SURPRISE VISIT By Agena
JACK
The alarm went off at its usual time, 6:00 AM, and my wife, Anita, and I got up to start our day. I groaned audibly as I sat up on the edge of the bed and swung my feet to the floor.
"What's the matter? You sound like an old man." she teased as she headed for the bathroom.
"I feel like an old man after what you did to me last night.?
I heard her laughing inside the bathroom as I recalled the evening before. She'd given me an energetic fucking and topped it off by a very sensuous blow job.
Today she was leaving on a business trip and would probably be gone all week and I would be alone by myself at home. I wasn't looking forward to it.
I heard the shower running and thought about joining her then decided I wasn't up to it. She'd taken too much out of me the evening before.
Coming back into the bedroom later she seemed upbeat whereas I was sitting there feeling sorry for myself.
"C'mon old man. Get up and get going. We need two breadwinners to pay the mortgage on this place.?
All right, all right. I'm moving." I told her as I stumbled into the bathroom to relieve myself and shower. Later we met downstairs for breakfast before she headed to the airport and I headed into work.
Anita is an attorney and we both worked for a medium size manufacturing plant in St. Louis. She specializes in negotiations and travels with teams when they work off plant and this trip was to negotiate a new subcontract with a major aerospace firm in Denver. She traveled several times a year on similar negotiations and would be gone at least a week every time. She was 35 and had graduated cum laud from the state university twelve years prior. Anita is very attractive at 5' 4", 125 lbs with lovely feminine attributes: 34, 24, 35 and I'm crazy in love and lust with her.
I'm Jack Fillmore and work as an engineer in the same company as my wife. I'm 37 and stand 6' 1" at 165 lbs. I work out to stay in shape. We both enjoy playing golf and make up a foursome often with friends.
We'd met at a company picnic and it was love at first sight for me. It must have been the same for her, because after a whirlwind courtship we were married six months later. We've been married for seven years now and have just bought the house we been living in now 3 months ago. It was the home where we planned to start our ****** and Anita was going off her birth control pills when she got back from this trip. We were excited about having a ****** and she was planning to be a stay-at-home mom until the kids started school. Our parents both lived in the area and I know they were anticipating us to start a ****** soon.
After breakfast I loaded Anita's travel bag in her car and kissed her goodbye. She had tears in her eyes as she got in her car to leave.
"Pretty soon I hope I won't be traveling sweetheart, then I won't have to go through these goodbyes. I hate them.?
"I hate them as much as you do honey. I reassured her. I'll see you Friday evening and we'll just have take-out so you can rest.?
"Sounds good. Bye?
I watched as she backed out of the garage and into the street. I waved as she left and then trudged into the house to complete my preparations to go to the office.
Arriving at work I made my way up to the engineering department and picked up a cup of coffee from the break room before heading to my desk. I was hardly seated when my phone rang.
"Fillmore" I announced to whoever was calling.
"Jack, can you come into my office for a minute??
"Sure Evan,. I'll be right there.?
Evan was my boss and I picked up my coffee and headed for his office. Entering he waved me to a chair.
"Jack, I think you'll like this. I remember your telling me last Friday Anita would be traveling this week so I have a little trip for you if you're interested. Gil Hawkins, our field service engineer in California, is sick and can't handle a problem a customer in San Jose is having with one of our models. You've got more experience on that model than anyone so would you like to head out to San Jose and check it out??
"Hey, there's nothing much doing here right now and you're right, I'm batching it this week. So when do you want me out there??
"Right away, Get Kathy to get your reservations and tickets and you can give the customer a ring to find out what the problem is and let them know you're coming.?
"Sounds good. I'll get right on it. I was beginning to feel a little more enthusiastic about life. "I can get home, pack and pick up a flight out of here this afternoon and then be at the customers place in the morning.?
OK, have a good trip.?
I stopped at the desk of Evan's secretary, Kathy, and told her what I needed in terms of flights and reservations and then stopped at my desk to call the customer and define his problem before heading home to pack. I grinned to myself on the way home because a plan was forming in my mind that if I finished quickly I could surprise my wife with a stop in Denver on my way home. The prospect of spending a couple of days with her in Denver was becoming more exciting by the minute.
While awaiting my flight to depart at the airport I called Anita's cell phone but she didn't pick up on it so I left a voice message that I'd be staying at my folks for a couple of days and to reach me on my cell when she called in the evenings.
Everything worked out fine, I was in at the customer's place Tuesday morning, made the necessary adjustments to the equipment and had it checked out and running satisfactorily by afternoon.
Going back to my hotel I called the airline and got on a flight that would have me in Denver at 9 PM mountain time. Checking out of the hotel in San Jose I headed for the airport in San Francisco where I had dinner. While I was eating, Anita called me on my cell and we conversed for a few minutes. She asked me how my folks were doing and I responded as though I were at their house. She told me that negotiations were moving ahead but she was tired and would spend a quiet evening in her hotel room. We said our goodbyes with expressions of love and after eating, boarded my flight.
At 9:45 I checked in at the desk at Anita's suite hotel and after verifying my identity they gave me a card to gain entry to her suite.
Quietly entering her suite there was a lamp on over the computer table and her lap top was on it-closed, but no sign of Anita. I put down my suitcase and looked in the bedroom but it was empty also as was the bathroom.
Oh well, I figured, she hasn't gotten back to her room yet, I'll sit down and wait or maybe I'll go down and check the lounge to see if she's there. Then I noticed that the door to the adjoining room was ajar.
I went over to it and it opened quietly on well oiled hinges. Looking around the living room in the adjoining suite, but saw no one. Puzzled I stepped into the room and suddenly heard a groan from the bedroom.
My gut took a wrench and I suddenly broke out in a sweat as I made my way quietly to the bedroom door. My heart may not have stopped but my breathing did at what I saw there in the dimly lit room.
Anita was naked facing me, astride a man, whose face I couldn't see, on the bed with his cock deep inside her. Her eyes were closed and she was gently riding him in apparent ecstasy of pre- orgiastic bliss as his hands were tweaking her breasts and nipples.
My first impulse was to rush in and confront her and beat the guy to a pulp but reason overcame my emotions as I slowly backed away from the door and I returned to her suite.
