Intro
If you have read some of my other stuff, you will have seen a theme in them about wives or women who are seemingly sexually repressed, barren or dormant who appear to have no interest in sex. Their husbands being emasculated, rejected, or denied sex or intimacy in any way shape or form, and their desperation to right this wrong; their strong belief that the wife is actually a closet nymph, a slut awaiting to be awakened in the right circumstances, by the right man, with the right tools. The husband becomes obsessed with seeing his wife's metamorphosis from prude to promiscuous, and watching real men satisfy her every need. His wife is acutely aware of her husbands tastes, his fantasies, and though she secretly finds them intriguing, she dismisses them with impunity.
This story has the same connotations, so to this end I won't go in to a more detailed backstory on the couple to save time, but suffice to say that the husband is such a man, and the wife is such a woman.
(All persons are entirely fictitious.)
Dylan
I had known Dyl since he came to our school, after his family had moved to the north, from the south. He struggled a bit to fit in, a southern softie in a northern school; and I felt a bit sorry for him so took the time to talk to him and hang around with him.
He lived with his older sister, and his mum. His dad was ex military, and now lived with another woman. They didn't talk much. His sister was a bit of a free spirit. She reminded me of a hippy and was always flouncing around the house in a state of semi-undress, smoking weed and screwing her boyfriend in her room while mum was out working. She was a hell of a flirt, and I admit I soon developed my first crush on her.
We became best mates. When his mum died suddenly, just as school ended and careers beckoned, my family took care of him for a while, he practically lived at our house and our bond was cemented forever. We were brothers.
After a short while, he decided to follow in his Dads footsteps and join the army, which became his new family.
We kept in touch. He found love and when they married I was his best man. Sadly it didn't last - his wife not able to stay faithful, while he was away serving Queen and Country. He had a daughter by then though, who he rarely saw due to his service, but also through his bitter and vindictive ex making life difficult.
Sadly, I also lost touch with Dyl for a while too - largely thanks to tours of Iraq and Afghanistan amongst others.
Diane had met Dylan only a handful of times before, in our early years as a couple, when he would visit so we could go out and get leathered, chatting shit. He stayed at ours. Pissed. Then left the next day. This happened a couple of times. I can't really say that they spoke much, but that wasn't because they didn't get on, just that he arrived, we went out, we came back pissed, slept and then he left. No time for her to really get to know him, but she was acutely aware that I considered this man a brother. That I would do anything for him, and he for me.
It had been some years since I had heard from Dyl when the advent and explosion of social media created new and multiple opportunities to keep in touch. We sought each other out, connected, and spent a few long hours catching up by DM.
I met up with him again in person though around 10 years after his last visit for a drinking session. By now he had done his 25 years service and demobbed and was working as a carpenter, or a handy man, having retrained.
He lived on the east coast, and it turned out I was staying in a hotel overnight only a few miles away for work. We met up, went for a curry, got pissed again. It was great to see him, but he was a different man to the happy, cheeky chappie I grew up with. The scars of war, the emotional and mental trauma of those campaigns, of near death experiences leaving physical scars also; and the continued absence of his daughter, and no loving partner in his life, clearly leaving him somehow hollow.
It was heartbreaking to see, and I urged him to come visit us. So I could put him under my wing once more.
He never did. I think I knew why. He considered himself a burden, and ex military guys do not like considering themselves a burden.
He eventually moved back north. Living only 30 miles or so from me. Promises of visits and meeting up for a beer never materialised. To be fair I had my own family and demands too by then, often being away all weekend engaged in watching my son play his chosen sport.
Then one day, out of the blue, I got a text.
"Working down the road from you today. Got time for a brew if I call in?"
"Fuck yeah. That would be ace mate. What time?"
"Be bout 3."
"Sound see you then". (I don't do the C U shit...an age thing.)
True to his word, the door bell rang precisely at 3pm. Thats the military for you.
I hugged the shit out of him on the doorstep. Then smiled at him ruefully.
"What the fuck kept you. Its great to see you. Come in."
He'd grown a beard, all salt and pepper and bushy. His cheeks and brow wrinkled and weathered from outdoor working, his hands rough from working with wood and tools. He was still lean, not an ounce of fat on his sorry arse and he had regained some of his old self, his cheeky cockney swagger. Or so it appeared.
Diane was home, she came and said hello, embracing him and kissing his bearded cheek, then left us to talk.
The longer we talked, the more it was clear that his outward persona was a bluff. He admitted he had no one in his life, and hadn't for a long time. Women came and went, but never stuck around. They couldn't deal with his depression, his moods - the affects of his past life. The continued pain of having a now grown daughter who would not see him, thanks to her poisonous mother, also weighed heavy on his heart. He was so clearly and painfully lonely.
Longer story short, he left promising to be in touch more often, and offering us his services at mates rates when we needed any jobs doing round the house.
THE MOVE
We had decided to move house. We were at an age now where the kids had both got homes of their own and the house was too big for us. Downsizing was in order.
We had also both reduced our hours at work, to give us more time for ourselves and I at least hoped it might give us a fresh start, to help us re-connect. We had not been intimate for a long, long time now - though I still kept telling her how fucking hot she was. I still dropped hints and innuendo when I could, and still whispered my fantasises to myself, muttering about her riding a big fat cock of a stranger, as I stroked my own meagre cock beside her in bed, while she pretended to sleep. I know she heard me. I know she listened to me cum many times with murmurs of her being pleasured by other men.
We bought a fix-me-upper. Something dirt cheap because it needed gutting; figuring we could devote more time to it as we worked less, and could also ask Dyl to do some of the work. Perhaps keeping him occupied would help with his demons as well?
It would be at least a couple of months work, full on, possibly more - with Dyl doing the lions share when we had to work, and us helping on our days off. Because of this I suggested Dyl should stay with us, as it would be easier than travelling 60 miles everyday and we could work as long as we could. Diane was ok with this, and so was Dyl, especially because he would be getting paid, as well as board and lodgings, saving him money too.
Dyl brought his gear with him on a Saturday morning, and took up a spare room - one that had been renovated in advance.
It was a much smaller house than our other one, and with three adults in it, it meant that there were some awkward moments, especially when it came to bathroom arrangements. There was only one bathroom, and one shower, meaning we all had to take turns. It became a common site to see one of us exiting the bathroom with a towel, or robe in Dianes case, wrapped around us.
Dyl's torso was toned, he still had a six pack and defined muscular arms and pecks from his service and his manual labours and I caught Diane admiring his physique on more than one occasion. She would be self conscious at first, blushing, and trying to look away, but the more often it happened (most days) the more relaxed about seeing him semi-naked she became, to the point that one day as he passed her on the hall, swapping over with him for use of the shower, she stopped and gently touched a scar on his breast; it was long and thin. She ran her fingers over it softly as I watched from our bedroom, the door wide open.
"What's this from Dyl?" She asked.
His head bowed both in a sign of having to relive a painful memory, but also to stare intently at her finger nails softly tracing the scar. She continued running back and fourth feeling the raised ridge of healed skin.
"Its a knife wound. I was stabbed fighting an insurgent in hand to hand combat."
"Oh my god, how awful...what...I mean your alive so I assume you, erm what happened, how did you survive?"
"I killed him." Was Dyl's flat response. "It was him or me. Thankfully it was me. It was war."