Molly
After we had settled in at home, I quickly got myself back up and began taking charge of caring for Jennifer and running the house. Jim wanted to bring in someone to help but I told him I wanted to do this for myself. He said why not let one or two of the girls down at the cycle shop help with the cooking and cleaning and laundry. I refused and told him to get back to work and let me do my job. He finally agreed when he saw that I was fully capable of doing what had to be done. In truth, I almost died the first week but things began to get easier and I found that when I was busy, I didn't think. I didn't want to think. I was afraid to think and when I did think, I usually ended up crying. So, I worked until I was so tired, I collapsed.
I kept this up for the first month we were home and then I began to get a system going that allowed me free time. I didn't welcome that free time so I began to look for something to fill that time. I was setting in my rocker with Jennifer taking a bottle when I thought about Jim. He had been without me for the last almost 3 months. He hadn't said a word because of my operation and earlier because of my pregnancy. He had been celibate for way too long. While I wasn't ready to resume love making the way we wanted, I certainly thought that I could take care of Jim's needs in several very pleasant ways for him. I determined to put this plan into effect that very night.
When Jim said that he was ready for bed, I told him I would join him. We went upstairs and Jim got ready for a shower. I waited until I heard the water running and quickly shed my PJs and got into the shower with him. He was surprised, but pleasantly I thought. He said, "What are you doing? The doctor said we couldn't have sex for another 5 weeks." I replied with a smile, "He said we couldn't have intercourse for another 5 weeks, he didn't say anything about this." With that, I dropped to my knees and took his flaccid penis into my warm willing mouth. It didn't take very long before he was as hard as I had ever seen him. He leaned back against the shower wall and signed a deep contented sigh. I looked up at him as I began to slide my mouth up and down his hard shaft, swirling my tongue around the head as I almost came off of his cock. I would then close my lips and move back down the shaft, all the time caressing his balls. I did this for only about 5 minutes when he groaned and let me know that he was ready. I sucked harder and put my arms around his hips to pull him into my mouth. I looked up at his face as he began to fuck my mouth. He was in another world and I was so glad that it was me that sent him there. I held him as tight as I could and encouraged him to cum. He did with a blast that took me by surprise. There was so much and it lasted so long, that I knew he had been missing me for way too long.
He looked down at me and said, "I really love you, did you know that?" I just smiled and continued to play with his now deflated penis. "I really love you too and I just wanted to remind you of that." He pulled me to my feet and asked what I wanted. I replied that I was content and wanted only to please him until I was ready to resume lovemaking. He knew that I never liked to have him go down on me so he didn't suggest it and I didn't want him to do it. He tried to use his hand but I discouraged him with a smile. "We can do this whenever you want to and I want you to tell me when you need me. I have more things we can try so don't be shy." He looked so happy, I almost cried. I was happy again for a brief moment. Before the reality returned.
Things began to get better over the next few months. We were able to resume lovemaking and Jennifer continued to develop without any problems. We were getting into a rhythm as a family of three and things seemed to be settling down. I was able to forget for longer periods of time and I hoped that, as time passed, I would eventually forget for good. Fat chance, but one can hope. All was good until one time when Jennifer was six months old. I was not feeling well so Jim said he would take Jennifer to see John, her pediatrician. John was a good friend of Jim's so I knew he would have no problems. I didn't even think much about it until Jim came home and told me everything was OK, but that John had taken blood to confirm. I suddenly remembered what I had Sally do to the blood type records. I almost panicked until I remembered that Jim had never even looked at the record so he had no idea of her blood type. I doubted that Jim would even check that so I finally relaxed. When John called, I chatted with him for a while and nothing seemed amiss so I felt that he hadn't noticed anything wrong with the blood testing. Jim didn't seem to suspect anything as time progressed so I gradually began to think life would go on.
Jim
After Molly took Jennifer up to bed, I called Tiny on his cell and gave him the news about the blood test.
He said, "Damn, I was hoping that it wasn't true. Like I said though, boss man, you don't do anything to Molly until we have more info."
I told him that I would never hurt Molly regardless of what she did. He told me he knew that, but he didn't want me to make any decisions until things calmed down. It was clear that he really loved Molly and Jennifer as though they were his own and I was as important to him as his own father. I assured him that I would wait while he got things moving. He said he had already contacted his friend and gotten him started.
In the meantime, I wasn't sure how I was going to live with Molly as though everything was all right. She certainly knew the truth but didn't have enough respect for me or our marriage to be honest enough to tell me. Why had she kept this from me? Was she still seeing this Ron character? How long had she been cheating on me with this guy? Every time I traveled? Maybe during the day when she was at work, or after her shift when she told me she was working a few hours over. I certainly didn't know anything about him and she never gave me any indication that she was unhappy with me or with our lovemaking.
