The ice cubes played a quiet melody as they bumped against the Waterford crystal glass when I handed her the Jack Daniels. I sat down on the opposite couch and took a sip of my own drink.
We were supposed to go to the country club in a few minutes to have dinner with Bob and JoAnn Bailey. I looked at my wife Annie and thought, "She is absolutely stunning when she dresses like this."
The royal-blue satin dress that was tight across her five-foot eight-inch body fully accentuated her slim hips, flat stomach, and full breasts. The material stopped just above her breasts; her complexion was perfect—there was not even a miniscule freckle to mar her naked chest, shoulders and face. She had blond coiffured hair, a pixie nose and startling blue eyes. She had used a minimum of makeup creating the sexy illusion of high cheekbones. The light accent lipstick finished the picture of a beautiful woman. I knew if I came close to her I would smell a slight, but very feminine scent that would drive one crazy with lust and love.
She took a sip and turned to the side to put her glass down on the cocktail table. The slit of her dress opened and I had a peek at her slender calf and just the beginning of a well-formed lower thigh that I knew extended to a carefully trimmed pussy necessary for when she wore a bikini, and a tight, extremely sexy ass.
No body is perfect, but in the eight months we had been married, I had yet to discover a physical defect. When we walked into a dance or a party, ninety-nine percent of the lusting males could not find a defect either.
The silence that at first was comfortable lasted too long. Annie looked at me and tilted her head in that cute way that many others and I thought was a sincere look of concern. Usually the look would generate an immediate verbal response to her unspoken question—she looks and you talk.
I ignored the look and took another sip of liquor. It tasted good.
Annie lost the short-timed conflict and asked, "What?"
It was time for another sip.
Annie was now uncomfortable. She knew something was not quite right.
With a hint of whiney irritation in her voice she asked, "Jim, is something wrong?"
I placed my glass carefully on the table, looked into those blue eyes and quietly said, "You cheated on me."
The jolt of that accusation struck her like a physical slap. Her face blushed and one hand nervously touched her lips. It was several seconds as she framed her reply.
"Jim, that's ridiculous. Why would you say such a thing?"
It started a week ago at the country club. I sat in the bathroom stall not so much that I needed to use it, but more to escape the booze and the noise of the party for a few brief moments before emerging for round two. Annie liked parties and so I was there with Annie at the club party.
I heard the door open and two men entered the bathroom talking loudly. They were mildly drunk and I ignored them as they pissed into the urinal until one slurred, "Well Bill finally fucked Annie. I thought it would take a lot longer, but that son-of-a-bitch is really smooth."
"Annie?"
They continued their drunken, bathroom conversation of the event. As they talked it became crystal clear; it was my Annie!
I was stunned and then like an incoming meteor, my anger became a red-hot streak of hate. I silently screamed, "How could she?"
I sat thinking. I knew she wouldn't miss me; no, Annie would be working the room, kissing her friends and getting some cocks hard as she, apparently not on purpose, would show some leg or breast that her clothes had not intended. I had seen the tease before; she was very good at it.
As I already mentioned, we married eight months ago. The flippant phrase is that "It's just as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor one"; and if the rich woman is stunningly beautiful, so much the better.
There is another saying, "Be careful what you wish for, you might get it."
I reflected. The pros were obvious. She was physically beautiful. She was rich; I was a manager in her father's company and the country club was a company membership. Every place we went beautiful and powerful people surrounded us. What more could one ask for?
For eight months I had successfully ignored the cons. Our sex life was a disappointment. The few times we had fucked prior to the wedding there was something missing; it was the missionary position, some hard breathing, and a gasp that she was coming with the traditional physical moves. At the time I thought, "Is that all there is?"
My sex life prior to meeting Annie was highly active; I've tried most things and enjoyed all of them. With misplaced confidence I knew I could really help Annie enjoy sex after we were married. A long story; I was wrong. She was comfortable with being on a pedestal before we met. I made that pedestal higher as I pursued her. So she became the boss--it was to be sex her way and only when she wanted it.
When Annie's father offered me a bigger position to join his company, I knew it was a short cut to pursue my career. However, as good as I was and as hard as I worked, the joke was always that the employees had to treat me like any other person who had married the owner's only daughter.
Finally, the social life that Annie craved—the parties, the power people—was foreign to me. I was Annie's husband, not Jim who married Annie. They were always nice to me; usually it was a friendly hello and then a quick turn to welcome Annie to exchange the latest rumors and gossip. I remember once she was six feet away from me in a circle of friends and I heard a finger click. It was Annie; she needed another drink.
I sat in the stall for twenty more minutes thinking about the world that I had created for myself. My wish had come true and it was a disaster. But there was also anger—intense at first and then the flame went lower. I realized that to be done correctly, my revenge would take careful preparation.
And now it was one week later. Beautiful, "perfect" Annie sat there hoping for some hint that she could escape this embarrassing confrontation.
I picked up my drink for another sip. After swallowing I asked Annie, "Was Bill good?"
Annie ignored my question and said, "We can talk about this silly thing later; we are late for our dinner with Bob and JoAnn."
"Fuck Bob and JoAnn."
In fact, I had called Bob an hour earlier and canceled the dinner. I told him that it felt like the beginning of the flu; I didn't want to spread it around and already felt lousy. We decided to reset the dinner date when I felt better.
Feigning curiosity I asked, "Bill is very good looking. Does he fuck as good as he looks?"
Annie searched for an answer, looking for some story to escape her predicament. My hostility had caught her by surprise. Before meeting her, "fuck" was probably every fourth word I said—the poor have a limited vocabulary. Since meeting Annie, I had never said the word within her hearing.
She stuttered, "You…you don't understand. You were on your business trip and I went to the club party. I drank too much and Bill offered to drive me home. It was innocent until I woke up at his house, on his couch. He raped me; I had no choice."
"Raped you?" I replied, "What a horrible experience. Was it better or worse than when we fuck?"
She remained silent; her eyes avoided looking at me.
"Was this just a conquest for you, or did you really think you might love that asshole? Or maybe," I continued sarcastically, "you were seeking a meaningful overnight relationship."
Her face blushed with embarrassment and then white with the extreme stress of the situation. She was caught; there was no room for evasion, no place to hide.
I took another sip of my drink and said, "No problem Annie. I'm going to make it very easy for you. On Monday my lawyer will call and give you his name and phone number. When you have hired your lawyer, give him mine and let them work it out. We have no kids. The house will sell at about what we paid for it. Your dad will get you an apartment. And my resignation will be on his desk.
"So there is no problem. Your life will go on, but not with me."
Annie wasn't dumb but I had caused an overload in her emotional control. She stammered, "But what will people think if we get divorced?"
Why did that upset me? Yet it did. I spit out, "I'm telling you we are getting a divorce and that our marriage is a farce and you worry about what people will think? Fuck them! Fuck you! When we are through talking, I'll be gone. The car is packed; my plans are made."
For Annie, everything snapped. Her life, or what she thought of her life, was going to be ruined. Her reputation and her marriage were going to be destroyed. She was going to be the country club joke of the week. The tears started. She looked at me and asked, "Forgive me?"
"No."
"I will do anything to make you forgive me."
In the week leading up to this confrontation I had considered what Annie might say. I thought there was a good chance she would say, "Just go." I also thought there was a possibility she might beg to make things right…revenge can be sweet.
I asked, "Do you really mean that Annie?"