1
"Oh, please," Jeanie said, rolling her eyes. "He's totally fucking somebody else."
Kelly looked down at her barely eaten salad and shrugged.
"I seriously doubt it," She said in Ryan's defense. "He doesn't have the time, between work and studying."
"Cheaters make the time, sweetie." Jeanie said and took a large gulp of her Chardonnay.
Kelly sighed.
Couples had good times and bad, she knew this as a fact. She'd seen it with her parents, with friends, with neighbors. The strongest couples worked it out, they struggled because the relationship was worth it, Kelly always thought what she and Ryan had was worth anything they could give.
But lately it seemed the outside world had done everything in its power to separate them. Real estate had turned out to be anything but the freedom and financial release it had originally promised. The entire industry seemed like a scam at this point. She'd been torturing herself for two years and in that time had only managed to sell two properties.
Then there were the kids. Blake had been going through his rebellious phase, Tina was off to school.
Kelly's sisters had essentially disowned her over a bad business deal.
And Ryan had been there with her through thick and thin. But lately it seemed he had become distant, his face constantly stuck in his phone, his thoughts elsewhere.
"How would I know if he's cheating?"
"There's signs," Jeanie said flatly. "Is he always in his phone?"
"Yes."
"Does he take the phone everywhere with him, even when he gets in the shower?"
Kelly feigned deep thought but she knew the answer almost immediately.
"Yes." She said softly.
"What about work, he working a lot later than usual?"
Kelly nodded.
"He's cheating," Jeanie said again, this time with more confidence. "It happens, babe."
"There has to be a way to tell for sure." Kelly shrugged.
Jeanie smiled and finished her wine off in one last gulp.
"Check his phone." She said.
"How?" Kelly asked. "He always has it on him."
"Do it while he's in bed next to you."
Jeanie smiled slyly and told how she'd caught her last ex cheating.
"Just get an Amazon blink camera, set it up above the bed, he won't even know it's there."
Kelly frowned. Spying on her husband was not something she was prepared to do, but it would go one of two ways: she'd either find out that he wasn't cheating, or she would find out that he was.
And she wasn't sure how she would take either.
"Look," Jeanie said. "Ryan is a hunk, he's thirty-eight, keeps in phenomenal shape, makes a shit ton of money, and has the world at his fingertips, guys like that, they're conquerors, that's what they live for, in a way you can't blame him, it's in his genetics."
"I thought I was good enough." Kelly frowned.
"You are, honey," Jeanie said comforting her friend. "You're beautiful, successful, everything a man would want."
"Then why would he cheat?"
"Because it's what they do," Jeanie said. "Men cheat because they have a dick."
"And women?" Kelly asked.
Jeanie smiled viciously.
"We cheat for revenge."
2
Kelly left the lunch date feeling worse than before. Yes, Jeanie had been wrong in the past, but never about anything like this.
The brokerage was a block away. In the five minutes it took Kelly to walk from the restaurant to her small desk, she had ordered a security camera from Amazon, read the instructions and finalized her plan to find out the truth about Ryan's recent attitude.
If she was right, and he wasn't cheating, she promised she would work harder to open communications.
But what if you're wrong? She thought.
3
When Kelly received the small, unmarked package from Amazon the next day she made sure Ryan was in the shower when she opened it.
The instructions were dull, mostly technical jargon, but the main idea was summed up perfectly with a picture and diagram.
She scanned the code with her phone, linked into the system, and set the camera above their bed, on the curtain rod.
And then she waited.
It didn't take long for her to begin receiving input and images. While Ryan tapped away at his phone, the camera recorded. Periodically Kelly would check the video feedback on her own phone, relieved to see mostly mundane social media scrolling.
She kissed Ryan goodnight and rolled over. Her nerves calm.
4
Kelly stirred awake. She looked at her phone: 3 AM. Next to her, Ryan tapped away at his phone. She pretended to stay asleep. After a few moments Kelly fell back into a dreamless slumber. Her anxiety rising, knowing the video footage would be available when she woke up.
5
"Oh this bitch is trash!" Jeanie laughed.
She was scrolling through the Facebook page of Tammy Brooks, Ryan's alleged fling.
Kelly had gone through the video footage, noticed the tell tale patterns of Facebook messenger on Ryan's phone, and zoomed in. The conversation was infuriating, explicit, and, to Kelly's chagrin, hotter than anything Ryan had said to her in years.