What I wanted to do was to confront her immediately with her infidelity and have it out. I was all set to do just that when it suddenly occurred to me that I could possibly loose more than a wife. What if she decided that she was going to take Jennifer away from me with the support of the real father? What if I couldn't even see her or visit her once we had divorced? That would kill me, even after only 6 months with her. I knew I could never give her up and I decided then and there that I would do everything in my power to keep her. If that meant living a lie with Molly, so be it.
Over the next several days, I continued to avoid intimate contact with Molly while waiting for word from Tiny and his investigator friend. It was made much easier by only having to see her in the evenings when I could spend most of my time with the baby. Molly was usually tired when I finally got home so she had no problem with my spending time with Jennifer giving her time to relax. Bedtime was also no problem with her being exhausted. In this way, I passed the next week waiting for information.
Finally one evening about a week after we had first talked about finding out more information, Tiny called and asked me to meet him at the shop. I agreed and told Molly that I had to go to the shop for about an hour but would be home before 9. She hardly noticed so I left. When I arrived at the downtown cycle shop where I had begun my business venture almost 7 years ago, Tiny was there with a tall, black man almost as big as Tiny. He introduced him as Woody Tree, a private investigator.
My first comment was "You're kidding with the name, right?"
The big guy looked at me with no sign of a smile and said "No."
That was all. I dropped it right then and said with great respect, "Sorry Mr. Tree, what do you have for me?"
Woody proceeded to give me note and verse on Ron Davis. Most of the information was about him and his personal affairs, his wife and children, where they lived, how long they had been married and all of the personal stuff. He had pictures of each person he mentioned and a complete dossier on each. He also gave me the information on Ron Davis and the company he owned. He said that he called on the hospital where Molly worked about once every 6 weeks and dealt directly with Molly for resupply of the department disposable medical supplies. He had discretely talked with several nurses and found who liked Molly and who didn't. He spoke with the ones who didn't and got the strong impression that most of the nurses knew about Molly's affair with Mr. Davis.
He also discovered that the affair had been ongoing for over two years, but also got the distinct impression that things had cooled off over the last year. He said that he was working on a more complete timetable but that this was the essence of what he had found.
I asked him if he had any information on Mr. Davis that might help to put some pressure on him. Woody just smiled and handed me a folder that contained the names and addresses and phone numbers of seven women who Mr. Davis was currently having affairs with. I asked him how he came by the information.
He replied, "I gave you what you wanted cause Tiny asked me to help. I won't ask what you intend to do so don't you ask me how I do what I do, OK?"
"OK" I agreed.
I then asked him if he would make it a point to continue to keep a watch on Ron Davis and just let me know if he and Molly ever made contact. If not, no notice was necessary. I told him that Tiny would take care of the cost and that cost was not an object. Woody said the cost was the cost and that was all there was to it. But, he agreed and said that he would do that as requested. I thanked him and he left.
Tiny and I sat and talked for some time that evening and he finally convinced me that we needed to go out and have a drink before I went home. He wanted to be sure that I calmed down so that I could control myself. I thought he had a good idea and we ended up completely sloshed. I finally decided to call Molly and leave word that I was going to stay at the shop since I had had a few too many with a new client. She didn't answer so I left the message on the machine. Too damn bad if she didn't like me staying out. At least I was not cheating on her, even though I was investigating her. Not the same thing.
Molly
Jim has been very moody since the day he took Jennifer to the pediatrician. I did worry but he didn't say anything to suggest that he was suspicious. I still wondered what was bothering him but decided that he would tell me when he thought the time was right.
The phone call the other night saying that he was staying out since he had too much to drink was quite disturbing, since Jim rarely gets that drunk. He drinks when he is with others, or when he is depressed or anxious, but he always switched to coke or 7 UP after a few. He knows I don't like it when he is drunk and don't want him around the baby that way. I wasn't sure why he was drinking this time but chalked it up to his moodiness over the past few weeks.
I wondered then for the hundredth time whether I should tell Jim the truth. I had told Ron that we were through the next time I saw him after that time he had almost raped me when I was off the pill, and that I wanted him to work with one of the other nurses. We saw very little of each other after that up until the time I quit. Ron showed up at the going away party and we barely spoke. He tried to get my attention but I moved away every time he got close. He finally figured out that I did not want to talk to him so he finally gave up.
I finally did talk with Ron one day on the phone and told him the truth about the baby. I also told him that I would tell his wife about us if he made any attempt to talk to Jim or to see the baby. I said that my marriage was the most important thing in my life and that I had done enough to screw it up. I told him that I simply prayed that I could get past it and that he was not needed in my world any longer. He argued that the baby was his and he had a right to see her and be in her life, but I told him angrily that that was never going to happen. We ended the discussion with a threat on my part and a reluctant promise from him. I hoped this was the end of that chapter of my life.
Over the next few months, I sensed a distance between Jim and me that I couldn't explain and that he would never admit to. I asked him about it on several occasions but he just said that he was working too hard or that he had things at work that were worrying him. I tried to actively seduce him on several occasions but he was not interested. That scared me and I began to suspect that he knew something.