Romance: Luther's Property

by Laurie Burrows

  “The secret,” Nicole resumed. “Is that you can have all of this and more. Not with me, but with Anna.”

  Douglas let out a low growl at the mention of his wife.

  “I really don’t think this is the time to bring up my wife,” he growled out, standing up and picking up his tie off the ground.

  “Now is the perfect time,” Nicole countered, her voice firm. “You are getting confused and emotional, and that’s perfectly normal. But you need to find a long term solution to your problems, and that solution is not me, I promise.”

  Doug continued to stubbornly ignore her, pulling on his pants and roughly tucking in his shirt.

  “You and your wife are having a rough time right now,” Nicole went on, her tone gentle and convincing. “But that doesn’t mean you can’t fix it. Couples have gone through way, way worse than this.”

  Doug laughed lowly at her words, shaking his head.

  “I just find it a little hard to believe,” Doug said angrily. “That you think you’re the one who is best to tell me any of this. I mean, just think of how hilarious this whole situation is. The woman that I’m cheating on my wife with is trying to patch up my marriage. That’s rich, that’s just…”

  Doug shook his head and ground his teeth.

  “Do you think that I don’t understand how ridiculous this whole thing is?” Nicole spat back at him. “But I’m literally the only one who can help either of you right now.”

  “Oh yeah, and what exactly makes you think that?” Doug countered.

  “When I first came here,” Nicole said, her voice more calm and collected. “You were such a tense, frustrated mess that you couldn’t even do your job. What you needed was a good massage, but more than that, a good fuck.”

  “Which you provided,” Doug said. “And I’m grateful, I am. But now I’m in this huge adulterous mess.”

  “I don’t think this situation is even half as bad as you seem to think,” Nicole sighed, and pinched at the bridge of her nose. “And besides, if you don’t like my solution, the one where you fix your marriage and end up twice as happy as you were before, what do you propose?”

  Doug was quiet for a moment. He knew what he would propose, but he knew it would not be well received.

  “Well?” Nicole pressed, crossing her arms and raising her eyebrows.

  Doug was quiet for another moment.

  “Come away with me,” he said softly.

  Another long silence stretched between them.

  “Excuse me?” Nicole’s eyes narrowed, and her tone was harsh.

  “Come away with me,” Doug repeated, his tone more secure.

  “You’re ridiculous,” Nicole shook her head, and gathered her pants up off the ground.

  “I’m serious,” he said. “I will leave Anna the house, and half of my savings. The rest would be more than enough for us. I’ve saved enough to live off the rest. I’ll quit my job at the company. It would be you and me. It would be perfect.”

  “Do you even hear yourself when you talk?” Nicole said scornfully as she buckled the belt of her pants. “You really think this is the answer you’re looking for?”

  “I think you are the answer I’ve been looking for,” Doug said, his words ringing in their sincerity.

  Nicole’s expression went sober.

  “Douglas,” she sighed. “I am not what you need.”

  With that statement, Nicole left the room, softly closing the door behind her.

  Doug released a frustrated growl, and paced wildly up and down the room. He had no idea what any of her cryptic remarks meant. She was the best thing that had happened to him in years. Ne felt alive, and he felt full and complete once again. She was able to take his mind off of work, which was something that nobody had been able to do in years. Surely, she was the solution and the change that he needed.

  And yet, even after he had offered to drop everything for her, she was intent on refusing him. It was infuriating, and he had no idea how to react to this. Now, though, he tried to clear his head. There were only ten minutes left in his lunch hour, and he did have thing left to accomplish in his office. So, he put on the rest of his clothes, and combed his hair. Then, he headed back to his office.

  Even as he worked, though, his mind tried to process his thoughts and what he ought to do in his current situation. He knew very well that he was in a mess, but he wasn’t the only contributor. In spite of his increasing stress, though, he did not experience even the hint of a headache or any tension in the muscles of his back or neck. He acknowledged wryly that somehow in all this mess, he had gotten accomplished the original goal.

