Many thanks to Angel Love for editing this story.
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I met Linn at a party. It was her long nice legs, that got my attention and an intensive desire to get her to spread them for me. The positive thing about her was that she had newly split up from a one year long relationship with a good guy. The negative thing was that she made it clear to me that she had no intentions to have anything to do with me Anders Widén, a guy who recently had a bad reputation after being found in a bed with a married woman by her husband. The wife was twice my age and the best sex I ever had so far and the husband had not tried to beat me so I never regretted anything about that exciting adventure. The only disadvantage was that the small town rumors had magnified the story to be much worse than it really was, which limited my chances to persuade local girls in sharing my bed.
However, I did a slow start with Linn, sent her a large bunch of roses the day after the party and succeeded in getting my first date with her already the next evening. Three weeks later I reached my goal and felt like a prince when I spread her nice legs and slowly kissed my way up to her sweet pussy.
The sex with Linn was OK but when she began to regard me as her boyfriend, she slowly began to behave as a demanding nagging bitch in several other matters. I began to feel that loving her was fun while it lasted but it was high time for us to choose and walk different paths against the future.
I had decided to have a serious talk with her. I tried to explain my dismissed feelings and dump her during our next date when she rang me at my job and wanted to see me direct after the job. I saw immediately that something serious had happened and asked her to tell me.
She said, "I'm pregnant."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
My choices were limited to one thing; take care of the child together with Linn. If I had abandoned her, I would have gotten a reputation of a genuine asshole and no other decent girl in this small Scandinavian town would want to have any connection with me. It was up to Linn to have the final decision if she wanted to take it away or keep it and obviously she had already made her decision.
She looked me straight in my eyes and asked me, "We are two parents to take care of the baby, aren't we?"
"Yes, we are."
I heard a sigh of relief before she said, "Thank heaven, I was so afraid that you had decided to dump me."
What could I say? I simply told her, "The child needs both of us."
Linn's pregnancy had an almost magical effect on our relation. She stopped the nagging and turned into a very loving girlfriend. We married and had the child, a boy. Our relationship had grown to real love so we agreed to have the next child as soon as possible and only eighteen months after the boy we had a girl.
Linn stayed at home until the girl was two years old and we got daycare for the children. An old classmate of Linn opened a lady's fashion shop and hired Linn for a part time job.
I made fair money as an electrician and my boss sent me to several courses and evening classes until I got my certification of the highest of the six different certification levels in this country, which meant authorization to be allowed to fix all kind of electric jobs. I made good money and can truly say that we were a happy family during our first twelve years.
Then we started having problems. Linn's friend sold the shop and the new owner had no use for Linn. She was unemployed and unhappy until the employment office fixed her an education in modern administration routines.
Linn worked hard with it and I took over the main part of the duties in our home during that time. Both of us were happy when Linn succeeded to get very good results in an employment test and got an office job at a factory in town. The only problem was that it was a full time job, so I still had to take care of much more at home than during her part time job.
The next couple of years were still OK though both of us were busy at our jobs and our marriage had chilled down a little but were still a happy family most of the time. Linn got her first promotion and I had more responsibility for all customer relations at important service jobs.
Our present problems began after the last reorganization at Linn's job. A headhunter company had found a new section boss, Dan Hallersten to her section. Within a short time he had Linn promoted to his assistant. He must have been something very special, at least in her opinion, because she began bragging to me about what he did, what important people he knew and what he intended to do at the job and so on. At first I didn't care very much about that, but then she began to show more serious signs of her admiration of Dan like sexier dressing and more care about her hair.
I was curious to see that "superman" in real life and I got my chance at the party when their company celebrated fifty years in business. It was a big party with over five hundred people in a dance hall where a catering company did a great job with a dinner before the dance. Linn and I had our seats at the table of honor rather close to this Dan and his wife Cecilia who was a handsome lady, just like one of the famous models, though a bit skinny for my taste. However, it didn't take long for me to find out that this Dan was a real asshole.
