Teasing by Vickie Tern TG femdom hum
Preface:
I wrote a draft of half this story about two years ago, then set it
aside to write other stories, the most recent being "An Unfaithful
Wife." And there's the problem.
That story pleased many but annoyed others because it repeats some
elements of my earlier stories -- scheming wives and compliant
husbands and so on. I won't defend those recurrences -- I like
them. I like finding new reasons and ways for a woman to feminize
her man and new reasons why he'd acquiesce. I enjoy the casuistry,
the earnest if deceitful reasoning by which she persuades him and
he persuades himself. I like the way he comes to understand what's
been happening, how he may resent it but also how he deals with it.
In short, I like liberated if unscrupulous women and the men who
love them not wisely but too well and accept the consequences of
their own complicity. I like schemes and con games and hidden
agendas, and above all I like the step-by-step compromises that add
up to a totally transformed self. When that's done, the story's
done. No mystery there for anyone familiar with my stuff.
When "An Unfaithful Wife" finally left its nest I rediscovered this
one and saw that it too has a wife who excites her husband by
implying to him that she's unfaithful. What to do? Finish it even
so, and gratify readers who like such tales, me among them? Irk
those who'd already found "Unfaithful" one too many? Declare it
pre-empted by "Unfaithful" and forget it?
In the end, parsimony ruled. It has some good stuff in it. People
like stories like these. I like them. The main character's
psychological conversion follows rather than precedes his physical
conversion (reversing "Unfaithful's," if anyone notices such
things). So I decided to finish it -- that's usually the only way
I myself ever find out what the woman's real scheme is. But to
anticipate reader reactions, I decided to write this preface.
Which I have now done.
If by reason of age or inclination you shouldn't read a story like
this, don't.
All comment is welcome, even the unwelcome kind.
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Teasing
by Vickie Tern
One
"Patrick, I'm tired of running around! From now I'm going to
conduct my affairs with different men here at home, even if it does
disturb you. I'm tired of sneaking into all sorts of places so
people won't know I'm there, driving all over the city to all sorts
of hidden retreats for get togethers. Some nights I get home so
heavily used I can barely walk! I do try to satisfy all their
whims and desires, and they do appreciate it. They certainly pay
me well enough. Even so, the more I do for them the more they
crave, the more they want me to do! It's never enough! It's
exhausting! When they get really hot and bothered they tie me up
all day. So from now on I service all those men right here at
home."
"Mmmmph?" I asked her? I wasn't really listening. Score tied two
all, the pitcher maybe coming apart, man on third, that had my
complete attention. But then came a commercial, and some of her
words broke through. "I don't mind if you watch," she was saying.
"You might even enjoy seeing how I satisfy the different needs of
different men."
What!? This had a disturbing sound. I replayed her recollected
words in my head. What was she telling me? She's been having
affairs? She satisfies men by letting them tie her up? She gets
them all hot and bothered? Now she wants to bring them home to
fuck them, with me watching? Tara? My own wife?
"What?" I said. I tried to focus these incredible revelations with
a delicately phrased question. "You satisfy other men? Give them
what they need?"
"Well, I should hope so!" she said a little indignantly.
I looked at her, baffled.
She looked back, equally baffled. Then she must have replayed in
her own head what I'd heard, how she'd said it, because realization
dawned. She broke into a slightly mocking grin.
"Oooh, sweetie, look at you! You just heard me confess something
really naughty, didn't you?"
I was paralyzed, feeling for a response. Hurt? Anger?
Bewilderment? The bottom had just fallen out of my life!
She looked across at me, amused. "Just look at you! You're
thinking 'My wife has just told me she's having sex with men all
over town, and now she wants to bring them all home, and she's
inviting me to watch!' Is that what just came into your little
mind, honey?"
Was it? I shook my head and swallowed and tried again to speak.
Nothing came out.
She saw. "Why, I'm right! You're blushing! You actually DO think
that's what I do when I go out to see my different clients! Betray
our marriage vows! Carry on affairs! A man calls me for a
consultation, ring ring, and I'm out the door in my laciest
lingerie, ready to spread my legs wide and drip all my earlier
clients all over him? Is that what you imagine?"
"No, of course not, Tara!" I tried to sound hurt that she should
think so. But I was hurt! I did think so! That's what I'd heard!
My head knew that Tara was scrupulously faithful, that she'd never
do such a thing. Not ever! She was playfully flirtatious whenever
she was with other men, and they all responded, I'd seen that often
enough. But she knew it distressed me, so she suppressed it, at
least in my presence. Somewhat. She sensed how insecure I always
felt about her love for me, whether I deserved it. How incredibly
lucky I felt that she was mine. She thought it was cute that when
I asked her to marry me, I didn't dream she'd actually agree to do
it. She knew that the mere appearance of infidelity on her part
could devastate me, maybe even destroy me. So for the five years
we'd been married she'd remained more openly above suspicion than
even Caesar's wife. As far as I could tell, that is. We provided
each other with ample sex, whatever was needed. We loved each
other. That was that.
So I was quite sure of Tara. So sure that I'd sometimes indulge a
small, shameful, secret fantasy about her, that behind my back she
actually was a wild women, sexually abandoned, nymphomaniacal with
other men. That notion was always arousing for me, and useful now
and then when Tara wanted a second round of lovemaking from me when
I'd been exhausted by the first. It did seem that Tara could be
both provocative and sometimes -- it seemed -- insatiable. But
with that very thought I was able to oblige her.
She was looking at me more closely now. Did she sense what was
going on in my mind? Very little ever got past her.
She sensed it. "You're thinking that I sleep with other men,
aren't you? You've toyed with that notion before, too, haven't
you?" Then bluntly, "It turns you on, doesn't it?"
I had nothing to say. I stared at her, a deer in headlights.
She suddenly smiled. "You know, sweetie, after all this time I can
read you like a book with no cover. How odd! It does turn you on,
that idea, doesn't it? Thinking that I'm unfaithful to you, that
I'm pussycatting my pussy all around town! Getting it from other
men." She spoke in a gentle, matter of fact voice, quiet,
reassuring. "It's exciting, isn't it, sweetheart? Be honest!"
She had me fixed in her steady gaze, and I knew there was no
escaping. "I ... yes, that's right, sometimes," I confessed
slowly. "Not that I believe it. And no way do I really want it,
Tara. No, not at all. No! Please, believe me!"
Why did I sound as if I were pleading? Why protest too much? Did
I fear that she might actually get into bed with her customers just
to please me? If she thought that it would turn me on? That I had
to discourage her, or else ring ring, and there she was humping
away like a bunny in a cage full of rabbits?
"No," she said thoughtfully. "I don't suppose you do want it. But
you do in another way, don't you!"
"Tara, no!" I said helplessly.
