advertising or anything else. He also seemed intent on forming a relationship with Dani, although it was difficult for me to decipher how much was professional and how much was inappropriately personal. He did seem to be very positive and complimentary about Dani's contribution to the company success. He also seemed quite aware that he was a good-looking guy at six-foot-two with broad shoulders and narrow waist, clearly the product of time spent in the weight room.
Early in the week, Avie's flirtations with Dani seemed fairly subtle, but as the week progressed, both Dani and he seemed to become more blatant in their flirting.
After the Thursday night dinner, I almost had to physically separate them so that I could take Dani home. I had no idea what was going on during the day. Thursday night in bed, Dani seemed to be her usual passionate self, and we even had seconds which was unusual, but had happened before.
As we got ready for the Friday night event, I was once again amazed at how attractive my wife was. Her little black dress showed off her assets, which were often muted by her chosen workday business attire. Her figure was displayed with nothing left to the imagination, when she wore her little black dress with her black hair released to its full beneath the shoulders length. It was clear that she had a hot bod with her 34C-23-34 figure and long tanned, fit legs supporting her five-foot-eight height.