Once again I'd like to thank blackrandl1958 for her editing and encouragement.
It shouldn't have been that easy, but it was. Almost too easy, in fact. Had she known it was going to be that easy, maybe she would have done it much earlier in life. She wondered why she had waited this long to try it.
Alex stretched languidly in her lover's bed. She turned onto her right side, pushed herself up and walked into the ensuite. She turned on the shower, adjusted the temperature and climbed in. She quickly scrubbed herself, being very careful around her slightly-sore, freshly-fucked pussy. She was about to turn off the water when Trey stepped in, so she let the water run as the two exchanged places.
The pair was ready to go 15 minutes later. The man leaned in, but the woman backed off slightly so his kiss would be soft on her freshly-done lipstick.
"Easy lover, let's stick to the plan so we can do this for a long time," she cautioned him.
"I'm sorry. You're right," he responded. "It's just that your lips are so damned kissable."
The woman smiled brightly. At least for the first month, this part of her life was going exactly as she planned. She expected nothing less; in fact, she expected this to go on for a lot longer.
Some would have called what Alex and Trey were doing on Wednesday afternoons an affair. She thought the term "affair" was much too crude. Alex loved Trey, and considered their Wednesday encounters much more than a tawdry affair.
Alexis Temple wasn't looking for love when it found her... for a second time. She had been married—happily married—for 12 years, to Chris Temple, when she met Trey Latham at an executive board meeting at Parkfield Hospital four months previous. Alexis was the Parkfield HR director, and Trey was the new marketing representative for Riley Gordon, the hospital's public relations firm.
Trey was wearing a pinstriped charcoal gray suit that had obviously been tailored for his 6-4, 225-pound athletic physique. His close-cropped brown hair was wavy and thick, and his large brown eyes flashed when he talked. She noticed a tingling between her legs when the man looked at her.
The pair interacted several times in the next few months before Alex realized that her feelings for Trey were more than superficial. An affair wouldn't be right: this would be a relationship for which she wouldn't apologize, nor feel guilty for having.
******
Chris Temple walked out to the mailbox on a Saturday afternoon and grabbed the handful of letters and miscellaneous posts that were dropped off that day. In the handful were two envelopes from the state of Indiana that included license plate stickers and printed registrations for 2023. Chris opened the envelope addressed to him, placed the new sticker on his license plate and dropped his registration into the glove box in his car. He then opened the envelope addressed to his wife, placed the new sticker on her license plate and attempted to drop her registration in her glove box... except that the glove box was locked.
"Who the fuck locks their glove box?" Chris thought angrily to himself as he walked back into the house, grabbed his wife's car keys off the key rack, opened the glove box and dropped the new registration in. He closed the compartment and was about to walk off when he was struck by that stray thought.
Chris re-opened the box and looked inside. He found the car manual, the last three registrations and a cell phone, only one of which surprised him at that point.
"Fuck. Fuck. Fuck," he muttered to himself.
Chris knew his wife was upstairs in the shower. As had been her pattern for the last six months, she had gotten home about 20 minutes earlier from her Saturday morning exercise class and, as usual, had gone straight into the shower. He took his time, turning on the phone and waiting for it to boot completely before looking through her call history. As she hadn't expected anyone to ever find the phone, she hadn't bothered to clear her history.
There was a short list of calls but a long list of texts, all to and from someone named Trey Latham. Even before he looked through the texts, Chris knew his 13-year marriage was over. Reading the texts did nothing to change his mind.
Chris turned off the phone, put it back in the box and relocked it. He replaced his wife's keys on the rack, listening for a second as he heard the shower still running upstairs. He blankly went out to mow the yard and think.
The texts told Chris that his wife had been having an affair with Trey Latham for almost a year. Her late Wednesday nights at the office had started about then, he remembered. Apparently, she had been taking a long lunch hour and then adding it to the end of the day so she could get her time in.
About six months ago, the two had added Saturday mornings to their play days, according to their texts. That jibed with the beginning of his wife starting exercise classes at a local gym, Chris remembered. Tears came to his eyes. He slammed both hands on the handle of the mower.
Alex smiled as she heard the sound of the mower from the master bedroom on the second floor. She knew Chris loved to mow the yard, both because of the exercise he got and because he truly loved the look of a well-cared-for yard. As she got dressed to enjoy the rest of her Saturday, she truly knew she was indeed a lucky woman to love an adoring husband and a hot, younger lover.
