I saw her in the afternoon that I had come home early from work. She was on her bed, her eyes closed, her hand between her kegs, and an engrossed look on her pretty face, intent and serene, happy, a half smile, a look of peace, and she was naked on top of the bed spread.
Her hand worked diligently at her clitoris, one finger moving rapidly over her tiny bud. Her brow furrowed, her legs spread, her attention so fully on her task that she didn't notice me there.
That night in bed I took a chance and asked her who she was thinking about.
She smiled, pleasantly, said it was private, that she never asked me who I thought about when I masturbated, which I had confessed to her, in a moment of weakness, that I regularly did when I was alone and thinking sexual.
"You know that's personal," she said with a coy smile.
"I will never intrude in yours," she added.
She hadn't seen me, so it was different because I had seen her, had watched the satisfied look on her face, and I could not help wondering who she was thinking about.
She looked so content, so happy, so engrossed in her private fantasy that she was there with him and luxuriating in the wonderful surreptitious moment of sexual bliss.
Whoever he was.
From the moment I saw her I could think of nothing else.
I tried to forget it, but it was useless. I wasn't angry.
I had no right to be, but I could not let it go.
I could not get that happy face of my wife in sexual bliss out of my mind.
Who made her so sexually happy, so gratified, so completely contented and pleased with her secret fornication?
I did not resent it, I merely wanted to know.
I was willing to tell her about my own to learn her secret, her garden of sexual fantasy.
Images of her with her secret lover flashed in my head.
I began running through the possibilities, the choices, the men I thought she was attracted to.
I began obsessing on her fantasies and it aroused me to think of it.
Was it Jake, my hunting buddy with his square shoulders and roughed masculinity, or was it Mathew, the intellectual, with his deep thoughts and mysterious background?
I thought about Julian, my friend from France, who had been with many women and seemed to know the female body intimately, who talked of things sensuous and exciting.
Could it be Andre with his handsome face and knowing smile?
Perhaps it was Carlos from Spain with his talk of lovemaking and the many women he had been with.
Maybe it was Jason, my surfing friend with his easy, devil may care attitude and his lack of involvement with women, his apparent disinterest.
Is that what attracted her?
Was it Jason and his apparent disinterest?
Was she attracted to him because he didn't seem to care?
Or was it Randy, the confirmed bachelor who dallied with numerous ladies, married and unmarried alike?
I pictured Randy holding her close to him and fondling her ass.
Could it be Martin, the man who had married for thirty years before losing his wife to cancer?
Maybe it was Lenny, the devoted husband who showed no interest in other women at all. Was it that devotion that aroused her?
Maybe the athletic Sean who was constantly engaged in sport without seeming to have time for women.
Maybe he had more time for them that he let on.
Maybe, since he worked at home he was able to visit during the day when I was at work.
I then began focussing on what she was imagining.
Was it oral?
Was it some oral fantasy where she concentrated on someone's mouth to her pussy where she visualized another man eating her with a long and active tongue that probed her depths and brought her to explosive orgasms that had her clawing the sheets as she came?
Did she think of past lovers I did not know about who gave her memorable orgasms that ranked among her best ever?
Had she fucked men she recalled, calling up memories of former lovers who gave her orgasmic memories she could bring up at will?
I thought of the men she had told me about she had been intimate with.
Jacob, who she admitted had an organ of great proportions, who could bring her to a climax with just his entry.
Was it Andy who she had been engaged to and who had chosen the military over her?
I remember the man she had told me about on the bus to New Jersey, who brought her to an orgasm through her panties, who gave her a climax though her underwear were still on, fingering her from outside those silk and sexy underpants.
I pictured her again on the bed with her eyes closed in a private moment of ecstasy, her naked legs spread, her knees apart, her hand resting on her pubic bone, her mind fix on a sexual fantasy that transformed her to a private orgasm she could savor in silence.