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Exposing Life's Cruel Irony Ch. 01

By: cdhawkeye96a



This is a continuation of the "Life's Cruel Irony" series.

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As the sun rose on December 22nd Doris was sipping her coffee as she thought about her to do list. The final dusting and cleaning needed to be completed. Much of the vacuuming and dusting was tasked to Royce. She was relieved that he had recovered so well. The prognosis in those first two days was not good, but he was strong willed. He returned to work for half days six and half weeks ago and was back to full days after Thanksgiving. The thought of loosing him haunted her as she knew that he was still at some risk. 

For over twenty years she feared loosing him discovering her shameful skeleton and finding herself alone. The first night shook her to her core. She cried in anguish as she gazed upon his whitish form and the all the wires and tubes. Two days before he had his attack she decided that she needed to confess to Royce even if she lost him. Though she was already trying to break free of Vince because he kept demanding more and more, she knew Vince's hold could not be broken fully until she told her husband. Increasingly Vince wanted to control her and when she fought him she was hit by him. 

Three weeks ago she fought to control her frustration when year her daughter insisted that they were going to stay with them rather than with her parents across the street. Pam said that her mother was going to be in Chicago for several days and would not have time to have the place ready for visitors. Fortunately her daughter Kristy who was six-months along with their first child, and her husband Peter, lived only fifteen minutes away. Betty who was home from grad school was delighted to have the baby in her room. Room was not the issue. She just wanted a quieter home this year because of Royce's heart. 

As the grandfather clock struck eight, Pam joined Betty and Doris in the kitchen for breakfast. Like her mother, Betty had a quiet shy side, but Pam knew from their time together in high school that she had her wild side. Jeff was still in bed as they arrived late the prior evening and he spent time talking late with his father. Betty soon left with a list of items to pick-up at the grocery store early for her mother before the grocery lines got long. 

Doris with a fresh cup of coffee in hand excused herself to go to the den to check her email. She was anxious to track Royce's gift as it was to have arrived the day before. She breathed a sigh of relief when the report showed it as on today's delivery truck. Checking her other emails her eyes then noticed an email titled "Doris – Your Sin Is Known". 

She did not recognize the sender's address but her heart was thumping. "Surely not now" she groaned inwardly. Her hand quaked and her heart seemed to stop as she moved the mouse to open the email. 

She sat stunned. There before Doris was a message that struck fear into her heart. "Headline – Mother allows brother and sister to wed. Story – A local mother allowed her son to marry his half-sister. Though the brother and sister have different mothers, they share the same father. When approached for a comment the mother was unapologetic saying, 'so I am a slut. What are you going to do?' More details to follow. See the attached picture." 

One picture attached to the email showed her on her hands and knees with a cock clearly part way in her. Though his face was turned away it was clear that he was not her husband. Who and when they were taken was unknown, but the pictures indicated the veracity of the sender's position. 

As soon as the initial shock diminished Doris quickly sent a return message asking the sender to identify himself and to know what he wants. She also begged him to do nothing as she loved her husband deeply and was trying each day to show him how much she loved him. 

As she tried unsuccessfully to focus on other emails, a second email from the same sender arrived. "Doris – my identity is unimportant at the moment. Watch for an email either tomorrow or Christmas Eve. Oh...if you tell Vince about this I will immediately send an email to all your family and friends. Those two pictures will go with the email. Below you will see I know the email addresses for many of your family members and various friends."

After reading the messages twice more Doris sat dazed. She wondered who sent it. Who could know? She was not tempted to contact Vince. Since she had been blackmailed all these years, she realized she may have to trade another favor to protect her secret and family for at least three more weeks. She thought, just three more weeks and then I will be free. In three weeks she planned to tell her husband the truth, full and unvarnished. It was the least she could do. 

Doris had vowed that if her husband recovered she would tell him, and she meant to keep her word. She just needed to get beyond the holidays and into the middle of January, just a few days before Vince's birthday on the 18th. 

When she first decided to confess to Royce she also knew she would loose her friendship with Tara. She would walk through fire to make amends with Tara but knew it would do little good.

When she confessed Doris had already been preparing her heart for the worse. Her heart hoped her husband would understand but she knew how she would react hearing the news. She was preparing herself to loose her family and friend, but for her it was the right thing to do and loosing them would be appropriate justice. 

She knew a motel where she could rent for a month and had already been looking for a one bedroom apartment. For a year she had been putting some money aside, and since July she had been putting even more aside. She had enough twenty and fifty dollar bills in her bedside drawer to cover start up costs on an apartment.

She had pieced together that Lois, who she had meet, had been blackmailed into helping this out of control twosome seduce young ladies from Lois' high school. After Thanksgiving she mailed an anonymous letter to the District Superintendent indicating that a female teacher was being blackmailed into helping a middle aged couple to seduce high school students. Wanting to still protect herself she did not sign the letter or give names. 

Doris hoped the she had given enough information in the letter to get an investigation started. Even if Lois, Jill and Vince were not exposed, the investigation and the interviews of teachers could be enough to end Vince's using Lois for an unrighteous purpose. Just last week the rumor was that an investigation into in appropriate teacher conduct was underway that all four district high schools. Word was that one volleyball coach was already being charged with sex with a minor. 

When Doris emerged from the den Pam noticed that her mother looked shaken. When Pam asked if she wanted to join her mother shopping Doris just walked past silently. 

Doris could not make eye contact with Pam for fear of what her eyes would show. Clearly Doris was nervous and upset as she rushed down the hallway to her bedroom, but Pam remained silent. 

For the remainder of the morning and early afternoon she was so distracted that Betty asked if something was wrong. Though she said she was fine, her daughter did not buy it. When Betty pressed, Doris explained that she was thinking in what to get as another gift for her husband when she went shopping with Tara and Pam. 

Initially Doris did not intend to go with the two ladies but did so. It was a means to avoid Betty asking any more questions. She had already decided to go the extra mile during the holiday season to assure her husband of her love for him and a few extra special gifts would help. 

Tara had been distant from Doris for months. In October she wanted to claw her eyes out and never see her again. As she learned more details and as the weeks passed she softened her position. After Royce had learned about the details of his wife's affair she and Royce had numerous long conversations and emails. Tara agreed to allow Royce the opportunity to redeem his wife and agreed not to complicate matters by avoiding her. 

For weeks Tara recalled how Doris has been by her side. Tara recalled her friend's unwavering support during when Tara recovered from an accident. Recollections like this one enable Tara to dig deep down into herself to find strength and courage to act as if nothing was wrong. 

Her heart softened a little further when she returned home in mid November for five days. Tara found Doris raking the leaves in her backyard. Doris knew Vince was not going rake the leaves. So to help her friend, Doris took over the task while Tara was visiting Jeff and Pam. 

In the last five weeks Tara continued to recall the good times with Doris and her kindness. She really hoped that Royce's theory was correct that Doris found herself in a quagmire from which Doris did not know how to extract herself. Royce felt that if Doris was given the opportunity Doris would break off the relationship and maybe even confess. 

By Christmas, Tara really hoped Royce was right. Everything she knew about Doris fit with Royce's theory. If Royce was willing to do act like Hosea, the least she could do would be to support him. 

That afternoon Tara and Pam too could tell Doris was distracted, but they said nothing. Tara pulled them into a lingerie store. When Tara was holding up a bustier Doris looked away as it was almost identical to one Jill wore that horrible day in August.

Minutes later Pam had looked at various items and asked her mother and mother, for their opinions. "What about this naughty thing?" Pam would ask. 

A few minutes later Pam said, "What do you think my lover would like more?" 

Doris was speechless. Doris was shocked that her daughter just suggested that she had a lover. 

Seeing the pained expression on Doris' face Pam added, "my husband silly is my lover." 

Though Doris was relieved Pam and Tara kept commenting about their "lover" as they examined various items. Soon she too got into doing the same except she avoided using the word "lover." 

At one point when Pam kidded her about not dressing for her lover but only for her husband. 

Doris shot back in somewhat of a testy manner, "I dress to please and pleasure my husband. He is and always be my husband and the only man I will ever love. I have already brought harm to my marriage and I will not treat it lightly by playing around with double entendre." With that she walked outside and waited by the car in the cold.

While both Tara and Pam understood the context of the statement they were still in shock. They heard in Doris' voice and saw on her face anguish as she hinted at a confession. 

As Doris waited outside, she did not realize that Pam and Tara decided to purchase along with their own items two items that Doris favored and in her size. It was Tara's suggestion because in that outburst she saw a hint that she was reaching out. 

As they drove home Doris sat in the back seat quietly looking out the window. The other two women could see that she was deep in thought and that there was a tear in her eye. 

When they pulled into Tara's garage and Pam started to open the door Doris spoke up, "Pam wait a moment. I need to apologize to both of you for my outburst. Neither of you deserved it. I am totally at fault and asking for your forgiveness would be to make light of what I said and have done, and am about to say."

Pam and Tara looked at each other with surprise and each almost smiled. They noticed Doris' hand taking hold of the hand Pam had resting on the armrest. They both remained quiet to allow Doris to continue, "Pam, I have brought you and your husband great pain by opposing your marriage. It had nothing to do with your love for each other or that I thought your marriage would fail. It was my issue alone."

Doris paused, took a deep intake of air. Then she continued, "One day I may be able to tell you more but suffice it to say, I am very happy for both of you. I will say this in front of your mother and the woman who is dear to me in the world as a sister. Pam, I love you deeply. I love you as if you are my own daughter and am proud of you. I will be there always for you. I will defend you and your marriage to my last breath. If my son ever lets you go, he will be a fool."

She stopped for a moment, but suddenly Doris continued, "During my ranting I said I put my marriage at risk. What I am about to say I ask that hold in the strictest of confidence. I will not bind you to keep your silence beyond January 19th. After then you can tell anyone." 

The eyes of mother and daughter were wide with surprise. They nodded and said they understood.

Breathing a sigh of relief Doris continued, "Good. I know full well that your respect for me may well be lost by what I am about to say, but if that happens, then it is just punishment for what I have done. I am deeply ashamed that I have been unfaithful to my husband. While I would like to blame the man, I must accept responsibility." 

The adulterous mother continued her confession, "I will not go into details but I am telling Royce in mid January. Part of me wants to confess all to him now, but I do not want to ruin the holidays for us all. I want the wife of the man with whom I had the affair to never have Christmas or New Years saddled with such news. These are precious holidays that must be free of such issues. When the details do come out I know you will both understand more clearly and that you will experience some hurt."

Doris continued on, "yes, I will be confessing to her. I know her as she lives in our subdivision and I see her often in the market and mail. One of her children was in one of my classes. The pain I will bring to her life will haunt me for the rest of my life. I know she will never forgive me. Every time she will see me she will look at me with loathing. Seeing that look every time I see her will be a just punishment."

With a quivering voice Doris continued on, "this is my shame. I will not tell you exactly how long the affair has been going on but it has been well over eighteen years. I made a mistake one day. I then allowed the man because of my cowardly nature to bed me several times a year."

Doris' eyes dropped as she quietly said, "I have behaved in a disrespectful manner. I have tried to end it several times but in various ways he has found ways to keep under his control. Fortunately this evil man is moving out of state in the near future. You may wonder if he is moving out of state and if no one will know then why am I going to tell my husband and family?" 

The other ladies sat quietly as Doris continued to confess and go through her cathartic process. They had kept glancing at each other.

Barely above a whisper Doris continued, "I have finally found the courage do the right thing. It is that simple. It will likely cost me my husband, family and friends. Fear of being alone and friendless will no longer keep me silent."

Looking out the front windshield Doris said, "Unfortunately the man I have been with has given information of my affair to another man. Through a recent email this man told me he knows. It appears that he too will try to blackmail me. I will play his game through the holidays, but his goal will not be achieved. I will not meet with him. I will control my life not him. I will just delay him until for three more weeks. By then I will have told Royce." 

With tears streaming down her face Doris quickly exited and ran across the street.

Seeing tears starting to flow down Tara's face Pam hugged her mother, "Mom you controlled your anger. It is okay to let your anger out now." 

Her mother turned to her and not much above a whisper said, "dear, these are not tears of anger. My love for that man is long dead. He killed the marriage long ago. It just took me over twenty years to be able to recognize it and to pronounce the last rights over it."

Pam's face showed she was perplexed as her mother dried her tears. "Pam, these are tears of happiness for my best friend. Royce was right, she is coming home and is doing so without our other promptings."

"How can you have forgiven her?" Pam asked.

Looking her daughter in the eyes Tara replied, "Pam, I wondered about if I go do so in these last weeks. I realized that your mother has been like a close sister to me. She is part of my heart. Yes I am angry about what she did. Yes, she betrayed my trust, but she is my part of my heart. It is hard to explain exactly how or why, I love her as a sister and as she in taking steps to correct the harm I find I can only find forgiveness and love not anger. Do you remember that July weekend when that man was out of town and I went to visit his sister Cathy for the weekend. I came home Saturday night. What did I find?"

Pam nodded. That night was far from being a high point in her life. After allowing her daughter to recall the night, Tara continued, "Though you and your brother were not allowed to have anyone in the house, you had thrown a party. I came home to find beer cans all over the house, party food ground into the carpet and drugs being consumed."

"Where did I find your brother?" Tara asked and then said, "I found him along with two guys, he was having sex in the den with their girlfriends for all to watch. And where did I find you my sixteen year old innocent flower? I found you on my bed, high on drugs and booze with one boy between her legs and about to take another in her mouth."

After a pause to gather her thoughts and to search for the right words Tara continued, "now remember how I responded. I was angry, I was disappointed, my trust was betrayed and you party ruined carpet and furniture. Yes you were sincerely apologetic. Did you pay a price? You were both grounded for the rest of the summer and helped to pay for the carpet to be replaced."

Tara then said, "We are just fortunate that I discovered the party before the police did or there would have been legal problems, particularly for your brother as he was eighteen. Did I forgive you? I could do nothing other as I loved you. You recognized the error of your ways. I was proud how you corrected the errors of your ways and the changes you made."

Then Tara smiled, "I only wish you had dumped that jock right away until waiting until spring, but you did. How I feel about Doris is something like how I felt about you. I will express my rage at the appropriate time and I will extract a consequence, but she is part of my heart just like you. She is coming home on her own and yes I have forgiven her. The question is will she be able to forgive herself and move on." 

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With no email coming that day or on the 23rd Doris' awoke Christmas Eve morning at 5:40 with a great deal of nervousness. She hoped to delay her new blackmailer from taking action. Doris slipped to the computer to find the expected email. "I suspect you are now anxious. Good. Do you not think that you should suffer for what you have done? Do you not realize the difficulty you put your son and daughter in if they knew, or worse it became known by your friends? I will keep my peace if you follow instructions. I suspect you are willing to do so to protect yourself and your family from scandal. At the right time and in the right way I will reveal myself, but not until you are ready and showed that you will cooperate. It is up to you to convince me to keep your secret." 

The email continued, "You say you love your husband, but an affair for over twenty years says otherwise. You say you love your husband; prove it! Prove it by giving him Christmas morning your choice of 10 of the following 13 coupons."

The email continued, "You will see that several of them are common male fantasies. Are you willing to give him these gifts? Take erotic pictures of yourself and include them with the coupons. If you do not have a digital camera, buy one. The coupons are to be given to him as the family unwraps their presents."


Exposing Life's Cruel Irony Ch. 01



Tauntingly the email said, "Do you really love your husband or are they empty words? If you do not want to give him this gift, you could always tell Royce the truth you have hidden all these years! Oh, by the way, I have several means in your home to know if you follow the directions or immediately tell Royce the truth."

A shiver went down Doris' back. If this guy wanted her to take erotic pictures for her husband, the next thing he could be demanding is a copy for posting on the web. Doris thought she would give her husband the pictures but no way was she going to risk that this guy would post anything. She hoped for three more weeks, but would settle for delaying things for another ten days.

She also feared that this guy had to be someone who knew the family or had found someone to put bugs in her home. The thought of the latter caused anxiety. How could she turn to the house upside down on Christmas Eve without raising questions from everyone? She could not, and she knew it. She would look discretely here and there, but could not do a more complete search until the 27th when Royce went to the office. She also recognized that the sender of the email had waited until the time to complete the tasks was short and thereby limiting her time to think of other options.

In a matter of minutes Doris printed of the attachment. The three choices were easy. The first read, "With the presentation of this coupon, your loving wife will suck your cock until you cum in her mouth." 

The next, "With the presentation of this coupon, your loving wife will make arrangements within two weeks for you and her to have a romantic weekend." 

The third statement said, "With the presentation of this coupon, your loving wife will serve you dinner and give you a long erotic massage while she dressed in an outfit of your choosing." 

The next coupon read, "With the presentation of this coupon, your wife is willing to allow her husband to fuck her anywhere in the house of his choosing."

After those coupons, she thought that it would be pushing either her or her husband's comfort zone. Yet two of the four she had done in some form with Vince and would be willing to do so with her husband. The next coupon was still okay, "With the presentation of this coupon, your loving wife will purchase by the next evening 3 men's magazines for you to enjoy while she jerks you off." 

The next coupon in the email read, "With the presentation of this coupon, your loving wife will go out in public for at least 3 hours dressed in a manner of her husband's choosing." 

Still another coupon read, "With the presentation of this coupon, your loving wife will attend a strip club with her husband and will pay for two lap dances with the lady of his choosing." 

The next coupon caused her to shake her head. It read, "With the presentation of this coupon, your loving wife will allow you to video tape her striping and masturbating." Vince had wanted her to do a video in August but she refused. 

Choosing two of the remaining five coupons caused her some fear. Any of the five could bring forth questions she was not prepared to answer. Each could redefine their relationship. Yet, she had to select two, it was just a question of which direction she would take their relationship. 

Her eyes read, "With the presentation of this coupon, your loving wife is willing to provide her husband within 45 days one of men's ultimate fantasies, watching her have sex with another woman." 

The next coupon caused her hand to quiver, "With the presentation of this coupon, your loving wife willing to bring to him within 45 days another woman to fuck while she waits elsewhere in the house." 

The next coupon alarmed her further, "With the presentation of this coupon my husband is informing me that he will shortly be watching me be fucked by one or two men." 

The next coupon in the email read, "With the presentation of this coupon, your loving wife is willing to be your sex toy for a whole weekend (Friday 6 PM to Sunday 11 PM), doing without question whatever her husband commands." 

The last coupon read, "With the presentation of this coupon, your loving wife will arrange for her husband and herself to attend a swingers club where she will ensure that he enjoys as many women as possible."

Since her twenties Doris had a mild curiosity about what it would be like to play with another woman's breasts and touch her pussy. Vince tapped into that curiosity when he forced her to have sex with Jill in August. Having sex with Jill was mildly pleasurable. Because of how she was humiliated and how they tried to dominate her likely diminished the experience. Having sex with a woman went into the envelope. 

Doris all but eliminated escorting another woman to his bed and turned it upside down in the stack. She could not imagine picking up a woman for her husband's pleasure. She turned the others to face sideways. She had to go to the mall and grocery store. She slipped the envelope in her side drawer.

As she was worked her way through the stores that morning she was having difficulty settling on which of the remaining three to eliminate. She leaned toward eliminating the sex servant option as it made her so vulnerable to doing anything. Yet it would demonstrate her explicit trust in him and that she was prepared do anything he wished. Still there was a risk. 

She knew what a swingers club was like and without question she enjoyed herself the night in March when Vince took her there when Royce was out of town. Yet her ability to witness her husband with other women was another matter. Once that bridge was crossed he may want to do it more often. What if he did not react well to the idea? They had never talked about anything approaching such an idea. She felt cold when she realized that she could not go with that option as there was bound to be someone who would remember her from her visit with Royce. 

She would be willing to have multiple men but only if her husband was comfortable with this. When she thought about it she had similar concerns as she had with the swinger club. 

Bringing another woman to his bed too was fraught with logistical issues. She thought momentarily about choosing that one. Maybe she could get beyond her jealousy she thought. If she was involved, she could do it convinced herself. Yet, the thought of him asking if it meant she had been with another man disturbed her. 

Being a sex toy interested her as it could bring about some wilder things with Royce. Whatever would happen would beyond her control, and she felt some comfort by that thought. On the other hand, the club option meant he was going to be with another woman. She would know about it well beforehand and would be prepared. As she was drove home mid morning Doris determined she would go with the sex toy option was best. It left Royce in charge.

As she drove home tears started to well up. She pulled off into the parking lot of a local park. She wept as all her wrestling over what to put in the envelope was likely moot. It would not likely going to make any difference. Few, if any would be redeemed before she told him. 

When the tears stopped flowing Doris reminded herself that she was not going to be controlled any longer by Vince or any other blackmailer. She made a grave error. She compounded that mistake again and again. Yet, this was now and she was going to do the right thing in three weeks. In the meantime, she would play the game she was asked to play. It took her twenty minutes to gather herself together and redo her make-up.

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When she got home the house was quiet. The men were out and Pam was napping. She set up camera on the dresser. Using the timer she started to take pictures of herself.

As she looked at the pictures of herself as they printed off she felt they were all wrong. Putting the camera on the dresser just did not work. She felt a little guilty for not going with the club or the other woman options. If she had been with another man, and repeatedly with him, was she not being selfish in denying him being with another woman or two. 

She rationalized that she could try to find a different club. Maybe she should give him that coupon as well she thought. Doris was lost in these thoughts as she printed off the six pictures of herself in the den. She was so lost in thought that she did not immediately notice that Pam entered to feed the baby. 

As she heard the baby coo Doris quickly removed her nude image from the screen. She was relieved that the sheet was just finished printing the last one just as Pam sat on the sofa. Doris was embarrassed but was calmed that her daughter seemed not to notice. 

Pam smiled at the red faced Doris. She caught a glimpse of the photo sheet. As she was giving Jeff similar pictures this year, Pam suspected what her mother was printing. Pam spoke quietly, "I'm giving the same type gift to Jeff. Unfortunately, they lack the zip I want." Putting the baby over her shoulder to burp him Pam asked, "Can I see yours?"

Before Doris could recover from her embarrassment and gather a response Pam was looking at the pictures. Pam said, "They are like mine. They will do nothing for him. You are too static and the angles are all wrong. The boys will be at the soup kitchen for another two hours. Let me get my camera. We can take new pictures for each other. If you want something special before you tell Royce, let's make sure the pictures will be memorable." 

Early last evening when they had a chance to be alone Doris' daughter hugged her. Pam assured her mother-in-law that no one in the coming weeks would learn of Doris' affair from her. 

Pam also said, "Don't sell your husband or your family short. Mom reminded me that love of family goes along way to bring forgiveness when one sets out to do the right after a major mistake." 

Last night and throughout the day Pam's comments instilled hope. Yet in the back of her mind she still thought, "but she really do not know how bad this is." 

Doris was embarrassed but saw not harm. Betty was out shopping. Pam brought back two light blue sheets, one for the floor and one as a backdrop. Pam told her mother they did not want their husbands to know where and who took the pictures. She then instructed Doris to keep the camera set on portrait mode so the background would be blur.

Doris felt awkward at first being behind the camera but after the first ten shots, most of which she deleted, she felt more comfortable. Doris was struck by how several of Pam in a black baby doll looked. The one with her standing and drawing her finger back across the top of her pussy while the other was pinching an exposed breast was very erotic. The look in Pam's eyes were sultry and wild. Shots of her in the red teddy she just purchased were equally erotic. The shape of the teddy drew one's attention to the valley between her breasts and the valley of her womanhood. Doris thought several of the full nudes would stir her son.

Dressed still in her red teddy Pam clearly felt more comfortable behind the camera and skilled at giving directions to help shape posses for Doris. Later as they looked at the pictures on the screen, Pam had a talent for using the lighting and the angles to enhance Doris' beauty and the erotic nature of the pictures. As they were looking at the picture of Doris licking her own nipple they heard Betty quietly utter that it was an interesting picture.

Pam noticed that Betty's tone was playful. Her smile was infectious. Pam and Betty's eye's locked for a moment. The brightness of her eyes leapt out at Pam. The quiet perfect daughter, the perfect reflective student seemed to be anything but at the moment. The look on her face and the way her head turned was sensuous. 

