It was wrong. Very wrong. I knew it. I tried to resist it. I tried to walk away, look away, turn my thoughts away... anything away. No luck. The magnetic force was too great. The gravitational pull was more than I had bargained for.
This was the tipping point, although I was just-this-side of realizing that. I had secretly danced this dance too many times. I had privately fueled the flames of this fantasy too often. The fire had been burning for a long time. Like the fool I was, I believed I had it contained, even as I was becoming consumed by it.
Forbidden or not, it was an appetite I could not deny. True, I had kept it hidden. Not a clue for anyone to pick up on. My own self-denial was convincing enough that I could almost shock myself at my own craving, even though it seemed to be ever-present.
I pretended to be unfettered from any illicit desires for her. I pretended to be ambivalent when those "within the privacy of my own home" views of her danced before my eyes. Sometimes in a tee and shorts just before bedtime or perhaps walking from the bathroom to her bedroom after a shower, veiled in just a two-tiered level of towels, one wrapped around her luscious body and the other delicately twisted like a turban on her head.
It was nearly a daily ritual. See the temptation, but pretend it was no temptation at all. It just made things simpler, at least outwardly. At least with the wife.
Yet, there I stood. Unmoved. Riveted. Wavering not even an inch. I should have bailed like a batter avoiding a bean ball. I should have flinched like a fighter dodging a left jab. I should have ducked the moment like a celebrity searching the backdoor to avoid the crush of the paparazzi.
But, there I stood. Aroused. Throbbing. Growing an erection inch by inch. Like a man mere feet from the drop of dangerous falls just ahead, yet reaching over the edge of the canoe and scooping a refreshing drink of water from the threatening current. A rogue deckhand ignoring the pleas of Odysseus as I fell under the trance of the sirens.
Correction,
siren.
Initially, I sincerely believed that I had spied my siren in a moment of privacy, my presence unknown to her. I thought I had managed to secret myself away in the shadows of the moment, daringly yet effectively positioning myself where I could enjoy the show without paying the price. After all, I had played out this scenario in my mind - or many so very much like it - more times than I could count; each and every time I would successfully manage the moment and happily escape without detection.
My fantasies not only outnumbered my reality, they numbed me to reality. It was as if all the work I had done to build layer upon layer of plausible deniability was melting in the heat of this single moment.
My mind was alive as it flickered with the lights of so many previous sparks of lust and cravings. The images of my forbidden desires were merging with the vision of this forbidden moment. The line, once clear, was blurring as my fuzzy-headed, lust-driven, cravings struggled to keep a distance between what toyed with mind and what tempted me in the flesh.
For so long it had been secret glances at opportune moments. Discreet positioning that availed my eyes of rare glimpses of her. Veiled eyes, hidden behind my sunglasses, drinking in the view of her bikini clad body stepping out of our backyard swimming pool.
Now those visions, those visuals, those naughty, ocular activities were conceiving, breeding, and now giving birth to a power that refused to look away, to be denied, to be shuttered.