The further we travelled from Rome on the Saturday morning, the quieter Maggie became.
She came home from school really excited with a week's break β and a holiday in Tuscany β to look forward to. Knowing we had an early start on the Saturday morning, we had packed and prepared on Thursday so that all we had to do once we arrived home after work on Friday was to shower, have something to eat, set the alarm for three-thirty and try to grab some sleep. Our bags were already in place, by the front door.
'I can't believe we're doing it,' Maggie chortled, emerging naked and freshly shaved from the shower, towelling her hair in what should have been an erotic clichΓ©, except that I found it totally arousing.
I'd seen her like this a hundred times but I still felt the familiar stirring and didn't need to look down to know I was stiffening rapidly. Despite my shorts, Maggie had noticed immediately and grinned.
'You're supposed to be saving that for the holiday.'
'The holiday started an hour and a half a go, when I left work. Besides, what if I don't fancy anyone?'
'Then you'll have to settle for me,' she smiled, striking a sexy pose.
'Seriously,' I persisted, trying to ignore her teasing, 'what if I can't get it up? It's all right for women, they don't have to have a hard-on to have sex.'
'Women need lubrication though,' she reminded me, coming to stand in front of where I sat on the edge of the bed.
Still rubbing her hair she spread her legs slightly. Her cunt was a mere twelve inches from my face and, as she had clearly intended, I could both scent her arousal and see her glistening labia. Taking hold of her ass, I pulled her within reach of my tongue.
'Something tells me,' I said, looking up at her, 'that, right now, you have all you need.'
'That's because I got wet when I saw the way you were looking at me,' she said. 'Sometimes I can't believe you still fancy me after all these years.'
'Thirty-seven isn't old,' I told her, blowing gently on her clit, which seemed to swell slightly as I did so. 'And not many people would believe you were that old anyway β especially if they saw you naked.'
She stepped back and hefted her breasts thoughtfully.
'They're not bad, are they? When I was younger I was dead jealous of the girls with big tits. Now I'm grateful mine aren't so big. They don't sag much, do they?'
'Not at all,' I assured her.
'And my ass isn't drooping?' she asked turning round to show me.
'One of the most, if not the most, fuckable asses it's been my privilege to know' I said solemnly.
She giggled.
'You've certainly fucked it enough times to know.'
'Are you going to let any of your new lovers fuck it?' I asked, trying to sound casual, but feeling a twinge of jealousy at the idea of my wife's ass being available for anyone who wanted it.
She stepped up close in front of me again before replying.
'I might. But only if you're watching.'
That was it. With a growl of lust I grabbed her ass-cheeks again and pulled her cunt to my mouth. While she undulated against me, moaning loudly and raking my back with her nails, I nibbled on her clit and ran my tongue up and down her slit. As I did so, I thumb-fucked her cunt and worked my middle finger into her ass. She came with a shuddering groan and more or less fell onto the bed beside me.
'I think you're right, Charlie,' she said weakly.
'About what?' I asked, not really listening as I was trying to remove my shorts without damaging my straining prick.
'The way we've been going at it these last few months, we don't need anyone else.'
I rolled her onto her back and pulled her legs apart. She was completely limp and she could almost have been a life-sized doll β if life-sized dolls smiled knowingly and giggled delightedly when their owners produced rock-hard erections. We both groaned as I slid smoothly into her.
'Do I still feel tight?' she asked, a little anxiously, rolling her hips slowly under me.
'God, yes! Why?'
'You never used to be able to take me this easily. Maybe all the sex we're having these days is stretching me.'
'If you ask me, it's just that you're a lot wetter these days. I'm sure it's only in the last few months that I've been able to lick your juices off the insides of your thighs before we fucked, rather than just from the lips of your cunt.'
'You don't mind that sex seems messier these days? Or that the language we're using is better suited to a brothel?'
'Are you kidding? Talking dirty adds to the fun and as for you being wetter, shit, no! I love the idea that you're so excited your juices are really flowing. I love the taste, too. Maybe it's me, but I think you're tasting better than ever. More earthy and raunchy, somehow.'
'Do you think other men would think the same?'
I had hardly moved since I entered her, although she was still rolling her hips slowly and I could feel her internal muscles squeezing my dick from time to time.
'I'm sure they would. Why do you ask? Don't tell me you're having second thoughts? I thought you were looking forward to having me watch you β and you watching me?' I asked.
She let out a little whimper and her legs came up to wrap themselves around my waist. At the same time she used a hand to pinch her already-stiff nipples.
'I am,' she muttered hoarsely, her hips moving faster. 'It's just that I don't think they'll be as good at it as you.'
'But it'll be fun finding out,' I reminded her. 'And anyway, that's not the point. We're not trying to find a perfect lover; we're just trying to add some variety.'
'Charlie?' she panted.
'Yes, my love?'
'Stop talking and fuck me.'
'Yes, my love.'
She pulled my face down to meet hers and kissed me fiercely. Instead of the usual backwards-forwards movement, she was rotating herself vigorously around my more or less stationary prick. The end was never in doubt. I came after about less than five minutes and the feeling of my cum flooding her cunt was enough to trigger her climax.
