CHAPTER 2: THE BALDWINS
The weekend seemed destined to be entirely too long. It was just a normal Saturday/Sunday weekend but after that time in Mr. Baldwin's office on Friday, it seemed too long to wait. No, I didn't leave the office with any expressed expectation about the future much less as soon as Monday. He gave me no promise or hint. He expressed how happy he was with me, how pleased he was. I had undressed in his office in the afternoon when others were working. I had sucked his cock and been fucked in his office just like I had imagined and wanted. I had pleased him with my body just like I had desired to do.
To appease the anxiety and uncertainty of what was to come, I turned to the headphones. They had calmed me after Gerald left me for his two-year stint of work in India. The headphones could calm me still, though it would be for a different source of anxiety.
I hummed to the sounds of the headphones as I cleaned and rearranged furniture. I had a desire for more change. I rearranged the living room furniture, deep cleaning as I moved things around. The bedroom was harder because of the size of the dresser and bed frame so I focused on what was in my dresser and closet. My clothes. I moved all of Gerald's clothes in the dresser to a bottom drawer and shoved all of his stuff in the closet to the back. When he left, he took a lot of his clothes so it was easy to consolidate. Now I could critically appraise and organize mine. I wasn't happy. I had few things that now seemed appropriate.
By Saturday early evening, I was stripped down and trying on underwear and clothes. I had been at it for several hours with a small number of panties and bras refolded in the drawers and a larger pile on the floor I was unhappy with. Almost all of my stockings were pantyhose and all of them were in the pile on the floor. It left me with one pair of thigh-highs still in the packaging from a splurge and never had the nerve to wear. And, I had the pair I wore the past Friday for Mr. Baldwin.
The headphones continued their magic as I worked. I had a sense of calm with another sense deeper inside of craving and desire. I would be stopped in front of the full-length mirror in the bedroom touching my nipples and pussy without the conscious thought of why I was doing it except that it felt good and that I remembered how pleased Mr. Baldwin was with my body. It was then that I saw my smartphone buzzing across the surface of the dresser. With one hand still rolling a nipple, I stepped to check the caller ID. I lowered the headphones to my neck and picked up the phone.
"Hi, honey. What time is it there?"
"Morning. I hope I had this figured out correct and didn't wake you." I told him it was fine. "Sorry I haven't called; it's been busy here. We're not only working but learning some of the language and culture. It's kind of full immersion and... well... sorry... anyway, the guys are great. It's like for the first time I have a gang to hang out with. You know me, slow to make any friends or have the confidence to be a part of anything but work. But these guys are great. Might be that we are all in the same boat, so to speak."
"So... you're having a good time?"
"Yeah, the country is interesting. Completely different from what we're used to in many ways but that makes it interesting, too. And the guys are great." There was a pause, a too-long pause that I was all too familiar with when the conversation becomes awkward. Of course, my mind was formulating what I was and wasn't going to tell him. I could tell him about the mundane things of life alone. I wouldn't tell him about the headphones, the surveys, the new desires, and cravings, and certainly not about my submission to Mr. Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin. In the awkward silence and considering what I might respond with, my free left hand was between my thighs and stroking my wet pussy. His stammering voice pulled my attention back, but my fingers remained in motion to give me soft waves of warm pleasure.
"Umm... well... anyway... I should go. There's a soccer game we're going to go watch."
"Oh... okay. Have fun." He said bye and the phone went dead.
I lowered the phone and stared at the dark screen. What the hell happened? What the fucking, goddamn hell? He leaves me for a job and he's off making friends? He's never liked sports. Of any kind. He's going to a soccer game, which he doesn't understand, with his new friends? What the fuck? He never asked anything about me...
The phone rang, chimed in my hand. There was no ID associated with it and I didn't recognize the number but it was local. Spam calls have become terrible but I accepted the call, anyway.
"Karen... this is James Baldwin. Is this a bad time?"
"No, sir. Not at all."
"I could call on Monday if it would be better."
"No, no, sir... now is fine. I'm just sorting some things." And fingering my pussy, but I don't say that.
"I know it's late but we have been talking here about you and... could you come over? This isn't fancy, just come as you are. Is that possible?"
"What... who is we, sir?"
"Oh, sorry. Abby, my wife, and I. I have no secrets from her. I told you she's open-minded and adventurous." Yes, at the same time you also asked if I had ever been with a woman, but I don't say that, either. "I want you to come, Karen. Just as you are now." Then, he said it, "It would please me."