Opening my travel bag I took out the digital camera I'd brought along to get some souvenir pictures and returned to the other bedroom door. I turned off the flash and set the camera for dim light photos then stood there, calmly, taking several pictures of the scene on the bed without either of them noticing my presence. The two of them were so involved with their activities that they had their eyes closed and were totally ******* of their surroundings.
Before returning to her suite I checked the briefcase open on the table and found a business card and checked the name. Sam Harris, the chief negotiator for our company. I put the card in my pocket.
Going back into her suite I took out a camera/computer interface cable I carried with me and attached the camera to her laptop. Our laptops had the same photo program so it was a simple matter to down load a picture from my camera and set it up on her desktop. Then I repacked my camera in my travel bag and quietly left her suite. Before leaving I heard her cry out as she had an orgasm. I almost broke down and cried right there, but kept going to the elevator.
It was slowly becoming apparent as I got in the elevator that our marriage was most likely finished. How could we stay together and have children if I couldn't trust her? When you decide to have children a marriage has to be based on unshakeable trust in one another, otherwise a breakup later on would be devastating to the children, expensive for the husband and the difficulties of being a single parent for the wife. No, there was no other way except divorce now. The years we had invested in one another were lost I thought.
After returning the entry card to the desk I called the airline to find out when the next flight back to St. Louis left. I was fortunate that there was a 6:30 AM flight that would put me home by 9:00 AM. With luck, I figured that would be about the time Anita would be opening her laptop at the negotiating table. She would then know she'd been caught and it would also tell her our marriage was probably over.
I returned to the airport and checked in at a nearby motel where I couldn't sleep but kept visualizing what I'd seen in the bedroom at her hotel. I cried and let my anguish diminish into tears. When I left the motel in the morning at 5AM I was cried out, and my thought then was to bring our marriage to a close as quickly as possible.
Arriving back in St. Louis my cell phone started to ring as I was getting into my car. Checking the caller ID I saw it was Anita. I turned it off and headed home. When I came in the door the phone was ringing there but checking caller ID I saw it was Anita again. Letting it go to the answering machine I heard her crying into the phone.
"Jack, please call me right away. I need to talk with you honey. Its important.?
I ignored her plaintive sobbing and went up, changed my clothes and then went and rented a U-Haul-it. Then returned to the house to start packing. If my calculations were correct she'd be pulling in about 4 PM and I wanted to be out of the house by then. It took me a couple of hours but I managed to get all my personal stuff out and moved to a rental storage unit. Before packing I called our lawyer and made an appointment to see him that afternoon. After unloading my stuff at the storage unit I went to the appointment with our lawyer and asked him to start divorce proceedings immediately. I was tempted to identify the cause as adultery but decided to go for incompatibility and save the adultery in case she wanted to fight the divorce. I also asked him to draw up a new will listing my brother as beneficiary.
Stopping at the bank I transferred half our savings and checking balance to new accounts in my name only and then called my investment advisor to do the same thing on our accounts there.
With a sad heart I drove over to my parents house and taking my suitcase with me, I went up and entered through the open door.
My mother saw me first and exclaimed loudly.
"Jack, where have you been? Anita has been calling here several times looking for you. Did you tell her you were staying here??
My ***, whose retired, came in and I sat down and I explained everything to them. They were shocked when I told them about Anita's infidelity and that our marriage was over. I asked if I could stay with them a few days until I could find a furnished apartment and they agreed.
I guess my calculations were fairly accurate because about 6 PM, as we were sitting down to eat, the doorbell rang. My *** got up to answer it and a moment later he came back with Anita behind him, looking very distraught.
"Jack, why haven't you answered my calls? I needed to talk with you. You've moved all your stuff out of the house.?
"I would think the message I left you on your desktop would tell you what you needed to know.?
"Oh god. I was so afraid it was you. Can we go somewhere and talk sweetheart? Please.?
"Anita, I'm no longer your sweetheart and I have nothing I want to talk with you about. I've already started divorce proceedings and our lawyers can convey anything that needs to be said. What I saw in Denver has totally destroyed any feelings I had for you and I want you to leave so I can finish my dinner.?
Oh please Jack, no! Please don't do this without talking to me.?
"What could you possibly say that would put any redeeming value on your infidelity. It certainly wasn't **** that I saw and that I have pictures of. You'd better call your lover Sam and tell him that I'm going after him tomorrow. Maybe his wife will have a better slant on things than I do.?
"Oh god. Can't we talk? Please Jack.?
"Please go Anita. My dinner is getting cold. I'll tell you what. Why don't you write me a nice long letter telling me how you can rationalize breaking your wedding vows. I'm sure a lawyer as smart as you can articulate how it was all my fault and that you can still love and respect me very much.?
With a sob she turned away, but before she reached the door she turned back.
"Please Jack, don't end our marriage without talking to me.?
"Good bye Anita.?
After she left still crying my parents still sat there stunned.
"That was awfully harsh Jack.?
"Mom, do you want to see the pictures I have of her and her lover. That's what's harsh. She totally disrespected me and I can't live with that nor can I ever trust her again. Do you want me to give you grandchildren from a woman that isn't faithful or trustworthy.? I know son." my *** spoke up finally. "Maybe if things cool down a little you might see things differently.?
I knew my folks really liked Anita.
"I don't think so ***. Let's talk about something else so I can digest my food.?
"OK, son."
ANITA That Monday morning when I left home I was feeling sorry for myself having to leave Jack but I thought how wonderful it would be when I got back and we could start our ******. We'd waited this long to make sure we were set financially and career wise to begin being parents. Now everything was almost in place.
The trip to Denver was uneventful. I sat beside Sam Harris, our chief negotiator, where we talked a little about the negotiations for tomorrow and then a little about what was going on in our families. He knew that when I became pregnant I would quit work and he told me he would miss me. Sam was 48 and had been married twenty years with two children in high school. Sam and I had been a negotiating team since before my marriage and we were very comfortable with one another. The other two members of our team sat behind us and were engaged in their own conversations.
When we got to the hotel in Denver we checked into our rooms and as we usually did, Sam and I got adjoining rooms. This had originally been done to facilitate late night meeting on negotiation stratagems but about ten years ago sex was initiated and we convinced ourselves that it was a way of relieving stress after a hard day of negotiations. At the time we told ourselves it really wasn't cheating on his wife if it helped our jobs. We laughed about it sometimes.
Then, after Jack and I got married for a couple of years I didn't feel right about doing it and we stopped. Finally, during an especially grueling negotiation, Sam asked if we could do it again to relieve the stress and anxiety. I reluctantly agreed and before I knew it I was hooked on doing it again with him. The thrill of cheating and not getting caught raised my libido considerably and at home Jack also benefited from it and I didn't feel so bad.
The first night on this trip we didn't get together because I felt tired after dinner. However, after our first day of negotiations I agreed to go to him that next night. I don't know when or how Jack found out or how he got the picture, but when I opened my laptop and turned it on the following morning I was stunned into immobility by what I saw on the screen. Sam was sitting next to me and when he saw it he quickly slammed the lid closed and asked his counterpart on the other side of the table to excuse us for a few minutes. We took the laptop with us out to the hallway. He was livid.
"What kind of porno do you have on your desktop?" he asked.
"I don't know Sam. It wasn't there the last time I had it on." I was still in shock.
"Let me look at it again.?
I opened it up again and we looked at the picture together.
"Oh shit. That's you.' he exclaimed.
"Me? How could it be me??
"I don't know, but its you and that's probably me under you although you can't make out my face. Did you leave the laptop unattended anytime yesterday.?
"No, it was with me on the trip and in my suite while I was in yours.?
"Could anyone have gotten in your room with a camera??
"I don't think so, the door was closed and I supposed - locked.?
"You need to get back to the hotel and try yo see if anyone was given a card to your room last night. I'll handle things here. Try to get hold of Jack and see where he was last night.?
"It couldn't have been him, I talked with him at his folks last night.?
"Did you call him on his parent's phone??
"No, he asked me to call him on his cell phone.?
"Oh, oh. I don't like the sound of that. He could have been anywhere when you talked with him. Call me on my cell if you find out anything. Do whatever you can to get some damage control on this. Take a cab back to the hotel.?
"Ok, bye.?
I was in a sweat. If Jack had taken the picture and put it in my laptop, I had to think it was a message that our marriage was over. I had to get back to the hotel and see what I could find out. The girl at the reception desk got me a cab and fifteen minutes later I was back at the hotel and checked at the desk first to see if anyone had gotten a card to my suite. The clerk checked the computer and I was told that a Mr. Jack Fillmore was given a card at 9:45 the previous evening. The card was returned a half hour later. I knew then my marriage was most likely over. The man I loved more than anything in the world was gone but I had to try to fight to get him back.
Going up to my suite, I immediately tried to call him on his cell and at his work. There was no answer on his cell; it had been turned off but I left a voice message that it was important he call me as soon as possible. His secretary at work informed me he was away on company business to California and was expected back tomorrow. So that was it. He had gone to California and stopped on his way back to surprise me. I guess we were both surprised. Calling his folks, they told me they hadn't seen him in several days. I asked them to have him call me as soon as they could get a hold of him. I called home and got no answer but left a message there too.
I sat in the suite and cried. I had no way of getting to him to talk unless I went home. So I picked up the phone and made reservations to go back to St. Louis on the next flight. After packing I called Sam on the cell and told him what I'd found out. He was quiet for a minute before speaking.
"Anita, I think we are both facing divorce or worse.?
"What could be worse than a divorce??
"The company we work for has a policy against managerial level employees fraternizing. We could both be fired. It would not look good on our records.?
"Oh my god, I should have known that, but as far as I'm concerned losing Jack would be far worse.?
"Losing my ****** would be bad too but you need to get back to St. Louis and find Jack. See if he'll listen to reason.?
"I've already made reservations for a flight that leaves at noon. I should be back there by 4:30. For my sake I need to find him and talk with him. I'll let you know how it goes.?
"I'll have to stay here until negotiations are finished. I'll be waiting to hear from you.?
We said our goodbyes and hung up. Picking up my bag and laptop I hurried down to the lobby, checked out and took the hotel limo service to the airport. I prayed all the way back to St. Louis that I get get Jack to talk to me. I had to explain it was just sex and did not affect him at all. I had to stake everything that he could be unemotional about my infidelity and accept it for what it was; nothing but meaningless sex.
When I arrived back home I didn't notice anything out of place at first but when I went into our bedroom and saw that all his clothes and personal items were gone. I realized he knew for sure and had left me. I had to find him. After many fruitless phone calls I finally decided to go over to his parent's to see if he was there or they had an idea where he was.
He was at his folks and the reception I received from him made me nauseous in its unfeeling brutality. He informed me he was in the process of filing for divorce and had no desire to talk with me, that there was nothing I could say that would change his mind. After he sarcastically told me to write him a long letter explaining my position I left and sat out in my car and cried. The ****** we had planned may never happen. We would never grow old together or enjoy grandchildren together. From a selfish viewpoint, what grieved me even more was the thought that by the time I found another husband I might be too old to conceive. Finally, I started the car and went back to our empty house.
JACK After a sporadic sleep, in which I kept having visions of Anita and Sam together in bed, I got up early and went down stairs in my folks home and put coffee on. Then I went and got my lap top and camera and proceeded to down load the pictures from the camera into the computer. I had been thinking that I had to see if I could identify Sam in the pictures somehow. Looking at the pictures I couldn't see Sam's face clearly at all but then I spotted something on his right arm as it was reaching up to Anita breasts. Blowing up the area I saw what I needed. A tattoo and by blowing it up further, I was able to see it was a heart with the word MARIE on it. Sam's wife was Marie. That's all I needed so I went back upstairs and showered and got ready to go to work. When I came back down my mother was up and preparing breakfast.
Later at work, I burned a couple of CDs with the pictures I had taken and a blow up of Sam's tattoo. Additionally, I printed several sets and put them all in a folder. Then I walked to our Human Resources Department and asked to see the manager. Phil and I knew one another, after all - it wasn't that big of a company and we'd played golf together. I took a set of pictures from my folder and laid it out in front of him.
