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I'd been out of the shower for only a few seconds when I heard Jack's call: "Breakfast's on the table Anna." Flicking still wet hair behind my shoulders, I grabbed a bath robe and rushed back into the bedroom before it got cold.
Sex with Jack wasn't especially good -- but discretion is guaranteed -- so I do sometimes wonder if I perhaps enjoy breaking the dietary taboo of eating the Full English Breakfast with which our trysts invariably conclude, almost as much as I do the sexual taboo of sleeping with my brother-in-law? I was telling Jack exactly that as I crossed the room, still closing and fastening my bath-robe as I walked.
It was only on reaching the table that I realised we weren't alone, the room-service waiter was still standing in the doorway. With the second glance, our eyes met and my mouth fell agape, while the dark haired young man, cast a knowing smile, wished me a "very good morning madam" and expressed his hope that "madam's breakfast proves to be as delicious as she's expecting" before closing the door and departing.
Jack was already tucking into his bacon and eggs and failed to notice that madam was now as white as a sheet, had lost her appetite completely and collapsed onto a chair as trembling legs buckled beneath her; what the fuck was Rob doing here! I knew my daughter Jess' boyfriend was a student at the city's university, I also knew that he worked a part time job in a hotel, but that job was at the Hyatt, not the bloody Tiffany!
I regularly, albeit subtly, checked to ensure that Rob still worked at the Hyatt and made sure that Jack never booked us into there for our trysts; so what was Rob doing here this morning? There was no doubt that he'd recognised me immediately and though he might not have noticed Jack on his own, with me to provide context, he would surely have done so. Oh fuck... fuck, shit, damn and fuck!
Dragging my attention back to Jack, I found him unconcernedly wolfing down his breakfast and there seemed little point in apprising him of the bad news; Jack's an adequate lover, but he's sod-all use for anything else. If I'd told him, he'd likely just go to pieces, panic and do something stupid; though to be fair, he was probably in far deeper shit at that moment that I was.
My husband Gordon may perhaps forgive my having had an affair; but an affair with his younger brother? Not one chance in hell! Divorce would be inevitable, but as we'd been married for almost twenty five years -- I'd been fucking Jack for eight of those! Gordon's rise from a salaried accountant, to multi-millionaire businessman had spanned those years; so even as the guilty party, our divorce wouldn't impinge upon my income or lifestyle by one iota.
Jack meanwhile worked for Gordon, or more accurately, was employed by him, with an impressive job-title and spectacular salary for a position which entailed no responsibilities or decision making whatsoever. Jack was there only because he was Gordon's brother and would be totally unemployable in the real world; while I was heading to the divorce court, Jack would likely be heading fruitlessly to the job-centre!
Jack had barely finished his meal before I was ushering him out of the door; we always left separately and though it was usually me who departed first, this morning I needed the room's privacy. The door had barely closed before I was dialing Rob's cell phone number, but it took me twenty minutes and perhaps a dozen calls before he eventually picked-up and I certainly wasn't leaving a message.
By then my concern had changed to anger; his excuse of having been cycling home and so not having heard the phone in his backpack just wasn't good enough and I ripped into him with all guns blazing!
No, he was still working at the Hyatt, but had been 'covering a shift' for some college friend. No, he hadn't been 'spying' on me, though having noticed a lady going into the elevator the previous evening which he'd 'thought' might be me, he'd arranged to deliver our breakfast order 'just to see'. No, he hadn't recognised my companion last night, but had 'realised that it was Uncle Jack' when delivering our breakfasts and no, he hadn't mentioned our encounter to Jessica, Gordon or anyone else.
Those answers and the calm and polite way in which Rob delivered them ought to have assuaged my concerns and anger, but I was so wound-up they seemed only to fuel it; rather than responding in a like manner I unleashed that fury. I demanded that he never mention what he thought he'd seen to anyone; it was just an innocent situation which he'd foolishly misconstrued. I issued threats toward too him; who was going to believe him anyway?