Doris was embarrassed and stuttered an apology while her daughter replied that she agreed with Betty and told them about the Christmas gifts for their husbands. Doris looked embarrassed but Pam said, "Mom, we are all girls here. There is nothing to apologize for." 

Betty agreed and giggled she would keep in mind doing this when she eventually married. 

When Pam said she only wished she could include one or two wilder one's, Betty replied, "Why don't you?" 

Though she had one or two ideas Pam still answered, "I am not sure what I could do." She was uncertain if she should push things with her mother.

Impetuous Betty spoke as she moved toward the door, "I have some ideas. By the time you finish printing off the pictures I'll be back." 

A short while later Betty appeared at the door with a bath robe and carrying an old wooden chair from the garage and a long blond wig her elder sister wore in a high school play nine years before. Betty placed the chair on the sheet as she said "Mom, you get behind the camera." 

Pam had an idea where this was going but Doris was stunned when after putting the wig on Betty dropped her robe to reveal that she was dressed a black semi transparent bra and matching G-string. Through it and the spiral leave design one could glimpse her shaved pussy and nipples.

Pam was momentarily distracted by Betty's appearance. Her sister's sensuality and the playful look in her eyes caused her to miss a comment from Doris about her daughter's appearance. 

As she moved toward Pam she tossed her bleach blond hair, "Let's give him every man's fantasy." 

With a glint in her eye and a broad smile Pam nodded. She had caught glimpses of her sister's rarely revealed wild side before, now she was catching more than a glimpse. 

Doris objected but Betty assured her that with the wig and the right angles her little brother would never know it was her. Pam sat on the chair while Betty moved behind. Placing her wavy hair down the side of her face as Betty leaned over Pam and started to play with Pam's red encased breasts and nipples. 

Doris busied herself taking pictures from various angles as the breasts became exposed. Pam moaned her pleasure as Doris zoomed in on the nipple being pulled lightly by two of her daughter's fingers. Getting two shots of mother's milk emerge brought a warm feeling to Doris. Then to her surprise through the viewfinder she saw and captured her daughter's tongue licking up a drop of milk.

As she took the pictures she tried to keep from showing Betty's face but knew that those that showed part of her face would be deleted later. She then got pictures of her daughter's hand positioned on Pam's pussy as she stood to Pam's side. Doris noticed Pam's hand was running up and down Betty's long legs. Doris' eyes noticed that Betty's hand was not just changing positions for a pose but was actually playing with Pam. 

Doris kept taking pictures as her daughter's hand drew out her daughter's right breast as she wondered about her daughter's sexual orientation. She zoomed in and clicked away as Pam licked and then nibbled at the tit with an erotic smile on her face. As they were suppose to be getting only posses, Doris cleared her throat before saying she had a number of good shots. Before they finished Pam asked for one more series with Betty kneeling between her legs and face appearing to be in her pussy. 

The two ladies stood after several shots were taken from slightly different angles. Doris was frozen as she watched her daughter take Pam's face in her hands and lean forward to kiss Pam. When the short kiss was broken, Pam noticed that her mother had not taken any pictures. Pam quickly reminded her mother-in-law that the purpose of this was to get some pictures. 

As Doris raised the camera, Betty winked at Pam. A second later as Doris took pictures the two young women kissed not for a pose but tender kisses to say thank you for the pleasure they provided each other. 

As they kissed Pam had never been given much thought to touching or being with another woman as a lover. Now that she experienced it, the seed was planted deeply. When they broke the kiss Pam noticed that her mother had a lustful look upon her face. 

Betty asked if there was any more poses Pam wanted to get. Betty noticed some hesitation so she asked, "What is it Pam? Come on tell me." 

Expecting it to end there Pam whispered it to her. Betty giggled, "Now my brother would definitely find it hot to have both sets of breasts he has suckled in the same picture."

After some aggressive persuading by Betty she got her mother to agree with three conditions, that Pam would promise that they were only for Jeff and secondly that she could have a set for her husband as well as with one distant shot and one close-up of her daughter touching Betty's breast without revealing that Betty was the other woman with Pam. 

Doris said that if she was going to do this she wanted her husband to know the type of wife his son married. Doris felt that by making those two shots part of the condition that either Betty or Pam would drop the matter.

To Doris' shock, both women quickly accepted her conditions. Again she had miscalculated. Betty started to click away as mother and daughter stood topless side by side. After getting several pictures Betty took both women and stood them at a 60 degree angle to each other. Following another series she took one of each of their hands and placed it upon the other's tits. Doris initially drew back but Pam quickly put it back in place. 

As Betty took the pictures, Pam could not help herself and she started to play with her mother's breasts. Doris' facial expression shone forth the pleasure she was experiencing. Soon Doris was reciprocating.

Betty kept recording pictures. From their facial expressions she knew both women were experiencing a sexual moment. There were only six more pictures left on the memory card when Betty whispered firmly to her mother, "Kiss her. Go ahead and do it. You want to. I can see it in your eyes." Critical thinking had long ago been left behind. 

Pam heard the command and took it as directed to her. Like Doris, she too was now running on erotic desire. She hesitated for a second. Then Pam followed the command not because she had to do so but because she desired to do so. Both women moved their faces toward the other. Betty zoomed in to catch their first kiss, a type of lovers kiss. It was the cry of an infant broke their spell. Before she left, Pam hugged Betty and said thank you. Betty responded, "Maybe we can do more another time."

With a head spinning over what happened Pam hurried off to changer her son's diaper and then dress herself. This day was not going as expected. She had gone much further than she intended. She had been curious but she still never imagined touching or kissing another woman. 

A small epiphany occurred in Pam's mind as she started to powder her son's bottom. Once an undefined line had been crossed, the excitement and energy of the moment just swept her away. It was not until after that a sense of guilt and second reason set upon her. 

Putting Royce down in the crib Pam had greater sympathy for Doris. In the right circumstances she too could end up having an affair. She could see how the heat of the moment could be overwhelming and take one well beyond the limits. A tear formed in each eye because of how Vince played upon Doris' guilt. She felt anger that she was part of his line.

Vince used one mistake to take advantage of Doris. He had not done the loving thing by allowing Doris to walk away with grace. Instead he did a most unloving thing by using her as if she was just a meaningless toy. Tears flowed as Pam concluded that her father, "that man" as her mother now called him, was a self-center egotistical abuser of women. The lines suddenly connected in her mind. She whispered to herself, "My word, he is a type of rapist. He may not have raped her physically, but he raped her emotionally." 




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As Doris and Betty were cleaning up the den, Doris too was surprised and stunned by what had transpired. She was still trying to gather her thoughts as Betty was downloading the pictures for selection and printing. Moving to get her earlier pictures and the one's taken by Pam, Betty said, "She is certainly a wild beautiful tigress." 

Doris agreed and added without thinking, "I wonder if Jeff knows how seductive and wild she can be?" 

"Knowing my brother I think he has an idea. I just do not think either of them realizes how seductive and wild she could be." Doris nodded.

As Doris completed cutting nine pictures of herself in the envelope Betty entered. Her daughter gave her seven of pictures of her and Pam as well as five of Doris and Pam. As her daughter was about to leave the room her mother spoke, "Can I ask you about something?"

Her daughter turned, "Mom, no I am not a lesbian. I just love teasing. I enjoy having sex as much as you." After a wink, she left leaving her mother pondering if it was true. 

Before she could start to decide which pictures to choose Kristy's voice echoed signally that she and Paul had arrived for the evening. She quickly put the pictures in the red envelop with all the coupons and put it under her pillow. She would slip away and decide later which coupons to toss and which pictures she would include before sealing it. 

She exited the bedroom thinking that this is one Christmas Eve she would never forget. It was also one Christmas she would cherish as she anticipated that it would the last as one happy family. Next Christmas her children would be torn over with which parent to spend Christmas. 

To be continued...



Exposing Life's Cruel Irony Ch. 02



This is a continuation of the "Cruel Irony" series.

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That evening, while his wife was in the master bathroom, Royce, dressed only in dark green boxers, saw a corner of a large unsealed red envelope sticking out from under his wife's pillow. Extracting it he noticed his wife's handwriting, "For Royce, my dear husband and lover." Along the bottom was penned "Merry Christmas. As I love you more than words can express." 

Opening the card he read, "I hope that you will love the included items. They are merely hints of the depth of the love held within my heart for you. I want to you to know that I would do anything, anything, to express my love and to be all that you desire from me. I love and appreciate you far more than these feeble words could ever express. Forever yours, your lover, Doris." 

Five and half weeks before, Royce joined Jeff on a weekend fishing trip. It was during that trip that he learned what he had started to suspect. His wife was having an affair. Still the first words shook and cut him. He dropped down upon the bank. Though his ears heard the words, his mind seemed to shut down. He did not comprehend the remainder of what his son was telling him. His eyes just stared blankly at the far shore for a long time.

When Royce collected his thoughts he told his son that his suspicions were aroused the prior August when Doris had two significant bruises and a fainter one. One bruise with a small cut was on her left breast. There was a rather large distinct bruise on her rear end. The faint bruise was on her cheek just below her left ear. She claimed that she have fallen in the school stairwell while carrying supplies to her classroom. Yet, the bruises did not seem to match the explanation.

Coming home early one Friday afternoon in mid September he caught the tail end of his wife yelling at someone over the phone saying, that "Enough is enough" and that "It will not work anymore. It ends now. If they knew you would be at as great a risk as me. Maybe I should tell them all and get it over with!" After a pause she seemed to be pleading with someone. When she noticed him she said that she was in a fight with the union. She finished with her caller by saying, "I will talk with you when I am not angry. Goodbye!!" Though her explanation seemed plausible, it did not sound like a union matter. Before he had a chance to investigate and to know more before confronting her, he had a heart attack mid afternoon at work. 

He awoke late the next morning to find her holding his hand, crying and muttering, "Please don't leave me my love. I do not know what I would do without you." 

He remembered having heard earlier that night, in a drug-induced cloud, her crying and pleading, "If you are there God, let him stay with me. My life would be empty without him. I am sorry for not being the wife he deserves. I have only been trying to protect him and the children from my shame. Instead I ended up heaping shame upon shame. If you need to take anyone, take me, not him. I deserve to be struck down. I deserve it. Please spare him." 

Even in a drug induced groggy state he knew something was wrong, but he could not find energy to respond. In the days following his mind started to become more active. Overhearing her private cries helped him to put the call she overheard more into context. Though he had pieces, the medication kept his mind from having enough time to reason clearly. Yet, he knew something was not right and he needed to know more. 

Yet, he reminded himself not want to jump to conclusions. He learned that lesson in his teens. The time spent recovering allowed him to watch his wife carefully. It also provided ample time to thinking about their relationship and marriage. 

Jeff listened to his father say that when he returned home he started to ask, what would be his reaction if he discovered his wife was having an affair? If she was, he knew he would want to know why. He spent hours just thinking about his wife and searching his heart. He would through her out and divorce her. At least that was his initial thought until he recalled Barry and Mandy, neighbors of his family when he was in his teens.

Barry was a teacher at his high school. One Friday evening in June Barry was visiting the husband of one of his colleagues when the phone range. His friend Zack answered the call, then asked Barry to speak to the caller. Shortly after he hung up the phone he took off. Less than fifteen minutes later Mandy called from the movie house to tell him that the movie just let out but that she and her two female friends were stopping at the local A&W Drive In. She would be home closer to midnight than to ten-thirty as he expected. Unfortunately when Zack said Barry was not there Mandy assumed that he had not been there at all that night. 

Mandy's was enraged that her husband lied to her. Her conclusion was the same as most people, if he deceived her it was because he had something to hide. As it took less than twenty minutes to drive from one end of town to another and his VW bug had a distinctive paint job she persuaded her friends to help her look for his car. As they passed a row of cheep motels on the edge of town they saw Barry's car driving out of a motel. It appeared that he was with a woman. Mandy had her friend follow his car at a distance. Mandy and her two friends from church watched him stop at the curb in front of a series of row apartments. As they approached and passed Mandy saw a finely dressed high school girl getting out of his car. Her skirt was a little twisted and well ruffled. Mandy recognized the young lady as a sixteen year old girl who was dating a senior from their church. When she exited her husband's car this young woman kissed him on the cheek and looked back at him with a bright smile. She seemed to skip up the walk.

Mandy concluded her husband was not only cheating on her but he seduced a minor. When he got home five minutes after Mandy was in the process of dumping his drawers into garbage bags and boxes. She loudly accused him of having an affair with one of his students. When he denied it she said she knew it conclusively. She yelled at him and he could not get a word out. She screamed that if he had done it with one student he would have done it with others or would do it again unless he was stopped. She informed him that she was divorcing him and would make sure his teaching credentials were nullified.

She informed him that Lisa, one of her friends who also knew, had already called their pastor telling him all about it and demanding that Barry be removed immediately from being a deacon. Mandy stated she was going to call the school principal to report his abuse of authority. As the windows of both homes were open Royce and his parents could hear Mandy screaming at Barry. They caught a good part of what she was saying, including calling him a dirty old pervert. Barry tried to explain that Mandy did not see what she was thought she saw, but Mandy kept cutting him off. She refused to hear Barry's explanations and told him to get his cloths and leave. She screamed that she never wanted to see him again. At some point she picked up a vase and through it as there was the sound of a window breaking.

Looking out his bedroom window Royce saw anger in Barry's face as he exploded out of the driveway and down the street. 

Just past two in the morning Royce's family was awoken to flashing lights, the sounds of car doors closing and the knocking upon Mandy and Barry's door. It was the police. They and all their neighbors learned the next morning that Barry had been stabbed in a motel parking lot and was in a poor condition. Apparently, pulling into a motel he noticed a fight and when he tried to break up the fight he was stabbed three times, in the stomach, in chest and in the hand. Mandy refused to go with them saying he was no longer her husband. 

The street was awash in stories about what happened the previous night. Mandy added fuel to the stories by saying, "God gave him what the pervert deserved." Lisa came by to help her friend. When neighbors questioned why Mandy was not running to his side Lisa told them that she and Mandy had conclusive proof that Barry was seducing his female students. 

The medical staff thought that though the injuries were serious, particularly the one that nicked his heart, that as he was in good physical shape that Barry would recover. He kept mumbling for his wife, but she never came to hold his hand or to whisper words of encouragement. To the medical staff's horror, and to the horror of the high school, early Saturday afternoon Barry passed away, his heart ceased beating. As one nurse said, Barry died because he lost the will to live. 

News of Barry's death stunned the town. What stunned them more were the rumors about him seducing high school girls. The paper in the local town published a story on Monday which quoted his wife and fellow deacons as saying, "He was unfaithful to his wife and was seducing minors. God's judgment upon his sins was swift. We should have known something was wrong when he kept urging the church to be more understanding of those outside the faith. We should have judged him earlier and discovered his sinful disgusting behavior. He was a wolf in sheep's clothing." The paper also noted that school had no comment other than that "Barry was an outstanding teacher in the classroom. We are aware of the accusations. We will not make any judgments until our investigation is completed." 

Mandy refused to make the funeral arrangements or attend. She did not call his family in northern New Hampshire to give them the news. Nor did she attend the funeral on Tuesday afternoon. Given Lisa's report and Mandy's confirmation of "the truth" about Barry the church in which he served as a deacon refused to conduct the funeral service. Zack and his wife Karen arranged for a minister of a local non-profit to do the service. Royce's parents and Royce who was a sophomore in high school attended. Royce's father said, "Barry needs to be honored in death for his whole life, not for what happened Friday."

Over a two hundred and fifty of Barry's current and former students filled the chapel to overflowing. Fifteen teachers, including the principal acted as ushers and pallbearers. Few from his church attended. The captain spoke of Barry's life as one of service to others, to helping others in need even if when it put his own life at risk. He noted that any words he could say would be dwarfed by words from one of his students. He then invited Erin, the young lady who was seen getting out Barry's car, to the podium. Erin said she spoke to the captain that morning and asked if she could pay tribute. Erin told of his kindness and skill as a teacher. Most of the students nodded when she mentioned that he constantly thought the best of his students and challenged them to move beyond themselves. When she said he was quick to help any of his students without judgment several students shouted "That's right. Not like some others."

Royce paused and looked at his son and said, "What happened next forever shaped my life, how I look at people and respond when they do something wrong." Erin went on to say that Karen had told her female students that if during prom night or after the graduation dance they found themselves in a situation where their driver was intoxicated or their date was forcing or pressuring them to do something that they did not want to do, they could call her at home. She would pick them up and take them home with no questions asked. She would not tell their parents what happened or what the young lady would tell her. She went on to say that when she called Karen's home Karen was already out helping another girl. 

Barry thought nothing of coming to her rescue. He rescued her from the motel without judgment or comment. During the drive home Barry affirmed that he would not tell her parents or the school. As he pulled to the curb at her home his last words to her were, "Erin you are a bright young lady. Never sell yourself short. You have a great mind and personality. You can go a long way in life. Never let some guy, no matter how much you feel that you love him, force you to do anything against your will. You have a strong future. Do not let some guy ruin it or you." For that she kissed him and walked to her home feeling that all was well with the world. 

Erin finished by saying that she will forever hold Barry as her knight in shinning armor who came to her rescue. She regretted that his wife and her friends destroyed Barry's life and reputation. 

Then she said something that was so profound that the weekly paper's editorial spoke about the significance of her statement for so many things in life. "I was bitter and angry at Barry's wife. But after speaking with the Captain I decided I would not judge Barry's wife and her heart. I agree with him that I cannot do so and if I did so I would be repeating her error. I have faulty knowledge and information. The captain reminded me that too often in life there can be a wide difference between our perceptions and reality. What we often perceive as being truth is only a shadow of the fuller picture. I hope that you will join me and vowing to remember the painful lessons of what can happen when we forget reality can be far different than our unchecked perceptions." 

Chocking with tears Royce told his son that while recovering he reaffirmed the vow he took at the funeral. He carefully explained how that vow was challenged more severely than ever. He needed to know much more about his wife and what is happened before he would make any decisions. He explained that his wife has a kind and loving heart. Jeff agreed that she has been a loving and caring wife, and that she was steadfastly at his side during his illness. Royce reminded his son that all people stumble from time to time, and she too needed to be given a chance to redeem herself. Royce said he want to give Doris that chance if it is still possible. Yet Royce also added, there would be moments of doubt and he would have to give them voice and work through them.

Jeff nodded his head and asked what happened to Mandy and her friends. When the story of Barry coming to Erin's rescue came to light there was uproar in the community against Mandy and her friends. The pastor of their church and all but one of his fellow deacons who attended the funeral were criticized for their judgmental spirit. Mandy was found days later in a fetal position at home muttering over and over again, "I killed my husband. How can God forgive me?" 

When several families in the church called for the pastor to account for his actions, he responded that he made the correct decision based upon what he knew. He faulted Mandy who was then hospitalized for providing "Hysterical and incomplete information." Within a month over half the families left the congregation left since they felt that their pastor acted more like a judge and politician rather than a pastor. Royce reminded his son that Doris wife was by his side almost constantly, visiting him before going to school, arriving within 30 minutes of school ending and staying as long as the nurses would allow, her touches all indicated that she loved him. At home she looked after him with great care, watched his diet and medication carefully, and made sure that he was completing all his physiotherapy. Royce knew words of love could be empty if not coupled with actions. He told his son that if anything, actions spoke with greater meaning than words as words spoken from a deceitful heart can be empty. But a deceitful heart has great difficulty faking every day love in action. He only needed to look across the street at Vince to see a disconnect between words and actions. While others may not have seen it, he did which may be one of the reasons Vince had become more hostile toward Royce in the last six years. He told his son, that what he saw from Doris day after day during his recovery was only love. 

The second week after returning from the hospital Royce began to suspect that if the telephone call was part of the affair that his wife was caught in some type of affair against her wishes. It was clear that she still loved him passionately but somehow she felt that she was now protecting him. She was trapped and it would have to be something big he concluded. He could not imagine the threat but she must have felt it to real. Now he understood really how big it was. 

Jeff nodded and added, "I remember learning in Cub Scouts that animal mothers will do anything including surrendering themselves to harm to protect their young. I guess even human mothers like mom do that too even if it is irrational." 

Royce had not thought of it in those terms but he agreed that type of instinct could be a factor. He finished by saying, "You know there will be friends who think I am soft and lack backbone by taking her back and attempting to redeem my marriage. This is America, and all are free to hold their opinion even if it is a false one. I love her and I have too much invested to walk away without seeing if my marriage to your mother could be saved."

Trying to complement his father Jeff said, "It takes greater depth of character to make the effort than it does to just walk away."

"I would not put it in those terms son. Each man and woman has their own tolerance for pain, their own level of love and ability to forgive. Sometimes it may take more character to walk away instead of tolerating the situation. Sometimes one will just have to throw the cheating spouse out because they see the marriage as unsalvageable. I will not fault such individuals or judge their marriage. My focus has to remain upon mine, not the marriages of others." 

Later that day when his son sketched for him what the report revealed, Royce broke down and cried. There was anger at Doris for getting herself in such a situation and for how long it had been going on. Though earlier Royce said he would redeem his marriage, he began to have doubts. To help him through this moment of doubt Jeff asked his father a question, "If Mom told you before I was born, would I have you as my father today?"

Royce did not know how to answer Jeff. He suspected he would have left her. Royce would have missed out on so many frustrations of parenting him but he would have missed all the overwhelming joys too.

He told his son that he was hurt that she did not trust him enough to tell him the truth before it really got bad. Royce was pushed to look at a different direction when Jeff asked "Have you ever cheated on Mom?"

Royce knew that twelve years before he became infatuated with a temp who was covering while his secretary was on maternity leave. During a conference at which she helped to staff a booth she talked about how lonely she was with her submariner husband of two years being off on a 7 month deployment. Late on the last night after a long meal and three bottles of wine she invited him into her room when he escorted her to her room. He almost accepted but did not. He knew he came close and if he had slipped, he doubted he would have quickly confessed anything to Doris.

The next day and after a fitful sleep Royce learned more of the details. Royce found himself crying internally for his wife. There was still anger and disappointment, but compassion and love was coupled with it as well. His son's questions kept him from turning inward upon his pain and helped him to keep his vow to Barry.

He wanted to just hold his wife and draw from her the pain she must be experiencing. She had carried this haunting burden alone all these years. When he again said he wished she had told him when Jeff was born, Jeff responded with the same questions and made his point by restating them in a different way. "In all honesty dad, what would you have done if you were in the same position?" and "If you even had an affair twenty years ago would you have been secure enough in your marriage to have told your wife? What about in the last two years?" Royce would like to think he would tell Doris today. If he did it would only after much thinking. He clearly would not have told her twenty years ago. He would have thought the risk was too great. 




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During the afternoon while their lines were in the water, little fishing was really being done as Jeff sketched Tara's plans. Jeff told him that he and Pam feared the news getting out. Royce agreed that they needed to safeguard the truth about Jeff and Pam. Royce became smiled when he learned of Tara's plans to leave Vince and undermine all their plans. 

Like Tara before him Royce insisted that when it came to Doris, it was going to his plan. He appreciated Pam and Jeff's work and would likely use some of their ideas, but they would only assist him with his plan. He would leave her only if she cannot be redeemed. He wanted her not only to be free of Vince but be given the opportunity to confess her affair. If she confessed freely there was a basis for rebuilding their relationship upon positive ground.

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In the last weeks Royce set in motion his plan. He had several long talks with Tara. They shaped their plans together, Pam and Jeff just helped to give them ideas and helped to do some of the work. He was able to use information from the report to help ensure contact between Doris and Vince would be limited. Doris's spirit became more alive as his recovery progressed and as her contact with Vince became rare with most of it being public greetings across the street.

It was Tara's idea to send the email just before Christmas. The coupons and their wording were Royce's idea. For years he fantasized about Doris being more open to broadening her sexuality and experimenting. Yet he never suggested anything that would push much further because earlier in their marriage she strongly rejected a handful of milder suggestions. Now his wife had broadened her sexuality but without him. Royce reasoned that if his wife had broadened her sexual experiences, the coupons could be the vehicle for her to include him within a safe framework. Taking the pictures was Pam's idea. 

When Tara called him last night to tell him what transpired in the car he was trilled. He now knew she was building the courage to confess. He was going to do what he could to help to find that courage, and sooner than she planned. Until she did, she was vulnerable to Vince's games. 

While Royce was opening the envelope his wife was in the bathroom putting on a deep red bustier with a matching thong and red nylons that she picked up just that morning from the shop she visited with Tara and Pam last June. She added to it a Santa hat and red velour boots trimmed along the top with white cotton. Before exiting she sprinkled perfume behind her ears, between her breasts and along the upper part of her thighs. Doris was ready for some good loving from her husband. It had been a long dry spell for her but husband's doctor changed his medication nearly three weeks ago and a week later Royce was able to resume sexual activity. 

When Doris's husband opened the envelope his face shone. There were more pictures than demanded and all the coupons. Doris emerged to find her husband dumping the contents of the envelope upon the bed. An initial wave of panic and embarrassment hit her because she had not yet had time to remove any coupons or select just a handful of pictures. He had much more than she planned, including all those pictures of Pam and Betty.

As she approached the bed he looked at her as if he was a kid given free rein of a candy store. As Royce got to the last few coupons, she watched his eyes widen with a questioning look. It was not a negative look, or a look of alarm. It was, rather, a thoughtful look. Doris recognized that the next few seconds were crucial. To guide his mind along a more positive course Doris seductively crawled up the bed. As her face came over his manhood she took her husband's already erect cock deep into her mouth. She sucked it up and down twice before moving up to kiss her husband with all that was in her. Breaking the kiss she smiled, "I see you love my gift." 

"Are you sure about these?" He pointed to coupons about other partners and swing club coupons. 

She grinned and nodded. "I am willing for us to fulfill any unspoken desire you have along these lines. If you never give me a particular coupon, that is fine. This is my way to say, I love you and trust you. I want to please and love you."

As he raised the sex servant coupon, "Are you sure you would be willing to do anything?"

"Yes...anything and everything you desire....it is carte blanche. I love you with my whole heart and that one tells you that I trust you explicitly. I only wish I had done this five or ten years ago." 

He pulled her into himself. They kissed each other longingly and lovingly. Doris was feeling loved and felt more confident about her marriage than she had for years. Silently she was thankful to the emailer. She thought that little did the blackmailer know, his threat and coupons may just helped her marriage and free her from Vince and her new blackmailer. 

As they cuddled and looked at the pictures, Doris faintly heard a female giggle. Doris smiled. It seemed as if her daughter had just given her son the pictures.

"You are really a sensuous woman," her husband noted as he pointed to several of her pictures. "I am happy to be married to such an erotic wife."

She giggled and kissed him, "Thank you, most kind sir." She unsuccessfully tried to tickle him playfully.

As she nestled against him, together they started to look at the series of Pam and another woman. The look of ecstasy upon Pam's face as her pussy was being fondled did not go unnoticed by Royce or Doris. It was not until the fifth picture which was a close up of her daughter's hand that she noticed that not only was it was inside Pam's red thong but her middle finger was short. The observer knew what the hand and finger was doing. 

As they looked at the two shots of Pam licking and sucking Betty's breast, Royce commented that they were extremely erotic. Doris was surprised that she was able to get shots of them kissing without revealing that the other woman was her daughter. In one shot in Pam's eyes the look was more than intrigue and pleasure, there was a hint of lust. 

Royce expressed great surprise and appreciation for his wife's pictures with Pam. She noticed that he was still aroused. Feeling a little self conscious in looking at herself she moved to the side to take his aroused state into her mouth. Slowly she sucked and played with him while watching his eyes and face. Royce's eyes gleamed as he studied each one. 

His hand repeatedly drifted to her breasts. That her nipples were hard even before he touched them did not go unnoticed by Royce. He squeezed her breasts and pulled on her nipples. She moaned in response. One picture at the bottom of the file seemed to catch his interest more than the others. He put it to the side and kept looking at it. She saw the grin on his face. She was tempted to ask. She was content to enjoy his firm hot manhood in her mouth and leave him alone to his private thoughts.

Royce pulled his wife to lie beside him. He started to kiss her neck and toy with her ear lobes, gently biting and sucking them. He did not do this often but when he did she loved it. His face moved over hers. Their kisses moved back and forth across each other's mouths. His tongue explored her mouth and hers did the same to his. Their hands roamed freely across each other's backs. As their lover's kisses continued, his hands toyed with her exposed breasts while her hand went to the cock she loved to hold as her toy. His hand moved between her legs. She parted them wider to give him invited access and provide the touch she longed to receive. 

Doris could smell the scent of her own heightened arousal. Her pussy was throbbing as he touched and then cupped her sex. He pushed the red fabric to the side with his fingers before pressing one into her slick channel and warm hole. Her hips moved to signal both her encouragement and to deliver to her first climax. Her moans encouraged him onward. 

Their eyes locked. His gleamed with joy while hers were glazed with the desire and the urge to cum. Since taking pictures of Betty touching Pam, she had been sexually charged. Kissing Pam only made her state worse. A second finger joined the first. Together the two fingers wiggled within her as the thumb pleasured her swollen nub. After many long hours of delay her body quaked with her first gentle yet pleasurable release of the night. 

As she came, Royce was pecking and licking from one breast to the other. He sucked the farthest tits into his mouth before moving to just suckle her hardened tip. His free hand was fondling her nearest breast, pulling upon its nipple and sending feelings of pleasure from her chest towards her womanly core. Moving with her heaving chest he kissed and suckled all around her womanly mounts. The attention her curvy breasts sought was being well satisfied.

Positioning himself over his wife, Royce slid his hard cock between his wife's extremely moist pussy lips. He held it against her entrance and kissed her as he pushed slowly forward. Doris moaned in pleasure enjoying the feeling of each inch sliding slowly into her. 

She stared into her husband's face. He still had not spoken a word since putting the pictures on the bedside table. Their breathing became deeper as they enjoyed the pleasure of each other. Royce paused his thrusting and held his cock deep inside his wife as they again kissed as lovers. His cock started to move in and out of her pussy at an increasingly greater pace. Doris slowly slid her legs backward and then wrapped them around her husband's hips, drawing him into herself. 

He was looking into her eyes and her into his when he asked. "Do you think that they are lovers?" 

Using her legs to pull him deeper she asked "Who?"

"Pam and Betty...there is something in their eyes," he moaned as he thrust hard and deep as the image of Pam and Betty kissing played upon his mind. His wife had a surprised look as he kept thrusting, "I knew it was her from her class ring and the scar on the shoulder. And besides, it was logical that she took the pictures of you and Pam."

Their movements and rhythm quickened as she moaned, "No. I think our daughter would like....ooohhh, ohhhh, ahhh. Yahhhh haarrd." Though over the years their lovemaking had become a coordinated dance, a greater energy and urgency was driving them both to different heights this time. Tonight's dance was not familiar. It was more urgent. It was more raw. It was more powerful and lustful. 

Doris whispered in her husband's ear her encouraging messages of lust and love. He seemed bigger and harder than normal. And she, too, found that her eagerness running higher. Her ears were filled with the sounds of their coupling, their moaning, the slapping of their wet hips together and the rocking of the bed. She momentarily wished she had not held back in the past.

Dropping her legs from behind his back allowed him to roll over onto his back. They remained intimately connected as they rolled over. Once over him Doris rapidly lifted herself above her husband. The adulterous mother began to move her body up and down riding her husband's cock as if her life depended upon it. In her mind, and in a manner of speaking, her future did depend upon this moment. 

Royce's hands reached up, each taking one of her breasts. Her face was filled with urgent desire when he asked, "Do you want Pam too?" Her closed eyes flew open and locked upon his face. He saw her erotic nature and it excited him. Doris rapidly rode her husband while his hands played with her swaying breasts. Her pace slowed down for a moment to catch her breath and second wind. Mimicking a belly dancer her hips rotated around his hard cock. "There is something about her but I would never do that to Jeff or you."

Doris felt his cock's head moving around deep within her. She reached down with one hand and spread her pussy lips with her thumb and ring finger to give her husband a good view of his entry point as her index finger rubbed her clit. She felt herself cumming and cried out her joy. It was only the image of her husband that filled her mind as she came.

Once she came she looked into her husband's eyes. She saw only passionate love. She momentarily thought of Vince who never had this look of love or pleasure. She had made mistakes that he used to blackmail her all these years. Sex with him was just that sex. It had been momentarily enjoyable and she experienced many new thrills with him, but none of it was never of the quality of pleasure she experienced with Royce. There was something about having sex with the person you love that made all the difference in the experience of their coupling. It an intimate way to communicate their love and desire for each other, it was truly named, making love.

She felt Royce starting to bounce and thrust into her. He had not cum and she was now on a mission to bring him full satisfaction. His actions drove her to pick up the pace, to drive him toward his moment of release. Her eyes fell upon a coupon by her left knee, it was the one of bringing another woman to him. The thought of seeing him with another woman sent a shiver through her even while she felt a sexual charge. Earlier, she realized that the emailer had determined that it was only right for her husband to enjoy the sexual pleasures of another woman. And the emailer appeared determined to bring this to fruition before her husband discovered that she was a slut. Though she did not think she was a slut, maybe she was. She hated that term but how else could you describe what she had done. One thing was certain, her daughter was right, she loved sex.

As she rode her husband and looked into his eyes, she accepted that fact that she greatly loved sex, and it was time for her husband to bring that element out of her in all its forms. Yes, she would bring a woman to him to fuck and she would likely enjoy watching, particularly if she got to play too. With such thoughts streaming through her mind, her aggression was driven higher and higher. Her thigh muscles were starting to grow sore from her rapid pace but she did not slow down. Doris's eyes closed as her lips formed the shape of an "O" as she started emitting "ohhs and ahhs" of the impending climax. Her riding became even faster as their bodies smacked together. Her voice became louder and more urgent.

Opening her eyes to her husband's moaning, Doris saw the familiar expression. His eyes were closed and his lower lip was held by his teeth, the look he often had just as he was about to release. She just started cumming when he achieved the state of release. Together they entered into nirvana. 

Doris threw herself upon her husband, and kissed him tenderly with the thankfulness of a long time lover's kiss. He returned in kind. Their kisses were ones of love, assurance, passion and gratitude all at the same time. They held each other for several long minutes before she rolled off him and rested against him. 

After cleaning themselves up they lay cuddling against each other. Royce turned onto his side, kissed his wife and uttered, "Wow." He was unable to utter a coherent thought for several more minutes. Then he said "wow" again for saying "Thank you for the wonderful Christmas gift. I love you my dearest with my whole heart. If I died right now, I would die the happiest man on the earth."

Cuddled against him and holding his soft manhood she replied, "Yes, wow indeed. You really bring the best out of me.....Lets not loose part of your gift." Then she gathered up the pictures and coupons and placed them on her bedside table.

Exhausted and contented, Royce lay there knowing his wife was the love of his life. She loved him and cared for him. She kept his home and patiently put up with his failings. Sex with her was usually wonderful and passionate. Tonight he saw the love in her eyes and in her voice. He also saw in the pictures a glimpse of an erotic wildness that had been unfettered tonight. He was pleased that the coupons had helped. She never would have thought of giving them without prompting that was certain. And she most certainly would not have freely written a number of them, but she had followed through not because of a threat but out of love. She seemed sincerely happy that she gave him all the coupons.

In his heart Royce knew she had given the coupons and the pictures as an act of love. There was clearly a side to his wife that he had not fully acknowledged until seeing the pictures. There was a look of supreme pleasure upon her face tonight. Two pictures stood out in his mind and if he was right, he needed to talk with his son. 

When the light went off Doris also lay there thinking about what had transpired and what potentially lay ahead. She was going to pull away from Vince's control and tell her husband. A tear formed in her eyes when she realized that lovemaking with her husband may become a distant memory. If so, she would warmly cherish this night for the rest of her life. As for the emailer, she was powerless at the moment to do anything but play his game. She was going to make it through Christmas. 

Suddenly Doris smiled as she realized that they had been so vocal that the whole house could hear them. That Betty was back home and that Jeff and Pam were in the room next to theirs totally escaped her in the passion of the moment. Now she felt embarrassed. No doubt there would be some knowing looks exchanged in the morning. 

To be continued...



Exposing Life's Cruel Irony Ch. 03



From the picture taking earlier in that afternoon Pamela was feeling aroused. Yet she was troubled as to what had taken place. She had some uncertainty as to how to interpret the experience and excitement she felt. After changing the baby, she dressed herself and printed off a full set of pictures before giving the baby to his Aunt Betty to watch for an hour or so. Gathering her coat and boots she walked across the street to visit her mother. Fortunately her mother was alone so they could talk.

Through the planning and sharing of their feelings, she and her mother had become extremely close over the last two months. In many ways they had become each other's confidant.

As she entered the kitchen she found her mother singing joyously to herself. She appeared happier than she had in years. Tara was truly happy as for the first time in years, maybe since her teens, she felt this free and confident. Her visit earlier in the week with Vince's grandmother had a lot to do with it. She was also pleased to be able to deliver the grandmother's gift to her three children.

A part of it also had to do with Tara's self-confidence had grown stronger since October. She learned a great deal about herself from self reflection and in reading books. She read books on self fulfillment, rebounding from divorce, love, romance and erotica, and the legal issues related to divorce, discovery and entrapment. She also read two books about forgiveness and healing. From other readings she gained insight into her husband's egotistical nature and planned to use his cockiness and smoothness to her advantage. She wanted to be prepared as fully as possible. Too much was stake for miscalculation. She was going to be free of her husband on her terms, not his. He was going to be exposed before the whole family to the point where he would feel awkward being around any family member. Throughout their marriage he played her as a fool. She was a fool no more. 

A major part of her joy was from what was confirmed a few days before, news she had yet to be able to share with Pam. Seeing her daughter's face Tara knew something was bothering her daughter. She set aside her joy to focus upon her daughter's needs. 

Over coffee Pam told her mother what happened during the taking of the pictures. Her mother raised her eyebrows when she mentioned how Betty became involved in helping with more exciting pictures. 

Tara studied the pictures her daughter took from her coat pocket. She found several of them to be tastefully erotic. She carefully listened to her daughter explain how she reacted to being touched by Betty, how Betty's kiss caused her heart to race and how even kissing Doris did something to her. 

When her daughter finished talking, Tara sensed that the experience had shaken her. She asked her daughter several probing questions that helped her clarify Pam's feelings, fears and reactions. Tara helped her to understand that it was an emotionally charged moment and that what she felt was not wrong, just different. With a faint smile coming back upon her face daughter's face Tara joked that maybe she should explore such an experience, that it could prove to be fun. As she stood Pam was pulled upward for a hug.

"I am sorry to have ruined your mood." Pam quietly said as they broke their hug. 

"The mood is not broken. I want you to be the first to know two pieces of news. Your great grandmother is selling two Florida properties. You and your brother will be receiving part of the proceeds. She did not say how much, but the news will be given to him and Vince on your father's birthday. But I have her permission to tell you and Jeff today that it will be significant." With that Tara hugged her daughter. She knew there was more news form her Vince's grandmother, but that news would wait.

When Pam asked for the other news, Tara took her daughters hands in her hands. As she drew them slowly to her belly she said "I went to the doctor just before seeing your great grandmother. You are going to be a big sister."

Pam leapt with joy for her mother. She knew that Tara desired a baby so bad and Pam was sincerely happy for her. She was amazed that during her first effort that weekend with her lover than she was now with child. 

"When are you going to tell the father and Vince?" 

"I do not know. I want to break the news to that man before on his birthday on January 18th and before he can tell me of his trip to California." They then talked how they will adjust their plans to set up the announcement.

"When will you tell the father?" Pam asked

"I am not sure how and when yet." With that Tara's face became a little downcast. How over three days her baby's father had made her feel desired and loved. His touch and words were sincere and not an act. And in response she found herself having feelings of love in return. She knew that this could happen but had disregarded what her head had told her about bedding him, particularly because he was married. 

Noticing her mother's hesitancy Pam asked, "There is something wrong, what is it?"

Her mother kept saying it was just a little problem she needed to work through before she told him. When her daughter kept pressing her and saying that her mother was putting her into an awkward position Tara finally blurted out, "it is because he touched my heart. Pam, he did not just have sex with me, but he made love to me. I wanted it only to be about sex and to get pregnant, but I could not help loving him back even knowing we could never be together. How he talked to me, kissed me and touched me like I have never been touched before."

Pam sat silent and trying to take into herself the significance of her mother's words. She had fall or was falling in love with a married man, a man whose child she was carrying. It had not dawned on her that this would happen, but now she realized she really should have thought about it. Tara was so determined on finding any man to impregnate her that Pam could not sit passively just allow her mother to be harmed by picking up the wrong man. She thought if she could help at least stir her into a particular direction that her mother would not find herself in an abusive situation. She thought that for her mother the sex would be recreational without heart engagement just like it was for most of her friends from college. 

Now Pam realized that she had misjudged matters. She solved one problem, albeit a great concern for her, and only substituted another. Now Pam needed to think how she could help her mother through this. 

Pam hugged her mother, kissed her on the head before saying, "We will work this out. These last few days have been emotional ones for all of us. He does not need to know of this right now. And he does not need to know of your feelings. Let's hope your feelings are only momentary." Her mother nodded. 

A little later Pam asked to use her mother's computer. She too was going to give her husband some coupons.

As the coupons printed, she noticed it was about time for Royce's feeding. An hour later as Royce was feeding there was a light knock on the door. Betty opened and closed the door. 

Betty sat on the bed watching the beautiful sight of her nephew be satisfied at his mother's breast. As breasts were switched Betty asked quietly, "Are you okay with what happened earlier?"

"Yes, I think I am now."

"I am sorry. I was out of line in touching and kissing you like that. I just wanted you to know I am sorry. And I am really sorry for telling you there could be more." Betty proffered.

Taking her free hand she placing it over Betty's Pam smiled, "I rather enjoyed it. And you were not the only one kissing. I have never done anything like that before."

"So you're really okay?"

"Yes I am. Can I ask you a couple of questions?" Pam asked quietly. When Betty nodded Pam continued not much more than above a whisper, "what did you mean about more?"

"I lost my head in all that was happening and I found myself wanting to be with you. Pam, you may not know this, but you are a beautiful sensuous woman. Your husband is a lucky man" she whispered before kissing her on the forehead as she stood to go.

Pam patted the bed. "Hmmmm, you don't know what the little pleasures breast feeding brings to me." She felt anxious but felt compelled to ask, "It seemed like you have been with a woman before. Are you...not that that is a bad thing? I am just curious if you don't mind me asking."

Betty smiled, "No, I am not a lesbian. I love a nice hard cock but I also enjoy being with the right woman. The curves and softness of a woman is a wonderful experience and stands in contrast to how I respond to a man."

Swallowing Pam asked, "When was your first time kissing a girl, and not the practice play kisses with a girlfriend?"

"The first time was with my roommate in my junior year. Now, if your questions are intended to ask if I would be interested, the answer is yes. I loved touching you and having you play with my breasts. I would love nothing more than to suck milk from your breasts and taste your pussy. But I will ask or do nothing more unless invited." 

Part of Pam wanted to speak and invite her sister to have a taste of her milk but she remained silent. Pam was curious. She was aroused. She was also cautious. Too much had happened. She was now dealing with the consequence of her mother falling in love with her lover. She needed no more complications in her life. Instead, Pam watched Betty quietly exit the room.

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That evening after the baby was settled, Pam gathered various items from the guest bedroom and made her way to take a bath and prepare for bed. Not only was she looking forward to giving her husband her pictures and coupons, she wanted to be in his arms and to feel his manhood within her now that her period ended yesterday. 

Soaking in the body oil laced hot water she closed her eyes. Her mind recalled the events of the day. As her eyes remained closed, romantic recollections from her honeymoon and the trip to a lodge in Wisconsin the previous winter replayed in her mind. Throughout these recollections her hands lightly caressed her thighs, womanhood, stomach, breasts and facial cheeks. When the water cooled she added more hot water before drifting back to those romantic moments. She added hot water twice more before imagining how her husband was going to make her feel in a few minutes. She emerged ready for some good love making with her husband. 

When she emerged from the bathroom in a red teddy and Santa hat the house was quiet. Hers and sister-in-law headed to their rooms about ten minutes after she excused herself. That was now well over an hour ago. Quietly closing the guest room door she noticed that her husband was not there, but that a half dozen votives were burning and giving the room a soft glow. Evidently he had the same idea she had.

Entering the den Pam discovered her husband in his boxers asleep on the sofas. An empty bottle of win was on one corner of the side table. Another bottle of wine with only two to three inches of wine left rested by two glasses on the coffee table. One glass was nearly empty and the other two thirds full. She uttered her frustration under her breath. She was eager for some loving and her husband was asleep. 

As she was about to blast her husband the grandfather clock in the entrance hall chimed midnight. It was then that Pam realized she had been in the bathroom for well over an hour. He had lit the candles expecting her to be out shortly and opened and started on the first bottle. She sat in the easy boy looking at her husband blaming herself while still having a great need going unsatisfied. She surmised that a bottle of wine after three earlier beers and exhaustion put him out. She thought of waking him, but decided to let him rest. Whenever he had consumed a little too much he slept soundly, and if he was stirred, it was if he was sleep walking, somewhat aware but not really grasping what was being said or done. She left him to awaken himself and drag himself to bed.

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Minutes after Pam excused herself to take a bath, hers too turned in for the night and Jeff opened a bottle of wine. He poured two glasses and settled down on the sofa while sipping on the first glass. When it was done, he poured another before taking it with him to the guest room to prepare for making love to his wife. Even though he was exhausted, he was more than keen to be with wife as they had not connected much in the last week. 

Once in the bedroom he placed six votive candles throughout the room. After he changed into his green boxers he placed an erotic gift upon the bed. Jeff planned to give the gift to his wife in the privacy of the bedroom. 

Just as he turned his sister Betty entered the room. She smiled at her brother as she walked over to him. She commented upon how sexy he looked and that he sure looked like he was planning on some fun with his wife. As she moved to pick up the gift the embarrassed red faced Jeff tried to prevent her. He was unsuccessful as she moved swiftly by him to scamper up the bed and reach for the gift. 

Jeff lunged across the bed in a last attempt to prevent her from taking hold of the gift. Instead of blocking her he landed upon her just as her right hand took hold of the toy. 

To get it from her he tried an old trick from their younger days, tickling. She giggled and squirmed. When she still did not let go he tickled her more rapidly which only increased the loudness of her giggle and caused her to squirm harder causing the headboard to bang against the wall. As she flailed around she broke free and stood waving the toy before her. 

"Well, well! A pearl rabbit vibe. Nice. Ohhh and with a cock like head. Very nice" she laughed. "So are you going to use this on her or is this only for her pleasure while you are on the road?"

He did not respond but this time successfully grabbed the toy from her. He grabbed her and pushed her toward the door. As he did so he slapped her on her butt like he use to and told her, "get out of her or you will ruin everything." 

As she left Jeff, still a little out of breadth fell onto the bed and again causing the backboard to hit the wall. His throat was extremely dry after play fighting with his sister. Swiftly the glass of wine that was on the bedside table was empty. Returning to the den, his third glass in twenty minutes too was soon empty. 

When he finished a third glass he became antsy and frustrated. He yearned to make love to his wife for the first time in nine nights, but she was still in the bathroom. Without thinking he poured himself another glass.

Ten minutes later he stood, walked down the hall to rap on the door to hurry his wife along. "No" he said to himself. "It has been a long time since she has taken a long bath. She deserves it."

Though he was impatient to make love to his wife he returned to the den and opened another bottle. He lost track of how much he had been drinking. As he had his second glass from the second bottle Jeff lay across the sofa. Laying there he started to touch himself. Within three minutes he stopped playing with his cock because if he kept going he would satisfy his need to cum. He wanted his wife to receive his full eagerness and all of his cum. His hormones were raging, but he wanted his wife.

To calm himself, Jeff started to think of other things than his wife. His eyes closed as he started to daydream about teaching his son to fish and water ski at the family cottage. He loved the lake and the sounds of the birds and crickets, and the sounds of canoe paddles breaking the water. He smiled as the images filled his mind. Not long after his consciousness released itself for rest merely ten minutes before his wife emerged from the bathroom.

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Pam sat in the chair gazing upon the sleeping figure of her husband six feet from her. When he slept he looked so peaceful. Though she was disappointed the night had worked out as she hoped, she was anything but disappointed with him. These moments of disconnected romantic moments only made their other moments all the more precious.

