Dani should have known something was wrong when she came home late from shopping and her husband, David, was nowhere to be found. She called out, puzzled, but there was no answer.
She shrugged and began walking up the stairs to her bedroom. It was early, just past seven, he couldn't have gone to bed yet, she thought.
Just to be safe she put down her packages and went into the guest bathroom in the hallway. She checked herself out in the mirror. She was 34, blonde, and in great shape. Just in case David was mad about something, she unbuttoned a few more buttons on her blouse. He would be less angry when he saw her purchases: very sexy lingerie that she would wear only for him.
It had been a crazy past two months. David had been away on business trips for days every week. Dani had gone a bit nuts: she discovered a Naked Challenge on the internet that required her to be nude in private at all times. That relieved her boredom but not her loneliness.
Then, following the Challenge, she ventured out early one morning for a naked hike into the woods in back of her house. And Mike, her 71 year old neighbor, saw her. Rather than run away and get dressed she had gone boldly to his house, totally nude.
The experience excited them both, and Dani offered to share more naked times with Mike. Their special times together turned more and more into Dani acting out her naked fantasies while Mike watched -- and masturbated.
Finally David was home for good. Their interactions with Mike had seemed awkward to Dani at first. Lately though, David and Mike seemed to have developed a closer bond. They were often talking quietly together, heads down. Dani didn't know if that was good or bad.
She shrugged off her concerns and went to the bedroom door which was closed. If he was in there, if he was in any kind of mood she would pull him out of it with an impromptu strip fashion show. As she kept changing outfits right in front of him, he would inevitably give in and pull her down on their bed. She just hoped he wouldn't rip any of her pretty purchases by ripping them off her body.
She knocked. "David?" she called out, tentatively.
"Come in" he said. "We've been waiting for you."
'We?' she thought. Who's 'we'? Then she opened the door and saw David and Mike sitting in the chairs against the far wall.
"What?" she gasped. "Why...?!"
"Close the door," David ordered. "And lock it behind you. We need to talk."
She went white. She started trembling but she did what she was told.
"Come and stand in front of us."
She dropped her packages on the bed and stood in front of them, glancing frantically back and forth at each of the men in her life.
David cleared his throat. "Mike's been telling me about some very interesting things you two were up to while I was away."
Dani looked up, panicked. "I.. it was... I never meant to hurt... I was just so lonely!"
David looked at her like she was some strange, unknown creature. "You're mistaking this meeting for some kind of trial in which you're allowed to defend yourself. It's nothing of the kind... you've already been found guilty; now we're informing you of your punishment."
"Punishment?!" she gasped. "I don't understand! I know what we did was wrong but --"
David held up his hand. There was something in his eyes that made her close her mouth. She knew him well enough -- he was trying to control himself; he was getting very angry in his own cool, collected way.
"We're giving you two choices... one more choice than what you deserve! There's a suitcase already packed in the closet; enough clothes, cosmetics, personal care items for about a week. There's a hotel room already booked for you. If you choose to leave, you will only be allowed back once to collect whatever else you need."
She was crying now. She felt the tears running down her face. Her face, her whole body felt cold but her tears felt hot.
"If you make that choice," David continued, "I will initiate divorce proceedings after thirty days. It will be on my terms. If you challenge me, all the details of your lovely fantasies with Mike will come out in court."
Dani turned and stared at Mike. "But... Mike..." her voice trailed off. He was deliberately staring at the ground, not looking at her. She didn't want to point to him being complicit, she just couldn't believe that he wasn't defending her.
David forced a laugh. "At first, I was ready to... I don't know what I wanted to do to him! Then I heard all about what you did. Like a lot of men, he was naturally sneaking looks at your legs, your tits and your ass. You are a fucking beautiful woman. And then you go and walk over to him stark naked." He shook his head.
Mike looked up now and made eye contact with her, as if he was trying to tell her something.
"No, I don't blame Mike." David continued. "You used him; you cheated on me. That's why we've come together to agree on an appropriate punishment."
Dani looked at Mike and thought: 'but he invited me over! He saw me naked and he very calmly invited me over.' She knew that Mike had held that part back.
"What -- what punishment?!" she gasped out. "You mean you two... you're giving me another choice?! What... what choice do I have?!"
