It was a shocking moment to all who knew us as a couple to hear the words Adera, my wife of over sixteen years was saying in front of our family and friends who had thrown her a surprise party to celebrate some of her achievements. The indirect looks I was catching was amazing as most were wondering how I would react to what Adera was saying.

It was not to me; because of what I had just recently learned. I had figured with the changes she had made in her life that did not include me that it was just a matter of when or where she would publicly announce the end of our marriage.

Even though I had not seen her in over six months in the flesh, Adera looked good. After having missed her birthday because of the virus’s lockdowns it was clear that she had slimmed down and lost about twenty pounds. I wondered if it was a result of the elitists' favorite drug known as cocaine.

At thirty-six Adera still had a five-foot-eight-inch frame that made many a man take a second look. The way her blonde hair was now styled to frame and slenderize her face made her dominant facial feature to come to the fore naturally. An added plus for her tonight was that she was in two-inch heels which helped to tighten her bottom half up making her appear even more slender.

Between the two physical changes, she looked younger and more vibrate than she had when she had left for her latest overseas trip. The places where she had lost the most only enhanced the strength of her body’s natural curves. Everyone was impressed by her looks.

The expensive sleek Paris styled outfit was over the top for here but what she was wearing accented her newfound sensuality in a brilliant and classy way. This was an Adera that we were not used to seeing. We all knew that she was making it clear to all present that she had made changes to her approach to life since we had last seen her.

Her image was one that was advertising the fact that she was a hottie who now saw herself as being back in the market and looking forward to being chased by eligible men even though she was married. It was as if she was telling the world, she had found a new sense of freedom from the conformities of society while telling me I had no choice but to suck it up and accept it.

She was promoting the fact that she was available to the right person for a sexual adventure. To some, it was implying that we had an open marriage. From others, the looks I was getting from friends and family went from sadness to pathetic. If she was trying to publicly humiliate me, she was doing a great job.

Tara her long-term best female friend and soon to be her latest enemy walked over to where I was sitting. To most attending it had been quite noticeable that my wife and I had not spoken to each other since her arrival. Every time I had approached my wife, she had deliberately turned her back to me and walked away.

Even the quests because of the very public display was keeping their distance from me. I was now an untouchable whom no one was to speak to. She had in her own way sent a message to all and they were catching it. Yet Tara walked over with her daughter and embraced me with a natural friendly gesture.

“Who is this woman we are seeing, Ray?” Tara asked with a knowing smile while making sure that those nearby heard her.

“The newly reinvented trendsetter in the globe trotters world, who has no clue to what's going on back here in reality,” I said. “Adera believes she is in complete control but has no clue about anything.”

“I should be thanking you for this,” Tara said quietly. “Now that we see the whole picture through different eyes, we understand how she has used her ways to play her games. I am going to enjoy giving her, her ultimate reward. We got a lot of things to make up for. I thought you would be smiling because of what's going to happen. I know I am.”

“Tara, I promise you I will be at the appropriate time,” I said. “The appearance that I am clueless must be kept up for just a little while. I want to keep what's going to happen a complete surprise. By the end of the night, all will know that I am not the hapless husband she is making me out to be. Just remember that for the next few days I am going to be busy dealing with the aftermath of tonight's events.”

“I guess I am just eager to get it done, and that explains why you look like you’re trying to figure it all out,” Tara said. “If we had only known before what we do now things would be a lot different.”

Tara was right in more ways than one. The problem is that sometimes for knowledge to come we must wait on time. Tonight, for good one way or another the relationship between Adera, Tara, and I would be changed forever.

“Ray, I told Tina during a long talk before we got here who you are, and why things were the way they were,” Tara said with a smile. “I got it set up so that you two can sit together for the dinner. With what's about to happen we will be free from the bonds of the past.

I had caught glimpse of Tina throughout the years when we got together. Looking at her anew I could not have helped having a sense of pride. Tina was a stunningly beautiful lady just like her mother. We got into a discussion about what she planned to do with her life after high school and I learned she was majoring in drafting and design which thrilled me to death.

Over the dinner, Tina tactfully asked the questions I had fully expected her to. By the time dinner was over we were both finding out that the other was acceptable of our changing relationship going forward. Having been raised as an only child she was about to have a whole bunch of family coming into her world once things settle down after the events of this evening.

