Chapter 1
"So, that's it. It's over between us? You're dumping me?" I asked Angelica as we sat in the TGI Fridays together.
"Not ... as such? I mean ... let me put it this way ... our relationship isn't ... moving forward in the same way as mine with Shawn. It's just how it is, papi. Sorry, but them's the breaks. In a sense, sure, it's a break-up ... it will certainly look that way to the rest of the world. Whether or not it actually is one, though, a complete severing of our ... intimate bonds ... that's all up to you, dear," Angelica had the decency to at least be awkward and nervous about how she dropped the bomb on me.
"Well, when you say that 'we need to talk' and that 'we don't exactly have much of a future,' that kinda puts the nail in the coffin lid, doesn't it? Let's be frank here, put all of the cards on the table, okay? I want to know what the fuck is going on with you and what your actual thoughts and feelings are ... so we can see what, if any future, there can be.
"I'm not a mind-reader, like most men. Most of us can't speak female to save our lives. We speak plainly and forcefully to each other most of the time, after all. All of the so-called feminists can't change that fact. I can't be privy to your innermost emotions, your logic, etc. What do you mean that it's all up to me? I thought that what we had ... worked for us ... both of us.
"I mean, hell, why wouldn't it work for us? Love, sex, all that good stuff, without any of that nasty fidelity, cheating, etc. talk rearing its ugly head. Not exclusivity, sure, but permanence, and isn't permanence more important, dear? The best of both worlds. We're lovers, but we don't fret or sweat the small, petty stuff like boy-toys and side chicks. We both get strange booty and come back to each other's arms at the drop of a hat," I made my case as best I could for the status quo to continue well into the future.
"Because that's not a future, babe. Not for me. It's a present. It's definitely a past. But it's not a future that I can embrace wholeheartedly. You don't want to change or be changed. You like yourself as you are. That's cool. I respect that, believe it or not. Unfortunately, I want ... more. I want to be engaged, married, engagement ring, wedding band, etc. A big church wedding, too. I want to be able to bring a guy home to Mom and Dad and say, 'hey, this is my fiance,' you know.
"Things have changed. I have started to hit my biological clock. It's tougher on us girls, you know. We have a built-in expiration date, right? I need someone ... like Shawn. Someone with whom I can build a family, home, raise kids, etc. Relax, I'm not calling you immature. I know you too well for that, Damien. But still, even your name carries ... Satanic undertones, right?
"Shawn's more of the vanilla type, you know, a bit more old-school. The rom-com leading man. Handsome Irish Catholic type. Cary Grant. Jimmy Cagney. Jason Bateman. Steve Carell. You're very irreverent, probably indifferent to organized religion at most, if not hostile at times. You've already clashed a few times with my family. It's one thing to screw around and get naughty, but you delight in breaking society's rules, flouting their norms. Womanizing, sodomy, bondage, incest. Fucking your boss, namely me.
"Sure, that's me on one level, but it's not me all of the time. I need to be able to um, how do I put this? Compartmentalize. And hell, I'll be honest here ... I'm pregnant, okay? And there's a fairly good chance that it's his, not yours, because you like to stick it up my ass and he doesn't. Given the timing and the advantages, I just prefer to let our relationship ... kinda stay in place, assume that it's Shawn's baby, walk down the aisle with him.
"That way, I can have it both ways. I can have my ... rough, aggressive lover, a bi Dom-Top type who likes to use my culo ... and to spank me. That's you. And I can have my warm, fuzzy, funny, charming, sunburnt Irish Catholic hubby who prefers cowgirl-style and motorboating to doggy and anal. You're ... not a fuckboy, but a malcontent. A pirate. A maverick. A skeptic. A doubter. A rough and ready, lusty, primal satyr of a man. A country boy, right? He's a suburbanite," Angelica tried to sell things in a more palatable way, even if it oddly did hurt ... a lot.
"So, in a nutshell, I'm your backdoor man," I summarized it pretty well as I saw it.
I was mostly hurt that Angelica felt the need to prioritize one relationship over another, to rock the boat, to upset the existing balance, as it were. But looking at it from her point of view, it made some sense now that I thought of it. She was pregnant, she was Catholic, and she wasn't simply Latina. She came from a fairly respectable Tejana family in San Antonio, with more money than most for sure.
"If you agree to this deal, then yes, that's what you are. On the plus side, the backdoor is all yours, papi. All of it. Shawn wants no part of butt sex, try as I have to pique his interest. He'll lick it, but he won't fuck it. It turns his stomach to even contemplate it. I've flat-out used this as an excuse ... and he's agreed to it. Yes, my fairly conservative fiance has approved in advance the idea that you'll fill in the gap where he can't satisfy my needs.
"If you consent to this, the pussy is now off-limits to you for good. Permanently. Sorry, but that was his ... demand. His price. You get one hole, the culo. He gets another, the twat. So, yes, my love, you will be quite literally my backdoor man. If you don't take the deal, sorry, but both holes are denied you. That's the choice before you, papi. I hope that you'll make the right one.
"Strictly speaking, this ain't adultery, is it? Adultery is putting the dick in the cunt, you know. Right? I think that this is fair, that if he sacrifices something, so do you. You already get to screw Alexis, Daisy, and Caroline, who knows who else, right? That's not counting any boys. I have a sum total of two lovers. You and Shawn. It just works, you know.