"Hi honey, I'm home!"
Stuart walked into the kitchen to find his wife stirring a pot of spaghetti on the stove. She turned to him and smiled.
"How was your day?" she asked.
"Tiring. Always something new with the budget department. What are we having?" He looked in the pot. "Spaghetti? My favorite!"
She touched his neck and kissed him. He kissed her lovingly on the lips, the same lips that had been around Simon's cock just hours earlier.
Stuart glanced at the Tupperware container on the counter.
"The girls really liked your muffins, huh?" he asked.
"Hmm?" Cindy asked, turning to him.
"There's only three left."
"Oh, yes. Couldn't get enough!"
Stuart smiled and walked into the living room. The carpet was freshly vacuumed, and every piece of furniture was perfectly in place. The room looked exactly as it had that morning. Still, Stuart gave it a second glance before he headed up the stairway to his bedroom.
Claire entered the house from the garage with her eyes glued to her cell phone.
"Welcome home, honey. How was gymnastics?" Cindy asked.
"Fine," the teenager said, not taking her eyes away from her phone. She walked through the kitchen and up the stairs to her bedroom. After plugging her phone into its charger, Claire glanced at her dresser oddly. The bottom drawer was open just a crack. Claire peered at it closer.
"Dinner's ready!" her mother called from downstairs.
Claire took her attention away from the dresser and headed down the stairs. Cindy placed a plate of spaghetti, garlic toast, and steamed vegetables in front of each chair, and Claire sat down to eat.
They'd just begun dinner when Curt arrived home. He hurried upstairs before returning to join his family at the table.
"How was your day?" Stuart asked.
"Oh, real busy. Man, that basement was FULL of junk!" He grabbed his fork and dug into his spaghetti.
"As bad as your bedroom?" Stuart asked.
"Ha ha, nice one, Dad. But I'll admit, your jokes are getting better," Curt snarked.
"Why, thank you. I've been working on that," Stuart said, proudly.
Cindy didn't speak much during the dinner; her mind still processing the events of her day while her family conversed around her.
"Hey, Mom?" Curt asked.
"Yes?" Cindy said, her trance broken.
"A couple guys at work were interested in meeting up for a Bible study session. Do you know if the church is open on weekday afternoons?"
"Um, no, it's not," Cindy said. "They can come to one of the evening classes."
She sprinkled some Parmesan cheese onto her spaghetti noodles and stirred them. Claire eyed her brother skeptically.
"Oh," Curt muttered, disappointed. "The afternoons are the only time when everyone's available. Well, we'll find something else to do, I guess."
"Don't be silly," Cindy said. "I'll lend you the keys. You can let yourselves in if you promise to behave there and return them when you're done."
"Really? Yeah, of course! That'd be great!" Curt said.
Cindy fished the church keys out of her purse and handed them to her son.
"Bible study? Seriously?" Claire asked.
"Hey. Some of those guys are going through a tough time. They could really use some answers from above," Curt emphasized.
"Please! I know Kellan and Drew. The only answers those guys are looking for are how to get into a girl's pants!"
"Claire! Fifty cents in the jar!" Cindy sniped.
"I didn't swear!"
"What you said was foul. Curt, I think it's wonderful your coworkers are taking an interest in serving God. Don't let anyone discourage that."
Curt smirked while Claire trudged up to her room to grab some change for the jar. He slipped the church keys into his work pants, ready for a day of fun tomorrow.
When dinner was finished, Cindy washed the dishes and spent the evening watching television with her husband. As he put his arm around her, a pit of guilt grew in her stomach. He was seated only two feet away from the spot where Simon had sat just a few hours earlier, while Cindy had bent over and sucked his long, hard cock.
She wanted to confess it to him. Every minute that passed she contemplated telling her husband everything; about her past turning tricks in a burlesque house, the video she'd performed in where she'd had steamy erotic sex with a dashing male model, and her day stripping for and fellating that same man in this very living room.
