A story involving cuckoldry and adultery. Enjoy if that's your thing, please move on to something else if it's not.
The door of Maria's office squeaked slightly as it slid on its track. She looked up from her desk. Warren was standing in the doorway. She looked at him evenly. She had been doing this the whole time he'd been in town, giving him level glances that made it clear that he wasn't anything more to her than a colleague. It didn't matter that her palms were sweaty and her stomach was clenched in a knot. Keeping the eyes level said everything she wanted to say.
"Hey," Warren said. He gave her a friendly smile. "You have a minute?"
"Certainly." Maria said. Her voice sounded a little frosty so she forced a smile onto her face. He came in, sliding the glass door closed behind him.
Oh God
, Maria thought.
He's closing the door. He's going to talk about it.
Warren sat down on one of her guest chairs and leaned forward. "Listen," he said quietly. "I'm sorry to bust in on you like this but you haven't been answering any of my calls or texts."
Maria looked over at him.
No emotion,
she told herself.
Don't show anything.
"Yes," she said. Her voice sounded prim but that was okay.
Warren was gazing at her. "Maria," he said. There was a throb in his voice. He swallowed. "Listen," he said again. "I'm so very, very sorry about.. what happened."
Right,
she thought.
Sorry you got caught.
She didn't say anything, just looked at him expectantly.
"It was a terrible mistake," he continued. "Honestly, I was kind of... ending things with Yvonne anyway. It's not like... ah Jeez." He slumped forward in his chair and looked at the floor.
Maria paused. "Poor Yvonne," she said finally. Her voice still sounded prim but with something mocking mixed in. Warren shot her a glance.
"You friends with her?" he asked.
"Not at all," Maria said. "But I can still feel sorry for her."
He stared at her. "Give me another chance," he said.
Maria shook her head. "You should go," she told him.
"Don't you remember? How it was? How incredible?"
It
. He meant
the sex
. Of course she remembered. His eyes burned as he stared at her.
"Warren," she said. She looked away then back at him. "What I told you that time on the roof in Vegas was true. I'm a happily married woman. The problem is I forgot that for a while. I'm sorry."
"Maria," he said again. "Please."
Maria got up and walked around her desk to the door. She slid it open and stood there looking down at him. He gave her a twisted little smile then stood up.
"Gotcha," he said. He stood up and left her office. She slid the door closed and watched him walk down the hall.
She sat back down, feeling utterly defeated. How could Warren stir up such a complicated mess of emotions in her? She hated him for the humiliation and the guilt he had put her through. She was dying to get back in bed with him. She wanted never to see or hear from him again. She wanted to spend every single moment of the rest of her life with him. Both of them naked.
Last night at the bar had been agony. Probably she should have made some excuse, not gone along with everyone. But the shitty thing was that she had wanted to go, had wanted to sit across from Warren, had actually enjoyed feeling his eyes on her. Just once, she had looked over and met his gaze. The appeal she had seen there had been so satisfying that she could have laughed. Of course, meeting his eyes had also churned her up inside.
I want him
had collided with
Fuck him
and she had been left breathless. She had raised one eyebrow then turned away, her heart pounding.
Maria sighed. Sometimes things were just difficult. But really - couldn't she put up with this? She had a husband who loved her and whom she loved. And Warren would be leaving on Thursday to go back to Chicago, she just needed to keep it together for a few more days. It was difficult but it was also being an adult and not giving in to every impulse that passed through her. She could do it.
She glanced at her watch. It would be nice to get out of here and go home to Louis but she still had a few more hours before that was possible.
As if on cue, her phone began to buzz. It was Louis. She grinned and spun her chair around to face away from the glass door.
"Hey sexy babe," she said.
Louis laughed. "Sexy yourself," he said. "Or is that just how you always answer your phone?"
"Oh you know," she said. "Only telemarketers. And unknown callers."
"Ha," Louis said. There was a pause. "Seriously," he said. "You are the sexiest. My phone gets a hard-on just dialing your number."
Maria laughed. She glanced over her shoulder to make sure her door was completely closed. "You're terrible," she chided him.
"It's not me," Louis insisted. "It's my phone. He's a horny bastard."
Maria clicked her tongue. "You encourage him," she said. "All that porn you stream on him."
"Huh uh," Louis said. "Just naked pics of one special lady."
"Hmm," Maria said. "So you say."
"We could take some more pics," Louis told her. "Try to overheat the little bastard."
"Mmm... maybe," Maria said.
"No faces." Louis said. "Nothing identifiable."
"Hmm," Maria said. "Yes, maybe."
There was another pause. "I was thinking about you," Louis said. "In your red robe."
Maria smiled. "You were?"
"I can't wait until tonight."
"Oh? What happens then?"
"I was thinking... God. Let's just go home and fuck."
"Now?"
"Yeah, now. Tell them you have a dentist appointment or something."
Maria's grin was so wide her cheeks were hurting. "It's probably good for you to have to wait," she told him. "Teaches you discipline."
"Oh my God," Louis said. "I'm bursting here."