[Note: Despite the category of this story, there is no male/male sex, or even foreshadowing of it, in this segment of the story.]
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It was a the tiniest piece of red foilâeasy to miss. So easy that my wife clearly had. I could have, too. If I'd missed it, the cleaning lady certainly would have cleaned it up the next day, on her weekly visit and, then, things would have gone quite differentlyâfor a lot of people.
I was taking a piss just before going to bed, not thinking of anything in particular and certainly not focusing on the surroundings of the toilet. I don't know why it caught my eye. Maybe the light glinted off of it. When I finished pissing, I knelt down and picked it up.
It was the tiniest bit of foil, but enough for any guy to recognize what it was: a piece of a condom wrapper!
My wife, Marcie, and I have been married for ten years. Neither of us wanted kids, so I got a vasectomy about five years ago. We hadn't used any kind of birth control since then, and certainly not condoms. But here is wasâa fresh condom wrapper in our bathroom.
I'd like to say that I had sensed something wrong in our relationshipâthat this answered a question that had been nagging me. But it hadn't even occurred to me that Marcie might be having an affair. Of course, we didn't have sex as often, or as wildly, as we once did, but I thought we had a pretty good sex life. And Marcie had never said or done anything to make me suspect that she wasn't happy with it.
So, this was a shock to me, to say the least.
I suppose lots of guys would have confronted here right then and there. Some would have done it violently. Not me. That's not my style. I can be decisive. (I wouldn't be a V.P. of Operations at my company if I couldn't.) But I was careful; I did my research and got my facts straight before I acted. And that's what I resolved to do now.
No more evidence of infidelity was necessary, of course. There was no innocent explanation for what I'd found. But I wanted to know more than
that
Marcie was having an affair. I wanted to know with whom, for how long, how often she'd seen him, and, if possible, when she'd seen him. I thought I had some ideas about how to sleuth that information out.
Slipping the piece of foil into my bathrobe pocket, I went back to the bedroom and climbed into bed with Marcie. She snuggled up to me as if to start something, rubbing her hands over my body. I turned away, prompting her to ask if something was wrong.
"No. I'm just really tired," I lied. It's not as if I had resolved not to touch her. I just couldn't bring myself to touch her right now.
My body wasn't particularly tired. The fatigue was really in my soul. I felt defeated and despondent. My mind, though, was revved up like a dragster waiting for the green light. There was no chance I would be getting to sleep soon, or maybe at all, that night.
I lay there plotting and worrying for about half an hour, till I was sure that Marcie was sound asleep. Then I went into the room she used as an office. Marcie's a very competent person, but she's not tech savvy. I was "tech support" for her computer and for her phone.
Never, in our ten year marriage, had I snooped into her stuff. I'd never looked at her email, her calendar, her phone log, or her diary. I didn't even know whether she kept a diary. I'd had no reason to want to ... until now.
I didn't know her passwords but it's easy enough to install a software keylogger and collect that information. After I'd done that, I checked her phone's call log and text history. Sure enough, there was a number that she called, and called her, repeatedly that wasn't associated with any name in her people folder. I tried, without luck, to get a name by doing a reverse look-up on the computer. For now, then, the identity of the callerâand almost certainly the owner of the condom I'd found evidence ofâwas beyond my reach. For now! But that was going to change.
Going through the text log didn't tell me much, except to move me from "almost certain" to "completely certain" that whoever owned that phone number was the same person shagging my wife. The text log was clearly incomplete. I found messages that made it obvious that some had been erased. Marcie had made some attempt to clean her text history but, like I said, she wasn't tech savvy and she didn't go about it methodically.
What text messages I could find were, for the most part, innocent enough. But it was clear that meetings were arranged. I decided to connect her phone to my computer and dump everything into a folder there for future data mining but, at this point all I really learned from the text messages is that the guy sometimes signed his messages 'D'. Probably the initial of his first name, but it could be from his last name or a nickname. No telling ... for now.
I tried to go about my business without giving any outward sign of my mental turmoil. I couldn't bring myself to touch Marcie in bed and my goodbye kisses were perfunctoryâsomething she probably noticed and wondered about. But I hid my feelings enough that I didn't provoke her to question me, at least for now.
One day! That's all it took to get the keys to Marcie's private life. The next night, again after she'd gone to sleep, I logged on to her computer, checked the keylogger file and ... BINGO! ... I had her passwords to accounts I didn't know she had.
In addition to her regular gmail account, she had one under the name 'SL060980' using the password 'MILF69'. The password needs no explanation; the '060980' was Marcie's birthday: June 9, 1980. I didn't know immediately what the 'SL' stood for.
I guess Marcie had no concern about anyone hacking into her secret gmail account because, when I did, I found the entire history of her messages, incoming and outgoing there. These answered all my questions, except for "Why?"
The 'D' in the text messages was Devin Speaks. Devin and his wife, Kendra, were friendsânot exceptionally close friends but people we'd include in backyard barbeque in the summer and other events like that.
Devin and Kendra were our age and, like us, they'd been married for about ten years. Kendra was hot. I'd fantasized about her lots of times. Kevin was good looking, too. I guess Marcie had had her own fantasies. But, unlike me, she'd decided to live them out.
I couldn't bring myself to go through the whole email record at once. It was devastating. There was nothing humiliating said about me. It wasn't as if Marcie was enjoying the idea of cheating on meâwhich is not to say that she wasn't enjoying the activity of cheating on me. She just didn't seem to be deriving any pleasure from the fact that she was cuckolding me.