This is the third of my stories about Cap d'Agde. So many people liked me writing about how it is from the wife's point of view, that I have described sharing my husband for the first time ever.
Thank you to my husband, Steelring, for editing this, the same way he did the others. And I have called him John again.
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"What did you think of them?" I asked John, as we walked back to our caravan.
"Honestly?" he asked, before continuing. "I thought that she was nice, but he was up himself a little. And playing subtle power games. I mean, what was that about the bill?"
"I know," I said.
I felt the same myself, about them both. I had felt an instinctive connection with Rachel, but not so much with Nick, although it was his suggestion that we join them, something that we had never done before, eating with another couple, making friends, or starting to. He had been in one sense, open, and good company, but had monopolised the conversation. Just like John had said. Up himself a little.
Then, when it was time to ask for the 'addition', and John and Nick had both reached for their cards, Nick had insisted on paying the whole bill for our meals instead of splitting it, suggesting John might pay next time, a power play, just like John said, and one way to make sure we did indeed eat out with them again.
"I also think they swing," John added, "not just here, but back at home as well."
"Probably," I said. "They did say that they were going on to Glamour later."
Glamour was one of the swingers' clubs on the complex. Not the one that we prefer, which is a place called Tantra, smaller, and more intimate. Glamour is more spacious, more brash, and people there seemed more into themselves. Great lighting, and a serious dance floor, but no interaction, not even glances, although I always wonder if that is as much about my colour. But at Glamour, more than at Tantra, I had felt myself to be the only non-white person there, and not in a good way.
"Interesting that she wasn't dressed for it," John said.
He had a point. Unlike myself, Laura had been dressed like any woman could have dressed in any resort, anywhere, a yellow summer dress, button fronted, sleeveless, but not at all revealing. She was slim, her breasts nowhere as full as mine, which left me wondering what she wore to Glamour, where, like the club we usually went to, the dress code for women was to bare, and expose your assets, not to hide them.
"Not Agde style," I said, using the abbreviation for Cap d'Agde that was easier to say.
Night-time at the naturist complex was all about display. Not just the clubs. The bars and restaurants. Clubbing dresses were the standard minimum. Even more revealing was, for most, the norm. Bare breasts, bare pussies too, lingerie, leather wear, sheer blouses, dresses, collars, piercings, nothing was too extreme.
"She even made me feel just that bit exposed," I added.
Which I had been. Exposed, that is. Because we both enjoy it. John, I guess, just likes showing off his wife, or so he says. Whereas it is the exhibitionist in me, that I had discovered only after John had brought me here, to Cap d'Agde, and which gradually revealed itself as I got used to being naked day-time, and displaying night-time, and getting looks, some just appreciation, some blatant I-would-love-to-fuck-you stares.
The colour thing again. Indian ethnicity. Keralan genes, even if I was born and brought up in Wimbledon, in England, and went to private school, and now head up the Science teaching in a girl's school not so far from there. Genes that mean my complexion is dark Indian, not light. Genes that I am proud of, and that so many European men seem to like. As well as the natural contours of my body. My mother's genes. Her hour glass figure. Definitely her breasts.
In Cap d'Agde, men tend to think I am available, just from the colour of my skin. I worked it out, from noticing the other dark skinned women here. Not Indian. Apart from one light skinned couple in their twenties, I have not yet seen another Indian man or woman here. Black men and women, yes, although even these are rare. More cleaning staff than guests, or working, behind the bars, but also African women with rich white guys, the trophy fuck toy, which is what men here seem to think most coloured women are. So they look at me, with John, and just assume I am a toy he likes to fuck.
Which left me wondering how Nick and Laura saw me, what they thought of me. Which I had been wondering throughout the meal. Nick glancing at my breasts. Unlike Laura's, mine had been bare, the jacket I had worn slipped off on autopilot and set beside me on the restaurant's bench seat. Which left me facing him, diagonally, just the white corset John had bought me. Not that I need it. But John liked the contrast with the darkness of my skin. Maybe Nick liked that too.
"You looked good," John said, in answer to my admission that I had felt exposed with them. "Nick was definitely enjoying the view."
"You noticed?" I asked.
"I noticed," John said. "I'm pretty sure he'd like to fuck you. That might have been what the credit card thing was all about. Make sure we meet up with them again. He definitely liked your left breast."
My birthday present from John. One step up from the nipple clamps that he had used on me for play one time, the kind with screws that tighten against the nub and are adjustable to increase the pleasure pain. Instead, he had given me a silver heart, tiny, on a short, fine chain, suspended from the bar-bell piercing. Something different for this summer, he had said. The needle had been painful, but it had healed quite nicely, and the looks that I was getting were definitely worth the momentary pain.
"Do you think they think we swing?" I asked him.
"Probably," he said. "We did say how much we like Tantra. And I suspect most people think we do."
He was right, of course. The way I dressed suggested it. The way, whenever we went out, even if, like that night, it was just going out for dinner, whatever I would wear would leave my breasts and slit exposed. A leather corset with a satin jacket, nothing else, except the white leather heels that matched the corset. Legs and butt, bare and exposed. So people looked, and saw my palm width areoles and my hairless slit, and saw my colour, and just assumed. They swing. He likes to watch her getting fucked. Not true. Not the whole truth. Not nothing but the truth.
Just four men now. Other than John, that is, and not counting my first husband in that disastrous marriage that my parents had persuaded me to enter into, just because he too was from Kerala, or his parents were. Four men in Cap d'Agde. One whom I had never even seen, a blindfold meaning that I still have no idea who he was, or looked like. I wrote about that already. Then the Dutch guy, that I wrote about as well. Two more, since him. Two other stories. Maybe, sometime, I will write them. But only four.
The other side of the equation is that I am John's second wife, but not the second woman he has known. I still can only guess how many. The one time that I pressed for him to tell me, I stopped asking once he confirmed that it was more than twenty. They were the reason that he thought I should allow some other men to pleasure me. To even things a little, to help me forget the other, Indian husband who was too much in my head, and just for the sheer enjoyment of another cock inside me, and the climax that would bring. Just me, he said, not him. He did not need another woman. He had had his share, and no longer looked around. Not now that he had me.