Will texted Mark around noon on Saturday, to say:
"That was phenomenal!! Can we meet soon to talk strategy?"
Mark texted back, "Not a good idea for us to have another pub meeting so soon after last night. Let's do it by phone. Call me at 4:30 pm today if you can get free."
Will agreed, and it was set up.
Now, to talk with Louise. Mark thought the only way to give her an out was to be pro-active in leaving her an opening. He said,
"Sorry I didn't hear you come in last night, honey. I guess I drank too much and fell asleep around 11:30 ... man, I was really out of it. What time did you come in?
"Oh, not long after that. I should have called so you wouldn't worry. But as I was finishing my shopping, I got a call from Mark, saying he had important news for me that deserved to be delivered in person. So, I went to his place ... and do you know what? That crazy guy had pretended to be my literary agent, and actually got a contract from a major house to get my book published! Doesn't that beat all?"
"Wow! That's incredible news, Lou!" Mark enthused. "So, he was working on this all along and hadn't told you?"
"Apparently. And look at this!" she said, handing him the royal check.
Will let out a low whistle. "Jiminy Crickets! That's unbelievable! This goes straight into your Literary Projects account. You know if you deposit it in joint checking, we'll waste in on toys or groceries, or something stupid. This is all yours!"
And he hugged his wife, picking her up off the ground, while Louise breathed a sigh of relief. She was off the hook for staying out all night fucking Mark. She'd need to be more careful in the future, for sure!
At about 4:15, Will announced to Louise that he was going to go get the car washed. He drove to the car wash, but didn't take it through immediately. Instead, he called Mark.
"Before we talk strategy, I have to say, last night was everything I'd hoped for and then some!"
"Thanks, Will. It was good for me, too!" he chuckled.
"So, what should come next?" Will asked.
"Kind of up to you, I suppose. Don't you have some marching orders for me?"
"Well, I'd like to hear your ideas first," Will answered.
"Well, here's one idea," Mark began. "It was very wise and necessary for you to avoid initiating sex with Louise for these past few months. We needed her as horny and deprived as possible. But now that we are past the tipping point, so to speak, the prescription changes. Now, even tonight if possible, is the time for you to have sex with her. It is critical the we set before her eyes ... and pussy ... a clear A-B comparison between how I fucked her last night and how you fuck her. While the details of my romp with her last night are still very fresh in her mind, we want her to have a look at your little cock, and feel it in her, failing to reach the proper depth to give her an orgasm. If you can manage it, cum quickly, say thanks, and roll over to go to sleep. Women hate that, and we want to present to her mind as many differences between sex with me and sex with you as possible. Make sense?"
"Totally!" Will replied. "I can do that. So, beyond that, what is the next phase?"
"Kind of your call, as I've said. From our prior convos, I take it we have two major line items still to take care of. One is that you wanted to be present in the room while she is being fucked. To my mind, we're pretty far from getting her to that point. While her view of herself may have changed, and her view of what constitutes a proper cock certainly has changed, her view of you has probably not changed at all. In her view, you are still the loyal provider who wants her to be faithful to you."
"But I've had one or two discussions about cuckolding with her before. She should know I have this desire, no matter how deviant it may be to her mind."
"You talked to her once or twice, what, four years ago? Five? Women have ... no, strike that, PEOPLE have an uncanny ability not to hear what they don't want to hear. I guarantee she thinks that was a anomaly, if she hasn't forgotten it altogether."
"So, what's the second line item you mentioned?" Will asked.
"You should know well enough ... it's YOUR line item, after all. You wanted her to take cock from a large assortment of men. From any man, indeed, who gave her so much as a second glance, or seemed to have a decently sized trouser bulge. Wasn't that it?
Something like that, anyhow."
"Yes, close enough."
"So, between those two things, your priority would be?"
