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"Best Served Cold"
  by Night Writer


The lounge was crowded. It was Saturday night, and the barflies
were out in swarms. We took the booth at the end of the room,
hidden slightly from the crowd in a corner recess that hinted at
false privacy. Exactly two drinks later he settled in next to
her, drooling at my wife as he would a juicy steak.

"My God, you look delicious tonight, Linda."

My wife stared at him with wide, hungry eyes. She had finished
her second of two drinks in the time it took me to finish one.
Drinking was something she did on special occasions, our
anniversary or New Year's Eve and I could see she was unsteady
from the two whiskey sours forced down over the past thirty
minutes.

I flinched when he placed his hand on her thigh, and again when
he spoke.

"My name is Stephan. You must be David. I hear you've been a
naughty boy."

He looked across the table at me and grinned. His eyes glittered
with the promise of trouble. Linda saw him watching me and
followed with a small smile of her own.

He took her hand, brought it to his lips and kissed it lightly.

"Your wife is most appreciative. I like that in a woman."

He leered at her, suggesting much more than the words that
dripped from his mouth.

Suddenly he was more businesslike. He looked at me, as if to
assure he had my attention.

"Tonight you'll learn that hell really does 'hath no fury like a
woman scorned'."

"What do you mean by that?" I stammered.

"Relax, David. Your wife has decided to forgive your little
indiscretion - but only after having a go at your game herself.
Look at it as punishment, or a lesson, but either way she's
decided on her price. I'd suggest you pay it."

I shot her a questioning look, expecting her to explain. She
didn't.

"So, what's this 'price' he's taking about?" I asked finally.

Her smile grew wider. She ran the tip of her finger around the
rim of her glass, brought it slowly to her mouth, and gently
sucked the moisture from it before answering. Her eyes were
glassy, her pupils large, dark wells of mystery.

"You had your fun. Now it's my turn."

She turned toward him, pulled him close, and covered his mouth
with hers. The kiss was long and deep. A minute passed, then two.
She sucked at him hungrily, her tongue wrestling with his, her
hands clutching him from behind his neck. I heard her moan softly
as she melted away from him, then faced me again with the same
smile.

Stephan composed himself, took a long drink of scotch, and
sighed.

"It's been an interesting week, David - one I'll remember for a
long time to come."

"An interesting week? What does he mean?" I hissed.

She eyed me coolly, then looked straight at me as she spoke in a
voice I was afraid could be heard at the next table.

"I've given myself to Stephan. He owns me - or has, for the past
week, until midnight tonight. Your affair lasted much longer, but
I thought a week would be enough. Any longer and I might not have
been able to stop. He's handsome, strong, and very sexy - it just
seemed to make sense. I put myself in his hands - told him I'd do
anything he wanted for one week. Anything."

She looked over at him and wet her lips. His hand had edged her
dress up, and was now stroking her thigh.

"I have a request, Linda. Your husband is somewhat incredulous at
this point. I can certainly understand why. You can move things
along with a gesture of your willingness to cooperate. I'd like
you to find the ladies room, then remove whatever you're wearing
under this conservative little black dress - bra, panties, slip,
nylons - everything. Put all of it in your purse, and return to
us wearing nothing but your dress and shoes. While you're gone,
David and I will get to know each other better. Run along now.
We'll be counting the minutes..."

She left the table without a word. I had no trouble reading the
mix of fear and excitement on her face.

We sat in silence for a long time before he spoke. The waiter
returned with another round of drinks. The muzak changed from pop
to classical. Growing beads of water trickled down the side of my
glass, each droplet collapsing into the fresh paper napkin.

"If you could have only seen her the day she offered herself to
me."

"She didn't offer herself to you. You'll never make me believe -
"

"She went to her knees the first time I asked. I can still see
her small fingers unzipping me, fumbling with my belt. And later,
again, in the park, how her diamond sparkled in the afternoon
sun."

"You lying son of a bitch."

He went on as if I hadn't said a word.

"She closed her lips around my cock, almost dutifully, as I might
have expected from your wife. She sucked me until I gave her
every drop, then swallowed all of it without complaining. I like
that, too. I had her go braless during our stroll in the park. We
found a secluded spot behind a hedge near a playground. She
opened the front of her blouse just before she blew me again. We
could hear the children's laughter as she milked me with her
mouth. Her nipples hardened so quickly under my fingertips..."

