I was hyperventilating, but I mustn't let Susan see that. Seeing the name on the invitation list had been a shock. I had been avoiding seeing the name, let alone the man himself, for, what, six years now? Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Williams. There it was on the wedding invitation list Susan and I were going over during the Thanksgiving holiday, while I was back in Wilmington, Delaware, from my last-gasp semester at U. of Penn's Wharton School of Business. The marriage was to be the 24th of December. Sue's parents had been married on Christmas Eve and it's what she wanted too. Graduation was the 21st of January and I started as an investment advisor with the Stanley Morgan Investment Management group in Wilmington on January 30th. Susan already was a Realtor with an exclusive firm in Wilmington. We already had a house in Westover Hills, a new townhouse on Walkers Mill Lane that our parents were kicking in on, and she was furnishing it. It was all laid out so neatly. Sue had orchestrated it all. We were on our way.
And there was that name, to toss all of the planning up in the air—maybe. Maybe I could brazen it out, though. The Williamses were family friends and neighbors. Both of my family and Susan's. We all lived in the exclusive Westover Hills section near the Tower Hill private school, where Susan and I both had gone—along with Bradley Williams's son, Dex.
Maybe there was some way I could get Bradley Williams off the invite list—some way that didn't make it obvious I wanted to. Thank god that Dex was out in California and there was no hint of inviting him to the wedding.
"This looks like a whole lot of people to be inviting to a Christmas Eve wedding and expecting them to come, Sue," I said. "Maybe we could cut back a bit on some of our neighbors."
"Maybe you're right, Scott," she answered. "Maybe what we should do is have a separate, after-Christmas party at my parents' house—or at the Walkers Mill Lane townhouse if I can finish the decoration by then. We could have that just for the Westover Hills neighbors we know."
I watched her as she took a pen to the list. After she was done, I saw that, though the Williamses had been put on the after-Christmas party list, which wouldn't help me out a bit, she had left them on the wedding ceremony list. This wasn't at all what I had in mind.
* * * *
The summer after graduating from Tower Hill and before entering the University of Pennsylvania, I did the traditional whirlwind month-long European tour in June. That meant there couldn't be much of a summer job that year. We lived next to the Ed Oliver Golf Club, so, after I returned from Europe, I got in time as a substitute caddie there. Beyond that, it was picking up yard work here and there. I didn't really need the money, but my parents didn't want me to fall back on that. They wanted me to be working and earning something. I didn't mind. My mind was on my coming of age in one way, having met the older man, Vencenzo, who someone else called Count Abos, outside the train station in Rome, who gave me a tour of the city, took me partying to gay clubs I'd never had the nerve to visit in the States, and who laid me—repeatedly—putting an end to my virginity to men. Until that time, I had been undecided which way I wanted to swing. It turns out that I liked it both ways.
When I returned to Wilmington, I was open to getting it on with Dex Williams, a former classmate from the Tower Hill school, who was going out to Berkley in California to college in the coming year. We'd been on the school lacrosse and swim teams together, had had many chances to see each other naked and in erection for each other, but we hadn't done anything about it. We both were being studs the last semester of our senior years at Tower Hill, taking advantage of our looks and builds and athletic star reputation to lay as many girls as possible, being careful to ensure they all were at least eighteen, as we had turned. I suppose we both knew we'd like to lay each other, but that wasn't what was going at the time. Dex was still playing the field by the end of the school year. I had narrowed the field to Susan Grant, another Tower Hill student. She stayed in Wilmington, going to the University of Delaware, when I went off to U. of Penn, but we remained in contact.
The last two months of that summer, though, became the year of the Williamses—and not, as I had envisioned it, the year of just Dex Williams. I came home from Europe no longer a virgin to men and determined to give it a try with my school chum, Dex. It was Dex who brought me in at the golf club that his father belonged to to caddie when the demand was high and who suggested we mow lawns together. I wanted to get close to Dex, so I agreed. I did get close to Dex, but not any closer than I got to his father, Bradley.
Dex and I were moving toward going all the way before the end of the summer, starting with some surreptitious groping and fondling, turning to kissing and mutual hand jobs. We were almost there one day in the octagonal summer house deep in the Williams's backyard one day after we mowed, when Dex was lying back in a rattan armchair and I was kneeling between his legs, perfecting how to give head. But in the middle of that, Bradley Williams was in the summer house, commanding his son to get lost, and I found myself, chest on the seat cushion of the rattan chair and head buried in at the base of the back of the chair, and Bradley William hovering over and above me, mounted on my ass, grasping my wrists with his fists to hold me in place, and fucking me in the doggy position.
I can't say I hadn't been fucked in that position—and several other positions as well—before by an older man. The Italian count had worked me over real well in Rome earlier that summer. I can't say it was unexpected to be getting it from Dex's father, either, or that Dex now knew what his father wanted to do with me and had backed off. In fact, after Bradley fucked me the first time, Dex left the picture altogether. I have thought more than once that Dex might have been pimping me for his father.
I also can't say I resisted Bradley Williams much or that I didn't enjoy him fucking me. He was a handsome, well-built man, and I'd already discovered in Italy that I liked older, experienced, take-command men. That first time in the summerhouse wasn't the last time. Bradley found opportunity to fuck me at least twice a week for the rest of the summer. I let him control when and where this would happen, but I never resisted him. He took out money to give me for the fuck the second time we got together, but I didn't take it, saying I didn't do it with him for money. That seemed to please him. I had taken money—an extra-big tip for yardwork—during his signaling phase, but that was just setting up an understanding between us.