Certainly not my husband and daughter, particularly with Jack to back up my side of any story he might concoct. I said much more and would concede that this narrative doesn't perhaps convey the tone and language with which I delivered it. The sound of a couple of intrusive 'pings' from my phone was what finally caused me to pause and into that silence Rob calmly replied: "Check your messages Anna and I'll put the kettle on; I don't have any lectures this morning and my house-mates are all out." Whereupon, Rob simply hung up.
I glared at my phone for several seconds, before opening the first of two WhatsApp messages; this detailed an address, along with a cryptic message: 'So who will G&J believe?' The second was a video, only a few seconds long, which showed a woman - probably recognisable as me - walking across a room, while adjusting her bathrobe, to join a man -- possibly Jack -- at the table; if you paused the film at just the right moment I may at that point have been flashing all I had to offer, but nothing too damning; the accompanying sound track however, was ruinous:
"I really can't decide whether it's your stiff cock or these illicit breakfasts that keep me sneaking out to spend the night with you Jack". My assertion that nobody would believe Rob had perhaps always been a little over-confident, Jessica was smitten by him and Gordon too had often said what a 'grand lad' he thought Rob to be -- high praise indeed for any suitor of his only daughter - I threw myself face-down onto the bed and screamed into the pillows; those few words left no room for debate.
I was in my car within twenty minutes and courtesy of the sat-nav, despite making one stop, I was parked outside the address Rob had given me within another twenty; ample time to have settled on a new line of approach. The door opened as I reached for the bell and a freshly showered Rob, looking and indeed sounding very relaxed in sweats and t-shirt invited me in: "I've made you a mug of tea Anna, no sugar right? It's not quite the palatial splendour of Hawksley Manor I'm afraid, but we do our best."
The small terraced house was scruffy, but surprisingly clean and tidy, a far cry from the smelly squat which I'd envisioned of a place shared by five young men; that along with Rob's apparently casual demeanour, for a moment quite undermined me; but I took a breath and made my pitch.
Taking a line that the affair between Jack and I was casual and recent, that it had only arisen due to Gordon's waning sex drive -- he is almost fifteen years older than Jack - and that I would of course now be ending it. So, given the affair was over anyway, Rob's telling Gordon or Jessica what he'd witnessed, would only cause unnecessary pain; undermine Jess' respect for her mother and underscore Gordon's depression regarding his fading libido.
I hoped that I'd sold it well, but the look in Rob's eyes suggested otherwise: "Bullshit, the guys at Tiffany tell me that the two of you have been regulars in there for years; how much of the rest of it is also lies?"
How many times have I heard the old adage 'when you're in a hole, stop digging.'? But still I took one further shovel-full and offered Rob £300 -- all that the cash machine had allowed me to withdraw -- as a sign of my gratitude for his silence.
The expression that appeared on Rob's face told me that I'd messed up yet again and his response confirmed it: "You're offering me money; I thought whore's collected the money, not handed it out?" Rob's words stung, but the next, well...: "And let's be honest, the money you're offering me, to not tell Gordon what a treacherous bitch he's married to, is actually Gordon's money rather than yours anyway; how many different ways can you cheat on him?"
That really stung, but Rob still wasn't finished: "If you want to buy my silence, at least have the decency to pay for it yourself, not that you have much to offer beyond that adulterous cunt of yours; so how about that? Offer me a piece of what you've been handing out to Jack and God knows who else for years."
I was overwhelmed by Rob's rebuke, my mind a jumbled mess of thoughts and emotions: I was insulted, disgusted, shamed, even somewhat frightened by what he'd said and in the way he'd said it; but at the same time I was also flattered, excited and more than a little aroused by his proposal too. Rob's an attractive young man, who -- to my shame -- had made quite a few appearance in my private fantasies; I'd noticed the outline of his cock within tight jeans or shorts more than once, was it as well proportioned as it appeared?
That said, Rob's suggestion was outrageous, the very idea that he could treat me like a slut, just some cheap tart to satisfy his lust and nothing more; it was much like... like... perhaps the way I used Jack... It was also I realised a similar breach of Gordon and Anna's trust, if he were to fuck me, that made Rob no better than I was, just a cheating bastard who could no longer take the moral high ground, nor afford to spill the beans! I think it was that -- self preservation - which won the day.