In the aftermath of our sex, we drank the martinis she had been working on when I arrived at home. She cleaned up the broken glass and mixed a second pitcher. I glowered at her and considered my options as the gin worked its fumy magic on my brain.
My world had shifted completely in the last hour or so, from the moment I had spied on her fucking the lawn boys until just now when I had willingly licked their cum from her pussy, things had gone into surreal overdrive. I was angry and hurt, I felt betrayed and demeaned, but most of all I was so raging hot at this new view of my wife that I wanted to fuck her again already.
It was like one of those optical illusions where you see a picture of a vase, but in the blink of an eye it becomes a picture of two faces looking at one another. I'd been looking at her as a vase for eight years, a pretty, smart, very accomplished vase, certainly. But a normal, everyday vase, nevertheless. And now she was something else. A sex object straight out of the hottest porn videos I'd ever watched. And just like you can't un-see the second image of the two faces looking at one another once you've noticed it, I would never again be able to see her as just my wife.
Eventually we talked. I asked her how long she had been fucking the lawn guys.
"Two years," she replied. Then added "But I've been cheating on you for almost five years now."
That set me back. These weren't the only guys she'd been fucking? And now she was going to come clean with all the details? A full confession?
"Look, honey," she said, glancing down at her drink rather than at me, "I know you don't really want to hear all this, but I think if we're going to go forward at all, you need to know everything. And when you do, you'll need to make some decisions."
Now she looked right at me.
"I'm a sex addict. I know it. I like it. And I'm not going to change who I am, even for you. I love you. I like you too. You're fun and sweet and generous. You're not bad in the sack, either, but there's no way you can give me what I need on your own.
"We don't have any kids to mess up, no matter what we decide, but now that you've found out what's going on, the only real way to even think about us staying together is if you know it all and accept it all. I'm not particularly proud of what I've done to you, but I'm not overly upset about it either. I've been a good wife, but I think that's over."
She drained her glass and stood up to pour another drink from the pitcher.
She sat down on the couch, at the far end, away from me, and tucked her legs under her. She'd thrown on the Victoria's Secret robe again and she'd wiped the obvious cum stains off of her flesh. She looked like a model with her tits peeking out at me and her hair all messy.
"Like I say, I started cheating on you about five years ago. Just after we found out we were never going to have kids." That had been a difficult time, I remembered. We'd done all the fertility tests, and it was her body that was unable to conceive. She'd been depressed for months. That was when she went back to work.
"It happened when I went to Houston to run a training class, you remember? I went there for a week. It was the first time we'd been apart for more than a day or so. You called me every evening. I know you were worried about me. I think you thought I might hurt myself.