1. Taking Chances


    Date: 9/22/2015, Categories: Mature, Author: Sisyphus, Rating: 13, Source: LushStories

    can feel you’re not being honest with yourself.” She withdrew her hands. “This is crazy. I just came here to have a cup of coffee with you, not a bottle of wine, and definitely not to be invited for a fling.” “What makes you think I want a fling?” “What else could it be? I’m married, happily married, and you’re single and probably horny. There, I said what I thought.” She was startled that she had said that. “I’m not interested in a fling. I follow my intuition and I see an intelligent, attractive, woman who has settled into a comfortable marriage, but there’s more to you. I saw it in the way you laughed in the park when we were playing with the leaves, and I said to myself, this is someone I could fall in love with. I’ve missed that. I had a terrible marriage, an empty marriage, and though I had a few flings, they didn’t do it for me. I don’t want a fling. I want more.” Catherine looked at Tom and saw how direct and blunt he was and liked that. “You sure say what you think.” “That’s right. I say what I think and feel. I haven’t stopped thinking about you all afternoon and couldn’t wait for us to meet again.” “Really, you really felt that?” Catherine was surprised that he was feeling so much, that he could fall in love with her that quickly. She was bewildered and confused, but his words were so sincere, so intense, and suddenly, his passion excited and aroused her. She felt herself blush, a warm rush of blood causing her heart to pound. She remembered how excited she felt ...
    in the office, how cheerful and energized, and remembered how Gloria asked, “what’s going on,” obviously noticing something was different. “Yes, really,” Tom repeated. “And if you’re being honest with yourself, you felt the same. You were excited too, and eager to meet me after work. Weren’t you?” Tom’s words and intensity took Catherine’s breath away, and she realized he was right. He was literally sweeping her off her feet, arousing feelings, even conjuring fantasies that came over her while reading her romance novels where she imagined a rendezvous in the forest, or being captured by a dashing pirate and ravished. Even at fifty-five, she knew she had the same feelings she’d had when she was a young woman and saw a good-looking man at the mall, or when she was in a restaurant with Martin, her eyes drifting, looking at another man, her imagination wandering, but quickly returning her focus to her husband as he sat across from her and erasing the thought of another man from her mind. “Yes, I admit I was excited. It was fun in the park and yes, I am attracted to you, though I am embarrassed to admit it.” “I understand. This is hard for me too. I don’t know what will happen with us, it could end up being a fling, but there’s only one way to find out.” “What’s that?” “Taking a chance,” he said. “What do you mean? “Following your heart, going after something you want, taking a chance. There’s no other way to live.” “You may be right Tom, but I can’t take a chance. I’d be betraying ...
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