She paid no attention. "You want to imagine it. Maybe even think
it's true. But you don't want to know for certain that it's true,
because that would change everything between us, wouldn't it,
knowing for certain." She paused, then added. "If I hinted that
maybe I seduce and sleep with my clients, you'd want to believe me,
wouldn't you. And the idea would excite you, wouldn't it? Doesn't
it? True or not doesn't matter?"
What was she doing?
"You love the possibility, don't you? You find it exciting! Yes
or no? Be honest!"
What could I say? "Yes," I said.
She sat back again, comfortable with my confession. "Well, don't
fret about it, honey, I've read that lots of men do." She smiled
sweetly, then went on. "But now that I know that about you, my
poor darling, now that you've confessed it, something's already
different between us, isn't it? Because now I know that you want
to think your wife's unfaithful, promiscuous. That the idea turns
you on. And now you know I know it. Isn't that in itself
exciting?"
I stared at her, glum and worried. She got into playful moods like
this one now and then. There was nothing to do but wait them out.
She beamed a wide smile at me. "It sort of gives me permission,
doesn't it!"
O, God, no! I mouthed "No" but no sound came out. Where was she
going with this?
"In fact now you're free to imagine that because I love you, I'll
screw other men all the time just to please you. Whether or not
it's true. Now I can tease you about how much better hung they all
are, how much more powerful my orgasms are when they stuff
themselves into me and fit so tight I can't move." She looked
smug, and her gaze turned inward for a moment, as if she were
reminiscing. Then she glanced slyly at me to see if I saw.
Oh, God, despite my confusion and misery I was starting to get
hard! I shifted my position so she wouldn't notice. She noticed.
"Or maybe I shouldn't tease you, leave you wondering whether or not
it's true. Maybe I should just tell you up front that I'm getting
laid hard and often by better men than you. That would clear your
mind of all the uncertainty, all those nagging doubts and
tormenting suspicions. All the questions you'd love to ask me
right now, wouldn't you, if you weren't so afraid of the answers.
Because then you'd know! No more questions, no more ambivalence
whether you really want it to be true or you don't, whether you
want to believe it or you don't. If you knew for sure, you'd have
no choice. Except maybe to leave me, or else to give in and
whenever I go out, to sit here imagining what I'm doing. Night
after night, sit here imagining me gripping another man with my
arms and legs both. Imagining how another prick is stretching my
hole wide as he strokes himself in and out of me, how I can't help
but pull him deeper into me each time I squeeze my legs."
I couldn't say a word.
She paused, and looked closely at me, then said in a soft voice,
"My goodness, baby, just look at you. So ashamed! So embarrassed!
And so excited, just look at that bulge in your pants! You really
do like the idea, don't you? So now maybe I really should do it,
not just to please me but to please you too?"
I shook my head, helplessly terrified.
She saw and went on relentlessly. "Let's explore this thing of
yours a little further," she said. And she sat straight up in her
chair as if she were about to deliver a report. "Let's say I
really do wrap my legs around all the men I do business with, just
for fun. All those men who call me at all hours insisting that I
come meet them right away. Let's say maybe that's why they give me
their business. Let's say that's why in just a few short years my
customers have expanded from a couple of local contractors to some
major corporate clients."
I said nothing. Then, "No, that's not why," I croaked. I was
trying to tell her I didn't believe she was unfaithful to me, that
she was good at her job and that's why people wanted her, why they
hired her. But that didn't say it!
She noticed. "I do bring in a nice income, you've got to admit
that, honey, don't you? We live well on it, very well with what
you make too of course. And my clients do keep coming back and
asking for more. They know I'm on call and that I give
satisfaction."
She smiled smugly. Was she confessing everything while seeming not
to confess anything? I finally found my voice.
"Yes," I said. "I'm sure you do! Enough now, please! Don't tease
me any more now, Tara. Please." My discomfort was obvious. I felt
all twisted inside. Excited yet distressed.
Her eyebrows rose. "Teasing. Yes, that's what I'm doing, teasing
you. I'm not telling you anything, only teasing. All right,
honey, if that's how you want to think of it." She paused. One
more jab. "If you can't cope with reality, then that's what we'll
call it. Teasing."
Then as if the entire previous conversation had never occurred, she
sat back, and while I tried to recover from my confusion and
embarrassment she laid out what she'd meant to say earlier.
It was simple enough. Tara started up an office design and
equipment business a couple of years ago, combining her talent for
interior decoration with her talent for getting things done, and it
had taken off. Now she could walk into a bare, newly rented office
or sales space with some company manager, listen to his confused
ideas about where desks and counters belonged and what sorts of
computer networks were needed, make some sketches, then settle down
with a phone in her hand and an address book in her lap.
Many phone calls, many visits to many shops and offices and work
rooms later, but in a remarkably short time, the stores were
serving customers and walls were up in those offices and there were
pictures on them, and secretaries were answering phones and
technicians were clacking away on computers in cubicles, and
representatives were genially advising clients in adjacent private
offices. In half the time required by her competition, because
with everyone, whether he was a suave corporate CEO or a plumber
with a pipe wrench, she was both tireless and persuasive. She got
her way. Her competition shuddered whenever they heard she was
bidding on a project, because she was famous for her zeal -- some
called it ruthlessness -- to win no matter what, no matter how odd
or far out the demands. So her projects and clients and customers
and contractors multiplied.
She was out all the time, visiting sites, in and out of offices of
all sorts. She made calls and took callbacks at all hours,
ordering from wholesalers, wheedling carpenters, re-scheduling
carpet installations. She used borrowed conference rooms and desks
in friends' offices downtown when she had to, but out or not, the
phone stayed busy. I could hear the answerer clicking on and off
all the time as I sat in my little alcove off the front hall doing
my own work. As her clients and projects multiplied I lost track
of them.
Now she was worried that she might too. Her paperwork was
scattered all over. The town's most scrupulous office designer
hadn't paused to design her own office. She didn't even have an
assistant or secretary, someone to move around with her and take
notes or else stay in one place and answer the phone and reassure
clients and deal with routine matters while she dashed all over the
city. She had no place for such a person to work. When she needed
office space for a conference she'd borrow it from a friend or a
former customer.
So what she was telling me now was, she'd decided to settle in and
centralize her activities here at home. "I mean to move all my
scattered stuff here," she told me. "Use some of last year's
proceeds to build an addition onto the house, alongside and behind
the kitchen where it won't interfere with our privacy, with a
separate entrance. Make myself a proper office for interviewing
clients and maintaining files. And get myself a proper secretary
to look after details. Do this job right."
I could hardly object. I'd taken over what little house space I
needed for my own one-man consulting business. Now she needed
space too.
"OK," I said. "Fair enough. But is the expense of a whole
addition necessary? Maybe just use the spare bedroom?"