He often told her, "I want nothing less than your happiness and for you to have just enough of everything in life to have a dynamic exuberant life." Three months before they married, she overheard Royce telling Doris the same. Pam understood wanting nothing but her happiness but to say he wanted her to have just enough of everything she did not fully understand. It was not until they had been married three months that she asked him what he meant about having just enough of everything.

Holding her hands in his hands, with his eyes locked upon hers he explained, "I love you so much that I want the richness and fullness of life's experiences to be yours. I desire that you will have just enough blessings, pleasures and joys to sustain you. I desire that you will have enough sunshine in your life to keep your smile bright and wondrous but just enough rain for you to appreciate the sun and to bask in it. I hope that you will experience just enough moments of want and loss to appreciate and value that which you do hold and cherish what you possess. I hope that we will have just enough fights and disputes to appreciate how much we do live in peace and love with each other. I wish for you to experience just enough pain so that the small joys in life appear much bigger and shine forth as wonderful gems. I hope you will have just enough busyness and stress to enjoy the calm and peaceful as a fresh breeze in life. I hope that you find just enough sexual frustrations to drive us to fulfill each other's needs for passionate love making and fulfillment. I desire that you will have just enough moments of boredom and staleness to value the diversity of experiences that exist in your life. That is what I mean by just enough of everything in life to have a dynamic exuberant life."

Pam's mind often recalled his words that night because the next day she sought out to write them down and memorize them. It took some doing, but together they were able to record them for her to place her gems box, the little box that contained letters and photos that held special meaning for her. She desired nothing less than same for her husband. She wanted to do what she could to help him to find fulfillment in life and to turn as many of his dreams as possible into reality. She wanted his spirit to remain alive and bright, and to be along his side until her dying breath.

As she sat there she thought of her mother. Her mother had been her rock and her source of comfort. She knew that Tara had more than enough of pains, sorrows, frustrations and loneliness in her life. For years to the outside observer her mother put on a brave front and to those observers seemed to have a good marriage, but Pam now knew it was an empty shell. Her mother had been alone and never truly loved by a man. Tears came to Pam's eyes as she acknowledged that the intimate tender love and carrying between a man and a woman that was so much a part of her life had not been part of her mother's life. She could not fault her mother for loosing her heart when she experienced a lover who make love to her, who accepted and affirmed her. She could not fault her even though she knew he was also married. 

She walked down the hall toward the bedroom. As she reached their bedroom she noticed a light was on in Betty's room. She knocked lightly and entered to check on the baby. Her eyes quickly focused upon the baby who was sleeping quietly. Then her mouth dropped open at what she saw on the other side of the room.

There to upon the bed with the tri-light set on low lay Betty clothed in a red lace bra with matching bikini panties. The right cup was pulled down below the breast with two fingers resting upon the nipple. The panties were pulled aside with the middle finger of her right hand folded between her pussy lips. Catching another woman masturbating was embarrassing enough but seeing two pictures of herself taken that afternoon to Betty's left side stunned Pam.




Exposing Life's Cruel Irony Ch. 03



Time seemed to stand still as Pam's mind decoded the sight. She had not waited for Betty to respond before entering. Now she regretted she had not waited five or more seconds before entering. But she had entered and now both women were flushed red with embarrassment. Pam did not know what to say. Part of her was angry to find copies of pictures taken for her husband being used in this manner by Betty. 

Pam also found herself confused because she was also aroused by witnessing Betty splayed out and touching her womanhood. Just as she was about to speak harshly she stopped herself. She remained motionless . Betty said nothing. Pam remained speechless. Betty too did not move as she processed what was now happening. Suddenly Pam swiftly fled the room.

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Less than three minutes after Pam fell upon her bed behind the closed guest room door she heard a faint tap of a finger or two. She knew it was Betty. She did not respond until a quiet knock sounded. 

Standing outside the room Betty was deeply embarrassed. Her need to explain herself conquered her desire to flee. They needed to talk. If she did not explain herself and deal with it now it would hang awkwardly between her and Pam for months or even years to come. 

Even though not invited, Betty quietly slipped into the guest bedroom. She looked upon the young mother who oozed sexuality and sensuality. All through their childhood Betty thought Pam who was ten months younger to be the image of what she held as balanced beauty and grace. Though Betty was older, she tried to model her wardrobe after Pam. Being friends made it was easy because they often shared fashion tips and borrowed items from each other. Pam had a better sense about what items would look good together and how to carry herself. In Betty's own eyes she never did pull off imitating Pam and so by the time she was well into her second year of college she decided to just be herself. Yet even today the careful observer would notice great similarities in the two women in their smiles and mannerisms. Some said that Pam was the more thoughtful side of the more playful Betty.

When Pam married her brother, Betty was trilled just as much for him as her joy in having a family connection that would keep them together as friends. They had remained friends but the closeness was not as strong since to her mother's disappointment Betty transferred after her sophomore year to a different college than the one Pam attended. 

Since giving birth to Royce, Betty had become more enchanted by Pam. Betty's eyes gazed upon Pam's wider post-birth hips. She loved how Pam's breasts became fuller. Her curves flowed more fully and gracefully. In Betty's eyes, Pam was the perfect image of a mother and the perfect example of a sensuous confident and vivacious woman who also had a sharp mind. Not only did she have a sensuous body and a mind but she had a gentle loving personality. If she was a man, she would want to marry her.

In college and grad-school Betty dated a different man every two or six weeks. Some men were skilled lovers but no relationship lasted. They either did not connect or there was not much more to him than wanting sex. If she was going to settle down with one man, she desired for that man to move her heart, soul and mind as well as being a skilled unselfish lover. In the meantime finding different men to help her meet the physical needs of the moment was the fun part of grad school.

In early March of her senior year she had been seduced into kissing her roommate. The kiss was more than a practice kiss she did with another girl during high school. While curious about more, nothing happened beyond kissing that night. 

Three weeks later she agreed to accompany her roommate to a party being hosted by a middle aged sociology professor. There were far more women at the party then men. The five men were either married and attending with their wives or were in serious relationships and attending with their significant other. Throughout the evening it was evident that many of the women were flirting and toying with each other, and even disappearing to another part of the house together. Occasionally a husband would disappear alone shortly after his wife left and would appear back well before his partner. None seemed to disappear with any woman. The men seemed to be just enjoying watching. 

Later in the evening while exploring the house Betty entered the professor's home office where she discovered two partly clothed women embraced in a long kiss. There was something about the scene that froze her in place. That was when Wanda, the hostess whispered in her ear, "they look beautiful together."

Betty merely nodded before Wanda continued, "Have you ever been with a woman before?" 

When Betty shook her head no, Wanda turned Pam's face towards hers. The mid forty-something Wanda studied Betty's face before leaning forward to say, "The female body is so lovely. It is sensuous and responsive. It receives and gives such rapturous pleasure. Look at them. Notice how they are enjoying each other. Tonight, as they fall asleep their minds will be filled with warm thoughts of each other." 

Recalling that kiss three weeks ago that brought forth a curiosity Betty nodded that she understood. Wanda saw curiosity in Betty's eyes. Betty was interested but not quite there yet. "Things were so different when I was in college. We could not be as free to express such interests and desires as we can today." There was a pregnant pause before she continued, "tomorrow night four of us are getting together to go out on the town for some entertainment. If you want to explore your curiosity, call me."

With that Wanda wrote her phone number on Betty's palm. Then the professor smoothly turned Betty and with no resistance from Betty, kissed her at length on the lips. Betty's closed her eyes and responded by opening her mouth allowing Wanda to explore it. As they kissed, Betty's right hand was guided to one of Wanda's breasts. She could felt the older woman's soft breasts and hard nipple. Still in shock she did not know what to do other than to hold the silk covered breast. 

Though the kiss lasted less than ten seconds, Betty felt it lasted much longer. Betty looked longingly into Wanda's smiling face. She was willing to be swept by the feelings of the moment but Wanda stepped back. "If you really hunger for more, call me tomorrow before noon. You will not regret it. I hope you will join us. In the meantime, Ellie and Andrea will not mind if you continue to watch." 

As Betty leaned against the door jam she watched the two lovers. Sam, Ellie's husband made his way past Betty to sit in the desk chair to watch his wife go between her lover's thigh's. As Ellie started to quietly moan her pleasure and pull her lover's head closer, Betty fled from the doorway and the house. Later that night her mind was awash with conflicting thoughts and feelings.

Since, Betty had explored with a measure of satisfaction her curiosity. She found female lovers to be all that Wanda described. There was a tenderness and passion that was different than what she found with men. For her women had been an erotic change that enhanced her appreciation of a hard man driving into her. She found some women to be more attractive and alluring than others, but she never lusted after any woman until that Christmas Eve. 

Standing less than five steps away was the focal point of her lust. She wanted Pam with a greater longing than she ever had for any woman and most men. There before her was the erotically clothed goddess whose form she had been gazing upon in the pictures for the last thirty-five minutes. Shocked and red faced but still silently motionless lay the real life image of the woman whose pictures had already brought her to two climaxes and was just about to deliver her the third when the object of her lust walked into the room. 

Just before her sister fled the room Betty witnessed confusion and pain upon Pam's face. Betty knew she was the cause of that pain. Her chest heaved as she fought tears. Though she was tempted to remain in her room in a state of denial, or just lay there crying, she could not do so. It had happened. Pam now knew one of her hidden desires. Yet she felt a little relieved that an even more embarrassing one was still held unknown to anyone but Wanda and herself. Mustering courage, Betty put on a robe and crossed the hall. She stood there a few minutes gathering her thoughts as she won the battle against crying.

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To be continued...



Exposing Life's Cruel Irony Ch. 04



Even before landing upon the bed Pam's emotions overwhelmed her. She was angry. She felt violated and that a trust had been betrayed. She was also bewildered as to why there was an initial excitement before her anger surfaced. She was angry at Betty but more so at herself for not securing a copies of the photos. 

She had conflicting feelings. She felt some revolt and hatred for the betrayal for the act. Yet, she loved Betty as a friend and now as a close family member. 

She also was disturbed for again a little excitement growing as she calmed knowing that her sister had fantasies about her. It was akin the feelings when as a teen her body was well along in its development and she noticed men turning to look at her as she walked past. Then her heart fluttered with giddiness as being viewed by handsome men as attractive.

Over the years, like many young women, Pam accepted and lived with the fact that there would be men, both friends and strangers, who would look at her with lust and undress her with their eyes. She no longer noticed it. Intellectually she knew that there were women who were intimate with other women, but until that afternoon, other than a passing idle curiosity, such thoughts in that direction never entered her mind. She was not prepared to learn that another woman would ever look at her picture in a lustful manner. The reality had hit her hard in the face. 

When she heard the tap, Pam ignored it because she did not want to talk with Betty. When the louder knock sounded in her ears she could not utter "Enter." Instinctively she knew if they did not talk there would be a tense air hanging over them all as they handed out the gifts in the morning. Yet she remained silent with her head in her pillow crying. 

Betty slipped into the room and was pleased that her brother was not there. She stood there for several long minutes before Pam looked at her. 

When she did look at Betty, Pam informed her that Jeff had fallen asleep on the sofa while she took to long in the bath. As she sat in a small padded chair Betty nodded that she understood. 

There was a deathly silence until Betty offered an apology with tears starting to flow, "Pam I am so so sorry." When Pam went to speak, Betty held up her hand, "Please let me finish. I have betrayed you and our relationship. I wish I could say I don't know why I was doing it but that would be a lie. I know why and the why is not excusable. I have destroyed your respect and trust in me. Knowing that I have hurt you tremendously grieves me. Seeing the anguish on your face cut me and will forever be an open wound in my heart."

Taking a deep breath Betty continued, "I want to ask for your forgiveness and am prepared to do anything to make it up to you. Yet I cannot ask for your forgiveness as I do not deserve it and it would be too soon for you to give it. You have been one of my best friends and I have lost that friendship because of my irrational act and stupidity. I hope that over time we will heal the damage I have caused. And I hope that we will be able to put on a brace face as well all celebrate Christmas together." The more Betty did her mea copa the more the tears flowed. 

That Betty accepted responsibility and looked her in the eyes did not escape Pam's notice. These were not mere words to Betty. They were spoken with all sincerity and contrition. After speaking, Betty took a couple of deep breaths and closed her eyes before she rose to leave.

"Do not go. I have a few things to say too," Pam responded as Betty reached the door. She turned ready to receive what she deserved.

"You are right. I feel that you betrayed me. I am angry. But you are not just my sister, you are also Royce's godmother. I am not going to entertain the thought that our friendship has ended. My anger is for what you did, not at you....that does not make sense....what I mean is the act more than you personally." 

Betty nodded she understood.

Pam continued, "I expect some boys and men to treat me and other women merely as a sex object, but not another woman, let alone my sister and friend. I want to find it within my heart to forgive you quickly but to help me to do so I need to understand some things first." 

Betty nodded again in shame before wiping her hand across her face to wipe the tears away. Pam took a box of tissue and held it out to her. Betty gratefully took several tissues.

Taking her by the hand Pam gently commanded, "Sit. He me to understand what happened and why. I confess that I have some curiosities, but those curiosities are not behind my questions. Is that understood? Good. Now tell me when you first started to fantasying about me and what led up to it. Start from the beginning." 

Betty started with the kiss that night with her roommate and the party. Pam listened carefully as she lay upon the bed as her sister described in rather graphic details what happened at the party. Betty had moved to lay on the bed too as she spoke. As she got to the day after the party, a day that Betty felt was the foundation for what she and Pam did that afternoon, she leaned her head against Pam's chest as she continued. 

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Betty did not remain through to the end of the party. As she walked back to campus around midnight her feelings and thoughts jumbled together. Wanda's kiss was seductively powerful. Betty would have given herself to Wanda if she but asked. Yet as she walked home her rationale self told her not to go there, it was too much of a big risk. She wanted and needed men, not women. She loved to the hardness of a man in her and the roughness of his body. Yet, there was this curiosity that Wanda further fueled with her comments and kiss. 

Before she entered her dorm room Betty knew that Wanda would not seduce her unless that was something that Betty truly wanted. Wanda did not want a woman who was swept away by emotions only to have regrets. She wanted her lover to be swept away intentional desires. Wanda wanted a willing heart that would not regret making love to another woman. "If I do this", Betty thought, "Wanda is the type of woman I would want to be with." 

Sleep that night was hard pressed and restless when it did occur. One moment she was willing to call Wanda in the morning, the next fear and guilt took hold over what she was wanting. At one moment she was confident that she would not make the call only to have the curiosity and desire stir her interest to make the call. She was only glad about two things, that if she took the step she was not rushing into her first sexual relationship with another woman. And that Kara, her roommate, was not there to witness her restlessness. Just before ten-thirty the next morning, she called Wanda and said she would join her and her friends. Once the call was made sleep called her forth into its peaceful comfort.

Kara did not get to the dorm until well after two o'clock. When she entered the room Kara had a bright smile on her face. Though Betty asked what the smile was about, Kara did not tell her. 

Just before eight that evening Betty walked seven blocks to Wanda's home. They felt it would be much better for her to meet them there than for Wanda to be seen picking her up outside the dorm. When she arrived she found that three women had already arrived. Sitting on a lounge chair sat Andrea a twenty-six year old woman married to a Larry, a MBA student she met the prior evening. Sitting on the sofa dressed in blue jeans and a white cotton blouse was Ellie a mid thirty-something mother of three married to a professor of mathematics. Betty was surprised to see Carol from her dorm floor. Carol was a brilliant freshman who completed high school in three years. This freshman from her dorm six days before celebrated her eighteenth birthday. Carol's was dressed in a white camisole and a tight black skirt that rested between the top of her thighs and knees.

When she noticed a glass of wine in Carol's hands Betty raised her eyebrows. Wanda must have noticed because she quietly told her, "Linda, Carol's mother is a good friend of Ellie. Linda promised that if Carol remained a virgin until she was eighteen and out of high school that she would help introduce her to the joys and pleasures of adulthood. One of those pleasures is a high quality Boudreaux. Later she will have her first Champaign. Tonight and tomorrow, she is being introduced to adulthood by Ellie. Tonight she gets one side of that life and tomorrow afternoon the other."

After the ladies finished their wine, and after Betty had a glass, they headed to a club for the night. All knew that Carol would not be served so she had an extra glass of wine before she left. As Betty expected to be going to a night club she was surprised when they pulled into a nightclub on the edge of an industrial park in the town twenty minutes down the highway. As they walked toward the door Betty noticed a sign that said, "Celebrating the art of the erotic dance." Her heart beat rapidly; they were going into a strip club. As the others entered, she hesitated. Wanda noticed her hesitation and told the others to go ahead.

By the door Wanda and Betty spent ten minutes talking. The talk helped to settle her nerves. While Wanda assured her that the club was not degrading women and that it was female friendly, she also noted that if Betty chose to leave that she would go with her and take her directly back to her dorm. 

Wanda paid their cover charges. About ten feet from the long stage they sat at a small round table beside the one at which the other three women were sitting. The seating area was dimly lit but the stage was well flooded with pink and red lighting. From there Betty watched a woman prancing nude around the stage and teasing the men who were sitting along its edge. Moments later the music ended and the dancer gathered her clothing and exited the stage as another woman moved up the stairs. 

Betty glanced around the club as the music started to play. She estimated there were three dozen or so men. What surprised her was that there were three women with their husbands or boyfriends in the club and two women sitting together on the other side of the stage at a table. As she noticed two men with their wives entered she said to Wanda, "I would never have thought that there would be so many women in a place like this." Wanda said that the tasteful clubs often have women patrons on weekends. With that Betty started to relax.

They watched one dancer after another disrobe over three song sets. Some appeared to be going through the motions but most seemed to be enjoying themselves. The second dancer that Betty watched from the beginning was not only skilled but seductive in her moves. Her smile was bright and she tossed her head and shook her hips with erotic energy. As she danced Wanda who was seated immediately beside her spoke quietly in her ear, "Jillian sure is lovely woman. Look at how sensuous she moves....so erotic and smooth. Hmmm her breasts are so gorgeous and full...and her nipples, ohh so lickable. Her hips are so shapely and her ass firm yet full. And her pussy, so simple and yet so inviting." Betty's eyes followed Jillian upon the stage. 

When Jillian exited a redhead took her place. Wanda continued to comment upon the next four dancers until Ellie noted, "If we are going to get to the tip rail together we better do so over at the second stage before it too fills." Betty followed the four women to the second stage that had opened two dancers ago. Wanda placed a stack of one dollar bills before herself and Betty. Betty described to Pam how she just followed her friend's led in tipping the dancers. Wanda sat to Betty's left and Carol to her right. To the right of Carol sat Ellie then Andrea. During the second dancer Wanda went to the washroom with Ellie. On their way back Betty noticed that they were speaking to Jillian and Madison another dancer. 

Ten minutes later it was announced that Jillian and Madison were both up next on stage two. Both women moved teasingly yet with grace back and forth across the stage slowly disrobing until during by the end of the second song they both only had thongs remaining. As they danced they seemed to make repeated stops near the five ladies who were just beyond the center of the long stage. Twice Jillian's eyes locked upon Betty's. Betty found herself spellbound by Jillian's facial expressions. She found herself carefully following her movements. 

As the third song commenced the two women moved from opposite ends of the stage just as they had done several times before to switch sides. This time they did not pass each other. There just five feet from Betty and Carol the two dancers stopped, looked at each other. Madison's hand moved up to touch and toy momentarily with Jillian's breasts before Madison moved to her knees. As Madison sat upon her knees Jillian removed her G-string revealing to her fellow dancer her pussy. The men were hooting and clapping. Like Carol, Betty fidgeted but continued to allow her eyes feast upon the action before them. 

Then Jillian drew Madison up by taking hold of her breasts. Jillian's faced descended down her friend's body not more than three inches away. As she did so many of the watchers could see Jillian licking her lips. When her face was before Madison's thighs, her hands reached up and slowly drew down her legs the remaining articled of clothing. When the article was removed Jillian licked her lips twice before tossing the G-string to the side where it landed right before Ellie. Again the place was buzzing with excitement as the women moved swiftly around the stage to gather dollars from a dozen of the men. 

Ellie took the item that landed before her and drew it to her face. It appeared to Betty that she smelt its aroma. Her suspicions were confirmed when she held it to Carol's and then Andrea's nose before tossing it over to Wanda who too smelled it. At that moment Madison had moved to stand before Betty. Betty was drawn up to stand before the dancer who drew Betty's face forward into Madison's bosom. Madison made a cooing sound as she placed her breasts on the sides of Betty's face and then withdrawing. Betty could not help tip her several dollar bills.

Before moving on, Madison lay on the dance floor before Carol and Betty. As her legs were splayed wide her finger moved down and then back up her pussy channel. On the return trip she even took hold of her clit and shook it. Betty remained silent as a load "wow" escaped from Carol's lips. All of the ladies again tossed bills to reward Madison for such a display as Madison took her G-string and placed it in Betty's hands but under her nose. 

Within ten seconds of Madison moved on with Betty still holding her G-string. As the music was approaching its conclusion, Jillian moved before Carol. As Carol stood, the dancer's left hand moved down across her thighs to draw Carol's eyes in that direction. Once her eyes were focused where the dancer desired, the five women watched her use two fingers to part her lips to expose the richly pink entrance to her inner sanctum. As the peak of the sanctum closed both of the dancer's hands played with her breasts just a foot away from Carol's face. One hand stopped and moved down to take one of Carol's hands and brought it up near her breast, just an inch away. So close, yet so far. The other hand was soon drawn to join the first. Both Carol's hands were drawn upon the dancer's breasts. Jillian smiled, "As you are doing this to me, the rule says I get to return the favor." 

Before she could think of the meaning of Jillian's statement and as the music finished, Jillian's hands moved swiftly and pulled up Carol's top to expose her young firm breasts. In shock and embarrassed Carol's hands dropped to cover herself. Betty laughed and so did the other ladies. They were laughing harder than the men.

At Wanda's suggestion the ladies made their way to two vacant tables. No sooner had they seated themselves than Jillian and Madison appeared at their table. Jillian took Betty's hand and Madison took Carol's as Jillian announced, "Your friends have bought you two ladies a private dance, come with us." The other ladies nodded, smiled and gave them their encouragement.

Betty and Carol were led past a series of three small alcoves to a larger space just beyond. Each were seated in a single chair side by side but four feet apart. The dancers explained that the rules did not permit men to touch them but that they would move their bodies for an entire song over the bodies of the male patron. Madison then said, "For female patron's we are allowed a little latitude at our discretion on the touching." Looking at her partner she continued, "I am willing to start before the next song if you are." Jillian was ready.

For the next song and a half, Betty received what she never would have dreamed having, a private dance from a female striper. Both dancers slowly disrobed while moving before and over the two ladies. When she was down to her bra and G-string, Jillian sat upon Betty's thighs with her back toward Betty. As Jillian's firm ass wiggled upon Betty, Betty' hands were drawn around and placed upon the dancer's warm soft cloth covered breasts. The dancer guided her to knead them as she leaned back upon her customer to give her a good view over her shoulder. Betty's heart was beating wildly. 

When she glanced over to Carol, she noticed that Madison was astride and facing Carol. The dancer had Carol remove her bra before drawing her face to the breast nearest Betty. All the while Betty kept holding Jillian's breasts.

In short order Jillian invited Betty to free her breasts by removing her bra. With shaking hands and eyes gazing downward at the coming site, Betty did just that. Jillian rose, turned, sat upon Betty and moved a breast toward her mouth. Responding without thinking she licked the nipple. As she tried to suck it into her mouth Jillian leaned away. Jillian teasingly rose again. For the remainder of the song Betty and Carol watched both dancers finished undressing and continue with their erotic tease. 

As the song was concluding, both dancers looked at one another, nodded and then sat upon their respective clients. As they moved upon Carol and Betty's laps, the dancers exposed Carol's and Betty's breasts. Once fully exposed and as the dying measures of the song sounded, the two dancers rubbed their breasts upon the breasts of the two grinning women.

When the song concluded, the dancers swiftly dressed. As they exited, Jillian said with a wink, "You may take a minute or two to get yourself together before joining your friends." Betty needed that moment, her knees were week and she was still aroused by what just took place. With a faraway look upon her face, Carol seemed to be in a worse way. 

Catching her breath, Betty stood with her top still not pulled down. When she reached down to pull Carol up, Carol latched onto one breast and started to suckle it. Betty moaned. Collecting her wits about her Betty took a step away from her eager friend.  

Carol looked Betty in the eyes as she stood. Then she did something that caught Betty off guard. Carol immediately hugged Betty and gave her a long lustful kiss as their bare breasts mashed into each other. When the kiss broke Carol apologized but said she was so charged and just needed to do it. Betty said she understood as they straightened up their respective tops.

When the two ladies returned to their friends, Wanda said, "I think its time to return to my place." There was not disagreement from Carol or Betty. Carol sat in the back between Ellie and Andrea. Betty moved to sit in the passenger seat.

They were barely down the interstate five minutes when Ellie turned Carol's face towards hers and kissed her. The first kiss was short, but a moment later a more lengthy and urgent kiss was being exchanged as Andrea rubbed her hands across Carol's shoulders and back. They kissed for several minutes before Ellie turned Carol's face toward Andrea's. Andrea accepted Carol into her arms as they too exchanged kisses. 




Exposing Life's Cruel Irony Ch. 04



Wanda quietly said to Betty, "Carol is entering into adulthood under the tutelage of two wonderful lovers." Betty continued to watch the two older women hold and kiss the young neophyte as they traveled to Wanda's. "Tomorrow she will get to be with Sam." 

When they entered Wanda's home Carol was taken into the living room where Ellie stood before her and passed her hand along Carol's cheek. The other three women took seats nearby. Ellie asked, "Tell me what your mother told you."

Carol spoke softly to Ellie, "Mom said you would help me as you helped her. She said you would help me to become a woman, to experience and learn the joys of intimacy. I was told to trust you and keep an open mind. You are my guide and will teach me tonight, tomorrow and for the rest of the school year just as she was for you."

"Carol, your mother introduced me to so much. She encouraged you to attend our university so that I could become your guide. Returning the favor to her daughter is the least I can do for her. Maybe one day you will do the same for my Randi and Karen as I want them to receive the same that I received. Do you know what I mean? Do you know about the relationship my husband and I have with your mother and father?"

"You have been one of mom's best friends I know that. She says our families have a special relationship. I have never understood that because our families have rarely gotten together. I think you are going to make love to me." With that redness appeared on her cheek. 

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Throughout the story Pam remained transfixed as Betty told her story. She had been holding Betty in her arms and running her hand through her hair as she told the story. As she told about the club she found herself picturing it happening to her. 

Before Betty moved beyond that point, the baby cried. Pam swiftly retrieved young Royce before asking her sister to continue. Pam knew from Betty's tone and the expression upon her face that the evening she was describing was a pivotal moment in her life. She also knew that this was the night her friend made love to a woman for the first time.

There were several questions left unanswered in her mind. One was whether Betty was a lesbian? She said she was not, but was it just a cover? If she was a lesbian, was she fearful how Doris, Royce and the rest of the family handle the news? And chief among them, why was Betty so focused upon her that Betty masturbated to her picture?

Pam was still uncertain about her own feelings about Betty's attraction to her. On one level she though she may be uncomfortable being with Betty. Yet, she was not unduly uncomfortable at the moment. If anything she was more than a little excited and her curiosity was now only stronger. 

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Betty continued that she became fixated over what was transpiring before her and the other two ladies. Carol seemed to be oblivious that she had an audience.

Ellie took Carol's hands, looked into her eyes and smiled, "Your mother is one of my best friends. She is more than that. She is the woman who is also my dearest lover. She introduced me to female lovemaking. With your father she helped teach me how to make love to a man and how to teach my husband to be a fantastic lover. Not only has your mother and father been my lovers over the years but your father sired my son. And your baby sister is fathered by Sam, my husband. Our two families certainly have a special relationship. And if you are willing Andrea and I are going to teach you about female love tonight and tomorrow afternoon and afternoon Sam will be joining us and you will start to learn how to make love to a man."

Betty was shocked and yet aroused by what she was hearing. She had lost her virginity at the age of fifteen in the back seat of a car with her seventeen year old boyfriend. It was an unsatisfying experience. It was quick, painful and awkward. She did not even come close to cumming. Her second experience while less painful was just as quick and awkward, and with the same unsatisfactory outcome. She could not fault her lovers unduly as they too were learning like her by trial and error. Trying to gain ideas from the braggadocios comments from her friends was frustrating and she discovered the hard way that they were more often dreams projected back into an experience. Carol was not going through the same painful process. She was on a different road, one that Betty now held to be much more tender and loving. 

Carol stated that she was ready for her journey. "I am so happy for you Carol" Ellie whispered. "There are two questions remaining. Do you want to start here or in the bedroom? And, are you willing to have Wanda and Betty watch if they so desire?"

"Bedroom. I feel so connected with Betty. We kissed at the club. They can watch." Andrea moved quickly to up the stairs to light the candles in the guest room. 

From the doorway Betty, with Wanda behind her, watched Carol being led to the foot of the king-sized poster bed. As Carol and Ellie kissed Andrea moved to join them. Carol watched as her parent's lover and soon to be her lover turned to kiss Andrea with passion. As Ellie started to undue Carol's top Andrea and Carol kissed with eagerness. The Ellie knelt to remove Carol's skirt.

Once the Carol skirt dropped to the floor, Ellie guided Carol to help her remove all but Andrea's panties. The process continued with Carol being directed to remove Ellie's clothing as Andrea stood by kissing Ellie. Between all the kisses it took the three women many long minutes before the three lovers moved upon the bed clothed only in their panties.

Carol was positioned between the two experienced women. As Ellie kissed Carol and left a trail of kisses toward the nearest breast, and Andrea started to follow suit going from Carol's mouth to the nearest breast, Wanda held Betty from behind. Betty instinctively leaned her head back upon the shoulder of Wanda. Betty was lost in the moment. She knew it as Wanda's hands moving over her breasts.

As the two women made love to the novice's firm moderate sized breasts Wanda turned Betty's face toward hers. For the first time that night she kissed Wanda. Betty needed no encouragement. She desired this kiss, not to satisfy a curiosity but from a deep need. Through that kiss she tried to communicate her desire to be loved by Wanda.

Wanda turned her lover's head back toward the bed. Ellie had moved down the bed as Andrea moved to kiss Carol. With Ellie's figures around the edge of the panties the panties were deftly removed over her hips and down her legs. 

Carol watched Ellie slowly crawl up the bed with a gleam in her eyes. There was silence as Ellie lay between the young woman's legs with her face positioned just above Carol's moist pussy. Ellie's gleam grew brighter and her smile wider as she looked her lover's untouched pussy. The virgin Carol's pussy was partly shaved and the remaining strip above her womanhood was thinned. She had followed her mother's instructions.

"Carol, upon your face I see desire and passion. Though you are only child, tonight your childhood is going to be left behind. Yet, you will remain a virgin until Sam enters you. But the feelings that are about to run through your body, the joy you are going to experience, the pleasure you will later return by doing the same to me are the experiences of womanhood. You think you understand now, but my dear child in a few minutes you will realize that you have only been seeing shadows of what a fully released woman experiences. Are you ready?"

Carol nodded. Looking at Carol Ellie said, "Carol, don't nod. Tell me explicitly what you want. Tell me what you want me to be."

Carol had been prepared unknowingly by her mother for this moment. For years her mother had told her that if she remained a virgin until she was in college that she would arrange for her to have a first time experience unlike her friends. Repeatedly she told her that she would clearly know when the time came and that she should vocally invite her lover to possess her and make love to her. Repeatedly her mother told her than she would be well rewarded if she waited and for the rest of her life she would never regret waiting. Carol knew this was her time.

Carol cried out with lustful yearning and desire, "Make love to me. I want you to be my lover. Make love to me Ellie."

With that spoken invitation, Ellie parted her lover's womanly lips with her fingers and then with the broad part of her tongue licked from the bottom to the top letting her tongue's tip play with Carol's clitoris. Then she swept down and back up again before sucking her clitoris into her mouth. On the downward stroke Andrea's mouth suckled and nibbled on Carol's left breast and nipple while Andrea's hand plied the other breast and nipple.

It was only a matter of moments when the well primed Carol screamed. Unabashedly she screamed just like she heard cry out several times in the last three years. Her hips started to rotate as the pleasure overwhelmed her body.

While Wanda continued to play with Betty's breasts she quietly whispered, "Welcome to womanhood Carol. Your eyes are now open. May you have a joyous and fulfilling sex life throughout all your days." With that she turned Betty toward her and kissed her. Betty was breathless at the end of the kiss.

"Betty, let's take our leave. I want to make love to you and give you the same joy." Betty could only nod as she was led to the master bedroom and to a king sized Queen Ann bed with a white lace canopy. 

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Betty told Pam how as she stood beside the bed she was drawn into Wanda's arms. Both women turned their heads to kiss. Betty responded to Wanda's gentle lover's touch. Her mouth opened slightly and a tongue softly slid into her mouth. Their mouths opened further testing and tasting each other. Their kisses were kisses of experts, lover's kisses made all the more perfect by the older woman who made it clear that she savored kissing. Betty was seduced long ago. Her nervousness was only a memory. Now she was just responding to the guidance of her newest lover.

Their two tongues and lips continued to dance until Wanda drew back with a smile of pleasure and satisfaction. Wanda quietly but firmly commanded, "Undress me. Then I want you to dance for me as you look upon my body. I want to become seductively enchanted by your body as you strip."

The CD player started. To a firm beat and with trembling hands mixed with nervous anticipation she undressed Wanda. When she removed her last item of clothing, her panties Betty felt her breath stop. Though she was well into her forties, Wanda's beauty and body was gorgeous. Though older than the younger dancers, Wanda's form had grace and a smoothness that pleased Betty's eyes.

After another longing kiss, Wanda's eyes remained locked upon Betty's as she asked Betty to strip for her. As Wanda lay upon the bed, Betty tried to move like the dancers she watched that evening. She lacked the grace of a skilled dancer. Her awkwardness was clear, but Wanda's gleaming eyes and bright smile was all she needed to know. Her heart raced even faster as notice Wanda's fingers from one hand slowly moving upon her wet womanly lips and her other hand lightly touching her breasts. 

As Betty stood before her female lover removing at last her panties she felt proud of how she saw Wanda responding to her displaying herself. Wanda used her finger to tell her to come hither. And she came hither into her lover's arms. 

Betty was thrilled to have her bare breasts pushing into Wanda's more mature globes. Their hands explored each other's body as they looked at each other and kissed. When Wanda's fingers went between the folds of her pussy, Betty's heart leapt and her body quaked. She began to tremble in anticipation as her lover moved down her body.

The anticipation of what was about to happen was agony to Betty. The agony only increased the desire. When a warm mouth went to her left breasts Betty closed her eyes and moaned her pleasure. The feeling of one breast and then the other being taken so softly and gently was wonderful. A soft tongue made its rounds over and over again across and around the right nipple.

Then it was gone. Betty's eyes flew open to see her mature lover's face hovering above her flat stomach. Wanda had a gleam in her eye as her tongue circled in and out of Betty's belly button. From the sensation the tongue created, light but pleasurable tingles ran across her belly. None of her male lovers had done that too her.

Moving between Betty's thighs Wanda looked up at her younger lover. She did not say a word or move as her face remained just above the young woman's pussy. Betty found herself repeating much of what she heard Carol cry. She pleaded with her to become her lover and to make her cum.

When Wanda's tongue and fingers started to explore and pleasure her womanhood, Betty's eyes rolled back in her head. From the essence of her being body responded with the undulations of joy. In seconds a wave of pleasure shooting through her and pushing her to a rushing climax. Her panting was rapid and shallow. She came wonderfully strong. Her head tossed side to side and like Carol before her screamed, "Yeeesss ohhh yeeessss" again and again until she came down from a most wonderful climax. 

Wanda's fingers continued to explore Betty's inner sanctum as she kissed and suckled her breasts. It was not long before her breathing was growing more rapid and a series of "ohhhs", "uuuhhhhs" and "yeeesses" were flowing like water from a spring. While two and then three of Wanda's fingers were inside her, her thumb was skillfully playing with Betty's clit. The stimulation within her, upon her clit and breasts drove her wild. As her hips again started their erotic dance the two lovers were exploring each other's mouth with their kisses. 

Just as her climax approached Wanda's face moved above Betty's. They looked into each other's face. Betty's was filled with such wonton joy and pleasure. Wanda's face was beaming. Betty told Pam that Wanda's eyes were bright with satisfaction at bringing another woman to experience the pleasures of female to female lovemaking. Wanda encouraged her lover, "Come again for me baby. That's it. That's it. Let the feeling flow through your whole body. Enjoy it all baby. Yeeesss enjoy it all."

When her heart slowed and breathing became more regular Betty was overcome by the desire to return the favor. She pushed Wanda onto her back and moved her mouth to her breasts as her fingers explored her lover's sopping pussy. As she finished devouring one breast and was moving to give the second equal pleasure Betty noticed Carol and Ellie in the door smiling. She did not care that she had an audience. She was on a mission to pleasure her lover and to explore her body.

By the time Betty moved to taste and thoroughly discover Wanda's womanly lips and channel with her tongue and mouth, Ellie and Carol had returned to their room. For the next thirty minutes Betty labored passionately to make love to her elder lover. She did so with the same joy and energy she received. Eventually as they both feel asleep in each other's arms. Betty was too exhausted to have time to think or even dream about what just happened. All she knew as she drifted into a deep sleep was that she was well sated and was willing to experience the same again.

In the morning Betty was drawn from dreamland by a gentle pleasure she was experiencing between her thighs. As she returned to consciousness Betty kept her eyes closed. She merely luxuriated in the tingling and pleasures coming from her pussy as she recalled the passionate lovemaking from last evening. Her breathing grew more rapid as a gentle climax started to grow. 

To urge Wanda on Betty's hands went to her lover's head to more intimately pull her between her thighs. Betty's eyes flew open when she realized that the hair of her lover fell well below her shoulders. The woman giving her a pleasurable wake-up call was not Wanda, but Carol. As the gentle quiet climax came upon her Betty noticed that standing well to the side where the other three ladies.

Betty came to learn after she came that Ellie had given Carol the assignment of waking Betty in this manner. As breakfast finished Ellie explained that Carol was mostly on the receiving end the prior evening and that in the morning she was given the opportunity to be the one to take the initiative with the woman of her choice. As the explanation finished, Carol who was sitting by Betty turned Betty's face towards hers and said, "Come with me. I want you to make love with me." And for the rest of morning that is what Betty and Carol did in the guest bedroom with passionate cry's and moans of pleasure being in the background emanating from the master bedroom.

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As Betty had been telling the story her eyes kept moving between Pam's face the breast upon which the baby fed. When the baby was switched to the other breast and the empty breast was not covered, Betty paused momentarily and her eyes drifted to the exposed breast. The pause did not go unnoticed by Pam, nor did the subtle smile upon her face. She had long been use to men starring at her chest, but she did not know how to take a woman doing it. Yet she did not cover up. 

When her story finished Betty explained that since that day she has had six female lovers. She was quick to add that she had male lovers too. When Pam questioned whether that was true Betty said that she only wants to be with a woman occasionally as she prefers to be driven hard by a man's cock. 

As Royce fell asleep on her breast Betty was telling her that Wanda and Carol have continued to be close friends, and lovers. Carol is engaged to be married. Betty laughed that though Wanda says she is not against men, her preference has been to be with women.

Rather than returning Royce to the playpen/bed in Betty's room Pam took an extra blanket and laid him upon it on the floor. As she moved back to the bed Pam did not adjust her red teddy as she lay back against the headboard. While doing so she noticed the vibrator between the two pillows.

Seeing a quizzical look upon Pam's face as she picked it up Betty offered, "I think it was your husband's private gift to you." 

Sheepishly she put the toy down by the pillow. "Okay, I understand how your first experience and that it was a powerful one. But, you have still not told me about me" Pam as she noticed that it was quickly nearing one o'clock.

Betty shifted and lay her head upon Pam's lower stomach, "As for you. You have been one of my best friends. I have always admired you and thought you were one of the most beautiful girls in our high school. I could not put a finger on why until yesterday and today as to why I have always found you to be fascinating." 

"How so?" Pam replied.

"You may not realize it but you exude sensuality and sexuality. And today my fascination just took over me. I am interested in you but I will do nothing without your willingness and explicit invitation. Wanda allowed me to control how far we went and I have always done the same in return."

Pam said she understood. With Betty's face turned upward Pam's hand had been lightly stroking her cheek. She also noticed that her sister's eyes kept drifting to her exposed bust. "I am not sure I want to take that step. And if I did, I would only do so with Jeff's approval and foreknowledge."

Betty nodded. Then after a moment of silence and to both their surprise Pam then said, "I am willing to have a little taste to give me something to think about." And with that she pulled Betty's face up as she slid down. 

Their faces were just inches apart. Pam was still aroused and needy. Feeding the baby only heightened her needs. Her needs and desires pushed her beyond what she would have done. She looked into Betty's face and saw only longing and love. Their lips met once, but after a brief pause they kissed again. As they kissed Pam's hand played with Betty's breast. Feeling another woman's breasts in such an intimate way was new. Her fingers exposed a nipple so her fingers could feel the different textures and the little bumps surrounding the nipple. 




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Betty moaned in joy. Pam moaned in the excitement and newness of it all. Then her fingers moved between Betty's thighs as Betty's hand started to play with her full ripe breasts. A second later Betty's mouth was upon her breast and suckling milk from her. Pam's eyes closed as she cooed in response.

Pam's fingers continued to move upon Betty's moist channel. For the first time Pam was touching a woman in an intimate way. She felt a strange longing and excitement. Her heart was pounding in her breast so loudly that it seemed as if her ears could pick up the sound. She caught herself at that moment with a finger inside her friend's pussy. 

Suddenly Pam quickly rolled back upon her back breaking contact. She had to stop now for she could loose control. She already went beyond where she was prepared to go. 

Betty knew Pam needed to stop now. Neither wanted no regrets in the morning. Yet, knowing where Betty's eyes kept drifting, she drew Betty's face again to her breast. Yes she was being consistent with her prior thought but the battle was still not settled. When Betty looked at her, Pam nodded and said, "You can pleasure each of them for just a minute or so more."

Ceasing the opportunity Betty again dove in like a hungry child upon the objects of her desire. Her mouth was filling with warm milk as she sucked. The taste and the experience were wonderfully memorable.

As Betty feed on her breasts Pam noticed that the fingers that were playing with Betty's pussy were covered with a copious amount of secretions. Betty was clearly aroused. Pam drew her fingers to face and allowed the aroma to fill her nostrils before licking them clean. 

As Betty looked up she saw Pam licking her fingers. She withdrew from Pam's breasts as she sensed that Pam's desire was about to pull her beyond what she was prepared to do and deal with afterwards. Betty said, "I need to stop before I do anything I would later regret. But thank you for allowing me to taste your mother's milk."

As they kissed briefly Pam tasted herself milk upon Betty's lips. When Betty's face pulled back Pam replied, "Thank you for the taste. If I did much more I would have lost control and I will not risk loosing Jeff." 

Betty said she understood. As Pam adjust her baby doll Betty uttered "I am jealous of Jeff." And then quickly added, "I am jealous of what you both have." She realized that she made a slip and was about to repeat that she was jealous what they both have again but she knew it would only draw attention to what she just confessed. Instead she just let it lay there.

The comment hung there as the two women lay beside each other falling asleep. "Ohhh my" Pam said to herself just as Betty's arm went across Pam's chest. Betty's gentle breathing signaled she was sleep. 

Pam lay there trying to think things out. Her life had certainly become more complicated in the last year. She was too exhausted and emotionally charged to reason clearly. She thought of getting Betty to return to her room but she did not feel compelled to do so. Moments later she too fell asleep as the clock read 1:12. 

To be continued...



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When the grandfather clock chimed two o'clock its sounds awoke Jeff. Noticing that he was on the sofa, with some effort he moved down the hallway. Before entering the guest room he took care of business in the washroom. 

He was still a little groggy from sleep as he entered the room. The bedside light was still on. Though the alcohol blurred his mind he was able to notice his son on the floor, the two sleeping forms on the bed. It was evident that the Pam and Betty had been talking before they fell asleep. His eyes fell upon his wife in a the baby doll with a matching thong. He muttered a condemnation upon himself, he was looking for some loving and she was she. He cursed that they misfired. Maybe in the morning he thought.

As he started to crawl into bed he noticed the bra his sister was wearing. Sure it covered the breast but even in his semi-slumber state he could still see the one breast and its nipple. He also noticed she too was wearing a thong. "She sure is a fine looking lady" he whispered as he felt himself becoming partially erect. He quickly avoided changed to think about making love to his wife. He adjusted the sheets and comforter before he turned off the light and climbed into bed with his wife. He closed his eyes and thought of making love to his wife.

When Jeff settled against his wife his presence had a chain reaction. Though it was a queen bed, it was still tight for three adults. Hence, the addition of Jeff moved his wife further into the center and into Betty. A short time later Pam moved from her side to her back. Her friend's breasts pushed into her side. In a semi-sleep state she felt the softness of breasts against her arm. Moments later Betty's arm rested on her stomack.

Pam warmly accepted the new experience. What awoke her a little later was Jeff's hand play holding her pussy and playing upon her clit. She also realized that Betty's hand was now holding her breast and her face was nestled against Pam's neck. Being held by Betty so intimately made her feel uncomfortable so she extracted herself. She still thought Betty was gay and reasoned in her cloudy mind that as Betty is a lesbian it would be better for Jeff to be in the middle. It was not her normal side of the bed, but it would do.

After moving to the side of the bed, Pam quickly drifted off into a peaceful sleep while resting in the comforting arms of her husband. Feeling his form behind her made her feel warm and secure. Just after five Royce started to cry. Pam quickly responded by taking him into the den for his early morning feeding and to change his diaper.

Just before six Pam entered the bedroom. She was a little surprised by what she saw. Both occupants of the bed were still deeply asleep. It was the condition of the coverings and Betty's position that surprised her. The comforter was almost off the bed and the top sheet ran from just below Jeff's thighs to just above Betty's waist. Jeff was asleep on his back and Betty had her head upon his arm. Jeff's cock was poking through the opening in his boxer's. Her right breast had become exposed and her right hand was resting upon her husband's semi-hard manhood.

At that moment Pam concluded that Betty's repeated affirmation that she was not gay was likely true. In her sleep she had cuddled against a man, albeit her brother. Pam concluded that Betty was bi and not gay. She thought of awakening Betty but the discovery of how she is clothed and the position of her hand would unduly alarm her. Waking Jeff could cause equal alarm and embarrassment. So Pam crawled between the two thereby forcing each to move to the side of the bed. Then she adjusted the sheet and comforter and fell asleep.

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Just after eight Pam awoke to find herself on her side with her head resting on Betty's chest and an arm across her stomach. She was surprised to find herself in such a position. Raising her head she saw Betty looking at her. She quickly turned to look at over her shoulder.

"He is changing the baby's diaper" Betty said with a smile. "Merry Christmas. And thank you for my morning Christmas gift. After last night, I was hoping....thank you for the lovely gift. Even though I cannot remember much, I know that your touch was just lovely."

Now Pam was again red with embarrassment. Cuddling against Betty and a head against her breast was done unconsciously and here her sister was taking it as an intentional gift. That was far from her mind. Part of her now regretted that Betty had remained in their room. Pam remained calm and quietly replied with a simple, "your welcome." 

As Pam she was putting on her robe Betty kissed her forehead before saying "It was lovely. I couldn't ask for more....every touch was enjoyable. Even though I was still in a dreamland state except for just now, every second was...wonderful and precious."

Without responding Pam left the room to find her husband playing with the baby in the den just a few feet from the Christmas tree with its red blinking lights. As she approached Jeff said to his baby, "There's your sexy mommy. I hope you will be as lucky as me to find such an erotic and loving woman to be your wife."

She sat on the carpet beside him. Taking the baby from him she said, "Royce, it is your father who the one who brings out the best in me. If you are half as giving and loving as your father some young lady will be happy indeed for the rest of her life." Pam smiled at her husband knowing that he was not offended by what he saw when he awoke. If the half hardened cock revealing itself between the folds of his robe was any indication he did not mind at all. 

Royce turned his wife's head to his and kissed her softly with husbandly tenderness. He smiled at her, "mmmm, I love you. Thank you for this morning. I only wish I had been much more awake to enjoy it. I am sorry it ended so quickly." He kissed her before laughing, "Maybe we can it do it all again tonight and this I will be fully awake."

Shifting the baby to her other arm she replied, "You really want it don't you?"

"Of course. I want you to be thrilled and fully satisfied in all things. I want you to just have enough."

As he got to shower and dress she suddenly realized that they were going home late in the afternoon. "I would not build up any expectations. We could be getting home kind of late for much."

With a wink he replied, "The operative word is 'home'. We will be away from family and as I do not have to work tomorrow we can have even more fun."

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When Kristy and Peter arrived at nine they started to exchange their presents, Doris had three wrapped packages for Royce under the tree. When the first was opened it contained only an envelop inside. On the envelope she had penned, "To my adorable husband, may this provide you hours of relaxing enjoyment. Forever you will be at the center of my heart. Your little woman." Inside, Royce found a picture of a Tsunami 145 kayak which Doris said was in a box strapped to the top of Peter's car.

Doris then gave him a gold faced Hamilton Jazzmatic watch. Her last gift brought tears to Royce's eyes. He knew this was part of her effort to make amends and to say that she loved him.

The third gift contained a picture book and a CD. As he flipped through the book he saw she had carefully selected pictures from their photo collection, scanned them in and had them printed into a book format with descriptive phrases of love below each photo. The album progressed from their first days to this past Thanksgiving. On the same page as the picture of them at the Thanksgiving table with the turkey before them was a picture of him in the hospital bed. Under the Thanksgiving picture she had written, "I thank God each morning for each day with you." Royce could only hold his wife and kiss her before his three children. 

Doris presented similar albums to each of her children. Each album contained precious moments from each of their lives and finished with a prideful message of love. The CD Doris explained could be played on their computers. It contained pictures from their lives that she had set to music. Since Betty gave their parents a new DVD player that could handle the format used by Doris, they decided they would watch each of the CD's together on the big screen following brunch.

Royce carried forward into his marriage the tradition his father established that on special days the men prepare breakfast and do its dishes as well as doing the dishes following the main meal the women prepared. Hence, as per the Kimble tradition the men looked after brunch preparation and serving while the ladies visited and relaxed. 

As Aunt Kristy played with baby Royce, Pam motioned for Betty to follow her to the guest bedroom. "What are you doing tonight?" she asked. 

"Nothing. Why?"

"Come to stay with us. You can stay through to New Years."

With a tone of disappointment Betty replied, "That is not possible. I am leaving for Indianapolis tomorrow. I have two days of research time booked in the rare book section of the State Archives starting on the 27th." When she saw Pam's eyes sadden she asked, "Why? What's up?"

Pam went on to tell her sister of her conversation with Jeff. She was now willing to explore her curiosities with the encouragement of her husband. She was certain that Jeff would want to watch. Betty thought for a moment then said she would arrive on the afternoon of the 30th. "If Jeff watching is a condition, I accept it if you and he accept mine. I get to watch him and you. After all, far is far" she laughed.

When Pam agreed with the condition Betty quickly left her room and returned with a copy of An Emergence of Green and a DVD titled "Fingersmith". Betty asked that Pam read the book and look at the video beforehand. Then Pam welcomed Betty into her arms and this time was the one who moved to kiss her friend tenderly. 

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The first CD to that was played was Royce's. As it played each wife snuggled into her husband's arms. As she had started the turkey earlier the rush of tasks was now done for several hours. As Betty cuddled her nephew into her breasts the desire to be mother herself was strong. Motherhood would have to wait many more years as she still had to complete another semester, followed by her comprehensive exams and the writing of her dissertation. Also, she had yet to find any man who she was even remotely interested in marrying.

The CD brought laughs and tears to all. So did Kristy's and Betty's. Just as they were about to play Jeff's there was a knock on the door. A moment later Royce returned with Tara. Holding a book and CD in her hand she kissed Doris on the forehead before thanking her for the precious gift. Betty moved off the sofa with the baby so that Tara could sit in her place. As Jeff's CD played, they laughed and cried again. Even the men found themselves choking back the tears when it finished with the picture of baby Royce in the arms of his mother and a caption "The beautiful gift from a wonderful couple who make me so proud."

Tara asked for her CD to be played. By the midpoint Royce, Jeff and Pam noticed what Tara had quickly noticed when she first played it....no pictures that included Vince. There were two that Tara was certain Vince had been in the picture but she suspected that Doris had removed him using editing software. As it progressed Tara laid her head on Doris' shoulder. When the last picture of the two of them at Jeff's and Pam's wedding showed with the caption Tara was in tears. She quickly grabbed her friend's hand and said, "We need to talk!" 

Royce looked momentarily alarmed but held his objection when Tara looked at him and nodded.

As they entered the master bedroom Doris' heart raced. Tara closed the door and stood before her and said "I forgive you." 

Doris looked surprise and asked, "For what?"

"I know what is behind 'Forever you will be my dearest friend. I am sorry I have not been the same quality of a friend as you have been to me.' You're one of Vince's conquests, or should I say victims. Doris, I know more than you can imagine. I also know about Jeff. And so does Jeff and Pam."

Doris was not expecting this but it was happening. Her plan to hold off until mid January had been shattered. She wanted to control how and when. She had been thinking just how to say things. Now, now she was just reacting to the moment. 

She was defenseless and wept as in shame she apologized. Her tears flowed freely as her lips quivered. Tara did not dismiss or minimize Doris' expression of guilt and anguish. 

In a cold tone Tara told her friend that she was furious. She told Doris that it took her weeks to overcome her hate. Doris listened with her head bowed Tara how she now saw Doris as a tragic figure. When Doris heard that the initial hate and bitterness was replaced by sympathy and love Doris raised her head. 

When Doris asked why, Tara replied that she had realized that Vince had taken advantage of her. She knew Doris had tried to break off the affair but that man continued to prey upon her. She too like her daughter had concluded that Vince had repeatedly raped her emotionally over the years.

When Doris asked how Tara could forgive her destroying her marriage Tara laughed. And it was a sincere laugh before she said, "That man, I cannot call him my husband only that man. That man killed it long ago. It just took until October for me to realize I was fooling myself about his love for me. I had been fooling myself that that I still loved him. The marriage being an empty shame had nothing to do with you." 

Tara went on to say that the more she learned about that man's behavior the more she realized how Doris was caught in a web of deception and fear. Though Doris nodded her head she was still having difficulty handling Tara's reaction. 

When Tara said she needed to tell Royce today, Doris shook her head violently, "I cannot ruin my family's Christmas." Tara held her tight while telling her friend that she would not be ruining Christmas. Tara told her that if she was correct about Royce, today was the day, now was the moment to tell him. She just finished saying that this when Royce rapped on the door and entered.

Doris looked at her friend and nodded. The news was out. Royce needed to hear it from her lips. She took a deep breath to gather her courage. She looked at her husband in the eyes. She stammered, "I have, oh my I have rehearsed this thousands of time in my mind but the words all escape me."

"Take your time. Its okay. I love you." With that response from her husband the light came on and she uttered, "you know?" He nodded and she fell weeping into his arms. "I have been waiting for you to tell me."

Tara quietly left husband and wife alone. 

When she entered the den Tara said, "ladies, I smell that the turkey cooking. I believe we have to finish preparing the Christmas dinner." When Pam asked about Vince she said, "if he has tickets to the Sun and Alamo Bowls. He is planning to drive to Chicago this early the next day to catch a flight to Texas. If he wants to sit alone on the computer and before the television, let him eat cake." And under her breath, "And may the wine that he drinks with his cake become bitter."

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To say that Doris was shocked and surprised that her husband knew would be an understatement. She cried and cried. She sobbed so hard that she had difficulty breathing and started to hyperventilate. While doing so she kept rambling and mumbling that she should have been strong enough to say no and that she should have found the courage to say tell him twenty years ago. She kept saying that she was a terrible wife and she would pack her things and move out. She said she had brought shame upon the family and that she what she had done was unforgivable.

Royce saw that his wife was emotionally troubled and that she had been punishing herself harshly. He recalled from a supervisor's seminar from years ago that she was showing the classic signs of a person who stood at an emotional junction, that if he reinforced her self loathing it could break her emotionally. She was not rationale at the moment. He knew that he needed to go the other direction to salvage his wife and bring her home psychologically.

He held her and turned her face towards his and told her to listen to him. Her breathing was still erratic when he firmly told her to settle down and to stop talking. He said she was not going to leave unless she wanted to give up on their relationship. Doris's heart quieted with that but calmed when he said that he loved her. 

Royce told his wife that she had taken the first step in the healing process by telling him and for fighting against Vince. Royce had rehearsed certain phrases for this moment and the one phrase he wanted needed to avoid was "rebuilding our marriage". He figured trust needed to be rebuilt. He knew he needed to understand all the whys from her perspective, but the marriage as a whole outside this albeit important aspect had been a good one. A fire had raged and gutted part of the house, but the vast majority of the house though damaged by the smoke of the adulterous fire, the house was still strong. There was much still that was good and sound. Together they would bring healing and restoration to the damaged part of the house. 

Her eyes started to brighten. He could see that she was relieved that the burden was off her shoulders and that she was looking for hope. As he could still see that the pain and shame was still overwhelming he determined he would give her hope by the bucket full. After a further ten minutes of sitting on their bed holding her in his arms as she agaikn cried quietly she finally was able to sputter between her quivering lips, "how.....so sorry....when did you....I didn't expect this....your not going to throw...when did you....I don't deserve you....honey I am so sorry."

The questions signaled that her rationale mind was taking over the irrational heart. He wanted to tell her all would be well but he had to remain strong. Healing needed to take place but her suffering still had to go through its process. 

"Yes, I am hurt. I feel betrayed and angry." Royce spent a long time summarizing how he first suspected, how he learned from Jeff, and about Pam overhearing Doris' confession. He told her how he screamed inside, the difficulty he had in kissing her and holding her, and the restless nights. He reminded her of the "Barry vow" and that called him to learn as much as possible before making any rash judgments. 

Doris watched her husband pull out of his bedside table an envelope. He explained that Jeff and Pam had Vince investigated. Royce noted that the investigation had turned up some very damming information about Vince and Jill. Then as coolly as he could, Royce asked her a series of probing questions testing her honesty. The differences between what was in the report and her answers were minor. His wife was being honest. If he had any issue with her responses Royce felt that she was minimizing Vince's guilt and accepting the majority of the blame. Yet he felt comfortable with her acceptance of such blame as it showed that she was not avoiding responsibility. It also signaled that she would work hard to make amends.

As Doris listened to her husband, she heard more than his words. In his deliberate unhurried pace, she heard pain and disappointment. In eyes she saw tears form. Those tears and the pain in his voice cut her to her core. She knew the image of disappointment would be forever burned vividly into her memory. Yet she realized that in the carefully chosen words she was not hearing rage. As he finished she heard something else, something in his voice that gave her hope, his voice became calm as he said, "We will talk more later. For now, let me just say, welcome home." In this tone and in his eyes she did not see forgiveness but love.




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She threw herself into his chest once again. After holding his wife in his arms he drew his wife's face to his. His lips moved to hers and kissed her. The kiss was tender and soft, a lovely and long kiss that touched her soul. The kiss stroked her heart and confirmed that there was hope, that he did not want to reject her and that if she was willing, they would get through this together. For her the kiss became like a soothing balm upon a festering wound, a balm that started to draw out the puss and to start the healing.

Royce glanced at the clock, he and his wife had been in the bedroom for nearly an hour and a quarter. It was past time to return the family. Telling Doris that they would talk later he kissed her again but while doing so his hand moved over her breast and kneed it with his palm. Though she involuntarily moaned and would have liked more, she stepped away from him. "I appreciate the gesture, but we do need to talk more before anything else."

His head nodded. 

As she wiped her face and touched up her make-up she said, "Before they go I think I should seek the forgiveness of Jeff and Pam for what I did to them. I have behaved poorly toward Pam."

When they finally exited the bedroom, the Christmas turkey that Doris had started earlier was close to being finished. Under Tara's direction the corn, peas, potatoes, cornbread and the other fixings were nearing completion. 

When Doris entered the kitchen Pam who just entered from dinning room came over to her mother and hugged her. When Doris whispered, "before you go I need to apologize to you and Jeff", Pam whispered in her ear, "we love you mom." Doris started to cry again. 

Christmas had turned out better than she had expected. She felt happy. The weight she had carried all these years was gone. Her husband and family made its removal easier than she had thought.

Once her eldest daughter and husband departed, she found a reason to get Betty to run an errand to the local convenient store. Doris quickly used that time to apologize to her son and daughter. They graciously accepted her apology and assured her of their love and support for her. 

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Once everyone had left Doris found her husband sitting on the sofa in the den reading before a roaring wood fire. She handed him a soda and sat beside him. When he looked at her she said, "That was some surprise from Pam's great grandmother."

Royce informed her that he was not that surprised. Thanksgiving weekend Tara, Pam and Jeff had driven five and half hours to go shopping in Chicago, at least that was what they told the family. Though they did do some Christmas shopping, the main reason for the trip was to visit Pam's great grandmother. Over the years Tara had become so fond of Mary that she felt she needed to tell Mary herself that she was going to divorce Vince and why she was going to shame him in the process. She assured Royce that Mary would understand and remain quiet as Mary had hinted often that she was not generally pleased with her grandson.

Mary had listened. When Tara and Pam finished Mary informed Tara that she had not been distributing some of her assets since she did not trust Vince. Mary had been concerned about Vince since he was a teen. She said that he was far worse than her son and that Vince was a big disappointment to her. The best thing Vince did was to marry Tara and give me two lovely great grandchildren. She knew even then his mother had to push him into doing the right thing by Tara. 

Tara learned that Mary had been watching her and the family from afar. As she held her hand she told Tara that she had the patience of Job. To Tara's surprise she was told that she needed to take this step and she had Mary's support. Mary felt that her grandson had made a fool of Tara and it was appropriate that all realize that he was the biggest fool. 

Mary tried to have a heart to heart conversation with Vince shortly after the death of his father and two younger brothers when their small plane crashed into a field sixteen years before. She had hoped that their deaths would have shaken some sense into him, but it did not. Mary said it was providence that hitting the deer on the way to the airport kept him from perishing too. She told him that God and fate had given him an opportunity to pause and to refocus his life. She was disappointed that he made not changes and that if there was a difference it only increase his desire to bed more and more women.

While Tara, Pam and Jeff were out shopping Mary read the report with great interest. What particularly caught her attention were two little comments Vince made to Jill concerning her. It was clear that he had little feelings for her. He only charmed her so as get a big inheritance. Her suspicions that he was playing up to her to get a greater inheritance was confirmed.

Royce said that Mary asked Tara to come to Chicago last week. While visiting Mary Tara left Chicago, Tara learned that Mary was going to restructure her will and start to distribute her assets in the coming year. Following the resent visit it was Tara's honor to give Pam and Jeff a check for $30,000 and a $10,000 for Royce's college fund. Tara smiled when she told them that Mary was going to be paying for a nanny for Royce. The young couple was still stunned when she also told them that Mary would be making further announcements and giving generous gifts to the family in January, but for now they were all to sit on the January news and keep to themselves the news of the checks.

Though he did not go into details, Royce said that in the next two months Vince and Jill would be exposed. He said he would give her more details as they were finalized but for now just be comforted that he would get his just rewards. 

With her head bowed Doris quietly asked, "I have two questions. How can you forget what I have done? I do not think I could be as forgiving. And how can you live with me if you do not trust me?"

He lifted her head and looking into her eyes, "You are my love. You took the step of coming home and being honest. I cannot explain it other than to say that you are the center of my life. I have had just enough pain and fear over this that I have realized the value in having you as my life's partner. To give up on you would be like giving up on myself."

Then he laughed, "Also, it is because you forgave me for all the stupid and idiotic things I have said and done over the years. Remember our 20th anniversary and that you had arranged for the kids to be with Tara for the night, took the day off to cook a fantastic dinner, bought an expensive bottle of Champaign and put on a new sexy outfit you just bought. You planned a special romantic evening." She nodded. "And where was I? I thoughtlessly scheduled a business meeting that night. I had totally forgotten that it was our anniversary until I walked into the door to see you crying. The look on my face cut me to the core when I realized what I had done. Yes you were mad, but you still found it within yourself to salvage the evening and in the coming weeks graciously allowed me to try to make it up to you."

"But what I have done does not compare to that" she noted.

"Yes it is. Both were self-centered acts that have wounded the one that we love the most. In both, forgiveness helps us to redeem the situation." He drew his wife into his arms and their lips met. The kiss was tender at first but grew more passionate. One of his hands stroked her brunette hair while the other roamed her back.

She watched reach over to the end table and pick up the envelope with her erotic pictures and coupons. He stood and walked over to the fire. As he looked at her he said, "I need to tell you something about these." 

As he threw the envelope into the fire Doris had a perplexing look upon her face. She listened to her husband explain that he, Tara and Pam had designed the email messages, pictures and coupons. He explained that they thought it might be a way to shake her and help draw her to come forward. 

Seeing her eyes focus upon the burning contents he said, "They were a tool to an end. To keep them and use them I would be like Vince, manipulating you. I would agree that even sending them was a form of manipulation. I see now that you were already in process and this ploy was not necessary. To use any of the coupons would therefore be wrong. They were not offered with by your own initiative. I am sorry my love for agreeing to having sent them."

Tears started to stream down her face. She told him that forgiveness was not necessary, while it seemed that she was forced, she willingly gave them from her heart. Doris said though she would give be willing to them again, she appreciated his gesture. As she came into his arms, "we are in this marriage together. Thank you for telling me the truth and trusting me with it. I wish I had had the same courage earlier."

Little more needed to be said. Their history, what each had done did not need to be discussed. The burning of the envelope, the tone of their brief words and their facial expressions communicated that they were moving on as one. As he hugged his wife Royce said, "together is the operative word." 

Feeling her in his arms and against his body as she kissed him, Royce's overwhelming desire was to take her and make love, to affirm that he loved her with every fiber of his being. 

Doris being claimed and loved through their joining was also a dominant goal for her. She desired to confirm to her husband that she was not harmed by his rouse, that if anything it only strengthened her resolve to extract herself from Vince. It had helped her to realize that if she did not tell her husband she remained vulnerable to Vince's manipulations and abuse, or to anyone else he came to know what happened. Confession was necessary to break the cycle. 

Telling her husband that he had done the right by her could wait another day. For now, being one and intimate with him was her need. Their kiss rapidly grew passionate. As their mutual passions grew, their hands explored each other's face, back and sides.


As Royce kissed her his subconscious hoped that by the end of the night they had claimed each other physically and emotionally. He knew that at that moment he was going to reassert his claim upon his wife, that her body was his and his was hers. He was not going to have sex with her, he was eager to give love and receive love with his wife. All that was left was the consummation of his desires and her desires.

As they moved back to the sofa Doris's passion rapidly soared. As with last night she wanted to demonstrate her love for her husband and to confirm through their love making that she was his. She quickly straddled his lap and threw her soul into kissing him. When his hand moved to her breast she moaned her approval. She moaned again when she felt his hardness touching her panty covered womanhood as her skirt had slid upward. She wanted to satisfy him fully and completely to the best of her ability. 

She laughed when his hands fondled both her breasts aggressively before suddenly pulling her blouse apart casting several buttons across the sofa and room. It was the first time he had ever ripped a blouse from her. Though it was her red silk blouse she cried out "yes" in response to his lustful action. His face drove into her breasts nibbling one and then the other through the fabric. In the moment, a growing hot passion began to consume them.

As she moved to stand between his legs Doris pulled his polo shirt over his head to bear his chest with its scattered hairs. Though he was not as toned as he was in their younger years, or as muscular as other men, gazing upon his chest still stocked the fire within.

He sat there looking at his wife. She didn't object to the look of longing in his eyes. He looked into her eyes and smiled when he saw them twinkle. Doris reached behind her back and with years of honing the skill she undid her bra while quickly using her arms to hold it in place. She started to kneel between his legs. As her torso moved on an angle she allowed her bra to drop off her chest and down her arms. 

Royce's gaze locked upon her chest. Even though they sagged with age, he still enjoyed looking at his wife's breasts. He followed them downward until they disappeared behind the head that was moving toward his northward pointing erection. 

Doris pushed him back and began to unbutton his pants. As she pulled his pants down she kissed his stomach. A low moan escaped her husband's lips as his cock entered her warm eager mouth. Slowly she took him as deep as possible and into the top her throat. She was fighting the gag reflex as he groaned his pleasure. She felt the head of his cock jerk forward slightly as he hardened even further.

As she withdrew she kept her eyes locked upon his face. The pleasure upon his face brought her joy. She used her tongue against the underside of his of his crown and then ran her tongue down one side and up the other. 

Her right hand danced back and forth across his stomach again and again while its mate was playing with the base of his cock and supping his balls. The tingles of pleasure were emanating from his thighs and midsections were bringing excitement and sensual satisfaction throughout his body. 

As she took him into her mouth for the umpteenth time, his right leg moved between her legs. It moved upward and pressed into her cloth covered hot flesh. The feeling of his leg against her pussy caused her to move her hips up and down slowly. The stimulation being felt was pushing her higher and higher with a desire to cum. The aroma of his manhood and excitement filled her nostrils.

As her tongue swirled across his mushroomed head and tasked the oozing fluid, out of the corner of his eye he detected movement. When he looked to his right he did not see anything. Soon he gave little thought to it because of the pleasure of his wife going up and down upon his cock with her mouth. Royce knew he was not going to last long so he pulled his wife forcefully upward and kissed her longingly as she rested upon his thighs. Their breathing had become more hurried and erratic.

As they kissed his hand grasped her breasts. The nipples were distended and hardened. He twisted the nipples causing her to moan and break their kiss. Fire blazed from her eyes as he lowered his face while drawing up the left breast to his mouth. When his lips meet her soft breast with its hardened nipple, he devoured as much as he could of her flesh.

His left hand slid along the outside of her raised skirt. His hand raised the hem to her waist before his hand commenced to message and grasp at her rounded mature ass. 

She lustfully moaned that she wanted him in her. He started to lift her and shift his weight to rise. But she wanted none of that. Pulling back to look him in the eyes she groaned, "I want you now! Here! Now!" She was eager to feel his cock in her overheated and damp vagina. With that she raised herself above him, reached between them and grasped him northward aimed manly muscle. She adjusted its aim and once it hit the center of the target she collapsed upon him drawing him fully and rapidly into him. 

With her arms around his neck she started to ride him hard. His hands rested upon her hips, not trying to guide her but just enjoying her rocking and vibrations. His eyes locked upon hers. He saw that once again she was in that zone where her animal nature was dominating her and driving her forward. The sensation of his mushroomed head repeatedly knocking upon her cervix each time she rocked downward drove pleasure through his cock and into the rest of his body.

They were enjoying the exquisite sensations as her body quaked. She was cumming hard. He was not yet ready to cum but was desirous to continue their passionate dance. 

Doris glanced into at the mirror over the sofa and before her eyes. She saw her hair flying and her breast bouncing wildly up and down, to and fro. A perspiration sheen covered her face and chest. She looked a mess but she did not care. In the corner of the mirror her eyes noticed a figure in the darkened kitchen. Betty was moving in the shadow.

Being beyond being alarmed and embarrassed Doris kept riding her husband. Doris saw her husband as a gone like her. He was too lost and hot to stop. She leaned down and haughtily whispered between breaths, "We may have an audience."

When she pulled back to look into his face, Royce nodded. Between erratic breaths their tongues sought our each other's mouths. 

As she saw Betty move to the hallway she dismounted from him and turned around. She backed over him as he held and aimed his raging manly pole. Mounting him again she road him. She widened her legs further than normal. She raised her fallen skirt around her waist.

A hard wet cock going up and down into her, appearing and disappearing. She read an author long ago, she could not remember who, said that one of the greatest disappearing acts was seeing a man's cock disappearing into a woman's vagina or mouth. For some strange reason that thought crossed her mind. She also imagined the sight of her mature breasts flopping around while seeing the look of pleasure and satisfaction ripple across her.