When she first read the the back and forth a wave of emotions ran through her: anger, hate, sadness,?and yet there was something else she couldn't quite put her finger on.....release maybe? A subtle hint of acceptance, as well as the promise of what was good for the goose was good for the gander.
She immediately told Jeanie the minute she got to the office and Jeanie did what she did best: she stalked.
"Well," Jeanie sighed. "There's two ways you can go about this: throw his ass to the curb, or play by the same rules he plays by."
Kelly chewed the tip of her pencil.
"Maybe," She said. "Right now I'm just floored, I feel empty."
Just as she said this Mark Simon walked by her cubicle.
"Hey," he nodded and kept moving.
Jeanie's face lit up.
"No," Kelly said immediately upon seeing Jeanie's face.
"Yes!" Jeanie said. "He always flirts with you, and I hear he's great in bed."
"From who?"
"One of the girls in legal used to date him," Jeanie said. "Apparently he has a kinky side that just won't quit, and he's well endowed."
"Define 'well endowed'."
"Eight inches maybe?" Jeanie said. "And thick."
Her left eyebrow raised.
"You're a mess." Kelly laughed.
"Me." Jeanie said. "I'm the girl from legal."
They both laughed.
"Let me know," Jeanie said. "I can hook it up."
She stood up and left Kelly to her own thoughts.
Kelly bit her lower lip in thought. In the back of her mind a plan was forming.
6
By Friday night Kelly had fully formed a plan, with the help of Jeanie. That afternoon Ryan had called her and said he would be working late, for the first time in years it wasn't a disappointment.
"Shall we meet at O'Malley's?" Kelly asked Jeanie.
"Let's say eight." She replied with a giggle.
7
Kelly dressed in her sluttiest outfit: a light colored blouse, tight jeans, and knee high, black, leather boots. She parked at the back of the large gravel parking lot adjacent to O'Malley's and did her best saunter towards the bar.
It was crisp out, with the breeze blowing through her dark brown hair.
All eyes were on her. And she liked it.
When she entered the bar she scanned the crowd for Jeanie. She was in a corner booth, with Mark.
He waved and Jeanie winked. Kelly joined them, sitting so that Mark was in between them.
"Hey guys."
"Hey girl." Jeanie said. Mark smiled and nodded.
Jeanie ordered shots from the waitress, silver tequila. Kelly chased it with a rum and cola.
Jeanie and Mark went to the dance floor and found themselves in a very sensuous display.
Mark looked over at Kelly and waved her over and Kelly was only too happy to oblige.
The three of them danced to the live music, allowing the rhythm to dictate their movements.
"Do you smoke?" Mark asked Kelly.
"Never touched a cigarette in my life."
"Not cigarettes," Kelly laughed. "Pot!"
Kelly laughed and admitted that she had never tried it.
"You want to?" Mark asked.
"May as well." Kelly shrugged.
The three of them walked off of the dance floor and headed for Mark's Silver Pacifica, parked at the back of the lot a few cars down from Kelly.
The three of them each took a few hits from the joint. The effects were immediate and overpowering.
"Pretty good stuff huh?" Jeanie asked.
Kelly, eyes squinting, nodded her approval.
"So your first time smoking?" Mark asked.
Kelly nodded.
"You wanna try something else for the first time tonight?" Jeanie giggled.
"Such as?" Kelly asked.
Jeanie and Mark smiled and looked at one another. Jeanie kissed his mouth fully, their tongues flicking back and forth.
Jeanie slid her fingers into the waistband of Mark's jeans and led him behind the car, away from prying eyes, between the back of his car and the thick tree line at the lot's edge.
She motioned for Kelly to follow with a come hither finger. And Kelly obliged.
8
With a light touch Jeanie gently pushed Kelly against the back of the car.
"Watch how it's done." She said, and dropped to her knees.
Jeanie undid Mark's belt buckle, unbuttoned his jeans, and drew his zipper down.
He wasn't wearing underwear, and Jeanie reached into the void and when she pulled her hand back out she was holding a thick, half erect cock.
She kissed the tip of the head. Then licked the precum off. And then with a quiet moan she inhaled the shaft completely, her cheeks imploding as she sucked his cock, pumped it with her full lips, and lowered her head up and down the shaft while she worked his scrotum with her hand.
"Oh my," Kelly said quietly. She could feel her vagina becoming wet. More wet than she had ever felt it, until it was dripping. Her lace thong was soaked through within minutes just watching.