  At last, the clock read five o’clock, and Douglas gathered his things together, eager to get home and think of a solution to his plight. He pulled into his garage at home and moved into the kitchen. He couldn’t hide his mild irritation as he stepped into his kitchen, only to see Anna sitting at the kitchen table.

  “Hey,” she said to him as he entered the room.

  “Hey,” he responded, hoping that his uninviting tone would be enough to dissuade her form further conversation.

  “You seem agitated,” she said, stating the obvious.

  “Yes,” Doug replied shortly, moving to go rinse out his thermos in the sink.

  “You want to talk about it?” Anna said, her tone sincere.

  Doug let out a sigh and braced himself on the edge of the sink. The genuine concern in her voice sent a surge of guilt through him. He suddenly wanted to talk a lot more than he was willing to admit, but he knew that he didn’t have the courage to do it.

  “No,” he answered shortly, pushing back his emotional response to her words.

  “Okay,” Anna said softly, her tone softer, and Doug thought he detected a measure of hurt in her words. Again, he felt a rush of guilt, and he turned to face her with a sigh.

  “What about you?” he asked gently. “How was your day?”

  Anna rose from the table and shrugged.

  “It was fine,” she said softly as she began to move toward him. “Just a regular day, I guess.”

  “Hm,” Doug grunted, somewhat confused as she began to move closer to him.

  “I was actually…” she said, her eyes lowering as she trailed off. “Thinking about us a little bit today.”

  As she spoke, she raised her hand and rested it on his forearm. Doug felt several alarm bells go off in his head, and he struggled to remain calm. He wondered if she had finally caught on to what was going on between him and Nicole, and he wondered what he could say to keep from incriminating himself.

  “What about us?” Doug asked, his brows furrowed in concern even as his heart pounded furiously in his chest.

  “I know that things have been a little rocky over these last several months,” she said with a frown of her own. “Years, even. And I know that I haven’t done my best to help things…”

  As she spoke, her hand moved to press against, his chest, and moved even lower. She hooked her fingers into his belt and pulled a little. Doug released a gasp and tightened his grip on the sink behind him. His mind whirled, and he was shocked to find that his cock was responding to her proximity and to her touches.

  “Oh?” he managed to croak out, even as his heart raced and his mind spun.

  “Yes,” Anna nodded, and her hand moved even lower, tracing hi hardening cock through his pants and underwear. “I know I haven’t been very attentive to your needs…”

  Doug said nothing, and breathed raggedly as she continued to tease at him. A part of him wanted to succumb to her right there and then, and take her roughly. Another part of him resisted, though, as he was reminded of the adultery he was committing with Nicole. His mind was a haze of confusion, and he needed a moment to clear his thoughts.

  “Wait, wait!” He insisted, seizing up her wrists in a strong hold. He saw the lust in her eyes, and he felt a surge in his rapidly hardening cock.

  Anna, though, did not wait. She broke out of his hold, and took his face between her hands, pr
essing a hot, passionate kiss to his lips. Douglas was helpless, and he tightly gripped Anna’s hips as he kissed her back. He ground his hips into hers, and he hear her whimper as his hard cock ground into her abdomen. He growled at her reaction, and he spun her around to press her against the edge of the sink.

  They pulled apart for a second and Doug looked down at her breathlessly. Anna lifted her hand to softly caress his face. He saw tenderness in her eyes, and he felt the love for her he had harbored all these years rise up once more in his chest.

  “I’ve missed you…” Anna whispered, her voice equal parts longing and sadness. It nearly broke Doug’s heart.

  “I’ve missed you too,” he said brokenly. He gathered her up to his chest in a tight embrace, and inhaled the all too familiar scent of her hair.

  His treacherous mind, though, hastily reminded him that he could not live this moment in peace. He could not stand here and calmly enjoy the company of his wife when he had just offered to leave her for another woman. Now, though, holding her so close, and remembering the way she made him feel, he wasn’t sure if he could hold up his offer to Nicole.