It had been almost a year since Alex broadened her love life to include Trey, and things were working out as well as she had planned. With careful planning and good organization, her life had never been fuller: a loving husband, two great children, a great job and a 29-year-old second husband to fill in both the emotional and physical gaps she felt she had in her marriage. Yes, there were times when she almost felt overwhelmed, but for the most part she knew she was living her life to the fullest. Taking on a lover... a second love, in fact... completed what she wanted in life. She wasn't taking the easy way out; she was living her life right to the brim, she felt.
On this day, living her life to the brim meant the possibility of having sex with two different men on the same day, a hugely lustful occurrence that always resulted in mind-blowing orgasms when she was able to get her husband to make love to her at night after her lover had made love to her earlier in the day.
Alex had always showered and cleaned carefully after she and Trey had sex, so she had no problem if Chris initiated sex with her on those nights. In fact, after she was sure her husband couldn't tell that she had had sex earlier in the day, she started to initiate things on her own to enjoy the extra arousal of her own naughtiness.
Alex's relationship with Trey was truly one of love, not just lust. The younger man was warm and smart and his interests were different from those of her husband, giving her a more rounded life, she believed. Trey knew from the beginning that she was married and loved her husband, but that she had more than enough love to include Trey in her heart as well. As for the sex, Trey was 13 years younger than her husband and was more forceful in both personality and physicality, having six-pack abs and about 30 more pounds of defined muscle on his body. The sex with each was mostly different, as well, as she and Chris usually made slow, passionate love, while she and Trey usually fucked harder and were physically more intense.
Alex didn't get sex with two men on that Saturday, as Chris begged off due to fatigue that night. She had to admit to herself that he looked a little off when he came into the house after mowing. In reality, Chris was pleased with himself that he didn't throw up when she tried to start something. As he lay facing away from Alex, he wondered to himself how many times his wife had given him sloppy seconds.
Chris was vice president of finance at a medium-sized tool and die manufacturer. He got in every morning at 7, threw a K-cup into the Keurig coffee machine and dug into his e-mail inbox. The plant officially started for the day at 8. At 8:15, he stopped into the office of production manager Bob Casey, a friend who had been divorced from his wife of 15 years about five years ago.
"Got a few minutes for something personal, Bob?" he asked, and when Bob nodded, Chris walked in and closed the door behind him.
"This can't be good," Bob declared.
Five minutes later, Bob had the whole story from Chris and was on the phone to his divorce attorney, who was an old college friend. Bob's friend squeezed Chris in that afternoon.
Alex was shocked when she was served divorce papers the next Wednesday afternoon at the hospital as she got back from her Wednesday afternoon tryst with Trey. She never had a clue her husband was unhappy with their marriage. She completely missed the irony of the timing of her being served. As her mind scrambled to put things together, she never even considered the possibility that Chris had learned about her relationship with Trey.
As soon as she was calm enough, Alex called her husband.
"Why? Why?" she asked through her tears. "What did I do wrong?"
"Seriously? You have to ask? You've been having an affair for about a year, yet you can't figure out why I'm divorcing you!"
For the second time in just a few minutes, Alex was stunned. She continued to sob, but had no words for Chris. He ended the call.
As Chris expected, Alex was waiting at the house when he got home, instead of working late as usual.
"Isn't Mr. McCoy going to be upset with you for not making up your hours for that long lunch?" Chris asked as he walked into the house from the garage.
"I love you, sweetie. You know that. I'm sorry for not telling you about Trey, but I felt it was better for everyone concerned..." Alex said.
"Everyone?" Chris interrupted. "You and lover-boy. That's not everyone. What about me? Aren't I part of everyone?"
"Yeah, you are," she said quietly. "I guess I need to explain."
"Ya think?" Chris huffed.
"We... I... didn't tell you about Trey because I knew you wouldn't understand... and you'd ruin everything, just like you're doing now," she started.
"I'm ruining everything? Excuse the fuck out of me. What exactly am I ruining?" Chris growled.
"I didn't go looking for this relationship, Chris. It just happened... And I'm glad it did. Trey's a wonderful man. You'd like him if you would get to know him. This is so much more than an affair. It's so much more than sex, than lust.
"I love him, the same way I love you, Chris. I could no more give him up than I could you."
"But we're married. You can't love two men at the same time," Chris argued.
"Yes, I can. Being married doesn't mean you can automatically shut off your emotions, shut off love. You are my first love. He is my second. I have the capacity to love more than one man at a time. It's not a one or the other thing," Alex said.
