Chapter 10

She was all set to play the role of pissed off wife when Jake got home. On her flight home from Chicago she had given some thought as to how someone who really loved her husband would take what was going on as far as Jake's job was concerned. She figured that a loving wife would be more and more upset as things went on and then she would finally get pissed. So, although she was tickled to death to have him gone she needed to appear to be pissed at him for all of his absences.

"Honey, I'm home" he called out as he came in the front door and dropped his suitcase on the floor. She glanced at her watch and saw that it was twenty after nine. She was in the family room reading (on the same couch where Harvey and Tony had double-teamed her) and she didn't answer. She had a fine line that she had to walk. She had to play the upset and extremely pissed off wife while at the same time not letting things get so out of hand that there would be no fucking that night. She had fucked Jared three times between the time she got up and left his place to catch her flight and, as always, it was important to her that she give Jake pussy that someone else had recently used. Jake came into the room and said:

"There you are. Don't I get a hug and a kiss?"

She ignored him and kept on reading her book. He stood there looking at her, apparently unsure of what was going on.

"What's the matter Fran?"

"You know damned well what's the matter."

"Oh, that again."

"Yes Jake, that again."

"It is my job Fran. It is what I do for a living. It is what pays the bills."

"That my be Jake, but it is not what I signed on for. I signed up for a life with my husband Jake and not a life where my front door is a revolving door for my husband. You worked your job all these years and maybe made a trip twice a year and now it is every god damned week. And that isn't even the worst of it. Do you realize that on your last five trips you have told me when you would be back only to call me the day before I expected you home to tell me that you had to stay longer? Right now I am thanking God that I never let you talk me into quitting my job. At least it gives me something to do with my time. It keeps me from having to sit here in this house all alone all the time."

"I keep telling you it is going to get better honey. It won't be much longer."

"Well I've got a news flash for you Jake. It had better not be much longer because I've been offered a promotion. I've turned it down twice because it means that I would have to travel and I didn't want that, but if you are never going to be here anyway I might just change my mind."

She got off the couch and headed for the stairs.

"Where are you going?"

"To bed!" she snarled at him as she headed toward the bedroom.

She knew Jake and she knew what he would do to try to smooth things over. It was about fifteen minutes before he came into the room and got in bed with her and in less than fifteen seconds she felt his hand on her right breast. She ignored him and his hand slid down and he began rubbing her pussy. She stayed still and kept quiet for maybe a minute and then she moaned, muttered "damn you Jake" and opened her legs. He moved down and she felt his tongue slide across her pussy lips and then enter her and she smiled as Jake licked the pussy that Jared had used three times that day. Three times that day and twenty-six other times from the time she got off of the flight to Chicago.

She was looking at a busy week when she went back to work on Monday. She had an event every day that week and a wedding on Saturday. She spent the day contacting suppliers and arranging for services and she didn't even have time to break loose for a quickie with Dan. She did stop for a drink after work with Marci and Marci told her about the two "dates" that Dan had arranged for her the previous week while Fran had been in Chicago. She almost asked Marci if they were helping her get past Bobby, but decided that bringing up Bobby would only upset Marci.

She told Marci about Chicago and then Marci asked if there was a possibility that they might be able to go out some night that week.

"I don't see how since Jake will be home all week. But he will be gone next week. Harvey will be in town, but I don't know what he has planned for me so I may have one or two nights that we could go out and play."

She knew as soon as she mentioned Harvey that she should not have. Mentioning Harv triggered memories of Bobby and she saw the change come over Marci's face. Marci looked at her watch and said she needed to be going so they finished their drinks and got up and left. Since she couldn't give Jake used pussy that night she pleaded a headache and went to bed early.

Tuesday she was able to squeeze in an hour with Dan in room 601 and he got two hours from her in 321 on Wednesday, but Thursday she was snowed under with work. Thursday night was the rehearsal dinner for Saturday's wedding and as she checked out the men who were there she saw that unless she was willing to settle for fat, balding and ugly the pickings were slim. The groom, the best man and one of the ushers were the only ones with any appeal, but the best man was out because he had a girlfriend and she was hanging all over him. She was contemplating a move on the usher when another guy came into the room and went up to the usher and from the way they behaved toward each other it was obvious that the usher was gay. That left the bridegroom but she couldn't see any way to get to him. It looked like that wedding was going to give her her first failure.

She handed out the complimentary drink coupons and then went to her office to sign off on the voucher request for the comp tickets. That done she headed for the bar to have one drink before going home. She saw the bridegroom sitting at the end of the bar staring down into a beer and on a whim she sat down next to him and said: