All Comments on 'It's Only Dinner'

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muskyboymuskyboy3 months ago

"this is an opportunity to get a couple of political jabs in on climate change movement at your expense." - this is the lamest payback I've ever heard of. This story was focused on politics more than being a good story.

vitochivitochi3 months ago

I really liked how you dug down into the emotional and self justification that took place PRIOR to the physical.

If he would have joined them and been bored out of his mind for a few hours, they would have still been married. ( unless she was hellbent on getting laid)

…and kids, this is why dates had chaperones back in the old days.

Tomh1966Tomh19663 months ago

Liked it a lot. Very well written.

Slight nit. Got a bit overly narrative. take this ONLY as constructive. I enjoyed the story.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Mark seemed to spend a whole lot of time being suspicious but continuing to go along with it all rather than acting on his suspicion despite the number of times Emily upped the ante in the run up to her tryst, which I found puzzling.

It was a good story over all but where it stumbled a little was with the disparity between her level of attraction to Damon and the level of distress when Mark kicked her to the kerb. If fucking Damon had become such an all consuming obsession (and let's face it, there was no way it was ever going to be a one and done experience) then surely Mark would have been no more than collateral damage for the realisation of her ultimate fantasy.

JR

Frank66Frank663 months ago

Good story line but too much talk going in circles. Tighten it up.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

The divorce is permanent. End of story.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Mark saw it coming and did nothing to stop her. He did not put his foot down or even lift a finger to slow their roll. It wasn’t like he trusted her and she let him down. He didn’t trust her from the get-go.

Hard to be sympathetic to that.

Also, the Mark had no evidence. You can’t go into court and say, “She cheated on me, I smelled it,” and expect success. If Damon had been smeared in the media, he would have denied and the court case would have hinged on non-existent evidence.

The most interesting part of the story was the confrontation between Mark and Damon. Why would Damon advocate for Emily so eloquently?

60022Mallard60022Mallard3 months ago

Climate scientists LOL.

If only nature would replicate their GIGO apocalyptic projections

You'll be really surprised I loved the stitching up of Washington.

WardenroboWardenrobo3 months ago

Excellent story five stars. I am not opposed to some reconciliation.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Always happy to see any climate activist idiot get creamed on any level. Not sure if that was your intent or it was just part of your story line, but those morons deserve as much pain as can be delivered. No surprise anyone who is stupid enough to believe the climate is crashing and the world is ending, is also stupid enough to think they can get away with fucking around/.

Schwanze1Schwanze13 months ago

What LW and gamblin said

Schwanze1Schwanze13 months ago

Funny how people form strong opinions about things without doing any research

CallmetrayCallmetray3 months ago

Well done. 5⭐️

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

All she had to do was wait until he was in India.

lAnatomistelAnatomiste3 months ago

I was going with average/3-stars, but the end-notes ruined it. The only thing missing was The Martian Slut Ray. 1-star

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

A man with a Big Game hunting background wouldn't have let Damon off so easily. Just not the personality a man like that would have. And please no follow up story with the slut going to Africa. Leave the man in peace or kill her and Damon off.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Mark saw the train wreck coming and warned the two idiots to change tracks. The idiots proceeded with their train wreck and were surprised to find a wrecked train. Stupid. Good for Mark. He played the honorable cleanup man and pushed the whole mess into the dump. Loved it.

Ed

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

It's easy to see that you don't know any actual professional hunters. None would have put up with any of the wife's shit from the very start. Professional hunters are Alpha males that would have squashed Damon like an annoying bug and not batted an eye. Hell, they would probably have a head mount of Damon done and put him over the fireplace.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

The only thing worse than this over written, ridiculous story, is Buster2Us alternative.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Do NOT include any of the matter under "author's notes." Keep them to yourself. They add nothing to the story.

demanderdemander3 months ago

These stories never make a lot of sense. The MC should tell the wife that if she goes, she blows the marriage. Then, if she goes, he goes. Simple. Of course, no drama, so no big story. This one does have some sense of uncertainty by the MC about the date's purpose. Not enough, though. Her preparations made it all too clear. D

Rocky62Rocky623 months ago

If hubby had stated at least to himself that he’d ditch her for going i. Would have voted more than a 3. Letting her go untagged or bugged is lame for 2024. Or follow them etc. no surprise that they did the nasty

jflindersjflinders3 months ago

The story's three main characters all act and speak so stupidly that the story becomes nothing more than a juvenile fantasy. In addition, the adultery affecting Damon's credibility as a scientist doesn't make any sense and the jab at the "political left" considering a man a sexual predator for seducing a woman whose age is probably in her thirties (based on being married eight years) is nonsensical.

