Chapter 4: Dealing
She stared at Carlos, looked at her table, then at the television on the wall before landing on her wedding photo. Despite her anger, despite Jim's selfish actions, despite Carlos restraining herself, Nicole broke down and finally just started bawling.
Every part of her expected to hear Carlos give excuse after excuse in how he needed to leave.
Instead, she was met with the surprise of Carlos reaching across and giving her a hug.
"I am so sorry! I didn't know," Carlos said. "I just thought you were worried about the risk of STDs."
Nicole pulled back, looking at him. "Wait! Do you...?"
She could not even finish. Nausea started to overwhelm her.
"No!" Carlos was quick to say. "I had my physical yesterday. Clean as a whistle."
While the smile was kind and sweet, it did not hit Nicole the same way it had before the sex.
"But I'm not!" she let out again.
"No, no," Carlos said. "You're okay. You're okay."
"But I cheated on my husband," she said. "What the fuck is wrong with me?"
Carlos cradled her as she had not been in a long time. "Nothing. I am so sorry! I should not have done this."
"It's not your fault," she said to him.
"I think at least half of this," he said, motioning to the two of them, "is my fault. Regardless of what your husband did, you and I could not have done this without me being involved, so I deserve some of the fault."
She looked at him, tears still rolling down her eyes. "What is wrong with me?"
"Nothing," Carlos breathed. "We all make mistakes."
She looked up at him before she felt swept up in the moment again. Softly, Nicole leaned up and pressed her lips on Carlos'. He was just as gentle as he had been in the beginning, but she could feel the difference. He wanted her, without a doubt, but he showed the restraint he had given into earlier. He really was sorry.
"You're a good guy," she declared weakly.
"Clearly, not too good," Carlos half joked. It reached her that time as Nicole weakly laughed.
"What am I going to do?" she asked. "I'm not on birth control."
"That's what Plan B is for," Carlos remarked. "Nothing's been done that can't be fixed."
He looked at her with caring eyes. He caressed her right arm.
"But I can't just get that," Nicole said. "People know I am married. If I get that and it gets back to Jim..." Tears started to escape from her eyes once more.
"I'll get it," Carlos said without hesitation. "I'm a bachelor. No one cares what I do. I'll bring it over tomorrow evening after work." He looked at her and she nodded.
He stood up carefully before helping her up. "Maybe we should get dressed. I don't think we want your neighbors knocking on the door or your husband coming home to find you like this."
She nodded her head. "You're right we don't."
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This was such bullshit was all Jim could think. He had busted his way through school, and when he got out, he was working a shit job for a guy who was barely in the office.
Now he was categorizing receipts from a joint venture with some other bullshit company. Someone else could have done this job, but Jim drew the short end of the stick.
Was this some karmic punishment for cheating on Nicole? Maybe if her tits were nicer he wouldn't have had to cheat? Maybe she could have sucked his cock a bit more here and there? And really? She expected him to say no to that sexy Michelle?
Then again, had that been worth it?
A very real part of him wanted to say no, but fuuuuuuuuuuuuck, she made him cum so hard. He did not cum half as hard with Nicole.
Was that why he was doing this? That's what he wondered about when he was looking at
another
invoice. Had been fucking Michelle been a no go? Did he have to ask the boss if it was okay?
She seemed to enjoy it just fine, but were there rules he was no playing by?
For fuck's sake, he did not know, but he was always done, so he went back to work and thought of Michelle's full tits.
---
Steve walked around the warehouse as it was his job. It was boring. No one ever came. It was just one of those jobs. When it paid twenty three an hour and you had two kids to provide for, it was what it was.
That always gave him time to think about things.
He wondered how he had gotten into the situation where he owed Carlos 'favors'. He knew well enough. They weren't favors. It was tantamount to blackmail.
Steve and Michelle were poly. Practical poly. Steve got bored of sex with just one person. Michelle was sexy, fun, and could suck and ride cock like nobody else, but it was always nice to have other options. They thought these things through. They screened partners. Condoms were used when they were not sure.
Every now and then, they got sloppy. After all, no one was perfect. Steve was forty two and sometimes he was forgetful. With Michelle in her thirties, she was careful, but in a way, she was also getting older and just not as hot to look at.
Which led Steve to Anabelle. She was this young sexy thin thing from Fresno. When he went down there to do some security work for a friend to help get some extra money, she had been at the convention center. Fuck she was hot.
She was five foot seven. Nice ass. A little thin, but nice perky tits. She sucked and slobbed on his dick like a real slut too. He couldn't help but want her.
They fucked for every day he was working in Fresno, but then, on his last day, she told him he owed her five grand. When he asked why, she revealed that she was a prostitute.
When he called her out on her shit, she told him that he would not want her going to the cops. With how young she looked, he worried for a moment that she was underage or something; thankfully she was twenty two, so that was not it, but it was that she found out that he was ex military. Military guys caught with hookers don't do well in front of judges from what she was saying.
With nowhere to turn, Steve did the stupidest thing he could. He called Carlos Santiago to help him solve the issue. Carlos pulled out the cash and told Steve that he owed him. At first, Steve kept the situation as a secret from Michelle, but that bit him in the ass because months later, Steve got shit-faced drunk, and halfways through sex, he was stupid to bring up how she fucked better than the Fresno hooker.
Michelle had not brought it up, but the next day, he told her that he agreed that he owed Carlos a favor, and then Michelle jumped on that and said she owed Carlos a favor because he stopped Steve from getting arrested and protected their little girls from finding out their dad was a pervert.
How the fuck was this his fault?
He had sex. He had his passes. This was really about Carlos trying to fuck Michelle. He couldn't prove it, but Steve started to think the whole thing was a set up.
As he walked around the warehouse one more time, he knew something was fucked up about the situation, and he would prove it before too long.
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The next day came quicker than she had thought. Nicole let Jim come to bed. Thankfully, he was too tired to come to bed and inspect her body. Her ass had been spanked by Carlos and it had left a hand marking of a bruise.
She could feel Carlos' sperm in her, clawing its way deeper into her. Like an infection, it was spreading, only this invasion of her body could leave her pregnant. Nicole was half-white on her dad's side and half-Asian on her mom's. With Jim being a white guy, and Carlos being a nice, tall, dark, and handsome drink of water...Fuck... Nicole had struggled with that. The point was that people
would
notice a brown kid coming out of her on delivery day.
The fact that he was going out of his way to do so much for her, Nicole knew Carlos was a good guy despite helping her commit infidelity.
She struggled with that because, on a sick sad level, a
very
small part of her wanted to let Carlos' semen reach the egg in her womb if it could. Part of it would be because Jim was a selfish bastard but also because if Carlos was even a quarter of the man she thought he was, Nicole could see herself having a child with similar qualities.