Excellent marriage, wonderful husband, new baby on the way . . . and my husband's best friend.
Though unhappy in the beginning, I had transformed from an innocent, insecure "mail order bride" into the desirable, sexually curious, younger wife of a prosperous rancher. No longer innocent and naive, I found myself the willing object of lust for two men.
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Matt Daniels
I guess I had always liked Mrs. McQuade, Katie. Though we had been friends from the beginning, I was still very much a man, and with increasing frequency, I found myself becoming sexually aroused when she was near. Katie was young, just nineteen at the time, much younger than Jonas' forty years. Large brown eyes, long doe-like dark lashes, and full, soft lips with a small scar on her chin probably from some childhood adventure. Her long, brown hair that she wore tied back most of the time would regularly slip free and hang in soft tendrils around her face, and I would force myself to resist the urge to caress her face and brush the stray curls back.
I was a big man and easily towered over her small frame. She couldn't have been more than 5' 4" and perhaps 120 lbs on a good day; I could easily imagine lifting her in my arms and fucking her as her arms encircled my neck and her slim, shapely legs wrapped around my waist. Her body was still changing from that of a girl into a woman. It was apparent from the swell of her hips, slim waist, full, firm breast and visibly long, hard nipples that after a year or so of ranch life and good, regular sex, her body would mature into that of a beautiful woman. When I looked at her, I knew that Jonas had better be on guard, because there would always be some man lusting after his wife.
***
From the very beginning, Katie and I had been able to talk, discovered we had several common interests, and even found that we might have had a distant relative or two in common back in Wisconsin. If I had met her first, things could have been so different.
As soon as she came here, I remember sensing right off that she and Jonas were at odds, not just from what Katie said, but also from Jonas' behavior and the comments he would make to me. It was obvious to him that she wasn't what or who he had expected, and he didn't want her here even though he had married her despite his feelings. For Katie's part, she didn't want to be here either and felt in a way trapped and taken advantage of.
I also think she may have been afraid of Jonas. I felt sorry for her.
Jonas said he was too busy and delegated the task of showing her around the ranch, picking out a good horse for her, and generally pointing out the things around the ranch that she'd be responsible for. I taught her how to ride and was surprised when she turned out to be an excellent rider. After that, we began taking long rides a couple of times a week and slowly became good friends.
Katie was very pretty, smart, eager to learn, and in truth, as I said before, if she hadn't been already married to Jonas, I might have gone after her myself. But as fate would have it, Katie was married to Jonas, and so any inappropriate feelings on my part I tried to bury.
Over time our friendship and her emotional dependence on me grew stronger, and if Jonas noticed, he never said anything.
***
About two months after Katie came to the ranch, I came upon her one morning, feeding the chickens, and could see she had been crying. I also noticed she had a large hand shaped bruise on her lower arm, where someone had grabbed her and held onto her tight enough to leave the bruise. It was evident to me that something had happened between Jonas and Katie that had upset her. She turned her back toward me when I approached, and I knew she wasn't ready to talk about it, so I let it go, but a few days later, I asked if she felt like going for a ride, and Katie after a long pause said yes, she'd like that. As we rode, Katie finally opened up, and between tears and gasps blurted out that Jonas had forced himself on her.
"That bastard!" I said, furious; my first instinct was to head back to the ranch and find him.
"Are you alright, Katie?" I asked.
"I'm fine . . . I'm fine, Matt. I shouldn't have said anything, shouldn't have dragged you into this."
We rode on a little further, stopped, and I watched Katie as she dismounted her horse and began to cry again.
"He's my husband, and I know I wasn't acting the way a wife should, but how could he expect me to be with him in that way when he was always so angry and disappointed with me and everything that I did."
"Afterward, he kept saying he was sorry, but that he expected me to act like a real wife . . . Oh, Matt, I just don't know what to do," she said, the desperation clear in her voice.
"You'll do what you need to do, Katie. Jonas and I have been friends for a long time, and I know he can be a hard, uncompromising man, but I don't know what he was thinking to treat you as he did."
Leading her horse, Katie walked a little way up the trail before stopping and staring off into the distance. After a while she mounted her horse and turning to me hollered, "come on Matt, we'd better head back . . . I need to get supper started for Jonas."
We rode back to the ranch in silence. As we neared the ranch, Katie as if having reached some personal decision, looked over at me and said softly, "I want to be a good wife to him, Matt . . . if he'll let me."
***
Over the next few days, things seem to change subtly between them; I could see that they had come to some understanding and even suspected that they might have finally begun having consensual marital relations. Though trying to suppress my feelings for Katie, while I was happy they seemed to be getting on better, I was strangely irritated at the thought of them having sex.
Jonas seemed to be in a better frame of mind as far as Katie was concerned, this change was noticeable not by what he said but by his actions.
Things for me, however, on a personal level were not going as well. I had met someone in town that I was interested in, and she was a very nice lady, and willing and eager to show her affection. Despite such a willing partner, I still found myself thinking of Katie, dreaming about her and in the middle of the night having to masturbate for relief as I fantasized about her.
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Katie Alston
Jonas and I had been married for almost nine months, and our relationship had changed happily for the better. I was pregnant, and even though I was barely four months, Jonas was thrilled and swore he could see the subtle differences in my body and had already convinced himself I was carrying his son.
I think when things finally started becoming real was one Sunday, two of the ladies at church had approached me commenting on how I seemed to be glowing and that it could be a sign that I was going to have a baby. Little did they know that I was already pregnant. Not too long after that, I was in the parlor doing a little mending with my dog Jack lazily sleeping at my feet in a pool of sunlight, when Matt came in and stood next to my chair. I looked up and smiled at him, he took my hand and pulling me to my feet, returned my smile.
"Jason just told me about the baby, and I wanted to say congratulations," he said as he hugged me and kissed me on my mouth.
I was surprised by the kiss (he usually kissed me on the cheek) but hugged him tightly. Matt had always been a good friend to me. He was the one who was there to listen and encourage me in the beginning when Jonas and I were having such a difficult time. I would always be grateful to Matt and thankful for his friendship.