UnassignedUnassigned3 months ago

Some interesting parts, but the political crap dragged it down. I understand how you/the MC wanted to punish Damon by taking away something he value greatly, but to expect that it would have a meaningful effect beyond Damon on the climate change movement itself is absurd. And how much effect would it really have on Damon? I mean . . . "When you're a star they let you do it" Or does that only apply to the right?"

Turning502019Turning5020193 months ago

Wondering to myself if this will have further parts based on the batman episode type questions in the authors notes?

phill1cphill1c3 months ago

lol

The notion that a man's reputation would be ruined in a "conservative" state for having an affair is farcical (that means not so far from reality that it makes you laugh). that's what these conservative "liberty" people do: they fuck each other, have abortions, and then work to prevent others from doing the same. Please! They would nominate him to run for office.

Avalon101Avalon1013 months ago

I liked the story line, but making out climate change is fanciful lost it for me. Plus to support people going to Africa to kill wild animals as some kind of trophy sport sealed it for me.

onlythelonelyloveonlythelonelylove3 months ago

Weirdly unsatisfying.

If she is prepared to lie to him about wanting her lovedr why would she sign divorce papers citing adultery as a cause when doing so would hurt her, her cause, and her lover? And when her husband has no EVIDENCE but their shared unrecorded conversation? Did I miss something here? Damon should just tell him that he will brazen it out. In real life,Mark gets fucked on this deal…

Boyd PercyBoyd Percy3 months ago

Everyone got what they deserved in the end!

5

pugetmanpugetman3 months ago

I wanted to see this snippet of dialog:

E: Please don’t divorce me, I love you

M: I can’t stay married to a liar

E: I’m not a liar

M: Yes you are. You lied that it was ‘only dinner’. You lied that you’d be home by 10:00. You lied that you didn’t dress up to seduce him. Most importantly, even now you continue to lie that you didn’t plan it, you just got carried away. Sorry, it looks, walks and quacks like a divorce.

pugetmanpugetman3 months ago

@phill1c: They’d only nominate him after he declared climate change a hoax.

cyendreycyendrey3 months ago

No husband is that clueless unless he has had a TBI, what did she have to do put a banner up in their bedroom that she was going on a date to have sex with another man?

njlaurennjlauren3 months ago

I don't know what was worse, the characters,the writing or the idiotic plot point to 'get a jab in at climate change' bc Damon screwed his wife. Given the proclivities of conservative politicians these days where adultery and sexual assault are de rigeur, makes that as stupid an idea as you could write. That it would discredit climate change is even more moronic, climate change isn't one person and isn't a moral issue. A church railing about sexual immorality that lets kids be raped by priests loses credibility; a climate change activist screwing a married woman doesnt contradict climate change , it is not a moral issue.

That the guy is a black guy is not surprising, this whole thing reads like a maga fantasy.

114FSO114FSO3 months ago

Will there be follow up chapters? Possibly get her to Africa, then sell her to a Somali whore house. There are so many permutations it boggles the mind.

Tls2753aTls2753a3 months ago

I particularly liked the comment that she would never be all his because she would always fondly remember the sex with another man.

Regguy69Regguy693 months ago

She pretty much put herself on a silver platter to be served to Damon and the gall to tell her spouse she was testing out the look to see if she could use it for him. Ha she was offering him seconds on her outfit as well as her pussy. Hubby should have locked her out when she didn’t show up at 10:00 and even then it was too late.

JustOneMansOpinionJustOneMansOpinion3 months ago

I liked it. I'm wondering though why the authors notes were included at the end of the story instead of the beginning. I would think the section from Mark and Emily have been married for eight years and all that came before that point would have been in the prologue and the question after that would be covered in the epilogue. 4-stars.

BoringOldGuyBoringOldGuy3 months ago

I liked the story but the authors note, etc were superfluous. They added nothing to the story.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

This was decently written, but it went on too long, particularly the conversations between Mark and the other two. Their conversations kept going over the same ground with no new approaches, no development, no progress. If an Individual or couple are stuck, you have to either summarize, like “they had the same conversation every night for two weeks,” or do something to their argument from just getting boring.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Since climate change has been debunked, not only is the guy a dick but a schister too! Write something not politically oriented. Especially not something a stupid as climate change farce!

sbrooks103xsbrooks103x3 months ago

"It's only dinner with a man I'm working with" - If it's "only dinner," why doesn't Mark go along? Better yet, have Damon over to their house for dinner.

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"Be the cool, worldly and sophisticated man you are" - Oh, so it's "cool, worldly and sophisticated" to let your wife go out with other men?

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"Damon was going to call him to make sure that he was comfortable with their dinner" - Yes, why wouldn't he be comfortable unless there was something to be uncomfortable about?

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I'd be worried about being gone for four weeks. Then again, if they're going to cheat, why not just wait until he;s gone, unless it's one of those, "The bull wants to see the cuck" things.

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"it was going to happen regardless of what he wanted" - He should still admit that he's uncomfortable. If Damon is really on the up and up, he'll maybe take steps to reassure him, maybe as I said earlier, invite him along. For that matter, if it's really a "working" dinner, why are they going to an upscale restaurant?

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"Mark! Stop it! Stop it now! This is not a date" - The more she denies it, the more true it seems. If it were as innocent as she claims, she'd be taking greater steps to reassure him, such as NOT getting ready as if for a hot date!

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"he didn't want to embarrass Emily." - She's flashing her underwear and HE'S worried about embarrassing her? She SHOULD be embarrassed.

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"We were talking and time got by so fast and we didn't realize it was so late" - "Ten AT THE VERY LATEST" doesn't become 2:30 by accident! They were late by more time than the dinner was supposed to be, 4 1/2 hours vs. 4.

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"But for the moment Mark was undecided." - How the fuck can he be undecided? If by some chance hey didn't fuck (doubtful), they were definitely being inappropriate.

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"I lost myself for a moment" - It wasn't "for a moment." It was all the planning, the slow easing into a one-on-one dinner, the primping, the dressing up.

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"I came back!" - She wouldn't have to come back if she didn't leave in the first place.

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"My emotions, my hormones just took control of me" - How can she guarantee that that won't happen agaim.

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"the things she'd heard all of her adult life about men like Damon, of how their enhanced genitalia intensified intercourse" - It hasn't been stated explicitly, but "enhanced genitalia?" BBC, anyone?

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"almost every night before she fell asleep she laid in bed and imagined her and Damon having sex." - So much for a momentary loss of control.

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She had four hours that she could have fucked him and still got home by the promised time.

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While she's saying it was one time now that she's been caught, if it was as great as it obviously was, she surely would have gone back for more if she hadn't been caught.

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"after I picked her up things just got out of control" - No, they went exactly as planned, except for the oversleeping.

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"because she made one bad decision," - Sigh, it wasn't ONE bad decision, unless you want to simply talk about her initial decision, but then there was the decisions to ease him into the one-on-one dinner, the decision to have her day of beauty, to wear the new outfit, to flash, to skip dinner, etc., etc.

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"And the other part of the problem is she can't undo all the shit she did to me to get to you and that's why I'm divorcing her." - Yep! I think I've mentioned this couple of times, LOL! They keep forgetting that in their "one time slip" excuses. Why was Damon so shocked?

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"Don't throw away a good woman who loves you and is devoted to you because I was thinking with my dick" - SHE threw Mark away because she was thinking with her cunt.

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"Something took over me." - We know from her own words that's not true.

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The story notes were pretty superfluous, except for some of the background stuff. The first and third questions are obvious: Yes, and No, which makes the second question meaningless.

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@Karnevil, my main issue was him agreeing to be civil. He should have told Marcus when he called that he WASN'T comfortable with the "dinner."

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@Gamblinluck, yes, the whole wanting to talk to Mark is classic bull/cuck behavior.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

I think you BTB is eligible for carbon credits. 🤔

Hope a hole in the Ozone, opened above both their heads, and they are vilified by the wako green left.

Made me laugh.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

I kinda liked it, as stories go (and the "alpha male" comment foisted on you is kinda funny). But consider this: The previous President of the U.S. cheated on every wife he had. He bragged about groping women against their will. Everyone knew about this and he was elected anyway. Likewise, another previous POTUS from the opposite political party is still quite popular in spite of his extramarital dalliances. I'm just saying that I don't think anyone cares. I don't think the smear campaign based on infidelity is a great plot device for western cultures.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Ok, not great. The author's spelling of "judgment" should be corrected in future posts. There is only one "e" in said word.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Ok, admittedly I’m only through the first page, but for a husband who claims not to be a wimp, he sure is acting like one!

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

I’m sorry, but that was just awful. It was boring, very repetitive, with unsympathetic characters. I’m wondering if the author accidentally submitted a draft version?

I do give him credit though for trying to present the standard celebrity hall pass story a little differently.

WetheNorthWetheNorth3 months ago

Boo Hoo for Emily

jmm999jmm9993 months ago

This got off to a really good start. The husband unsure what to do - the angst - all quite believable. And then?

God, it went on and on and on. The 10k word count could have been cut to 3k. Every phrase of the dialogue was repeated ad nauseam. Some themes must have been rehashed around twenty times. Step back a moment and look what you wrote here:

"Divorce? Why? Why do you want a divorce?"

After a dozen descriptions of why he was upset, you really think she would say that? Utter nonsense. Soon after that line the story felt like watching paint dry. I couldn't finish it - for the worst possible reason. I was bored and no longer gave a shit what happened to these unrealistic characters.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

A bit different. Four stars.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

To answer your questions at the end: Yes, the divorce is permanent. No, Mark will not reconsider. The story is over, no need to write a follow up.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Overall, a good story. But nowhere in the husbands replying was it said that she went from having a meeting with her group to only a few people to just with Damon. If it was just one time, I’d be on board with a reconciliation. But being out, she constantly lied and how she was dressed, he acted accordingly.

Having said that, in the conversation, there was just too many duplication of thoughts, and repetition of what each said, almost ad nauseam.

Because of this, tho a good story, only 3 stars. Bob

Xzy89c1Xzy89c13 months ago

Very wooden. Of course it is over. She cheated. Lied to him about her intentions and then lied about it. Would have went back to the guy too if she got away with it

nixroxnixrox3 months ago

3 stars for a barely adequate BTB story. As far as I am concerned, this story is two pages too long. The minute the SLUT brought up the dinner suggestion, she had already flushed her marriage down the toilet. TRUST, RESPECT and LOVE were gone and there was no possibility for a second chance EVER.

From that point on, the husband had more than enough time to install tracking and video devices all over the stupid slut. He would have had a front row seat, at the annihilation of his marriage. He could have had it playing on the large screen TV in the living room, when she finally showed up. He should have changed the locks and moved his stuff into storage a few days before the event.

Not only that, but he even warned the ASSHOLE not to do anything stupid. No one paid any attention to him. Now they are going to deal with the mess their stupidity and greed caused.

As far as the additional commentary about the husband being a wildlife photographer and safari trophy hunting guide in Africa - that is just no longer acceptable anywhere, and anyone who participates in that kind of crap needs to be shunned by the entire world.

Better luck with your next story.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Should have been some ads kickin.

TrainerOfBimbosTrainerOfBimbos3 months ago

It was too short and there wasn't enough drama I think building up to everything. You could have been more descriptive about what Mark was going through, you could have also twisted the knife a bit if this was going to be a BTB story (which it looks like it was). Finally, we never really got to see Mark get any closure. Over all I'm giving this a 4/5 since it's better than average, but just barely.

bobareenobobareeno3 months ago

A loving wives tale for those who insert the word, “duh,” randomly in their speech.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Yeah, another dumb white boy looses his wife to a BBC. Damon did Mark a favor. Maybe while he is working in Africa Mark will meet a real woman, a real African woman, who knows how to be a real wife, and appreciate a real husband.

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The ban from the whore to stop gun hunting was all an intelligent man needed to know to steer clear of this brainless bitch. You would think the climate change fanaticism would have been enough to alert him to what a shallow emotional entitled arrogant moron she is. He got what he married so he deserved what he got.

buzzsawlennybuzzsawlenny3 months ago

For those of you rallying that you think a superstar liberal pundit being shown as amoral wouldn't damage the greater global movement?...I absolutely think it would, at least a bit. First off Climate Change is already a bummer movement because it requires every citizen to restrict themselves from doing the bullshit we as a people love to do, then there's the stats that half believe it's a hoax and a significant percentage thinks it's too late. So that makes the movement already fundamentally unsound . Then you take their golden child and drag him through the mud, portraying him as a womanizing predator breaking up long time loving middle class marriages, without even mentioning the racial angle and the media would eat that up, giving the media and the right ALOT more ammo to give their movement more black eyes. For those that still think my reasoning is unsound I give you Al Gore. In the early oughts "An Inconvenient Truth" was a big deal for a minute, it opened more peoples eyes and was getting positive motion for climate change. Then Al Gore said he invented the internet, suddenly people were ridiculing him and made his message less strong, less able to be talked about at dinner parties or at work without someone bringing up that or some other ridiculous things that was not pertinent to the greater conversation. So I posite that shining a light would definitely injure their cause and at the bare minimum derail their local "project " that these 2 asshats were working on. Plus it's a great bit of revenge, so maybe even if I'm wrong and it wouldn't make a dent nationally, I could still suspend my disbelief for a nice bit of revenge on the lothario and his uncaring wife.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Mark is a dick, as if Emily would be with him in the first place

Rhino hunter, climate change denier, what a dumbass

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

The most incredibly pathetic and idiotic part of the story was Mark agreeing to the date! Total stupidity at best.

The second stupid part was that Mark should have ripped off her wedding rings and told her if she leaves, divorce!

The third stupid part was that Mark should have stayed up and waited for her to arrive home regardless of the time, and confronted her and Damon immediately in the driveway.

The forth stupid part was that Mark should have taken and bagged all her date clothes.

The fifth stupid part was that Mark should have had a witness and recorded his conversation when he met Damon!

Then released the recording to the media.

This was a good story line, but not well developed and seemingly rushed to an ending with a rather ignorant Mark who could have and should have done so much more!

The story had sooooo much opportunity and left sooooo much behind.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

At most a 3. He was a photographer a didn't put a PI on them? Why didn't he get any proof? Any recordings?

Why not fully publicly shame them with pictures and clips of them fucking? Why not beat the man as well? Cut his cock and shove it up his ass once the media hit his image, self esteem and wallet and he's down for the taking.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Painful to read up until she got home after 2am. The MC the should have never let her go with his blessing especially after seeing how she was dressed. He allowed her to do it so it is on him as much as on her.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

I liked the story itself, but it seemed that it kept repeating over and over. Didn't matter who the husband was talking to, the same lines just kept repeating.

And this was the best part of the whole story; Mark looked at Damon and said, "No. No, you can't un-fuck her. And she can't erase the memory of you fucking her. And that's part of the problem. A piece of her will always belong to you. She will never be completely mine again. You will always be in her mind... and I can't and I won't live like that."

And upon hearing Mark describe the forever implications of sexually taking another man's wife, a sick feeling came over Damon. He'd never considered what fucking another man's wife really meant but Mark had just described it perfectly.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

It all balanced out

Emily and Damon ruined Mark's dream of having a happy family

So Mark decided to return the favor.

Mark ruined Emily's entitled view of herself as being a "good person"

Mark also ruined Damon's entitled dream/view of being a "climate messiah"

The scum got flushed as they so richly deserved to be.

Will they stayed flushed, or will the toilet back up and return them?

I guess we'll find out if there's ever a Chapter 2.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Oh great, it's another MAGA racist fever fantasy, kids. How erotic.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Why do people think cheating only happens when the spouse fu*k other people? Preparing, lying, buying new clothes, planning for the date with another man and the event afterward should already be seen as cheating.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

I never understand why the husband in. these stories do not go out with the wife on "the date". They can discuss the business they said they have to discuss while hubby enjoys a nice meal and has the other man pay the tab. Hubby takes wife home. Then hubby hires a PI of course.

Schwanze1Schwanze13 months ago

To me, the marriages in this sort of story should be done the moment she asks. After that it's just strategy and tactics.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

It is beyond me why he would accept his phone call and then meet with him. It did nothing for the story.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Good story. The MC should have never agreed to let her leave. If she decided to go anyway then take her rings and shove her out the door. Don't speak to or allow her scumbag date in the house. Divorce her stupid ass. Nuff said.

tralan69ertralan69er3 months ago

@sbrooks,

I'm sure your wife is reluctant to say good morning to you. I pity you and her.

Sorry about your luck.

mattenwmattenw3 months ago

I have to say that I liked the story right up to the point where you introduced your protagonists in the profile. An Afro-Am and a British woman. What do you expect there? Can't you find more prejudice?

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

I enjoyed the manner in which you laid out your story. Easy to read, understand and decisions made by all persons involved. A strong 5* from me. Thanks for sharing it.

NegateGivityNegateGivity3 months ago

So Emily is an Oxford graduate and Damon is a Duke graduate and they are both complete morons? Like actual window licking idiots? Because nothing they did made any sense. Right from the start the whole thing was telegraphed.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

The only reason to meet the asshole would be to kill him. Dumb story

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Of course he should divorce her. OF COURSE he should. She planned a date with another man, she planned on sex, she planned to do all this behind her husband's back by lying to him about everything. She planned on loving her secret tryst, her sexy memories of the event, getting hot over both the sex, and the fact her husband gave her permission... kind of.

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The husband was written as pretty much a wimp. If she had showered before coming home, he wouldn't have known anything. He would have tortured himself about whether or not she did it, never knowing, but always suspecting. What a miserable future that would have been, because all he ever had to do was say NO. Weak.

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It's not too bad, I gave it 4 stars. The husband eventually did find some spine and booted her from his life. Good riddance.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

It was a good story until you decided to tank a climate change movement because of one asshole. People like Mark are why everybody's grandkids are gonna die of heatstroke, more worried about spite than life.

Phatom10Phatom103 months ago

First of all if I knew Damon was black I would have left her in the drive way!!!

inka2222inka22223 months ago

3.5 stars. Yes he divorced the skank. But she won by getting most of his money AND having a memorable fuck session, and the author didn't bother giving the MC any useful replacement (no, "work in Africa" is not a replacement woman). Would have been 2 stars but the revenge on the asswipe dildo was great, which raised the score.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Another ending is Mark inviting Emily to Africa. After a lot of make-up sex she is on cloud nine again. But one night she will suspiciously have an unfortunate encounter with a pack of twelve hungry hyenas.

As she's painfully ripped to shreds over a thirty minute period, I have to wonder if her last thoughts are about how muc fun it was sitting on Damon's black cock? 🤣

RimmerdalRimmerdal3 months ago

I stopped after the "Climate Change' nonsense.

HighBrowHighBrow3 months ago

Thanks for the plot notes--educational.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Firstly anyone hunting Rhino considering that their survival is hanging on a thread should be nailed to the nearest tree and left to die. I'm a Rhino conservationist and spend time and money helping organisations that place trackers into Rhino's and work towards breading programs - but we're loosing, thanks to an insatiable Chinese appetite for Rhino horn driving poaching across the continent. Only 20,000 rhinos left and dwindling daily. Elephant populations are declining rapidly as well thanks to human encroachment into their habitat and man made borders and fences cutting down their travel routes. Herds in the Kruger Park would travel over 800km's or 500 miles in a season looking for grazing. Constrained into small areas they over eat, considering that they need about 350 pounds of food daily. Each. That in turn creates a vegetation problem which leaves smaller game starving. Then the predators decline as there's not enough game to feed on and so it continues... And last point: Live animals bring in far more tourist dollars (hopefully some goes to conservation and is not subverted by governments to line their own greedy pockets) than a big game hunt does. NickTee - sorry couldn't log in.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

"Mark Taylor was no wimp, by any stretch of the imagination"... You should delete this line. All Mark Taylor did was act like a wimp. He let's his wife go on a date with another man. His wife is always screaming at him. He continuously is worried about upsetting her or Damon before the date..... Mark Taylor is certainly a wimp

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Far to simpy for a proffesional hunter and wildlife guide. I mean testoterone and self esteem was lacking badly.

Not gone altogether.

Certainly not at a level he would have to keep calm control of intense situations interacting with dangerous beasts.

More at the level of someone who watched lots of wildlife shows and armchaired his societal-self prowess.

Climate changistians fervently believing in those flying Greta around the globe exuding from private jets to be outraged and other photops religigulously pretending that the largest polluters on earth do not exist.