She just looked at me. Of course. A foolish question. Figuring
out costs and budgets and spaces and arranging financing was what
she did! Tell her what you think you need, and Tara would see that
you got exactly what you really did need, and that you could pay
the price. That you'd pay willingly, and love whatever you ended
up with.
"No, honey, sooner or later we'll want to use the spare bedroom as
a bedroom," she said patiently. "You remember, kids? And anyhow,
I'll need maybe four or five such rooms, all off a reception area,
much more space than that. We'll try not to disturb you, but you
will have to get used to a lot of construction noise for a while.
Then there'll have to be a secretary or somebody back there during
the day, and people coming and going. Can you handle that?"
I just nodded, as reassuringly as I could.
"I'll make it up to you, baby," she said reassuringly. "I'll see
to it that you enjoy everything about it. I know just how. It's
all worked out. Don't you worry one little bit!"
I tried to smile. I hadn't yet recovered from my earlier
misconception of her, nor from accidentally revealing to her my
most shameful private fantasy.
She grinned wickedly. She hadn't forgotten any of it. "Now that
things are a bit different between us, we can both be a lot more
open with each other, can't we, honey? About what we think we want
and what we really want. Are you coming to bed?"
It didn't sound like a question. She stood up suddenly and started
upstairs without a moment's hesitation. Her hips weaved
confidently, and she didn't look back even once.
I turned off the TV. She was right. There was something different
between us now. Somehow, without anything said or implied, she'd
taken charge. She felt it and I felt it. I followed her upstairs
uneasily, and sighed as I put on my pajamas. Finally I told myself
that if that's what she wants, that's what she should have.
And that was what she wanted. Almost immediately, I took off my
pajama bottoms again. We made love three times that night, the
first time I've managed to do that since our honeymoon. The first
was gentle and considerate, as usual. Then as I was slipping out
of her and kissing her neck, preparing to drift off to sleep, she
whispered, "Now you can be one of my clients getting it up again,
say that insurance executive I spent the day with yesterday. The
ex-Tennis pro? I never told you about him, did I? He was so
handsome and persuasive, and when he showed me his assets I was
eager to take him on, and he really wanted me, so when I finally
said yes, yes, let me have it, give it to me, all of it, there was
no stopping him! Ahhh, that's it!"
Yes, I'm ashamed to say that as she spoke my cock reversed
direction and got hard again, there was no disguising the fact. We
rolled over and she mounted me. I was iron-stiff, fat, swollen,
pointing straight up. She impaled herself and then fucked me
furiously, with a concentrated intensity, eyes tight shut. Her
climax was powerful, emphatic, and drowned out my own. Just as I
was spurting helplessly into her that second time and my hips were
crammed tight up against hers, I realized that she was screaming,
crying out "YES, YES, THAT'S IT STEVE! MORE! DEEPER! YES! OH,
YES!" Then she collapsed onto me.
My name is Patrick.
I lay there with her body flat on mine, her breasts pressed against
my chest, unable to see her face. I wondered what I'd see if I
could. I wondered what she'd meant. Was it unintended?
Deliberate? Did it reveal a truth? Was she teasing me again, now
that she knew my secret perversity? Of course! Had she been
teasing me earlier downstairs the whole time? Maybe not?
"Now eat me, Patrick," she said suddenly. "From now on I want you
to eat my men out of me and learn to love it." Without waiting for
me to respond, she slid forward on her knees and covered the lower
part of my face with her crotch and pressed her pussy against my
mouth, her dark eyes looking down into mine as I looked helplessly
up at hers, her long dark hair shadowy against her beautiful white
face, a face framed between her beautifully heavy, hanging breasts.
My mouth was filled with her soaked quim.
This had never happened before. Oh, I'd eaten her a few times when
we were tipsy. Playfully, bending reverently between her legs to
lick her clit. But always before we made love, never afterward.
And never with me pinned down helplessly under her pussy while she
sat on my face and looked down at me expectantly. This was somehow
serious.
"Does Steve taste good, Patrick?" she asked gently as she squeezed
a muscle in her groin and a glop of my own cum disgorged into my
mouth. Slick, salty, a little like a raw egg. "Swallow, Patrick.
Swallow my lover down. You're helpless now. You have no choice!"
I did just that. I felt relieved, in a way. She was play-acting.
It's my semen, not someone named Steve's. But then she added,
"Isn't it delicious? He tasted just like that the last time I
kissed his penis, honey! Something like that. Now lick me clean!
Take all of that man-juice into your tummy as if you wanted it to
make you pregnant!"
I tried. There was no room to move my tongue toward her clit, so
I began to force it between her pussy lips.
"Ahhh," she said. "You can't get enough of him either, can you?"
I couldn't reply at all, of course. All I could do was try to
swallow, and try to bring her off as rapidly as I could, try to end
this strange session in a way that would please her. So I
stiffened my tongue and pushed it into her cunt even more
vigorously, in and out. She began to writhe, and soon she came
again in a frenzy! She squeezed out even more. I swallowed again,
and my face was now covered with her juices and my own cum.
As she caught her breath she felt behind her. "Ah! I thought as
much," she said. "You sweet, dear pervert!"
She reached back and took a firm hold on my penis. It had gotten
hard yet again! That almost never happened! Because seeing her
turned on had turned me on yet again? Because we were pretending
that I was eating out her lover's spunk? Because she'd dominated
and humiliated me, and I loved it? I had no idea!
As she slid down and slipped me into her body yet again and began
to rotate her hips on me, she began to chant in a sweet, sing-song
voice, "I know what you want, I want what you want," and smiled to
herself.
I thought this had gone far enough. "I want you!" I said hoarsely,
and I rolled her over roughly and lunged myself into her
repeatedly, marveling that I was still hard enough to move way in
and way out again and again, over and over. I did want her, too!
"I know you do, Steve," she replied as she wrapped her long legs
around my waist, and crossed them behind my back, and squeezed me
deeper into her with each lunge. "And I want you too! And that's
what my husband wants, for us to fuck each other's brains out! I
found that out just tonight! So push deeper! Deeper! Cum into
me!"
And with that I came again, I couldn't help it. When she felt me
throb she came too. The idea excited her too, obviously.
"Yessss!" she said as if she'd reached some kind of conclusion as
well as a climax. Then she stared up at my face wordlessly,
impassively. "Now let's go to sleep, Pattie honey. You can eat me
again in the morning. In fact, whenever I've been out working late
with a client, this is what I'll want you to do when I get home.
Clean me. Whoever I'm with, I want to remember when I'm with him
what a wonderful lover I have at home too. It'll be wonderfully
exciting. I'll like that."
And she was sound asleep.
In the morning I felt a choking pressure on my face and opened my
eyes to see that Tara was again sitting on my mouth, again looking
down at me. My cum from the night before was dried stiff on my
nose and cheeks, and it clotted my hair. But there was still more
in her pussy, still sticky. She slid her groin back and forth on
my slick mouth. My nose slid up between her pussy lips and then
between her cheeks, pausing against her rose bud, and then slid
forward again. Each time it passed her clit she groaned.
