Bob had decided on the dress: short and black, spaghetti straps. The underwear: black thong, no bra. The stockings and shoes: self supporting, three inch heels. And the jewellery: a simple silver chain around my neck, and a tiny silver stud in the lobe of each ear. We stood at the bar. 'Do I know you?' asked the middle aged businessman in the pin-striped suit and the expensive Gucci loafers, sipping his Martini at my side.
'Maybe,' said Bob, my husband, on my other side. 'Terri and I come here now and then.'
This wasn't true. We'd never been here before. This wasn't our city: part of the plan.
'So what are you good people doing here?' asked the businessman, eyes down the front of my dress.
'My cousin lives out of town,' said Bob.
Me, the wife, was now the cousin. Also the plan ... the plan for Bob to get a taste of how it would feel to see me, his wife, as a target for other men. Men we didn't know. For strangers to come on to me. And me to let them. So that Bob could feel what it was like ...
'Your cousin?' said the businessman, suddenly taking a greater interest and smiling at me with what I'm sure he believed was a winning smile.
'Yup,' said Bob, putting a cousinly arm around my waist and pulling me close. The hem of my skirt climbed my leg. The businessman's eyes took note.
'Pretty little thing like this. Better keep a good hold on the cute little sweetie,' said the businessman, reaching out a hand and patting my butt. I didn't react. I had a martini as well but without any gin. I wasn't too sure about this and didn't want to lose control of what might happen. I'd already told Bob it was risky. Dangerous even. To play the bait. For men. Like this. But Bob said as long as he was there to look out for me, what could go wrong? I wasn't sure. The businessman's hand stayed on my butt. Now he was stroking me there. Eyes on mine, to see what I would do.
I took another sip of my Martini.
We'd talked about this for months. Bob used the idea in foreplay, whispering what other men would like to do with me, and would I like them to, as he thrust himself eagerly into me. When you're out of breath, and hot, and squirming with arousal on the bed, it's difficult not to be turned on by the idea of even more hands than the two that belong to your husband, exciting you, wandering all over your body. In the throws of orgasm I'd said 'Okay!' then come, like a volcano.
'So where are you from, little poppet?' said the middle aged businessman, one of my buttocks now snugly in his hand. I wondered if I should move it. Or move away, perhaps. What was the form with these things? I didn't know.
'Will you excuse me, honey?' said Bob, from my other side.
He was acting to plan: see me set up with someone he'd like to see me set up with, then make an excuse and leave. Watch what happens from a distance. I nodded at Bob. Watched him make his way down the bar past a second middle-aged businessman. This one had a moustache. He seemed to be waving at me. I didn't know him.
'Jim!' called my new companion to the guy down the bar, fingers and palm slowly circling my back-side, gently squeezing what he held. My buttock seemed oddly at home in his hand. 'Look what I've found.'
'Whoo-ee!' said 'Jim' – the guy with the moustache whom I'd thought was waving at me – coming down the bar and hoisting himself onto the stool Bob had just vacated. 'Where have you been all my life you pretty little thing?' he beamed, full of confidence and bonhomie. I gave him a smile, as best I could, and looked beyond to see where Bob was. Couldn't see him anywhere.
'A chair for the little lady,' said the first businessman. I found a bar stool at my butt. Before I could stop him the moustache had picked me up, two huge hands round my waist, and put me on the bar stool. My hem rode high, but there was little I could do about it. It was a short dress. The bar stool was one of these tall ones. I wiggled my butt to get central on the stool. One of the hands that had got me there stayed where it was round my waist. The other had moved from my butt to my thigh – looking around as it were. I reached for both hands, lifted them off, and gave them back.
'Naughty boys,' I whispered, eyes hitting one then the other.
Both grinned. 'Where you from, honey?" asked the moustache, the bigger of the two. Both of them were larger than Bob – this was Texas, after all. I told him the name of a town in Alabama that Bob and I had agreed we'd say we were from. Then he asked my name,
'Terri,' I replied, happier keeping my own name.
'Cute name,' he said.
