My husband and I spent an edgy weekend, uncertain of the appropriate decorum to exhibit in anticipation of Dennis coming back into town to complete our next step. We tried to be casual and nonchalant, but that was strenuous exercises of limited duration. We tried to be business like.
"What night would suit you best?"
"Me? Whatever night will be all about you. I will be home waiting. It's your choice."
"I think Wednesday. That will give Dennis two days to re-gather himself and return to his wife. A week later he will be gone for good."
"That is thoughtful looking ahead."
I snapped a quick look at Jamie, searching for negative resonance. There was none. He simply meant exactly what he said.
We developed a pattern. Each of us wandering off, doing different things in different parts of the house, each of us in private worlds of thought and emotion. Then we would gravitate to each other and continue conversation of broken segments, taking up where we left off.
"I am stuffed with looking ahead thoughts."
Jamie smiled at me, a warm and friendly empathetic smile. "I bet you are."
"You too? Riddled and stuffed with thoughts?"
"More than I know what to do with."
"A little scary?"
"More than a little."
"It will all be worth it though. You will see." I wandered off alone to think fresh thoughts. How difficult it must be for Jamie to play his role on his side of our serendipity coin. Now that we had agreed to my fucking a current man instead of a memory man to give him his singular, dark side thrill. He was isolated, waiting, but still with me, walking behind me as I made my way to Dennis, step by step. Although our discussion of the coming event was in segments over several days, there was little he knew how to say, to initiate. A new man I found highly desirable was going to fuck me. Our anticipation was of equal strength, but of much different composition.
I found him in knee pads on his knees planting variegated hosta in our shade garden. He wore shorts and was shirtless. His body was beautiful. The skin an unblemished white, the muscles in his arms and back lean and ropy and distinctly outlined. So unlike Dennis, but so breathtakingly beautiful. My husband and lover, the man I loved.
"Are you as excited as I am? I hope you are. I want you to be. This now part of our sharing."
"I feel an excitement so strange and strong I don't know how to describe it."
"Just what you felt when I told you my stories of Ken and Kirk."
"Much more intense."
"But this time with no guilt or self-doubt."
"No guilt or self-doubt in agreeing to do this, but a lot of scary unknowns are in the shadows."
"Never forget I am doing this for you as much as for me. For our mutual rewarding thrill."
"That I cannot forget. That is the reason I agreed to this ultimate next step."
"I love you Jamie. I can not, will not, ever love another man the way I love you."
And so the hours and days of our mutual, ever increasing anticipation passed.
"He has a big one, I think. It felt big pressing against me when we kissed."
"Are you hoping for that?"
"I'm not hoping. But I won't file a complaint if it is. I will certainly tell you if it is."
"Every detail. Leave nothing out. You will be cheating on me if you do."
"I will never cheat on you, Not in any form or fashion." I laughed. "You know what? My fucking Dennis can't even be called infidelity. We don't fit any mold or label, you and I. We are a sovereign entity all to ourselves."
Sunday night I asked my husband's permission to forgo making love and have a good night's sleep.
"You want to build up a full store for him."
"Of course not! I have plenty for both of you. A woman's sexual store is inexhaustible. However...now that you mention it..."
"Good night my loving wife."
"Good night my loving husband."
Monday morning I texted Dennis. MEET AT THREE. COFFEE. His reply came an hour later. BE THERE.
My outfit was a loose skirt that flowed over my hips and ass, and a snug button up blouse that held my tits like they were in a man's hands. While walking to the student union, I unfastened two more buttons, opening up tit exposure beyond professional decorum.
"Hello again. A good week-end?"
"Very nice. Played with Amy and Randall. When I'm there full time they can get on my nerves. When I'm here a week I miss them like crazy." "You are a good papa." He smiled. "And a good husband," I added.
He looked at me with gentle candor. "Cindy and I had our reunion, as we always do."
"Hearing that makes me happy. I do no harm."
"Not to me and Cindy. But you have certainly done something to me. Those mere minutes in your office I can't forget. I want, need, must have more."
"What are you doing Wednesday night?"
"That night is reserved for you."
"My husband will be out of town."
Dennis' eyes went to the unbuttoned gap in my blouse, and gazed at the creamy freckled cleavage my up lift bra presented. "Then that is our opportunity. Clandestine safe and secure."
"Passing ships docking and connecting. And not getting caught."
"It will be torture to wait that long."
"For me too. But it will be worth it.... Around sevenish?"
"My time is your time. Anytime."
"Expect my knock on your door."
I don't know how I managed to do my required work the rest of the day. It was going to happen. Another man was going to fuck my married cunt. That was a goal I had deliberately set to achieve after the first time I accidentally met him. I was a bit amazed how easy and seamless Dennis and I slid in step to reach that goal. Of course my husband walking a separate step by step parallel course with us removed all impediments from my reaching that goal. Without my husband joined with me in parallel that goal wouldn't even exist. I remembered a close friend who had an affair with her professor when we were undergraduates. She was dying to tell me all about it, and did. Women love to talk to each other. I listened spell bound, sharing her bursting excitement. I had exactly the same bursting excitement now, except there was no close female friend to confide in. Not for this. There was only my husband. Closer to me than anyone else in the world. When work was done I rushed home to tell him, with all the eagerness that drives girl talk.
"Had coffee with Dennis today."
"In your office?"
"No, no. That's off limits now. In the student union. He had a nice visit home."
"So? Did you set a date?"
"Wednesday night it is. It's on."