Obviously he had a few drinks before dinner and I don't know if he wanted to impress on Linn or why he did it but already while we were eating the starter he made an attempt to harassing me when he asked me with a loud voice, "Don't you feel it as a great honor to get a seat at this table?"
"Why should I?"
"Because you are the only 'blue collar man' at this table."
I noted that several of the others had heard his stupid comment and were listening when I replied with a bit too loud voice, "It's rather a question of importance than the color of the collar. Everybody at this table, me included, is allowed to do all your job without any legal problems, but you would be prosecuted and sentenced if you tried to do my job."
I noted a bright smile in many faces and continued, "Few people would note and probably only Linn would miss you if you took a week off, but I know that this company is paying a high fee for a twenty-four hours a day seven days a week service agreement with colleges of mine."
Some people at the table had laughed loudly when I mentioned Linn, who got red in her face when she understood that her fawning for Dan and his interest for her had been a matter of gossip behind their backs.
The Managing Director of the company had heard Dan's and my talk and decided to put a stop to it by saying, "Interesting matter and Mr. Widén is totally right that certified specialists are very important people and on the behalf of this company I hope that Mr. Widén will accept my apologizes for Dan Hallersten's stupid comments about his profession."
Nothing more of interest was said during dinner. I understood that Dan would never count me among his best friends and my relationship with Linn for the time being was far from what it ought to be in a happy marriage.
She refused me the usual first dance after dinner with her. Instead she began barking at me with, "Why in the hell did you do that to me?"
"Because you are acting like a romantic schoolgirl to please that asshole Dan with new sexy dressing and nice styled hair. How in the hell can you admire such a damn creep?"
"You must have lost your mind."
The company had booked the best dance band in the county and as the place could take about a thousand people, the dance floor was far from crowded. As expected, Linn danced the second dance with Dan. I found Dan's wife, who accepted to dance with me and to my great pleasure she was very good at that, even better than Linn. I have achieved a reputation of keen dancer, so we had a good time together and danced several tunes during the evening. I don't think Dan was very happy about that, but both he and Linn avoided me during the whole evening and obviously he didn't dare to say anything to me.
I saw him arguing with the wife but obviously she didn't care a shit about that. She came to me and suggested a drink at the bar where we had a pleasant small talk without mentioning as much as a single word about Dan or Linn. I really liked Dan's wife Cecilia. To be honest, I got a feeling that even she had equal feelings for me, but we understood that none of us wanted go further. At least not there during that evening.
I could see that Dan was a terrible lousy dancer. He dragged Linn around the dance floor, as if she were some kind of a heavy trolley. He couldn't dance too often with Linn and I noted that several of the other office girls found excuses not to dance with him. Even Linn spent much less time on the dance floor than usual. But why should I care? Linn wanted to take night early and I didn't object. I guess she felt uncomfortable because she had noted how many of her fellow workers had avoided her and Dan during the evening. The laughs during my reply to Dan at dinner had made it clear for Linn what the colleagues thought about her and Dan.
Back at home I expected her to begin barking and screaming but to my great surprise she began to cry. After a while when she had calmed down a little she told me that it had been a shock for her to realize how much her fellow workers really disliked her now that she worked as Dan's assistant. I told her, "Dan is a genuine asshole. Why in the hell was he harassing me during dinner? And may I guess you didn't find any reason to blame him for that during the whole evening, did you?"
"He told me it was only a joke and he was sorry because you had overreacted."
"Pure bullshit, he didn't make any attempts tell me he was sorry. His only reason to be sorry was because your boss interfered against him and because his wife preferred my company during the evening when you avoided me. She was pissed at him for the gossip about your and Dan's affair several of your so called 'friends' told her during the evening."
"What damn affair? Why in the hell did you harass me for that damn gossip?"
"Because I suspect you are involved in some damn crap with that asshole. Do you think I'm blind? Am I such a bad husband that you had to get involved with such silly creep?"
"Of course not. I like Dan as a fellow worker because he's always been fair to me. That's all."
