Being a General Contractor, I manage major construction projects such as commercial housing and retail buildings. Currently we're completing the final phase of a popular self contained community in the inner city. It is mainly two story brown brick row houses with gangways, alleys and rear dethatched garages to make it look like old town New York or Chicago.
The main town square consists of five large buildings with deluxe upstairs lofts and a wine bar, gastro pub, micro brewery, sports bar and Corner cafe in the ground level of each. There are three regulation sand volleyball courts in the middle with full service outside patio seating from each proprietor.
It has it's very own post office, theater, grocery and a little chapel that's used mainly for weddings and photo ops.
Though my partner and I find it cult like a scary, it has become very popular with the younger fitness oriented crowd and the retail spaces and apartments there filled up fast.
One evening as I was leaving a business meeting with a restaurant owner, I noticed Lorie, My next door neighbor's wife in the volleyball, spectator, party crowd. When looked for her husband Dave I didn't see him, but I did watch a younger man walk up to her with two drinks and hand her one. When he sat on the picnic bench to watch the bikini clad players, she sat on the table top against him.
Realizing she was too involved to see me, I slipped past them, walked to my car and drove home.
During the thirty minute drive, I couldn't help pondering over what I just saw and I decided to keep it to myself.
I knew she was a nurse who worked twelve on and got twelve off and he was a sales manager who was constantly out of town, but they seemed happy and I put it out of my mind filing it away as none of my business.
Eventually we were awarded a bid for a build out expansion of the sports bar into their connected storage unit next door. It also happened to be the anchor building of the five other businesses that both border and provided food, wine and beer to the volleyball crowd on league nights.
Due to noise restrictions and a sundry of other city code requirements, construction has to start at 7:00 am and end at 4:00 pm, which worked out fine for both me, the businesses and the league crowd who generally start showing up at 3:30 to posture for the best viewing tables and the players who start arriving just after 4:00 for the first 5:00 game.
As my partner and I were buttoning things up and securing the job site, here comes Lorie and a couple of young men that had to be friends of one of her sons. We ducked into the bar next door and grabbed a beer. When I mentioned to the owner that the woman through the window was my neighbor's wife, I got an ear full.
It seems she'd been coming there mainly on Tuesday and Thursday evenings for the past few months and she liked the young men. Two in particular who live in the loft directly overhead who happened to be the ones she was with now.
He told me that at forty eight, they considered her a conquest and they said she was quite the MLF. He leaned in and told us in a low voice that it was rumored that she liked them two at a time and was even known to swing with other couples.
Up until that point I had considered sneaking out the back to avoid her, but after hearing that I was intrigued and decided to walk out the front doors and "accidently" run into her.
Both the owner and my Partner told me to go ahead and they would watch the fun though the window.
As I stepped out of the bar, I held the door open for a server to come back in with a tray of empty pitchers when Lorie looked right at me.
She was sitting on the table top between the two young men with their feet on the wooden bench. Each had a hand over her legs on her inner thighs and when she saw me, she immediately brushed away.
I walked up and asked if they were enjoying the game, she asked me what I was doing there.
I told her that I was here on business and that I had been managing projects here for the past two years.
When I told them that it was my company that built out the lofts her two young friends live in, she lost her little confident smile.
You know, there's just something about the unfaithful woman that makes them feel that their invulnerable. Right up until the time (that is) that they gets caught. It's that weak spot in their armor that causes them to get that look of surprise when they find out that they've been had. Their ego defiantly goes into disbelief and their reason makes them wonder how many others know what you know.
You see most who cheat are so confident in their mind and focused on the fact that they know where their husband's or significant other is guaranteed to be, that they forget that someone who knows them as a couple could make the discovery.
I think that fact in this instance, is what gave me the greatest satisfaction.
I told them to have a good time, that I had to be getting home and I went back in the bar to collected my partner and leave.
I got about four feet in the door when the two of them burst out laughing, they said she nervously turned her head to scour the crowd as I left them.
When I looked back out the window the three of them were long gone as if they'd disappeared.