Author's Note: The first 15% of Part 4 is about Brooke and Ethan's early history, which helps explain why they're where they are now in their marriage. It'll also be important to understand Ethan's motivations moving forward. If you're only interested in the action and don't care about the 'why', you could merely scan the first bit without it being fatal to your reading experience.
Once it gets going, I hope most of you will find this one sexier than Part 3.
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Though I'd been irritated about Brooke missing my A team's reunion, I guess it turned out all right in the end. I came up with a little fun on the fly, and it only cost me the money to buy a sexy outfit for her. I couldn't know if my wife would enjoy or hate that assignment, but she ended up loving it. Of course, I benefited from the regular photo drops all weekend, I consider it a win-win.
Brooke's willingness to push her limits so much surprised me. I'd been kidding when I suggested that clothing was optional when she met the pizza guy at the door, but when I saw the photos of my wife actually exposing her pussy and one breast to a complete stranger, it made me reconsider everything I knew about her. Suddenly, the possibilities seemed endless, and my completely positive reaction to her new boldness showed how much we've both changed since we got married.
When I originally met Brooke at a party hosted by a childhood friend, she was a seventeen year old freshman at Ohio State and a charmingly innocent virgin. I was home on leave after a tour in the Middle East, and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this gorgeous redhead sitting alone on a couch in the corner. Fortunately, my buddy warned me she was underage before I tried anything.
As a twenty one year old, combat tested, airborne ranger, I went to that party with one mission in mind; Find a wild college girl and get laid. I decided to hit on Brooke's older roommate, but that didn't play out like I'd planned. The girl had consumed far too much alcohol to consent to anything, so I ended up sitting on that couch talking with my future wife for three hours with absolutely no chance of getting my dick wet.
I didn't see Brooke for almost two years after that because I left for Special Forces selection the next morning. While we'd certainly shared a moment, I never expected to see her again. After I completed my training and earned my green beret, I finally had enough time to breathe and think about my life.
To my utter astonishment, every train of thought eventually led back to the captivating redhead at that college party. I had a bit of accumulated leave coming before I joined my new unit, so I drove back to Ohio to find her. I arrived at her dorm in my dress blues with all my medals, badges and cords, and it had the intended affect. Women love the blues.
We went out every night during my leave, but then I had to head back to North Carolina to report in. We called and texted constantly until the Army sent my A-team to the war, which left me in a contested area and out of contact for weeks at a time. I returned to the States a week before Brooke's graduation.
I'm not an impulsive guy, but I asked her to marry me right after the ceremony. I even had a ring that I'd bought on my second day back in Ohio. I'd never been so certain of anything in my life, but Brooke wanted to wait until I'd left the army before marrying me.
Her parents clearly didn't approve of her getting engaged to a combat soldier four years her senior, but she stood up to them for the first time in her life. Brooke found a job and an apartment near my base, and we dated for two years as I completed my enlistment. I had combat deployments twice in that time, and I know it was hard on her sitting alone in Fayetteville North Carolina fretting over my safety for months on end.
We didn't have sex because of her rigid religious views, but I figured Brooke was worth the wait. I can't stress enough how hard that was for me. I'd always been good at finding random women who wanted to fuck, and going from several women a month to no sex for over two years was a huge change for me. In the end, we never did anything more than kiss and engage in a little over the clothes fondling, which frustrated a man whore like me to no end.
We had sex for the first time on our wedding night, and it started out perfect. With my new wife being a virgin, I took my time and went slow despite all that pent up need. Knowing she was nervous, I started out with a lot of foreplay, and even though I was clumsy and impatient, my mouth managed to give Brooke the first real orgasm of her life.
Things went to shit right after that, and it was completely my fault. Brooke surprised me by performing the most unbelievable blow job I'd ever received, but my dumbass immediately demanded to know how my supposedly chaste wife knew how to do that so well. After some overly aggressive cajoling, I got her to admit that she'd had a college boyfriend in the second half of her freshman year that taught her how.
I should've reacted better and just been grateful to be the beneficiary of her talents, but I felt an irrational wave of jealousy as I imagined my new wife's beautiful lips wrapped around some other guy's cock. Yes, I realize how hypocritical that is coming from the guy who couldn't count the number of drunken one night stands he'd had before meeting Brooke. I might've been older and more experienced than her, but I remained immature in certain critical ways. Soldiers can be that way sometimes.
My new wife tried several times to make me understand that she'd been incredibly naΓ―ve, not to mention desperately lonely after celebrating her eighteenth birthday completely alone in her dorm room. She'd never been away from her hometown before, her roommate only hung out with the women in her sorority, and Brooke hadn't made any friends at college yet. Desperate for me to understand what she'd gone through, Brooke stressed that she only accommodated him because she didn't want to lose the only person in her life over her refusal to have sex.
Her older boyfriend had dominated her by undercutting her self-esteem and confidence, and Brooke began believing that she'd never find anyone else willing to take her. He eventually demanded blowjobs almost every day of the week, and sometimes more than once a day. When my wife told me that she'd complied with his outrageous demands for nearly six months before he dumped her, I didn't recognize that she'd been the victim in the whole affair. I became so consumed with my self-righteous jealousy that I hadn't really heard
any
of the important parts of her story.
I can't fully express the rage I felt as I realized that I'd spent years completely celibate for a woman who'd spent the majority of six months sucking the cock of some boyfriend that she'd never even told me about. It didn't matter that it happened well over a year before we had our first date. As I wallowed in my immature and sanctimonious judgement, I called Brooke a slut and a whore as I let my emotions run rampant for the first time in years.
I know my PTSD had a bit to do with my loss of control, but the truth is that my feelings of betrayal stemmed mainly from my suspicion that I didn't really deserve such a great woman. In short, I suffered the same insecurities that my wife had with her boyfriend, but I was a total asshole about it. I refuse to use the war as an excuse for my shortcomings.
I'd punished my wife for being open and honest, and she's a quick study. After that, who could blame Brooke for not offering to share what she liked or didn't like about sex? Once I calmed down and realized how badly I'd overreacted, I felt awful about the whole thing, but the damage had already been done.
It's tragic that I couldn't get my wife to open up about what she
really
wanted until years later. I blame myself for that, but what does that get us? Nothing. I may have messed up the beginning, but that doesn't mean I can't atone for my sins by getting her what she needs going forward.
After Brooke reacted so surprisingly well to my impromptu assignment at Mr. Jefferies' home, I decided to push her further to see where it went. For my birthday weekend, I presented my wife with a new project that I hoped would be fun for us both. I even offered to make it count as my birthday present. I refused to tell her what she'd be doing until that day, but if things worked out, we'd spend hours in a sort of remote foreplay.
I went out to the bar with my poker buddies the night before my birthday. Though I'd only had a few beers all evening, I lied when I got home and said we'd been doing shots. As I feigned slurred speech and an unstable gait, I warned my wife that I'd probably have a hangover and planned on sleeping in. I also told Brooke to set her alarm for six because she'd need to start the day early for my birthday present.
When her alarm went off the next morning, I pretended to sleep through it. Once I heard her in the shower, I jumped out of bed and jogged into the kitchen. Retrieving Brooke's knee length raincoat from the mudroom, I laid it out across the kitchen counter. I then stuffed my wife's driver's license, key fob, cell phone, and two hundred dollars in cash into her little "vacation" purse before setting it beside the coat.