Chapter Fifteen
If I ever needed proof of my wife's genius as a psychologist, then the next few weeks provided it in bucket loads. However doubtful I had first been about the principle of separating Amanda, the sweet wife and mother from Mandy the whore, they were completely dispelled. I could see it working in front of me.
After a few hastily corrected slip-ups, it was clear that with hard work and patience she really could switch her mind between the two personalities and as she managed to do it, so I was increasingly able to do so too.
It's amazing what the human mind can come to terms with if it really tries, and after two weeks of anxious, broken nights, I could feel my mind grudgingly adjusting to our new relationship.
Though I would be lying if I said I was in any way happy with it.
True to his reputation, Andy kept his word and never referred to his relationship with my wife either directly or by implication. In a surreal way, work carried on as it always had; with the calm professionalism that Sandersons was famous for, making it astonishingly easy to forget during the working day, that I was actually a major fraudster who was being cuckolded on a weekly basis.
At home it was much less easy to forget, but life was just about tolerable. On the rare occasions that Mandy was mentioned at all, it was only in the third person, as if she was a guest who occasionally came to visit. Whatever was going on inside her head, to outward appearances my beautiful wife was carrying on as if nothing had changed. To my relief, it looked as if our kids were totally unaware that their parents' relationship had moved to a new phase.
All kids can be self-centred and unaware of what's going on around them, but for once this selfishness was a boon.
In practical terms however, we did have to make some changes to accommodate Mandy's regular presence in our lives, and over the first few weeks, several things happened to change our lifestyle.
Amanda taught at her school on Wednesday mornings and before Andy's revelation, she used to work out at the gym around lunchtime then spend the afternoon on her PhD until the kids came home from school.
Now every Wednesday just before four o'clock, she - or more accurately Mandy - would leave home to go to her appointment at Andy's apartment carrying a large sports bag that contained whatever she needed. The previous hour would have been spent bathing and getting her hair, nails and make-up to a position where they could quickly and easily be finished off in the apartment's bathroom when she arrived.
Amanda always wore her gym kit as she left the house in case the kids or indeed any of our friends became suspicious, only changing into whatever outfit she had chosen - or had been ordered to wear - when she arrived.
I was not allowed to know, or even ask what those outfits were and had to fight my curiosity hard.
While Mandy was away being fucked, it became my responsibility to look after the kids after school. This meant working from home for part of the afternoon, but my new role as Junior Partner gave me a lot more flexibility and of course it wasn't a problem for my Boss, Andy who was 'otherwise occupied'.
After her first visit, Mandy chose to drive herself to and from her assignations, but at my insistence parked her car a street or two away from the 'scene of the crime' to avoid comment from any friends or colleagues who might notice its frequent presence.
When she returned home soon after six, she was usually in her gym kit again but was always distracted, often a little dishevelled, and her face and chest were usually flushed pink. To outward appearances she looked as if she had simply been exerting herself in the gym.
Of course, the freshly fucked aroma surrounding her body revealed the real direction her exertions had taken; exertions of a very different nature indeed, but only I was ever close enough to know this and always greeted her affectionately for the kids' sake.
Still in her 'Mandy' mode, my wife would not kiss or hug me properly until she had showered, dressed and become Amanda once again.
But I made sure I got close and inhaled deeply whenever I was near her. The distinctive aroma of recent sex that surrounded her on her return, made me shiver with pain. But at the same time and much to my shame, I could not deny that it gave me a perverse new sexual thrill and massive arousal too.
Mandy would then take herself off for a long bath or short shower, depending on how stiff and achy her exertions had made her.
When she came back downstairs, she was 'Amanda' and 'Mum' again. Apart from whatever small physical marks her adventure and exertions had left on her body, she was to all outward intents the wife and mother she had always been.
To all outward intents perhaps, but definitely not to me!
For me, the author of our misfortunes, there could be no relief. There could be no separation of Amanda and Mandy for her guilt-ridden, cuckolded husband. As far as I was concerned, my wife was being fucked by another man, was reaching orgasms I had seldom if ever provided, and it was all my fault.
After dinner and when the kids had gone to bed, she would then spend an hour or two in the study working on her PhD while I worked on my laptop in front of the TV until bedtime.
The merest suggestion of having sex on Wednesdays after Mandy's fucking would be met with hostility, so I soon stopped suggesting it.