Chapter 12: Irresistable Temptation
**don't worry. you need not have read the rest of the novel to try this. esl**
The next woman I cheated on Mae with was Beatrice. There being no polite way to put this, I'll just come out with it. Beatrice was Mae's mother.
Yeah, she was at the wedding, too.
There was no initial attraction between us. I mean she was my wife's mom, for Christ sake. Bea, I called her Bea, was fifty-eight and a typical middle-aged housewife with five children. Mae being the youngest. Mae's father had divorced Bea when Mae was young, but since they were Catholic, Bea still considered herself married. She was a trim older lady whose once light brown hair had turned gray. She wore it in an old lady perm. Despite having five child births, she looked great. Mae had a photo of her when she was younger and she looked a dead ringer for Janet Leigh.
Though the lines of her face softened with age, she still bore a resemblance.
She was wonderful to me. Treating me like a son rather than a son-in-law. But I noticed a sadness in her.
When I graduated college, Mae and I spent a few months staying at Bea's home. Mae and I soon found work, unfortunately we had opposite schedules. Mae working days, me working nights. Not the best for young marrieds already in trouble.
This schedule however left me at home most days with Bea. She would cook our meals and we'd eat together and we developed a bond. Nothing sexual. Just friendship. I suppose at the time I was feeling lonely in my marriage and Bea was definitely lonely without her husband.
But, as I said, I had no sexual thoughts for her nor she for me. That is until an accidental incident which led to my getting a glimpse at her naked body.
I had gone out one morning for a jog. Bea always showered while I did this to have the bathroom ready for my return. Mae was off at work.
Well, this one morning, I broke a shoelace only a few minutes into my run. So I went back to replace it. I usually was gone about forty-five minutes so Bea would not be expecting me back so soon. When I came up the stairs and rounded the corner, there she was, standing in her bedroom with the door wide open.
She was powdering her soft naked body with baby powder. Looking down, she did not notice me as she patted the white talc into her skin. Her fifty-eight year old body was beautiful. Large breasts, somewhat flattened and the brown nipples toughened from nursing five kids. Full hips with a slight paunch where she carried those kids. Her waist was still narrow and her legs good and strong. Light curly fur topped her ripe pussy.
She had light feathery skin. Soft wrinkles around her eyes and slight sagging at her neck. Her body seemed soft and well worn.
I stood there transfixed, watching her smooth the powder into her round belly, tiny furrows of spidery wrinkles being made by her fingers. Her heavy breasts swaying gently as she did. The skin of their sacks straining as they did. She lifted her arm up to powder her underarm. When she did this, her face met mine.
There was a frozen moment as she stared at my face in the doorway. I must have looked a goof with my mouth hanging open like that.
Then she reacted.
"Oh my goodness," she said, covering her breasts with crossed arms.
I immediately bowed my head, looking at the floor.
I stammered, "I'm sorry. I ... I broke a shoelace. I came to get a new one. I'm sorry."
And I bolted to my and Mae's room.
I didn't know what to do. It was so awkward. I decided I'd better just go run, try to get her body out of my thoughts.
I fixed the lace and quietly peeked out the door to look into the hallway.
Her door was closed. I quickly snuck past her bedroom to the stairs. I paused for a moment, wondering if I should knock and apologize again. I smelled cigarette smoke. Bea was always sneaking cigarettes, even though it was her house. Mae hounded her mercilessly about smoking. She usually went outside on the porch, however, if she was lighting up in her room she must be really upset.
I decided to let the moment pass and ran down the stairs.
I tried to jog but pictures of her naked body floated into my head. A brown nipple half white with powder. Her slightly wrinkled navel. A white dusting on her gray pubic hair. So many pictures I ended up with a raging hard-on that was impossible to jog with.
I found a bench and sat for an hour before I decided it was time to go back and face the music. It was an accident for God's sake. She had to realize that. What she didn't know was that now I was physically attracted to her.
I entered the kitchen and found Bea dressed in a blouse and slacks, sitting at the table reading the newspaper. Little half glasses perched on her upturned nose.
I started, "I'm really sorry, Bea, I never..."
"It's all right, Danny," she interrupted me. "It was silly of me to leave the door open. I'm just not used to having people in the house after all these years. I promise to keep it closed from now on. No big deal."
I nodded. She went back to reading her paper.
I went up to take a shower. I knew I was lost because her little nose crinkling under those half glasses was about the sexiest thing I'd ever seen.
I jerked off in the shower. Stroking my soapy dick as I pictured her sagging tits wrapped around it.
Not for a minute did I believe Beatrice left her door open on purpose. She had no reason to expect me home. But I began to think or maybe hope she had in the coming weeks.
In these weeks, Bea behaved the same toward me as she always had. Neither of us told Mae what had happened. Which somehow, though we never spoke of it, made it seem as if there was a secret between Bea and myself.
For my part, I found myself pursuing more and more opportunities to be with Bea. I even became a light smoker, much to Mae's chagrin, so I could sneak the occasional butt with Bea on the back porch. Indeed, during this time I stopped thinking of her as a mother-in-law and found myself deeply drawn to her as a woman.
She never acknowledged any change in our relationship. But she did seem to enjoy having company in our stolen smokes. Gradually, we lost all son-in-law/mom-in-law chit chat and talked to each other as equals.
Bea revealed herself to be much more than a housewife. A sensual woman interested in art, literature and travel. A woman deeply saddened by her husband's betrayal, but also deeply religious so that she felt powerless to go on with life with another man.
Her husband, who I had only met a few times, had timed his break-up to coincide with Mae's going off to college, so many things Bea had expected to happen once her children left the nest, travels, one-on-one time spent with him, were not to happen.
I, on the other hand, realized this meant she had not had sex in some five years. And although before I saw her naked, I never would have thought of her as a sexual person, I now definitely did.
I suggested we start bringing little brandies to have with our cigarettes. She balked at first but when I brought them anyway partook of the liquor. It seemed to loosen her up. She smiled more often showing her white teeth.
Mae noticed the longer time spent sneaking the smokes.
"Well, you two seem to be getting cozy now you share that disgusting habit. For all the time I see you you might as well be married to my mother," she said one night as I got into bed.
I shrugged, "For god's sake, it's your mother. If you'd let her smoke in her own house neither of us would be out there."
"Well, you never seem to want to be with me anymore. Our schedules are so different we have to make use of every moment together," she said.
I felt this was some kind of invitation so I put a hand on her hip. She rolled into me and we made routine love in the missionary position. The only thing that made it interesting was when I pulled out to masturbate on her stomach so as not to get her pregnant, I imagined it was Bea's soft round tummy that was accepting my sperm.
One morning when I came back from my run, I headed up the stairs. We had been very careful no to cross paths since the incident but for some reason I met Bea coming from the shower. She was wrapped in a robe that showed her good figure and wore a towel around her wet hair.
We stopped short when we saw each other. With bowed heads, we moved past one another. I don't know what possessed me but maybe the tension had gotten to me. As she stepped into her bedroom, I said, "You're very beautiful, Bea."
She paused for the briefest moment then closed the door behind her.
I winced and went into my--our room, Mae's and mine, and took off my running clothes. I was naked, my cock half hard, when there was a knock at the door.