Laura woke me the next morning when she crawled out of bed just as the sky was beginning to brighten. She grabbed a satin robe that was hanging on the back of a chair beside her bed and pulled it around her naked body as she slipped quietly out the door and down the hall. I glanced at the clock on the nightstand; 5:48 it glowed back at me. Pretty early to be up on a Sunday morning, I thought, but perhaps Laura wanted some time alone before having the conversation she must know I was going to initiate when I got up.
I laid there thinking for a long time.
I guess it shouldn't have come as a surprise that Laura wanted a little more adventure in her sex life. I knew Laura liked to party when I met her. Hell, her sexuality was one of the things that attracted me to her in the first place. Laura had never hidden her sexual past from me. In fact, I had ridden her hard a few times while she described one of her exploits. We discovered the excitement of doing that one night almost by accident after she had serendipitously met an old paramour on the downtown mall during lunch hour one day. That night while we were lying entwined after having made love she had reminisced a little about the old days and all the fun she had just after college. I prodded her for details and the next thing I know we are humping like crazy as she lustily described doing an impromptu striptease at a party one night on a $200 bet. Dancing naked in front of a couple dozen people, mostly guys, had gotten her so horny that she had grabbed one of the guys at random and dragged him into a bedroom where she fucked the brains out of him the rest of the night. It was a story she had repeated a couple of times over the years and one that was getting me hard even now as I imagined that night. My hand found its way to my crotch and I began to stroke myself slowly almost without realizing what I was doing.
With the dawn's sunlight now streaming brightly through the cracks in the blinds I thought about the sex life Laura and I shared. While we didn't do it quite as often as we once did we each still went out of our way to initiate sex on a regular basis that varied from once a week to almost every day depending on our schedules. There is still a passion burning between us that is undeniable. Laura excites me like no other woman has before. I still got hard just watching her walk around our room getting dressed every morning.
All Laura and I ever seemed to need to get sexually excited is one another. We had watched porn and tried playing with toys, but both were out of curiosity, not need. The toys in particular hadn't seen any use in a long time. I wondered briefly if the batteries would still work then I laughed at the fact the thought had even entered my brain. Whenever we made love Laura always had an orgasm, usually more than one, and she was always an eager and enthusiastic lover. Sexually, there was nothing I could think of that gave me a hint about what it was Laura was hungering for. She had never expressed any lack of sexual fulfillment. It struck me just then that perhaps it wasn't sexual excitement she was looking for per se, but excitement itself.
It would be impossible for me to deny the excitement I have always felt when I was about to have sex with someone the first time. It would be hard to ignore the thrill I experience when everyday events take on a sexual overtone. Skinny dipping last night was exactly that kind of thing for me. No matter how many times I go skinny dipping and no matter how many times it is nothing more than just skinny dipping there is still something exciting about it. Playing Consequences Poker a few weeks ago was the same. I experience undeniable exhilaration when I see any woman getting naked in a public setting, even my own wife, and I would be lying to you if I said that I didn't get an erection when I made out with Tammy that night. Understanding that about myself made it easier to understand Laura's own need for excitement. But, I wondered as I laid there thinking, was being excited by these things reason enough for Laura and I to explore a more open relationship?
I thought back to Cancun and the feelings I had while we were there. Remembering Laura dancing nearly nude on our first night at the resort caused my already hardening cock to stiffen a little more. She had looked incredibly sexy as she undulated her lithe, naked body while the flashing lights reflected off of her glistening skin. Then I remembered the feelings I had when Laura had gone off with her lover and a knot immediately formed in my gut. The thought of Laura having sex with someone else was not a pleasant one and I quickly pushed that imagery from my mind. I had hoped our Cancun adventure would be a onetime thing. Now it seemed Laura and I were traveling in a similar direction once again. "How far back down that path did I want to go?" I wondered. "Did I want to be on it at all?"
There was no question in my mind about how far Laura would go. She would go all the way. The only real question was did she feel that she needed to? Was there anywhere short of 'all the way' that would satisfy her need? More importantly, would I be able to meet her halfway this time. I didn't know the answers to any of these questions but I knew it was time I got some.
