A house all to ourselves for the night? Things were looking up.
Ward dropped Jacob off at Cole’s while I took Whitney to Mickey’s. When I got home, Ward was on the couch with a beer in hand and a baseball game on the TV. I sat next to him.
“What do you want to do tonight?” I asked.
Without looking at me, he motioned to the TV. “Watch this, drink beer, go to bed when it’s over. Tomorrow I need to get up early and mow the yard.”
I was silent, my brain going again. This was my husband, the father of my children. We had been together for over seventeen years, and I didn’t know why I was so nervous. Instead of blurting it out, I went to the kitchen and grabbed liquid courage.
“Bring me another, would ya?” he called out.
I took a deep breath, downed the glass of wine in two large gulps, and then poured myself the rest of the bottle. Before leaving the kitchen, I grabbed his can of beer and then returned to the couch and sat next to him again. The only sound in the room was the game on the TV, and then the pop of the can as Ward opened his beer. I needed the wine to kick in faster, so I took another sip of it.Maybe I should have taken shots.
Finally, after several minutes, I felt the feeling of being at ease as the alcohol got into my bloodstream. I set the glass on the coffee table and turned to Ward during a commercial. Running my finger along the side of his neck, I said, “You know, we have the house to ourselves.”
He looked over at me. “Yeah. Sex before bed?”
I swallowed. “What about now?”
His eyebrows furrowed. “The game’s on.”
I decided to go for it. The wine was flowing through my veins, and if I couldn’t bring Sensation up with an empty house and alcohol in my system, I didn’t know if I ever could. “We got invited to go to a sex club.”
Ward slowly turned his head to look over at me. “Tonight?”
“No,” I snorted. “An attorney at my firm goes with her husband, and invited us to go with them to the next one.”
“Why? So we can have sex with them?”
I drew my head back and shook my head. “No! Just to go and have fun.”
“And have sex with other people?”
I opened my mouth and then closed it. Would that happen? I wasn’t exactly sure what happened at sex clubs. I’d imaginedeverythinghappened. “I don’t know,” I finally admitted with a shrug.
He turned his body toward me, no longer paying attention to the game that had returned from the commercial break. “You don’t know?”
I shrugged again because I was uncertain about everything. “It’s not like I’ve ever been before.”
“But you want to go?”
I took a deep breath. “I think so.”
He stared at me with his green eyes as though he didn’t recognize his own wife. “Are you telling me you want to start swinging?”
My mouth opened and closed again. “I don’t know.”
“You want to watch me fuck another man’s wife?” Ward didn’t say those words angrily but sarcastically because he thought our conversation was ridiculous.
I never thought about Ward or I being with other people at Sensation. In my head, I thought we’d get turned on by watching—like live porn—and then he’d fuck me against a wall or something before we came home. Could I watch him pleasure another woman? I wasn’t sure that I could.
“Not at first—”
“Not at first?” He chuckled.
“I don’t think you’re understanding.”
He took a big gulp of his beer. “Then tell me.”