"Lovely," she said when she'd tensed up into orgasm and then
released herself yet again. "Our best time together ever! Isn't
this a delicious depravity? So very exciting, and no harm done!
Now let's take our showers. I have lots of things to tell lots of
people today about my plans for them when I've got my new office.
You already know what my plans are for you, I think. Some of them,
anyhow."
She smiled again and climbed off me, and without a backward glance
she headed for the bathroom. She'd used me and no longer needed
me. But she knew I'd be there when she next wanted to use me.
She'd just given me more of herself than ever before in our
marriage, and I'd given her more too. It was true. I could tell
by her languorous stroll toward the bedroom door, her thighs
rolling slowly, that she'd never felt more satisfied either. At
least I'd never seen her looking more satisfied. So I guessed that
I should be satisfied too. She loved me. She was doing everything
she could think of to please me. Just as she did with her clients,
though differently of course.
I hoped differently. With that thought I started to get hard yet
again. So instead I rolled over and got out of bed.
Two
It went like that for weeks, months. Tara was different. Somehow
much more self-confident, less inclined to ask my advice about
household or business matters, less inclined to tell me about her
day, more inclined to expect that I'd agree with her whenever she
uttered an opinion on anything. Our sex was never better. It was
sweet, furious, intense, extended, and exhausting. Now that she'd
found a switch that invariably turned me on, now that she knew how
to harden me up for whenever she wanted more, she wanted more
repeatedly.
She'd cry out different men's names, sometimes while urging me to
shift position sliding inside her, always at the height of her
climaxes. Often furiously, as if she resented that person and her
own need the very moment he was providing her the greatest
satisfaction. Never tenderly, that was reserved for me, for
Patrick, her husband, afterward. Her ride on my cock was more
frenzied than ever, and my plunging into her got more rampant, more
desperate. But we always ended with the same face-sitting, when
she'd appreciate me lovingly by my own name, even stroke my
cum-streaked cheeks as I nibbled and nursed and licked my own cum
-- by different men's names -- out of her pussy.
She loved these new things we were doing, and I got used to them.
I even began to enjoy eating her after we'd made love, and more
than just because she loved to see me do it. Licking her soft,
warm, salty wet, puffy creases and folds was sweet, delicious. My
own cum wasn't at all bad tasting after a while. It was pleasant.
I got to enjoy the slick-coating it left on my mouth and tongue,
even the crust tugging on my eyebrows when I woke up the next
morning. It was the last thing I tasted before going to sleep, and
the first thing on waking up. It was the taste of the day.
She changed the scenario subtly one night. We were both sated,
settling in and snuggling, and I was almost asleep when she said
drowsily, "You are just great, lover. My husband could never have
done that."
This was a cue of some kind. I waited. "Oh?" I said finally.
"No way. One fuck and he's down and gone. But you just don't
quit! And you know something else I found out recently about my
husband? My so-called husband, that so-called man who can't ever
really satisfy me the way you do?"
"No, what?"
"He's not really a man. He's a weak-willed wimp. He submits to
anything I ask. I've begun wondering whether deep down under he's
really gay. Maybe a repressed homosexual."
What was she up to? "Why do you say that?"
"Well, I tell him I'm sleeping with other men, and he never says
anything about it. He wants me to sleep with other men, I think.
He likes the idea. It excites him!"
"Oh?"
Tara turned to face me, looking straight at me with that faint
smile of hers. "Yes, his cock loves it. His cock knows that my
other men are much better than he is. That they can do all sorts
of things he can't. Stiffen up and stand tall and ram into me till
we both keep cumming, bring me to such ecstasy I can't stop
shrieking for joy! Then do it again, and then again! He doesn't
mind. He isn't the least bit jealous!"
She was up to something I didn't understand. I had to play along.
"He isn't jealous? It doesn't make him unhappy?"
A quick amused gleam came into Tara's eyes.
"Well, of course, in a way. But he's never mentioned it. He knows
it makes me happy to go to bed with better men, I think, and that's
why he lets me. He loves me, he wants me to be happy, how else can
I explain it? He does, you know." She paused, and waited for a
response. And waited. Finally I realized I had to say something.
"I suppose so," I said. "I suppose he does love you and want you
to be happy."
"Yes," she affirmed, satisfied. "And you know something else?"
"What?"
"I don't think it's jealousy he feels. I think it's envy. When he
sees how I am with those other men, I'm sure he'd like to feel that
way too."
"Feel the way your men feel when they're making love to you?"
"No, silly! Feel what I feel! Enjoy a man's rapturous embrace,
feel that strong, swollen thing pulsing inside his own body, feel
it spreading that slippery warmth that's just too lovely for words.
Just too lovely! Think about it!"
Talk about twisted? I felt a touch offended. Did she believe it?
Plainly, she wanted me to try the idea on for size. "Why do you
think that?"
"Well, first of all, he never knows what I'm really up to during
the day, when he thinks I'm working. He never asks and I never
tell him. I think he's afraid to ask. He thinks maybe I'm
spending day after day going from man to man, getting my pussy
filled up by one after the other. But he doesn't want to know for
sure. Maybe because he feels jealousy and envy both, and can't
handle it. But at night it's different."
"How? What about at night?"
"At night he watches me make love to other men, he's right there
the whole time. When I get into bed with my lovers and I embrace
them, he can't bear to stay downstairs and just imagine that it's
happening, or to go out for a newspaper or something and stay away
until we're finished. He has to come into my room with us, even
into my bed! He'll watch me make love two, three times a night.
He gets off on it. I know that. He even puts them into me, and
when each of the men I'm with cums, he cums too! While watching
us! Every time!"
I was silent. There was an odd truth inside this improvised
version of our lovemaking, one I wasn't sure I wanted to
acknowledge, though I couldn't deny it. I had to play along.
"So? You're telling me that he gets voyeuristic kicks from
watching you make love? No big deal, lots of people do, that's why
lots of loving couples put mirrors on their ceilings, on wardrobes
across the way, on walls surrounding their beds, all over. Maybe
when you're making it with someone he's imagining that he's really
your lover, that he's the man who's enjoying you, vicariously
maybe."
"No! How could that be? What sort of man would make love to his
own wife as if he were some other man. Make himself into his own
cuckold, humiliate himself? No, it has to be that he's imagining
he's me with those men! He's gay. Maybe even one of those
transsexuals, men who want to be women."
I didn't want to argue. I wanted to drift off to sleep, and this
whole topic was uncomfortable. "Maybe," I murmured, to end the
discussion.
