As I mentioned in Ch 6, these final chapters depict the characters in a series of role-plays, rather than one extended scenario. This allows them β and the writer! β a bit more scope than feeling unduly constrained by a set of "ground rules".
Early on in this chapter I have flagged up the role-play by using inverted commas or a word like "supposed" when referring to "bride", "bridegroom" or such like. I soon desist from doing so to avoid it becoming tedious. Do remember though that it is all intended to depict the characters role-playing a scenario, and please make allowance for any lack of realism or inconsistencies.
If you haven't read any previous chapters in this series, reading chapter 6 at least would help to set the scene. Basically the plot is that Joan, recently divorced due to her husband's cheating has placed a personal ad in the local press and, having had liaisons with two respondents (the younger of whom turned out to be a former neighbour) she has now arranged a night in a posh hotel for the three of them with a twist of which they are unaware.
ALL CHARACTERS ARE FICTIONAL
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Although she had intended to fake tear-streaks in her mascara, Joan had in fact shed a few genuine tears as she got into her wedding dress while awaiting David's delivery of champagne. It brought the memories of her actual wedding day flooding back, and the bitterness of Paul's cheating on her.
She had soon regained her composure, however, and in fact the bitter memories made the rushed sex she had just had with David, supposedly having him sully her before the arrival of her bridegroom, the more intense. Now, in the en-suite bathroom of the hotel room, she looked into the long mirror and felt a sense of shock at her provocative lingerie, and as in her mind she went over what she had just done. She had a quick sponge bath. The distorted sound and thumping bass from the disco downstairs could still be heard.
Joan looked at her watch. She had miscalculated the timings and it dawned on her that she and David could have taken their time a little more. It didn't really matter, though. As she had said to him, the whole night lay ahead yet, and the rushed pace had made it seem particularly sordid and illicit. There was an added excitement, too, in having arranged the whole thing, and in having let slip certain details to David and Laurence. Not that they were both privy to exactly the same detail, though.
David buttoned his shirt again. He pulled on his boxers, quickly followed by his trousers, then tucked his shirt back into his waistband. He straightened his tie as he waited for her to come back into the room, and slid his waistcoat back on.
She rejoined him and reclined on the bed, still in her stunningly provocative white lingerie, and still wearing her bridal headdress with the veil folded over the back of her head.
David took a few steps towards her. His eyes were fixed on her fabulous white corset with its lace-up front and the nicely up-curved bottom edge where it rose in the middle, baring her navel. He gazed longingly at the way it pushed up the tops of her breasts. He ran his hands over the fabric, and traced his hand along its top. Joan took in his fixated expression and watched his hand trace down one white suspender and along the top of her white, shiny stocking. She saw his gaze rest on her scanty, flimsy white panties and on the heart-shaped patch of closely cropped hair, half-discernible, through them.
He sat on the bed beside her and kissed her, lightly, then more purposefully. He put his hand to the back of her head and caressed her hair through her wedding veil. Joan returned his kisses. He fondled the tops of her up-thrust orbs above her corset, thrilling in the softness of her skin and the way her flesh gave way to his touch. She parted her pink-glossed lips and their tongues met and danced.
Then the door handle rattled.
Although they were both half expecting it, and although it was in fact pre-planned, it genuinely startled them and they broke off their embrace. They giggled.
"Er... just a minute..." Joan called out.
Joan signalled David to get into position behind the armchair over which her wedding dress was draped. He grabbed his shoes and socks and ducked behind the dress-covered chair. He knelt upright. Her dress was close to his face and he inhaled the traces of her scent.
The door handle rattled again.
"Won't be a second!" Joan shouted as she adjusted the dress so that David was almost completely hidden from view. He finely adjusted it so that he could partly see past it as Joan opened the door.
Laurence was standing there in his well-tailored suit. From behind the chair David saw his jaw drop at the sight that met him. Laurence's eyes took in her white-heeled sandals, her white stockings, suspenders and panties, and her corset. Any doubt he might possibly have had of the significance of it must have been dispelled immediately by the white headdress and veil that adorned her short raven hair. Then Laurence glanced at the wedding dress over the back of the chair.
Joan pushed the door closed behind him. Laurence stood sheepishly before her. Joan put her hands on her hips.
She had already decided to change tack slightly from her encounter with David. It would be unfair to incorporate the cheating theme with Laurence. After all, he was married and his conscience troubled him deeply. His wife was disabled and although Laurence had a modest sex drive it was entirely unfulfilled with his wife, which was the only reason he strayed. Instead she would berate him for drinking when he should have retired for the night with her. She had sounded him about in advance, and, as he had no issues in that department (so it would not touch a sore spot) she had decided to taunt him in the fantasy about his supposed difficulty to maintain an erection and to satisfy her.
"Where the hell have you been? I suppose you've been cramming in a few more drinks and dancing with your old flame Brenda β and trying to bump against her, have you?" she snarled.
"I... ah... I'm sorry, my sweet. I was only finishing my, ah... drink and being sociable with some of our guests."
From behind the armchair David followed Laurence's spellbound stare at her fleshy, white-stockinged legs, her corset-clad midriff and breasts, and at the tops of her orbs above her corset.
Laurence was almost speechless. Joan had explained the rough outline of the scenario she had in mind, but had not mentioned the wedding-night detail, simply that it was intended to be a fantasy special occasion from which she had retired before him.
"And no, I did dance with her, but I wasn't, ah, trying to bump against her. But after I'd finished the dance I was rather, ah, hot, and needed another drink," he explained, latching on quickly.