He smiled and took another sip of his drink, taking in my
reaction.

"Linda wouldn't do that. I don't believe any of it!"

"I can see why you'd think that at this point. But given time, I
think you'll be surprised at what your wife is capable of. Most
women are sluts at heart. Linda is certainly no exception. She's
well on her way to proving it."

I didn't know what to think. Linda was someone I had known for
ten years, my wife, my lover, and my friend. Her attitude toward
sex wasn't puritanical, but she wasn't a woman who lowered her
inhibitions easily. His story was preposterous, or at least
exaggerated in the extreme. Yet, she was terribly hurt, full of
the 'fury' he spoke of.

"Have another drink, David. Try to relax. It's not as if I'm not
sympathetic to what you must be going through. Most men would
rather kill than tolerate an unfaithful wife. Yet tolerate her
submission to me is exactly what you must do. You could make it
easier on yourself by considering an alternative to nursing your
angst. A woman's sexual emancipation can be very arousing.
Linda's a beautiful woman, a seething reservoir of untapped
potential. Witnessing the results when the floodgates are pried
open can be exhilarating, even life-changing, if you'll allow it.

"Just imagine, your own lovely wife satisfied again and again by
another man - so quick to submit, then crave the taste of his
cock, and finally, the fullness of it deep inside her. I'd bet
your pulse jumps a little at the very idea. Tell me I'm wrong, if
you honestly can."

Suddenly the heat became oppressive. I was sweating. One of the
bulbs in the lamp suspended over our table flickered, then went
out. The remaining light threw sinister shadows over the face
across from me.

I jumped as he slid quickly to the end of the booth and stood up.
Linda passed in front of him and settled into the bench seat
again, the flimsy cotton of her dress yielding to the subtle sway
of her breasts. Stephan took his place beside her, his shoulder
pressed tightly against hers.

"Linda, show your husband what you've done."

She turned, giving him a puzzled look.

"Your purse, my dear. Show him what you're hiding in your purse."

She placed it on the table and opened it, tilting it in my
direction to show me the contents.

"No, no, Linda. Take them out so we can see. Your husband needs
proof - so, we must give him proof."

She pulled the ball of soft material through the opening,
separating straps from lace. Bra, slip, nylons, and finally
panties, all lay in a row beside my glass, placed there one by
one as she pushed them across the table. I reached out and lifted
her bra, turning it mindlessly in my hands. It was still warm,
and smelled of her bath oil and perfume. I looked up to meet her
eyes again. She stared into me as though she was searching for
something.

"David, do you have any remaining doubts about how far your wife
will go to please me? She's sitting here beside me, naked under
her little black dress. You have the evidence in your hands.
Admit it. She's completely mine."

A flush of color spread over her face. Her blue eyes told me
nothing as I peered into them. They seemed to pierce the shadows,
almost glowing in the dim light.

"You wouldn't do this to me. You couldn't," I said unbelievingly
as I watched the curves of her body shift under the dress.

He smiled again at my response, then reached toward her, easily
opening the top button of her dress. She didn't resist. His hand
dropped to the second button, pressing it through the tiny slit
as effortlessly as the first. Then the third, and fourth. I could
see the white, soft skin of her collarbones and a hint of the
valley between her breasts.

"Linda, will you do anything I ask?"

She answered in a whisper.

"Yes"

Her eyes were still locked on mine.

"Linda, expose your breasts for me."

She turned suddenly toward him. Her mouth opened as if she might
have discovered the limit to which she would willingly continue
their little game. She caught herself before uttering a sound,
poised at the edge, calculating the distance before she jumped.

"Are you refusing?"

"I - no, I'll do it."

She undid two more buttons and pulled the front of the dress
open, hoping the generous display of breast and nipples would
satisfy him. He turned toward her, placed a hand on each of her
shoulders, and slowly inched the dress over them, stopping
halfway down her arms.

"Now, expose them, as I asked."

The bar was quieter now, but still echoed with the steady hum of
voices and the clatter of empty glasses. She peered around the
corner of our booth, then, with trembling fingers, coaxed each
bare breast into the light. The V formed by the remaining buttons
forced them up and outward, her small pink nipples thrust forward
into the dim light.

"I know what you're thinking, David. Your wife is sitting in
public, practically naked to the waist. Anyone who happens by
would certainly get an eyeful. Will it be our handsome young
waiter, or a drunken customer who's lost his way? I'm betting on
the waiter. What do you think?"

Her face went crimson. She stared at the ice melting in her tall
glass, her creamy breasts heaving with each breath.

"Well, I'm sure you're thinking many things. So many excuses for
her behavior must be racing through your head. But before this
night is over, you will have to face the truth, the real reason
she's given herself to me for the past week. It's why she brought
you here tonight."

I expected to pay, and pay dearly for the brief affair with
Joanna. Linda had found the hand-written birthday card in the
front pocket of my suit jacket. The suggestive wording was
damning enough, but it was the picture of Joanna in the nude,
sitting on my desk, cupping her breasts with both hands with a
come-hither look that told the whole story. It was just sex -
feral, spontaneous, animal sex; sex with no strings or emotional
attachment. That hadn't been much consolation to Linda. She was
devastated. She brooded for weeks, then seemed to recover. Now
this.

"I'm sorry. I know I hurt you. I'm so sorry, Linda."

It was another of many apologies. I knew that. She had ignored
the others, but this one brought an air of superiority to her.
She sat up a little straighter with shoulders back, thrusting her
bare breasts toward me.

"It hurts doesn't it? I spent weeks imagining the things you and
Joanna did together. I tortured myself, trying to find some way
to get over what you did, trying to figure out whether there
would ever be a way to forgive you, to stay with you. When I met
Stephan, I knew what I had to do. For me. For us."

I couldn't believe this was my wife sitting across from me. As
she talked, she seemed taller, almost towering over me in her
seat. She glared at me, her lips savoring the wicked satisfaction
of each word.

"For us? You didn't do this for us!" I spat back at her.

Stephan casually fished an piece of ice from her glass.

"You're wrong, David. I did it for me first, but ultimately for
us. I had to make sure you knew how I felt, how much it hurt. I
wanted you to know that another man touched me in ways that made
me dripping wet - a man so beautiful, so skillful at what a woman
needs, that I'd do anything for him. So now, you 're the one who
will have to imagine what we did together. He made me do things
we never did. And I liked it - no, loved it - all of it. I
couldn't get enough of him. And he was always there - big, and
hard, and - "

She stopped in mid-sentence with a sudden gasp. Stephan touched
the ice to her nipple, moving it in small circles over the rising
bud of pink flesh, then continued outward over the white mound of
her breast. Her eyes closed. Her breathing came in ragged,
jerking pants.

Stephan watched her face with fascination as he turned his
attention to the other breast and nipple. After the ice melted,
he rolled the nipple softly between thumb and forefinger. The
pink bud hardened quickly, pouting at me as though she had willed
it.

"Isn't she magnificent, David? So deliciously hungry. Completely
lost in her own desire. But please Linda, continue. This is your
night, your chance to tell him what you feel."

She opened her eyes, studied me for a few seconds, then turned to
Stephan. Her hand disappeared under the table, moving gently in
his lap.

"I want you to touch me Stephan. I live for the feel of your
tongue against me, wetting my belly until it's cool and slick,
gliding over the insides of my thighs until I scream for relief."

Suddenly her eyes were on me. They were filled with fire and
arousal. A droplet of water fell from her nipple, spreading into
a small spot on her dress.

"Something happens to me when I take him in my hands. He's hard
for me, well, constantly. Not just hard. Throbbing. I could play
with his cock for hours. A large juicy drop forms so quickly at
the tip right before he comes in my hands - God David, if you
only knew how wet I am just thinking about it."

She hadn't taken her eyes off me. They were eyes I no longer
knew.

We sat there in silence, both trembling, for very different
reasons.

Finally, Stephan ventured into the uneasy distance between us.

"Beautifully done, Linda. I'd say David should have no reason to
doubt your pain, or your sincerity. Why don't you button your
dress. I think he's seen enough."

She continued to look at me defiantly, waiting a while before
pulling the dress over her shoulders and buttoning the front.

The waiter arrived seconds later with another round of drinks.
His eyes never left the front of her dress. I was sure he could
see glimpses of soft skin between the spaces where the material
opened between the buttons. Stephan called him back just as he
turned away.

"Linda, I believe you have an admirer."

I guessed he was a college student, a sandy-haired kid of about
20. His fair skin turned bright red as he tried not gawk.

"It's ok," he assured the boy. "She's a beautiful, sexy woman. No
one could blame you for staring."

Linda glanced from the boy to me, then back again. The dress was
like wet tissue paper over her moist, distended nipples.

"I do have to keep a tight rein on her in public though,
especially when she drinks. She really has no shame at all. Do
you know that she's naked under this pretty black dress? Isn't
that right, Linda?"

She smiled up at the boy, replying with a slow wink.

"He's very cute," she teased.

The waiter saw her bra and panties piled beside my glass. His
expression changed from embarrassment to hopeful amusement.

"Do you think I'm beautiful - ," she squinted at his name tag, "
- um, Chuck?"

"Yes I do. Very beautiful," he replied, smiling widely.

"Well, Chuckie, I'm not so sure my husband over there thinks so.
He's fucking his accountant, Jo-an-na. The smaaart and sexxxy
Jo-an-na."

She was slurring every other word, and I could hear anger creep
into her playful banter.

"Mmmm - but Stephan thinks I'm beautiful, don't you Stephan?"

"Of course, my pet. Outstandingly, outrageously, irresistibly
so."

He grinned at her, but she was still preoccupied with the waiter.

"So, Chuckie, he says he's not fuck-ing her anymore. He says it
was just sexxxx. He says he's sorrrry. Think I should believe
him, Chuckie? Whadya think?"

The kid squinted at me with a puzzled look. This was a
complication he hadn't counted on.

"Well ma'am, I really wouldn't know."

She sighed in disgust, her eyes now lowered to his obvious
erection. When she looked back up at him, the temptress had
returned.

"Hmm - but don't you think that if he can fuck other women, I
should be able to fuck other men? You do think I'm fuckkk-able,
don't you, Chuckie?"

He decided a change in attitude was in order - from opportunist
to diplomat.

"Well, all I can say is that if I had a lady like you, I'd spend
all my spare time at home."

She whirled to face me, spilling her drink as her hand flashed in
the air before me, her finger wagging in my face.

"See! HE wants to fuck me! Lots of men want to fuck me! I'll bet
Chuckie could fuck me all night! And I'd love it! How do you like
that? Want to watch me suck his big, hard cock? Want to watch
Chuckie stick it in me and fuck me till I scream? Do you? Do
you?"

I could hear the conversation in the next booth go suddenly
silent as she raised her voice. She leaned toward me, red-faced
and wild-eyed, as though she might actually come across the table
after me. A button popped open where her breasts strained at the
front of her dress. Crescents of firm white globes taunted me
through the opening.

Stephan put a large hand on her shoulder as Chuckie made a hasty
retreat. His touch calmed her; her body seemed to recognize it
instantly. She leaned into him, eyes closed, a peaceful smile
spreading across her lips. Stephan pushed the remains of her
drink to my side of the table, then lifted her chin with two
fingers.

"Feel better?"

She looked up at him with wanton eyes.

"Mmm - much. Kiss me, Stephan. Please, kiss me?"

Their lips touched, then locked together in a shameless display
of lust. She worked her mouth fiercely against his, biting,
licking, devouring him with her tongue. A second button had come
undone as she pressed against him, allowing a small pillow of
milky white flesh to push through the opening. An engorged nipple
turned from pink to angry red as it rubbed back and forth across
the tweed of his jacket.

It wasn't the Linda I knew in the seat across from me. She panted
openly as she writhed against him, making little sucking noises
when her mouth broke free from his. I had been ready to take my
medicine; ready, I thought, to weather any form of revenge she
might take. But this - watching her surrender so completely to a
man she praised as "so skillful at what a woman needs" -
straddled a line that might never be recrossed. Could I feel her
slipping away?

Much later, when she finally broke away from him, she collapsed
against the back of the booth, panting and wide-eyed. A third
button had opened on the front of her dress, and I could see
beads of sweat dotting the heaving inner curves of both breasts.
She was staring at me again, staring with lusty daggers.

"You - did - this," she gasped.

"I - I know I hurt you. I'm sorry - so sorry, Linda."

