'Are you awake?' I whispered, my hand gently stroking the long, smooth curve of Linzey's hip.
'No,' she murmured.
Shards of early-morning sunlight cut through the darkness of our bedroom. My wife stretched lazily, then resumed her position without turning to face me.
My hand cautiously returned to Linzey's body, my fingers tracing a line from the soft skin at the side of her breast all the way down to her hip. I slid my fingertips beneath the delicate lace of her panties.
'Hold it right there, mister,' she warned, looking over her shoulder at me. 'You and I have work to go to, remember? Neither of us has time for what you're thinking.'
'Oh? And what am I thinking, baby?' Yes, that's right, I thought; get her to say it and maybe she'll start thinking about it. After two years of marriage, I knew that once Linzey's mind turned to sex, sex was usually what happened.
'Nope. Not playing.' Linzey's long dark curls jiggled as she shook her head.
Dammit. I pulled my hand from the side of Linzey's panties and rolled onto my back with a frustrated groan. My standard early-morning erection slapped against my stomach. Sorry fella, I thought; we're out of luck.
Linzey sighed theatrically and rolled over to face me, her magnificent body moving a little closer to mine as she did so. Her bare breasts brushed against my arm, sending a welcome shiver through me.
'I need you to have all your strength, and all your you-know-what, for what I have in mind for you tonight,' she whispered, her dark eyes fixed on mine. Her words, and the conspiratorial air in which she said them, piqued my interest.
'Really? And what do you have in mind?' I reached up to caress Linzey's ample bosom, but she firmly took hold my wrist and pulled it away.
'Something we were talking about the other night. Do you remember?'
Now, it's fair to say that I don't remember every conversation I have with my wife. For example, I don't entirely follow her stories of office gossip, or even try to, to be brutally honest. I'm sure that recently someone broke up with someone else, and someone missed out on a promotion. Of course I show an interest in the important subjects, but why would I need to know the rest of this stuff? The only thing I could think of that we had discussed in the last few days which might be relevant to our current conversation was... Oh christ -- nurse's uniforms!
'Mmmmm, you bet I do,' I murmured. It had been last Sunday; I was being a good husband and sitting through an entire episode of Call The Midwife with Linzey and just happened to mention that the uniforms weren't anywhere near as sexy as I'd been hoping for. 'Oh, the sexy nurse works for you, does it?' She'd replied. We'd laughed, then she carried on watching her programme while I had a very nice daydream.
'Well, that thing we talked about - maybe I've arranged that for tonight.' Linzey kissed the tip of my nose and skipped out of bed and into the bathroom.
A nurse's uniform? Tonight? It was early September, but suddenly I knew that Christmas might have come early this year.
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That day was possibly the longest of my entire fucking life. It didn't help that I didn't have a hell of a lot to do, so time was already dragging, but the prospect of Linzey living out my sexy nurse fantasy for the first time made the day pass at a positively glacial speed.
'Blink-blink'
I looked down at my phone to see a new Whatsapp message waiting for me from Linzey. I opened it, and sat staring at a picture of a set of shocking pink bra and panties laid out on our bed. Not what I was expecting, but very welcome, nonetheless. I didn't think pink was Linzey's colour.
'Blink-blink'
Another message. 'I hope you're enjoying the thought of peeling these from the body of a beautiful woman who's desperate for that magnificent cock of yours... xxx'
Linzey is a startlingly attractive woman, but she's also one of the most modest you could ever hope to meet. I don't think I'd ever heard her refer to herself as beautiful or even anything close to it. Something, I thought, had really got her worked up about tonight.
Five o'clock eventually came around (actually, it was 16:52 but no-one was paying attention) and I was out of the door. As I battled through the Friday evening rush hour, I had one thing on my mind, and it wasn't the weekend track repairs on the Victoria Line. My imagination couldn't help but play out all the conceivable ways this evening could go, all of them featuring me fucking the brains out of my wife while she's dressed up in the miniscule costume of a sexy nurse. By the time I got to the front door of our house, I probably could have knocked it off its hinges with my cock.
'Babe, I'm home!' I called from the hallway.
'Through here,' Linzey replied from the back of the house. From the kitchen? Oh god, I thought -- surely she's not expecting me to wine and dine her first? I dropped my coat and bag in the hall and walked as casually as I could to the kitchen. There, I found Linzey pulling wine glasses from a cabinet. Although she was wearing a tiny red summer dress which she knew was one of my favourites, I was disappointed that she wasn't already wearing a certain other outfit which had been on my mind almost constantly since first thing that morning.
Linzey saw the look on my face and put down the glasses next to an uncorked bottle of wine on the counter, concern etched in her lovely features.
'Are you sure you're up for this, baby? You look a little -- I don't know -- apprehensive?'
I scoffed. 'Are you kidding?' I really want this, babe. I maybe just hoped that we'd get right into it as soon as I got home, that's all. You know, I've been thinking about literally nothing else all day.
Linzey's face brightened, and she collected the wine and glasses and stepped past me back into the hallway. As she passed, she reached up on her tiptoes and kissed me.
'You won't be disappointed.'
I followed Linzey's swaying arse up the stairs. For a brief moment I thought about mentioning that she'd brought too many glasses with her, but suddenly I was distracted by the sight of the black lace panties peeking out from under Linzey's dress as she walked up the stairs ahead of me.
'You went for the black undies instead of the pink then?'
Linzey reached the top of the stairs and turned to face me outside our bedroom door. 'No, silly,' she laughed. 'You know pink's not my colour. Those belong to Alice, of course.'
Linzey tutted in mock disappointment as she opened the bedroom door and walked through. I stood there alone on the landing for a moment, utterly confused, before following her into the bedroom. Inside, Linzey was standing at the dresser, pouring three glasses of wine. And kneeling in the middle of the bed I shared with my wife, was a stunning young blonde woman wearing shocking pink underwear. I was dazed.
Linzey handed the girl one of the glasses, then turned to give one to me.
'So, do we need to do introductions?' She laughed, then stopped abruptly as she noticed the expression on my face and the very definite lack of anyone joining in with her little joke. The lovely creature perched on the bed was slowly turning a colour not too far from that of her underwear.
'Linz,' I said. 'Might I have a quick word with you outside please?' I stepped out into the corridor and exhaled sharply.
'What on earth's the matter with you?' quietly stormed Linzey, following me with her arms thrown out in front of her.
'Me? What's the matter with me?!' I replied. 'There's a woman in her underwear on our bed.'
The look of confusion on my wife's face deepened. 'Of course there is. We talked about this. What did you think I had planned for tonight?'
I shuffled uncomfortably. 'Sexy nurse,' I muttered.
'Really?'
'We spoke about it during that programme -- the one about midwives.' I explained. 'When did we ever talk about a threesome?'
'We're not having a threesome,' Linzey replied. 'You said you'd sleep with Alice.'
'I did not!'
'Yes you did. Saturday afternoon; we were putting the shopping away. I said that Alice had broken up with her boyfriend, and that he was a bit of an arsehole, and that he was the only guy she'd ever slept with.'
Some of this was ringing a bell in my memory. 'But what's that got to do with me?'
'I told you that Alice was talking about giving up on men, and that she'd said they were hardly worth the effort.'
I shook my head. 'And...?'
'And I said "perhaps I should lend you to her for the weekend to show her what she'd be missing out on" and you said "sounds good".'