Brook had no idea that I told my coworker Bob that the hot redhead he lusted over in the airport terminal was my wife. I waited until he'd gotten graphically specific about the nasty things he'd like to do to her. After I revealed her identity, his response was loud enough that I worried he might disturb the other passengers in coach.
"Oh Geez, Ethan! I'm so sorry. I had no idea!"
"Don't sweat it, dude. I know how hot my wife is," I replied, glad that I'd already pulled down my dining tray so he couldn't see the bulge in my cargo shorts. Rather than jealousy, I mainly felt pride in how much other men wanted my hot wife.
"I feel like an idiot! Why didn't you tell me who she was?"
"Brooke and I have an agreement. During this vacation, we're pretending not to be married or even know each other. That way, when I get a few hours away from the convention, I can meet her in a bar and try to chat her up like we're strangers. Is that weird?"
"Fuck no. If you don't do it, I
will
," Bob chuckled, obviously relieved that I wasn't pissed at him. I almost dropped the whole thing when he looked out the window, but I felt like talking now that I'd admitted who Brooke was.
"Yeah, I just wish we could have more time together. She'll probably be spending a lot of time alone while we're down there."
"That's sucks," Bob commiserated with me. He had no way of knowing that I'd arranged it that way on purpose. Then my coworker surprised me. "Hey! Tell you what. As long as you help me set up and take down our company displays, and maybe cover the table so I can go enjoy the beach on Wednesday, I don't mind letting you bail on manning the booth."
"Really?" I gasped. I'd just been looking to say out loud what I'd been doing, not trying to get out of work.
"Sure! It's no problem at all. I know you hate these things, and frankly, your scowling at potential clients puts me off my game anyway," Bob assured me before taking another sip from the single rum and generic cola we coach passengers rated.
"Wow. That's really generous of you, Bob. You're a good friend."
"I'm glad you feel that way after all the things I said I wanted to do to your wife."
"Seriously, Bob, don't even worry about that. It's not like I don't think about doing the same things to her."
"Yeah," Bob sighed almost wistfully, "but you get to actually
do
them."
It was a little uncomfortable when my coworker later saw Brooke flirting with some big black guy at baggage claim, and he even offered to help me kick the guy's ass. I assured him that my wife was just trying to tease me and had no intention of sleeping with the guy. Bob finally calmed down after we watched the two of them walk off in different directions.
Other than when I went to confiscate her travel clothes after we got to the hotel, I didn't see much of Brooke that first day. Bob and I would spend over two hours trying to figure out how to put together the elaborate booth and audiovisual equipment our company purchased for the event. Then we'd have to sit through the opening ceremonies and an evening banquet. While Bob had been extremely generous to cover for me, I couldn't justify making him do the shittiest stuff on his own, so I was stuck for the duration.
Around one in the afternoon, while we were still in the middle of putting the booth together, I received a text from Brooke. It just read, "Eating lunch at the pool", but right after that, she sent me a photo of her and Walt Van Ameyde, a VP at my company's biggest competitor. I could only see them from the table up, but he was shirtless and Brooke only wore the tiny red bikini I'd provided her.
Walt had his arm around my wife, and she'd leaned into him with a radiant smile on her face. They looked like a rich guy and his much younger trophy wife on their honeymoon. I stared at the photo for over a minute, and when Bob yelled at me to get back to helping him with the display, I had to adjust the erection that had appeared in my shorts before joining him.
Obviously, I knew Brooke would be flirting with other men during that week. Hell, I practically forced her to. I just hadn't counted on the second guy she met being someone I knew personally. I'd been beaten out by Walt on several deals over the years, and seeing him with his arm possessively around my almost naked wife should've made me angry or jealous.
Actually, I guess it did, but I was far more concerned about my cock's reaction to that photo. Why in the Hell did it turn me on to know my wife was flirting with my biggest professional rival while I toiled away on some stupid display at a convention I didn't even want to attend? I fumed in the knowledge that Walt had lackeys like me to put up
his
display, thus giving him the time to chat up my wife.