Author's Note: So this is a little experiment with style and also a new fetish, I may return to this one at a later date.
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"You burning the midnight oil again, boss?"
I looked up from the computer screen, taking a few seconds for my eyes to refocus on the bright pink face of Jessie. She smiled at me as I sighed and leant back in the office chair. "Looks like it, Jess." I said as I stared at the document open on my screen, a speech for my Husbands event tomorrow. "I just need to nail this speech."
Jessy, in the green and black uniform of our staffers, came around my cubicle and looked over my shoulder. Her lips moving silently as she read the changes I had made that stood out a bright red on the screen.
"Seems great to me, boss." She said loyally, "but I'm not half the writer you are. That's why I just book the venues."
"You do far more than that!" I replied, which was true. Jessie had gone from being a bright eyed journalism student who was volunteering to help out a candidate she truly believed in, and had become my right hand woman. Pulling my ass out of the fire so many times I had lost count. I already knew I was going to offer her a job when the campaign was over, win or lose.
Pulling on her coat she shrugged, looking embarrassed at my praise. "Well just don't stay up too late boss." She said as she headed for the elevator. "Don't want to wear yourself out."
Waving to her as the lift doors closed I rubbed my eyes. All around me was green and black stickers, flags, posters and even a stuffed dog. We had gone all out for this campaign. My husband, Marcus Mckellar, was running for Senator for the state. It seemed like decades ago that he told me he was going to run and asked me to come on and run the whole show.
At the time I had thought it would be a easy little deal, spend a month or two standing around at events and looking every bit the perfect housewife the voters of the state wanted. Then they would vote and it would be done. Instead it had turned into what like an endless slog of town halls, dinners, meet & greets and Q&A after Q&A.
Yet we had got through it and now we were on the cusp of actually winning this thing. We had the old fuck on the other side on the run and the exit polls all seemed to state that the writing was on the wall. Soon it would be Senator Mckellar fighting for this state. All I needed to do was get this fucking speech right!
A email notification popped up in the corner of my screen. Coming not from my work email but my personal email that I had open in the background. I frowned as I leant forward and pulled up the email. I hadn't expected any emails and certainly not from my personal account right now.
The email loaded up, an automatic slide show of image loading with it. As soon as the first image appeared my heart turned to ice.
The picture was of my husband, his broad shoulders and strong facial features unmistakable. No sane human could say it was anyone other than him and I was looking at a picture of him with his lips wrapped around another man's cock.
I quickly shut down my pc, making sure to wipe the cookies and every other trace of info I could think off from it before I did. Standing up on shaky legs I pulled on my jacket. I was the only one left in the Campaign office at this time of night. Green and black "Vote Mckellar!" banners and stickers covered the place as I bolted for the elevator.
Driving home I had to struggle to stay under the speed limit. My heart pounding in my chest the whole way, drowning out my rushing thoughts. By the time I pulled up into the driveway and climbed out of the car I was shaking like a leaf. The world seemed to be spinning, making it hard to walk.
Yet when I pushed open the front door and saw my family. My pretty little daughter Anna and perfect son Matt, sitting on the bottom step of the stairs. Both in their pyjamas and both fast asleep, their small bodies slumped against each other on the steps. For one tiny moment I managed to regain some control.
I looked up as Marcus came out of the living room, "They wanted to stay up." He said quietly, gesturing to our children as he hugged me. "We best get them to bed then."
So we each picked one of our children and tucked them into their beds. All the while my mind racing as the blurry image from the email floated large in my mind. By the time we found ourselves in the kitchen, my cold dinner placed in the microwave whilst my husband talked about the day's event, I was already starting to feel the panic come back.
We sat down across from each other at the dinner table, Marcus had obviously figured out that something was wrong. His inane chatter having dropped off to silence as he watched me from across the table.
"Is something wrong?" He asked, the picture of innocent concern.
Putting down my fork I pulled my tablet from my bag. Pulling up the email and the pictures I set them to loop as a slideshow. I nearly threw it across the table, watching as he picked it up and looked at the pictures. His eyes going wide as he suddenly understood what they were. He flicked back and forth through the pictures his eyes going wide and his mouth silently forming a variety of swears.
Eventually he put it down and looked at me. "So they want to blackmail me?"
It's at this point that I should stop and take a step back because this isn't the story you are most likely thinking it is. You are thinking this is the tale of a good little christian girl who finds out her husband is one of those deviant homosexuals and has to decided if she should protect him or not, right?
Well sadly it isn't that straightforward. You see I have known about Marcus's orientation pretty much from the day we met. When we met at university it was because his then boyfriend introduced us. We became fast friends and it wasn't until we were about to graduate that he revealed to me that he had been telling his family back home that he was dating me. We came from the same town, a place that might as well have been on another planet when it comes to its views on homosexuality.
So we made a deal, I would be his beard, I would cover for him and marry him and keep the charade up until his dad died and he gained control of his company. The fact that I did love him, if only as a dear and near friend, made the choice a little easier. Four years of one night stands and guys who thought date rape where just four letter words had left me with no real urge to find a man anyway.
So we had came back and eventually got married becoming yet another happy upper class couple in a town full of them. I know what your next question will be, if Marcus is gay then how do we have two children? Well I can tell you that Marcus is the father of both of them. Granted the conception required the assistance of one of Marcus's "City Friends" who was kind enough to use his cock as a prostate massager whilst Marcus closed his eyes and thought of England. Let me tell ya, nothing makes a girl feel more special that the man with his cock inside her trying not to dry heave.
We had been happy though, like I said I do love Marcus and he is a better father than most men could ever hope to be. Filled with a drive to avoid the mistakes his own father made I'm sure. In publi we would kiss and hug and hold hands like everyone expected, I would listen to the inane sex talk of the trophy wives that infested the town like alice. Throwing in the odd bit lie lifted from the pages of some shitty sex advice column and everyone got to stay in there little safe bubble. His job would often send him on trips to the city and during those he would visit his "City Friends" to take care of his needs.
For my part I never really had much interest in sex after university, as I said you can only be plied with drink and promises of eternal love so many times before you lose the taste for it. So I had been happy to pour my efforts into our children and my work.
However as the years have gone by I have found my eye beginning to wander, the thought of sex starting to gain some of its old alure. It is still nothing more than my fingers and the shower head right now but I know that that won't do forever.
When Marcus had gotten a taste for politics and set his sights on holding office we had had to change the way things went. Like I said, this State is about as unfriendly to the gays as it can get without actually making them illegal. The risk of being revealed was a very real one and so the visits to the city friends stopped. A hard drive of gay porn(downloaded from another computer in another state) had replaced the visits to the "City Friends".