I crawled out of bed and jumped in the shower. I looked at myself in the shaving mirror searching for answers about myself, but none came, only more knots. I took a deep breath, closed my eyes, and I just let the warm water stream over me for a few moments. I was startled out of my reverie by the sound of the shower door opening. Laura walked in wearing only a smile. She turned on the tap on her side of the shower, then turning her back to the stream she turned to face me. "Good morning!"
I didn't respond, but I took a small step towards my wife and took her hand in mine. I pulled her into my arms and held her where the two streams of water met. We stood like that for a few minutes before Laura stepped back and looked up at me. "Don't be mad at me?"
"About what?" I asked.
"The reason I jumped in the shower with you is that I have to leave soon."
"What? No!" I remarked almost angrily. "We need to talk," I started to say but Laura put her finger on my lips.
"I know we need to talk," Laura interrupted. "But, I just got off the phone with Tammy. She's hysterical. Something happened between her and Dave after they got home last night. I am going to meet her for brunch in 45 minutes. We can talk when I get back. Why don't you go golfing?"
"What happened?" I asked with genuine concern for my friends. "Was it because of what happened last night?"
"Partly," Laura replied. "I couldn't really get any details out of her she was crying so hard, but I think Dave cheated on her."
"With who?" I asked wondering how Laura would react to the question, but it didn't seem to faze her in the slightest and that left me even more puzzled about what might have happened between her and Dave last night.
"I don't know," Laura said without a hint of deceit, "we really didn't get a chance to talk. I'm sure I'll find out when Tammy and I talk." Thirty minutes later Laura was dressed and heading out the door. With a quick kiss on my cheek she promised we'd talk later. I watched as Laura backed the car out of the driveway and pulled up in front of Tammy's and Dave's house a couple of doors down. Tammy rushed out and quickly jumped into our car. I saw the two girls hug quickly and then Laura put the coupe in gear and the two of them disappeared down the street.
I had a hour to kill before the tee time that I had managed to make at the last minute, so I thought I would go over and see how Dave was doing. I had barely closed the door to my house when I saw Dave's car backing out of his driveway. He had the top down so I yelled out to him, "Dave!" He looked my way upon hearing his name but he just waved and sped away. "Damn!" I thought feeling more and more like the proverbial mushroom. I was really getting tired of being kept in the dark, but I knew there was nothing I could do about it now so I went golfing.
Five and half hours, four beers, and a very satisfying 78 strokes later I walked back into the house where I found Laura and Tammy sitting in our family room nursing a couple glasses of red wine. The first thing I heard when I walked in was Tammy exclaiming, "You did what?"
Laura's reply was blunt and to the point, "In return I let Tim have sex with another woman."
I assumed they were talking about Laura's and my adventure in Cancun and I was somewhat surprised. Laura and I had agreed that what happened in Cancun stayed in Cancun, and that applied to telling our friends about what had happened as well. It was a secret I had kept and I had assumed Laura had as well. I wasn't mad, and since the cat was out of the bag anyway I announced my presence by saying, "Actually it wasn't a woman, it was three women".
Both girls' heads snapped around in an instant. The look on Laura's face was as if she had just been caught with her hands in a cookie jar. I smiled at her and mouthed, "It's okay!" Tammy on the other hand was spluttering.
"You let him have sex with three women?" Tammy asked incredulously. Laura just nodded. "Oh my God! Oh my God!" was Tammy's only response.
"It's not like I slept with them all at once, Tammy. It was never more than two at a time!" I joked.
"Na na na na! I am not hearing this!" Tammy said while putting her fingers into her ears. "I cannot believe it!"
I shrugged and poured myself a glass of wine. "It's true," I said as I slumped into the chair opposite the sofa where the girls were sitting curled up at opposite ends.
"And you were okay with Laura having sex with other men?" Tammy asked icily. "How could you?"
"To be honest, Tammy, I wasn't okay with it. I hated the idea. I still do, but I knew that if I didn't give Laura the freedom she needed to scratch her itch that she would likely step out behind my back and since there is no way I want to divorce her I thought that an adventure away from home would be the answer, and it was. Things have been great between us since we got back. Never better! It was fun once, I guess, but I have no desire to do it again."