"You - did - this!" she repeated, this time louder as her
breathing slowed.

"OK, you win! Now I know what it feels like. It hurts - it hurts
more than I could have known. But please don't take this any
further."

"You - did - this! Say it! I want to hear you say it, God damn
it!"

Stephan sat expressionless beside her. His hand moved gently
along her thigh, stroking her with the tips of his broad fingers.
Little by little, he pushed the hem of the dress as high as it
would go, exposing a narrow expanse of bare thigh just visible
beyond the edge of the table. She spread her legs an extra inch
and waited for my answer. If it would put an end to this, I'd say
what she wanted. I'd say anything.

"I did this," I answered, looking solemnly into her eyes.

It seemed to satisfy her. She smiled a smile I recognized, and
her features softened.

"Yes, David, you did this. And now you have to pay."

She opened her legs as wide as the seat would allow. Stephan's
hand wandered into the crevice between them. She watched me as he
played with her, his hand hidden between tightly clenched thighs
that twitched in rhythm to his every move. Her eyes left me only
after she lost all control. She inhaled sharply as a brief shiver
shook her body, then froze for a instant as though every muscle
was preparing for what was to come. The tension melted from her
as quickly as it had arrived. She slumped back in the seat,
biting her lower lip to quiet the urgent whimpers that rose from
her throat. Her hips bucked frantically against Stephan's hand
until her muted little cries died and she lay quietly against the
back of the seat.

When she opened her eyes they were drilling into me again. Yet,
her voice was softer now - the rage, pain, vengeance, all of it
gone.

"Now you know, David."

I was sweating again. The room narrowed and spun like a
kaleidoscope.

"Now you know just a little of what I went through for the past
three weeks - day after day of imagining you with her, how you
kissed her - night after night of wondering whether she was a
better lover, and what it was that she did for you that I
couldn't - weeks of torturing myself with images of the two of
you together in bed in some cheap motel, and what you said to her
while you fucked her. Did you tell her you loved her, David?"

I gripped the edge of the table to steady myself. It was a
question she must have wanted to ask weeks ago, a question from
the heart. She caught me off-guard, still reeling from the
intimacy she lavished on the man beside her.

"Linda, so help me, I didn't. I could never do that. Never! It
was just - "

"I know, David. Just sex. You say it as though it was nothing
more than a handshake. 'Just sex.'"

We stared at each other in silence. It was the same familiar
impasse, one we had reached weeks ago. And I had walked right
into it again.

Stephan cleared his throat. He had been quiet a long time,
watching us with interest as he sipped the rest of his scotch. He
spoke after a quick glance at his watch.

"Linda, might I suggest we -"

"No, Stephan. Let me do this."

He sat back and waited for her to go on, looking slightly amused
by her evolving self-confidence. He might have owned her for a
week, but now she was in control, and was determined to do this
her way.

"I'm going upstairs with Stephan. He has a room here at the
hotel. I want you to wait for me. All this will be over at
midnight. I'll meet you back here, and we'll go home. Do this,
and we'll be even. If you're not here when I get back, I'll leave
you. It's the only way, David - the only way I can stay with
you."

She was no longer angry, but the look she gave me guaranteed she
was deadly serious. It was a final play I never could have
imagined. I wanted to protest, to beg her not to go with him. I
felt the contents of my stomach rise in my throat, and words
refused to come.

"David, we're going to his room now. I'll let him do whatever he
wants with me - anything at all. He can have me any way he likes,
as many times as he likes. I'm not your wife for the next two
hours, I'm his possession - just a piece of willing flesh. It's
just sex, David. Just sex."

With that, after gathering the scraps of clothing still piled in
front of me, they slid out of the booth and stopped to face each
other. His hands were on her hips; hers caressed the lapels of
his jacket. She hadn't buttoned the front of her dress, and he
was staring at her breasts through the gaping opening. She looked
up at him, saw his eyes on her breasts, and smiled with pure lust
and surrender. His hand stroked the small of her back as they
made their way across the bar, then slid lower as they turned
toward the bank of elevators and disappeared from sight.

