"You sound jealous. It's not a 'date.' I'm going out with
you
tonight. We just happen to be seeing my old friend Christoph since he's in town."
Who was she trying to convince, me or herself? She'd already been to the mall twice, buying and returning outfits. Now she stood in front of her full length mirror in our bedroom, fixing her long dark hair in her hottest black lace panties and matching half-cup bra. While technically I knew she'd never slept with this German guyβwho she got to know when he came for a year as an exchange student to her high school in MarylandβI'd heard way too much about him over the years not to know that on some level she'd always wanted him. Whenever I was in the room and her sister would bring his name up, asking for new updates from my wife who followed him Facebook, she'd look a little nervous and stare at the ground. "He's fine," she'd say, clearly not wanting me to see her that interested.
I sat on the bed, already dressed, watching her turn and check out her own perfectly shaped bottom, raised up by her new grey suede half-boots with tall heels she'd also bought for the occasion.
Half-playfully, I let her know I was on to her. "We finally book a room in the city and get an entire night out for ourselves, your sister agrees to take the kids, and I have to share you with your secret crush."
"Well, you're not
sharing
me," she replied, asking me to bring her the large bag of new clothes to go through. "I'm your date tonight, like I've been for our last 20 years together." She took two outfits to the bed. As she tried them on, I noticed they both showed off her ass and cleavage way more than usual. Of course I knew she was only pretending not to be so interested in him, just like I was pretending to be so offended by her dressing up for another guy. It's a little game we've always played with her flirtations, an unspoken agreement that seemed to make our married sex life a lot more exciting. In her later 40's and always dressing as well as acting upscale, she attracts a lot of attention. Ultimately, though, she has remained faithful to me. If anything, I wish she'd get more adventurous.
We've never actually crossed the line with her having sex with another guy, but we've come closer to my ultimate fantasy the longer we've been together, at least with her little flirtations. Still, she told me matter of fact when I'd brought it up again that there's no way it would ever really happen. I wish it were otherwise, but I unfortunately have come to believe her. Even though Nicolette is really attractive and even flirtatious, she's also rather demur. She'll turn me on, along with other guys, but when it comes to actual sex she is way too conservative. She won't even take real sexual risks with her own husband, much less someone else.
It's been a kind of torture for me, but seeing her stand there in front of the full-length mirror in our 5 star hotel and ask me if she looks okay while she knows I want to rip her new black dress off of her and hold her up against the wall, I have to say I'm grateful to have such a hot wife who still turns me on. It's like she simultaneously makes herself my comfortable life-partner, while tempting me with the possibility of another guy taking her. Tonight's added intrigue of an almost old flame she clearly has always wanted made things even more interesting.
After she finally settled on a classy but revealing black dress, we went to meet Christoph at this Italian restaurant we both like but haven't been to that much since we had kids. The whole time in the Uber I tried to come onto her, putting my hand on her thigh and leaning over to kiss her. She kept telling me to stop, obviously preoccupied with meeting her old friend.
"You look amazing," he said as he embraced her in front of the restaurant. He held her for quite a while, a little too long for a simple friendly greeting. I felt more jealous than I'd anticipated, but also a lot more turned on. Thankfully he was a gentleman, pulling away quickly as he noticed my watching with concern. "Sorry," he said in a thick German accent, "I don't mean to hold your wife so close. We're just good friends, yeah?" I appreciated his check in. "Of course," I replied, "Nicolette has told me a lot about you. I'm glad we could arrange this get together."
As safe as this felt, his attempt to show me right away that he intended to honor boundaries around our marriage seemed to give my wife permission to get really flirtatious. As the hostess walked us to our table, she chose the seat next to him. "I'm so glad you've kept your bangs long," she said, brushing his hair back with her fingers. "You've always looked so good like this." Of course she knew this drove me crazy, both with desire and jealousy, but she hadn't looked at me once since sitting down. Christoph did, however, and when he saw me give him an approving smile, he felt safe enough to respond. "And look at you," he said, touching the side of her face with his fingertips. "You are more beautiful than I remember."
Ironically, their mutually flirting in front of me was all that kept me into this dinner. Their reminiscing about a high school I didn't attend and people I'd never met really made me feel like a third wheel. So when she laughed too much at something he said and put her hand on his arm, and he reciprocated by putting his arm around her as if she were his hot date rather than mine, I at least got to enjoy my own arousal. I started to fantasize about them together, though I knew it would never happen.
By the time we ordered desert and coffee, she started to shut down all hope of sex. He'd had a lot to drink, and was feeling a lot more comfortable with having his way with my wife in front of me. She'd drawn him closer all evening, but when he tried to take things further by putting his hand on her thigh, she quickly put herself off limits, just like she so often did with me when things got too transgressive.
At first she let him keep his hand there, but she stopped laughing, and talking, so passionately. Then, when I could tell that he started to move his hand up her thigh as he casually asked me about my work, she looked at me for the first time. I could tell she was a little disturbed, maybe as much from his bold advances as the fact that I was watching, and even approving of them. She seemed paralyzed, wanting me to stop it. Of course I didn't, so he got even more aggressive, while still pretending to be interested in what I do. "How cool to work with those great bands, recording their music," he said, moving his hand further up, and into, my wife's new dress.
Just then she snapped, springing up so quickly that she rattled the drinks and silverware on our table. "I'll...I'll be right back," she said awkwardly, slipping out from under his hand, then pulling her dress down as she got up to walk to the restroom.
Christoph actually turned to watch her walk away, staring hard at her ass like it was his real dessert. "You are a lucky man," he said, now looking back to me.
"It looks like you are too," I replied. "She's obviously into you."
"Into me?" Though seemingly fluent in English, I could tell he wasn't sure what I meant.
"Yeah. She likes you...not just as a friend, you know? Maybe more...for sex."