I had come home to find Marizona, my beautiful wife, horny and dressed in a new set of lingerie that was guaranteed to get me aroused as well. After using both her pussy and ass to relief me of some of my sexual frustrations, I'd given her only twenty minutes to get ready for a night out.
After taking a quick shower, I dressed for the evening in a light blue shirt, navy blue pants and matching jacket because the restaurant I had in mind required one, and finished off with a black belt, matching shoes, and socks. I took slightly longer than the twenty minutes and was happily surprised to find Mare waiting on me for the first time ever in our marriage.
"Wow! You look great, Joe. Stephanie wouldn't be able to call you "Mr. Average" if she saw you like that." Mare gushed at me with the first sign of happiness she'd shown since the whole situation we found ourselves in had begun.
Her words and expressions were supposed to be complimentary and help keep me in the semi-good mode I'd been in after the sex we'd had, but the mention of the bitch's name that set this whole whirlwind into motion brought the pain and anger back with a vengeance. I closed the distance between us in three long strides. I grabbed Mare's arm above the elbow in a firm grip and pulled her to me so that we were nose to nose.
"YOU HAD TO RUIN WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN A BEAUTIFUL EVENING BY MENTIONING THAT BITCH'S NAME, YOU STUPID SLUT. YOU WILL NOT MENTION HER NAME WHERE I MAY HEAR IT EVER AGAIN. SHE IS "THE BITCH" IF YOU EVER NEED TO TALK TO ME ABOUT HER FOR ANY REASON FROM NOW ON. DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?" I yelled into Mare's frightened face.
I pushed her back away from me without relinquishing my grip on her arm. She had to struggle momentarily while she fought the tears that wanted to flow before she could answer me.
"Yes Joe, you've made yourself very clear. It will be hard for me not to use her name, but I'll try to call her the bitch if I have to. I'm sorry that I've spoiled the mode of the evening. Do you want to forget about going out, Joe?" Mare was finally able to say to me.
"No, we'll still go, but you get to pay for the evening now. Go get a few hundred bucks out of your "mad money" and fix your face while you're gone. You've got five minutes, now go." I answered her after gaining control of my own emotions.
Five minutes later we walked out the front door and I led her to my truck. I opened the driver side door and Mare looked at me questioningly.
"I need you to get used to being close to me whenever we're out in public together from now on, Mare. The days of he's just Marizona Scott's husband are over. So get into the truck, slid over to the middle, and buckle up using the middle seatbelt."
"But..."
"Listen to me and listen to me good because this is the only time I'm going to say it. From now on you will do as I say without question, without complaint, and without hesitation. NOW GET IN THE TRUCK." I started out mild manneredly saying to her, but angrily and loudly at the finish.
Mare's face paled from my outburst but she scrambled up into the truck giving me a brief flash of her pink lips framed by the lace of the crotch less panties she had on. Even after already having been inside that hidden treasure once that day, the little guy decided to make a halfhearted effort to rise from the sight. Disappointingly halfway hard was as far as he got, but I hoped that with a little more time and the right encouragement, he'd be able to rise completely later that night. We were on the highway to the restaurant when Mare started to speak to me again.
"Joe, what did you mean...?"
"Not now, we'll talk when we get to the restaurant." I told her before dropping my right hand down onto her bare thigh and giving it a squeeze.
It was still early when we got to the restaurant and it being the middle of the week, there weren't many people and they were all seated within a small area in the center of the restaurant near the kitchen entrances. When the maitre d' came to lead us to a table, I showed him the fifty dollar bill in my left hand.
"I'd liked a booth in the corner far from the kitchen and restrooms so we can have some privacy." I said to him.
"Of course, Sir, right this way." He answered in that snooty way all maitre d's seem to have. I didn't give him the money until we were seated at a booth well away from the other diners.
I motioned for Mare to sit on the bench seat of the booth that faced the room and made her slide in so that I could sit beside her. I returned my right hand to her bare thigh were it had been during the entire drive to the restaurant.
"Hi, my name is Jennifer, and I'll be waiting on you this evening. Can I start you off with something to drink? The special cocktail of the day is..."
"Two sweet teas, one with lemon and one without, please." I interrupted her.
"Joe..?" Mare began to say, but stopped when I squeezed her leg firmly.
Jennifer returned with our drinks and started to leave, but I again changed the normal routine. "We're ready to order. She will have the 8 ounce sirloin, medium, loaded baked potato, house salad with honey mustard dressing and I'll have the grilled salmon, steamed vegetables, house salad with blue cheese dressing."
"Now we can talk until the food gets here. I need you to listen and not interrupt me. I promise you'll have your turn to speak and ask any questions you may have. I'll answer them honestly even though the answers maybe painful to hear." I said to Mare as I turned to look at her.
"You seemed surprised earlier when I mentioned your father and a couple of his goons in Cancun. I don't know what he told you about how he got me to come and see you down there, but I'm going to tell you what really happened. I swear that it is the truth."
I thus explained to her about being grabbed up off the street, the talk her father and I had, and her father's threat to hold me indefinitely if necessary to force me into seeing her. I knew her face so well that I recognized each of the multitudes of emotions she went through during my story.
Her expression of anger lasted longer than any of the others and I had begun to fear that it was the one she was going to retain for the remainder of the evening. Thankfully for me, it was finally replaced with one of sadness and acceptance. My story had been interrupted once by Jennifer bringing our salads which we both had ignored.
We ate in silence when the rest of our meals were delivered after sharing half of each of the meals with each other like we'd been doing for years. Any casual observer would have thought we were a loving couple without a problem between us, but I'm sure Mare was feeling the tension that remained between us from her indiscretion like I was.
My mind couldn't stop from dwelling on the situation we found ourselves in, what the outcome from it was going to be, and was it even possible for us to achieve a happy ending. I still loved her and the rational side of me knew she'd done what she'd done while drunk after trusting the bitch yet again.
I'd never known about her insecurities growing up and could see why she'd cling to her friendship with the bitch after what had happened at the frat house. The bitch's hatred of me must have been stronger than her love for Mare for her to do what she did. I didn't know why she hated me so much and probably never would, but I began to see that hating her back and wanting revenge weren't going to help me save my marriage if it was even possible to do that.
All of those thoughts and more raced through my head during the twenty minutes it took for us to finish our dinner. After declining dessert and being told to take all the time we wanted by Jennifer, I turned to Mare again.
"Mare, you know I still love you and I'm hoping we can rebuild our relationship so that it is stronger than it was before; but there has to be some changes. I'm tired of being afraid of your father and what he might do to me if I didn't make you happy. I'm tired of being on the fringes whenever we've been to all those social events thrown in your honor or for your activism for girls' sports and volleyball in particular.
"Evidently you hadn't heard the "He's just Marizona Scott's husband." comments, but I had and they didn't make me feel very good.
"I don't want you to think that I'm one of those men that get jealous because their wives are more successful in their careers than they are, but I can't continue being an afterthought. For us to continue to be married, things have to change so that we become the Scotts and not Marizona Scott and her husband. I will not sit at the end of a table with four or more people between us like I have in the past.