Tara paused, as if surprised that I'd said that. I opened my eyes
and saw her looking at me intently, genuinely curious. And I saw
what had happened. She'd been testing out one more way to tease
me, maybe, not really expecting me to pick up on it. But I hadn't
foreclosed it. Maybe she'd struck a glint of gold, another vein of
perversity in me, something I could never acknowledge even to
myself, certainly never to her? She inclined her head ever so
slightly, lovingly, as if grateful to me for revealing a terribly
intimate confidence of some sort. Then she resumed, playing with
the notion luxuriously..
"Of course! I don't even need to ask him. My husband the pansy
girl! My dear little swish! I've never understood why men don't
feel about each other the way women feel about them! But I can
understand how he feels! Maybe he married me in full flight from
his own homosexual yearnings and now he can't resist them any
longer! That must be it! Because you know something?"
"No, what?"
"Afterward, when my lovers have gone and I'm back in bed with my
little faggoty husband Patrick, you won't believe this! He drinks
their leavings! He loves it! He slurps up and licks and swallows
all their semen." She closed her eyes and smiled to herself, now
in a relaxed, post-coital glow. "He adores sperm! Its taste in
his mouth, its feel on his face and in his belly! Because when I'm
done with whoever I'm with, I always sit on Patrick's face and feed
him everything that's been pumped into my pussy. And he licks and
slurps and sucks it all down like a good little boy licking a
melting ice cream cone, trying to swallow every drop. His face
gets all covered with it, and he doesn't even notice! He's in
seventh heaven, on another planet! What do you think of that?"
I had nothing to say. For some reason that pleased her.
"My poor Patrick! He can't face the fact that he's gay, that he
wants a man of his very own, he wants to fall to his knees and suck
on a hot cock with his own mouth, and feel one sliding in and out
of his own bum. So he uses my men indirectly. He has sex with my
lovers at one remove. Isn't that likely?"
How could I deprive her of this riff she was riding? "Maybe," I
said.
She smiled at my complicity. "Maybe? No maybe! It's such a
thrill for him to know how a real man makes me happy, that
afterward he brings me off two or three times more with his tongue.
He can't have those men, so he enjoys them though me! He's
satisfied that I'm satisfied. Don't you think that's true?"
I couldn't deny the substantial truth in that last. "Yes, that
much is likely," I replied.
She was pleased by that. "Yes. He loves me. He's such a dear
little man, even though it's harder each day for me to think of him
as a man. He's something else, we'll have to find out what else,
give him every opportunity to come out of himself. But I do love
him. Very very much!"
She paused. Then asked in a quiet voice, "How do you feel, honey?"
This wasn't playful. She wanted honesty.
"That you love me? Happy. Very happy." But my voice sounded
troubled.
"No, I mean about the rest."
"Uneasy. A little frightened. Helpless, even. Demeaned. And
that's not right, I shouldn't feel demeaned because I'm your lover.
Nor demeaned by being gay, even if I were, which I'm not. Should
I?"
"No, sweetheart." I couldn't read her voice. Did she think I was
confessing something? "Not if I enjoy having a lover. Not if you
enjoy being gay. Do you find what we're doing now exciting, too?"
"Yes." I couldn't deny it.
She kissed me gently, satisfied. "Good! G'night now, baby, let's
sleep."
Well, I couldn't. Not for a long while, after that. Because I
couldn't be sure any more if this was still play acting, something
we did together. Had she really been fucking different men in her
own mind, using my body as a handy facsimile of each? Or worse,
each time we made love, was she reliving the day's actual
lovemaking with another man? The fact was, now I didn't feel like
her game-playing partner any more. I felt instead like a husband
helplessly watching her enjoy her real lovers and then because I
love her, because I want her to be happy, helplessly cleaning up
after them. Why wasn't I jealous? Did she really think I like sex
with men? Was she testing me for that idea? That what I really
wanted was to be her? The idea wasn't at all pleasant, except for
the fact that it pleased her. Maybe.
She'd mindfucked me all right. From then on, whenever she seemed
to be using my body to pleasure herself, I'd feel it was really
someone else's body. I couldn't help it. I witnessed her
infidelities night after night and said nothing. That was how she
wanted it. I shared a bed with Tara and Steve and Tara and Brian
and Tara and Scott, all of her other lovers, and at the height of
their passion, when she was writhing on me or under me in the most
racking of orgasms, I sometimes actually found myself wishing I'd
been the one who'd brought her off!
She sensed how I now felt separated from her, and she began to
explore those possibilities in our relationship. She took charge
of our sessions altogether. She gave her cuntsucking, cumsucking,
submissive, maybe gay husband an additional duty. When she got
home from work, sometimes she'd walk into the living room and call
me from my alcove. Then when I'd arrive and was standing there,
waiting, she'd pull off her panties and sit bare-bottomed on the
couch, and spread her knees, and tell me, "Clean me up!" Clean up
what? And then she'd lean back and close her eyes, confident that
I'd follow her orders.
And I would. I'd kneel devotedly between her legs and do just
that. Because she wanted it. And now -- I just couldn't help it,
each time I found I was tasting her delicately for evidence of ...
someone else. Some other man in her life. I'd accepted that she
just might well be unfaithful to me. It drove me wild.
She knew. She'd watch me lick her labia and dip my tongue into her
snatch, feeling for something viscous that was never there, and
she'd be amused. Sometimes she'd even console me, "Nothing this
time? Maybe it all dripped out before I got here? Maybe I
douched? Don't be impatient, maybe soon, sweetie! I know what you
want!"
It was much worse on days when she'd arrive home and then not ask
me to lick her pussy. Then I really could believe that some man
had squirted spunk into her and that she didn't want me to know for
certain, not just yet. I'd stare at her crotch, wondering if her
panties were sticky, or if she even wore any. I'd pull them out of
the laundry hamper and inspect them, and I'd feel desolated when
she'd strip them off and hand-wash them before I could see for
myself what had leaked into the crotch. I'd try to read some kind
of meaning in the satisfied way she'd look at me every time I
looked at her. Some evenings I couldn't look away! She'd notice
and smile in deep satisfaction. Once she asked me in a soft voice
as I studied her, "Happy, love?" I suppose she thought I was.
Maybe I was?
There was something else too. She'd almost never previously given
me blow jobs, only maybe as a special treat on an anniversary or a
birthday. There was nothing at all in it for her, she'd tell me.
She knew how devotedly I kissed her quim, but she felt nothing like
that whenever my penis was in her mouth.
But now she loved it! When teasing failed to reawaken my ardor for
a second or third round she'd solve the problem by taking her
lover's cock into her mouth and then sliding it in and out of that
warm, moist place until it hardened and she could sink it into her
pussy. "I never do this with my husband's cock," she'd sometimes
say. "But yours is so beautiful I can't keep from kissing it!" And
whenever she said that I'd go ramrod stiff.