  Douglas’s thoughts raced, and at the same time, his cock ached severely. He knew that he surely couldn’t maintain this position for long without succumbing to his lust. He released Anna from the hold he had over her, and held her back by the shoulders to look into her eyes. He was once again taken aback by the hazy lust he saw there, and the force of his own arousal was almost enough to bring him to his knees.

  “Anna, I…” he shook his head. She stopped him, placing one of her soft hands over his mouth.

  “Don’t say anything,” Anna pleaded in a whisper. “I know this was sudden, and I know I forced this on you. We don’t have to do anything. I just…”

  Anna trailed off, and Douglas waited silently for her to continue.

  “I just needed to see,” she said slowly. “If I could still do to you what you do to me.”

  Doug felt another surge of arousal and pleasure at her words, and he cursed himself for the trouble he had gotten himself into.

  “Trust me,” Doug laughed sadly, lifting a hand to gently cup her face. “You could have always done this to me.”

  Anna smiled up at him, and he saw tears sparkle in her eyes.

  “But…” Doug sighed. “I can’t do this with you. Not right now.”

  Anna’s face fell slightly, and she nodded.

  “It’s not because I don’t want you,” Doug added hastily. “Because… God, I do, I do…”

  Anna’s expression lifted slightly.

  “It’s just…” Doug struggled to find the right words. “I have to take care of something tomorrow, and then… you and I need to talk…”

  Anna nodded, her eyes full of understanding.

  “Okay,” she said. “I can wait. You do whatever you need to do. I’m not going anywhere.”

  Doug felt a rush of pain and sadness shoot through him at her words. He hoped that she felt the same way after he revealed his infidelity to her.

  “Okay,” Doug smiled at her softly, running his hands through his hair. “I’m going to up to bed now. I’ve had a long day, and I have somethings I need to sort out.”

  “Alright,” Anna nodded. “If you need anything, I’ll be out here or in bed.”

  “Okay,” Doug nodded, moving away from her and heading for the staircase.

  “Doug?” she called out after a moment, and Doug turned to face her, raising his brows and waiting for her response.

  “I love you,” she said softly, genuine care in her eyes.

  Doug felt the words like a knife to his heart.

  “I love you too,” he said with a broken smile. The words were true, but they only made his betrayal that much more potent.

  Without another moment, Doug move up the stairs and down the hall to his room. He shut and locked the door behind him, and immediately began to pace.

  Chapter 10

  Doug felt a rush of feelings that he had not felt in an incredibly long time. His rejuvenated love for his wife coursed powerfully through him, and sent waves of both happiness and pain through his soul. Intellectually, he was trying to figure out how he would break off what he had been doing with Nicole. He had already said a thousand things to her, all of which he wanted nothing more than to take back.

  He was suddenly very glad that she had so easily dismissed his ideas about dropping everything and running away from both their lives to be together. It seemed that she was far more rational about all this than he was. Now, Doug could see all the faults in his plan, the biggest of which being that he still loved his wife and wanted to be with her.

  At the same time all these thoughts were racing through his mind, Doug’s erection was throbbing and aching with need for attention. He was bewildered. He would have thought that after having sex so regularly, it would have been more worn out. It seemed, though, that he was intent upon making up for lost time. Just now, though, it was an immense distraction, and it was making it impossible for Doug to think straight.

  He knew he needed to plan out a conversation in which to tell Nicole that they had to break off what they were doing. He knew that was going to be hard given the acutely aroused state of his body at the end of their massages, but he would simply have to get through it.

  With that resolution in mind, Doug decided to go ahead and go to sleep. It was all he could do not to touch himself, especially when the mere memory of his wife’s body pressed against him was enough to make him hard again. Eventually though, he succumbed to a restless sleep filled with dreams of being mercilessly teased with no release.

  By the time Doug woke up in the morning, he was feeling much more restless than when he had gone to sleep. He noted with some relief that his cock has softened, and he took that as the blessing it was. He glanced over at the clock on his nightstand, and noticed with alarm that it was eleven forty. Nicole would be there in a mere twenty minutes.

