Tuesday 7th November 2017
I’d just watched Jill’s shapely ass sashaying away from me as she headed towards the elevators hand-in-hand with Rocco. The last few minutes hadn’t gone anything like I’d expected.
When I’d switched her normal work clothes for sexy, revealing clothes and then sent her a smiling emoji when she said she had to work late, I’d thought I might be pushing her into the arms of her handsome boss Chris. But ever since I’d arrived at the meal, and especially since we’d retired to the bar, it had been the gruff-looking Union boss who’d been putting the moves on my sexy wife. She’d not said anything, but I was pretty sure Jill’s acceptance of Rocco’s advances was her way of sending a message to me. Her way of telling me that I may have pushed her in a certain direction today, but that she was the one who’d ultimately make the decisions. It was her body, and even if I nudged her towards Chris, she might do something and sleep with someone entirely different from what I’d planned.
And now, with Chris gone to the restroom, I was sat alone in the bar wondering how things were going to develop. I smiled ruefully to myself, a shudder of fear and anticipation running down my spine as it dawned on me that I had no idea how things were going to play out this evening. On the two previous occasions, we’d played this game, we’d either jointly agreed things or I’d been in the box seat. But this whole unexpected development with Rocco had added extra fuel and fear to the fire.
I’d never met this guy Rocco before, and Jill had only met him a handful of times, yet she was now upstairs in his hotel room having sex with him. What if he turned out to be some kind of deviant? What if he didn’t want to play by the rules and wanted to steal Jill away from me? What if … what if … that was the bottom line, I’d let Jill go upstairs with a guy we didn’t know from Adam. Less than three weeks ago, we’d been a normal couple doing normal couple things. Faithful for more than twenty years, and here we were with me alone in the bar and Jill upstairs with the second new man she’d been with inside ten days. No doubt kissing him like they’d kissed on the dance floor. No doubt giving herself and her sweet body to him just as she’d given herself to Daryl.
How the hell had things moved so far and so fast in such a short space of time? How had we moved from ‘pause’ to ‘full speed fast-forward’. Things going faster even than when we’d tried swinging. I knew I had a big dollop of the blame for this – it had been me who’d dressed Jill up and sent the emoji – and this thought didn’t make me feel great. If Jill was upstairs with some kind of deviant or sicko, then I’d never forgive myself.
These thoughts of guilt and worry were interrupted by Chris’s return. He smiled sheepishly at me. “You okay, man?”
“I’m honestly not sure, Chris. How well do you know this Rocco guy? Is he okay? Will Jill be okay with him?”
Chris actually looked relieved. Relieved that my only concern was with Rocco’s trustworthiness. Rather than the wider issue that he’d been the enabler to my wife being upstairs having sex with another guy, and how I might feel about that.
“It’s okay, Dave,” he reassured me. “Rocco’s a standup guy. I’ve known him a long time, and he’s got a wife and kids at home. He’s not going to do anything crazy with Jill, anything she doesn’t want.”
The confident look on Chris’s face and his reassuring tone and words made me feel better. Taking the edge off my fear, allowing my gut-wrenching excitement at the evening’s developments to finally start to sprout and bloom as my fear receded.
Seeing the change in my demeanor gave Chris the encouragement to ask something that I guess had been on his mind all evening. “Well, Dave, when Jill told me about your little excursion into the wacky world of swinging, I have to say you could have knocked me over with a feather. I’ve got to ask, how the hell did the two of you make a move like that after so many years of marriage?”
From the look on his face, he wasn’t poking fun or anything like that. He was genuinely intrigued at how a couple he’d known as friends for the last few years had come to such a potentially life-changing decision.
“Come on, Dave, man. Spill,” he encouraged, his smile gently mutating into a conspiratorial smirk. His smile implying a kind of ‘come on, we’re all guys together’, that this was nothing more than locker room banter that guys should share.
The nerves I felt at answering his question temporarily distracted me from what was happening upstairs in Rocco’s hotel room. He might be a friend, but looking across at Jill’s handsome and suave boss, I felt hugely embarrassed to own up to my fantasies about Jill and other men. I knew I’d feel too belittled to make such a direct confession to a guy like Chris.
“I guess after all these years we just thought it might add a bit of a spark to try something different. We had a bunch of friends telling us how great it was and so we took the plunge. I went with a woman called Gemma and Jill had some fun with a guy called Daryl.”
Chris grinned. “Hell man, if I’d known you wanted to play games like that, I’d have offered to help you out myself.”
Not knowing how to react, I tried my best to make light of his comment with a laugh that came across as anything but relaxed. My strangled throat revealing my nerves, my mind full of thoughts about how things would now be between Jill and Chris in the future.
Chris and I talked about it a bit more, and the more we talked the less awkward I felt about the subject. Chris asked me about how what we were doing felt for both of us, and aided by another couple of rounds of drinks, I tried to get across the bewitching mix of excitement and jealousy. I did my best to play armchair psychiatrist, explaining that we could only do what we were doing because we trusted and loved each other so much and so deeply. That if I had any doubts about Jill’s commitment and love for me, then the whole set-up would be too frightening and painful to contemplate. But that being secure in our love, we were able to enjoy the intoxicating mix of emotions of allowing each other to go with different partners.
Inevitably Chris repeated his earlier texted thanks about the sexy outfit I’d dressed Jill in this morning, as he playfully asked if I’d be kind enough to do the same every Tuesday and Thursday. By then I was feeling sufficiently relaxed to joke right back. “Why stop at Tuesdays and Thursdays. There are five days in the working week and busy executives like you and me deserve a few office perks.”