Her body was responding to the sensations it was feeling. The erotic nature of it all washed back and forth across her mind to intensify her experience. Her breathing quickened and became more shallow as she thrust herself upon him driving her toward another climax. Her legs were beginning to send signals that they needed relief. She did not care about her legs as a climax began to well up within her vagina and provide her body with pleasure. 

She opened her eyes as she cried out, "Ooohhhh uuummmm, yyyyeeeesss. Fuuuck me hard." She looked up, her daughter had clearly left them to their privacy. 

Royce filled with eager desire and earnestness asked, "What do you want? And whose are you?"

She rocked upon her husband's hard cock and while playing with her clit said, "I want your cock. Oooohhhh uuuuhhhhhh.....I am your wife who wants only to..... yeeeessss I'mmmm cummmiinnnng..... pleaaseee you. Your's...ooooohhhhh yeeesssss."

Her ears picked up the grunts and groans from her husband. The pitch in his voice had changed. He was approaching his release as she pushed up and then down taking him fully again and again, and again. She felt his eruption shooting forth. She was thankful for it. She impaled herself and came with him. 

Once he finished shooting into her she quickly turned around and kissed him passionately. The first words from her lips were "Thank you...thank you my love for forgiving me."

He looked at her, "Together in one marriage. We are together in all."

As she calmed, she looked him in the eyes and quietly said, "Yes we are together in all things. I am ashamed on one level to say this but I love sex. I crave passionate powerful sex. I fear that part of me is a slut."

"That does not make you a slut" her husband laughed. Their beating hearts continued to slow. After several more kisses he continued, "I hate that term. A guy who loves sex and has sex often is called a stud. Being called a stud is badge of honor. It is wrong to call a woman who enjoys sex and is good at it like you are my dear, it is wrong to call her a slut. I do not like double standards.... my wife may love sex, I love it and I want us to experiment but you are not a slut my dear...you are....hmmmm....you are a studette."

"Hmmmm a studette you say. Well my husband of mine, you are my stud, and I am happy to be your studette."

Within the very essence of their being, each knew they were one in heart, mind and body. Vince's control was now history. They knew that they had reclaimed their marriage and that they would work out everything together.




Exposing Life's Cruel Irony Ch. 05



To be continued.



Exposing Life's Cruel Irony Ch. 06



Betty retired to her bedroom. She could not believe what took place within her eyesight. She knew she should have left them alone, but she found herself transfixed for several seconds. At first it was she only saw her mother's rounded ass moving up and down her father's engorged cock and the occasional flash of a breast in the mirror. Then when she looked back to see her mother turning around, she could not help but look again. She knew it was wrong, but she was drawn to look.

If she saw them like this during high school before she would have been revolted. But now, given her broader understanding of life, she was not revolted. She recalled Wanda saying, "Sex can be passionate or just an act to be tolerated. Seeing the sexuality expressed can be funning or beautiful, revolting or enjoyable, depending upon one's perspective. When passion, harmony and love flow together it can be so beautiful to witness." 

Betty understood more fully Wanda's words. Her parents looked so beautiful making love. She knew her mother saw her and was pleased that her mother was not embarrassed enough to stop making love to her husband. 

Given her experiences since college, she now saw her parents in a new and beautiful light. In the past she heard their groans. But she never thought of them as sexual beings, they were just her mom and dad, at least not until this Christmas. Now it was different. Their lovemaking was raw and passionate. But through their act she could see in their eyes that they were communicating the depth of their love for each other. 

She did not watch long, only for less than twelve seconds in the kitchen where she went to get a bottle of water and not more than five seconds in the hallway, but it was enough for Betty to see more than just the satisfying of sexual desires. In those seconds Betty saw how they drove themselves to pleasure the other. She was not revolted or embarrassed; she was proud of her parents. 

As Betty lay on her bed in the moonlight, she smiled to herself. He parents were in love even after all these years. She hoped that one day she would have a marriage with the depth and passion of her parent's marriage. The last thing upon her mind as she drifted off was the beauty of being loved and expressing love.

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Jeff and Pam arrived home Christmas evening too exhausted to do anything more than settle the baby, unpack the car and crawl into bed. Their spirits and desires were high, but each was too exhausted to be intimate. Both felt frustrated in disappointing the other because of promise uttered earlier in the day, but they soon discovered that the other felt the same exhaustion. They would wait until the morrow to give their full attention to pleasuring the other fully.

Unfortunately, early the next morning the phone rang. Four buildings three hours away which his firm was constructing had been torched Christmas Day. Jeff had to go inspect the buildings and determine how whether they could repaired of if they should be demolished.

While he was out of town Pam looked forward to making New Years Eve a special evening. Betty was expected. The anticipation grew to having her curiosity and her husband's fantasy fulfilled at the same time. She decided that she would give her husband the pictures and coupons during the anticipated special festivity. 

Just after noon December 30th Pam received a telephone call. Betty would not be able to join them due to an ice and snow storm that had stranded her four hours out of Indianapolis. The roads would remain a mess for another day. Pam decided she would still have a quiet romantic evening and give Jeff the pictures and coupons. 

Ten o'clock New Years Eve, just after changing Royce's diaper, Betty brought out a bottle of Champagne to the living room and told her husband she would be back shortly. After she took a quick shower Pam returned dressed in a purple stretch lace chemise.  

Anticipating that his wife desired to be amorous, Jeff had changed into red boxers, turned up the heat five degrees and opened the Champagne. His smile broadened across his face as his wife moved across the room toward him. His shaft quickly hardened. Pam sat by him and took a couple of sips of Champagne. They soon were embraced and kissing with earnestness.

Pam broke from the kiss and reached over the side of the sofa. Wishing her husband a happy New Year, she handed Jeff the envelope she had pre-positioned earlier. As she took another sip of Champagne she watched her husband's expression carefully as he read the coupons and looked at the pictures. Her hand played with his stiff cock. 

Jeff's face clearly reflected his surprise. He looked through the coupons again and asked, "You are serious?" The coupons did not speak of sex clubs or swapping or subservience, but they did speak of bringing another partner to their bed and attending an erotic dance club.

Pam nodded, "I love you. Yes, I am willing."

Jeff was uncertain how he wanted to respond. He loved most of the coupons, special dinners, erotic play and a weekend away for the two of them. Part of him was intrigued about seeing his wife with another woman or having a threesome, yet, he was not certain he wanted to go there. 

Jeff tried to be guarded in his response. When he was a teen his father once told him as they fished at the cottage, "Son, as you are in your mid teens you will start hearing your friends bragging about having sex with a girlfriend. Dismiss two thirds of what you hear as braggadocios puffing. This is very important, having sex is a serious business. Do not have sex with a lady unless you are serious about her and are willing to wake up with her beside you again and again and again. For a woman there is a much greater heart connection. Understand? Sex is more than physical relief. Sex is at its best when you are deeply in love with each other. I hope you will see it as a heart thing too. Never treat intimacy casually."

He had not always adhered to that wisdom. Recent events convinced Jeff that Royce's words were judicious. He agreed with them. Jeff smiled at his wife and before kissing her said, "Thank you for these." Jeff then moved over his wife as they kept kissing.  

He looked at the pictures of his wife. She was truly beautiful and he thought that he would be packing them in the luggage. When he got to the end of the stack and saw his wife with another woman he did not know what to say. Though he found them erotic, he was not sure he wanted to see his wife go there. Jeff fought a frown and focused upon his wife's intent. He drew her into him and kissed her. The passion and eagerness of their kiss grew.

As Jeff kissed her, Pam felt his foot move between her feet to gently move her feet apart. In less than a half a minute her legs were apart to widely display her womanhood before her husband. She took a deep breath as her husband kissed down her neck and moved to her breasts as he moved his body between her legs. 

His eyes fixed upon her face as he lovingly exposed and then engulfed in his mouth her left breast. He suckled one drawing forth her warm milk. With a smile he moved to the other breast and enjoyed its warm fruits as well. Pam closed her eyes as she enjoyed the pleasure of the moment. She felt his hand raising the hem of chemise toward her hips.

Moments later he moved lips across her satin covered torso toward her now exposed pussy. She took a deep breath as he neared her channel of love. She moaned her encouragement as he descended ever so slowly toward her moist lips.

When his lips and tongue split her lives and plunged between her vulva into her opening she cried out her joy. She continued to express her joyous pleasure as he licked upward to suckle upon her feminine clit. The desire for pleasure that had been building in anticipation of this night shot forth. Though she could not believe how quickly she had gently climaxed she was not going to complain in the least. If anything she wanted even more pleasure from her husband.

Jeff was more than happy to comply for her cries for more and for him to suck her harder. He repeatedly moved between sucking her clit and licking up and down her inner lips. He kept his ministration going at her encouragement. With one hand he moved between her two nipples keeping them stimulated and hard.

As her head moved slowly from side to side she felt another orgasm building. It gradually built until he again latched hard upon her clit and sucked just like she did when she sucked his cock hard and deep into her mouth. He was going at her like a thirsty man. While doing this he pulled at her right nipple. The building toward another climax under such stimulation was not long gradual...it came on like a rushing train. 

Jeff could see in his wife's face that she felt wonderful. Her breathing became more and shallow. Her chest heaved as her breathing became more rapid. Here juices flowed like a stream and its lovely aroma filled his nostrils. Though her eyes were looking at him, they had a glazed appearance. 

With his free hand Jeff pushed his boxers down his thighs. He raised his knees and pushed them lower before moving his hips toward the junction of his wife's legs. He was so hard that his cock was self aiming itself. He leaned over her and kissed his wife once again.

The blunt mushroomed head moved toward its target, the center of her womanhood. The tip of his cock bumped gently yet firmly into her saturated lips. She was ready and desirous of penetration. Pam knew it. Jeff knew it. He pushed forward hitting her engorged clit and entering into her welcoming warmth. 

His hard cock felt at home within her. Inside her is where his hard cock belonged. Her nerves tingled throughout her body at the pleasure she was feeling. Her toes pointed upward with joy before throwing her legs across his back to draw him deep into her core.

As he started to thrust into her hard again and again, Pam drew her husband's face to hers. Their tongues just started to duel as she moaned. Their passion caused them to slid of the sofa and onto the carpet. Not caring for the rougher surface, they kept pleasuring each other with increased urgency and desire.

Moments latter she signaled that she was cumming for a second time. As she came she used the legs she wrapped around him to pull his penetration deeper into her womanhood. As they rocked against each other and continued to kiss passionately, his chest was mashed against her breasts and stimulating her nipples.

As the intensity of the orgasm subsided her legs untangled and dropped. As he moved his chest above hers they were able to look into each other's face to see perspiration rolling across the other's forehead.

He rolled onto his back and drew her with him. They had long perfected the move so that they would remain intimately connected. With her above him, she took control of the pace. Her hips swayed up and down slowly at first as she recovered from the climax she just experienced. She was not done yet, but she needed to catch her breath before driving herself and him toward a mutual orgasm.

Her hips started to undulate at a greater pace as her moaning became more throaty and loader. With her undulating hips Pam's knees were moving back and forth across the carpet. The minor pain her knees started to feel as they rubbed on the carpet it did not register with her. She was driven to cum again and to bring her husband with her.

Her face was filled with passion and ecstasy. A minute later she started to shake more violently signally her approaching climax. He too was building toward his release. Her womanly juices were still flowing forth and running across his hard cock to cover his balls.

After his wife cried aloud that she was cumming again Jeff rolled her of him. They lay breathlessly upon the carpet together, each relishing the intensity and love they had just expressed. 

Pam reached across to grasp his now partly deflated manhood. It was slick with their combined juice. As their breathing settled, propped by her arm Pam lay on her side. As she looked at him she said, "I am sorry that I could I could not give you the surprise I planned."

"What surprise?" Jeff replied.

She smiled, "To allow you to see what you said you wanted to see."

Pam was perplexed as her husband's facial expression indicated that he was clueless was to what she was talking about. After a moment she continued, "What you told me Christmas morning."

"I don't know what you are talking about." Jeff sincerely replied.

She knew her husband was not playing a game, so she more guardedly chose her words, "To see Betty and I together...you know. To have uhhh...to be intimate."

"I never said that," Jeff replied. 

She quietly replied. "Sure you did when you thanked me saying something about only wishing you had been awake longer to enjoy it. Or did I misinterpret what you said about your sister asleep against me." 

Pam was surprised when he informed her, "That is not what I meant. I was talking about the pleasure we shared."

With a note of embarrassment in her voice, she replied, "Ohh....boy I was wrong." She paused for a moment before continuing, "Can we leave the coupons as just part of our fantasy play? I am not sure that we are prepared for anything else." 

After a two or so minutes of silence Jeff replied, "I am agreeable with that. We are one. Let us not do any more wild things right now. We already have enough complications in our family, with my mother, with your mother now expecting and with Vince. You are too important to me. I want us to focus just upon our relationship and marriage."

With that said, Jeff rose and brought back their filled Champaign flutes. 

He pointed out that the clock read 12:08. "What a way to move from one year to the next!"

As Jeff fell asleep, Pam was relieved that Betty was caught in an ice storm. She was aware she almost set in motion an encounter that could have had untold negative ramifications. As a young couple they had already made a handful of misjudgments that they were working through together within the context of their marriage. 

Pam resolved to leave curiosities and fantasies to their marital bed foreplay and be unfilled in life. What happened with Betty was a result of over sexual stimulation combined with a mild curiosity and too many days without being intimate with her husband. Nothing would happen without them being in full agreement. As she cuddled against her husband, her last thought was, "I want to be beside him like this every night until my last breath." 

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Jeff awoke shortly after 5:15 to find that he was alone. Thinking that his wife was taking care of the baby, he rolled over and went back to sleep. 

Pam was not taking care of the baby. She was disturbed by what she had done with Betty and what she almost did. She was angry with herself for misunderstanding her husband and for putting her marriage at risk in the process. She was angry with herself for what little she did with Betty. Pam was crying that she had been unfaithful to her husband. 

Twenty-five minutes after he tried to get back to sleep Jeff's kidney demanded relief. After flushing the toilet he looked into the baby's room to find the baby asleep. 

Coming into the living room he found his wife looking out the front window with tears coming down her cheeks. She sat with her, and used a finger to wipe the two streams from his face. "What have I done? Dear, whatever it is I am sorry."

Throwing herself into his arms, "It is not you. It is me. It is what I have done." Jeff listened carefully to what his wife described. 

When he caught the essence of what she was saying he cut her off. "Pamela, I love you." After a long pause Jeff continued, "We have both done things in the last three months because our emotions have carried us away. Our world has become twisted. You were caught up in the emotions of the moment. I suspect my sister too was caught up in the moment. Some things of the last months I regret. Others will take time to sort out. That said, we are here and now."

Pam nodded.

A moment later Jeff continued, "What have we learned from all this? An equally important question is for us to work out together is where are we going with all that has happened and where do we want to go? I do not know have many answers right now. Whatever we do we do it as a couple. Agreed?"

"Agreed."

"We need to talk more about our fantasies and desires. And we need to speak and listen honestly. Agreed." Jeff smiled.

Pam nodded, "Agreed."

"But not right now. Come, I want to fall asleep some more with you in my arms. I love you more today than I did when we married."

Together they held each other as they fell back into a peaceful sleep. Though shaken, their marriage remained firm. Their love was still strong. Wiser, they were moving forward together.

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Vince watched from the third floor window as Jill climb out of her rental car on the afternoon of January 19th. She had flown back from California to meet the team on the 20th that was about to join her in California. Vince grinned from ear to ear as he was eager to tell her about the good news. 

After they kissed she saw he was giddy with joy. No encouragement was needed for him to tell her the news. Jill was thrilled as Vince told her about the gift his grandmother gave him and his kids at his party. 

His grandmother was starting to liquidate a significant portion of her assets. About three and half million dollars was being given to the family. Half was being given to his sibling's family and half to his family. A third of the funds would come direct and with remainder going into trusts to be paid out over 20 years to limit tax consequences. Her will was going to follow a similar pattern.

It was with great glee that Vince announced to Jill, "the old bat has finally come to her senses. Though one and three quarters of a million dollars is coming to my branch in the next month, I am only getting 66%. Each of my children receives eleven percent and Tara receives fourteen percent. And the great part is that she had me sign a document saying that I acknowledge that more will be coming by the same formula in her will. Now I do not have to worry about divorcing Tara. I will be on easy street having just over a million dollars coming to me within sixty days, and about $375,000 will be in cash. I just hope she dies sooner than later."

Jill celebrated with him even though she had just learned the evening before that her husband was contesting the divorce. Jill thought that he evidently thought she was bluffing. He would be really surprised by how she was going to trash him reputation in court. Because he could not make it easy for her she was going go after more of his assets.

That night Vince and Jill celebrated together the good news. Jill's bad news did not dampen their celebration at the restaurant or in their hotel room. Other than the minor rain shower produced by Jill's news, their lives were sunny. Vince was prepared to tell his wife that he was going to be needed in California on the 3rd of February. 

Little did they know that the storm cloud that was hinted at in contested divorce was not a little shower, but hurricane. 

Last chapter to follow....Vince hits the wall and the Kimble family gets surprised.



Exposing Life's Cruel Irony Ch. 07



This is the final chapter in the Cruel Irony series.

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On the second Thursday evening in February Jeff answered for the phone. A familiar voice that sounded week and distressed spoke, "Is Pam there?" 

After calling his wife to the phone he asked his sister, "Are you okay?" 

Betty did not want to talk with him. He sat at a distance waiting for his wife to tell him what was up. It was evident from a few phrases that there was something really wrong. 

When she finished, Pam did not say much other than that Betty was with her parents for the weekend and was coming over Saturday. Betty needed to talk to Pam. Early Saturday morning Jeff loaded a range of tools into car and drove to Tara's new home, four houses down the street. Tara had closed the home two weeks before and needed numerous small repairs and painting. As he started painting the master bedroom, his mind was upon what was happening with his sister. 

Time crawled. A year ago he thought their lives were orderly and perfect. He and Pam loved their jobs. They were renovating and decorating together their home. Above all they were deeply in love. The tension with his mother had disappeared and other than some distance between Tara and Vince, their extended families all seemed to be well. Even the tension between hiss seemed to be more a result of them being married so long that they had taken each other for granted. Adjusting to the empty nest may have been a factor Jeff often thought. 

Becoming parents earlier than planned was the first yet celebrated change to take place. Then the news of his mother's affair shocked them. The news of his parentage had created complications, but they handled it all. 

Royce did not walk away from his marriage with Doris. Instead he had sought to love Doris and redeem their marriage. For three months his father and mother were seeing counselors as part of their healing process. 

Vince, his father announced in mid January a two month work assignment in California. All, including his mother-in-law Tara knew the trust and that this was Vince's first step towards a divorce. When Vince learned earlier that his wife was expecting his surprise turned to anger. His anger overflowed in a letter that Tara received two weeks ago.

The carefully worded and cold letter charged that Tara's pregnancy was a continuation of the manipulation and control games she had been playing since they met. He did not desire to father any more than two children. Just as she used pregnancy as a way to entrap him into a marriage, she was doing it again to hinder his professional advancement. He questioned whether she really loved him. 

The letter went on to say he was not going to stand for it any longer and was contemplating divorce. He asked that she agree to his claim of irreconcilable differences and her unwillingness to move to California when he was offered a permanent transfer to the new plant. Vince threatened that if Tara fought his filing he would charge her before her family for emotional and physical cruelty. He also claimed that he would bring forward evidence that she had been having an affair with two unnamed men, one for eleven years and another for four years. He implied that he would taint her reputation with her children and cause his grandmother to disavow her. Vince's true unguarded heart was evident. 

Tara shed no tears. The letter only steeled her resolve. It also steeled Nancy's anger and resolve as well. She had married Robert after her first husband, Vince's natural grandfather, died. Though Robert a successful business lawyer and land speculator never had children Nancy did not want his money that she inherited to be given away thoughtlessly. She saw the letter was evidence of her grandson not being a worthy heir. 

Into this tangled web the one who seemed to be the most stable, Betty, now seemed to be in crisis. 

At two o'clock while waiting to apply the last coat of paint Jeff looked out the window and saw Betty depart in her green Accent.

That evening after dinner and with the baby resting Jeff learned Betty was pregnant. Jeff was stunned. After a moment of silence a myriad of questions spilled forth from his lips, "Who is the father? Now what? Is she going to get an abortion? Was she not on the pill? How is this going to affect her completing her degree and get her first position? Who else knows? Why did she not tell both of us?" 

With a serious look on her face Pam told her husband to be quiet and give her a chance to explain what she learned.

Betty was on the pill. When her prescription ran out at the end of the semester she had not taken the time to get to the clinic. With the assignments due at the end of the semester and her teaching responsibilities she just kept putting it off as she was not seeing anyone. At a party the week prior Christmas she ran into an old flame. She thought she was safe as her period had ended not long before but evidently the alcohol blurred her memory. She thought she would not be ovulating until Christmas. 

Betty's anguish deepened when Ron, the old flame, called Betty a slut for trying to blame him. He said he could not be the father as he had a vasectomy two years ago. Betty suspected that was a lie but she was not going to push it. From his reaction it was just as well that Ron should not be in the baby's life. She was at point in her studies where being pregnant and having a baby would not unduly impact her studies. 

Looking at her husband Pam said, "Betty's biggest issue is with the financial implications." 

Pam paused before telling her husband that she offered Betty their help. Before she could say anything Jeff uttered, "We can help her. I am confident dad and mom will help too." 

Pam hugged her husband, "I told her much the same."

"Why did she tell you first?" Jeff asked.

"It is a little complicated," Pam replied quietly to her husband. "I was the preliminary test ahead of telling Mom and Dad. And there is something else at play here that you need to know."

Jeff became speechless as he learned that his sister was bi-sexual and had feelings for his wife. He became numb when his wife told him what happened Christmas Eve, her reaction and what led up to what almost happened New Years Eve. His heart became more settled when he heard her assurances of her faithfulness.

The quiet uncomplicated life of the prior year was long past.   

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Two weeks later Royce and Jeff were watching the baby. Pam and Doris were out helping Tara and Betty purchase maternity clothing. 

Just as they finished watching a hockey game end the phone rang. Royce returned to sit quietly in his chair. Noticing moisture in the corner of his father's eye Jeff asked, "Are you okay?"

His father answered, "That was Nancy. She just finished with Vince." Royce felt saddened that the day had come.

Looking at his father, Jeff asked what he was feeling.

"This is not a moment for joy. I cannot celebrate. The downfall of someone we have known all these years is not a happy moment. It was necessary but I still weep this day came. I am grieved that we had to be exposed to their evil." Royce replied quietly.

"Have we done the right in all this?" Jeff quietly asked.

After a minute of silence Royce deliberately and slowly replied, "If you mean by doing the right, did we do the right by telling Carl, most definitely yes. He definitely needed to know that his wife was setting him up for divorce and blame him. We could not sit quietly on the sidelines without warning him that a viper was about to sting. You were right to visit him before his conference."

Taking a sip of water Royce paused and looked thoughtful. "If you mean if it was right to allow your mother to redeem herself, yes it was. Some men and women would toss their spouse out without a second thought. I will not judge them since there are situations where such action is clearly warranted. My ego was bruised. I felt betrayed. I detest what happened but I love her. I have invested too many years into loving her to give up on her or our marriage without a good effort." 

"In days following her confession I found her in the kitchen or den crying five different times. Her guilt overwhelmed her. Counseling is helping us to rebuild trust. I now see how the pain she kept suppressed suddenly overwhelmed her once she confessed. I have repeatedly told her I forgive her, yet she still feels the need to punish herself. The counselor says my wife is seeking to do some type of penitence that could help free her of her feelings of guilt. The counselor has also helped me to understand her subservient needs and that I need to be more assertive with her sometimes."

Royce looked his son squarely in the eyes as he continued, "Marriage takes work, hard work. Sometimes your mother and I have forgotten that. There are ups and downs in every marriage. In those tough moments where it can be broken, if there is enough goodness for it to be salvaged, goodwill and love, salvage it. I am doing that." 

