Part 4
Accepting Our New-Found Desires
The following morning was strained to say the least. We had carried out our accustomed weekday routine as though nothing strange had occurred the night before, Claire getting the kids up and making breakfast; me taking them to school as typically happened when I was off work.
This time though there was an underlying tension. Yes we had conversed and acted normally, but all the time sought to avoid looking each other directly eye-to-eye as we rushed around like any outwardly conventional couple with two school-age kids. When I returned home I was hoping to discuss things with my wife; hoping we could have some private 'our' time to try and work out exactly what had happened to us. However, I found Claire dressed in jeans and sweatshirt and obviously about to go out.
"I need to have a little time to myself. You don't mind do you Bob?" she asked, her voice terse, not really asking the question but more informing me as to her plans. "I'll have lunch out, you fix yourself something and I'll be back in time to pick the kids up." With that she picked her keys up and swept out of the front door before I even had time to react.
I was left alone with my thoughts, my mind replaying the events of the previous night. I poured myself a mug of coffee, sat at the breakfast bar and attempted to read the morning paper. Finding it impossible to concentrate on the paper due to the flashbacks of what had been recently taking place in our lives; I eventually gave up and decided to go out myself.
I really love driving my car. It's a BMW M5 with all the bells and whistles and, like the adverts tell us, it truly is a driver's car. I don't often get chance to just 'drive' the beast. Usually I am either going somewhere specific or running some sort of family errand, so it was a pleasant change just to be able to enjoy my 'man-toy' as I drove East and up into the Peak District.
I was able to contemplate what had been happening to me; to my life, and most importantly, how these adulterous dalliances on both mine and Claire's parts had affected our marriage, and what effect they would have in the future. My emotions were all over the fucking place, one minute my eyes streaming tears of regret and shame, the next my cock rigidly hard as I thought of my depraved acts with Bella, and perversely, how the thought of young George's long thin cock pounding my wife's pussy and arse could inflame my lust as much as it did.
A couple of hours later I came across a country-style pub that looked over the river Derwent. Ironically the pub was on 'Hope Road' which brought a smile to my face. I went in, ordered a home-cooked beef sandwich and a pint of the local beer from the slightly 'brassy' looking but very attractive, middle-aged blonde woman behind the bar and sat down at a table by the window.
"I haven't seen you in here before." the barmaid said as she put my pint and sandwich on the table, her voice disturbing my thoughts and causing me to jump slightly as I hadn't noticed her approaching.
"Sorry," I laughed, feeling my face redden with embarrassment, "I was miles away there."
"Yes, I could see that. You look like a man with all the troubles of the world on his shoulders." she replied, smiling as she took the seat opposite me, "Want to talk about them?"
I looked closely at her for the first time, noticing her heavy use of make-up and lipstick that hid what was actually quite an attractive face.
"No I'm fine thanks," I said softly, my eyes roaming the nearly empty pub and noticing the only other occupant was an old guy sat in the corner with a flat half pint of beer. Looking across at the bar, I could see behind it a thick-set, overweight bloke studiously wiping glasses as he glared at me and my uninvited companion.
"We don't often get good-looking single men in here of a lunch time," she whispered softly so only I could hear her, her hand reaching over the table to come to rest on top of mine.
"It makes a very pleasant change for me to have someone nice to talk to apart from old Fred over there." she continued, looking me directly in the eyes as she licked her lips suggestively, her fingers caressing my hand.
"And the guy behind the bar?" I asked, removing my hand from her grasp and taking a drink of my pint, "He looks as though he would like to talk to you."
Her eyes never leaving mine, she replied, "Oh that's just my husband. He doesn't mind me talking to strange men, or
anything
else I may like to do with them."
What the fuck!...
I thought as she again grasped my hand in both of hers,
"This total stranger, a woman I had met only a few minutes before, was making it obvious she wanted to have sex with me. Has the world gone totally sex-mad?"
"He doesn't look as though he doesn't mind to me. He looks as though he is about to come over here and tear my head off." I replied, again extricating my hand from hers.
"Oh he may well come over here, but he'd rather watch you fuck me than thump you. He gets off on strangers having his wife when he's watching... Has done for years."
I shook my head in dismay. Was I the same as that poor bastard?... Did I want to watch Claire being fucked by a stranger?... Was it the 'norm' nowadays for men to share their wives' bodies like that?...
I had to get out of there. The woman was actually quite attractive in a 'rough' sort of way, but there was no fucking way I was going to provide the afternoon entertainment for her and her cuckold husband.
Finishing my pint with one gulp, I threw a £10 note on the table and snatched my sandwich before almost running out of the pub to the sound of her laughing as she shouted after me. "Come back any time, you're more than welcome."
I jumped in my car and tore out of the car park, wheels spinning and sending gravel flying everywhere in my panic-stricken haste to get away. I started laughing as I drove. Laughing at myself mainly, but also at the absurd realisation that 'cuckoldry' seemed to be the modern way in some marriages. I'd just stopped for a quiet lunch and found myself embroiled in a similar situation to what I was in at home, but this time in some other stupid bastard's marriage. Was that
really
what I wanted?
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