For better context regarding this story I'd like to recommend to you, "The Writing Convention," by Literotica writer Brittni4u. Her work should fill in some blanks for you regarding questions you might have. I would also like to warn everyone ahead of time - this story includes some fetish play, (to include watersports). Lastly I would like to take a moment to recognize three very talented writers who will appear in this series; Brittni4u, Brooklyn Lamb, and wendy53. This work is dedicated to you and thanks you three, for being an inspiration and for giving me words of encouragement on this project. Thank you for letting me pick your brains and for putting up with my questions.
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I don't know where it all started, when things began to fall apart. I guess being a big dumb male I didn't see signs. My bad. They were probably swirling around me like dry leaves in a windy alley-way but I just didn't see, or care. I was too dazzled by the success.
I'd retired early at forty-seven; looked at all the years I had left, and decided I'd better find something. The guys down at the local VFW were good fellahs but they were all too old, (they seemed ancient and I didn't want to get old like that too quickly).
I simply had no intention of simply sitting over a beer at a bar and telling stories about all I never did to guys who all needed to turn up their hearing aids until I needed one myself. Instead, I went out and found a day job ten days after retirement and started writing at night. You've read my stuff, (or you are reading it now so you know what I write).
Anyhow, when things went wrong I was at a bit of a zenith for myself. As a writer I'd had a shit ton of failures; everybody does when they are making their bones. No shame in that, but finally I'd put something out to be truly proud of. It was an erotic historical novel and it made up for all the mistakes and the setbacks. Things took off.
I quit the day job. Money was actually coming in faster than I'd anticipated from the book and didn't need to "clock in." I definitely had no appetite for calling anyone boss save myself. We'd moved from one home to a bigger one we didn't need. We were recent empty nesters but it didn't matter; if I had cash coming in like that, I wanted everyone to know about it. It took a while but Karma kicked me in the sweet spot.
I came home early from a medical appointment that had to be rescheduled. It was then I'd walked in on my wife Linda in bed with her dance choreographer, (well not really in bed as much as 'on it'; with her ass high, her head low and him plunging down into her like a drill rig.
Didn't see it coming. For that matter I was not only surprised to see this from her, but also I surprised that the little leaping leotard loving lothario, Vince (who was balls deep inside my wife) fancied women. So much for my gaydar, so much for my alleged grasp of human nature.
"You understand, I want a divorce Bill," was all she could say, then she looked up over her shoulder and bid Vince to 'just keep going.'
She'd staged this. It was brazen, even for her. I have to give the girl credit. Truth was, she was eight years younger than me, far too attractive (I'd married up by all accounts), and I'd been less than stellar in providing her attention lately. It was either my job, the new house, or work... and no time for her. So along came Vince and he knew an unhappy attractive woman when he saw her.
I turned around, headed out to the bar by the pool, and poured myself a drink. They were gone in her car to who knows where in about thirty minutes. There would be papers, there would be lawyers, there would be mounds of accusations and bickering; I could see this all ahead in the months to come, but at the moment I did what any man of my character would - finding a pit of gin soaked self-pity and crawling into it.
Several hours later as the sun was coming up and I woke up on one of the pool lounges. My phone was between several empty bottles and it was buzzing for about the fourth time. I had a reminder. There was a book signing coming up in a few days and I didn't want to bother; especially not given the circumstances of how my head felt but then through the hangover fog I had an epiphany. I was free as fuck to do as I pleased and conscience be damned!
Ok... this was not so much of me being merely set free as much as a nervous breakdown. I really don't know why it happened to me, and I don't know why it chose then and now. The moment it arrived for me it manifested itself in the oddest of ways... I simply didn't care.
I'd always cared. I'd always been the responsible type who gives a fucking shit; putting in the long hours, volunteering for the crap jobs nobody wanted but needed to be done. I'd gone off to Iraq and Afghanistan on tours when both conflicts were anything but ideal, taken shit assignments when I happened to back in the states, and I'd generally not complained. It's the sort of thing responsible people with a self-important weed up their ass do.
After the Army, I'd done the sensible thing and started work... gotten the last of my children off to college and set us up with a lovely house and a nice mortgage that I could easily pay off. I told myself that my writing was my chance to be frivolous and to prove a point to myself I wrote about erotica and turned my back on anything of substance. For my sins I was successful and... now none of it really mattered.
So it was ironic then that I found myself a few days later on a flight up to Phoenix and then with a short connection to San Diego. My publisher had said it would be the right thing for me to hit this book signing, a lot of big names were hocking their pulp there and it would look good for me to have mine out alongside theirs... but that really wasn't why I was doing this.
I just wanted to go... no other reason. I was like a drop out; drifting along and seeing what fate had in store... the difference between me and the average disenchanted dropout; I had a rather liquid cash flow. It was probably a good thing shit hadn't gone down the tubes with me and Linda when I was a twenty-something without a crust of bread and two nickels to rub together.
So I checked in at the hotel after a short trip from the airport. I dropped my things off at my room and then went downstairs and met up in the hotel conference room with the people making arrangements for the book signing. As it turns out, things were already underway. The conference room was jam-packed full of people.
I hated those things. Hated the whole idea. I hated the crappy hotel conference room carpeting and the crap coffee that invariably would be in one corner next to carafe's of ice water and tea. Hated people walking around wearing stupid nametags that said, "Hi, My Name is ... fill in the blank." I hated even more that I had to fucking wear one.
So I am waiting for table space because its a damnably crowded room. More than one author had their choked line of fans queuing up to a rickety foldup table. Finally, I had a table and a box of books and somebody put a pen in my hand while slapping a poster up on the wall behind me. That's the embarrassing part of it; looking behind you and seeing yourself -looking all serious holding your own book or with your book superimposed in the background.
The line that formed up in front of me was what I expected; the frumpy housewife types all looking for a bit of excitement in their lives; all having found instead a paper-back escape in the pages of my book while they waited for the laundry to finish rinse cycle. I could see a few of them hiding my book after each "me time" session, just in case one of their kids should discover it or their mother happened by. My work is not something you want grandma to find on your coffee table; not unless grandma is a total cum addicted sex freak. Anyhow, this was my muffin-top bread and butter, and it stretched across the room and out into the lobby.
I was about two hours into this activity of greet, write something, and smile for a selfie; when I received a punch in the arm. I turned and there she was.
"Hi stranger!"
It was Brittni, staring back at me. She had her hands on her hips and was displaying a bit of mock pissi-ness. I knew the admonishment was coming and I suppose I'd deserved it.
"So," she scolded, "you just show up to a book signing... one where you know I'll be at, and you don't even so much as let me know ahead of time you'll be in town? What the actual FUCK, Bill!"
"It's a long story hon," I started to say but she interrupted me with,
"It's a long stay here in town for you and you've got a king-sized bed up in 219!"
"Wait, how in the hell did you...?"
"You saw the Indian or Pakistani or whatever he is guy who checked you in at the front desk?" she asked.
"Yeah?"
"Well," she explained, leaning close to whisper in my ear like the brat she could sometimes be,
"let's just say there isn't nearly as much curry-sauce inside his ball sack as there was this morning when he came into work!"
I turned my head to her ear and whispered, "You keep sucking off hotel employees like this and I'm going to put on a bellhop uniform to lug your bags upstairs."
"They are already upstairs dork," she snapped back at me with another sassy little whipser, "in room 219. I am waaay ahead of you, (I emptied the bellhop's balls and put a permanent smile on his face right after I swallowed the desk clerk's nut-chutney)!"
I realized she'd just made this trip a whole lot more bearable for me.