We had recently moved into a fixer upper, a house in dire need of some TLC. My wife, Anna, and I had been renting for the past three years, since our marriage, and we were now hoping to build some equity in a home. I had taken a semester's leave of absence from the college where I taught so we could finish the project in a reasonable length of time.
My dad, Robert, was semi-retired, and at fifty five years old, was begging to help us out, just to have something to stay busy. He had been a builder when he was younger and as such, was a great asset to us with the technical aspects of the project, and to be free labor too!
My mom, bless her soul, had passed away before Anna and I became a couple. I wish she could have met Anna...She would have adored her.
Anna and I had set up the nicest of the bedrooms in the old, run down house to live in. We had a bed, folding chairs, and some of our clothes, everything else was in storage.
We began rebuilding the house from the outside - in. We had a new roof on and had moved on to the siding, when, on a day that would become eventful for the most inane reason - a sudden cloudburst drenched the three of us as we worked together replacing the warped and cracked siding.
As Dad and I hustled to get the tools out of the rain and into the garage, Anna grabbed towels and a blanket. The blanket was to make a curtain to protect our privacy. Anna strung an extension cord between the metal tracks of the garage door, and draped the blanket over the cord, making a curtain, of sorts.
As Dad and I made the last trip in with the tools, Anna and I jumped on one side of the curtain, Dad was left on the exposed side, the side with the opened garage door.
"A little help here!" he called out.
Anna and I were busy stripping off our wet clothes. And didn't immediately respond to his plea.
"Can you close the door?" he begged.
With a giggle, Anna, in panties, ran to the button and pressed it, closing the garage door.
She ran back and as she dropped her panties, she gathered up our wet clothes and placed them in a pile away from us. She grabbed the towel I offered her and began to dry off.
We were giggling and laughing at our poor luck and the lost day's enterprise when I noticed that Anna and Dad had stopped making any sound at all. I was drying my face and hair and as I pulled the towel away, I looked to see my father staring. I looked to where he was looking and saw Anna, standing naked, looking back at Dad. The blanket had fallen to the floor leaving us exposed...
They stood as if a spell had seized them. I croaked out, "Oh shit!" And they both scrambled to cover themselves.
As Anna turned and wrapped towels around herself, Dad had wrapped his waist with a towel, but continued to gaze in Anna's direction. Suddenly, he realized his indiscretion, and averted his eyes, looking at me with a hint of guilty delight ensconced on his face.
We didn't speak of it as we cleaned up, dried our things and ate a light lunch.
After Dad left though, Anna asked me, "Mike, do you think your dad was embarrassed today?"
I didn't think before I answered. I wasn't thinking of his embarrassment. I was thinking of the look on his face as he watched her...
"I don't think he was embarrassed, honey. I think he was aroused."
Maybe it was a poor word choice, but it seemed descriptive at the time...
"Oh god! Do you mean he...?"
That's when it dawned on me what I had said - that my father had lusted after my wife - and that now, a simple mistake had been elevated to such a magnified level of import, not because of anything that had been said or done, but by the impression I had of my father's intention.
"Well..." I began to sidestep my assertion, and explain my way around my indelicate word choice.
But before I could think of what to say, Anna mused out loud, "It must be hard on him...being without someone...you know? To be with...to love..."
I was abruptly stifled. Hearing my wife speak of my father like this was concupicent to say the least. My interest was piqued, where was she going with this line of thought?
"I suppose..." I enjoined her, treading softly.
We readied for bed, and as I watched her undress, I recalled the look on my father's face. I became hard with the nervous energy of taboo fantasies dancing through my mind.
"Umm, look who is ready for some attention." Anna said as she encountered my excited state.
I smiled and crawled up to her in bed. As we made love, the recurring thought of my dad seeing my wife naked had me so agitated, I began to worry I might not last if the thought persisted.
But I was conspired against by stimuli beyond my control; "Do you think your dad ever thinks of remarrying?"
The question, asked as I penetrated her, was a veiled reference to his sexuality; did Dad still have urges? My load was dispensed immediately. I ejaculated into Anna forcefully, again and again.
As I hadn't yet answered her query, Anna asked again, "Do you think your dad has any desire for a woman?"
After my orgasm, the thought of discussing my father's libido was disconcerting.
"I don't know, honey. Why the sudden concern?" I expected my direct inquiry to dampen her inquisitiveness.
It didn't.
"He is a handsome man, still... and he is well endowed too!" She began to fondle me as she spoke about my father. I suspected she was imagining being with him...But her continued conversation skirted around the fatal attraction she harbored for my father.
"Do you think he is lonely?"
I had never imagined him being lonely, but I now gave thought to it, and surmised he must experience some measure of loneliness.
"I suppose."
I was hard again; her subtle manipulations had me turgid with a desire to be with her again as I fantasized about my father's lust for my wife.
I entered her once again and she became animated. She was writhing and humping against me with a passion too long subdued. She was mumbling something about Dad being in such great shape when her orgasm hit. She screamed and thrashed against me, violently reaching her release and shuddering to a sweaty climax.
I wanted to ask her if she had imagined being with him as she fucked me... But I couldn't bring myself to ask; I was frightened of the answer!
We slept the night away, exhausted. But with the morning came the realization that the home remodeling project had a new dimension to it.
As Dad sipped coffee and prepared the tools for the day's tasks, Anna seemed to hang back, watching.
She was intently observing everything my dad did.And I was watching them! If he picked something up, she would look at him as if it was the first time she had ever seen the task being done. If she moved or bent over, he would watch her, and I would imagine what he might be thinking...
Then she began to follow him around as he worked. When he reached for a hammer she would insinuate herself close so as to be too close for him to work.
Soon, the game seemed to devolve into normal work banter and my interest began to wane; I became immersed in my work, and without an overt act of seduction I lost interest in the drama for the time being; the light of day having dispelled the magic of the last evening's lascivious passions.
It was lunch time and I was at a stopping point in my work. I looked for Anna and Dad, but didn't see either. I heard voices and stepped into the doorway of the house to find Anna making sandwiches and Dad seated on an old bucket, watching her work. I felt a wave of erogenous delight surge through me. As I continued to watch, it became clear that they were talking of sex!