When she was mounted on my face afterward, my lips buried in hers,
or when we were both drifting to sleep, she'd talk on and on about
the pleasures of giving head. As if trying to persuade me to try
it. As if she felt challenged to bring out my supposed homosexual
yearnings, or if none emerged, to mock me. "It's really lovely,
honey, making love to a man's cock, " she said. "That purple head
feels so silky smooth on your lips, you can't possibly keep
yourself from licking it and sucking on it. The liquor that seeps
out of that little eye in the tip? You must try it! Are you sure
you haven't? Not even once? Oh, my poor baby, you want to but
you're too frightened?"
It was yet one more kinky tease. Now and then she'd blow a
supposed lover to orgasm while I lay there watching them, because
there I was, waiting to taste his jism directly from her mouth,
still hot. She'd tell me just that. When I was nearing a climax,
rising and tensing, about to pump into her mouth, she'd cry out,
"Now comes the best part, for Patrick!"
Spurting was the best part for me, so at first I assumed that was
what she meant. But when she'd transferred my sperm from her mouth
to mine, she'd murmur it again. "Here you are, the best part! A
man's sperm! Sucking down sperm! You'll be getting all you want
soon enough, all by yourself, just be patient sweetie. I'm making
all the arrangements!"
I told her I didn't understand what she meant by "the best part."
She was surprised, or she pretended to be surprised. "Why, you
know, baby! Being so loving that your man just can't help it, he
goes rigid and swells up and then cums in your mouth! Tasting each
fresh spurt is the best part! Swallowing it down! Licking that
last drop! Soon enough you won't need my help! Just be patient!"
Soon enough I'd be sucking someone's cock on my own? That gay
thing again? I decided to let it alone. She had her fantasies.
Her vocabulary widened. She'd always been embarrassed to use
four-letter words, always maintained a prim decorum when discussing
sex. But now she'd tell me how she adored being a "loving cunt" to
her endless stream of lovers, how she wanted me to become the same
"sweet cock sucker" that she was, to share in her pleasure. I
tried to feel gratified, since all her lovers were of course me and
all of their cocks were mine. But could I ever be perfectly sure?
My jealousy grew. I couldn't help it! She explained to me once
how she was proud of her husband, that he accepted his limitations,
his inadequate and undeserving prick, and was content just to lick
her "snatch" after another man had filled it. Writhing blissfully
on my soaked face while I was slurping up blended cum, she cried
out in orgasmic joy, "Ahhh, sweetie, you do love cream pie, don't
you? You love it! Ahhhhh!" Cream pie? What had she been
reading? Who'd been talking to her?
Afterward I asked her. She just smiled and told me "You think
different men tell me those words? Maybe. Maybe it's only the
computer? There're lots of stories on the Net about men just like
you, wannabe cuckolds and real ones too, men like you who get off
on their wives' supposed infidelities. Married gay men who'd
rather be eating cock than pussy. All sorts. They eat cream pie
too, just like you! I do wish I'd known about you years ago!
Think of the fun we could have been having together!"
Could I believe her? I checked her laptop the next day while she
was out shopping, and sure enough, there was "alt.sex.cuckolds"
prominently bookmarked. That was reassuring, at least she wasn't
enlarging her vocabulary from actual experience! I looked at the
"cuckolds" newsgroup to see what it was like. Sure enough, there
were lots of women chatting about how they deceive their husbands
and then undeceive them, how to make them into helpless infants who
lie in their cribs sucking their thumbs while watching mommie get
fucked by a stud. Lots of husbands were eating "cream pie" nightly
without even knowing it. Was it all shared fantasy? Were there
really such women? Such self-betrayed men? I scrolled back to the
top.
And there I saw it! She'd posted a note to me with the subject
line "Tara to her Sweet Hubbie." I opened it immediately.
"Hi, Patrick sweetheart, I just knew you'd look here! You see how
many husbands share your dreams? Read and enjoy! Oh yes, don't
expect me home too soon tonight. This is so exciting! I need to
see a man about this yearning I have to ... well, never mind. Love
ya!"
When she got home -- an hour late -- she went immediately to her
laptop and checked her log, and she was positively gleeful when she
saw I'd been there and that her message was marked "already read."
She sashayed around the house for the next hour humming to herself
and looking at me delightedly. I was tempted several times to ask
her to let me lick her pussy, please. Please! I had to know if
what I feared had actually happened.
But did I want to know? She knew I'd be indecisive, so she hummed
all the more loudly, but never once did she sit down where I could
fling myself at her snatch! Finally, she started up the stairs,
commenting "Baby, I'm going to take a shower before dinner, I do
feel so very sticky down below!" And she was gone. And with her
my chance of knowing for certain.
When she came down she seemed dreamy, She was wearing a sexy
negligee, and I thought to myself, tonight she'll use me as one of
her lovers for sure.
But I was disappointed. After dinner an actual client called. She
was instantly all business as she talked to him and reluctantly, I
was sure it was reluctantly, she told him she'd come out and look
at the site, at whatever was on his mind. She changed quickly to
one of her "power" business suits. These days I always noticed how
she dressed for work, whether prim or provocative. This time it
was prim, all perfectly proper. As she went out the door she
paused, looked over her shoulder at me, and then suddenly kicked up
a heel and tossed her head at me saucily, elated by the intent
uncertainty she saw in my face. "I'm off to meet my man, now,
honey!" she said. Then she was gone.
When she returned she took my hand and led me directly to bed and
we fucked like goats for hours. Me, Patrick, the two of us, not
Tara and one of her well-hung lovers. That was so unusual it
disturbed me. Had she actually done it this time with someone
else, so she was making it up to me? With that thought I was near
despair! I was sure of it! Yet when I licked her, she tasted no
different, the same as always, just my cum inside her. But a lot
of it. Maybe not only mine?
A month more of this whipsaw treatment and I was helpless, trapped
inside layers of agonized doubts and suspicions, unable to conclude
anything at all. I lived with agonized uncertainty and yet also a
hard-on that returned every time I wondered what she was doing. I
told her that one evening, hoping she'd relieve my anxiety. But
all she did was nod, smiling delightedly. "Oh, good! That's so
nice! You do love it, don't you! Look how hot it makes you! The
more you think I fuck, the more we fuck! "
That was true enough. I think.
Three
Meanwhile, the whole time, workmen were coming and going during the
day. The addition to our house had been under construction and was
now just about done. Tara's office-to-be. It had gotten more
grandiose than she'd originally planned, because she'd developed
some new prospects for clients and wanted to be prepared to deal
with them. The final plans called for a separate entrance toward
the rear, a reception area, and two suites of offices -- one for
her and one to be used by different clients' representatives as
needed, with several rooms in each. There was another large room
on the second floor, accessed only from her office. Each floor had
its own powder room, a toilet and sink. I asked Tara why the second
floor room had its own, and she didn't hesitate.
