"Why?"
And that was the big question right there. A question with a thousand answers all the same, all different. A thousand visions. A thousand different men. A thousand scenarios conjured up in your mind's eye as she lay sleeping beside you.
You could tell a version of the truth: she cheated on you.
It was true, you had seen her with him and she had seen you as she emerged from a long passionate kiss. Your eyes held each other's for a never-ending, silent moment then she turned back to her lovemaking and you wandered angry and confused through the strobing disco lights of a New Year's party.
But it wouldn't be the whole truth, would it? It didn't explain how, much later, you lay panting in someone's bed reliving that moment over and over; this time your eyes meeting as he fucked her mouth with an enormous cock, the next you catch her eye as he enters her from behind and she's always happy; you can see it in the way she moves, eager for him, in her shining eyes, in her laugh.
The images made you so hard; shit, they still make you hard! And now that you see her again there're going to be so many nights and so many new fantasies...
"You cheated on me!"
It sounds so lame now that you say it out loud: a cringy, selfish whinge that hangs in a thousand air-borne droplets between you. You could at least have said it like it no longer mattered, like you were over it but now she knows you're not, even after 10 fucking years. You're still 24, still sharing that dingy one-bedroom flat, still tethered to her every desire, still screwing up the courage to walk out like you mean it.
And what's worse is it invites comment and discussion; it gives her a way back in, into your head but she doesn't take it. You've dangled the bait and she swims right around it, looking at it from every angle:
"I think you should call your wife."
"What?"
"Ring her, tell her I've gone to the loo, tell her we're catching up and you'll try not to be too late."
"Okay!"
You didn't even ask for an explanation; Jesus, you're weak! Putty in her hands. You dial and wait and she's sitting across from you, watching you with a half-smile playing on her lips and she listens as you deliver her message and moves around head pressing to yours, ear to the phone to hear your wife's response. You mumble something about a few more drinks and she takes your hand to position the phone to hear more comfortably. You watch each other in your peripheral vision as she listens in to the mundane conversations that occur between husband and wife and then she breathes softly in your ear:
"She's coming back. Gotta go Honey. Love you. Bye! Bye! Bye!"
And even as you repeat it to your wife you realise your cock is hard and you blush as you hang up.
She stands and walks away into the lobby without saying a word and like a puppy you follow. Her manicured fingers trace the check-in desk:
"I'd like a bottle of prosecco and two glasses sent to Room 322 please," the attendant nods. "Stevie, don't forget our drinks and coats".
Shouldn't I question this? Shouldn't I argue? Refuse? Be a man? Yes, I should! But I don't. instead I obediently make my way back to the bar and collect everything from the table including her handbag that daintily dangles from my wrist as I juggle everything else and make my way back to find that she's already gone ahead.
I stand helplessly in the middle of the lobby. I've forgotten her room number and I'm too embarrassed to ask. It's so obvious I'm not a resident and I'm pretty sure the longer I stand here the more humiliating it's going to feel.
The lady behind the counter takes pity on me:
"She told me to tell you it's room 322, second floor, turn left when you exit the stairwell."
I look across at the lift, puzzled: the lady notices:
"She said you should take the stairs," she says with a hint of laughter in her throat.
You blush again, deeply, this has all happened before. She has always had the ability to cause you discomfort in every situation. She knows you won't leave without returning her things so you have to at least go up. A deep breath and a hint of rebellion and you turn for the lift:
"She told me to ring ahead if you take the lift" the lady's voice breaks through your reverie.
This is so fucking out of control! You force yourself not to look at her as, head down, you head for the stairs.
Each fucking step you feel righteous anger coursing through your mind and body, lending you strength, increasing your determination to drop her stuff off at her door, turn around and walk away. That's exactly what you're going to do. I mean, why the fuck are you going to her room anyway? It's not like anything's going to happen. It's not like you want anything to happen. It's not like she's going to let anything happen. It's just a chat, nothing more. A conversation to clear the air and clear the mind and let that part of you, that fantasy that has stayed with you, melt away. This is good. This is what you need, what she needs. It's all good.
You find you've reached the second floor and all your anger has dissipated, sunk deeply through each climbed step. You turn right down the hall as instructed and all too soon find yourself standing outside her hotel room door.
You knock and wait. Thankfully the door opens; you expected her to leave you out here to further humiliate you but there she stands, in the open doorway. Her skirt and blouse have been replaced by a mid-length, cream, silk nightie and robe complimented by black stockings. You cannot help but stare, much to her amusement:
"you like?"
You hesitate. Is she asking about the clothes or the vision she presents wearing them? It doesn't really matter for the answer to both is:
"Yes!"
You wonder how much she knows, how much she has guessed from your conversation downstairs.
A picture of her on her hands and knees on the bed, her silk slip ruched over her hips and a well hung stud fucking her relentlessly as she cums over and over on his cock drifts through your mind as she turns elegantly away beckoning you in through the door.
A man passes behind you as you enter and grunts approvingly at his brief glimpse of dark-haired sensuality. You catch his eye as you turn to close the door and he grins conspiratorially at you. Little does he know that, in your mind he is now the well-hung stud of your fantasy.
"Put my bag down there, hang the coats in the wardrobe. You'll have to take the bed, I'm afraid, a bit of a dearth of chairs."
You shuffle around, doing as she asks, before removing your shoes and sliding onto the bed with your back against the headboard. She sits in the chair, facing you, her nightdress clinging seductively to her body.
She catches your eye and says:
"I cheated on you, it's true."
You find you are uncomfortable now that the conversation is being resumed. The bed is too soft and it forces you to sit in a manner that is far too relaxed for the gravity of the conversation you are about to enter into. Add to that the fact that you have to look up at her as she sits higher than you in her chair and you find yourself squirming your bottom back against the headboard to gain extra inches.
"Did that upset you? Does it still upset you? You seem uncomfortable?"