  Doug hastily rose and took a shower, and then went downstairs to wait for Nicole to arrive. He immediately saw a note on the breakfast bar, and he picked it up to read it.

  ‘Gone for lunch with Kathy. Be back by two. –Anna’

  Doug was relieved that his wife would be out of the house for this session with Nicole. No sooner had he read the note than he heard the key in the lock, and saw Nicole walk in through the front door.

  “Hey,” she greeted him pleasantly.

  “Hi,” Doug said somewhat nervously.

  “Ready?” she asked him.

  “Um, yeah…” Doug nodded.

  They both moved into the garden room, and Doug went through the usual process of undressing, and then laying out on the table. Nicole then began her usual massage. Just as Doug suspected, his body responded immediately to her touches, and by the time they reached the point that they usually succumbed to their desire, Doug’s member was achingly hard and ready.

  This time, though, when Nicole’s hand brushed against his hardness, he gently took hold of her wrist.

  “Please, don’t,” he said harshly, trying to calm himself down. Nicole raised an eyebrow.

  “I…” Doug said raggedly. “You were right. I still love my wife. I want to work things out with her. But that means we have to stop this.”

  “Interesting,” Nicole said, and crossed her arms. “Well, I have to say I’ll miss it. You sure you don’t want one last round?”

  Doug felt his cock twitch at the idea, but his mind and his heart rejected it.

  “I’m sure,” Doug nodded, though his voice was pained.

  “Well,” Nicole sighed. “We still have half an hour. I guess we’d better fill up your time.”

  “Oh, it’s fine,” Doug shook his head in protest, but Nicole kept him laying down with a firm grip on his shoulder.

  “I insist,” Nicole purred. Her hand started their work on his body.

  Doug nearly groaned with the force of his arousal, and it was all he could do to keep himself calm as she touched him. He
r ministrations were certainly relaxing his muscles, but they were doing nothing to ease the ache in his rock hard cock. He didn’t know how he made it through a complete second cycle without losing it, but at last she finally stopped touching him.

  “Well, there you go,” Nicole smiled at him.

  “Thanks,” Doug groaned. “And look… about the things I said yesterday…”

  “Forget about it,” Nicole waved him off. “I’m sure people have said sillier things in the afterglow of sex.”

  Doug felt slightly irritated by her slight, but he brushed it off.

  “I’ve got another appointment to run to,” Nicole said. “I’ll see you later.”

  “Okay, I’d better go get dressed,” Doug nodded, and moved to the half bath to put on his clothes again.

  By the time Doug stepped out of the bathroom, Nicole was gone, and much to his relief. His cock was still unbearably hard. He had half a mind to wait until Anna got home at two, and talk things over with her there any then. That way, he could have it out with her right there and then, and then he could relieve his cock without any more hesitation.

  He knew, though, that he had a workout scheduled with John. So, he schooled his cock to calm down, and he put on a pair of running shorts and a t-shirt, then moved out to his car.

  The workout with John proved to unwind him somewhat, if only by exhausting him. Even so, he felt that at any moment his cock could spring to life.

  Upon arriving home, John moved immediately to his bedroom and got in the shower. He turned on the cold water and shivered for a moment as it washed over his body. He cleaned himself off, rinsing away the sweat and grime form his workout. Then, he got out and toweled off.

  As he dried his body, he thought he heard odd sounds coming from just outside the door. He felt a brief surge of anger that someone was in his room, and then a rush of panic as he wondered if Anna was safe. In a rush, he threw the door of the bathroom open and stepped out into his bedroom.

  His jaw dropped at what he saw, and his cock immediately hardened painfully behind the towel wrapped around his waist.

  There, on his bed, were Nicole and Anna, both completely naked, and Anna covered in oil. Nicole was straddling Anna’s hips, gently massaging her ribs, and then moving up to gently massage at her breasts. Anna’s eyes were hazy with lust as she looked over toward Doug. Doug saw that both of their hips were gently rocking into one another. The whole sight was enough to drive him mad with confusion and arousal.