Author's note:
This is a very long story. My longest to date but if you do finish it, please take a moment to vote or maybe even leave a comment so I know what readers prefer or dislike about my stories.
Lisa's Dying Wish centers around a married woman seeking out an affair and there are mild bdsm components as well. Please read no further if this type of content troubles you.
There's a long build up before the main characters become sexually active. Readers who want the action sooner should skip about a third of the way through the story.
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Robert finished his second bourbon as he sat in the porch swing, debating if he was in the mood for another. Enjoying the unusually warm fall afternoon and the beautiful view of falling leaves from his back porch, he pondered his options for the remaining hours of the day. He had few complaints in his life but not everything turned out as planned.
Now at the age of fifty eight, he was in his third year of retirement. Finishing a thirty four year career as a firefighter afforded him the luxury of retiring at fifty five to hopefully enjoy many years of travel and leisure before he was too old. He and his wife, Lisa, had made so many plans for this stage in life, but fate played a cruel trick of taking her from him three years earlier by means of pancreatic cancer.
By the time she was diagnosed, she was in stage four and only had weeks remaining. Once she was gone, his dreams of traveling seemed far less enticing.
Robert recalled those days with bitterness. He loved Lisa very much and couldn't imagine not spending his final days with her. After her passing, he spent more than a year in fog and confusion, unsure how to move forward. They had several children who were very supportive throughout that dark time but eventually, they returned to their own lives and the new families they had started creating.
More than once, he considered selling their two acre property in the pretty, but rural, subdivision and moving into something smaller, just to be closer to the grandkids.
Whenever he thought on it, he considered how hard he and Lisa looked for just the right place to call their 'forever' home. Close to everything they needed, yet remote enough to remain quiet and peaceful. The neighborhood was well established with pleasant folks who had been there for years, many of whom he called friends.
Looking across the yard, he waved to Julia and Jim who were busy planting new fruit trees. When Lisa was alive, they had spent many evenings with the couple, either hosting dinners at one or the other's homes or sitting around the bonfire talking late into the night.
After Lisa died, the couple still invited him over regularly but he felt awkward socializing with them in the same way as when Lisa was around. Still, he accepted their kindness occasionally and tried not to pull away.
Robert liked the two very much but he always thought they seemed an odd match. Julia was an attractive and fit woman of thirty eight while Jim was twenty plus years her senior. He learned from all the time they shared together that Julia was only eighteen when they married.
He recalled when he first met Julia all those years back how she seemed almost gangly and scrawny in appearance but even more noticeable was that she greatly lacked in self confidence and it showed. Lisa took a liking to her almost immediately though and treated her like one of their daughters, determined to help her develop into a strong, independent woman who exuded confidence.
As Lisa connected with Julia, she learned that Julia was orphaned at a young age and grew up bouncing from one foster home to another, never having anyone she could really depend on. Robert always supposed she married Jim because of a lack of options but more so because she longed for parent figures in her life. When Lisa took her under her wing, the two became extremely close and over time, they watched young Julia grow immensely from girl to woman.
While Lisa eventually thought of Julia as another daughter, Robert found it increasingly difficult to not look at her in more sexual ways. Watching her slowly transform from mousy and unremarkable to a sexy and vibrant woman, he couldn't deny that he'd happily bed her, given different circumstances. Everyone aged differently, he knew, but Julia was one of those exceptional women who actually grew more beautiful with age.
Jim, on the other hand, was clearly showing his years. He worked in the music industry, for a production company that toured with professional bands, setting up stages for upcoming concerts around the country. The hours were long and hard and he was often away from home for days or even weeks at a time. When he considered Jim's profession, it made sense that the years took a heavy toll on his health.
Julia stopped working years back so she had the ability to spend her days taking good care of herself. Adding to that, the couple never had children, which certainly helped her maintain her trim figure.
Robert couldn't stop himself from staring at Julia across the yard as she leaned over a freshly dug hole on her hands and knees, aiming her perfectly shaped ass in his direction. Lately, whenever he saw her, his imagination immediately went to fantasies of him ramming his meat up inside her.
Trying to shake off his lusty thoughts, he knew it was probably the bourbon combined with the fact that he hadn't had sex in a while. Julia and Jim were friends, he reminded himself, and since Lisa's passing, he became even closer to Julia. He wasn't sure he wanted to exchange that for something more carnal.
Thinking on it harder, he felt a little ashamed of himself for looking at his friend that way. When Lisa was alive, she and Julia were extremely close, like sisters. He had a nice, neighborly relationship with Julia in those days, but after Lisa's passing, he wasn't sure he would have recovered so well had it not been for her.
She inserted herself more into his life, inviting him to join her and Jim for dinners, or morning coffee and long walks when Jim was away. He declined often in the beginning but she refused to give up on him. Eventually, they became almost as close as she had been with Lisa and they talked about a myriad of things, almost daily.
As he adjusted to Lisa being gone, he put his energy back into exercising more. Having built himself a nice home gym in the shop years back, pushing weights was something he always enjoyed and it kept him looking years younger than other guys his age. He also found it an excellent stress reliever when he couldn't stop thinking of using Julia for sex.
Strangely enough, his dedication to working out somehow rubbed off onto Julia because she joined a local gym around the time he got back into working out and she spent more than an hour there each and every day.