"Why, honey, that's where I'll persuade certain favored clients to
enjoy the advantages of working with me," she said in a low, slow
voice, eying me the whole time. "So I can show them everything I'm
willing to do for them, all in complete privacy. All my special
tricks and secrets, and maybe I'll find out some of theirs. The
same way I now know yours. Then when we're done, they'll need to
wash up before going back down to my office to sign contracts and
then home to their wives."
That was more than I wanted to hear. More agony! Later I heard
that the upstairs powder room was only an afterthought, the gift of
a plumbing contractor grateful for all the work she'd given him
around the city. And I overheard talk about shelving and display
cases and so forth she wanted installed in that upper room -- it
was after all only a showroom for different kinds of office and
shop arrangements. So when she ordered a double overstuffed sofa
for that upper room and told me it was a "persuader," I didn't
worry a whole lot. She was just playing with me, messing my mind.
I hoped.
I'd gotten accustomed to seeing workmen tramping around to the rear
of the house, contractors talking to them, the sounds of concrete
mixers grinding and pneumatic hammers banging. But except for the
noise their work never entered our house -- they planned to break
through to connect up the spaces and hook up the plumbing and
electricity only when the addition was completed. So I wasn't much
put out. My own work was going into seasonal hiatus anyhow -- I
didn't have a lot to do. I had annual retainers, more than I
wanted, so I wasn't worried. I read and watched TV, and the
workmen and their dirt and noises all did whatever they needed to
do. The new addition grew and neared completion. Looked finished
to me, though some details still needed attending. Office
furniture for it began to arrive.
Then our lives took a new turn.
We were just finishing dinner, a spicy carry-in from a new French
restaurant near us, delicious, when I realized there'd been a long
silence, that neither of us had spoken for a while. I looked up
spaces that need radical alteration.
"What?" I said.
"Astrid's office is closed," she replied. "We're renovating her
whole suite this week and next. Her staff is on vacation until
their new work space is ready."
Astrid had been Tara's first client, an old college sorority sister
who'd started "Women's World," a successful business advisory and
accounting firm for women like Tara who wanted to work at home.
She was unmarried, maybe a latent lesbian but I never asked, and a
good friend who occasionally offered even me excellent advice about
office procedures.
"You finally talked her into it," I replied. "So?"
"Well, there's a problem."
I waited. There are always problems in Tara's line of work, and
she always solves them.
"Astrid's conference room is where I've been seeing my out-of-town
clients, people without their own local offices. That's where I
invite new prospects to hear my introductory pitch, so I can
convince them they should show me the actual space they mean to
lease, so they can hear what I'll propose for it."
"And?"
"I've got a prospect coming in from out of town tomorrow and I've
no place to talk to him. Very big." She hesitated, then went on.
"All right, this is confidential, Patrick. Listen and don't say a
word. Castro Enterprises, the giant conglomerate, they're moving
their entire east coast regional office here. A huge commission if
I can get it, work for months and months! Six floors of offices in
that new highrise downtown. And the prospects are even bigger.
Castro intends to open branch offices in nearby cities, all of them
with the same trademark decor. I want to design that decor, and I
want all of that business. And I'm close to getting them to sign
-- it'll take only one more meeting."
I waited.
"I could ask Givens Associates to let me use their office, down the
hall from Astrid, but then Bob Givens would come on to me for
payment. He'd expect payment. You know what he's like. So I'd
rather not. You understand."
I did. Bob Givens was compulsively horny. He came on to every
woman he encountered, flattering the older ones with his
flirtations and actually bedding down many of the younger, single
or married, sometimes several in a single night. He was immune to
the word "No!," and given his charm lots of women couldn't remember
the word anyhow when they were with him. Single women chatted
cheerfully with each other afterward, comparing their experiences,
and married women maintained stony silences for the sake of their
marriages, torn whether to keep their husbands or now that they
knew better, try for something better. Apparently he was great in
bed.
"He hasn't come on to you already?" I asked. "I hear often enough
that he's God's gift!" I thought she was teasing me again, warming
me up for another night of just-the-two-of-us infidelities. So I
provided her an opening.
"Of course he has. If I ever want to, whenever I want to, I can
wear him out," Tara replied perfunctorily, dismissing my gambit
with a faint smile. A provocative answer, like so much of her talk
these days, but her heart wasn't in it. She was genuinely
troubled.
I leaned forward. "Honey, if you need a place to talk with a
client, bring him here. You've done that sometimes. The new
office area isn't quite ready, but people will be coming here in a
few days anyhow. So use our living room. If you need complete
privacy I'll go upstairs, or maybe out to a movie."
She didn't pick up on that either. This really was serious. "No,
you're sweet to offer, but it's too late for that."
"Too late?"
She shifted uneasily, then she too leaned forward and clasped her
hands in front of her in her decisive 'getting ready to close the
deal' mode. "The CEO, the man who makes these decisions for
Castro, Bill Bartram, he's very ... aggressive, decisive, one of
those yes, no, then do it kinds of men -- you know them. Hard to
turn down or turn away. Can't tolerate working with people who
aren't the same way, who can't make crisp arrangements, who
waffle."
An odd feeling began to grow inside me.
"I've met with him at conventions and on his previous trips here,
and we've talked for long stretches by phone, and I've sent him
sketches, and things have moved faster than I expected. He's
coming into town tomorrow and he wants to make commitments. I
think he means to sign with me. He's asked for a conference and he
asked where we could meet, and I'm afraid I lost the initiative,
I couldn't tell him right away where, I hadn't lined up a
substitute for Astrid's place. So he took charge and told me
where. And that's where we'll meet."
Here it comes, I thought. "Where?"
"Honey, whatever you like to fantasize, I never go to men's hotel
rooms. I know I'm attractive to men! A hotel room with me in it
would be an aphrodisiac for any high-powered male. If they were to
get me into one and it was just the two of us and a bed, there'd
always be just one big thing on their minds, and in their pants too
I'm sure. They'd insist on certain perquisites for signing with
me, and I'd have to refuse them, and then I'd lose their business.
It's happened more than once already."
I wasn't sure if this was one more elaborate tease. She never goes
to men's hotel rooms? "You agreed to go to this man's hotel room?"
"Not at first. We'll meet for a drink, then I'll go up with him.
It's a newly decorated suite, apparently, in the same signature
decor he wants for Castro's offices, a modern variation of French
Provincial. My estimates are based on that style, but there are a
few more details and options I need to point out. So yes, I
agreed. I told him his hotel room would be convenient, given what
I need to do to satisfy him."
"I see." I paused and waited. There was more she had to tell me,
but she wasn't saying, yet. "And?"
"Honey, could I refuse? I certainly wouldn't want him to think I'm
the least bit bothered by ... personal inhibitions. That wouldn't
be businesslike." Her face remained solemn.
