Lake Absolution is a spiritual place where sins are absolved but penance is imposed. Everyone minds their own business, unless they shouldn't, all of the wives are beautiful, and all of the husbands are below average.
Linda walked upstairs to the loft while her husband busied himself starting fires in the woodstove and the Cannibal Pot. Perhaps he had been motivated only by his recently acquired habits to fire up the hot tub. Perhaps he was intending to distract their children. The prospect of a romantic soak under the stars seemed impossible. They had barely spoken during most of the drive up to their new cabin on Lake Absolution.
Larry had confronted her about her deceit when she got home from work and before their children got home from School. Linda had foolishly repeated her lie that she had spent Thursday night at a friend's house rather than risk driving home drunk after wives night out. Unfortunately; Larry had called her friend's husband to talk about some inconsequential matter which had incidentally resulted in her lies being casually exposed. When Larry rebutted Linda's denials with the irrefutable physical evidence that he was holding, she had been compelled to reluctantly confess that she had once again spent the night with the man that she had met over a year earlier while out clubbing on wives night out. She had confessed that she had been using Wives Night Out as a ruse to conceal her weekly assignations.
As she finished climbing the stairs, Linda felt a fresh surge of semen seeping from her sex to soak her pantyhose. She had left her paramour's apartment early enough to get home and take a quick shower before going to the office. Unfortunately; she hadn't had time to bath or douche or even rinse her sex thoroughly. It seemed as if her own body was condemning her for her transgressions.
The palpable evidence of her sin compelled Linda to look at the small, paper bag that she was holding. Larry had been to angry to question her about what she needed to buy when she asked him to stop at the pharmacy. He had allowed her to go into the store alone to make her purchase in private. Jasper's General Store carried most everything that a resident or even a visitor to Lake Absolution might want, but they would never be willing to sell this item.
The sound of their children's laughter fading informed Linda that their girls were once again taking the row boat over to Indulgence Island in the middle of Lake Absolution. Mister Jasper maintained the docks that delineated the swimming hole as well as the playground equipment, picnic tables, barbecues and the network of trails on Indulgence Island that had transformed it into the community's ten acre, private paradise. During the months since they purchased their cabin, Linda had become confident that their oldest as well as the younger twins would be safe while they were playing. She no longer worried about her brood staying on Indulgence Island until after dark before finally rowing the boat home to have a late supper, a soak in their Cannibal Pot then go to bed.
While her husband continued to busy himself downstairs, Linda took off her skirt, then her blouse then her slip to stand before the mirror in just her bra and pantyhose. The sight of her heavy breasts, soft belly and wide hips no longer evoked the dismay that it once had. Her infidelities had enabled her to regain her confidence that she remained a desirable woman. Unfortunately; her rejuvenated self esteem had came at a price. The image in the mirror confirmed that the semen that had been seeping from her sex all day to soak the crotch of her pantyhose seemed to have left an indelible stain. Her semen soaked pubic hair was like a scarlet letter that attested to her most recent adultery. She sobbed as she slipped off her semen stained pantyhose and tossed them onto the bed with the rest of her clothes.
Linda picked up her purchase from the pharmacy and reluctantly walked to the common bathroom that they shared with the bunkroom where their children slept. She went to the sink and pulled the small box from the bag then opened the box to extract the card with the lone pill enclosed in a plastic bubble. She hadn't taken time to read the box before furtively taking the taboo item to the cashier to pay them their fifty dollars of blood money.
As she read the clinical instructions, Linda once again became acutely aware of the tactile sensation of the Gold cross which was suspended by a Gold necklace to nestle in her deep cleavage. She looked in the mirror to see the symbol of her faith that was visible through the sheer fabric of her bra cups. That symbol of her faith had once again failed to dissuade her from sinning again and again last night and then again and again that morning, yet that symbol of her faith had been admonishing her ever since she made her purchase at the pharmacy. It was as if the Gold cross was convicting her to not compound the sins of her adulteries by committing yet another, even more egregious transgression.
Linda felt inspired to walk back to the bedroom to retrieve her cell phone then returned to the relative privacy of the bathroom. She Googled four words including the word "Bible." The religious webpages that came up condemned what she was contemplating in no uncertain terms. Yet her argument with her husband had evoked an abiding compulsion to somehow atone for her repeated adulteries.
Linda returned her attention from her phone to the instructions card. Reading the amazingly verbose directions again was an unnecessary yet welcome pretext to further delay her fateful decision.
Linda resolutely reached for a glass and filled it with water from the tap. She was poised to pop the plastic bubble that contained the pill when she felt Larry's hands forcefully gripping her shoulders. She fearfully looked in the mirror to see that her husband was standing behind her. He was holding her semen stained pantyhose just as he had been holding her semen stained stockings and garter belt when he first confronted her with her lies a few hours earlier. She trembled in fear as she felt his right hand drifting down to squeeze her breast painfully then continue further downward to the juncture between her thick thighs to ungently grasp her semen soaked pubic mound. One finger, then two fingers, then finally three fingers roughly penetrated between her labia. He angrily accused, "no vestige of fidelity reminded you to even ask your black boyfriend to try to be careful?"
Linda wordlessly shook her head.
Larry continued to roughly probe her sex as he asked, "How many times did that black bastard cum in you that you are literally overflowing half a day later?"
When Linda didn't answer Larry asked, "more than once?"
When Linda nodded her head her husband asked, "more than twice?"
Linda nodded her head again and Larry asked, "he came in you thrice?"
Linda's uncertain shrug as she nodded deterred further questions. Depending on the definition one used, her confirmation that her lover had came in her thrice wasn't yet another lie. She remained silent as her husband's hands drifted from her shoulder and her sex to ungently squeeze both of her breasts through her bra cups. The hands suddenly pulled both of her breasts roughly and painfully to the side. The clasp between her bra cups finally broke before the flimsy fabric tore. Larry angrily pushed her broken bra over her shoulders and down her arms before casting it aside. He then roughly gripped her shoulders again as he inspected the reflection of her bruised breasts in the bathroom mirror.
Larry snarled, "your black boyfriend likes to be rough with you. Do you complain or do you eagerly submit to the abuse? Do you enjoy it when your Negro stud mauls your big tits?"
Linda silently nodded her head in shame.
One of Larry's hands resumed groping a breast painfully while the other returned to her semen soaked sex. She could see his eyes moving as his gaze drifted to the box then the card that she was still holding. He snarled again, "you would do this?"
Linda tearfully shrugged her shoulders as she realized that she remained uncertain.
Larry's voice became somewhat calmer as he asked, "did you think that this would atone for your sin?"
Linda tearfully shook her head then shrugged her shoulders to concede her uncertainty.
Larry's expression became calmer and his voice became almost sympathetic as he asked, "were you hoping that this might at least appease my righteous wrath?"