Will gave it a moment's thought. "I know this may sound at first like I'm going back on Line Item #1, but I have to say that, for now at least, I'm pretty damn satisfied not being in the same room, so long as I have that great live feed. And zoom capability! You should see the close-up views I have from when you first stuck it in her, and also while you were bouncing her sweet ass on your cock while standing up. Just exquisite stuff! So, I'm content for the present time with Louise not knowing that I know she's fucking another man. And I'm content not ACTUALLY being in the room, since I can virtually be in the room. I guess that leaves Line Item #2."
"Right. Well, now I didn't mean to make that seem easy. And, as I said at our kick-off meeting for Project Fuck Louise, I fail to see how I'm incentivized to let any other guys in on the sweet deal I currently have, fucking your little wife's brains out ..."
"That's right," Will remembered. "I'm supposed to think of an incentive."
"OK, well good luck with that. Your wife is more fun to bone than any of the other wives I've had the pleasure of fucking in my checkered career. It's going to be really hard to share her. In the mean time, I suggest (after your upcoming demonstration of sexual inadequacy) that you leave me free to fuck her exclusively. Whichever line item we go after, we'll need to make sure that the "hook" is set pretty deep. We need her at the point where she NEEDS my cock, not just wants it. We need her thinking that life isn't worth continuing with if not for my regularly stabbing her sweet snatch."
"Fair enough," Will responded. He'd doubted Mark before, and had been proven very wrong to do so.
"Good, then. We'll be in touch!"
After they'd hung up, Will remembered that he still had to get the car washed. It wouldn't do any good to come home with the car unwashed ... there would be a LOT of questions!
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That night, Will carried out Mark's suggestion about initiating intimacy with Louise. Louise was rather taken aback, having fallen into the easy pattern of letting all her sexual favors go to Mark and Mark alone. But she agreed. How could she not? He'd not asked for sex from her in over two months. It would seem completely wrong of her to deny him now.
From her perspective, of course, it was a debacle. Will (on account of his very frequent jerk sessions in his study, to her and Mark cavorting live or recorded) just didn't have much arousal potential. But eventually, she got him going, being careful not to use any of the techniques that Mark had shown her. That would raise suspicions for sure. But she put on one of her old sexy outfits, a one-piece swimsuit with cutouts. There was so little fabric that it was essentially a "zero piece swimsuit". But it grabbed her curves in all the right places, the upper straps barely covering her areolas, and the central portion riding up her butt crack and splitting, rather than covering, her labia. She put on matching high platform heels and paraded around for him. When he was hard, he applied some lube to her and started fucking her in the missionary position. As suggested by Mark, he came in about 45 seconds, pulled out his limp dick, rolled over and went to sleep.
"Good night, Lou!" he said sleepily.
Louise was disgusted at his incompetence as a lover. She wanted to text Mark and head to his place for a proper fucking right then and there! But she played it cautiously, and spooned behind Will until finally sleep gave her escape from the pathetic attempt at sex offered by her husband.
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Although Will was letting Mark do the decision making for now, he did spring one surprise on him and on Louise ... he demanded that Louise invite Mark over for dinner. He reckoned that Mark would take it fully in stride, but that it would be fun to put Louise through a little torment by bringing her new lover into their home. The potential for messing with her head was just too delicious to miss out on.
"Dinner? Why?" Louise asked, seeming mildly alarmed. She wondered if Will had somehow learned or sensed something about her night with Mark.
"Isn't it obvious? To celebrate the publication of your novel! And to thank him for the huge part he played in that."
Louise couldn't say no to that, so she made the call to Mark. He seemed to be fine with the idea, and it was decided that he should come over early Sunday evening.
When it was almost time for Mark to arrive at the Irwin residence, Will staked a claim on the big cushy chair in the corner of the living room, so that Louise and Mark would have to share the small sofa opposite him. That's the position he wanted to see them in for at least the first part of the evening.
But when they were all seated, Will's careful arrangements were rendered moot by the bombshell that Mark dropped on them. Right after he sat down, he looked grave, and said: