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Steven
was not sure what had changed in his wife but the fact was that she
was not the same woman he knew. She was suddenly too demanding in bed
and she never wanted any foreplay. At first, he didn’t really
mind but with time, it was getting old and by the end of the fourth
week, he just couldn’t do it anymore. He was tapped out,
literally. It was like she was trying to drain him and given the fact
that she was jumping his bones every chance she got, he needed at
least a day off sex.
“ I
never thought I would have such thoughts,” he
thought as he drove home on Thursday evening. “I
hope she understands though. It’s not like I don’t want
to make love to her but…” he
shook his head and then cursed silently. How was he supposed to
convince her if he didn’t even know whether he could convince
himself? When he finally got home, he took his time before getting
out of the car. He was trying to play out the conversation he would
have with Julie in his head but nothing was working out. He had no
idea how he was supposed to tell the woman he loved that she could
not have him every night. The minute he opened the front door, he
knew what lay in wait for him when he heard the sweet slow music
playing. From the front door, he could see that the living room was
dimly lit. Damn it, she was at it again. At the back of his mind, he
knew that any man who heard his thoughts would probably hit in the
face. He was a sane man getting upset about his hot wife being too
sexy with him.
“ Hey
baby,” Julie said when she saw him. She took off the long sexy
silk gown she had on revealing a sexy lacy number. He never intended
or expected to feel the effect of what she had on but he suddenly
felt his cock twitch. He loved that lingerie. It was one of the
sexiest lingerie she had.
“ Baby,
no….you know what that does to me,” he said as he looked
at the black lace lingerie she had on.
She
smiled and began walking towards him.
“ I
know,” she said when she got to where he was. “That’s
why I wore it,” she added as she raised her arms to secure them
around his neck. He closed his eyes as she began kissing his neck,
slowly working her way up. She knew all his weak points and she was
exploiting them well. He loved what she was doing to her but at the
back of his mind he still had the next day’s meeting in mind.
The meeting that was meant to take him to the next level. With this
in mind, he put his hands on her shoulders and pulled away from her.
“What? Do you want me to just get right to it?” she asked
as she cupped a feel of the bulge in his pants. He exhaled loudly and
closed his eyes again before he pulled away. She looked at him and
then brought her hand up to hold his waist. “What?” she
asked. He looked into her eyes and wondered how he was supposed to
say it.
“ I
love you but I don’t want to fuck you? I am just not feeling
that frisky today?” As he looked at her, he realized that there
was no good way of putting what he had in mind to words. And at this
point, Julie was getting increasingly uncomfortable.
“ What?
Did something happen at work today?” she asked as she looked at
him. He forced out a smile and shook his head. Actually, in all
honesty, something did happen at work that day. He actually dozed off
at work. But even then, he could not find the right words to say.
“Steven, you are making me nervous,” Julie said. Steven
took another long deep breath and took her hand in his before leading
her to the couch.
“ I
need to tell you something,” he said. As soon as those words
left his mouth, he realized his mistake. He closed his eyes and shook
his head. “I mean, we need to talk,” he said again.
She
was looking into his eyes, her heart beating fast and hard.
“ Babe…”
she said feeling as if the world as she knew it was going to end.
He
shook his head again.
“ No…it’s
nothing bad, it’s just that you…we….” His
words trailed off. He had no way of