This is a work of fiction and all the characters contained in it are over the age of 18.
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"Yes, yes, yes! Oh give it to me big boy!" I cried, doing my best to convince my husband that I was on the verge of a climax. I squeezed my inner muscles to add conviction, while looking over his heaving shoulder to check my watch. With a gasp and a grunt, he thrust a few more times and collapsed on top of me.
Rolling off a few moments later, he smiled at me. "That was wonderful as usual dear." He then kissed me chastely, rolled over and was soon snoring. From experience, I knew he would be out for the rest of the night, and from the volume of his snores, I also knew that I would be sleeping in the spare room again.
Don't get me wrong, I love my husband, it's just that he is something of a one trick pony; a quick finger fumble as foreplay, then climb aboard for a five minute pounding. I didn't get anything out of it, but thankfully it never lasted long. I had wanted so much more from sex, the something I read about in the romance novels I devoured.
It wasn't as if I hadn't tried, I had bought porn films, lingerie, sex toys, even got a friend to take some risquΓ© photos of me. Nothing. Well, other than looks that made me feel like a pervert, and I sadly confined everything to the closet including my sexual desires.
I had had a couple of boyfriends before I met Harry, both of whom were okay in bed, but both somewhat selfish, and relationship wise; bigger tools than their appendages. They were each happy enough for me to service them in front of 'Match Of The Day' while they continued drinking their beer, but romance? Forget it!
Harry was sweet caring and good husband material. He was romantic, and devoted; but alarm bells should have gone off when he insisted we saved ourselves for marriage. (I didn't disabuse him of the notion I was a virgin, I figured that if he was, he wouldn't know any different, and I wasn't exactly experienced anyhow.)
Sliding out from between the sheets, I knew my favourite program would begin in half an hour, so after a quick shower, and grabbing a nightie, I went through to the living room, wide awake and frustrated.
Turning the TV on, I frowned at the thumping bass coming up through the floor. It sounded like our neighbours were having another party. It never bothered Harry, who could sleep through an earthquake, but I was always a light sleeper and knew that this would go on until the early hours.
Sighing I watched my program, hoping to doze off through it, but the thudding beat was still prodding my nerves. I opened the French doors to the balcony to get some fresh air and the noise grew louder; I could hear the forced laughter of people determined to have fun amid the clinking of glasses. I sighed again. I am not a party pooper, I didn't begrudge them, if anything I envied them, at least they had a life!
"I doubt we'll be getting much sleep tonight." The voice was almost in my ear, and seductively sexy. I twirled round and almost missed the shadowed figure on the next balcony.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you. Joe." He stretched his hand across the gap as he introduced himself.
"Ali." I reached out to his firm grasp and smiled, "I haven't seen you around? I didn't realise John and Trish had moved out."
"They haven't. They're away for a few months, I'm house-sitting." He was still holding my hand.
"I can't believe I have been here for a week already and didn't know I was living next door to such a beauty."
"Does that ever work?"
"It's true!" He smiled ruefully and released my hand.
I released the breath that I hadn't realised I was holding. The cloud which had been covering the moon moved, and I was treated to my first clear view of him. The guy was a stud! In a loose linen shirt and linen pants it was clear to see he was well put together, his hair, a little long, dropped a lick into his smoky eyes.
He brushed it back absentmindedly, in a way that told me it was habit. His smile reached his eyes as he leaned onto the rail, closing the distance between us. "I came out here to pray for an angel, then saw you and realised I didn't need to."
"Your patter could really use some work," I teased, even as my body was magnetically drawn to drape my balcony railing, closing the distance even more.
"Perhaps you could give me some pointers over a drink?" He raised a questing brow.
"I'm not sure my husband would approve."
"Ahh, a husband. I knew you were too good to be true. But he really should know better than to allow his beautiful wife stroll out alone onto such a romantic setting, dressed so..." He breathed the last word huskily as if I was truly affecting him. "...Seductively."