1. Taking Chances


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

    a little money, but not as much as I should have because of the economy, traveled, had a few short affairs without feeling I was cheating, now that she was gone.” “A few affairs,” Catherine repeated, hesitating. She wondered what it must be like to be free and have other relationships, suddenly remembering how she had been thinking about what it would be like to have the kind of excitement she read about in her romance novels and how she felt when Gloria and Valerie told her about the men they were dating. Not to mention how freely they talked about their sex lives, even describing how so and so made them scream. “Did you cheat when you were married?” She finally asked, surprised at her own boldness. Tom smiled, nodding, “Yes, and I suspect she did too. I mean, we went years without fucking each other.” Stunned by Tom’s bluntness and the use of that word, one she never uttered, although Gloria and Valerie did, she nodded and felt a twinge of excitement. “I suspect you’ve never cheated, but have you ever thought about it?” Tom asked, looking into Catherine’s eyes. Fortunately, the two glasses of Chablis were placed in front of each of them, giving Catherine the chance to think how to answer Tom’s question. She glanced up at the waiter, a young man with a thin mustache and a small goatee. She then looked back at Tom when he thanked the waiter. He turned back to Catherine, their gazes meeting, a slight smile on his lips. “So have you?” he asked, seeing her hesitance. “I don’t ...
    know.” “Yes, you do, but you're embarrassed to admit it.” Catherine was again stunned by his bluntness. She looked at her glass of wine, placed her fingers around the stem, thinking about his statement, but also wanting to propose a toast. She was delighted when Tom picked up his glass, raising it to hers and smiling. “To Autumn, season of misty fruitfulness and blossoming friendship.” When their glasses clicked, he added, “That’s part of a line from Keats.” “I’ll drink to that,” she said, clicking his glass before taking a sip. She noticed that when Tom took a sip, he looked into her eyes over the rim of his glass, causing a tingle to rise in her, the same feeling she’d had in the park when she first looked at him. At the same time, her breathing stopped, catching in her throat, and she wondered what was happening to her. “You haven’t answered my question,” Tom said, putting down his glass. “Oh, right, your question about cheating. Am I too embarrassed to admit it?” Catherine took another sip of wine, not sure what to say, and could feel Tom waiting for her answer. “Yes, tell me, I want to know.” He smiled slightly. “I would never want to hurt Martin,” Catherine answered. “So you admit you have thought about cheating, but you wouldn’t want to hurt Martin, is that it?” “Yes, but only in passing, a fantasy sometimes, but nothing serious, nothing I would ever act on. But sometimes I wonder what it would be like to kiss and be held by another man.” “Well, that’s honest. I can’t ...
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