Work demanded my full attention. Days, then weeks slipped by. Life started to take on a semblance of normality. I started to look back on the first week of the New Year as the craziest in my life. I would look back on a calendar and mentally mark the days and events. Had all that really happened in single week? It genuinely had.
Work had kept me more than busy in the weeks since. Adjusting to the new role, negotiating the employment contract for a job I was already doing, securing protected research time and ensuring I had sufficient support staff to protect that protected time, all consumed my thoughts and energy. Not that I was not thinking about Dwayne. I definitely wanted to see him again. Technically, I saw him every day at work. He stopped in my office once a day, almost like clockwork. That he stopped in and said hello to nearly everyone on our floor made his visits appear perfectly normal. His day job was the perfect cover, and he was the pinnacle of discretion. He never gave the slightest hint that our eye contact at work was anything other than the friendly interaction that he offered many people. But I wanted to SEE him, see him. I thought about Dwayne all the time. I tried to channel that energy in constructive ways. I found myself adopting a regular gym routine. Finally getting those squats in that I had been meaning to for a long time. I was starting to see results from the structured workouts and feeling a bit proud of myself.
Along with my self-care kick, I made a point of dropping into a walk-in clinic and get an STI test done. It would be good to confirm that my misadventures with Greg were well and truly behind me. I never heard from him. Whether it was because he did not have my personal number anymore, thanks to his phone getting wiped, or he knew to stay away it did not matter. Once I got my test results back, scanned their results for a clean bill of health, noted a suggestion to get retested very six months, I closed the book on my thoughts of Greg once and for all.
Whatever rumors may have existed around the office regarding my previous relationship with Greg were stamped out with his firing and my ascension to his position. There was nothing to my interactions with Dwayne to give the gossip gals the least suspicion, either. The new rumors seemed to be swirling about Sammie. However, these rumors were not sexual. Rather this was about good old-fashioned professional jealousy. Sammie seemed to have an 'in' with the new boss. She was a frequent visitor to my office, and we worked together routinely. This was all entirely defensible, and she was a very good researcher in her own right. So, I would make no apologies for our close friendship and encouraged her not to either.
Home-life was getting back to normal as well, with just a couple of adjustments. I was working later more often and taking the occasional legitimate business dinner. Even so, I was home plenty and attending soccer games and participating in in the family routines. I only had to assure Tom once my late work evenings were strictly work related and promised I would keep him well informed if any evening absence was otherwise. Intimacy with Tom had reached a happy medium. The near daily sexual encounters during the intense first week of the New Year had trailed off, but not nearly to the point of the virtual sexual desert that was our marriage for the few years preceding it. It was nice. Healthy even. In fact, the dialogue spurred by my stumbling into the 'hotwife' lifestyle seemed to break down a final communication barrier in our marriage that I did not know existed. Tom would initiate casual discussions over a night out at dinner or while walking the dog together, talking about his sexual health and how he viewed his sexuality at his age. It was a fundamental shift from the years of him dropping disjointed hints, veiled in humor, that I was never sure how to interpret. The insights brought us closer together and made it easier to initiate intimacy on a regular basis. He even went so far as to explain that he preferred to be kept 'on edge', as he put it, rather than achieve a climax during each sexual encounter.
Tom felt that he could feel depleted, potentially for weeks at a time, after an orgasm during sex. Whereas he felt like a more engaged partner when we could have sexy time that ended naturally after I achieved a climax but left him 'on edge' and thus eager for our next encounter as soon as possible. This actually made sense to me when I took time to think about it. Tom was always a doting husband, but when he doted on me sexually tended to come and go in phases. If I allowed that those phases dissipated after he had an orgasm, I had to admit it was a good personal insight for him to have and I wanted to support that. I enjoyed seeing Tom sexually satisfied as much as he did me, but if cooperating with him on his preference to deny him an orgasm for a while at a time was fulfilling for him in the long term, I could intentionally get on-board.
This orgasm denial practice really seemed to work too. We could fool around in bed one evening and then have a passionate time in the shower the next morning. I had to admit it felt great and a little empowering to have a sexually engaged husband without the additional stimulation of the 'eroticized cheating' of early January.
On the other hand, I found myself thinking about Dwayne more and more. The more I thought of him the more a subtle anxiety began to creep in. Perhaps the casual manner in which Dwayne conducted himself on a day-to-day basis at work, was not evidence of his uncanny talent for keeping a secret, but instead evidence that he viewed what happened between us a one-time thing. I hoped that was not the case. I desperately wanted to be with him again. To feel the things I felt during our first and only time together. Such were my thoughts one evening driving home from a late business dinner. As I mulled over the wonderful experience of being with Dwayne a realization dawned on me. Dwayne had sent me a video. Just a few days after our encounter he texted the download link for the video we filmed in his room. I had downloaded it and saved it to a private locked folder on my phone were I had moved all my spicy videos and pictures. With it out of sight on my phone, it had swiftly fallen out of mind with the whirlwind pace at work. I had completely forgotten about it until now.
When I arrived home, I sat in my car for a moment and pulled up the video. It was immediately evident Dwayne had put effort into making a special video for me. My hands were shaking as the images brought back memories of the intense sensations. I tapped the progress bar, catching glimpses of moments, and noticing the mix of angles. There were the wide shots from his fancy camera on the tripod. There were also some very graphic closeups from the handheld camera he placed on the nightstand as the evening began, and periodically picked up during our intimacy. In the moment, I had barely noticed him recording us. I was too wrapped up the sensations in sensations of his body connecting with mine. I was getting thoroughly aroused when a text came through on my phone.
Text from Tom: "Are you home? I thought I heard the garage?"
I had lingered in the garage longer than was my habit. It was fine. I was pretty keyed up and Tom was awake. I had some energy to workout with him.
Within minutes, I was in my bedroom stripping off my clothes and telling Tom to ready himself. He was all for it. Soon we were naked in bed together, me straddling him.
"Anything happen tonight?" he inquired eagerly, seeking an explanation for the impromptu sexual encounter.
I was grinding my hips on Tom, enjoying the feeling of having a man inside me.
"No, just a business dinner," I confirmed. "Just turned on."
I felt Tom's erection stiffen some more inside my body.
"I like it when you're turned on," he breathed.
"I know baby. I like it when you're turned on too."
It was true. He had gone a couple of weeks without an orgasm, and he was being amorous with me quite a bit lately. He reached up and cupped my breasts. I hissed at a sudden discomfort.
"Be gentle," I cooed, pulling his hands away.
"Are you sure nothing happened tonight," he teased with a hopeful grin.