"Your mother is a good woman. Never forget that she was preparing to tell me everything. Her fears and his games of manipulation held her for years. He not only played upon her fear of loneliness and shame, he deepened those feelings. When he pushed too far last summer and you to expecting caused her to finally gather enough courage to confess. I know in my heart she loves me."

Interjecting himself into the monologue Jeff offered, "I know she does dad. I see more now than ever how my understanding of love was shaped by what I learned and saw from you and mom." He paused and then said, "I cannot fathom how my life would be without Pam."

Royce could only smile. He wanted to tell his son that in ten years he will look back and see how much more his love for his wife has grown. He held off saying it because his son would not fully appreciate its significance until a few more years had passed. 

Royce continued, "If you mean, did we do the right in pushing her to confess with the emails, I am not sure about that. I have asked myself if we were not playing a similar game as Vince. Son, though it worked, it could have gone so wrong. It could have destroyed her trust in me or deepened her feelings of guilt to the point of a breakdown. I forgot to factor such negatives into my thinking."

"After everyone left on Christmas I confessed what we did and sought her forgiveness. I did so again days later since your mother was too quick and too generous with her forgiveness. Your mother disagrees that what we did was wrong. She said it reinforced her resolve. Any thoughts of not confessing were killed by the email and made her realize that she could not be free without telling me all."

"One positive is that it helped us to become more open about our sexual desires and fantasies." Royce laughed.

Jeff replied, "I can understand that. Redeeming the coupons would be fun." 

"That is not what I am talking about. I destroyed the coupons. They did allow us to express our desires and fantasies more openly. I will not coerce or force her in any way. The wilder things have been left to fantasy." Royce was not going to tell his son that when Doris offered just before New Years to invite Tara to his bed that he refused. There were too many unresolved issues. They needed to become whole themselves before adding other complications.

Jeff nodded his understanding as he and Pam too had talked about the coupons. He thought quietly in the silence while his father went to the kitchen. The coupons and pictures had become a vehicle to share more openly about their sexuality and their sex life. Some of their discussions had been uncomfortable. Yet at the end of the day, understanding and acceptance with a good dose of love and assurance deepened their relationship. Jeff concluded that their openness on their sexual fantasies and desires improved communication on other matters too. Their relationship was deeper and stronger than ever.

As Royce handed his son a beer he said, "If you are talking about Tara getting pregnant and all that stuff. I will be slow to judge her, Pam, you or anyone else. Tara is a lovely generous gentle woman. She does not deserve to be hurt. I hope she does not get hurt by what she has been doing." 

Jeff nodded his head. "I understand. Vince was a fool. I agree it was best to leave it in Nancy's hands. Her handling it keeps it from being about revenge. What she has done has held Vince and Jill responsible for have their actions."

Royce responded, "Justice and revenge are not the same. Revenge rarely is justice. Balanced justice takes wisdom. I hope that we have found it." 

A crying baby drew their attention to pressing matters.

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Earlier that afternoon in California, Jill and Vince were recouping from the prior evening's activity. They had partied and swapped partners with a couple from Lake Forest who left three hours before. 

Just before one o'clock there was a knock on their door. Looking through the window panel Jill was surprised to see a well dressed elderly lady with two men in suits. She did not recognize them. 

When Jill opened the door the elderly lady said as she spryly entered, "You must be Jill. I'm Nancy, Vince's grandmother. I am here to give my grandson a check." 

To say that Vince was surprised was an understatement. He knew a check was due but he did not expect personal delivery. At one time his grandmother learning that he was living with Jill before his divorce was filed would have troubled him but no longer. 

Little did he know that his self-secure attitude was what Nancy had hoped would happen with the agreement signed in January. 

Nancy quickly controlled the situation and conversation by speaking firmly as she sat down in an easy chair, "Sit down you two. I have a check for you."

The gentleman in a blue suit reached into his suitcase and handed Jeff an envelope. Nancy watched carefully their facial expressions as they saw the amount on the check for $52,499.50. As expected shock and a quizzical look came upon his face.

Nancy quietly said told it was her grandson's portion of the $647,100 being distributed. The remaining $116,550 with the accrued interest would come in quarterly payments over the next fifteen years." 

"This is wrong. It should be over a quarter of a million" Vince replied with insistence waving the check. 

He stood. "I have done nothing to you! I have been kind to you. You have cheated me for years and you are doing it again!!" He all but screamed. "You will hear from my lawyer. I am going to sue you and leave you penniless. You are a controlling old bitch!!!"

Nancy expected that if the reports on her grandson were correct, Vince's charm would be gone. Nancy counted on the disappointment and his sense of self security unmasking his heart. And unmasked he became. 

Nancy asked one of the men with her for her notes. "Thank you George. Here it is. Tara receives 14% which she got yesterday. After your children receive 11% each you receive the remainder. So what is the problem?" She smiled at him knowing he was about to rage on. 

"Fifty-three percent would be over $320,000 after my soon to be ex, the two kids and the baby get theirs." He stood up again and heatedly shot back. "You are screwing me again. You are not going to get away with it!" 

Raising and lowering a hand Nancy said, "Calm down. Let me review my notes." Nancy put on glasses and looked at a paper. "For your children I have here listed Cameron and Pam. Then there is Jeff." She watched his eyes widen as she mentioned Jeff. She quickly continued, "Vince, don't look so surprised. I now know a great deal about your activities."

Vince was about to protest when Nancy forcefully said, "Keep quiet until I am finished. I have seen the results of the DNA test...and so have Jeff, Pam and Tara. Here is your copy." She handed him ten sheets stapled together. Jill leaned over to look at the report.

"The first page is a summary report and the second is the results in a chart I cannot really understand. But it is there for your reading. Jill, the third to the sixth pages are reports on two your children Vince fathered. And there is the adorable Andrew who I meet in Huntington Tuesday. Lastly, there is twelve year old Sara who was pleased to learn that she had a big sister who teaches at the school she will be attending next year. Let's see that gives us seven children you have fathered for seventy-seven per cent. The remainder is 9%."

Vince's anger was swallowed up by the shook. He thought the game was won. He saw the game was lost.

Nancy turned to Jill who appeared confused. She was starting to understand why Carl was contesting the terms of the divorce. "Jill, George is a lawyer whose firm is working with your husband's lawyer." George handed her a large envelope. 

George said, "The video is of your husband entering a hotel room in Detroit with Karla. A lawyer from your husband's firm was in the room to record Karla's statement. She confessed what you paid for her to do. Karla spent the night in the room watching television with your husband and his lawyer. They knew about the photographer you had arranged to photograph her going in and out of his room and of your effort to bug the room. Changing hotels ruined your plans. Frank is countersuing you and Vince." George served Vince his second set of papers.

The other man in a grey suit handed Vince an envelope as Nancy started. "Vince, Sam's firm represents Tara. You have just been served with divorce papers. Tara is being overly generous with her terms. By only loosing any claims upon the house and a quarter of your IRA you are getting off lightly. She is not willing to settle for irreconcilable differences. You will read that the DNA tests are part of the court record as evidence of your repeated marital infidelity. If you quietly accept the grounds and results, she will not haul a string of women into court to tell how you used them. Do you want information about your activities to seduce women, including five who were in high school at the time of the seduction, become part of the public record?"

Nancy was assisted to her feet.. "Vince, the documents you signed were vetted by my lawyers. They are air tight. Three last things before I leave. I believe you both have been with a woman repeatedly by the name of Ashley in the last month. My investigators tell me she has been just diagnosed with HIV."

Jill and Vince looked at each other. They both had fear in their eyes. They had not worried about protection as they thought she was safe. Seeing the troubled look upon their faces Nancy shook her head. 

Nancy continued, "I am a significant shareholder in your firm. In my investigation I became aware of some fraudulent activities. Your activities were reported to the company and legal authorities."

With a serious look Nancy waved her hand when Vince looked as if he was about to speak. She shook her head, "Vince your family is ashamed to be associated with you. You are a self-centered deceitful evil man who I disavow. I encouraged you to take a different road. Instead, you used your charm to play games and keep your activities away from your family and friends. They know everything, including Heather."

"Heather is suing for child support and $100,000 cash. She and her family know how you two planned to use and abuse her, to impregnate her in order to embarrass her father. She is going to be living with me and working for me for now. When the baby is born it will have a rightful claim upon the remainder of what would be coming from my estate. Heather will drop her suit if I give her $50,000, pay her college tuition and adequate child support, and if you sign a legal document giving up all visitation rights. She will be getting the child support directly from your quarterly payments. Vince, you have literally screwed your inheritance away. Was it worth it?"  




Exposing Life's Cruel Irony Ch. 07



Nancy took six more steps toward the door and then stopped. "One last thing, I did not include in the list of your children the child Tara now carries. The baby is not yours. If you read the document carefully in January, for legal purposes you accepted the baby as yours. You agreed not to dispute the parentage of the child. I am gifting to the child funds outside the agreement."

Placing a small card on the table by the door and tapping the card with a finger she said, "There is the name of the child's father."

Seeing his eyes light up as he read it Nancy said, "You thought you were in for the good life. You have reaped what you sowed. You will be forever haunted by the thought of who cuckolded you and impregnated your soon to be ex-wife. Things have a way of working themselves out." Sam opened the door. Knowing who was waiting outside Nancy said, "The police are here. Most of that check will be going toward your legal fees."

Jill looked at the card as Nancy exited. Her jaw dropped when she read it as three police officers entered. Her mouth fell open as an officer started, "Vincent William Anderson, you are under arrest for embezzlement, conspiracy to defraud, and grant larceny. You have the right..."

Another office walked over to Jill, "Jill Lander, you are under arrest for...."

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Memorial weekend the following year Doris stood on the end of the cottage dock watching the gentle waves lap at the shore and the listening to the robin in the tree above her. I was so peaceful and calm. She sat down on the white wooded bench that Royce painted the prior September.

As the warm air filled her nostrils her mind recalled the events of the last year. Royce How Betty's miscarriage had drawn her daughter closer to not only Pam and Jeff but also to Tara. Betty was happy as a lark to be the godmother to Nancy, Betty's daughter. 

A tear filled her eye as she thought of Tara. The relationship with her best friend had almost been lost. She was ashamed of what she had done, but her therapist helped her to work through her guilt and to understand how it happened. Counseling helped her to accept how Vince played to her fears and guilt to psychologically manipulate her. She still accepted responsibility for her affair, but did so in a more balanced manner. 

Tara too started to see a therapist in an effort to find her own healing. Their pains caused by a common enemy drew Doris and Tara closer. Closing her eyes she visualized the April evening when she took a step she felt necessary. 

Doris and Royce had just finished visiting their therapist bi-weekly for nearly four months. Though it started out focusing upon communication and trust issues for Doris and Royce, it quickly shift to Doris healing. The therapist desired to see her alone, but Doris insisted that she wanted her husband there. She wanted her husband to hear everything. She insisted that nothing was to hidden from him. The therapist agreed when he saw how open Doris was with Royce and how supportive Royce was to the process.

The therapist helped Doris to understand her need for love, acceptance and her submissive leanings. She never realized the degree to which her mother's quiet submission to her dominating father impacted her self-esteem and view of marriage. She came to realize that how Vince initially treated her had subconsciously reminded her of her father and made her vulnerable to him. When the relationship recommenced, her fear of being alone and sense of shame kept her bound. She cried for days when she accepted the significance of what their therapist called a form of psychological rape.

Tara too came to understand how Vince undermined her self-esteem. His weekly belittling statements kept her in the home too long. She had been so bound to him that when Tara learned of an ongoing affair he had she blindly accepted his apology. She also mistakenly held she was the cause for him finding comfort in another woman's arms. For years she did not continue her education because "that man" as she now called Vince would not support her desires. He kept saying they could not afford it and her place was in the home with her children. 

The first major wedge in Vince's control started one July 4th weekend at the cottage. During a conversation about schooling, Royce asked why Tara never returned to school. When Vince quickly said they could not afford it Royce interjected, "Tara has a great mind and I could not live seeing it going to waist over a few dollars. Tell you what, we have a few extra bucks, we'll pay for two classes each semester for four years." 

With Doris' enthusiastic addition that the kids are old enough to look after themselves Vince's public argument was negated. Completing her education and securing a part-time nursing position started Tara on the road where her identity did not revolve around her husband. 

Understanding what happened and why did not diminish Doris' sense of guilt and a desire to make amends to Royce. Nor did it diminish her need to get revenge in some form upon Vince. Doris knew Royce now understand her need and desire to do penance. What she proposed to Tara and did that April evening was part of her doing penance.

Doris put together a romantic evening filled with calming music and candles. She prepared lasagna, one of her husband's favorite meals. After cuddling in the den and playing with each other she told him that she had a special gift for him. In preparation Royce had him go to the bedroom and put on his red boxers while she changed in the main bathroom. 

When Doris entered the bedroom in a black semi-sheer robe with Tara in tow Royce knew this was Doris' act of penance. No words needed to be spoken as Royce rose and moved to Tara. He smiled as he brushed a lock of hair from the left side of her face. He kissed her very gently and tentatively at first. She responded with similar tentativeness. When the short kissed ended, they both looked at Doris to see her reaction. 

When their lips meet Doris felt a slight sense of jealousy. What surprised her was a feeling of contentment and happiness for Tara and satisfaction. 

Doris did not know what to say to them but the look on her face was sufficient as Tara's face moved forward toward Royce's. Soon their kisses became more urgent and longer. As Royce hugged Tara into himself their tongues explored the other's mouth.

Recalling the Christmas pictures and feeling more confident with his wife's comfort, Royce turned Tara around to face Doris as she rested in a bedroom chair. He moved behind Tara and moved against her back. He leaned down, parted her hair and lightly kissed Tara's neck. His right hand moved across the pink sheer material that covered her breast. A shudder ran through Tara's body.

As he kissed Tara's neck his eyes looked into his wife's. Doris smiled slightly. 

Royce's hands slowly undid the buttons to expose the pink demi-bra. As he moved the top across her shoulders, Tara dropped her arms. The top fell to their feet as his hands messaged and toyed with her breasts. Tara felt a growing pleasure moving through her body. Her heart was racing. Her head moved back upon his shoulder while she looked into her friend's eyes. Seeing no jealousy or anger she was happy to allow Royce take her fully.

His eyes watched his wife's face as he undid Tara's bra and drew it off her chest. He observed his wife's eyes widen as Tara's breasts came into view. Seeing his wife move forward in her chair did not escape his notice and confirmed his opinion. He turned Tara around. Her bare breasts were mashed into his bare chest. Their kisses became heated and filled with yearning. She was kissing him from her heart and he was responding from his as well. Their kisses were raw yet with the passion of lovers. 

Doris sat back on a chair. For some unknown reason Doris smiled as she watched Royce' cock press up against her friend's belly, a belly that showed a small bulge. As Royce's hand moved across Tara's back Doris knew that her friend was not only going to have sex but was about to be loved intimately. She was going to find how different Royce was from her ex. Unlike Vince, Royce's focus was upon Tara's pleasure more than his own.

As his other hand squeezed Tara's ass cheeks a quiet moan escaped from Tara. In a matter of a few minutes Tara was laid across the bed. Tara's feet rested across his shoulders as he knelt between her thighs. 

With his chest resting on the bed his face was less than a foot away from her shaved womanhood. Tara had shaved herself completely earlier as she wanted to be fully open to him. For many agonizing minutes her lover studied the first pussy he had seen since marrying his wife. His eyes studied it with a smile upon his face. Tara watched his eyes and became content to allow him to take his time.

Royce noticed how her pussy lips were thinner than his wife's. His fingers parted her feminine lips and slid along is pink canal. He saw the inner walls of her lips glisten with her juice. As he touched her, Tara suddenly sucked in her breath. A second later she exhaled to the sound of a quiet moan.

Turning her head Tara looked at Doris as she arose from the chair. As their eyes locked Tara moaned as Royce's tongue commenced to explore her pussy. As her whimpers of pleasure increased, her hips danced right, left, up and down in response to his mouth and fingers. 

Doris decided to move out the room to give them time alone. Tara shook her head "no" as her hand motioned for Doris to stay. Doris froze in place. When Tara looked at her again, their eyes locked. Doris moved toward the bed. 

Royce's hips rose as he repositioned himself. He kept us exploring this new woman's famine center. Doris moved beside her husband and took hold of his hard shaft. His shaft seemed harder than it had been in months.

As he turned to look at his wife Royce slid two fingers once again into Tara's inner warmth. Husband and wife smiled at each other. As they kissed Doris tasted her friend's pussy upon his lips and tongue. As they kissed the moans from Tara increased in intensity. When the kiss ended they could hear the sounds created by a very moist pussy and his thrusting fingers.

Royce slowly slid his fingers out of Tara. He moved Tara's legs wider as he moved upward beside his wife. Again Royce kissed his wife. Tara ginned at the display of affection between a man and his wife. 

When Doris first approached her about doing this Tara was eager to have sex with Royce. She always liked Royce. She too saw this as an opportunity to not only have sex with another man but to balance matters somewhat with her husband for being with Doris. Though she was eager, she controlled expressing her willingness to exuberantly. Now that it was happening, she was willing to surrender her inner being to him. 

When the kiss broke, Royce looked into his wife's eyes. His hand moved to her shoulder. Without a word he guided her between Tara's thighs. She saw the look of command upon his face.

When Doris shared with Tara her wishes for this night, she spoke in terms of it as just Tara and Royce. Doris saw herself mainly be an observer. If there was any participation by her, it would be minor. Now she was being gently drawn in as an active participant.

Her friends' earlier gesture and his look set a new course. 

She obeyed the commanding look as his eyes pointed her toward her friend's pregnant wet pussy. Doris gave a tentative lick. Her friend groaned her pleasure and using her left hand encouraged Doris to explore and pleasure her more. 

Doris licked Tara's pussy up and down, from clit to ass, planting her tongue broadly against her shaven flesh. Her husband's hand lightly stroked and explored her back. Tara moaned. An inner smile came to Doris. 

Pleased with Tara's positive response Doris explored her friend's pussy with greater energy. Pleasuring another woman was not unknown to Doris but this was the first time she found herself driven to enjoy the experience. She pressed her tongue firmly against Tara's little clit, stroking it. Rachel moaned beneath her.

Minutes later Tara's hips started to undulate. Tara's pussy was wetting Doris' mouth and face. Knowing the pending climax was mainly a result of her work brought an erotic joy to Doris. She looked up to see Tara's mouth filled with her husband's cock.

Being licked and pleasured by another woman was an unknown experience for Tara. Though she was feeling euphoric over the thrill of it all, she craved a hard cock. She also wanted to feel loved, not just experience sex.

When Doris felt herself being tugged upward by Tara she followed the unspoken request. The two women kissed gently at first. After the second kiss Tara's hand moved behind her friend's head to draw her in for a longer and deeper kiss.

When this kiss ended, Tara firmly looked at Doris and with a demanding tone said, "Take your husband's boxer's off. Then guide his hard cock into me!"

Doris moved to her knees. She pulled his boxers off. His cock stood firm and proud. It waved like a water stick searching for water. Only this stick was in search of a pussy. She was about to suck it when she heard a female voice say, "No....its mine." 

Doris moved her head back. She held his cock and pulled her husband gently forward as her friend moved to the center of the bed. As she moved her husband into position Tara nodded her approval and gave a lustful "Ohhhh, I want him so much." 

As he positioned himself over Tara, Doris guided his hips and cock toward the intended target. Tara's thighs widened as he moved to enter her.

Tara knelt by the bed and watched his entry and their connection. She knelt as she observed their moving slowly at first. They moved with desire and a growing passion. Their eyes were looking at each other. Doris was not surprised that her husband moved down to kiss her friend. She kissed him back. What she saw was not a man and woman having sex, but a man and a woman making love. Their pace quickened and then slowed. Tears formed in Tara's eyes as they sought to provide each other pleasure and love. 

As she moved from the bed Doris realized the lovers were lost in each other. It was as she heard Tara cry out her first release that tears welled in her eyes. As she moved toward the door Royce rolled Tara over so that she would be riding him. 

Standing in the doorway Doris kept watching for another minute. Her husband's hands explored Tara's body as she rocked her hips upon his hardness. His wet hardened shaft moved in and out of his lover with growing intensity. Her breasts flew hither and yon as she danced upon him. Tara was lost in the sensations of the moment. Her impaling upon him grew more rapid. His moans increased with her increased pace. Just before she exited the bedroom her ears picked up her voice, "I love you Royce."

As she walked out the door with tears now streaming she heard his voice, "I love you too." 

Though she knew such expressions could happen, hearing it was another matter. The words brought a wave of emotions. Though there was a sense of happiness for Tara, there was a strong sense of loss in her heart too. Her husband no longer just hers. In the background she heard her friend scream, "Ohhhh yeeessss! Not another......yeesss!" 

Later as the house became quiet Doris sat at the kitchen table feeling lonely. Tears were flowing down her face when she felt a hand upon her. Standing behind her were Royce and Tara. Without a word her husband drew her into himself and kissed her. His kiss was tender and loving. Between kisses he thanked her. Then he quickly told her firmly that her place was by his side. Though she had checked her tears but again they flowed at his assurances.

Her head was turned and Doris found herself looking into Tara's face, a mere foot away. Tara too thanked her before saying, "come back with us. I have never done this.....before.....please make love to me."

An hour and half later as Doris lay in bed completely satisfied. In quietude she nuzzled against her husband. Her heart felt a peace unknown in many years. With head against her husband's shoulder her hand was upon her husband's midsection. The difference from the past was that her hand was holding Tara's whose hand rested on his midsection as well as she slept against his other side. In the following months the Kimble's relationship with Tara deepened. 

Sitting by the lake Doris' eyes again closed. She smiled as she recalled the expression on Vince's face when after he was sentenced he turned to see Royce, flanked by Doris and Tara, being kissed by Tara. His eyes widened when he witnessed Tara lean across to kiss Doris with a lover's kiss. His expression was priceless.

Her mind quickly drifted to a night of passion in early April. Royce had not been feeling himself lately but that following a romantic dinner he prepared Royce was all over her. He was particularly attentive to her body's responses and the subtle signals of need. It was a night filled with powerful releases and combined with loving tenderness. She recalled having at least four orgasms.

The last words Royce spoke before they fell asleep in each others arms was, "You continue to wow me. Thank you for being the joy of my life. You are a wonderful women, mother and wife. I love you with my whole heart." He warmed her heart with those words.


With her eyes still closed eyes Doris wept openly as the words and images of that night were filled her mind and heart. Doris was still crying when she felt a hand drawing her head gently upon a shoulder and an arm of comfort embracing her. An hour after Royce and Doris fell asleep in each other's arms her husband's convulsing and gasping awoke her. She knew what was happening. She quickly climbed onto him. She pounded his chest and gave him mouth to mouth, but to no avail. When she realized he had slipped from her into eternity she fell upon his form, held him, and kissed his unresponsive lips. Repeatedly she whispered, "I love you my dear....oh how I love you!!" 

Over dinner he had talked about how proud he was of his children and at being a grandfather twice over. After dinner and before moving to the bedroom they cuddled before a fire and recalled their life together. Their time became more passionate when they talked about how they now had a common lover that they shared from time to time. All that he said and done indicated to her that he sensed that his time was near. She was convinced that he had prepared her for his departure.

She lifted her head and looked at Tara as her far hand picked up the urn and hugged it into her breasts. "I miss him so much."

Controlling her tears Doris continued, "Thank you for being there for me and allowing me to move into your home."

Tara held Doris' face in her hands, "I miss him too. We are not alone. We have each other." She drew Doris into a hug and she kissed her friend upon the lips. 

As they hugged Doris tried to shift things to the lighter side, "I know you are not alone. You still have your stud not far away." 

After the hug and a short kiss they started to walk back up the dock. As the reached the shore Tara laughed, "We will just have to find you new stud of your own." With a smile on her face she added, "Unless you want to share." 

"You're nasty" Doris replied with a forced giggle. "Yet, given everything..." Doris just could not finish her thought.

Tara looked around her and smiled, "Royce loved this place. It is time to spread his ashes along the walkway." 

Upon the veranda holding Angel, her baby sister, Pam watched the two women spread her father's ashes. To her one side Jeff held young Royce. To his side Betty wept quietly with her arm wrapped around her brother's arm. What Pam overheard that August afternoon had altered the directions of all their lives.




Exposing Life's Cruel Irony Ch. 07



The end.