My wife, Miranda, fell down at the end of February, on one dark afternoon, during the bad weather.
It happened when she hurried across the road to do some shopping. Her legs just slipped away from underneath her on a treacherous piece of ice. Then, as she hurried to get up to avoid an oncoming car, she slipped and hurt herself again. Unfortunately, this meant that she sustained various bits of bruising and damage to her backside and lower back and ended up in bed for a couple of days. Luckily, she had me to look after her and take care of her every need while she got over the worst of it. After that, she hobbled around for a short period, enduring the pain, until she finally went to see the doctor. To cut a long story short, she was prescribed some pain killing tablets, given some special cream and advised to have a daily massage on the injured areas.
Now some men might have rather liked the idea of rubbing cream into the wife's posterior, but not me. You see, because of our history together, I felt it was more like an inconvenience than anything else. The reason being, that our sex life had spluttered and died some time ago. Miranda had never seemed keen on sex, not with me, anyway, and, over the past few years, it had tapered off completely. It seemed she always had some excuse or other ready to put me off. I thought she was very clever at it, because I never realised that there were that many excuses. Eventually, however, I got the message and stopped pressurising her. After all, every man needs a bit of encouragement in bed and believe me, I got precious little. So, I carried on, in what was essentially, a sexless marriage ...there was not much else I could do.
We had both been brought up not to talk about sexual problems, so the subject was never really brought up for a full discussion. I suppose we should have sought some expert help of some kind, but, for one reason or another, that never materialised. It was all very sad really, but, having said that, I had no intention of forcing myself on her. I mean that wouldn't have been right. So, to cut a long story short, I just got used to a married life without much sex.
Then again, I can't say I was unhappy, because, I loved our home, and, as a couple, the two of us got on reasonably well together in every other respect. These days, with our daughter away at College, we ran a small business from home and had a fair amount of leisure time. The fact that we were business partners and a married couple had helped to keep us together. We had a nice lifestyle, were financially well off and had a vested interest in keeping things on an even keel. As far as I knew, Miranda was reasonably happy with her life and splitting up never became an issue.
But, sex in a man never dies and I found other outlets for that kind of satisfaction. I wrote stories about sex, read erotic literature and occasionally made use of a prostitute. It was enough to keep me reasonably happy and interested. Unfortunately, because we had moved to the area a few years ago to find work, we had no relatives living anywhere near and very few friends.
Luckily, we had got to know one couple who lived not far away and he was the one who had got me really interested in using a computer. This guy's name was Ken and he lived with his wife Suzy in a little village near Carlisle about a 30 minute car ride away from us. We visited them quite often and, in return, they came to see us. It was a nice arrangement and we had become good friends. When I told them about Miranda's little accident they were most sympathetic. Every time we talked on the phone it was mentioned, and then, one day a couple of weeks later, I was in the middle of a conversation with Ken, when he raised the subject again.
"How's Miranda? He asked. "Has she got over that fall yet?
"Well, no, not yet" I explained, "still got a painful rear end I'm afraid. It's taking some time to clear up."
"Well, tell her that if she wants someone to come over and give her a massage. I'll be glad to do it," he chuckled.
I know he was kind of joking, but nevertheless, there was a sexual undertone in his offer that was suggesting something else........After all, I had witnessed his lustful stares at my leggy wife and her backside for long enough. Yes, it was obvious to me that he had a "thing" about my wife. I was quite sure about that. How could a husband be mistaken about the lustful way another man looks at his woman?
I made light of his remark, at the time, but, it had got me thinking. And, the more I thought about it the more I began to visualise Ken running his hands freely all over Miranda's naked body. Over her breasts, her hips, her thighs and sexy ass; taking complete possession of her. I just knew he would like that. Maybe she would too.
They were naughty thoughts indeed. But, it got me excited and it was a rare thing indeed these days for me to get sexually turned on by anything to do with my wife. So, as the days went by, I kept on thinking about it and realised that it would be absolutely thrilling if it actually happened. The implications of it were giving me constant hardons. It was just amazing......I could hardly sleep each night as I went over it in my mind. I know it sounds kind of perverse and weird, but, somehow I found it sexually exciting and I was determined to try and make something happen.
Getting Ken over to our house was easy. There were some computer programmes he had promised me and all I had to do was remind him of that fact and tell him I needed them fairly urgently. He promised to come across two days later and set them up for me. In the meantime, I made a great pretence of falling on my wrist and having it bandaged up. I was then able to claim that I was unable to do any more massages for the moment, because it was too painful.
The next thing I needed to do was set up a video camera in the bedroom so I could observe everything that went on. If my plans went as I hoped they would, I didn't want to miss a thing and I had already come to the conclusion that trying to see anything from outside the bedroom door was going to be less than satisfactory. I looked around and came to the conclusion that it could only work if I got the device up into one of the open style wardrobes. Finally, I wedged it under some folded up clothing in Miranda's wardrobe. The advantage of this was that although it was located in the en-suite area, the viewing angle through the open archway into the bedroom was superb. It was also reasonably safe because she hardly ever disturbed that particular shelf and the device was so small that it was practically impossible to spot from the bedroom floor.
So, when Ken came on the Thursday morning, all I had to do was mention that because of my wrist, I was unable to give Miranda the massage she needed. He was there like a shot. "Tell her I'm volunteering to do it," he grinned cheerfully.
"I'll see what she says," I said, quite seriously, watching his grin fade and be replaced by something else. A look of blatant, unadulterated lust.
I don't suppose he had thought for a moment that his suggestion would be taken up, but, now he was licking his lips in the faint hope that he would actually be allowed to get his hands on my wife's body. As he stood there drooling, I disappeared into the lounge to explain things to her. This was the tricky bit, getting her to agree, and, my heart was thumping wildly with excitement, as I put the proposition to her.
"Are you really serious?" She exclaimed. "Ask Ken to give me a massage? I know he's your friend but........"
It wasn't a complete surprise to her, because, I had argued the possibility that very morning as we got out of bed.
"Look," I reasoned, "the doctor said it was important that you had a daily massage and I can't do it. So, it's your chance to have it done, and, anyway, you said yourself that you weren't keen on getting any of our neighbours to come in and do it."
"Yes.......but Ken," she queried, with a frown. "I mean even Suzy would have been better....."
"Suzy isn't here," I said killing that one off. "She's got her hands full with her sick Aunt at the moment, you know that. So, come on.....he's ready."
"Well I suppose..........." she muttered reluctantly.
She was sitting there with a frown on her face obviously thinking about it. Was she happy or unhappy with Ken as a stand in masseur? It was difficult to tell. Then she stood up to go back upstairs.