Other than as bit players in in the current climate fantasy.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Awful dialogue! Having each character repeating what the other character just said is NOT realistic but annoying and a sure sign of crappy writing. Then, there's the repetitious mention of Damion's Acqua Di Giò. Say it once, twice, tops, but it took on the character of a mantra. Editors are to poor writing what surgeons are to grave medical conditions--get one, STAT. The only authentic part of this turd-cicle is the fact that people who worship at the altar of Cliiiiiiimate Chaaaaange are some of the most self-absorbed, naive, and gullible people on earth. As for anyone on the left side of the political spectrum caring about infidelity, ruining a person's marriage, or seducing married people? That's completely absurd. They would probably celebrate the wife's crapping on the patriarchy. Two stars.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

1. He was a wimp in spite of author saying he wasn't.

2. If she actually loved him, him telling her he was uncomfortable should have changed the dynamic. I.e. all three go, change the time, cancel the date.

3. She proved by her behavior that she doesn't love him.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

4. Oh I forgot. He's also a moron.

WhoGivesAShitWhoGivesAShit3 months ago

I don’t understand why Mark thought he had to go along with it. He told Emily that he was convinced it was a date, but told both he was okay with their ‘business dinner’. He could have refused Damon’s first call, or just tell him that he wouldn’t discuss the date. He could have told Emily that he wouldn’t tolerate it. Hell, he could have packed his things before he went to bed, then left after the confrontation. He didn’t owe either of them a warning of what would follow.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

The final definition of waste. The waste of money to go to Africa and try to get back with mark. Better to take a knife and go hunt the Big Five, that way it will only take one try get the final answer. As for bullshit climate activist moron Damon, Here is an idea. Read the farmers almanac it has more accurate on the weather for the last 50 years than your bullshit movement. Woe is the country wasting all of that grant money on bullshit studies that make absolutely zero difference in the climate. Ever wonder why it only gets ramped up every 5 years or so.....oh that's right it is renew grant time for the money wasters. Until India, china, Russia and Africa to name a few also join to make some changes your effort is wasted and useless. So take your about 4% of input and shove it and your ideology and shove it up your ass. Glad Mark finally grew a set at the end, to bad he didn't clue in until to late. There is trust and then there is trust but verify. With all the changes to the dinner plan the trust went out the window and the TBV was needed. In any case she whored herself out and ended up alone.....hows that fantasy working out for you?

XluckyleeXluckylee3 months ago

5 stars from Xluckylee for a great story. I will have to read more of your stories.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

Mark is your typical right wing nut job who thinks shooting big animals makes him an alpha male. Good for Damon fucking the shit out of the wimpy cuckold’s wife. She is better off with out him.

elling50elling503 months ago

To much repetition of the same conversation makesit too longwinded. 3*

LT56linebackerLT56linebacker3 months ago

Is the Pope Polish? Hell no! Who cares, and Again, HELL NO!!. That answers the three questions. delusional bitch. The M/C was a bit stupid. He never did say 'NO' to his wife., nor tell the asshole the same thing. They deserved it. But he set himself up for the fall, so only 4 stars. But if he gets a happy ending in Africa, cool. The Bear liked it.

The BEAR

CamdudeCamdude3 months ago

Damon is your typical left wing amoral nut job who like most of that ilk decided he could screw another mans wife and get away with it.Good on Mark for refusing to be a cuck and for returning the screw to both of them.

AnonymousAnonymous3 months ago

As the victim of adultery myself, these stories are very distressing, but, I always hope for reconciliation and another chapter where she goes to Africa and softens his heart would be greatly appreciated.

AnonymousAnonymous2 months ago

Why does the wife have to say No, No, No. 3 fucking times every time? Your writing style is super annoying. Terrible story. Too much whining and talking from the 2 cheaters and the husband was a wimp from the very beginning. 1 star.

AllNigherAllNigher2 months ago

Hmm... Could have been good, but...

Too long, the dialog became tedious, the MC was an idiot.... None of it made sense. The injection of politics at the end added nothing, as will.

sjmbsrfsjmbsrf2 months ago

I really enjoyed this story. I recognise that for the purposes of creating the necessary tension and sense of betrayal the author had to compress the storyline into a sequence that is probably less than realistic in real life, the ultimate conflict, realisation, confrontation and resolution were the ultimate intentions and they came off really well. I think the outcome was appropriate, and I could only accept a reconcilitation version if the wife had to travel a realistically tough and enlightening course to redemption.

AnonymousAnonymous2 months ago

I can't believe people actually liked this story, the plot is fine but the execution and dialogue are excruciatingly bad.

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