He wasn’t stupid. Dad was a fit guy with a dominant personality, and Mom was an incredibly beautiful woman who always put the men in her life first. He would bet everything he owned that they had a very healthy sex life. Lord knows that he wouldn’t be able to keep his hands off Mom if he was in Dad’s shoes.
Still, it caught him by surprise to hear Mom say something so vulgar. She was always so reserved! And she never failed to scold him whenever he cursed! Now, she looked him dead in the eyes, didn’t flinch, and joked about Stacy giving Dad oral sex? It was almost too much for him to handle.
Unless she really wasn’t joking.
“Stacy gave Dad a blowjob?” he asked, eyebrows raised. He still didn’t understand how she’d yet to crack.
She nodded while her blue eyes remained locked on his skeptical face.
It would be quite the understatement to call him leery. “And you know this…how?”
“Because Dad told me. He felt guilty.”
“Okay, let me get this straight,” he said, taking a deep breath. “Stacy gave Dad a blowjob, Dad told you about it because he felt guilty, and then you decided to come tell me about it. Do I have this right?”
She nodded again.
He stared at his mother, deadpanned. “You understand how ridiculous this all sounds, don’t you?”
She couldn’t fault him for being doubtful. “I know, it has to sound insane, but I’m telling you the truth. I’m honestly not joking.”
“Let’s assume that this really is true,” he said, allowing himself to momentarily embrace the bizarre reality where his dad and sister were in some kind of sexual relationship. “What does any of this have to do with me?
She took a moment to collect herself. It wasn’t easy to express how she felt verbally, but such a feat was required if she planned to answer his question. She’d never struggled to converse with him before. It shouldn’t be any trouble to admit her true feelings.
But it was.
She was stuck in a bit of a pickle at the moment. Her motherly side told her to seek comfort in her favorite child. It begged her to snuggle into the arms of the man she revered more than anyone in the world. Her baby would always be there for her–through thick and thin–and she knew that she wouldn’t need to beg for his attention. He would be more than happy to soothe her hectic emotions.
But she hasn’t stirred him from his sleep with the intention to behave like a mother, because underneath her shell that showed her as a mom, a wife, and a homemaker, was her real self.
She knew better than to complain. How many women would kill for her life? Heck, how many wives would trade husbands with her in a heartbeat? She knew that she was lucky, but she couldn’t lie to herself when it came to how she truly felt.
Her sex life had become rather stale over the past few years, and the college hunks who constantly smiled and flirted with her at the gym didn’t help matters either. Was it really so wrong to crave something different? Twenty-two years with the same man had made things quite bland, but she wasn’t a cheater. She’d also never considered breaking her vows.
Until a few minutes ago, that is.
Peter’s infidelity changed everything. Suddenly, she saw an opportunity to think about herself for a change. All of her fantasies involving messing around with a young hunk from the gym could now be realized, because why should her husband be the only one who got to experience something new? It wouldn’t be right for everyone else to have all the fun.
Maybe she didn’t want to be meek all the time? Why was it wrong to be a little bad? Besides, it wasn’t like she would actually bang one of those twenty-one-year-old studs who were always lifting weights when she went to the gym. Those guys were better left as fantasy-fodder anyway, because she had her own heartthrob to seduce.
Handsome, muscular, and oh-so loving: Nick was so much more than some arrogant jock who only viewed her as a piece of ass. Honestly, she didn’t even know if her son found her attractive. She liked to think that he did, but she couldn’t be certain. It was part of the risk involving her decision to act like anything other than herself.
So many problems could arise from his rejection. She would be crushed to learn that her son didn’t see her as beautiful, depressed to be turned down by the only man who she would ever treat in such a fashion, and demoralized by the knowledge that Peter and Stacy shared something that she didn’t personally have with the love of her life. Why couldn’t she have a special connection too? She loved Nick just as much as Peter loved Stacy, after all!
She decided to take a chance. “We went on a date today as well.”