I had been married to my wife Monique for eight years. She was one of four daughters and was the middle one in terms of age. There was Chantal, Vanessa and Kimberly who were the other girls in her family. Our marriage had its ups and owns mostly about money.
We did have a major blip early in our marriage as I strongly suspected that my wife either wanted to or had an affair with her boss Roy. There was a major explosion in our home for three months before she just gave her notice and quit. She had grown distant and I sometimes found her in the basement of our home talking on the phone at odd hours. Since that time two years ago we had a son John now aged one and things had settled down.
Part of me harbored a grudge against Monique although I did not share it with her. I had expressed my anger but she never acknowledged that there was anything that ever had gone on with Roy. She always denied it. I did not believe her. When I had a few drinks the anger would build up and I would get silent. There seemed to be a permanent siege in our marriage. I was not able to verbalize what I felt inside and as a result our sex life went from excitement to the dog days with an occasional up tick. John was conceived out of one of our up ticks.
My wife grew up at the Jersey Shore. One August two years ago there was a birthday party held at my in laws home located in a town called Bay Head. My wife's sisters were in attendance and the birthday was for my sister in law Vanessa as well as for our son John. Basically the party was an excuse for everyone to get together on a very hot summer day. The party was held outside on the lawn of my in laws huge home. My sister in law Vanessa was aged twenty-nine and had naturally auburn hair with green eyes. She stood about five feet six inches in height and had an average sized chest. She had long legs for her height. She was always friendly and had the most beautiful of smiles. She was married to Mike a/k/a Big Mike. He was a contractor and always had to purchase the biggest and the best of everything. He was a blowhard and would treat anyone around him in a condescending manner. I heard from my wife that he treated his wife with indifference and there was a rumor in the family that he had been seeing an exotic dancer. He and Vanessa had a daughter Jessica aged five.
The party had all the usual foods, such as hot dogs, hamburgers, corn on the cob and lots of cold beer. There was ice cream for the kids. My wife and I had brought a high chair for our son. My wife decided to be the social butterfly and disappeared with her cousins while I took care of John. I fed him and played with him and also had several beers with my meal. She had gone to a nearby mall with her cousins basically leaving me and John. I was feeling okay about her leaving as she did not see her cousins often but the beer had stirred up my negative feelings about my wife and her former boss. I had one of my wife's aunts watch John as I went inside of the house to take a piss. She also was watching Vanessa's daughter Jessica. The bathroom on the main floor was occupied. There was a bathroom on the basement level and that is where I went.
I saw Vanessa alone in the hallway outside of the bathroom crying. She looked like she had been drinking. Her eyes were red. I asked her what was the matter and she said that her husband had left the party without giving an explanation. He had not wished her a Happy Birthday and had not given her a gift or a card. She said he probably was going to visit his "whore."