Learning that your wife has had an affair is one thing. You can
try to deal with it as a past event. Somehow it seems less real
that way. You might make yourself believe her when she tells you
it's over. You might even convince yourself that it will never
happen again, at least with the same guy. Watching the clock
while she's having sex with him is a much more bitter pill.
Overwhelming jealousy and nagging helplessness batter your ego,
reducing it to a pathetically bruised and bleeding carcass.
What's left isn't pretty.

I don't remember how much I drank. Too much. It didn't do much
for the pain, and the clock crawled even slower.

Minutes after they left, another drink appeared in front of me. I
didn't look up. The last thing I needed was more quality time
with Chuckie.

"I saw them leave. Is there anything I can do?"

That wasn't Chuckie's voice. She was leaning over me, hands
resting on the edge of the table. Her name tag was inches from my
face.

"I doubt it, uh, K.C."

Just two letters, centered on the white plastic badge. Oh, well,
anyone but Chuckie.

"My real name's Casey, but everyone calls me K.C."

She wasn't going to go away, so I took another longer look. A
sympathetic smile beamed at me from between platinum locks of
shoulder-length hair. The black halter matched her tiny spandex
shorts that plunged two inches below her navel and showed every
detail between her slim legs. "Diva" was written across her firm,
upturned breasts, each letter made of glittering rhinestones.
Black heels, a tasteful, gold belly-ring, and a narrow black
collar finished the look. Small round glasses rested halfway down
her nose. She peered over the top of the gold frames at me and
smiled invitingly. Lord help me.

"Is there anyone here that doesn't know?" I asked, hoping for
some consolation.

"Well, she was pretty loud, and Chuck loves to gossip about the
customers."

"So, where is Chuck?"

"Oh, something came up. He had to go, so I'm covering for him."

She was leaning against the table, the tops of her bare thighs
resting against the edge. The skin-tight black shorts had no legs
at all, and even in the dim light I could see they molded her
plump labia like a second skin, parting the fleshy lips with the
seam that ran between them.

"Are you sure I can't do something?"

She could do something alright. She could go upstairs with me,
let me tie her to the bed and fuck her until she begged for
mercy.

"Well, K.C., I really don't know what you could do at this point.
The night's pretty much a disaster."

"Hmmm, are you really sure? I can be a very compliant girl, if
you know what I mean."

Her eyes narrowed, and she fingered the thin collar suggestively.

"And I can be a very stupid guy. I guess everyone in the place
knows what I mean."

She slid in beside me, her bare thigh pressed snugly against my
own. A faint whiff of coconut and cinnamon filled the booth,
carried by the heat from her trim body. It made my mouth water.

She leaned closer and lowered her voice. Her breath was hot and
sweet on my face.

"So, she's really doing it with that guy upstairs?"

"Well, she's doing something with him up there, and I'd bet it
isn't Parcheesi."

I finished my drink in two long, slow gulps, then watched the
bottom of the empty glass, hoping it might fill itself so I
didn't have to look up. After a minute of awkward silence, she
went on, this time with the voice of a much younger girl.

"I cheated on my boyfriend last week - right over there."

She pointed to the busy hallway leading to the kitchen.

"It was after we closed - with one of the assistant managers. I
didn't mean to do it - I mean, I didn't plan it or anything. We
were just kidding around, and before I knew it, we were tearing
at each others' clothes. When my boyfriend came to pick me up, he
found us in the hallway, screwing against the wall. He didn't
even say anything. He just looked at us, turned around, and left.
He won't speak to me. I never got a second chance."

"You mean like I did?"

"Is it so bad? When it's over, you'll still be together. I mean,
it's not like she's in love with the guy, right? It's just sex."

"Right. 'Just'."

Now I desperately needed another drink. I guess it showed. She
scooped up my empty glass and had another in its place in two
minutes.

She sat with me now and then over the next two hours when she
found a few free minutes between customers. Every other drink was
on the house. I lost track of how many. I know she was more
irresistible with each one.

By eleven-thirty the crowd dwindled to a few regulars at the bar.
She plopped in beside me again, this time collapsing against me.
Her head found my shoulder, teasing my cheek with thick swirls of
silky hair. She still smelled delicious.

"Mmmm - I'm exhausted. You make a wonderful pillow."

Her breathing was deep and slow. I could see the outline of her
nipples through the halter. Further down, her flat belly, smooth
as velvet, swelled slightly with each breath as it dipped beneath
the wisp of black spandex. She was everything my ego craved - and
everything that had led me to my fate tonight.