I had known that he wanted me. He gave me opportunity to build up a willingness to go under him. It started when Dex and I were mowing the Williams's yard. Dex suggested we do so bare-chested and that I mow close to the house. In retrospect, this is an indication he was pimping for his dad. While I did as Dex suggested, Bradley stood at a full-length window in a robe, drinking coffee and watching me. At some point, he lost the sash to the robe and it was handing open, showing a hung erection as if inadvertently. It was done as if he didn't realize he was exposing himself. At this point it was just exploratory, something that could be denied as just a misunderstanding.
He had a lustful smile to go with it. He tipped heavily that day, holding onto my hand longer than necessary as he handed over the money, giving me a special smile and rubbing the palm of my hand with his thumb. I had learned in Rome that that was a signal by a top looking for a bottom. Here, Bradley could deny he knew anything about such a signal, Step by step he was moving toward the inevitable as long as I was going along with it. It was just a couple of days after I'd told Dex about my Italian count and Dex and I had jacked each other off with our hands. I had admitted that I'd liked doing it with an older, take-command man. It was pretty obvious that Dex was telling this to his father.
Then, when Dex called me from the golf course to tell me they needed more caddies, I was finding that it was his father, Bradley, who needed a caddie. By the end of the summer, when I caddied for him, he'd have me drive the cart into the rough in a stand of trees and I'd blow him and he'd fuck me in the cart.
The end of the summer was the end of that, though—not just going under Dex's father, but all sex with men. When I went off to the University of Pennsylvania, it was to change my lifestyle as much as possible. I went back to women strictly, and not much of that either—just when I needed to release tension. I determined that I wanted to make it in the investment world and that I'd have to go straight to do that. I stepped up my contact with Susan Grant, and, six years later, when I was finishing at the Wharton School and had, through family connections, landed an establishment job, I wasn't at all wild to see Bradley Williams's name on an invitation list for my Christmas Eve wedding.
* * * *
OK, I thought, when the time came—the Christmas Eve wedding, the reception afterward, and even the neighborhood party later in the week, there would be so many people in attendance that I could stay clear of Bradley Williams.
No such luck.
When I turned at the front of the church to view Susan coming down the aisle on her father's arm, my eyes immediately picked Bradley Williams out, sitting in an aisle seat about half way back in the sanctuary—and he smiled and winked at me.
The reception was held at the Wilmington Country club. "Ah, Bradley, there you are," my father said, as he looked past me in the reception line to where Williams had reached Susan, standing on my left. "Who would have known our boys would grow up like this. Where is your wife?"
"Mighty handsome young men we raised, didn't we?" Williams said, staring at me—looking right through me. Undressing me with his eyes. He was holding Susan's hand in his. He would soon be taking my hand and I found myself trembling. "The wife's flitting around somewhere. I couldn't wait to get into the line."
"You know Scott, of course," my father said. And, shit yes, how he knew me, I added in my thoughts. "This is his new bride, Susan."
"Oh, I know Susan," Williams said. This certainly got my attention.
"Yes, he does," Susan simpered. Before I could absorb this, however, Williams was in front of me. I shuddered as he took my hand in his and covered it closely and firmly, just as he had covered me repeatedly six summers earlier. He moved his thumb into the palm of my hand, and stroked it back and forth. I knew as well now as when he'd first done this that it was a signal of a male top seeking a male submissive. And know I knew he was fully aware of the signal it sent too. I wanted to pull my hand away, but I couldn't. Almost involuntarily, I let my fingers encircle his thumb, providing a sheath for the digit and signaling a surrendering submissive. And then, with a little knowing smile, he released my hand and continued down the line.
I knew then that the encounter I had been dreading and avoiding wasn't over and that I had not moved beyond Bradley Williams. Nothing is that simple. A little charge went through my body when my fingers encased his thumb. I knew that he intended to fuck me again—and that I wanted him to.
Later, when we were mingling and I had become separated from Susan, I saw her across the room, talking with Bradley and a young, ravishingly beautiful brunette. She and Susan were laughing and touching. Bradley had an arm around the woman. She and Susan were a contrast in beauty. Susan was a strawberry blonde pixie, with a porcelain complexion, small and willowy—so small that each time I covered and entered her, I was afraid I might break her. The other woman was a voluptuous, raven-haired siren. Later, when I linked up with Susan again, I asked who the woman was.
"Felicia? That's Felicia Williams. She's a friend of mine. She's advising on the decoration of our new townhouse."
"She's Bradley Williams's daughter?" I asked. She didn't look like him, but she did resemble his wife, Cynthia. I didn't remember there being a daughter, though. Just Dexter—Dex—the son. He was dark and sultry, though, like his mother.
Susan laughed. "No, she's Bradley's new wife. The Williamses divorced three years ago—after that scandal of Bradley being caught at that gay bathhouse out near Aberdeen. Apparently that didn't mean anything, because he was hooked up with Felicia in no time after that."
I didn't refute that. There would always be some secrets between me and my wife. We would need to walk carefully in this marriage. I had a past that I didn't want to acknowledge and had worked hard to put behind me. And there were rumors about Susan and women too. None of that held us back in the bedroom, though. I did feel, because of how small and delicate looking she was, that I had to treat her like porcelain, but once in the throes of sex, she was a resilient tigress, more often than not, on top of me and riding me in a wild, gyrating cowboy position, taking all of me. And I wasn't, by any means, lacking in equipment, stamina, or drive.
At the neighborhood party, held at Susan's parents' house, I did everything I could to avoid Bradley, but it didn't work. We were stationed at the door to welcome the guests. When the Williamses—Bradley and Felicia—arrived, Susan gushed over Felicia and beamed at Bradley. There was a sparkle in Bradley's eye when he looked at me, and he said, "We need to talk and become reacquainted later," and then they moved on.