Our conversation seemed to be running out of steam a little when Chris’s phone beeped with an incoming text. Chris smiled as he picked it up and read the message, handing it to me. ‘Dave, Chris. Why don’t you guys come upstairs now? We’re in room 1805. Jill and I are taking a bit of a breather. We need a bit of a break before round two! Rocco’
“What do you think, Dave? Are you up for it?”
Confessing to another guy that you want to head on upstairs to watch another guy have sex with your wife is a hell of a thing. But I guess we’d talked enough and the booze had done its work enough that I just about managed to force down all those ingrained behaviors to shrug my shoulders. “Why not?” was about all I could stammer as I got to my feet and tried to pretend I was more sober and relaxed than I actually felt.
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Neither Chris nor I spoke in the elevator, my friend having the presence to realize small talk was probably the last thing I wanted right now. It felt like an eternity as the elevator hauled us up to the eighteenth, where my wife was waiting for me in bed with another man. Finally on the eighteenth, as the doors shut behind us, they seemed to shut with the finality of cast iron doors clanging shut as a prisoner leaves his cell on death row. Only the final destination ahead.
The corridor seemed to go on forever, allowing me plenty of time to wonder what I’d find the other side of the door we eventually knocked on. As Chris knocked to announce our arrival, I was struck by the thought how the lifestyle Jill and I had briefly dabbled in had just ‘jumped the species barrier’ as students of epidemics say – jumping from our private little group into the full reality of Jill’s work and ‘real’ life.
It was a sobering thought which I had no time to think about as the door was almost immediately opened by a bare-chested Rocco, who smiled at me as he peered around the edge of the door and invited us in. Taking a deep breath to try and counteract the huge jolt of adrenaline my body had just created, I was both looking forward to and fearful of what I’d find inside.
As I walked in behind Chris, Rocco gave me a self-satisfied grin, his smile meaning he didn’t need to really say anything. The first thing I noticed was that the President of the Union obviously warranted more than a standard hotel room. Mr. Rocco Rosetti had a large and luxurious suite, meaning that Jill was nowhere to be seen as I entered. No doubt further into the suite, lying on some large bed after her recent exertions with her new lover.
As I carried on through the small vestibule into the suite’s sitting room, I looked back to see that Rocco wasn’t just shirtless, he was butt naked. Sitting close to him at dinner and at the bar, it had been clear to me that he was a bear of a man, not blessed in height but with a width of body that suggested manual labor and great strength. Now seeing him unclothed, the impression was even starker. His chest seemed infeasibly broad, the thick carpet of dark hair only emphasizing his virility and masculinity. I tried not to stare, but my eyes went to the thick hose of a cock hanging sticky and limp between his legs. No doubt only recently limp, having done its work and shot its seed deep into my Jill’s body.
Rocco caught my momentary glance at his manhood, but said nothing, playing the cool guy as he walked naked towards the minibar and asked Chris and me if we wanted a drink. Chris asked for a bourbon and although the only thing I really wanted was to see Jill, I found myself asking for a cognac. As he rummaged around fixing the drinks, Rocco read my mind and not even bothering to look at me, told me, “She’s through the door just behind the TV. Be my guest.”
Being given permission to see my own wife was a step too far. As he turned and handed me my drink, Rocco could see my angry reaction. Holding his hands up, he tried to apologize. “Sorry, Dave. I didn’t mean it to come out like that.” He then held his hand out in a mixed gesture of contrition and friendship, and I found myself in the surreal position of shaking hands with a butt-naked guy, trying not to look at the swinging meat between his legs, fresh and shiny with the mixed juices of him and my wife, juices from their recent coupling. Taking my drink, I decided to ignore him and go through and find Jill.
Stepping past the TV and through the adjacent door, our eyes met even before I was fully through the door. I was overcome by a strange nervous feeling. Something I’d not felt since our early dating when I’d sometimes felt in my heart Jill was still actually Callan’s girl. With Daryl, it had felt totally different. I’d been the one doing the giving. This time I’d given the first tiny nudge, but then it had been Rocco doing the taking and Jill doing the giving. That’s why I felt so damned nervous, so much in need of a sign from Jill. Seeing the way Jill had been dancing with and making out with Rocco, I was in urgent need of some TLC and reassurance from my sexy wife.
As our eyes met, I immediately knew Jill was as nervous as I was. My feelings were all over the place and I didn’t know where to look. At Jill’s sweet and nervy smile or at her half-naked body which was on display to anyone who cared to look, with the duvet only covering her bottom half. I don’t think she’d ever looked more sexy or more beautiful to me in all our years together. Sitting there as she was, propped up in another man’s bed. Her full and shapely breasts gently falling and rising with the rhythm of her breathing, several love-bites obvious on her tits and chest, her nipples still swollen and showing her continued arousal.
“Hey you,” was all my nervous wife could manage to get out.
“Hey yourself,” my equally adolescent reply, as I continued walking so I could close the distance. Walking around the left-hand side of the hotel bed so I could hug the woman who was still everything to me, despite her current position propped up in another man’s bed.
Our embrace seemed to go on forever. As we held each other, squeezing tight, a little voice kept asking why this felt so different than the time with Daryl. For now, I ignored the question, preferring instead to luxuriate in the reassuring feel and touch of my wife. Just for a moment forgetting the other two men in the suite. One of whom had already fucked my wife, and one of whom almost certainly planned on fucking her before the night was over.