A little background first, remembering that this was thirty years ago.
The third person I had sex with was my husband. You would not have called me promiscuous in any way. I lost my virginity at eighteen during a drunken student party, and I was not impressed with the whole sex thing. The second man came along two years later, he was my first long-term love, at least for a few months before it fizzled out. Then there was Steve, Steve and I dated for a long time, got engaged and eventually married. I didn't know and didn't care if our sex life was good or not. It was good enough for me. We weren't particularly adventurous. We did have sex. Usually, lights were off, but no words were spoken, but we did have sex nonetheless. Oh, and I would orgasm more often than not, so, all things considered, It was good.
So it was in the late nineties, and we had been celebrating ten years of marriage, plus my thirty-second birthday, with a foreign holiday.
On our return, driving home from the airport, we stopped off at a motorway service station, both dying for a pee. As I left the toilets, I first encountered the man who was to become my lover that day and my instant reaction was confusion. I should have turned away, but his look of shameless desire lifted me in a way I needed right then. I still don't know how it happened, but we collided, and we laughed as we both reached out to steady each other and then apologise at the same moment.
A little later, I was standing right behind the same stranger in the queue for coffee, and I was overwhelmed by his presence. In my mind, I had him caressing my body, making love to me, filling me. I had never daydreamed of being loved by another man before, But the intensity of this most unique daydream had me reeling. I had sometimes speculated from an artistic viewpoint what this or that hunk of a man would look like naked, but I never considered sex. Sex just wasn't so important to me then, not important at all.
Steve was away quite a lot for work, and I really couldn't be bothered. When he returned home, it was a quick grope, then he would cum inside me, and that would be it. It suited me that way. Little did we know that when looking back, this could quite possibly be the day that changed my outlook on sex forever, And changed both our outlooks as it turned out.
Steve guided us to the table next to that same man, and as we drank our coffee, he started to discuss the stranger, talking about what he had seen in the gent's toilet in a dramatic whisper. I was already guilt-ridden at my feelings in the queue. I just wanted him to change the subject. The animated way he spoke and his expression hinted at what he wanted me to do.
I was frightened and began to panic, I knew that my husband loved me, so I dismissed those terrifying thoughts. And I put my irrational terror down to those wicked thoughts. My sultry mood and my panic subsided. I could not understand why Steve should be so interested in talking about the size of another man's penis. I had no idea what had brought this on.
I glanced at him. He was a good-looking guy. These speculations I'd had about men had been few and far between. However, this man was good-looking, tall and slender but well-muscled, and looked after himself; he was very well-dressed and had a confident look. He did look a little like one of those movie actors who I had thought of as being attractive. Realising that while I was studying him, he was looking at me, and smiling. He winked, I'm sure I flushed with embarrassment at having been caught out looking.
Feeling even angrier with myself, I was getting more upset with Steve. I wish he would change the subject. I began to tease him with some reverse psychology; by telling him the effect this man had had on me, I had hoped that I would shock him into dropping the subject.
Well, that backfired, Steve's reaction told me exactly how excited he was, and what he wanted to happen, exactly how much he wanted me to have sex with this man. No. I had never considered infidelity. I love my husband and would and had never contemplated another man.
Then he asked me, more of an appeal, the excitement in his voice and those words burned through my mind.
Would you?
It was shocking, for some reason, Steve wanted me to be unfaithful, to have sex with another man, not just any man but this allegedly exceptionally well-endowed man.
My immediate response was disgust and then guilt for my earlier thoughts. I went with my heart and told Steve.
"No."
I was livid, the instant the word barked from my mouth, Steve's expression changed from flushed excitement to total rejection.
I remembered that desire in the stranger's eyes and that guilty flood of lust he had created in me. I began to feel quite naughty. I glanced back at the stranger and the words.
"Would you? Really?" echoed in my mind.
Would I? "No. Definitely No."
How could I even think such a thing? Still, He was good-looking, watching me with those lustful eyes. Absolutely no. I turned back to Steve, and I could read the disappointment on his face. He wanted me to have sex with this man.
"No. Definitely no."
But to my utter amazement, I realised I had said "OK."
It had taken almost no time from my firm. "No." To my soft "ok."