Life continued as normal. Or at least that's what I thought. I still had my erectile dysfunction and still took Viagra. Eve gave me erotic support so that I could sustain my erection. I enjoyed the resultant sex and so did Eve. I still fantasied about Eve having lesbian sex with Liz.
From time to time Eve and Liz would go to Southampton for a girl's night out. I would meet them at the railway station and we would stop at Liz's house for a nightcap (non-alcoholic for me as I was their driver). Rose would get blind drunk and I would prepare her a re-hydrating breakfast. She wouldn't want sex the following night.
THE ENTERTAINER
I didn't realise that Liz and my wife were having a 3 way with a man. He was called Richard. He was a ship entertainer on a cruise ship.
Their days away had coincided with Richard's ship berthing at Southampton. Liz and Eve still talked for ages. Again it was mainly about the Richard and it wasn't about how well he was entertaining the holidaymakers.
Then came what should have been the giveaway. Eve wanted to stay overnight with Liz. It meant that they could attend a women only, weekend feminist festival and come back on the last train on Sunday. Had I checked I would have found that there was no such festival. The tickets they showed me were total fakes. But I had no reason to suspect their cover story.
Richard was wealthy. He had loved it when he went on cruises with his parents. He was also a natural performer, both on stage and in bed. Now he got paid for doing something he loved. It was his "paid holiday".
Cruise liner rules meant he couldn't have sex with the passengers or the crew. But he was free to pick up women at the ports of call.
He had a fuck buddy 3some with a mother and daughter in New York. Now he had a fuck buddy 3some in Southampton with my wife and Liz.
Not that it was all about sex. He wasn't allowed to use the fine dining areas of the ship (even though he could afford their charges). This denial of entry to fine dining was the worst part of his job, but it was the only bad part.
ELEGANCE ABOVE ALL
Not that it was all about sex. He took the Southampton duo to a Michelin star restaurant which boasted its "local, sustainable ethos that runs through the cooking of their home grown and reared produce. Their dishes being free from gimmicks, with careful preparation and attractive presentation on show throughout the tasting menu".
Richard paid for a luxury taxi and they sipped champagne as the elegantly dressed chaffeur took them to the swish and expensive restaurant. He had also paid for the swish clothes that Liz and my wife wore. They didn't stay at Southampton's most exclusive hotel. This was only because Richard liked the hotel nearest the cruise ship. It "only" got a 9.0 rating whereas the top hotel got 9.6.
It was in a designer conversion of a former warehouse. It only had 4 rooms and Richard booked 2 of them - the Executive double and an adjoining superior double. The 3 of them got "celebrity treatment with world-class service".
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
In New York Richard had a wider range of superb restaurants to go to. He allowed the mother to choose the restaurant. The mother and daughter used his elegant (and, as it turned out, over-priced) apartment which had an unrestricted view over Central Park.
He had purchased it off plan. Had he waited he could have saved himself $1 million. Unless there is a drastic upsurge in demand lots of the apartments on Billionaire's Row will remain unsold.