"What's this Jack, pornographic pictures?" he asked with a grin.
"Sorry Phil, they may look pornographic but that's my wife and Sam Harris and you can see by the date and time on them that they were taken Tuesday evening and in Sam's hotel suite in Denver. They were there on a negotiation trip for the company.?
"Oh shit Jack, I'm sorry. What can I do??
"You can terminate both of them for cause under the anti fraternization clause in their contract with the company.?
"We've never enforced that before. Are you sure you want this? Its going to bring this affair out in the open. I assume this means you're pursuing divorcing Anita over this??
"I already have my lawyer drawing up the papers, but if you don't pursue this I will be bringing suit against the company.?
"OK Jack. I'll take it to our legal department and get the ball rolling.?
Next I went in to see my boss, Evan, to let him know what was going on in my life. He was appropriately horrified at what I had to tell him about my wife and Sam Harris. When I asked for the rest of the week off as vacation time and he readily agreed. In parting, he congratulated me on a job well done on my trip to California. The customer had called with praise about how quickly I'd solved their problem and got their production line moving again. He also asked if I would consider taking over the California territory as the current field engineer was retiring because of ill health. I told him I'd consider it and give him my answer when I returned to work the following week. On my way out of Evan's office his secretary, Kathy, stopped me.
"Jack, your wife was around looking for you. She said she'd be back later.?
"Kathy, I do not want to see my wife under any circumstances. Please inform her of this when she comes back.?
Oh god, Jack. I'm sorry. I didn't know there was a problem.?
"There's a big problem Kath, we're getting divorced. She and Sam Harris have been doing the horizontal tango.?
I knew it would be all over the plant by noon. Kathy liked to spread gossip.
Then I went back to my desk and called Marie Harris, Sam's wife. I knew her from company picnics and I knew that my revelations about our spouses could be very hard on her.
"Marie? Its Jack Fillmore.?
"How are you Jack? I was talking with Sam last night and he asked if I'd heard from you but wouldn't say what you might be contacting me about.?
"Marie, we need to talk as soon as possible.?
"All right Jack. Can you come over now? I have a hair appointment at 1:00 this afternoon, but I'm free now.?
"Do you still live on Fremont St??
"Oh yes.?
"OK, I know where you live. I'll be there in fifteen minutes.?
When I arrived at the Harrises' I had a feeling of dread about what I was going to be doing to this woman and her ****** but I knew Sam should not escape retribution on this and let Anita take all the fallout.
"Hi Jack. Come on in. Would you like coffee? I just made a fresh pot." she asked as she waved me into their living room.
"That would be fine Marie. Just black please.?
She was back in a moment with the coffee and sat down in a chair facing me. "Now what's this all about??
I thought about breaking my news to her gently but then decided to get it over with as quickly as possible.
"Marie, I caught your husband and my wife making love in Denver and I'm pursuing a divorce from Anita and having them both fired from their jobs. I hate to tell you this, but its going to be in the common knowledge very soon and I thought I'd prepare you. I have photos to support what I'm telling you if you care to see them.?
I watched her face to determine the impact of my words and was surprised at the lack of any real reaction.
"Jack, I guess I've suspected he's played around on his company trips for years but hoped it wasn't true. Sam has always been a loving husband and father and I didn't want to rock the boat but I realized something would happen some day to bring it to the light of day and I would have to act then. I guess this is it. I'm sorry for you and your marriage and from my own point ofview, I'm sorry Sam may be fired. He's getting up in years and may find it difficult to get another job that pays as well. Now I have to decide what I'm going to do. I've got to protect myself and our kids. Its going to be hard on them.?
"Would you like a set of photographs I have??
"Yes, leave them and I'll try to get up the strength to look at them.?
"I'm really sorry Marie, but I just couldn't let this go. Anita and I were about to start our ****** but I can't live with someone I can't trust or respect. The mother of our children has got to have both of those.?
"I understand Jack. Thank you for telling me. I wouldn't want to hear about it from other sources first. And let me tell you again how sorry I am about you and Anita. I'm sure she's just as devastated and remorseful as Sam will be when he finds out that I know all about his affair. I just wish it were a one time thing it would be easier to forgive but I believe its been going on for years and that's hard to take now that its out in the open. I have my pride, and I have to be able to hold my head up.?
"If there's anything I can do, let me know." I told her as I left and headed back to my parent's house. While driving over I thought about what she had said about it going on for years and it just increased my determination to end our marriage and cut my losses. I wanted children and I needed a wife I could trust.
Epilogue
Its been six months since I initiated divorce proceedings. I received my copy of the agreement dissolving my marriage to Anita this morning. I never talked with her or saw her again after the time she came to my parent's house. My lawyer handled it all. I gave her the heavily mortgaged house with the highly financed furniture and furnishings to release all claims on me. I also had my name taken off the mortgage. She assumed full responsibility for making the payments. Of course without a job she had to put it up for sale and lost her shirt on the deal. She tried to contest the divorce but I threatened to change the reason for divorce to adultery and release the pictures of her and Sam to the internet and our ****** and friends if she didn't sign the papers in 48 hours. She signed them within the required time and that is why I'm a free man today. I guess she decided that she didn't want me that bad. Anyway, she was terminated from her job, but she's a smart lawyer and negotiator so she found another one within a month - not making as much or with the benefits seniority brought her in her old job but I hear she's getting by and dating again. Lot's of luck to the boy- friend if she lands him. I wonder if she's told him about our divorce and the reason. Maybe I should enlighten him.
Marie divorced Sam and took him to the cleaners financially. He found another job too after he was terminated but he's struggling to make the alimony and child support payments with his new salary.
I'm now living in Santa Maria, CA; a quiet place near the coast about half way between the bay area and LA. This positions me pretty well to cover both southern and northern parts of the state. I moved here about four months back and have an apartment in a complex with other singles and young couples; most trying to save money for a down payment on a house. Housing costs are high out here and it takes big bucks to buy into the market. I have a steady girl friend who lives in the same complex. She's divorced like me but we're comfortable together and I think we'll see how it goes in the future. With me traveling so much, I really need to trust the one I marry but I need to make a move before too long if we want to start a ******. Biological clocks keep on ticking.
