It was, you told me, the final straw. The moment when you knew that things would never be the same again. It was late at night when you called me to tell me that you had made that life-changing discovery. The discovery that, despite all your husband's protestations that he was too 'busy' or 'tired' to pay attention to your needs, he was actually having an affair with a woman he worked with.
There were tears streaming down your cheeks when you first told me. Despite your making every effort to get him to be more intimate, have more sex, be more adventurous, your husband simply wasn't interested. So you had endured. For years you had remained faithful, satisfying yourself with masturbation, fuelled by erotic literature and tantalising, teasing conversations online with friends; friends like me. But now, you were angry. And that was how the plan began to form.
If he could have an affair, you thought, so could you. But no, it had to be more than that. He had to pay for all the times he had turned you down because he had just come home after being with HER! So once you had stopped crying and the bitter anger turned to the need for revenge, we started to concoct the plan.
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The timing was essential. To make sure we got it right, I was in the hotel lobby when you walked in with your husband. You had booked the hotel suite after convincing him that the two of you needed a second honeymoon to re-ignite the desire in your marriage. Faced with that or a divorce, he agreed.
The first time I laid eyes on you in real life was when I watched the two of you check in. You wore an elegant dark blue dress, low cut in front, showing off your ample cleavage to best effect. Below the hemline sheer black seamed stockings accentuated the curves of your legs. When you walked right past me on the way to the lifts, I was reading a newspaper and completely ignored you both. I looked at my watch and noted the time.
Fifteen minutes later, my phone buzzed as the expected text message arrived. It said simply "442". I got up, folded the paper and dropped it on the coffee table then walked deliberately to the lift. Seconds later I was on the fourth floor and knocking at the door of room 442.
When the door opened and I saw you smiling at me, my heart skipped a beat. Without a word, you stepped aside to let me in, then leaned forward to kiss me briefly on the lips.
"What the hell...?"
The words came from your husband, who was now, as per the plan, sitting naked in the wooden chair at the desk, but turned to face the bed. I looked past you and saw him start to struggle against the handcuffs that held him securely to the chair.