Chapter 3 – While We Are Parted
I was asleep when the phone rang, but to be fair, it was 1 a.m. Kevin's new job did involve a lot more travel than the old one, and I missed him. I enjoyed our good night phone calls, even when different time zones made them a bit late for me.
The disparity in our alertness was clear from the opening exchange.
"Baby, God, I wish I were in bed with you right now. I want to taste you so bad!" was his opening line.
Mine was "Umph."
"I would lick your sweet slit, swirl my tongue around your clit... squeeze those luscious tits...I want you so much, babe."
"Uh huh," was my witty reply.
"Babe, wake up!"
"Trying," I mumbled. "What's got you so hot and heavy?" I was waking up now. "Not that I mind. But usually you start out by asking about the kids, or telling me that you love me and miss me."
"Hon, I love you, I miss you, how are the kids, and are you naked?" Oh, he was in rare form.
"Seriously... what's got you so hot? You sound like you have a story to tell. Did you just catch a glimpse of the hotel maid's boobs or something?" He was a big boob man. I mean, he was big into boobs, not that he loved only big boobs. Although, come to think of it, he does prefer bigger boobs, but that was fortunate, because mine definitely fall on the "sizable" end of the spectrum.
"Not the maid. It was the waitress where we had dinner tonight."
"She had a nice set, did she?" I'm a shameless voyeur. I'm not very interested in other women's breasts myself, but hearing their effect on my husband would be fun.
"Tell me you're naked and I'll tell you more," he said. "PS – I am. Naked, I mean."
With Kevin in Seattle, I had gone to bed in my sexiest ensemble: one of his t-shirts and a pair of purple sleep shorts with little Tinkerbell pictures on them. "Give me a moment," I said, and peeled them off. "Okay, we are now in a similar set of nakedness. Tell me what's up."
"The waitress... man, she had on this short, tight skirt and this white tuxedo-style blouse, but clearly no bra..."
"I take it you weren't at Applebee's," I said dryly.
Kevin laughed. "No, the client took us out. Can't really remember the name of the place. Great Italian food, though. Which reminds me – I have to have my tie dry cleaned when I get home." Unseen over the phone, I rolled my eyes.
I wanted to get the story back on track. Hearing about spaghetti stains on his tie was not nearly as interesting as sexy waitresses as a bedtime story. "And you know she had on no bra because...?"
"She had about four buttons undone, and did a lot of leaning over as she took our orders, or set down the plates, or cleared the plates... you wouldn't believe how often she filled our water glasses. I'm telling you, we could see clear down to her nipples!" Kevin sounded like a 15-year-old how had just found his first issue of National Geographic.
"Gene must have loved that," I said, laughing. Gene was Kevin's immediate boss, and was one of the most conservative people I knew. (At least, I thought he was. Appearances can be deceiving. After all, I look and act like a typical soccer mom in public too.)
"I'm not sure Gene noticed our server was female! Janet did though!" Janet is Kevin's partner at work and they work as a team with most clients. I loved her. Janet made a point of introducing me to her partner, Allison. ("I like the wives to know that I'm not sleeping with their husbands when we're away," she had said with a twinkle in her eye.)
"Ooh! I'm telling Allison!" Allison, Gene's wife Paula, and I had formed the "Road Widows League" and got together on Wednesdays while our spouses were away. It worked out well for me because the kids were with their dad on Wednesdays, as well as every other weekend. So... that would be tomorrow night. Or tonight, really, I thought, glancing at the clock.
"Just was no looking, no touching!" my spouse assured me. "Though the invitation to do more was clearly there."
"As if I'd care! It would make a better story for me. But tell me about her 'invitation to do more.'"
"Well after dinner, we went to the bar in the restaurant. And Candi – that was the waitress's name..."
"Oh bull," I interrupted. That's her 'waitress' name. It gets better tips than her real name, which is probably Ethel."
"Babe, with those pink nipples of hers on display, she didn't need any fake name for a big tip!" he retorted before adding with mock sternness, "And stop interrupting!"