JACK
The alarm went off at its usual time, 6:00 AM, and my wife, Anita, and I got up to start our day. I groaned audibly as I sat up on the edge of the bed and swung my feet to the floor.
"What's the matter? You sound like an old man." she teased as she headed for the bathroom.
"I feel like an old man after what you did to me last night.?
I heard her laughing inside the bathroom as I recalled the evening before. She'd given me an energetic fucking and topped it off by a very sensuous blow job.
Today she was leaving on a business trip and would probably be gone all week and I would be alone by myself at home. I wasn't looking forward to it.
I heard the shower running and thought about joining her then decided I wasn't up to it. She'd taken too much out of me the evening before.
Coming back into the bedroom later she seemed upbeat whereas I was sitting there feeling sorry for myself.
"C'mon old man. Get up and get going. We need two breadwinners to pay the mortgage on this place.?
All right, all right. I'm moving." I told her as I stumbled into the bathroom to relieve myself and shower. Later we met downstairs for breakfast before she headed to the airport and I headed into work.
Anita is an attorney and we both worked for a medium size manufacturing plant in St. Louis. She specializes in negotiations and travels with teams when they work off plant and this trip was to negotiate a new subcontract with a major aerospace firm in Denver. She traveled several times a year on similar negotiations and would be gone at least a week every time. She was 35 and had graduated cum laud from the state university twelve years prior. Anita is very attractive at 5' 4", 125 lbs with lovely feminine attributes: 34, 24, 35 and I'm crazy in love and lust with her.
I'm Jack Fillmore and work as an engineer in the same company as my wife. I'm 37 and stand 6' 1" at 165 lbs. I work out to stay in shape. We both enjoy playing golf and make up a foursome often with friends.
We'd met at a company picnic and it was love at first sight for me. It must have been the same for her, because after a whirlwind courtship we were married six months later. We've been married for seven years now and have just bought the house we been living in now 3 months ago. It was the home where we planned to start our ****** and Anita was going off her birth control pills when she got back from this trip. We were excited about having a ****** and she was planning to be a stay-at-home mom until the kids started school. Our parents both lived in the area and I know they were anticipating us to start a ****** soon.
After breakfast I loaded Anita's travel bag in her car and kissed her goodbye. She had tears in her eyes as she got in her car to leave.
"Pretty soon I hope I won't be traveling sweetheart, then I won't have to go through these goodbyes. I hate them.?
"I hate them as much as you do honey. I reassured her. I'll see you Friday evening and we'll just have take-out so you can rest.?
"Sounds good. Bye?
I watched as she backed out of the garage and into the street. I waved as she left and then trudged into the house to complete my preparations to go to the office.
Arriving at work I made my way up to the engineering department and picked up a cup of coffee from the break room before heading to my desk. I was hardly seated when my phone rang.
"Fillmore" I announced to whoever was calling.
"Jack, can you come into my office for a minute??
"Sure Evan,. I'll be right there.?
Evan was my boss and I picked up my coffee and headed for his office. Entering he waved me to a chair.
"Jack, I think you'll like this. I remember your telling me last Friday Anita would be traveling this week so I have a little trip for you if you're interested. Gil Hawkins, our field service engineer in California, is sick and can't handle a problem a customer in San Jose is having with one of our models. You've got more experience on that model than anyone so would you like to head out to San Jose and check it out??
"Hey, there's nothing much doing here right now and you're right, I'm batching it this week. So when do you want me out there??
"Right away, Get Kathy to get your reservations and tickets and you can give the customer a ring to find out what the problem is and let them know you're coming.?
"Sounds good. I'll get right on it. I was beginning to feel a little more enthusiastic about life. "I can get home, pack and pick up a flight out of here this afternoon and then be at the customers place in the morning.?
OK, have a good trip.?
I stopped at the desk of Evan's secretary, Kathy, and told her what I needed in terms of flights and reservations and then stopped at my desk to call the customer and define his problem before heading home to pack. I grinned to myself on the way home because a plan was forming in my mind that if I finished quickly I could surprise my wife with a stop in Denver on my way home. The prospect of spending a couple of days with her in Denver was becoming more exciting by the minute.
While awaiting my flight to depart at the airport I called Anita's cell phone but she didn't pick up on it so I left a voice message that I'd be staying at my folks for a couple of days and to reach me on my cell when she called in the evenings.
Everything worked out fine, I was in at the customer's place Tuesday morning, made the necessary adjustments to the equipment and had it checked out and running satisfactorily by afternoon.
Going back to my hotel I called the airline and got on a flight that would have me in Denver at 9 PM mountain time. Checking out of the hotel in San Jose I headed for the airport in San Francisco where I had dinner. While I was eating, Anita called me on my cell and we conversed for a few minutes. She asked me how my folks were doing and I responded as though I were at their house. She told me that negotiations were moving ahead but she was tired and would spend a quiet evening in her hotel room. We said our goodbyes with expressions of love and after eating, boarded my flight.
At 9:45 I checked in at the desk at Anita's suite hotel and after verifying my identity they gave me a card to gain entry to her suite.
Quietly entering her suite there was a lamp on over the computer table and her lap top was on it-closed, but no sign of Anita. I put down my suitcase and looked in the bedroom but it was empty also as was the bathroom.
Oh well, I figured, she hasn't gotten back to her room yet, I'll sit down and wait or maybe I'll go down and check the lounge to see if she's there. Then I noticed that the door to the adjoining room was ajar.
I went over to it and it opened quietly on well oiled hinges. Looking around the living room in the adjoining suite, but saw no one. Puzzled I stepped into the room and suddenly heard a groan from the bedroom.
My gut took a wrench and I suddenly broke out in a sweat as I made my way quietly to the bedroom door. My heart may not have stopped but my breathing did at what I saw there in the dimly lit room.
Anita was naked facing me, astride a man, whose face I couldn't see, on the bed with his cock deep inside her. Her eyes were closed and she was gently riding him in apparent ecstasy of pre- orgiastic bliss as his hands were tweaking her breasts and nipples.
My first impulse was to rush in and confront her and beat the guy to a pulp but reason overcame my emotions as I slowly backed away from the door and I returned to her suite.
