My wife was filling me in on the latest details of her best friend Ofélia's divorce. It sounded messy: he handled the finances and blew their shared income on a buddy's investment without telling her. The guy was so ashamed he wasn't putting up much of a fight, but there was a lot of stress. "Good thing there's no kids involved," I commented idly.
"You said it," replied Nora. I was leafing through instructions for installing a light fixture, keeping half an eye on my wife. She had dressed up for her latest fancy lunch date with Ofélia. She was in a wide leg pantsuit, which was flowy but showed off her best feature, those curvy hips. I felt myself getting a little hard, and was kind of grateful to be leaning over the kitchen counter where my dick wouldn't be so obvious.
"No kids but they have to divide stuff up anyways. He wants to keep the car."
"Uh-huh," I said.
"He works from home!" Nora said, outraged. "I can't believe he's making this kind of trouble for her, and in the middle of a campaign."
Getting hard, I started thinking about my wife and Ofélia's lunch date. You can call me a pervert, but when my wife says she's going out on a date with a girlfriend, it gets me going a little bit. I don't know why, I never thought there was any flirtation happening there, but... ah, what the hell, it was just getting to be too long since Nora and I had sex. We just didn't have time, and so I mostly took care of it myself, and my fantasies often drifted to my wife and other women. As it happened, I knew she'd had some of those experiences in the past, and that kept a couple of fantasies alive. Sometimes, if I'm being totally honest, my wife drifted out of the picture and it was just the other women.
A lot of people would have found Ofélia sexy, and I did too, but mostly in a scientific "yes, she is indeed" kind of way. She had a strong but cute face, she was petite but assertive, she dyed her hair white-blue which contrasted nicely with her olive complexion--but if you asked me, and Nora had, "would you have sex with her", I'd say no because the truth was that Ofélia was
boring as hell.
She was a campaign manager in local politics, and she lived, ate, and slept local political campaigns. Maybe somewhere there's a city where the local politics are really interesting. If there is, I've never lived in it. Nora reported to me that Ofélia had a rich personal life, but all I'd ever heard her talk about was this bond issue or that gerrymandering or even worse, city council races.
You could call me an idiot for letting that get in the way, but I don't have a wandering eye and when she asked me--in bed, after sex, in an idly trailing-her-fingers-across-my-chest kind of way--Nora wanted the truth, and the truth was that I didn't want to have sex with Ofélia.
As it turned out, that was for the best.
"She just seems so stressed, babe," fretted Nora, going through our mail. "This comptroller thing is eating up all her time and she just doesn't have time to work through the divorce."
"What is a comptroller, anyway?"
"Like the accountant for the city."
Fascinating, I thought. An elected accountant. But I'm smarter than that, so what I said out loud was "Poor girl--woman. I hope she'll let us know if there's anything we can do to help."
Nora turned to face me with a curious look on her face. "Well, it's funny but she did mention something. It's kind of weird, though. Something we could do for her."
You don't stay married for as long as we are without picking up on the subtext. It was sexual. A little blush was creeping into Nora's creamy pale skin, and she was deliberately facing me with shoulders squared. I shifted a little. Still hard. I didn't necessarily want to do it but the thought of Ofélia and sex was still effective.
I'm a typical guy. My wife had asked me, after we had good sex, whether I'd fuck Ofélia. It took me a mere several months before I realized she was alluding to a threesome. But these days, we weren't even doing each other, much less bringing a third into bed. I wasn't going to bring it up again--
honey, remember the time you implied you wanted to fuck your best friend
--but hope springs eternal.
And here she was, my wife, alluding to it. The blood continued to keep my cock throbbing.
"What do you mean?" I asked, trying to waggle my eyebrows.
"It's like this-- she was telling me about a sex thing she's always wanted to try but she never could because Dave wasn't into it."
"Oh boy," I said.
"But just to be clear, it's not having sex with us!"
I blinked, genuinely confused. "Oh okay, because I just assumed, and like that would be, not the worst maybe."
I can be smooth, I swear to god.
"James," said my wife, "she doesn't want to have sex with you, I don't want you having sex with her, that's not it. It's a lot weirder!"
"Okay, well this I have to hear."
"Promise you won't laugh?" asked my wife, sitting on the couch. I stayed where I was, erection hidden by counters. But I put the manual down. "So Ofélia says that she's always been really busy, too busy even to drop everything and have sex for an hour or two."
"Is that how they do it? In politics?"
"Yeah it's all hook-ups. Worse than the Olympics. But she doesn't work that way. The thing that works for her is being in control of a guy, even when they're not having sex."
I frowned. "Like a dominatrix thing? How's that less time consuming?"
Some part of me--my penis--was still convinced this was going to end in me getting some, whether my wife, her friend, or both. But my brain was deeply confused. Ofélia liked to, what, tie guys up and whip them? It fit with her boss lady persona, but I didn't see how it made any sense with what Nora was saying.
"No," laughed my wife, red rising further in her cheeks. "Like a, they call it, chastity?"
"Chastity?!" I said. "She likes to lock up guys' dicks?"