And she saw her marriage crumbling. She saw the feeling of betrayal driving Stuart to expose her secret to their extended family. Maybe her friends, too. Her social reputation destroyed. Her ability to serve as a role model for her children compromised. Everything she had spent the last twenty years building being demolished when it was revealed that Cindy Wingrove was not the shining angel she'd been pretending to be for two decades.
No, she could never let that happen. She would deny it to her grave; no one would ever know what happened, and would happen, in this home for as long as she lived.
The truth was, she'd been lying from the day she met him. She'd been at a Fourth of July barbecue with her friends from high school. Some of the girls had already married successful men since graduation five years earlier, and Cindy was embarrassed to tell them that she worked at a burlesque house, so her story was that she was a receptionist at a dentist's office. It was a partial truth, she had worked as a dentist's receptionist before leaving home, but now the lie had become one she'd cornered herself into, because that was the party where she'd met Stuart.
He rolled up to the event in a bright blue classic 1970 Corvette Stingray convertible. Cindy's friends had immediately flocked to him, and were surprised to learn that the former class president was now a schoolteacher who happened to have a wealthy stepfather. Stuart had no interest in the crowd of bimbos attempting to flirt with him, but his eyes were drawn to young Cindy, the only girl at the party not flaunting her breasts at him.
Admittedly, Cindy was only putting on the good girl facade to deviate suspicion from her night job. She wouldn't have even attended the party if not for the fact that the video she'd shot for Skinema Productions was already off shelves and would likely never be sold again, so she felt safe assuming her classmates would not recognize her from anything except high school.
Stuart struck up a conversation with Cindy, and she'd fed him her very false story about being a receptionist at a children's dentist office to appear wholesome and likable to this charming man. Her lie caved in on her when she found herself accepting his offer to take her on a date, and after one date led to another, she came to a point where she had to confess the truth.
Stuart was upset to say the least. He asked her to quit, and she refused, and their relationship nearly ended. She'd already caught feelings for Stuart, and only salvaged the relationship by assuring him that she'd done nothing more at that house than dance. It was a bold-faced lie, and she hated herself for it, but she would have hated herself more if she'd let Stuart go without fighting to keep him.
The fact was, Cindy was convinced that Stuart was exactly what she needed in her life. She found it charming that he was content with an abstinence-until-marriage relationship. She found it adorable that he never tried to slide his hand up her skirt while they made out in his car, even though she'd worn a skirt short enough that he could have easily done it. She was used to guys wanting to touch her breasts, so when she'd removed her blouse and bra for him, she was not expecting to see him
blush
.
As it happened, Stuart had never seen a girl's bare breasts in person before, and he was not expecting hers to be so
large
, so when she'd popped her top for him during a drive-in movie date, he was afraid to touch her until she covered them. As much as his reaction made her laugh, Cindy realized that he was exactly the type of guy who could provide her the life she truly wanted. Being fondled by men at the burlesque house was getting old, and the boys she'd dated before him weren't much more mature than her customers. Cindy soon found that having a boyfriend who treated her with respect wasn't a novelty, but a personal quality she should expect from a man.
That was what led to her decision to leave her job at Nocturnal Desires. If it took a lie to keep her new life goal on course, she could live with that far easier than still having to shake her ass for dollar bills when she was 50.
So Cindy buried her past, and not even her husband would learn the full truth. And now more than twenty years later, she was still working to keep it buried.
She'd covered up every piece of evidence there was. The crew had taken their equipment. She had cleaned the living room and kitchen top to bottom. She left no trace that anyone but her had been inside the house that day.
But there was one piece of evidence that remained: her lingerie. Cindy hadn't had time to change clothes with all the house cleaning after the shoot, and had left her purple bra and panties on beneath her jeans and shirt. She'd meant to change into something else before bed, but when Stuart entered the bedroom while she was undressing, the cat was out of the bag.
"Wow!" was all he could say.
"Oh! You like this?" she said, feigning surprise.
"You look GREAT!" he said. "You're not going back to work at that club, are you?" He chuckled.
"NO! No, of course not!" Cindy assured him.
"Good," he said sternly.
Cindy lowered her head. She hated how ashamed she'd made him about that. She quickly changed into her normal underwear and slipped into a nightgown.