After we'd eaten, we went to bed. The plan was to grab some sleep. All we did was grab each other and this time she wanted it in her ass. I couldn't help marvelling that, until six months ago, I was lucky if she let me bugger her twice a year. Since, 'That Night' and its aftermath, she had let me have her ass more frequently and, once she'd stopped feeling guilty about enjoying it so much, it became a regular occurrence β often at her instigation.
We ended up with about three hours sleep and then it was time to get up and leave. The journey to the airport and the flight itself were both uneventful and the car was waiting for us as arranged. Beyond giving me directions following some basic map-reading to get us away from Rome and onto the right motorway, Maggie lapsed into a thoughtful silence.
Finally, I had to ask her why she was so quiet.
'I'm wondering if this is a good idea after all.'
'Having a holiday in Tuscany? Are you kidding?'
'You know what I mean.'
And I did, of course. Since Maggie had been appointed a head teacher, some five or six years ago, she had attended an annual, five-day education conference. At the last one, some six months ago, she had had a one-night stand with a guy she had met at previous conferences. The sex, she admitted had been wild and satisfying, partly because she knew she shouldn't be doing it and partly because, for the first time in fifteen years, it wasn't with me. Being thought attractive by a younger man had helped weaken her resolve β as had the alcohol, the flattery and the fact that she was safely secluded in an anonymous hotel room surrounded, in many cases, by other couples having equally illicit liaisons. The fact that our sex lives had become stale and predictable, was another factor that contributed to her downfall.
To her surprise I wasn't as angry as she had thought I would have been, but the truth was that I found the idea of her having sex with another man quite arousing. Thinking about it, the only explanation I can come up with is that, because I knew she still loved me, I was able to put it down to sex, nothing more, nothing less. After all, I told myself, before we married both of us had had our shares of casual sex. Whilst we had varying degrees of affection for those partners, neither of us considered ourselves to have been in love with them β but that hadn't stopped us enjoying sex with them. As such β rightly or wrongly β I was able to rationalise the incident and ensure it didn't have a detrimental affect on our relationship.
In fact it had exactly the opposite effect. Neither of us wished Maggie's little escapade to be the cause of us ending our relationship and the realisation that our sex lives had become almost tedious, kick-started a revival. Maggie, having had proof that she was attractive to other men, became more confident, less inhibited and positively innovative. Delighted that her interest in sex was not only renewed, but expanding in all manner of new ways, I made every effort to keep up with her, the result being that we both opened up to new ideas and found ourselves able to discuss β and sometimes enact β our fantasies. One thing that emerged early on in this rediscovery, was that we both found the idea of watching each other have sex with a third party quite exciting.
So when Maggie found an advertisement offering privacy and seclusion for a small group of open-minded couples we thought it offered the perfect opportunity for us to discover whether or not such activities would prove as stimulating in reality as they seemed in our fantasies.
'Well, we better work out where we are with this before we arrive,' I said, more or less thinking out loud. 'And though I don't suppose for one minute there will be any sort of coercion to do anything we don't want to, or aren't happy with, I think we need to be clear about what is and isn't going to happen.'
'I know,' she groaned. 'And I know that everything that has got us to this moment is because I was stupid enough to let Jeff seduce me.'
'Whoa, hang on a minute,' I said quickly, taking my eyes off the road long enough to pat her thigh reassuringly. 'What happened all those months ago is history. We've dealt with that and moved on. And in some ways it's been a blessing because, although we still enjoyed each other's company, it wasn't much of a marriage in the bedroom. Now we have some fantastic times in there and, for me at any rate, our relationship outside of the bedroom is better too.'
'You're right,' she sighed, squeezing my hand, 'and if having that night with Jeff was what it took to get us back on track then I guess, in a funny way, that it was a good thing and maybe it was meant to be. But this is different.'
'How so? I mean, look how it turned us both on to think about watching each other with a new partner. God, we've talked dirty about it, taunted each other about it, pretended we were doing it with someone else, on and off for weeks.'
'I know,' she agreed, 'and I'd be lying if I'm not getting a little shiver right now, as you're speaking . . .'
'So?'
'I think it boils down to the fact that when I let Jeff fuck me it was something that just sort of happened. I was away from home and missing your company. I was tired. I had had far too much to drink. Jeff was very attentive and flattering and he made me feel desirable and sexy. I started to feel horny. He pushed his luck and I wasn't in the right frame of mind to resist.
'But I never set out that night to get laid. I didn't dress to get laid β like I've been doing for you recently,' she said with a soft little giggle. 'I wasn't looking for male company. But, as we know, it happened.
'However, what we're doing now is pre-meditated and almost cold-blooded and that's the difference. We booked this holiday specifically so we could have easy, no-strings sex with other people. Just think about it for a moment - in a few hours time I could be naked, with my legs wide apart and some guy, that so far I've yet to meet, has his dick so far up my cunt his balls are banging my ass. And if I turn my head I might very well see you, eating out the cunt of some sexy woman you've only just met, while she sucks your dick.