Chapter One -- Moving In With Mom
Emily Carter fiddled with what she called her church nylons. She was sitting at her dressing table on a vanity makeup stool dressed in her Sunday best: a dark-blue pleated skirt and a polka-dotted white silk blouse. She had finished her makeup which was a little on the heavy side for church but she was the kind of woman who liked to present herself a little sassy.
Underneath her blouse, a white satin and lace brassiere cupped her perfectly proportioned perky breasts. The matching full-cut 'granny panties' were laid out on the bed.
Emily stood and lifted her skirt out of the way and put one foot on the stool and shimmied her red-painted toenails into the toe of the stocking and rolled the shiny tan pantyhose up to her knee and then the she did the same with the other foot. She stood upright and hitched the nylons up her thighs and smoothed the waistband around her stomach and firm buttocks. Emily had the beginnings of a little potbelly and her figure was more voluptuous than most of the skinny church ladies at the congregation.
She knew that they talked about her behind her back. They called her the Merry Widow despite the fact that she hadn't invited a man into her bed for quite some time but she did like to socialise. She was in a mid-week women's bowling league, she played golf on Saturdays, sometimes hosted ladies card nights after church and on Friday nights she went out to dinner, sometimes with a man but mostly without.
Despite having not bedded a man for a while, Emily's pubis was completely shaved. She stepped into her panties and pulled them up her legs and smoothed them around her crotch and bottom. She still got a thrill out of the feel of her satin undergarments sliding over her nylons. She wore her panties over her pantyhose for both the aesthetic and practicality. She slipped one foot into a white four-inch high heel and then the other foot into the matching shoe. She put on the blue blazer that matched her skirt and checked herself in the mirror and liked what she saw.
"You've still got it mom," Richard commented.
Emily jumped. She hadn't realised that her son was standing in the doorway to her bedroom leaning on the doorjamb. How long had he been there? What had he seen?
He had his hands in his pockets and Emily wasn't sure if it was an attempt to hide an erection or whether it was just her son's usual lackadaisical stance. Richard liked to slouch, recline or lean rather than stand up straight. His late father was always telling Richard to stand up straight when Richard was a boy. Richard looked a lot like Emily's long-dead husband when he was that age and the resemblance sent a shiver of guilt down her spine.
"How long have you been there Richard?" Emily said in an accusatory tone but Richard just smiled.
"You knock 'em dead at church mom. See ya later," Richard slunk away without answering her.
As well as being a slouch, Richard was a slinker, always sneaking up on people. Emily regretted that she had let him stay with her but she felt guilty. She didn't feel guilty that Richard's marriage had finally fallen apart. Like his father before him Richard was a womaniser although he was never violent to his wife, who Emily had to admit looked a little her when she was younger. But Richard had always been a mummy's boy, especially after his father had died.
Guilt washed over Emily and she recalled the night her husband had died...
*****
"Stop that Richard and go your room," Emily called from the kitchen of the large ranch house.
"I'm not doing anything," Richard lied and his face blushed with guilt as he put down the remote control to the TV.
Richard had been scrolling through the channels trying to find cartoons. He ran to his bedroom and Emily followed him, making a game of chasing him.
"Get into bed tiger," she pulled the sheets up over his Start Wars pyjamas and tickled him and then she kissed the top of his head.
"Take your medicine honey," Emily handed Richard the measuring cup filled with Benadryl and told herself for the hundredth time that she was not doing any harm.
Emily sat beside the bed and read Richard a story until he fell asleep. She listened to his Benadryl--assisted steady breathing for a little while and then kissed his sweaty brow. It was just as well that Richard was fast asleep because he was way too young to know what went on in the Carter house on Friday nights.
Underneath her innocent pink quilted housecoat Emily was wearing a black and red satin bustier which cinched her waist quite painfully when she bent one way or the other. The garters attached to the bustier where clipped to the gauzy welts of her tan fully-fashioned stockings. Her feet were unshod at the moment but a pair of black high-heeled fuck-me shoes were sitting on the floor of the master bedroom waiting for her.
She closed the door to Richard's room and retired to the master bedroom. Buddy Carter liked the term 'master bedroom' because, after all, he was the master of the house. Buddy had been raised to believe that women belonged in either of two places: the kitchen or the bedroom. Emily had married Buddy straight out of high school and had come to dearly regret it.
It wasn't that Buddy's toned quarterback body soon went to fat. It wasn't that Buddy drank too much most evenings. It wasn't the stench of the White Owl cigars that he loved so much. It wasn't that Buddy gambled away a lot of money with his poker buddies. It wasn't that Buddy wasn't a good provider. In fact the opposite was true. Buddy had inherited his father's two car dealerships along with the substantial dwelling in which they lived and he made a respectable living. It wasn't even that Emily was almost positive that Buddy was banging his eighteen-year-old secretary. Emily didn't mind that one little bit because it meant that Buddy didn't bring his libido home from work.
Except for Friday nights.
On Fridays Buddy didn't bang his secretary, he didn't stop at the bar for a drink or twenty and he didn't hook up with his poker buddies.
On Friday nights Buddy drank a flask of whisky and smoked a White Owl in the car on the way home thinking about all the unspeakable things he was about to do to his wife.
Emily actually didn't mind the indignity of what Buddy made her do and what he did to her. She had been raised in a house where her mother willingly did as she was told by her father and Emily was no different. In fact some of the things that Buddy did to her were quite pleasurable. It was the fact that she knew what they were doing was
dirty
. If it wasn't
dirty
then why did they never speak about it? Why did Buddy make Emily drug their son so he wouldn't hear what they were doing or walk in and see them doing these things? Why couldn't Emily tell the minister about it when she confessed her sins at church?