Rachel slipped a red dress over her head and felt the silky fabric settle over her skin. It felt cool and soft, a nice contrast to the lacy black bra and panties she wore underneath it. She looked at herself in the mirror and barely suppressed a groan.
"Why can't I be thin?"
"Because then you wouldn't have these sexy curves."
Rachel jumped when she felt Vince's hands on her hips. She hadn't heard him come in.
"Yeah, right."
"Yeah," he said, giving her hips a squeeze. "Right."
"I'd have hips if I were thinner, you know."
"Not these hips. These are the world's sexiest, most perfect hips."
Yeah, right. Rachel bit back the words. No point in arguing. She'd just be happy he thought so. And try not to let herself notice whether he looked at other, thinner hips while they were out.
Rachel hadn't ever been thin, and now at thirty, she was an hourglass. The bra under her dress was a 38D. Her hips were the same, 38 inches. She put her hands on her waist. At least it was still nipped in.
She settled into the front seat of the car and waited for her husband to walk around and get behind the wheel. After ten years together, he still made her heart beat fast. Part of her insecurity came from the attention he got from younger women. Women with slender hips.
Vince pulled into a parking spot at Rachel's favorite restaurant, and she smiled up at him. He was good to her. Good for her. God, she loved him. I'll have a salad tonight, she thought. Just a salad. My diet starts...now.
When they got inside though, Rachel had to use the ladies' room and Vince changed her plans. When she got back, she found that he'd ordered her a steak. And wine. Red wine, her favorite, a whole bottle on the table.
It was just her luck that they were seated directly across from a table of beautiful women, ten years younger and thirty pounds lighter than her. One, a redhead, looked at Vince ... tall, dark, muscular ... and then at Rachel, then whispered to her friend.
What a heifer, Rachel imagined she'd said. What's she doing with a hottie like that?