Opening my travel bag I took out the digital camera I'd brought along to get some souvenir pictures and returned to the other bedroom door. I turned off the flash and set the camera for dim light photos then stood there, calmly, taking several pictures of the scene on the bed without either of them noticing my presence. The two of them were so involved with their activities that they had their eyes closed and were totally ******* of their surroundings.
Before returning to her suite I checked the briefcase open on the table and found a business card and checked the name. Sam Harris, the chief negotiator for our company. I put the card in my pocket.
Going back into her suite I took out a camera/computer interface cable I carried with me and attached the camera to her laptop. Our laptops had the same photo program so it was a simple matter to down load a picture from my camera and set it up on her desktop. Then I repacked my camera in my travel bag and quietly left her suite. Before leaving I heard her cry out as she had an orgasm. I almost broke down and cried right there, but kept going to the elevator.
It was slowly becoming apparent as I got in the elevator that our marriage was most likely finished. How could we stay together and have children if I couldn't trust her? When you decide to have children a marriage has to be based on unshakeable trust in one another, otherwise a breakup later on would be devastating to the children, expensive for the husband and the difficulties of being a single parent for the wife. No, there was no other way except divorce now. The years we had invested in one another were lost I thought.
After returning the entry card to the desk I called the airline to find out when the next flight back to St. Louis left. I was fortunate that there was a 6:30 AM flight that would put me home by 9:00 AM. With luck, I figured that would be about the time Anita would be opening her laptop at the negotiating table. She would then know she'd been caught and it would also tell her our marriage was probably over.
I returned to the airport and checked in at a nearby motel where I couldn't sleep but kept visualizing what I'd seen in the bedroom at her hotel. I cried and let my anguish diminish into tears. When I left the motel in the morning at 5AM I was cried out, and my thought then was to bring our marriage to a close as quickly as possible.
Arriving back in St. Louis my cell phone started to ring as I was getting into my car. Checking the caller ID I saw it was Anita. I turned it off and headed home. When I came in the door the phone was ringing there but checking caller ID I saw it was Anita again. Letting it go to the answering machine I heard her crying into the phone.
"Jack, please call me right away. I need to talk with you honey. Its important.?
I ignored her plaintive sobbing and went up, changed my clothes and then went and rented a U-Haul-it. Then returned to the house to start packing. If my calculations were correct she'd be pulling in about 4 PM and I wanted to be out of the house by then. It took me a couple of hours but I managed to get all my personal stuff out and moved to a rental storage unit. Before packing I called our lawyer and made an appointment to see him that afternoon. After unloading my stuff at the storage unit I went to the appointment with our lawyer and asked him to start divorce proceedings immediately. I was tempted to identify the cause as adultery but decided to go for incompatibility and save the adultery in case she wanted to fight the divorce. I also asked him to draw up a new will listing my brother as beneficiary.
Stopping at the bank I transferred half our savings and checking balance to new accounts in my name only and then called my investment advisor to do the same thing on our accounts there.
With a sad heart I drove over to my parents house and taking my suitcase with me, I went up and entered through the open door.
My mother saw me first and exclaimed loudly.
"Jack, where have you been? Anita has been calling here several times looking for you. Did you tell her you were staying here??
My ***, whose retired, came in and I sat down and I explained everything to them. They were shocked when I told them about Anita's infidelity and that our marriage was over. I asked if I could stay with them a few days until I could find a furnished apartment and they agreed.
I guess my calculations were fairly accurate because about 6 PM, as we were sitting down to eat, the doorbell rang. My *** got up to answer it and a moment later he came back with Anita behind him, looking very distraught.
"Jack, why haven't you answered my calls? I needed to talk with you. You've moved all your stuff out of the house.?
"I would think the message I left you on your desktop would tell you what you needed to know.?
"Oh god. I was so afraid it was you. Can we go somewhere and talk sweetheart? Please.?
"Anita, I'm no longer your sweetheart and I have nothing I want to talk with you about. I've already started divorce proceedings and our lawyers can convey anything that needs to be said. What I saw in Denver has totally destroyed any feelings I had for you and I want you to leave so I can finish my dinner.?
Oh please Jack, no! Please don't do this without talking to me.?
"What could you possibly say that would put any redeeming value on your infidelity. It certainly wasn't **** that I saw and that I have pictures of. You'd better call your lover Sam and tell him that I'm going after him tomorrow. Maybe his wife will have a better slant on things than I do.?
"Oh god. Can't we talk? Please Jack.?
"Please go Anita. My dinner is getting cold. I'll tell you what. Why don't you write me a nice long letter telling me how you can rationalize breaking your wedding vows. I'm sure a lawyer as smart as you can articulate how it was all my fault and that you can still love and respect me very much.?
With a sob she turned away, but before she reached the door she turned back.
"Please Jack, don't end our marriage without talking to me.?
"Good bye Anita.?
After she left still crying my parents still sat there stunned.
"That was awfully harsh Jack.?
"Mom, do you want to see the pictures I have of her and her lover. That's what's harsh. She totally disrespected me and I can't live with that nor can I ever trust her again. Do you want me to give you grandchildren from a woman that isn't faithful or trustworthy.? I know son." my *** spoke up finally. "Maybe if things cool down a little you might see things differently.?
I knew my folks really liked Anita.
"I don't think so ***. Let's talk about something else so I can digest my food.?
"OK, son."
ANITA That Monday morning when I left home I was feeling sorry for myself having to leave Jack but I thought how wonderful it would be when I got back and we could start our ******. We'd waited this long to make sure we were set financially and career wise to begin being parents. Now everything was almost in place.
The trip to Denver was uneventful. I sat beside Sam Harris, our chief negotiator, where we talked a little about the negotiations for tomorrow and then a little about what was going on in our families. He knew that when I became pregnant I would quit work and he told me he would miss me. Sam was 48 and had been married twenty years with two children in high school. Sam and I had been a negotiating team since before my marriage and we were very comfortable with one another. The other two members of our team sat behind us and were engaged in their own conversations.
