The Scandal Ch. 02

In only a few minutes, Al began to move frantically as he felt his climax building. He panted into my ear that he couldn't stop it and I responded by tightening my arms around him and pushing my knees against his side to let him know that I was ready. He suddenly stopped, buried inside me as far as he could go and tensed. I waited, ready for that sign that he had released his passion and felt it splash against the walls of my vagina. It was the most wonderful feeling in the world: the sign that your man had given you his wonderful gift. I just held him as he finished inside me and collapsed onto me beneath him. I felt the glow of love as I held him this way. I would be content to lie here this way forever.

As Al recovered, he pulled out and rolled over onto his back. His breathing slowly returned to normal and he finally turned onto his side to look at me lying next to him.

"I'm sorry that I couldn't wait for you but it has been so long. What can I do for you?"

"Just hold me and let me know that you are here for me. You know that it was never about sex for me: it was the love that I felt every time we were together just like this."

"I remember. I missed this so much. I used to think about you at night but I had to stop or go crazy. Bettina and I were never close so I missed you even more. Thank you for this."

I snuggled up closer to him and just held on to him. I was content. I had my love back in my arms and I would do whatever was necessary to keep him. I decided then and there to talk to him before this night was over.

"I'm going to get a shower. Would you like to join me? I can wash your back and maybe some other parts if you would like."

"I think I had better try to recover first. This has been a first for me after so long. Is that OK with you?"

"It is perfectly OK. I told you, I am yours to do with, as you will. If you want to rest, that's just fine with me."

I rose and went into the little bathroom to take a quick shower and make myself presentable. I had something to say and I wanted to be fresh and ready when he was. I dressed afterwards and went into the kitchen to fix us some juice and toast. Al always liked juice and toast after lovemaking. He said it raised his sugar level back to where it should be.

Al came into the kitchen and sat down at the table. He watched as I moved around the kitchen with some satisfaction. I was content now and I placed the toast and glass of juice in front of him with a flourish.

"You remembered. And I'm glad now since at my age, I need the sugar." He smiled as he drank the juice.

"You didn't seem old to me just now. You were all I could ever want or need. I don't really think you need all that much mister."

We sat in companionable silence for a while as I watched him. I reveled in the site of him and I was happy and content: more so than I had been in many years. The addition of Mary and Jennie and even Angie to my life was fulfilling and made me very happy. But there was always a hole in my soul that wasn't filled by them and it never let me be fully content. Now, that hole was filled and I knew that I had all that I ever wanted. Now it was time.

"Al, there is something that I have been thinking. I want to tell you what I think we should do. Let me tell you what I plan to do while you are in Brazil getting Connie ready to return."

He looked at me with some curiosity and waited to hear me out.

"I want to put the house up for sale and put the furniture in storage. I will resign my job effective next week and tie up all of the loose ends so that I can be ready."

"Ready for what? Why would you want to sell your beautiful home and quit your job?"

"I have been thinking of what you said the other day. One of your biggest problems is seeing Woody every time we visited with Jennie and Angie. I can't break them up or cut them out of my life forever, but we can move far enough away that we don't have to see them very often. And then, I could just go to visit them alone from time to time or Jennie and Angie can come there to see us. That way, we never have to see Woody together and you don't have to think about him since he will be out of sight."

I watched his face as I spoke. I had thought about this and I felt this to be the best way to deal with his reaction to Woody. If Woody wasn't around much, that would be best. I was willing to turn away from having Jennie and Angie in my life all the time if Al was with me. Al was my life. I had been without Jennie and Angie for many years and I had found them. But, I lost Al for 5 years and I wasn't going to go through that again. I made my choice.

Al just sat there looking at me with a strange look on his face. I wasn't sure what he was thinking but I had to convince him of my willingness to do anything for him.

"Al, I don't care about not having them near by if I have you. I thought about this and I made my choice. My choice is you. Don't you understand? This way, you never have to see him again and if you don't see him, we can be together. Tonight was the proof. They were not here and you and I were together. We made love and it was wonderful. Please, can't you see that this is the only way?"

Al listened and then he began to laugh. It was a happy, contented laugh and my heart rose with it. He understood and he was happy with my plan. I began to laugh as well, letting all my joy out to join with the man I loved beyond life itself.

After he finally calmed down, he stood up and walked over to me. He took my face in his hands and raised me up to face him.

"I love you more than ever. I have been a fool and you have just shown me the truth of that. I don't care about Woody and what you and he did. I know now that you were willing to give up every thing for me and that's all I need to know. We don't have to move away and we don't have to deny our daughter's husband. He's not a threat to me and I don't care about him except that he treats our daughter and granddaughter right. So, you and I will move into that big wonderful house of yours and we will make a life for our new daughter and she can visit with her step sister any time she wants."

I shouted for joy and jumped up into his arms. I had it all now. A husband that I loved with all my heart; a daughter that I had lost for so long and found again; and a granddaughter that I never knew I had. Now, I had a new stepdaughter that I would welcome into my perfect world and give her all the love that I had in my heart.

Later as I sat at the little kitchen table where I had found my husband again, I thought back to that earlier kitchen table where my world began to fall apart. I had made just one mistake: I turned away from my husband to someone else and it almost destroyed me. I survived and learned a lesson that I would make sure I passed on to the other three women in my life. I would make sure that they knew not to make the same mistake I had.