This was my old wife! Never goes to hotel rooms. Proper,
virtuous, always ready to tease me, it was our little game. But
now seriously worried.
"No fear," I said soothingly. "It's all probably very innocent.
"What is he, a paunchy sixty year old widower with five children
and ten grandchildren?"
She smiled at my attempt to console her. "No, he's in his late
thirties, a hard-driving hunk who's been on the cover of "Career
Girl" as their Catch of the Year. Women fall all over themselves
to get in his way, and I hear he leaves most of them lying there
smiling and breathing heavily. Most of them. He's quite
handsome." She grinned, but with an edge of uncertainty.
I heard this in silence. That old stirring in my loins was rising,
this time not at all welcome. Here was a real threat, apparently.
Did it mean that this time Tara would actually be going the
distance? Was she asking my permission in advance? Was that what
this was about? Or did she want me somehow to help her resist him?
"Why are you telling me this?" I asked. Then realizing that I
sounded annoyed, curt, and also realizing that I didn't want to
know one possible answer, I deflected the question by asking
another. "How can I help?" Then waited.
She continued to stare at me, her hands folded, Her face was now
inexpressive, but her thin, arched eyebrows were drawn together,
troubled, anxious. My heart began to go out to her.
"It's asking a lot," she said mournfully.
What was she saying? My anxiety was laced with a rising anger.
Was this it, finally? Did she want my permission to let him bed
her down? To fuck Mr. Catch-of-the-Year? To promise that
afterward I'd never hold her guilty of betraying me? To forgive
and forget in advance? She wanted a free pass to get her cunt
lubed by a major stud?
That would move our little game from play-acting -- if that was
what it was, and I didn't know it wasn't -- into an undeniable
reality! It would change everything. I'd finally be a genuine
cuckold, knowingly and with my own full consent. And she'd know
it. She'd always know it! Just as she'd always pretended to know
it about me, but this time for real! And I'd always know she knew,
every time she looked at me. Could I endure it, playing the meek
cuckold in fact as well as fantasy? Would that open the door to
others, would our private fantasy about her endless infidelities
became a fact of our lives? My stomach sank! I just stared at
her, my mouth open in shock!
"My God!" came out of my mouth.
Her eyebrows shot up, and she straightened up in sudden surprise.
"Oh,no, honey!" she said, as if herself shocked. "I'm not asking
your permission to go to bed with him! Never! I wouldn't ever
want you to know if there's another man, not until you want to
know! You're my one true love, and I want you to be happy always!
That's why I want you to stay deliciously, wickedly uncertain! I
mean, you'd like to think you're the only person you've ever tasted
in me, wouldn't you? But you don't really know it, do you?"
She was teasing me again! Even though this time there was a real
threat to deal with! She certainly could read me like an open book
-- I was altogether transparent to her.
"No," she continued, "I'm not asking your permission to fuck this
man. If I meant to, I'd just do it, and decide later what you
needed to know if anything, what's best for you. Or better, I'd
let you decide whether you should know. The way we've been doing.
Let you break down and finally ask me when you can't stand not
knowing any more. Breach your trust in me. In that way to free me
to fuck any man I want and then tell you anything you wanted to
know, true or not. That's the fairest way."
"Then what? Why are you telling me this?" I felt drained,
exposed. Once again, my imagination had betrayed me!
"Because I need you, honey!" Her solemn face with its huge eyes
stared across the table at me. I melted. She saw, and looked
grateful, then pixieish. Her voice became almost sing-song.
"Maybe you'll think what I want you to do is just as bad! Just as
humiliating. Just as threatening to your manhood. Maybe even more
threatening. I don't think it needs to be, really. I think you
can handle it, even thrive on it the way you thrive on my supposed
affairs with other men. But many men can't, and you might be one
of them!"
I was baffled, and just stared at her the way she'd been staring at
me, steadily, trying to read her mind. I gave up.
"What is it you want, then, Tara?" I asked quietly. I felt a
little tense.
"The honor of your presence, honey. Just come with me when I meet
with him this last time before we sign."
I suddenly went slack, the wind gone from my sails. This was
nothing! "That's all? Why, sure, honey!"
"No, wait. Listen. Just listen. I need for you to be there with
me so he won't try anything. So he'll put off any extracurricular
plans for another time. The way he comes on by phone and when
we've met out-of-town, I don't think there's any doubt at all what
he'll want from me when we're alone up there in his bedroom.
"Then no problem!" I said as casually as I could. "Of course I'll
come with you!"
"No, you still don't understand, baby," she said. There was still
uncertainty in her voice. "It isn't as easy as that. Or it won't
be. Not for you! I don't think so, anyway."
"Why not?" I was baffled again.
"You can't come as my husband!"
I didn't have to ask 'Why not?' a second time. I just stared at
her. She went on.
"Honey, how can I negotiate hundreds of thousands of dollars of
costs with my husband sitting next to me? How would that look? As
if I were some dependent, indecisive woman who needs a man's
assistance to help me make up my mind. As if I needed a crutch!
Or worse, a chaperone."
That was true enough. Though that's what she wanted me for. A
chaperone.
"He'd think we were partners, and if he talked to both of us, when
we started negotiating he'd get the wrong signals from you. More
than likely he'd start talking to you instead of to me, you know
that's what men do from habit, talk to whoever's wearing the pants!
Because that's the usual scenario -- men make the deals and
decisions and women take notes and then type them up. It happens
a lot. Sometimes it takes time before I can even set up a straight
eye-to-eye relationship with my clients, because I'm a woman and
they don't expect me to be serious! I always need to let them know
right away that I'm in charge. No one else."
Also true. But an idea occurred to me. "Then call me your
secretary, not your husband. I'll sit still and take notes for
you. Or something."
"That's just what I want you to do," she replied. "Pretend you're
my secretary." But her brow remained furrowed. Apparently that
wasn't the end of it.
"So?"
"Honey, just listen. Hear me out, because what I'm about to say
may sound like something you don't want to hear, or maybe you won't
mind, because I've been teasing you about your sexuality for quite
a while now, and I know it excites you. But this time I mean it to
be real. And reality's a different place from imagination. A lot
more unpredictable and long-lasting. But just maybe you won't mind
anyhow."
She was staring straight at me. Solemnly. I waited.
"Any other man in that room would cramp his style, because it would
cramp my style! I do intend to make certain moves on him, subtly
suggestive, tempting. You know? This shouldn't surprise you, you
know how I love to flirt, and you certainly know how I've been
working you over. You know how I can be! Baby doll, I want to
actually invite him to come on to me, ever so slightly! Not that
he won't anyway, but I want him to hope I'll give him more than he
expects. I want him to anticipate all sorts of wonderful things I
can do for him. I can certainly give him smart interior design and
a functionally intelligent workplace layout, and quickly,