When we got to the hotel in Denver we checked into our rooms and as we usually did, Sam and I got adjoining rooms. This had originally been done to facilitate late night meeting on negotiation stratagems but about ten years ago sex was initiated and we convinced ourselves that it was a way of relieving stress after a hard day of negotiations. At the time we told ourselves it really wasn't cheating on his wife if it helped our jobs. We laughed about it sometimes.
Then, after Jack and I got married for a couple of years I didn't feel right about doing it and we stopped. Finally, during an especially grueling negotiation, Sam asked if we could do it again to relieve the stress and anxiety. I reluctantly agreed and before I knew it I was hooked on doing it again with him. The thrill of cheating and not getting caught raised my libido considerably and at home Jack also benefited from it and I didn't feel so bad.
The first night on this trip we didn't get together because I felt tired after dinner. However, after our first day of negotiations I agreed to go to him that next night. I don't know when or how Jack found out or how he got the picture, but when I opened my laptop and turned it on the following morning I was stunned into immobility by what I saw on the screen. Sam was sitting next to me and when he saw it he quickly slammed the lid closed and asked his counterpart on the other side of the table to excuse us for a few minutes. We took the laptop with us out to the hallway. He was livid.
"What kind of porno do you have on your desktop?" he asked.
"I don't know Sam. It wasn't there the last time I had it on." I was still in shock.
"Let me look at it again.?
I opened it up again and we looked at the picture together.
"Oh shit. That's you.' he exclaimed.
"Me? How could it be me??
"I don't know, but its you and that's probably me under you although you can't make out my face. Did you leave the laptop unattended anytime yesterday.?
"No, it was with me on the trip and in my suite while I was in yours.?
"Could anyone have gotten in your room with a camera??
"I don't think so, the door was closed and I supposed - locked.?
"You need to get back to the hotel and try yo see if anyone was given a card to your room last night. I'll handle things here. Try to get hold of Jack and see where he was last night.?
"It couldn't have been him, I talked with him at his folks last night.?
"Did you call him on his parent's phone??
"No, he asked me to call him on his cell phone.?
"Oh, oh. I don't like the sound of that. He could have been anywhere when you talked with him. Call me on my cell if you find out anything. Do whatever you can to get some damage control on this. Take a cab back to the hotel.?
"Ok, bye.?
I was in a sweat. If Jack had taken the picture and put it in my laptop, I had to think it was a message that our marriage was over. I had to get back to the hotel and see what I could find out. The girl at the reception desk got me a cab and fifteen minutes later I was back at the hotel and checked at the desk first to see if anyone had gotten a card to my suite. The clerk checked the computer and I was told that a Mr. Jack Fillmore was given a card at 9:45 the previous evening. The card was returned a half hour later. I knew then my marriage was most likely over. The man I loved more than anything in the world was gone but I had to try to fight to get him back.
Going up to my suite, I immediately tried to call him on his cell and at his work. There was no answer on his cell; it had been turned off but I left a voice message that it was important he call me as soon as possible. His secretary at work informed me he was away on company business to California and was expected back tomorrow. So that was it. He had gone to California and stopped on his way back to surprise me. I guess we were both surprised. Calling his folks, they told me they hadn't seen him in several days. I asked them to have him call me as soon as they could get a hold of him. I called home and got no answer but left a message there too.
I sat in the suite and cried. I had no way of getting to him to talk unless I went home. So I picked up the phone and made reservations to go back to St. Louis on the next flight. After packing I called Sam on the cell and told him what I'd found out. He was quiet for a minute before speaking.
"Anita, I think we are both facing divorce or worse.?
"What could be worse than a divorce??
"The company we work for has a policy against managerial level employees fraternizing. We could both be fired. It would not look good on our records.?
"Oh my god, I should have known that, but as far as I'm concerned losing Jack would be far worse.?
"Losing my ****** would be bad too but you need to get back to St. Louis and find Jack. See if he'll listen to reason.?
"I've already made reservations for a flight that leaves at noon. I should be back there by 4:30. For my sake I need to find him and talk with him. I'll let you know how it goes.?
"I'll have to stay here until negotiations are finished. I'll be waiting to hear from you.?
We said our goodbyes and hung up. Picking up my bag and laptop I hurried down to the lobby, checked out and took the hotel limo service to the airport. I prayed all the way back to St. Louis that I get get Jack to talk to me. I had to explain it was just sex and did not affect him at all. I had to stake everything that he could be unemotional about my infidelity and accept it for what it was; nothing but meaningless sex.
When I arrived back home I didn't notice anything out of place at first but when I went into our bedroom and saw that all his clothes and personal items were gone. I realized he knew for sure and had left me. I had to find him. After many fruitless phone calls I finally decided to go over to his parent's to see if he was there or they had an idea where he was.
He was at his folks and the reception I received from him made me nauseous in its unfeeling brutality. He informed me he was in the process of filing for divorce and had no desire to talk with me, that there was nothing I could say that would change his mind. After he sarcastically told me to write him a long letter explaining my position I left and sat out in my car and cried. The ****** we had planned may never happen. We would never grow old together or enjoy grandchildren together. From a selfish viewpoint, what grieved me even more was the thought that by the time I found another husband I might be too old to conceive. Finally, I started the car and went back to our empty house.
JACK After a sporadic sleep, in which I kept having visions of Anita and Sam together in bed, I got up early and went down stairs in my folks home and put coffee on. Then I went and got my lap top and camera and proceeded to down load the pictures from the camera into the computer. I had been thinking that I had to see if I could identify Sam in the pictures somehow. Looking at the pictures I couldn't see Sam's face clearly at all but then I spotted something on his right arm as it was reaching up to Anita breasts. Blowing up the area I saw what I needed. A tattoo and by blowing it up further, I was able to see it was a heart with the word MARIE on it. Sam's wife was Marie. That's all I needed so I went back upstairs and showered and got ready to go to work. When I came back down my mother was up and preparing breakfast.
Later at work, I burned a couple of CDs with the pictures I had taken and a blow up of Sam's tattoo. Additionally, I printed several sets and put them all in a folder. Then I walked to our Human Resources Department and asked to see the manager. Phil and I knew one another, after all - it wasn't that big of a company and we'd played golf together. I took a set of pictures from my folder and laid it out in front of him.
