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Terms of endearments and manifestations of love continued in the night as they rocked away in unison. The bodies shone with the sheen of physical exertions lubricating the bodies sliding against one another. As Ray escalated his pace Marilyn knew he was reaching a climax.
Luckily it coincided with hers as she urged him on. “Please, darling, I’m so close to coming! Fuck me!”
Ray began to power thrust against her. It wouldn’t take long now! He slammed his body against her as she slammed back. Her face fixed in determination to couple with her husband. The endearing sight was enough to send Ray over the edge as he came. Each powerful thrust representing another spurting of sperm. Once, twice; then Marilyn came again as her body thrashed beneath the powerful thrusts continuing to pin her against the bed.
After he was through, Ray was amazed that his erection continued to throb in desire. Not questioning it, he plunged back into Marilyn. The surprise caused Marilyn to instantly climax again as Ray fucked her. It was though she was a pinball machine as she exploded from orgasm to orgasm. Mercifully, it didn’t take Ray nearly as long to come a second time and he dropped his exhausted body alongside of Marilyn.
No sooner than he was besides her, they began post coital caressing each other. Ray began kissing Marilyn’s face and he became aware she was crying by first feeling a tear falling on his lips and then tasting the salty droplet.
“Marilyn, what’s wrong?”
“Ray, I’m sorry! I’m sorry! Please forgive me! I should have never drifted away from you! You are the only person in the world for me!”
Marilyn began furiously kissing Ray in an effort to convince him of her sincerity. Ray responded in kind kissing and caressing every inch of Marilyn in his grasp.
“Oh Marilyn, my beautiful woman, it is me that owes you an apology. I let my ego get in the way and shut you out and I never gave you a chance to talk to me. I kept letting things fester and I kept drifting away. I can’t believe I was going to let you out of my life. To lose Rachel and then you…”
Marilyn listened as Ray choked through the heartfelt confession. Ray collected his thoughts and continued his emotional purge.
“… I would have been lost without you, Marilyn… You have always had my heart and if you left, my soul would have been gone. And it would have been all my fault.”
Marilyn interrupted, “No dear, I’m the one to blame. I kept letting John be where you should’ve been. While I never committed adultery, I was cheating you, Ray. I let him fill an emotional need that should have been for you alone… how can you even stand me for what one to you? To us?”
Marilyn grabbed Ray in an emotional hug. Ray responded with a matching hug so fierce that it threatened to crush Marilyn.
“Marilyn, Baby, we both are to blame for letting things get away from us. We were so focused on Rachel, that we forgot about us. We tried so hard to keep her here that we didn’t see the stress we were putting on ourselves and each other.”
“Ray, how do we get back to where we need to be? I’ll do anything for you!” Marilyn declared.
At that moment, the doorbell chimed and Marilyn automatically began to rise to get dressed and answer the door. Ray grabbed her and said, “First thing, is we ignore the world. This is the time for us. And we put no obstructions in our way to each other.”
For the remainder of the night, they ignored the phone calls and knocks on the door and made love throughout the night. Slow, sensuous, love. Not the rushed fumbling of their first coupling, not the lustful rutting of their honeymoon, but the pleasing gratification of the partner they vowed to cherish for eternity. And they spent the remainder of that night rediscovering their love.
As dawn broke, they left their house after placing a house key under the doormat. Text messages were sent to both sets of parents as they drove to their destination. In short time, they studied the electronic board with arrivals and departures and destinations. They made their choice and marched up to the counter and presented their passports and a credit card and flew to their destination with just the clothes on their backs and no emotional baggage. And they disappeared for three weeks.
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John Tullos was disconcerted by the chain of events. For three weeks after the funeral he had been trying to reach Marilyn by voicemail and text. She never responded back to any of his entreaties. After the first week, John applied for compassion leave for Marilyn and made the application retroactive for the first week. He had left the ending date open for Marilyn’s return, but sooner or later, he would have to take this up with his superior.
Didn’t she know what a predicament she was putting him in? Why won’t she call me to let me know what is going on? John thought. Maybe, she’s clearing the way to be with me, he thought hopefully. Then came a knock on his door.
“John, can I come in?”
A tanned, rested, serene Marilyn glided into his office and sat across him from his desk.
“Marilyn!” he happily sputtered and he rose to go greet her with a hug and kiss.
Abruptly, Marilyn held up her hand to halt his progress. “No, John, there isn’t any need to say hello to me.” She warned him and indicated for him to sit down. “I just came in to give notice that I’m quitting, John. I realize this put you in a spot, but, I can’t help that. I’ll be willing to stay long enough to get my replacement up to speed, but after leaving you in the lurch, I figure you’ve got someone already doing my work.”
“What the hell, Marilyn? You walk in here after disappearing on me for three weeks and the first thing you do is quit? What about us, Marilyn? Have you forgotten what we meant to each other?”
“John, we were never meant to be. You were there for me when I needed an emotional anchor and I will always cherish you for that. But, I only have loved one man in my life and that is my husband. For me to try to go into a relationship with you would be dishonoring him and me and you, John. You deserve more out of a relationship, John than I can provide. You deserve someone that loves you and that isn’t me, John. Ray will always have my heart and soul and you would always come out second best, John.” Marilyn looked onto the hapless man with sympathy.
“I’m leaving because I don’t want to remind you of what might have been. I came too close to losing the only thing left that I cherish. Ray and I have a fresh start and I owe it to him to give it my best shot and I can’t do that here with you around. It would be too easy to renew our little talks and that would lead me into a trap that I’m not going to fall in.”
Marilyn stood up and extended her hand, “Goodbye, John.”Property © 2024 N0(v)elDrama.Org.
John desperately gripped her hand as though to will her to stay and said, “Marilyn, we can work this out!”
With that she ignored his comment and slipped her hand out of his and walked out the door, out of his life.
Across town, Ray calmly sat across the conference room with every partner in the law firm in attendance to give a healthy dose of discipline to the upstart associate that thought he could go missing for three weeks and not suffer any consequences.
As soon as the meeting was called to order, Ray transformed into the attorney that made him renown throughout the state. He refused to allow the tribunal to go on the offensive. Instead, he began leveling a number of grievances he had suffered through while in their employment. Then, he listed the clients he had brought to the firm. Then, he listed the existing clients that he tended to on a regular basis. It was soon apparent to everyone in the room that Ray held the winning cards and any talk of punishing him would have to be shelved for the sake of the firm.
But Ray wasn’t through. He demanded and received a commitment to partner status for himself and three other associates that did the bulk of the work in the office. By the time he left the conference room the handwriting was on the wall for the elderly leeches that had not contributed to the firm for years. Ray was already contemplating his move into Charles Fletcher’s office as Karen Ferguson rushed to him and squealed, “Congratulations, darling, I was so afraid you were going to be fired! Now, we can get started with our family!”
Ray sadly looked down at the excited beautiful secretary and said, “Karen, we have to talk.” And he slowly dislodged himself from her embrace.
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Have nine years already passed? Ray thought as he viewed the calamity erupting in his house. Colorful wrapping paper was flying in the air as the last gifts were being opened by the twins. Between the shrieks of joy from the discovery of the gifts and the bartering that had already initiated between his daughter and son he continued to watch contentedly.
Beside him was Marilyn as she slipped her hand into his and gave him a long kiss for her Christmas gift of the expensive emerald necklace.
“You spent way too much on me again, Ray. I’m going to have to make it up to you tonight.” Marilyn warned him as she rubbed up against him.
Yeah, Ray thought, like that will ever be a problem for me! He wondered what she had in store for him, but he already knew he would enjoy his late gift.