Tuesday evening after dinner, Michelle and I sat down in our living room to discuss her relationship with Shaun. "How are you feeling about Shaun? Are you going to fall in love with him?"
"I think I already have. He has something about him that's pretty irresistible."
I have to admit, just the tiny bit I saw of him I could certainly understand what she meant. It was pretty scary to me, especially as close as I'd come to losing Michelle a few months ago. I had to ask her, "Enough that you'd ever leave me?"
Michelle took both my hands in hers, turned to face me and looked me in my eyes, "Honey, you've asked that before and the answer is no. It will always be no, no matter what. I love you like I'll never love anyone else and I'll never leave you!"
I believed her. As much as I was in love with Jacqui, I felt the same way about Michelle. She's the love of my life. Why is it so hard for me to accept that she can have the same feelings?
"OK then, when do I get to meet him?"
She got a gleam in her eye, thinking she understood exactly what I was saying, "You mean the same way you met Mike the first time? Watching him and me together?"
I couldn't help but blush just a little, "Well yeah, there is that. I hadn't exactly thought about that yet, but now that you mention it. Seriously though, what I meant was that I want to just meet him. You know, face to face, talk to him, get to know him a little about the guy that's having an affair with my wife."
"Oh I definitely plan on that!" Then she went on, "How about if I see if he can go to dinner with us Saturday night?" Then she went on, "And maybe he'd want to stop by here for a while afterward."
I thought back to the dinner we had with Mike that night. Perhaps we might kill two birds with one stone. "That'd be great, I'd love that."
"OK, I'll call him." Then she looked just a bit flustered before she went on, "Umm, there's one more thing though. I'd, kind of like to spend a night with him. You know, the whole night."
"You mean Saturday after dinner?"
"Well, I was thinking more about Friday. Maybe you could stay with Jacqui?"
It'd been several weeks since I'd been able to spend any real time with Jacqui and spending a night with her was certainly on my 'to do' list. "OK, why don't you set up Friday and Saturday with Shaun and I will with Jacqui."
Michelle retrieved her phone and dialed a number. I'm assuming he's already on her 'favorite contact' list. "Hi." I couldn't hear the other end of the conversation. "MMhmm, I had fun too." A little giggle as she walked into the other room and I didn't hear the rest of her conversation.
About ten minutes later, as I was starting to get a bit impatient, she finally came back in the living room with me. "He's looking forward to it. He said Alyssa, his daughter, will be with her mom all weekend so both Friday and Saturday are good. He wanted to know where I wanted to eat Friday and I suggested his place. He's a really good cook." She paused just a bit, "But not as good as you honey. He said we could choose for Saturday and he's definitely looking forward to meeting you."
"Did he think he might want to come by here after dinner?"
"Oh yeah, I told him we might have some fun afterward at our place. He's looking forward to it."
We sat together for a while, snuggling and watching the late edition of The O'Reilly Factor and Megyn Kelly on Fox News. When Megyn's show was over at ten, we went to bed and made love together. There simply isn't anything else like making love with the woman you love while you're envisioning her making out with a good looking guy, in this case a sexy (to her) cowboy!
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Wednesday morning, I called Jacqui to ask her about Friday. She has to be at work at nine thirty to get ready for the store opening at ten on weekdays. She said she couldn't get off early for our regular square dancing but she'd love for me to come over after work. Funny, I hadn't even thought about our square dancing on Friday given the fact that Michelle was spending her first full night with Shaun.
My mind was a little preoccupied at work. It was hard to concentrate on reviewing the plan for a new office building when my mind kept going to Michelle and Shaun together Friday night and what might happen Saturday. Given Michelle's recent history, Saturday night could be quite entertaining!
Michelle had to work late Wednesday evening getting ready for a hearing Thursday on some civil case. She tried to explain it to me after she got home, but it went over my head. When she saw that I wasn't understanding it, she changed the subject. "I was thinking about something else today. You did such a good job finding something for me to wear to Seattle that time, I was wondering if you might want to get something for me to wear to Shaun's Friday?"
I looked at her, a big grin spreading across my face as evil thoughts went quickly through my mind. "I think maybe I could do that? Anything in particular you had in mind?"