I went back to our bedroom to find Angie sitting on the edge of our bed still naked and with that satisfied "I got fucked and it was great." look on her face that I'd loved seeing every time I saw it until I'd seen it there four hours earlier from what she and Mary had been doing to each other when I'd gotten home.
I again got that queasy feeling from the memory of them together. I swallowed hard twice and took two deep breaths to try and make it go away. My beautiful wife looked at me when she heard me re-enter the bedroom and smiled at me with that look of love and adoration that I'd thought she only let me see for the last six years.
I knew I still loved her as much as I had before I learned of her affair with Mary during the entire time we'd been married and the night she and her lover had schemed so that the foursome we'd been except sexually could become a true foursome in every way. They hadn't counted on my resistance and adamant protestations that I wasn't interested in that type of relationship between the four of us.
I didn't know if our marriage would survive, but I was willing to give it a try if Angie was truly sincere in wanting to remain my wife as she claimed she was. I didn't trust her, especially when it came to Mary, and didn't know if I'd ever be able to trust her again fully like I had before the discovery.
I smiled with what I hoped was the same love and adoration that I'd had for her until yesterday before walking to her and pulling her up in front of me. I bent down and kissed her with all the love I could muster before letting her go with a swat on her gorgeous ass.
"Go make yourself more beautiful, babes. We're going out, just the two of us, and celebrating my new job. I guess you heard what I told Aaron about the baby, so we can celebrate that, too."
"Oh Adam, I'm so happy right now. I'll only be a moment in the shower and then you can begin making yourself more handsome; unless you want to join me in the shower."
"NO! I know what will happen if I join you in the shower and I want to save that for later. Right now I want to take the most beautiful woman I know out for a big steak and then dancing at the "Wagon Wheel"."
"Wow Adam! We haven't been there in ages. I know the perfect outfits for the both of us to wear. I'll have yours laid out for you when you're finished in the shower. I do love you more than you'll ever now and I promise to do everything I can to make my betrayal of you right between us."
Angie glided into the master bath to begin her preparation for our evening out. I stretched out on our bed and wondered how many times Mary had pleasure my wife there. I realized almost immediately that I'd never be able to forgive Angie fully if I didn't stop having those types of thoughts.
I resolved to see a shrink when we got to San Antonio even though I'd promised myself I'd never do that after Aaron and I had entered junior high and the school nurse tried to talk our parents into sending he and I to one because of the strange way we seemed to know whenever something painful both physically and emotionally had happened to the other. It had diminished over time and the proximity that our physical bodies had to be in had decreased as well, but we still shared it as adults.
I dozed off to sleep while Angie was showering and it was her turn to swat my ass when she found me asleep on our bed.
"Go get cleaned up sleepy head. I'm hungry and feel like dancing the night away."
I took a long shower for me and thanked Aaron in my head for insisting on the gas water heaters for both our homes instead of the normal electric ones. I was still drying myself as I wondered back into the bedroom.
I smiled to myself when I saw what Angie had lain out for me. A red, white, and blue western style shirt I hadn't worn in years, but which was still in like new condition. Black jeans with a black belt and the requisite big ass rodeo rider belt buckle, black socks, no briefs or other type of men's underwear, and the black with red highlights cowboy boots that completed the outfit were all laid out on the bed, the boots lying on a dry towel. I looked around for her, but she wasn't in the room.
I applied cologne and dressed before beginning the search for my wife. I found her in the living room sitting on our loveseat and I could see she'd been crying. The tear tracks on her face didn't diminish how beautiful she looked in her matching western outfit to the one I had on with the exceptions that she was wearing a skirt and black hose. I rushed to her side and took her in my arms.
"What's wrong, Angie? Why are you crying? We were having a great time together and I need to know what has upset you so. Was it something I did or said? Tell me if it was and I'll do everything I can to make it up to you."
"NO! It wasn't you, Adam. The phone rang while you were in the shower. It was Mary and when I told her I couldn't talk to her anymore she started yelling at me that I was hers and she wasn't going to let you take me from her. I don't know what I'm going to do. I honestly do love you and want to be with you, but I love her, too. I don't know if you want to hear this, but she and I have been together longer than you and I have. Adam, please tell me, what am I going to do?"
