[THIS STORY IF A WORK OF EROTIC FICTION. IT IS NON-CONSENSUAL IN NATURE. IT INVOLVES THEMES OF A HUSBAND WATCHING HIS WIFE HAVE SEX WITH ANOTHER MAN—WHICH I KNOW IS A DEFINITE BEE IN SOME OF YOUR BONNETS. IF YOU OBJECT TO THIS MATERIAL, DON'T READ IT. ALL CHARACTERS ARE OVER 18 YEARS OF AGE.
It's been awhile since I posted any titles, but I took my wife to the dentist two weeks ago—she fell off her bike and chipped a tooth—and while I waited for her to be taken care of, my mind started to toy over the image of her being "taken care of" in another way. Do hope you have fun with it.]
"It's a wreck, is what it is," Tommy Cordova half mumbled through the gauze of the surgical mask, his face bent closely to Kate's face, the polished steel mirror working to varying angles in her mouth.
I heard Kate stifle a sob, her right eye doing a minute tic towards where I stood, arms crossed, sagged in the corner of the exam room.
Tommy straightened up after another moment and slipped the magnified safety glasses off his face. "Two molars are shot. The one furthest back looks okay."
"I don't want 'em pulled," Kate mumbled, lifting up in the dental chair just a bit.
"Gotta come out," Tommy answered, slipping the mask down past his chin, hesitating a moment when he saw the tears spring to my wife's eyes. "...It isn't a choice Kate. They are busted...shards down into the gum line that I'm going to have to dig out. ...Damn toothbrush, what the hell are the odds on that?"
"No other way," I intoned cautiously.
"Nah," he answered, shaking his head, and then turning to Kate with a gentler tone. "...You have every tooth in your head, honey. These two are in the back an' nobody'll ever see 'em. I'll see you get a good bridge or maybe even two implants will work better.
Kate finally nodded and sank her pretty head back onto the rest, blinking into the harsh dental lamp.
"I can put you out now and have it done in half an hour."
"I don't wanna be put out," she said worriedly, anxious as she again twisted to look over at me.
"Just nitrous oxide and an analgesic..."
"No," she said, shaking her head till some shard of tooth lanced deeper into a nerve and made her wince.
"It'll be okay," I said reassuringly.
"You'll wanna be out for it, trust me," Tommy said. "...And it's just laughing gas and then a shot. Won't feel a thing and won't remember a thing."
"But I took a painkiller already," she said weakly.
"What kind?"
"It was a hydrocodone."
"Vicodin? What the hell are you doing with them?"
"My Mom had them and she gave me one."
"Just one," Tommy queried, holding up a finger for emphasis.
"...Two."
"How long ago did..."
"Hour or so," I answered, "Right before we called you."
"Be okay," he said, "Though you'll probably be off in dreamland for the rest of the night."
Kate sagged back again, her small hand coming up to brush her left cheek, puffy already with the damage within.
"So do we go for it?"
She nodded and closed her eyes.
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I'd gotten home at seven that night, finding my wife, Kate, leaning over the kitchen sink cradling a handful of ice to the left side of her cheek...Kate's Mom Helen was setting cookies and tall glasses of milk in front of our two young boys.
"What happened?"
"Had a toothbrush in her mouth and turned into the patio door," Helen said.
"What?"
"Toothbrush in her mouth," Helen said again, miming Kate brushing her teeth and then slapping the wall for emphasis. "...Bang! ...I think she has broken teeth, molars. I told her so many times about walking around like..."
"Not broken, Kate muttered angrily, not looking up. She'd actually been doing that since we'd met in high school, walking around with that stupid toothbrush in her mouth, reading the paper while she counted up and down strokes, walking out into the yard in the summer months, inspecting her flower beds with the oral-b jutting out, the little dabs of foam at the corner of her mouth. I kind of liked it all these years to be honest, it was cute, but it had always driven Helen nuts. I think that was part of why Kate still did it...a bit of rebellion from the daughter who'd rebelled the absolute least.
"Let me see it," I said, taking a flashlight down off the shelf. "...Come on."