The other put his arm round my waist again. His stomach was pressing my hip. I was about to lift it off, again, when Bob came out of the gents. I could see him down the bar. But he didn't approach. I left the arm where it was. Bob spoke to the barman. A newspaper was handed across the bar. Bob approached with the paper in his hand. By the time he reached us the larger of the businessmen, the one called Jim, had his hand back over my butt. I left it there and caught Bob's eyes with a look that said, 'You sure about this?'
But all Bob said as he passed, was, 'Going to catch up with the news, Terri honey, you be Okay with these nice men?'
What the hell was I supposed to say?
Bob went off with his paper. Jim, with the moustache, and the first of my businessmen 'friends', who's name he said was Dave, chatted me up, saying nice things. And stroked me tentatively. I could see Bob's reflection in the mirror over the bar. He was watching me and my two friends over the top of his paper. Watching their hands. Watching where the hands touched me. He was only ten feet away. The bar was filling up.
It was dim, and smoky, and a band was playing by a small copper dance floor the size of a large handkerchief off to my left, beyond 'Dave' – though I doubted that was his real name – who was running his hand up and down my back as he asked me what I thought of Texas. I answered in words of one syllable most of the time, partly as I was watching Bob in the mirror, and partly because I was trying to ignore Jim's hand that was gently stroking my knee, and partly because I didn't think they had any interest in what I said in any case.
They were both pressed against me. I felt like a filling in a man sandwich. One either side, closed around me like two halves of a large pin-striped bun. Their hands were getting bolder by the moment. I watched Bob's face in the mirror as Dave's hand roamed my back and butt. He stroked me openly, clear for all to see. I was watching my husband – his eyes growing larger and the way his tongue slipped out and licked his lips, the way he crossed his legs and looked around to see who else was watching his cute little wife on the tall stool with the two big men fondling her.
Dave put his hand on the inside of my leg and felt me there. He started to squeeze me, gently. I watched Bob's eyes – had he seen it? I shifted myself in the seat, spreading my legs. Was he watching? Then I saw that he was, shifting in his seat to get a better view. Dave's hand ran up the inside of my leg, softly squeezing and kneading as he went. I let my legs drift apart. The palm of his hand moved from stocking to skin and my thighs instinctively closed on his hand. He eased it further up as I let my legs ease apart again. I let it rise until I felt his palm close over the crotch of my briefs, then I captured his hand once again, squeezing my thighs tight together around the invasive hand, but letting it stay where it was. Bob, from behind me, nodded, encouragingly.
'We could go somewhere else, how about that?' whispered Dave, his mouth at my ear while he inserted a finger into the ridge between my legs, over the light cotton thong I wore. His breath was hot.
'My cousin wouldn't want me to do that,' I said.
'Why not, he's reading,' said Dave, his fingers finding my clitoris. Causing me to jump. (My clit is absurdly sensitive!) He caught the jump, softened his approach, gently ran his finger all around it. ... Better, I relaxed my thigh, and hips, as his fingers gently aroused me. Bob's eyes were on my buttocks as they clenched, then flexed ... and my parted legs, as they pulsed then relaxed in time with what his fingers were doing ... and the hand, out of sight, that was clearly at my panties ... stroking me. Bob caught my eyes in the mirror and gave another nod. What did that mean?
That I was doing well?
That I should do more?
'We could go to my room,' whispered Jim at my other ear. I shook my head. He started to kiss my ear. Should I stop him, I wondered. I glanced at Bob in the mirror, my head to one side letting Jim kiss my ear, and my eyes asked, 'Is this far enough?' Bob seemed to understand. He shook his head, then dropped his eyes to his paper. I felt the moustache that belonged to Jim grind harder into the lobe of my ear as his tongue came out, and into my ear. I gasped. My ear is sensitive too. A tongue in my ear I find exquisitely ... arousing. Especially a stranger's, like this. So ... bad!
My eyes were closed. The fingers at my clitoris were practiced. Very gentle. Soft. They knew how a woman liked to be handled. Dave was gentler than he looked, and my clitoris was buzzing to his touch. I opened my mouth, wide, and tilted my head to the ceiling. 'Grungh!' My head snapped back as a hand cupped a breast and softly closed around it. My breasts cannot be touched without a reaction from me. I melt. I melted. I swayed forward, giving my breast to Dave who wanted it – had it in his hand – fondling it hungrily as his other hand played me like a maestro between my parted legs.