"There's still time. No one would have to know," she breathed
softly against my neck.

I felt her hand settle in my lap. Her fingers traced the outline
of my erection, then closed in around it, squeezing in a gentle,
regular rhythm.

"Besides, you need to feel better. Linda's having her fun. Why
shouldn't you have some fun too? I'll do anything you want.
Anything."

I pulled away and looked at her. She eyed me with sudden surprise
and confusion.

"How do you know her name?"

She froze, as though I was speaking some unknown foreign
language.

"How do I - ?

"Her name. I never told you my wife's name."

Just as suddenly, her confusion melted into the same sultry
smile.

"Oh, that. Jeez, you scared me. I thought you were freaking out
or something."

"I'm not freaking out. I want to know how you know my wife's
name!"

"I told you, Chuck loves to gossip, especially about his
customers. He doesn't leave out many details. From what he said,
your wife would have had any guy in the place running around with
a tent in his pants tonight. I mean, it was pretty obvious when
he came back to the bar."

She gave my cock a few more quick squeezes, smiling lasciviously.

"C'mon. Come play with me," she teased in her best little girl
voice.

Why shouldn't I? My wife was with Stephan, probably enjoying all
the things she'd thrown in my face, the "things we never did"
together. This wasn't just revenge. She loved it. She had said so
- admitted it to my face. Images came to mind that made me
cringe. Would she let him come inside her? Let him come in her
mouth? What could they possibly do that we hadn't already done in
the our own bed?

I lowered my head into the palms of my hands. The room was
spinning again, and the nausea returned in nagging waves. I'd
cheat again, to get back at her for cheating, all because I
cheated in the first place. And so it would go, on and on, until
it destroyed us, or worse, trapped us in a living hell of
deception and revenge. I was teetering on the edge of a razor -
it hurt too much to stay put, but I was too paralyzed by
confusion and alcohol to make a leap in either direction.

"You don't look so good. You've had an awful lot to drink
tonight."

When I raised my head to answer, I noticed she had moved away
from me. Now she studied me with more concern than lust. Her
outfit seemed to shrink by the minute. It took very little to
imagine her naked, and even less to imagine how ravenous she
would be with her lips sealed eagerly around my cock. But
something was wrong - or at least not right enough.

"You're right," I groaned. "Actually, I feel like I might die any
minute now. So as my last act, maybe I should do the right thing
for a change. I'm sorry. You're more than any man I know could
resist. Except this man, on this night. All this has to stop, and
stop now. I know it might look like a huge gamble, but I still
love her. It's a gamble I have to take."

She took my hand a gave it a little squeeze. There was something
new in the way she looked at me. At first I thought it was
sympathy, but there was something else, deeper, more meaningful.
Given my decision, I'd probably never know.

"Good luck. I mean that," she told me, after a thoughtful pause.

She left without another word, looking every bit as good going as
she did coming.

Eleven-forty. I went to find the men's room. I needed a walk to
clear my head, and some cold water on my face might be just what
the doctor ordered. As I circled the bar, Linda appeared under
the archway leading to the lobby. She waved sheepishly as I
approached, then kissed me lightly on the cheek. Whatever she had
done upstairs, there was no longer any visible evidence. Every
hair was in place, her makeup was flawless, and I could see the
faint outline of her bra under the dress.

Neither one of us knew quite what to say. She smiled at me
warmly, a smile that told me we might survive this after all.

"Can we go now?" I begged, more eager than ever to leave all this
behind.

She nodded, still smiling up at me.

"Oh, I was on my way to the rest room - if I can find it."

"They're in the lobby, just past the elevators," she offered.
"I'll wait for you here."

There was no sign of Stephan. I didn't ask.

When I returned, she had vanished. After a stroll through the
spacious lobby, I went back to the lounge. She was at the bar,
chatting with K.C. I watched from under the archway, my guts
churning like a blender. She closed her purse and thanked her
with a friendly gesture, turned to leave, then noticed me waiting
by the entrance. Another smile. Another kiss when she reached me.

"She's pretty," she mentioned casually as we headed for the door.

"She?" I croaked, my knees now buckling with each labored step.

"Your waitress. You forgot to pay your tab."