I could not help but wonder how Adera’s and my three would accept learning that they had a half-sister they did not know about. Funny that this truth would not have come out if Adera had not done what she had done.

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I had been surprised when her father informed that Adera, his pride, and joy had finally been cleared by the government officials in Australia to fly home after the six-month quarantine was lifted. Once she landed in New York she had to be tested and quarantined again for two weeks until she was given a clean bill of health. The state and the city could not seem to get their shit together and ended up complicating the simple.

This Friday afternoon she took a small private plane to make the final journey to our regional airport. Jesse her right-hand man had come with her. For most of the last four years, they had worked together. They had arrived just in time for the official dinner and dance.

With both of us having busy careers no one had an idea what was going on behind closed doors and that was how we had wanted it. Then four years ago our world took a drastic change.

Her father having stepped up to the board of directors had turned the everyday operation to its new CEO and President his eldest daughter who was my wife. So far, the rewards as far as he was concerned had been top-notch. Under her direction, it had taken off. The conglomerate had not had this good of a bottom-line performance in years. Since she had taken over the growth had been amazing. Their greatest competition had been hit hard by the new programs she had put in.

Our three children with the help of my wife’s parents had rented the medium-sized conference room at our favorite club in which we all held memberships. They had used the club's restaurant staff to prepare and serve the dinner. It also had an open bar as all costs were being written off as a business expense. Since there were no virus restrictions in the area everybody invited attended.

We had about fifty to sixty people besides family who were all consider to be elites in the business world attending the private event. Everything was a celebration because it combined a welcome home bash, belated birthday party, and a celebration for how well the conglomerate had done.

The private limo had bought Adera and Jesse directly to this location as soon as she cleared the airport from the last leg home on her latest business trip. We had rented it for the evening so I knew the luggage she brought with her would be available to her when she left.

When they had cornered me with the idea, I had been all for it but none of them could understand why. For me to agree to it without having to be convinced was puzzling to them because it contradicted everything I had ever done.

After all, everybody knew I was the one member of the family that did not like big events and had often refused to attend most of them because I had never felt that I could fit in. In the last ten years, all could count the number I had attended on one hand.

My problems along this line had developed because of the insecurities I carried with me since childhood. To those who knew my walk in life, they could see how they affected everything. As a result, even until this day I never felt comfortable being around those with power, influence, and money.

Yet here I was walking among the elite of the elite in our society mingling with them as if I belonged. Most of them had felt I had married above my class and that Adera had married down.

Our next-door neighbors, Jesse and Janice Yelland were in attendance. Both came from a family who had old money and they protected their image to the max. Like all who came from old money, they conducted themselves in ways that showed that they had power and influence yet only used it when forced into it. Everything they did publicly was done with grace and class.

My eldest daughter Debbie at the age of sixteen was going to be a rock star because with her personality she could convince most to do anything. I had asked her to do what I thought was impossible. It had been her that had convinced Janice to come even though she knew that Jesse would be present.

From the moment Janice had arrived dressed in the sleeveless full-length body-hugging white full-length gown she had my attention. Ever since we had first met, I had naturally been drawn to her.

Having inside information about their personal situation, seeing Jesse and Janice together you had to believe a miracle had been achieved. They were a couple that was about ten years younger than my wife and me. We thought that they were both still finding their place in the world. Both in their way were finding guidance and support from those they associated with closely or looked up to. Sadly, they were about to learn how different that guidance was.

Janice is a looker but lacked self-esteem when we first met her but being our next-door neighbor had seemed to influence her enough that each time you saw her you could tell she was becoming more secure in who and what she was. She had a personality that just seemed to draw one in. As a result, we had drawn close.

Jesse because of his lack of experience with life in general had been sucked into getting involved with an older woman who had manipulated him into providing her on a long-term basis with a personal service that would make fifty shades of grey look tame.

I think that Jesse thought the woman was in love with him, but he would learn the hard way that he was not the only man who would learn how wrong he was. I prayed that with what transpired this evening that he would start to see the light before it became too late for him to save himself.

The bitch he was servicing regularly during the last four years had discovered she had quite an appetite for the kink. She had come into her new sexual awaking thanks to the global lifestyle that she was pushed into because of her latest promotion in the family's international company.

