I talked with Richard about what to write next. He didn't have any hesitation he said Dave, but I had to tell you everything concerning my father in law. So here goes, from the top as they say.
Dave runs his own decorating firm, he employs 8 people and he does very well. Dave is what I call a working boss, he goes out decorating, building extensions, and painting peoples houses with his employees. He is 49 now. He's well built, is 5'9" tall, with a shaved head. He has this strength in his arms and upper body, which comes through years of building work. He's the complete opposite to my pen pusher husband.
He's a bit of lad, even at 49, he likes his beer and is similar to Trent in that he seems to know a lot of people. I've seen men come up to him and buy him a beer, just because of who he is, and women talking to him with a glint in their eye. He's got two motor bikes, one is Triumph something or other, and he took me on the back of it one day, for a ride down the bypass. God did I hang on to him. I was still shaking 5 minutes after I got off. Anne was laughing when I walked in their house after. She said something about me looking like a frightened rabbit. She told me she was the same the first time she went on it.
Anne is slim, and I just can't imagine them fucking without Dave breaking her ribs. He's got this way of cuddling her, mostly in public like in a pub. He'll stand behind her with his hands down around her waist, and he whispers things in her ear, which she seems to smile at. It might just be me, but I find that a very male dominant thing to do.
So there I was in the pub with a guy I had picked up. We were getting on quite well; he said he didn't even mind Richard watching. So we were having one more drink, and I told my friend Vicky I'd be going home with him. Vicky and a few others knew by this time what I got up to, some didn't mind, but one of my friends I lost over it.
So this guy, and this is going to sound daft but I can't remember his name, had his arm round me. I was letting him kiss my neck, and I know I was smiling, until I saw Dave looking down on us across the table. There is nothing that straightens a face more than being caught doing what you shouldn't be doing. He told the guy to find himself another woman. One look at Dave and he did as he was told.
I got pulled by my wrist out of the pub, and round a corner. My heart was hurting it was thumping so much. Dave asked me quite calmly to tell him what I was up to. I had tears but he stood there and waited. I knew I wasn't going anywhere until I told him, so I did. I explained about Richard liking me doing things with other men. Dave said something like, "That figures."
I asked him what he meant by that, but he told me straight, he wanted the all facts first, and I wasn't going to worm my way out of telling him everything. I told him some more and he listened. While I have told friends who asked why I went with other men, telling my father in law was far more difficult, because of whom he was. I had never imagined I would have to be explaining it one of the family.
He told me one of the guys who worked for him was in the pub and he recognised me, and the guy phoned him to ask if I had split up with his stepson. Then Dave told me he had seen me not long ago, with a group of men and women, but he couldn't see Richard. He said Anne was with him, but she hadn't spotted me. He told me it looked like I was talking to one guy in particular, and even in those few seconds, he thought I might be up to no good by the way the guy and me were smiling at each other. He said if he had been on his own he might have stopped the car. He said about Anne always saying I showed off too much, and he said my skirt was really short.
I asked him if he was going to tell Anne, he said she'd knock my block off, even if Richard confirmed he didn't mind. He told me he had cheated on her a couple of times, and she had found out about one woman, and she actually gave him a nose bleed. He chuckled about that but I couldn't.
I got loads of question from him, and then surprisingly, advice, about being more careful if I was going to carry on. By this time we were walking up the road, I didn't even know where we were going. He went into a MacDonald's and got us a coffee and something to eat. I waited outside still trying to come to terms with it all.
Dave said when he got to the pub he had watched me for about a minute before he came over. He said he wanted to throw the guy's drink in my face. He said I was smiling, and it was like I didn't have a care in the world. He said not only that he said about the money. He said I couldn't believe I was giving you and Richard £9,000, to help with the deposit on a house, and there you were with some bloke probably throwing your marriage away.
We walked on, and he said, "You do ask for it showing off your legs like that but I suppose that's the idea."
I nearly said about him leering at me, but I knew to keep my mouth shut. I asked him what he was going to do. He said nothing for now. He asked if I wanted to go home, at that time I didn't yet. We ended up going to his work yard and in the office. He took me through to the back and I sat on the couch while he made us a coffee. We sat talking and he said about catching Richard wearing Tanya's tights. He said he knew Tanya had told me. They walked in Tanya's bedroom and Richard was just standing there. Tanya shrieked at Richard, and he shoved her out the bedroom and closed the door. He said he asked Richard what he was playing at, and told him to take the tights off. He said Richard's erection had soon disappeared.
He said he never told Anne, and as far as he knows Richard never touched Tanya's underwear again. I told him I let Richard wear my tights sometimes, but I didn't mention he wore anything else. He just looked at me and shook his head.
He got the keys to one of his work vans and dropped me round the corner from the flat. I just went home and told Richard I had felt unwell and I wanted to sleep.
A few weeks later the house was ours, and Richard and I took Anne and Dave round to show them what they had helped us get with the deposit. Dave walked round like I guess a typical builder, looking at the structure, and telling us what would need doing.
Dave got some of his guys to help us move. Richard was supervising emptying the flat with the guys, and I was in the house with Dave. It was the first time I had been alone with him since the night he caught me. I thanked him for keeping his mouth shut. He nodded. He asked me if I had been "fucking around," which felt really humiliating. I told him no, I had been sorting out things for the house, and that was all I was thinking about.
He said I should pick a bathroom and he would fit it for me. He said he would pay for it as a moving in present. I did the usual, saying he had done enough for us, but he insisted. I hugged him, and he wouldn't let me go. He said a kiss would be nice, so I kissed him. He pulled my ass towards him.
He whispered to me, "The bathroom would be a special present for you, if you want it?"
I got right away what he was saying; it was the look in his eyes, and the way his groin was pressing against me. The "If you want it," part was him making it clear I had to do something for him.
I could write a whole lot about the feelings I had about his suggestiveness. I knew it wasn't a joke, and that thought never crossed my mind, like it might some. The brazenness of it, and the way he just came out with it was unfathomable. I felt like I had been kicked in the stomach, or had been given an electric shock.