Steak & BJ after 20 years of neglect
a faithful wife (but hostile to Holidays) refunds her husband.
### My contribution to the Valentine's Day 2024 Event.
English is not my native language, don't look at my mistakes.###
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Chapter 1. One Wife, One Blowjob.
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February 14th
My wife Violet, on her knees, was licking my balls and cock shaft, naked over my lowered breeches.
I was sitting on the couch in the living room, with my shirt unbuttoned.
Suddenly the doorbell rang.
I thought, "Let them ring, don't open it, they'll go away."
Amid two unruly wisps on the forehead, that had escaped from her gathered hair, my wife gave me a convincing gaze with a wide smile, flaunting confidence, and whispered, "It's okay, everything according to the plan... I ordered steak for dinner for you, honey... wait here just for a minute, while I pay the delivery girl."
I was speechless.
Violet struggled to her feet.
Her breasts bare, her wrists bound behind her back by two Velcro cuffs, Violet wore only a black silk garter belt to which were attached by laces and two black hold-up stockings with wide bands of elastic lace (the laces were only for adornment, but they were beautiful to look at). The lace delightfully framed her pussy.
On her feet, she laced up thin high-heeled sandals.
Too high heels and too tight wrists made it difficult for her to make any movement, but Violet managed to keep her balance.
Walking slowly on her heels she reached the main door of the house. I could hear her but was out of visual range of a possible "delivery girl". And what if they send us a man!?
I could not believe my eyes.
My wife, naked and cuffed, opened to an unknown delivery girl!
OMG, it had always been a fantasy of mine, but today she was making it come true! My cock had become hard as never before.
I could hear everything from the couch.
I knew how she had managed to open the handle: she had leaned her shoulders against the door and then turned the knob with her hands.
I immediately recognized the chirping voice of the "unknown delivery girl." Eh: it seemed too strange to me that my wife, usually so disinclined to display lingerie, had gone to open the door for a total stranger.
In front of her was her best friend's daughter, Trudy, who had known her for years (and confidentially called her "Auntie Violet" even though we were not legally related). Since she had come of age, Trudy had been delivering from her parents' restaurant.
The girl was holding two cartons for delivery. But, I guessed from her voice that she was paralyzed with astonishment and her eyes and mouth were wide open. "Are you in trouble, Auntie Violet? Do you need me to call 911?"
Without any shame, my wife chuckled: "I was your teacher in the neighborhood self-defense classes at the gym, remember? No problem, my husband and I are celebrating Valentine's Day 20 years late, maybe 22. Everything is okay, just two adults playing in the Valentine's evening. You are a nice girl to worry about, but it is not necessary. Remember my motto, which I used to repeat in self-defense class, "Yes, I'm a damsel, I'm in distress. I can handle this. Have a nice day."
From the couch I heard the girl laughing serenely, repeating in chorus the motto with which my wife always closed her self-defense classes at the gym.
I closed my eyes. How had we gotten to that moment? I closed my eyes and remembered both dates: our first Valentine's Day, and our last.
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Chapter 2 - two flashbacks: our first Valentine's Day, and our last.
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Twenty-two years ago, I met my wife. She was an intelligent, rational, energetic, feminist, and full of ideas girl.
We were both college graduates and worked hard. Her mother had had an accident and the doctors had given her a few months to live, so we decided together that we would get married to give that poor dying woman the wedding she had always dreamed of for her daughter.
I was overjoyed that day, also because we also had another surprise for friends and family: at the cake-cutting, my wife announced that we were expecting a baby. I know that such news is usually received in a distorted way, but we had done it as a gift to our dying grandmother. A baby girl was born, a week before Grandma died-she had a chance to hold her just long enough to take the saddest and most beautiful pictures we ever had.
On our first Valentine's Day, my wife was pregnant and throwing up all the time. I brought her a gift (an Eau de parfum) but she threw up and would not even hear about the restaurant I booked in an ill-timed way.
She also said a phrase that I did not understand, "Valentine's Day, the holiday of fools..." But because he was vomiting, maybe I didn't understand him correctly.
The next year she was pregnant again: we had planned it, because our two jobs allowed it and because we thought it would be good for the children to grow up together.
More perfume, more vomit, more of a phrase about the deluded.
Our third Valentine was not pregnant, but she had two small daughters. I ventured to book a restaurant, summon a babysitter, and prepare everything decently, but she denied herself by reciting a nursery rhyme (which was indelibly printed in my mind, in Bookman Old Style 14 bold font):
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"Valentine's Day is a lie, for each, and every, guy who believes that he is loved; but instead, he will be fooled."
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My wife has never cheated on me, nor deceived me. Simply, Violet never gave importance to any Calendar party. She didn't even celebrate birthdays or name days; every day in December was the same for her; and the only day she felt truly patriotic was National Day because her father had served in the Navy.
I was always overjoyed with my wife, in all things (love, friendship, complicity, sex, lots of sex). The only thing in which we are not in tune is the Holidays.
I have always been very happy with my wife, in all things (love, friendship, complicity, sex, lots of sex). The only thing in which we are not in tune is the Holidays.
I love all holidays. I catch and exterminate Grinches, I become mayor of Dublin in March after I recite the entirety of "I Have A Dream" at my daughters' school play in February, I have been carving pumpkins since September, I make jam for Thanksgiving, I parade in a Caravel dress on Oct. 12, and I listen to Mariah Carey, The Wham, and Michael Bublé starting in November.
I also know all my friends' and relatives' birthdays by heart (even those who wrote January 1, 1900, on social media), and I write something to everyone because I know that a sentence can sometimes be warmer than a scarf.
And, of course, I have continued to buy gifts for her for each of these celebrations. But the absence of reciprocation from her at all other celebrations has never pained me. On my birthday I get a dozen gifts, and I know one is missing, but I don't mind, because friends, siblings, and colleagues make up for the absence.
But Valentine's Day is a holiday for couples in love: and seeing myself rejected every single time, was the thing that made me suffer the most.
I resisted for years. For decades. Once, I bought two perfumes: one for her and one for me. Bad idea. I resisted.
On our 20th wedding anniversary, I looked at my beloved little girls who had become two young women. They raised their goblets to toast the two of us, loving parents and tireless lovers. Seeing two goblets triggered a traumatic memory in me: the crest of the restaurant I had tried to book three times in a row.
My jaw stiffened. The knuckles of my hands turned white. Winston Churchill would have said (or was it Belushi?) "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."
I would not continue. Twenty years of lopsided gift-giving, twenty years of mocking and rhyming against deluded people was too much. My two daughters deserved a better role model than the loser I had been until that day. I swore to myself that I would never again give my wife anything for Valentine's Day. A piece of my heart had become veiled, as if in mourning. Other holidays remained sacred because they were collective events to be experienced together with friends and relatives: but Valentine's Day was over.
We had already spent our last Valentine's Day together, and we hadn't noticed.
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On the evening of February 14, my wife came looking for me all hopeful. I was sitting on the couch watching an old Western movie. With a radiant smile, she said to me, "Honey how was your day? Aren't you hungry? Do you want me to make you something to eat?"
I didn't even look at her. It was just an ordinary weekday, like any weekday, she had been teaching me for twenty long years. In an absent tone, I yawned and said, "It's been a tiring day at work... and tomorrow morning I have to wake up earlier... I think I'll go to sleep because, in this old movie, the action is too slow."