Chapter 1: Background

I guess that my preamble says most of where I find myself presently, but I should start at the beginning. My name is Bradley Morse Prendergast, I’m 6-1, 270 lbs., and 38 years old as of two weeks ago. I work in a research facility on the edge of a fair sized city not far from the capital city of Austin, Texas. I could join the Mensa organization but I don’t because most of those jerks thing knowledge is king and they can lord it over those less brainy. But I skipped 4^th and 7^th grade and 9^th grade in school and started university at age 15. I graduated six years later with a double master in Chemistry and Metallurgy. I interned my last two years of university at Jensen Research Inc. LLC that was just outside of my home town. Now they are surrounded by real estate developments along the cliffs just north of the two rivers that flow through town. Jensen is located between the two rivers. From an intern to a team leader of three teams of scientists all working on different areas of expertise I guess you could say I had come a long way. We live comfortably on a 25 acre farm, but we do no farming but we do keep a few horses (well 4 horses – it used to be five but my wife hates horses) for the kids and me.

I met Gloria during my and her last year in college and she struck me as someone I had to get to know. She was tall at 5’-10’ but filled out in all the right places. She was a virgin on our wedding night although I was not. I was not very experienced as I only had 2 girlfriends and hadn’t had much sex. So, the honeymoon was kind of the blind leading the blind as it were. But I knew what had to happen and knew that doing it slow and gentle was what I need to do.

As we grew together after that we found that we both loved sex in many forms but just stayed with each other, and not a lot of the real kinky stuff. We loved what we did and had some variance in what we did, but overall, it was pretty, tame stuff. I guess that is why Gloria wanted to try other things later before she became too old as she said once or twice.

We have three children; Brittney age 15, Brad Jr. 12 and Samantha (Sam) aged 10. Sam is the apple of my eye, she and I are very close. Brittney used to be but since she became a teenager I was out of the picture except as a wallet. Brad and his mother Gloria are still fairly close. He goes to her first if he wants anything. That leaves Gloria Elizabeth Hartley-Prendergast. She keeps both names. I could never understand it as we got married before she started work as an accountant. We were in our last year of college when we met and got engaged. We married in September after graduation.

The house we live in is a 4 bedroom, 4 ½ bath home on the front 3 acres of our land. When it was being built I had security cameras placed in every room except the bathrooms. About 5 years ago I had them all changed to more like a motion detector but with a camera within it. I do believe that for the first 3 or 4 years of the kids growing up we kept up with them constantly but as the kids have grown we kind of forgot them until I wanted them upgraded and since Gloria didn’t give a shit about it I had them done while I was home on a couple of weeks off while we had to expand my lab and a couple of others close by.

Things have been good for most of our marriage, in fact, I would say they were great from my perspective. After Sam was born I got snipped and our sex life up to about a month ago was 2 to 3 times a week. Then about maybe 6 weeks ago things started doing downhill. I just couldn’t interest Gloria in any playtime or even cuddling. I figured she might be having some problems with menopause so I just went with the flow.

About a month ago I started getting these talks in bed about expanding our horizons. I was thinking that she might want to think be going on trips to places that we wanted to see as a family. I thought about going to Hawaii, or Alaska or even Europe. I got kind of fuzzy answers to those things so I was really confused about what she was getting after. So, I chalked it up to menopause and left it at that.