We were all surprised to see them together because we all knew that Jesse and Janice were going through a legal separation which was looking more and more that it was going to end up being a full-blown divorce. Yet as a couple it was nice to see that they could cordially communicate with each other.

Janice had been a basket case for a few weeks after he walked out of their marriage because to Janice it had been unexpected. With both our spouses away so much our friendship had blossomed so much that Adera’s and my children called her aunt because of the respect they had for her. It was not unusual to find Janice step up and help my daughters with the feminine stuff because their mother was never around.

It had been my shoulder that she used as she shed her tears. In my way, I loved her and felt the need to protect her. It was while I was holding her hand that Janice revealed to me that Jesse had always believed he was bisexual.

I knew Jesse’s biggest problem was that he could not live with the guilt and shame he felt when he was back home with his wife because of the new role he was finding himself in. It would take him getting away from his lover's needs to understand what he had gotten himself into.

Most men cannot satisfy the needs of one woman and for too long and he was dancing between two. Something had to give and when it did it was Janice who paid the price. I now understood the Jesse did not know how to deal with women.

With Jesse’s lovers being an older woman with her experience in life she knew how to fine-tune him like a well-known fiddle. With Jesse being innocent on what some humans are capable of, it had been easy for her to manipulate him into becoming the person she needed to satisfy her as she explored her newly discovered dominant sexual needs.

For Jesse’s lover, her new position and her new sexual interests gave her what she didn’t understand, power and control. I had asked myself if she was keeping his manhood under lock and key to ensure his loyalty before I had found out who she was.

Having the pure pleasure of raw uninhibited sex introduced to her while she was under the influence of cocaine. She had discovered that the release she got from that sexual experience brought to her a way to get rid of the stress she carried daily brought on by the responsibilities of her new position.

The more stress she found herself in the more time she spent finding release to those burdens in the wild sexual games she pursued because of the heightened emotional thrills it gave her. Each experience gave her the peace of mind she craved and allowed her to sleep peacefully. She did not see that all that was happening was that she was being fucked to exhaustion.

For her, the ultimate release was achieved when her current lover lay waisted beneath her as her body shook in the pleasure of a total organism that they had provided her with. She found peace by falling asleep in the afterglow.

She was able to keep up her appearance of being a devoted wife and mother when she returned home from her numerous business trips because no one knew what was going on. The added plus was that she could be herself without having to perform at the top of her game.

Only I recently learned the real reason for Jesse’s and Janice’s separation and who Jesse was involved with behind his wife’s back. His affair with the lady had started almost four years when he was convinced to join her family's business organization.

My wife and Jesse had remarkably similar careers until then in the conglomerates their families owned or controlled, and it was quite common for them to run into each other when attending events their companies were involved in. During the downtimes, they had forged a relationship based on trust. It also helped that she had already held some of the positions he was working towards.

Both being involved with world conglomerates meant they spent a lot of time traveling in the same circles. Jesse had been convinced by his father and brothers to join her organization because the families had begun the long process of merging their similar companies. They were now just weeks away from announcing the big merger which would mean billions in added net worth for all of them.

As a result, their relationship had started to evolve as soon as Jesse got comfortable with his new employment situation. Within weeks Adera had come to realize that he was just enough of a natural submissive to follow her into the hidden lifestyle that she was beginning to explore. That was when the seduction of Jesse’s mind and body began.

Having been a competitive athlete throughout his educational years Jesse was still in great physical shape and good-looking to boot. He was naturally tall and slender which made him incredibly attractive to a lot of females. How Janice had been able to lead him into the commitment of marriage still puzzled us all. We all knew that because of who he was he was being hit on constantly.

Adera’s company kept a few private penthouses throughout the world to be used by their upper management when needed with no questions asked. It had been a gift horse that had served her well. Adera had converted the one In Paris to be her temporary home away from home because of her need to travel so much.

Since where it was located was in a society where sexual and sensual things were more open and accepted. Adera had used that location to further explore the darkness in her new exciting dominant side and the sexual benefits she got because of the power and control it gave her.

Adera never saw her conduct as being addictive yet in a lot of ways it was. I learned much later that she used some of those domination techniques she mastered to coheres those resisting her agenda to adapt them to her point of view. All she had to do was find the weakest link and bring them into her ever-growing fold of submissive followers.