Kate turned and reluctantly opened her mouth. Pearly while teeth, straight and perfect, two cavities in her whole life she liked to brag, the fillings shiny. And there in the back, the bloody molar clearly cracked, a second behind it, chipped and seeming out of alignment.
"We gotta go to a dentist," I said.
"No...and it's too late anyway," she sobbed.
"Tommy," I cut in...Tom Cordova was an oral surgeon who I played tennis with.
"No..."
"Let me call," I pressed, meeting her eyes...my little wife was literally phobic about doctors of any type, good for the kid's and me, but not for her. The OB once a year was stress beyond words for her...she didn't even like going to the optometrist, and would be squinting at the TV before she's let me make her an appointment.
I called Tommy and told him what happened and...well, actually he chuckled when I told him what had happened:"A fucking toothbrush, you have to be kidding me"...and told us to drive down to his office where he met us at the front door, jeans and a ratty Pitt dental school sweatshirt.
And that was it, a quick exam and all the rest. "I held Kate's hand in mine and told her I'd stay right with her, that it would be okay. That everything would be okay."
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"What did I tell you, off in dreamland," Tommy said forty minutes later, neatly snapping his latex gloves into the red-lined trash bin. He took off the glasses and his mask and stretched a bit, rocking his back to get out the kinks.
"Thanks," I said, looking down at the measured rise and fall of Kate's chest, the clear mask up nestled alongside her head
"Hey, anytime," he said, lifting her wrist and timing her pulse against his wrist watch.
"Just send the bill over..."
"Can't believe they give you no dental coverage over there?"
"It's called being cheap," I said, reaching down to brush a hair off Kate's forehead. Thirty-three and already with a few strands of gray in her dark hair, the boyish cut framing her neat features, always more cute that pretty, petite in her body with a slight widening in her hips as she got older. I watched her chest rise again, her smallish breasts still pert and firm, something that used to bother her when we were younger, that idea that men wanted big tits...that I did, which couldn't be further from the truth really. I was actually her first boyfriend, and I liked the fact that I'd been the only one to ever get his paws on those perfect little cupcakes.
"Well the biill shouldn't be that bad," Tommy chortled behind me.
"Hey, whatever it is—thank you for coming in like this."
Tommy looked down at my Kate and grinned. "Hey, no problem at all, buddy boy. ...Anytime I get to look at your cutie of a wife laid out absolutely comatose in my office, is worth it for me. ...Hey, I oughta keep her here till you pay up, now that would be some collateral."
"Yeah," I answered hoarsely, feeling a sudden unexpected stir in the pit my stomach.
Tommy stepped back to the fully reclined dental chair and playfully tugged at the top button on the yellow shirt-dress she was wearing. "And she'd never know a thing," he laughed, winking at me playfully and then quickly stepping back to counter where he began arranging his various instruments into clear sterilization bags.
I looked at him and wondered if he had heard the hoarseness in my tone, the rasp that caught my unexpected excitement. It was then that I should have stepped back from it and let the awkward silence shut it down. It had been a poor joke really, that was it. A tasteless joke of the kind guys would make...but always there was that truth in such things...that echo of lust and menace men had.
"She's out that good?" I heard myself say, the words a tad too tight.
"Oh, yeah," he answered, swiveling his head to look at me.
I looked down at my wife, this girl who gave me her virginity, who had my two kids. Her features were slackened a bit, her lips moving as if on words that held no sound. I could feel Tom's gaze on me.
"You wanna see 'em?" I whispered feeling a surge of adrenalin that made me half dizzy.
"...You don't have to whisper it. Your little Kate is having sweet dreams." He was grinning now, visibly excited. "...Oh, and the answer is yes. As in yes, I would love to see 'em."
I slowly put my fingers on the button closest to her throat, hesitating a second as if she might snap awake and start bellowing. My hand was shaking...I undid the button.
"Come on," Tom mouthed, stepping up to the chair now and staring down intently at what I was doing.
I undid another, then hesitatingly the next. Then the next...clear olive skin flashing as the cotton material parted...a pink brassiere with a thin edge of lace. Two more buttons, then the next...the dress undone to her navel. I met his gaze and slipped the halves apart...the bra neat and girlishly modest.