Author Note:
Hi, everyone! Thank you for all the lovely comments on Chapter 1 of All Hail the Quean! I hope you're enjoying it so far. Please note that I have limited time to write, but I promise I'll try and release new chapters as quick as I can. Thank you for your patience and enjoy chapter 2!
CHAPTER 2
I think I may have pursued my fantasy too quickly. After I had helped Micheal on the couch, he left me to clean up the mess while he showered without a word. He's been avoidant since then as well. Spending much of his time at the office or in our home gym. Micheal has also put a pause to his midnight releases.
It was to be expected that he would need time to process, but it's been three days since that day on the couch. And I felt he deserved as much. So while he was occupying his time to avoid the situation, I spent mine researching.
While he was at the office, I would use our computer to review his search history that was synced from his phone. There were hundreds of links to porn sites in just the last few months alone. As many as 10 in a day. I watched bits and pieces of each to see what it was that turned him on about these women.
All the women featured in the videos were young and beautiful, with full, perky breasts, curvy hips and flawless skin. They reminded me a lot of the girls I knew back in college minus the wild hair and bold makeup of the times. I guess his preferences haven't changed much since then.
An idea struck me and after dinner on the third day of silence I approached him with two shot glasses and a bottle of whiskey. It was a game we played during the beginning of our relationship when a hard topic needed discussing; truth or shot. The concept was simple but effective to get a conversation flowing.
His eyes drifted from the bottle to me as I took a seat next to him. He exhaled with reluctance as I poured the amber liquid into the tiny glasses. We toasted to the start of the game, downing the first shot together.
"I think it's about time we talked about the other day," I began gently.
"Evelyn, I-" he interrupted but I hushed him quickly with pursed lips, pouring another shot for us.
"I want to start by letting you know that I am not upset. That I've known about your late night trips to the bathroom for quite a while and I'm glad we're taking this time to open up about this together." I scooted the new shot across the table to him. "I love you and nothing said at this table will change that."
I studied his face as I spoke. His furrowed brow and lowered chin suggested that he was embarrassed to have his habits discovered, but the softness of his hazel eyes spoke of relief beyond words. I gave him a delicate smile before continuing, "do you truly prefer jacking-off to videos than having sex with me?"
There was a long moment of silence as Micheal pawed at the glass and rubbed at the stubble on his cheek as he debated on answering or not. I already knew the answer, so, when he lifted the glass to his lips, it came as no surprise.
"Why did you..." he began as I refilled his glass, "why did you say those things while helping me?"
"I haven't just known about your habit," I admitted. "I've watched you. Listened to you answer the videos as if the woman was in the room with you. Watched as you stroked yourself at the pace of the video. It wasn't hard for me to understand that you imagined yourself fucking them. That is what you do, right?"