"What's this Jack, pornographic pictures?" he asked with a grin.
"Sorry Phil, they may look pornographic but that's my wife and Sam Harris and you can see by the date and time on them that they were taken Tuesday evening and in Sam's hotel suite in Denver. They were there on a negotiation trip for the company.?
"Oh shit Jack, I'm sorry. What can I do??
"You can terminate both of them for cause under the anti fraternization clause in their contract with the company.?
"We've never enforced that before. Are you sure you want this? Its going to bring this affair out in the open. I assume this means you're pursuing divorcing Anita over this??
"I already have my lawyer drawing up the papers, but if you don't pursue this I will be bringing suit against the company.?
"OK Jack. I'll take it to our legal department and get the ball rolling.?
Next I went in to see my boss, Evan, to let him know what was going on in my life. He was appropriately horrified at what I had to tell him about my wife and Sam Harris. When I asked for the rest of the week off as vacation time and he readily agreed. In parting, he congratulated me on a job well done on my trip to California. The customer had called with praise about how quickly I'd solved their problem and got their production line moving again. He also asked if I would consider taking over the California territory as the current field engineer was retiring because of ill health. I told him I'd consider it and give him my answer when I returned to work the following week. On my way out of Evan's office his secretary, Kathy, stopped me.
"Jack, your wife was around looking for you. She said she'd be back later.?
"Kathy, I do not want to see my wife under any circumstances. Please inform her of this when she comes back.?
Oh god, Jack. I'm sorry. I didn't know there was a problem.?
"There's a big problem Kath, we're getting divorced. She and Sam Harris have been doing the horizontal tango.?
I knew it would be all over the plant by noon. Kathy liked to spread gossip.
Then I went back to my desk and called Marie Harris, Sam's wife. I knew her from company picnics and I knew that my revelations about our spouses could be very hard on her.
"Marie? Its Jack Fillmore.?
"How are you Jack? I was talking with Sam last night and he asked if I'd heard from you but wouldn't say what you might be contacting me about.?
"Marie, we need to talk as soon as possible.?
"All right Jack. Can you come over now? I have a hair appointment at 1:00 this afternoon, but I'm free now.?
"Do you still live on Fremont St??
"Oh yes.?
"OK, I know where you live. I'll be there in fifteen minutes.?
When I arrived at the Harrises' I had a feeling of dread about what I was going to be doing to this woman and her ****** but I knew Sam should not escape retribution on this and let Anita take all the fallout.
"Hi Jack. Come on in. Would you like coffee? I just made a fresh pot." she asked as she waved me into their living room.
"That would be fine Marie. Just black please.?
She was back in a moment with the coffee and sat down in a chair facing me. "Now what's this all about??
I thought about breaking my news to her gently but then decided to get it over with as quickly as possible.
"Marie, I caught your husband and my wife making love in Denver and I'm pursuing a divorce from Anita and having them both fired from their jobs. I hate to tell you this, but its going to be in the common knowledge very soon and I thought I'd prepare you. I have photos to support what I'm telling you if you care to see them.?
I watched her face to determine the impact of my words and was surprised at the lack of any real reaction.
"Jack, I guess I've suspected he's played around on his company trips for years but hoped it wasn't true. Sam has always been a loving husband and father and I didn't want to rock the boat but I realized something would happen some day to bring it to the light of day and I would have to act then. I guess this is it. I'm sorry for you and your marriage and from my own point ofview, I'm sorry Sam may be fired. He's getting up in years and may find it difficult to get another job that pays as well. Now I have to decide what I'm going to do. I've got to protect myself and our kids. Its going to be hard on them.?
"Would you like a set of photographs I have??
"Yes, leave them and I'll try to get up the strength to look at them.?
"I'm really sorry Marie, but I just couldn't let this go. Anita and I were about to start our ****** but I can't live with someone I can't trust or respect. The mother of our children has got to have both of those.?
"I understand Jack. Thank you for telling me. I wouldn't want to hear about it from other sources first. And let me tell you again how sorry I am about you and Anita. I'm sure she's just as devastated and remorseful as Sam will be when he finds out that I know all about his affair. I just wish it were a one time thing it would be easier to forgive but I believe its been going on for years and that's hard to take now that its out in the open. I have my pride, and I have to be able to hold my head up.?
"If there's anything I can do, let me know." I told her as I left and headed back to my parent's house. While driving over I thought about what she had said about it going on for years and it just increased my determination to end our marriage and cut my losses. I wanted children and I needed a wife I could trust.
Epilogue
Its been six months since I initiated divorce proceedings. I received my copy of the agreement dissolving my marriage to Anita this morning. I never talked with her or saw her again after the time she came to my parent's house. My lawyer handled it all. I gave her the heavily mortgaged house with the highly financed furniture and furnishings to release all claims on me. I also had my name taken off the mortgage. She assumed full responsibility for making the payments. Of course without a job she had to put it up for sale and lost her shirt on the deal. She tried to contest the divorce but I threatened to change the reason for divorce to adultery and release the pictures of her and Sam to the internet and our ****** and friends if she didn't sign the papers in 48 hours. She signed them within the required time and that is why I'm a free man today. I guess she decided that she didn't want me that bad. Anyway, she was terminated from her job, but she's a smart lawyer and negotiator so she found another one within a month - not making as much or with the benefits seniority brought her in her old job but I hear she's getting by and dating again. Lot's of luck to the boy- friend if she lands him. I wonder if she's told him about our divorce and the reason. Maybe I should enlighten him.
Marie divorced Sam and took him to the cleaners financially. He found another job too after he was terminated but he's struggling to make the alimony and child support payments with his new salary.
I'm now living in Santa Maria, CA; a quiet place near the coast about half way between the bay area and LA. This positions me pretty well to cover both southern and northern parts of the state. I moved here about four months back and have an apartment in a complex with other singles and young couples; most trying to save money for a down payment on a house. Housing costs are high out here and it takes big bucks to buy into the market. I have a steady girl friend who lives in the same complex. She's divorced like me but we're comfortable together and I think we'll see how it goes in the future. With me traveling so much, I really need to trust the one I marry but I need to make a move before too long if we want to start a ******. Biological clocks keep on ticking.
