Sweaty and spent, David pulled out of me and fell on his back, and I rolled out of Sue and collapsed between them. It was quiet for a moment as our breathing relaxed and our heart rates settled into the safety zone. It was a lovely ride down.
Then David reached across me and held out his hand to Sue, and she took it, squeezed it, and tugged on it, urging him towards her. Gently, he made his way over me, and the two of them faced each other and began to hug and sweetly kiss.
It was definitely time to make my exit.
I was still fully dressed, just needed to wrestle off the snap-on and find my purse. I finally found it beneath the foot of the bed next to Sue's dress and lingerie. Don't ask me why I did it; I took her panties.
David and Sue were cooing and laughing, planning their weekend with the kids and grand-kids, oblivious to my presence, so I stood at the end of the bed and watched them for a few moments. He caressed her, kissed her, told her he loved her, and how much he had missed having her in his arms.
"I'm sorry I haven't been there for you, David," she said, "but things are going to be different after tonight - I promise you that."
It was a powerfully tender re-connection, and I couldn't help remarking about it.
"You are very lucky, Sue, to have such a romantic and devoted husband. I'm the one who is jealous."
Then I turned and proceeded into the bathroom and spent some time in there showering off and putting myself back together. Obviously, I wouldn't be staying for dinner. The merry menage-a-trois had sparked something in Sue that had brought her and David closer together, and naturally that had widened the gulf between he and I.
I figured I could make my escape undetected, as the reunited lovebirds were most likely in the throes of the act itself, and I'd be able to sneak by. But when I emerged from the bathroom 20 minutes later, David was dressed and sitting on the edge of the bed with a beer in his hand. Sue was dressed as well, standing at the bedroom door, probably anxious for me to leave.
"It was very nice meeting you, Sue," I said, with a gentle grin and a nod, "and I wish you both the best of luck."
It sounded final because it WAS final. But when I attempted to get past her, she grabbed my arm.
"Wait," she said, "You can't leave yet. What about dinner and . . ." Then she cupped her hand to my ear and whispered the last two words.
Round two? I was still basking in the wake of round one! I hesitated as I tried to come up with the right answer. Dinner alone in Lunenburg? Or one more tug and tussle with David's blue steel, and a plate full of liver and onions? Obviously, I chose the latter. After all, I had Sue's permission, and I hadn't had liver and onions in ages.
David read my mind. He smiled and rose from the bed, took my purse from me, and set it and his beer on the dresser. Sue kissed him on the cheek as she walked past him and took a seat in the comfy corner chair. She fiddled with her phone for a minute and soft music began to float through the room. I waited for one of them to make the first move, and after a nod from his wife, David reached for my hand and raised it to his lips.
"Sue wants me to make love to you," he said, through a broad white smile.
And right then, I knew this thing could go sideways.
I looked at Sue and she smiled and gave me a reassuring thumbs up, but what had felt so right just 30 seconds previous, all of a sudden felt so wrong. I mean a 3-way is a 3-way, and a fuck is just a fuck, but watching her husband make love to me? That might bring out the 'ol green-eyed monster in her, and very soon I could find myself on the other end of that hammer. She must have known that after 8 months of late-night pornographic pillow talk, David would be dying to demonstrate the details in the flesh. And while I most definitely wanted to be on the receiving end of his passion, the fact that this was Sue's idea made me wary.
"Wait, I've got a better idea," I said, stepping back and away from David, "Why don't I watch while you two make love? Remember David? I told you I might like to do that."
David knitted his brow, then looked at his wife for direction, and there was no longer any doubt in my mind that Sue was in charge of this shindig and had orchestrated this evening's entire production.
"No," said Sue, like a stern mother, "David has made love to me many times, and there will be many more. This is a singular opportunity for him to make love to another woman, and I want to watch him enjoy pleasuring THAT WOMAN."
Her stiff delivery gave me the distinct impression she didn't like me, but then again why would she?
I decided to lie about a scheduled call with my editor that I had forgotten, but before I could, David took my face in his strong hands and kissed me, then rested his forehead against mine.
"Don't be nervous, Candy," he said, smiling, then he wrapped his fingers around the back of my neck and his arm around my waist and danced me slowly side to side. He moved his mouth to my ear and whispered.
"I've been waiting for this for so long - didn't think it would happen under these circumstances, but we're going to pretend we're the only two people in this room . . . in this house . . . in this world."
He hummed a little to Sade's Smooth Operator as he nibbled my earlobe and we swayed. I put my arms around his neck and peered up at him.
"I'll try," I said, hoping I was worried about nothing.
"Let me make it easy for you," he said, with a grin, then moved his lips to my neck and sucked on it with enough intensity to leave a mark. My head rolled limply to the side, and I closed my eyes, then a bolt of lightning grounded out at the apex of my legs and my knees weakened. David slid his hands under the dress to cup my ample bottom and support me, then kneaded and squeezed, and the long fingers of his meaty man-hands worked their way lower, teasing my crack.