While we were riding up to our suite, I studied the hotel poster advertising their dinner specials. Rex asked what I really liked and I told him that when Karl and I had celebrated our Twenty-fifth anniversary here. I got the oysters on the half-shell and fried soft crabs. Rex'd never had soft shells, but liked oysters. Rex has this disarming trait of lively conversation on one topic then quickly shifting to a dead-serious subject. He did it again! Rex steered the chat from availability of soft shell crabs to our needing to speak with Karl about our plans. Rex assured me that he would handle 90% of it: all I had to do was get Karl to invite Rex into our home Sunday. Rex would then take over. He reasoned Karl had introduced me to the idea of having an affair, encouraged me in the bar and did nothing to stop me from having sex. So Karl was responsible.
When we opened the door and walked into the suite, I instinctively reached for my cell. Rex asked if I needed privacy to talk with Karl. "Dammit! Phone still not working." I would use the room phone.
Karl and I had a good conversation. His first questions were whether I was safe (yes) and if I was happy (yes, indeed). I told Karl about our picnic and the drive and the hotel. I got the feeling I could have told him everything that we did and he would not have minded. He said that all that mattered was whether I was happy. I corrected him and told him that his happiness and satisfaction was just as important as mine. Had I been able to recall the lyrics from "Torn Between Two Lovers" I would have parroted those feelings. I would have said that now there was another man in my life that I have loved, but that doesn't mean I love Karl less. I still loved my husband and wanted to spend the rest of my life with him.
I asked him about his day and plans for the evening. He would watch the premier new season of our favorite British ''abbey" drama, a three-hour special tonight. I asked him to wait, we can watch it together, as we always do. I told Karl that we would be home Sunday. I said that I wanted Rex to see my genealogical chart and how I had combined my National Geographic DNA testing with my mom's family history. Rex wanted to see Karl's Miata Meet trophies. I explained that Rex was old-fashioned and would not come inside unless the Man of the House invited him. Would Karl play host? Rex must have been listening, because he walked back into the sitting room right then. I handed the phone to Rex.
All I know is Rex's side of the conversation.
"Hey, Karl, good evening. Listen, I want to thank you again for giving me some time with your wife. You are such fortunate husband. She is all one would want in a wife. I am amazed at how smart she is and agile too. Spritely and nimble. And she fucks like a mink! Not at all squeamish, either. Does she swallow all your cum. She missed a bit of mine this morning and I had to take my dick and rub the spillage all over her face and into her hair. They called me beer can in college, for obvious reasons: and she can take all I got. I have trouble holding back as soon as I get inside her because her cunt is so tight! I cannot promise she will be as tight when you get her back. I haven't fucked her in the ass yet, but she is willing." There was a pregnant pause, then Rex asked, "Do you have something you want to ask me? Invitation or something? .... OK, we will be there by three tomorrow, for cocktails and et cetera."
They hung up. I got it. Rex used the same technique on Karl that he had used on me in the elevator. Jaunty, friendly, disarming banter in one breath and heavy-duty Rex-created plot next.
Rex said I would have to hurry to make my spa appointment. He had arranged a soak, full body massage, pedicure, and manicure and make-up session. He insisted and said that he had to spend his expense account money: 'like sex after fifty: use it or lose it'. So generous, he is!