KATE CH 3 HER PAST RETURNS
As the years went by, as the business became more successful, their personal life became staler. They decided for their tenth anniversary, they would go on a second honeymoon. They decided to go to Paris. During the long flight Roger sat watching Kate sleep. He loved her just as much as the day they wed, but he got the idea she was restless. He felt like she was no longer satisfied with her life, him, or anything. The business was making them a lot of money, and he had a lot before he met her. She will never have to worry about money for the rest of her life. However, he was sure that had nothing to do with what was troubling her. He had decided to use this trip to try and get her to talk to him about it. If it was him, he would release her. He just couldn't stand to see her listless and depressed.
When they arrived in Paris, they immediately went to their resort hotel and checked in.
"Honey, what would you like to do next? We can go for a walk on the Champs-Elysees, or just relax in our room to get used to the time change. What would you like?" Roger sat in the room looking at her.
"I am so tired. I think I would like to just have a quiet dinner and get ready for the rest of the stay." Kate was staring down at the floor. She knew what her problem was. She also knew she could not tell Roger. It had nothing to do with him directly. But she needed wanton sex like her younger days. She was sure it would hurt his feeling if she told him. He would feel like a failure, and she could not have that. She would rather leave it be and live like this.
They went downstairs and had a nice dinner, but neither one of them enjoyed it much. Roger had enough.
"Honey, I know you have been restless and dissatisfied for the last several years. I need to know if it is me. If it is, and you want to leave, I would be crushed, but I need you to be happy. If it isn't, you can tell me anything, and if I can fix it, I will do whatever I can to fix it."
Kate looked at Roger with such tenderness. The poor soul doesn't know who he married. If he had known, he would never have married her, she was sure of that. She had decided to tell him on this trip that she thought it best if he dumped her.
"I know everyone says it's not you, it's me. But in this case, it is true. I have a past you know nothing about. This past haunts my dreams. I can't escape my past. I will have to deal with it, but it might be best if you don't have to deal with the fallout."
"Does this past have anything to do with me?" Roger was talking quietly to her.
"No, it was long before I met you. It is nothing illegal, but probably considered immoral."
Roger jumped up and hugged her. "As long as you love me, I don't care what it is. We can face it together as long as you want to be with me. I will never desert you." He continued hugging and kissing her until she had to push him off.
"It's not that simple. Your reputation will be hurt if this comes out while we are together." She started crying. She knew sooner or later one of the boys from the college parties would recognize her in the society papers. That would be all she would need for them to smear Roger's name.
"Ok, honey. I will let you tell me when you are ready. I'm not going anywhere." He just sat and held her until she stopped crying.
"If I tell you, will you promise to leave?" She was looking at the floor.
"No, but I will listen, and we can discuss your past." Roger was going to wait her out. They sat looking at each other for the longest time.
"You're not going to let this go, are you?" She started crying again.
"No honey. I will fight for you as long as I have a chance to have you. I don't care what it is."
She started slowly and in a low voice. "I was a head cheerleader at the university I attended. During my senior year, I had a boyfriend who was on the football team. After a big game one weekend, he and I went back to the dorm and celebrated as young people do. We had been with three other couples when we went into our bedroom. We came out a couple of hours later to find the three boys playing cards in the living room. The girls had left. The boys told us the girls didn't want to have sex with them. Something leaped in my heart when I saw their dejection, and I talked my boyfriend into letting me take them into the bedroom and have sex with each of them. It turned out to be something I was looking for. As more of them had sex with me, I began experiencing a feeling I had never felt before. I thought it was just something I had never experienced before, and it was new. However, when they returned after the next game, I fucked them again. My boyfriend had not been able to satisfy me sexually, and he was looking for some help. We eventually broke up because he became tired of my sexual demands. By the end of the football season, we were having sex parties with half the football team. The most I did in one night was forty. I was what was known as a gangbang slut. We all finally agreed to stop because we were too close to graduating. After college, I let that part of my life end. I have done nothing like that since and I never intend to do it again."
"However, now I am married to a wonderful man who is known in society circles. I live in fear that one of those boys will recognize me and smear you. I can't have that. I must leave."
Roger must admit to himself he was stunned. He could have guessed all night, and her worrying about being a gangbang slut would never have come up. He wasn't sure how to respond to this. He wasn't ready to give her up for something that happened in college, no matter how questionable it was.
"Look, honey. I can take care of myself. I will admit that is something I never would have guessed about your past. However, it happened a long time ago, and we can deal with the past if it comes up again. I won't leave you for that. I won't let you leave me without a fight for that. You understand, for better or worst means just that."
She started crying again. How could she tell him the real problem was the feelings for that experience had returned? She decided, one thing at a time. He now knew about the past. She would deal with the present after he had accepted the past. For now, it was time to put on a happy face and have a good vacation.
She leapt into his arms and started kissing him. "Thank you, thank you. I love you; I love you. We can make this work."