"Shit! I forgot to pay her? I've never done that. Christ!"

"It's ok, David. It's ok. Let's go home."

The door closed behind us as we stepped into the crisp chill of
the first winter storm. She put her arm through mine and snuggled
against me. Snowflakes frosted her hair, sparkling like brilliant
rhinestones on black velvet. The lights and sounds of the hotel
faded as we made our way through the dusting of new snow. In time
the place vanished, swallowed by the darkness and the frantic
dance of white that slowly filled in our tracks, hiding all
traces of the narrow trail of footprints that twisted backward
into the night.

"It's over, David. The details aren't important."

"But I can't stop thinking about it. A few answers might help me
make sense of it all. Then maybe I could let it go."

"You'll get over it, David. If I can, you can. It was one night."

We were lying in bed. She had buried her nose in a new paperback
for the past hour. I was watching an unsettling late-night movie
showing the misadventures of a well-meaning schmuck caught up in
a disturbing night-long chain of events in a dream-like Soho.
Twenty-four hours had passed, almost to the hour.

"I wish I was as sure as you seem to be. Watching the two of you
last night - I don't know - I don't know if I can get over it."

Her expression grew more serious as she listened. She closed the
book and placed it on the nightstand, then rolled on her side to
face me.

"David, what if I told you none of it was real?"

She stretched her legs, then drew them up in front of her pink
nightshirt. I loved her legs. They were her best feature - long,
slim, and smooth, revealing firm swells of delicate muscle that
rose and fell beneath satin olive skin.

"It looked real enough to me."

"Did it?"

"Come on. You mean I imagined him kissing you, fondling your
breasts, masturbating you in public? All that never happened?"

"I didn't say that, did I?"

"Then exactly what part of all this wasn't real, Linda? Are you
telling me you didn't fuck him?"

"I'm asking you to consider that things may not always be what
they seem to be. Do you remember telling me one of your
fantasies? The night you took me to dinner on our last
anniversary? How we came home, both a little tipsy after the
bottle of wine with dinner, and exchanged fantasies before we
made love?"

"I - I guess so - Christ, it that what this is about?"

"You said you thought about me having sex with another man, a
stranger, a well-endowed one, if I remember correctly."

"But that was a fantasy! I told you I'd never want to live it out
- that I couldn't get around the jealousy I'd feel."

"But you're living it out in your head, David. The things you saw
could easily have been suggestions, innuendoes, illusions."

"What I saw was another man's hand between you legs, playing with
you till you got off. You had an orgasm, in public for Christ
sake!"

"Are you sure, David? It was real to you. Does that mean it
actually happened - everything - just the way you remember it?"

"So, you didn't fuck him?"

"Does it really matter? Think about us, David - what our marriage
had become before last night, and where we are tonight. I was
going to leave you. I loved you desperately, but my confidence
that you still loved me was gone. I lost faith in you, us, even
myself. I didn't intend to use your fantasy to punish you, but it
did plant the seed of an idea that seemed to offer what I needed
to heal. I know I hurt you. I'm sorry.

"You have to decide, David. Was what you went through last night
worth saving our marriage? Did you learn how agonizing infidelity
can be to someone you betray, even if it is just sex? But most
importantly, can two people love each other enough to forgive
shared disloyalties and move on, using the past to strengthen
their future?"

I was stunned. I had thought long and hard about the motive for
her actions - revenge, punishment, or perhaps I had pushed her
far beyond any rational response. I failed to consider that she
did it for our marriage, a risky, final attempt to save us.

I didn't have words for what I felt, so I turned to her and
kissed her. It was the kind of kiss that told her my decision was
an easy one. She unfolded and pressed the length of her body
against me, a perfect thigh thrown over my hip, her soft belly
thrust tightly against my growing erection. She stopped now and
then, sometimes to nibble playfully at my ear or neck, other
times just to stare hopefully at me. A kind of joy filled her
eyes that I had never seen.

Then, as her lips brushed my ear again, she whispered
seductively, "Now, about that little fantasy or yours. Let me
tell you what a bad girl I've been."

Some questions come with easy answers. Others we struggle with
for a lifetime, often fooling ourselves by conjuring a solution
to the unanswerable. And sometimes, well, sometimes a question is
its own best answer.


                          -- The End --


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