As is wont to happen when my wife of 18 years and I get outdoors and without the kids, we tend to re-discover each other and the lust we now experience only when time allows. With the kids out of town with their grandparents for a week, we stole an opportunity to borrow a friend's inflatable raft and hit a quiet section of the Trinity River in northern California. Two hours of calm, quiet floating in the warming morning sun had us lazy, hungry, and ready for a little shade at just a few minutes past noon.
We beached our raft on a small sandy stretch at the apex of a tight bend in the river. We hadn't seen anyone else all morning, pretty sure now that we had the river mostly to ourselves. The cool fog that lasted deeper into the morning must have kept most people in town today. We lunched on balls of fresh mozzarella, juicy mangos and olive oil potato chips, capped by a half-bottle of Chianti - passed between us without glasses - that I'd managed to sneak into our wet bag when she wasn't looking.
Laying in the sand, under the high noontime sun, quiet, alone, warm, we relaxed against a small Douglas fir log. Within moments we were both on the edge of full-blown sleep. Trying to avert a long, sunburning snooze, I peeled off my t-shirt, shorts and Tevas and headed out into the water for a quick skinny dip.
"Someone's going to come around that corner and see you," she warned.
"There's no one here, and so what if they do? What're they gonna see that they've never seen before," I responded flashing my nakedness back her direction. "Join me!"
But she just watched me through her sunglasses as I braved the mountain-chilled river. She wouldn't ever dream of being naked in public, even if it was only the mergansers and osprey that would see her sexy forty-something body. The birds would only see her black running shorts and conservative bikini top today, I suppose.
A few minutes in the water was all I needed to wake up enough to recognize the opportunity at hand, and I could only hope she'd be as interested in exploiting that opportunity as I was. Walking back up the beach slope to my wife, I must've had that look that all wives know all too well. That I sported a rapidly growing boner - which looked larger than normal atop a cold-water shriveled ball sack - likely clued her in to my intentions.
"I know what you're thinking," she said with a grin.
"Is it the same thing you're thinking," I asked.
"Of course not," she laughed, "but I think I've had too much wine and sun to stop you right now."
What's this, I thought? Was my own wife actually flirting with me? Her flirtations are less obvious today than many years ago, but I've come to recognize when a "no, not really" accompanied by that grin, really means, "take me".
I kneeled down in front of her, careful to keep the tip of my river-damp pecker out of the sand. I leaned in and kissed her. Ah, those comfortable married kisses, still passionate, but a different measure of passion than first time lovers. I knew by the nature of the returned kiss, of her flashing tongue penetrating my lips, that she too eagerly anticipated more than just a kiss.
"Stand up for a moment," I suggested, and up she stood. I reached into the waistband of her black shorts, untied the knot - not too slowly, yet not too eagerly – and slid her shorts, panties and all, down to her ankles.
"What if someone comes around the corner," she asked, nervously scanning the river bends on both sides of our beach.
"We haven't seen anyone out here all day," I said. "I think we've got the river to ourselves today."
Never taking her eyes off the water, her ears cocked to the breeze to detect any sound different than the wind, water or birds, she sat down on the edge of the log, spread her legs apart, and said, "I'll watch just in case. It'd be my luck that someone would see us, see me, spread wide open like this."
"And that would be a problem, why?" I asked as my fingers slipped into the blonde folds between her legs.
A long "Mmmmm," was the only answer I got to my question. I could almost hear her eyes close when my tongue began its familiar slip and slide inside her. I love the way she tastes when we've been outside for a while. Warm and wet, full of her very personal, unique scent, more slippery than usual. I love the feel of the smooth, almost hairless portions of her inner thighs in my palms. I love the feel of my fingers, coursing through the blonde tufts of hair that shelter her sweet insides from view.
Now, I'm not claiming supernatural abilities, but she's always loved the way I lick and suck her almost as much as I enjoy bringing her that particular pleasure. It never takes her long to climax when I'm down there. Within a few minutes I heard her familiar, "Oh, God, yes. Right there. I'm so close." Moments later, that long, low "ohhhhh" followed by a teeth-clenched "mmmmmmm" and a shudder. She came hard, pressing her swollen pussy into my mouth, my tongue swirling around her clitoral nub, until it was just too sensitive for her to bear any longer. She pushed me back, pulled her knees together, and through pursed lips, let out a long "whew."