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It was our anniversary and Ashley was thirty-five minutes late for our reservation. I ordered a strong drink and relaxed while I waited for her.
I met Ashley six years ago. We were both in college, Ashley was a senior taking a fine arts degree and I was in my third year of medical school. Some friends convinced me to join them for a drink at the campus club.
When we arrived the room was full of undergrads in various stages of undress grinding to deep urban music, and I felt a little out of place as one of the older men in the room. I'm not much of a dancer, so I offered to order our drinks while my friends joined the throng of bodies on the dance floor.
I was immediately entranced by the young woman bartending.
She had an exotic look with a tanned, almost caramel hued complexion and brown sun streaked hair that spilled halfway down her back. Her eyes were an unusually deep shade of green. She was dressed to attract tips, with a short skirt that revealed the bottom of a firm ass when she moved from one end of the bar to the other.
She had unusually long, toned legs for such a petite woman, and they were accentuated by a pair of tall black heels. Her breasts threatened to spill from the top of a tight black corset.
"What can I get you?" She smiled. She had caught me staring at her chest.
"You're gorgeous." I breathed completely caught off guard. I had completely missed her first question.
"I'm not on the menu," she smiled at me confidently.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to..." I stammered. She patiently waited for me to finish my apology.
"If I didn't want you to stare, I would have worn a sweater." She replied with a smile and offered me her hand. "I'm Ashley."
We hit it off immediately and became inseparable.
When Ashley graduated she moved in with me at my bachelor apartment. She got a job at an advertising agency in town as a designer while I finished my degree and began my residency at the hospital.
Three years later, my friend Nick and I are establishing our own family medicine practice. Ashley and I moved from our cramped bachelor apartment to a small house just fifteen minutes from the hospital. She's been promoted to Art Director at work and is now responsible for some of her firm's biggest clients.
I chose Christmas to propose to Ashley in front of her family and we were married last summer.
Married life has not been good recently.
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Ashley arrived looking gorgeous as usual in a white blouse, black blazer and pencil skirt.
"Sorry, I had a tough time escaping tonight." She smiled and let her twenty-six year old body slide into the seat across from me.
"I was beginning to worry you wouldn't be able to make it." I had meant it as a joke but Ashley's demeanour stiffened.
"I told you this morning that I would probably be late." My wife's green eyes flared and she shifted uncomfortably. She nervously brushed a strand of her long hair behind an ear and glanced around the room.
I sipped on the water left in the bottom of my glass after the ice cubes had melted. "It would have been nice if you'd given me a call. I've been sitting here for over half an hour."
She glared at me. "I already told you this morning. You should have changed the reservation and made it for a later time."
"We both know that it wouldn't have mattered what time I made the reservation for, you would have been late." Bitterness was beginning to creep into my voice and I forced myself to settle down.
Ashley opened her mouth to respond but decided better, and settled for an irritated sigh.
Ashley and I have been growing apart over the last several months. I thought it had to do with our busy workloads so I began cutting back. I've been making sure that I'm home by 5:30 every day and taking weekends off whenever I can.
But Ashley hasn't cut back on her hours. She says she's in the middle of some big projects, but they've lasted for months. I've spent a lot of evenings alone in front of the television waiting for her to come home.
We sat in silence for several minutes until the waitress approached.
"May I start you off with a drink, M'am?"
Ashley glanced quickly inside the drink menu before ordering a glass of white wine.
"And may I get you another, Sir?" She gave me a warm smile and reached for my empty glass.
I nodded at her appreciatively. This was going to be a long night.
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It was two weeks later and our relationship hadn't improved much.
Ashley wasn't normally home until 7:00 most week nights now so I decided to join a nearby gym. I was in pretty good shape, but figured that it would be a good idea to spend my free time exercising instead of flopped in front of the television. I also thought that the gym would help me work out some of my sexual frustration.
Our sex life had tapered off and was almost non-existent now. Ashley was tired when she got home from work, she offered to give me hand jobs and occasionally rolled over for a quickie but I was beginning to find myself less and less attracted to her. It was hard to get excited about someone who didn't seem interested.
The gym didn't help much with the frustration though. There was no shortage of beautiful women working out every day, some of which I'm sure were more interested in the clubs more exclusive clientele of doctors, lawyers and other professionals than they were in losing weight. By the end of my work out my dick was usually rock hard from staring at the collection of gorgeous women wearing skin tight ensembles.
When I got home I had more than enough time to take a soothing shower and then relieve my cock by watching some porn on the computer in my office. By the time Ashley got home I was relaxed and my balls were empty.
For her part Ashley seemed pretty disinterested in sex so my porn wasn't getting in the way. I stopped pressuring her for sex. I wasn't in the mood for one of Ashley's hand jobs or pity fucks, especially after watching half an hour of porn where the women were begging to get fucked, it was hard to work up any enthusiasm for Ashley.
Today when I arrived home from the gym there was a note on the kitchen counter top.
"Big client is in town tonight. I won't be home until after 11:00."
I crumpled up the note with Ashley's handwriting on it and headed upstairs for a shower. Entering the bedroom I noticed several of the items Ashley had worn to work were strewn across the floor. She had obviously came home and been in a hurry to get changed quickly.
I picked up her blouse and skirt and threw them into the laundry hamper. I bent over to pick up her thong and noticed that it was damp. Surprised, I held it in my hands and could smell the familiar scent of her arousal.
"I must have just missed her," I thought. I wonder what's got her all worked up? Then after hesitating a moment I tossed the thong into the laundry hamper as well.
I stripped and stepped under the warm water of the shower. The water was relaxing and after ten minutes I turned off the jets and stepped into the cooler, refreshing air of the bathroom.
A loud beep from the dresser stole my attention. I slipped a large white fluffy towel around my waist and stepped back into the bedroom. The red light on my cell phone was flashing.
I activated the screen and saw that I had missed three calls and two voicemail messages. Two calls were from my partner Nick, and one was from my wife's cell phone.
The first message was from Nick.
"Hey, I tried calling you but didn't get an answer. I'm going to be finished up here in 15 minutes and then I'm going to grab something to eat at Studio Rendezvous. Call me if you're hungry."
I was hungry, starving actually, and I thought it would be a good chance to catch up with Nick. We worked together but we'd both been very busy lately, and lately I'd been leaving early giving us even less time to catch up after our last patients.
The next message was from Ashley but it was garbled and obviously just made by mistake. I could make out what sounded like the voices of a man and my wife's laugh but not what they were saying.
I gave Nick a call back and told him I'd meet him at the Studio Rendezvous lounge in thirty minutes. I quickly got dressed and made a note to go shopping soon for a new casual wardrobe, my time at the gym was paying off and my clothes fit a little too loosely now.
I don't often go to Studio Rendezvous, its located downtown and it can be frustrating to find parking there, but five minutes later I was out the door and driving towards the lounge.