"I can't tell you that, Angie. You and only you can decide on what you want or more specifically who you want. Earlier you told me you wanted me and wouldn't have anything more to do with Mary. You've already broken that promise by answering the phone.
We have caller ID and you knew it was her before you answered the phone so don't try and deny it. I'm going to get that steak and then I'm going dancing; I know for a fact I'll be able to find plenty of willing dance partners, I might even get one to take me home with her unless you still want me instead of Mary.
I'm going to drink one beer before I leave which if I take my time gives you ten minutes to fix your face. If you're not waiting on me at the front door in that length of time, I'll assume you really don't love me more than Mary and I'll be celebrating with someone else tonight."
I walked slowly into the kitchen and pulled my beer from the fridge. I twisted the top off of it and sat down at the kitchen table. I did notice that Angie had rushed up the stairs when I'd walked away from her. I lingered over my beer until I heard her coming back down the stairs and finished it in one gulp, before striding to the front door. Angie was standing beside the door waiting on me when I got to it and grabbed my arm before I could open it.
"Adam, I'm sorry! I did know it was Mary who called and I shouldn't have answered the phone. I promise I'll not talk to her again unless you're with me. Please Adam, I do love you more than I love her and want to be with you like I told you I did.
Please, don't be angry anymore tonight; it will spoil our evening. I realized only a couple of minutes ago that this will be only the third or fourth time you and I've been out together without them.
Please, let's try to have a wonderful night. I do love you and want to be with you. You're the best thing that could have happened to me and I don't want to lose you. Will you try and be happy like you were earlier this afternoon?"
'Yes Angie, I'll try. I still love you as much as I ever have, but I meant every word I said earlier, also. For us to stay together you and Mary have to be done, finito, the end, got it?"
Angie didn't answer verbally but with a nod yes of her head before she grabbed the back of my head and pulled it down to her so she could give me the most passionate kiss she'd ever given me. I saw the gleam in her eye that I knew meant that she did love me.
I took her hand in mine and led her out of the house making sure it was locked behind us before putting my arm around her waist so we could walk side by side toward the four bay garage and my Z. I heard the front door of Aaron and Mary's house bang open and glanced toward it. Aaron had Mary around the waist and was holding her up off the ground as she flailed her arms and legs in an effort to break free. I placed my body between Angie and their house.
"Look straight ahead and don't look over there." I hissed to Angie as I guided her toward the people door in the center of the garage. I could hear Mary yelling at first Angie then me.
"You're only with him because I picked him out for you, Angie. You're lying to yourself and him if you say you love him more than you love me. I will get you back, if it takes everything I have, Angie. You bastard, I'll kill you if you take her away from me. Mark my words, Adam; she'll be back with me sooner than you think. After Aaron fucks her with his big cock a few more times, she'll forget about you and that little thing you have between your legs."
That was the last thing I heard as Aaron pulled her back into their house and I heard the door slam behind them. Angie was struggling not to cry as I opened her door for her.
"We don't have to go out, baby. We can go back to the house and I can grill some steaks and we can dance to the stereo in the den."
"No, I want to go out. I'll be okay once we're away from here. I think you were right about me going and visiting my parents until it's time to leave for San Antonio. I only hope Mary doesn't try and follow me."
"I'm going to talk to Aaron in the morning and try and get him to help us regarding Mary. I know he loves her more now than he did before, but hopefully that little display of histrionics and her threatening to kill me will open his eyes to how she really is and he'll help us in keeping her away from you. Let's go have that wonderful evening you wanted."
We drove to "Danny's", the best steakhouse in our town, and had two of the best steaks we'd ever had outside of the ones I or Aaron had fixed for us at home. We lingered over our meal as Angie continued to struggle with her emotions from Mary's outburst.
I could only sit in frustration when the conflicting emotions overwhelmed her and she fled to the "Ladies" room with fresh tears commencing to flow down her cheeks. I had been on the verge of asking our waitress to go check on her after twenty minutes when I saw her returning with her makeup refreshed and a shy grin on her face. She walked straight to my side and knelt down beside my chair.