This is a female voice novel of 14 chapters. Some are short, some are long. All stand more or less alone, but the reader will enjoy them best in sequence. This is an emotional and psychological study of erotic impulse and sexual expression.
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"I met an interesting man today."
Those six words had the effect I thought they would. Any husband's ears would perk up if he heard his wife say that. A wife finding another man "interesting," in any context or for any reason, produces a swell of ramifications that can drench a husband. Make him flinch with a spasm of attention, alertness, make a thousand questions flash in his mind. That would be true for the most innocent of married couples. Jamie and I had lost our innocence. Or, I should say, we were on the home stretch of a deliberate journey to do so. The interesting man I met today was a coy introduction of our latest man in a line I had presented to my husband, in a mental, fantasy, erotic format which had ignited an extremely exciting new sexual world for both of us. I had spoken those six words with perfect feminine deliberation, timing the silence in our casual conversation the perfect length, my voice tone and pitch perfectly modulated, with a slight ring of surprise and a slightly stronger residual of perky interest. "I met an interesting man today."
"Oh?" Jamie said, nonchalantly. "What sort of interesting man?"
We had loaded the dishwasher and were cleaning stove and counter tops after supper. Jamie's reaction to my six words contained a zap of erotic electricity buzzing through him. I saw his eyes widen, his breath held in for a moment, as the buzz went to his store of experience gained over a year or more. I felt my chest flush, my pussy tingle, and a fat smile of offering spread on my face.
How to present my offering? Or the idea of it, I should say. We had played with the idea of my meeting a man ("interesting" of course, handsome and sexy and magnetic assumed) in daring discussions in intense intimacy. An intimacy gained by accident that led to exploration, revelation, discovery of inner core components that stunned, liberated, ravished us both. A ravishing erotic thrill my husband and I shared as one. Shared when we wanted, when the stars were aligned and the urge compelling. Sharing and watching that compelling urge grow by its on volition to present the idea: Isn't this the next logical step? Do we dare? Can you allow it? Can I do it? Would it ravish us with an experience more exciting than all the one's before?
My life was perfect. That quarter I was scheduled to teach six classes a week, Two in the mornings and one on afternoons. The students seemed bright enough. The Dean and faculty colleagues were easy to work with. My darling husband Jamie's accounting business was doing great; he had added four more CPA's to his firm, and, well, "prosperity" was an understatement. My marriage was ideal. My husband a very satisfying lover and wholly devoted to me. My health was robust. The day I met my interesting man, I had two hours before my next class. I closed my office and went to the Student Union for a cup of tea. It was crowded with students. Every year they look younger and younger to me. I didn't see an empty table, so I excused myself to join a male student sitting alone.
"Crowded in here."
"Very crowded." He said. "That chair is empty and I'm happy to have you join me."
What a nice smile! He was a student, obviously, but not a young one. He was a man, and a good looking one too. I guessed him to be a little younger than me. Twenty eight to thirty, I thought. I smoothed my dress under, aware of my hands modeling my ass, as I sat in the plastic chair.
"If you're happy, I'm happy." I said, with a smile to mate with his.
It can happen that way. Something clicks, instantly. Chemistry, pheromones, something, instantly. I took him all in, instantly. Handsome man, athletic looking, warm and friendly eyes, chiseled facial features of brow, nose, lips, chin. His hair was neatly cut. "Corporate mandate short," I thought. Muscular arms in a stripped polo shirt. Strong looking hands with long and sensitive fingers, I thought, all in an instant.
"Are you a student here?" I asked.
"Part time. Just this quarter. Auditing courses in marketing at the Business College. My company's requirement, their expense."
He lived in a neighboring State, holed up in a simple apartment agreeable to transients and not requiring a lease. He drove home every week end. He was married. All this information he gave in a relaxed manner of confident conversational flow with a strange woman who was happy to join him.
"Are you a student?"
"I'm on the faculty. Professor of English Literature." I said, and held out my hand. "Sondra Andrews."
"My pleasure, Ms. Andrews."
"Please. Sondra. I'm also Doctor Andrews. And please, don't ever use that title either."
He laughed. "Sondra it is. And I am Dennis Cantrell."
We talked lightly, easily, about his courses and his job and living part time in our city, away from his wife and children. He asked about my rewards for being a professor of English Literature. We both made steady eye contact. I caught my finger in my hair, twirling a strand, as I looked into his eyes and listened to him speak. I caught him giving exquisitely sneaky glances at my boobs nestled under my dress. In less than twenty minutes we were flirting, Attracted sex appeal was strutting its stuff. A handsome married man. I, a married woman with wedding rings sparkling in plain view. Those rush feelings of naughtiness and tingling excitement rising up, so much like the excitement of telling Jamie my stories.
We had finished tidying up the kitchen. Jamie said, "I imagine a lot of companies send employees there for enhancement training." I knew he was skirting around the edges of my story, looking in from the outside, getting a measure of the volatility.
"I imagine so. Dennis is the first one I've met."
"I like the serendipity sound of the meeting."
"The very best kind. Unsought, unplanned, filled with promise."
Jamie stopped skirting around the edges. He put his arms around me and looked into my eyes. "Is he...Are you taking what we talked about to the next level?"
"I'm not taking anything anywhere, honey. I just met an interesting man today and thought you should know."
"Oh. Okay. It wasn't that long ago we were juggling ideas of you going out for new story material. That's fresh on my mind."
"And fresh on mine as well. But this Dennis is just a coincidence, for now. A very nice coincidence I must say. He is certainly a man for me to consider. From all those instant signals of appearance and personality."
"You really want to go through with this, don't you?"
"We both know it is the next step for us. We have rehearsed taking this step. It would be as much for you as for me. That is settled, that is fixed."
We walked to our bedroom with our arms around each other. We slowly undressed, welcoming that special excitement that had consumed us before, now set free again. The possibility that I might fuck another man, with my husbands permission and unreserved support. A marital intimacy unlike any other. Our marriage unlike any other I knew about. My husband unlike any other husband I knew of.
Jamie is the most gorgeous man on earth. He is tall and slender and intensely masculine. But he is so impeccably groomed I thought he might be gay when I first met him. He most certainly, definitely is not. His neatly cut black hair parted on the side already has some salt dust at the temples. His body has no loose padding. He is a warm, gentle, kind, embracing man in all his daily interactions, and also in bed. That night, the serendipity and nascent possibility of Dennis Cantrell stirred his loins with additional vigor. We did not mention his name or the meeting, but he fucked me with extra energy, long hard thrusts that made me whimper and then wail in joyful surrender.
The next morning I pranced about in my short silk robe that set off my legs, and fixed us a hearty breakfast while Jamie showered. He came into the kitchen, impeccably groomed as always. His expensive suit a perfect fit. My hair was a rats nest and I looked slatternly by comparison, I had no doubt.
"Good morning, handsome. That sure was a splendid fuck you gave me last night."
"Maybe I was inspired. You think?"
"I'm all for inspiration. May it build and build. And perhaps it just might," I concluded, with a lewd wink. He smiled that smile that has melted my heart a million times.