Within six months Adera had Jesse sharing her queen size bed regularly. It was then that she began taking control of him by leading him with a gentle loving subtle touch into her world of kink. I had learned that he had adapted to Adera’s new sexual interests willingly because she had gotten him to believe he was in love with her. It didn’t hurt their developing relationship because of the way he saw himself.

No one noticed the difference in their relationship because their offices were side by side and publicly, they were always seen together. Every two weeks they were off working on more improvements and streamlining to make everything soother in the merger. No one knew how intense their emotional and physical relationship was becoming.

Behind the scenes during that time, they had accomplished acquiring a controlling interest in two of the major companies that regularly supplied them with materials they needed thus ensuring an ongoing further steady growth with very controllable costs. Even I had no clue to the depth she had gone to until a week ago.

Only Janice had noticed the little changes in his appearance and diet. After one of the many trips when he returned home, she learned that he had started using an expensive male makeup line. One of the things Jesse did was take up swimming and had a professional styled pool installed on their property so that he could get his needed laps done daily.

It had been a complete surprise to Janice when Jesse disclosed, that he was going to have all his body hairs professionally removed to enhance his overall swimming speed. To Janice, a few of these things just did not add up.

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An envelope addressed to me had appeared at one of the offices in my firm. It was large and had been marked private and confidential. The staff had set it aside and had forgotten to inform me about it. I had it sent to the branch I worked out of.

When I learned it had arrived, I went in to find out what it was concerning. I learned at that time it had been sitting at the branch for over a month. What was found to be inside the envelope that did not have a return address had been quite revealing.

Quite a few of the professionally-shot photographs showed my wife Adera completely nude being tied and restrained while a male and female wearing nothing, but full-headed masks sexually used her willing body to bring fulfillment to all their sexual desires.

The woman in question was feasting on her globes while her male lover penetrated her from behind. Her long blonde hair hung freely over her naked shoulders. Close-ups of her face showed just how much sensual and sexual pleasure she was getting out of it.

One photo showed a woman laying on a bed sucking on Adera’s massive breasts as Adera held her head in tenderness. Adera’s eyes were closed as she was savoring the moment. It appeared that the two ladies were in a long term loving and intimate relationship.

I would learn later that the lady's name was Jasmine and the man whose face was hidden was Jesse. Whoever had sent the pictures was showing effectively that this type of conduct had been going on for quite a while.

The use of sexual aids like leather, feathers, ball gags, double-ended dildos, and other sexual aids could be seen in some of the photographs. It was clear that they were set out to be available for use when needed. It looked like but it could not be proven that cocaine was readily available during these sexual adventures because in one photo the traces of lines had been captured.

One that surprised me was seeing Adera’s nude body arched in an organic bliss as a bunch of tiny feathers was being danced in and out of her swollen womb. The woman who was skillfully working my wife's private area had been the same one I has seen working her breasts.

A few of them I knew were taken in an office somewhere because they showed Adera on the phone conducting what I have presumed was business with Jesse or some unknown females head buried between her legs.

The photographs that shock me to the core was seeing a group of wide-angle shots of three persons taken over a few minutes. In these particular photographs, Janice’s Jesse was bound, tied, and bent over at his waist wearing two-inch heels so that he had no use of his arms and hands. His mouth was being filled by a naked woman wearing nothing but a mask and what appeared to be a double-ended strap-on. There was no doubt in my eyes that Jess had been turned into a complete submissive. I knew to accomplish that had required a lot of time and effort.

You could see he was wearing a set of falsies that almost seemed realistic because they were hanging down between the sides of the black silk like feminine blouse he was wearing. The matching tight black skirt he had been wearing had been pushed up to rest on his lower back exposing his tight boyish naked rear. The black panties that he had been wearing lay on the floor around his feet.

Jesse was wearing a long red wig tied back behind his neck in a ponytail and the makeup he wore made his look very feminine. If you glanced at him quickly you would think he was a girl. Jasmine a well-developed nude lady with huge, exposed globes was softly using her hands to hold his willing mouth in place as she plunged her double-ended toy into the depths of his throat quite easily. What was mind-boggling for me was that Jesse was appearing to be enjoying it.

When I spread out the photographs on the conference table, I saw that parts of the images overlapped. After matching the duplicate parts I overlapped the photos until it clearly showed a very wide image of Jesse being taken at both ends by two like-minded females. Someone had written beneath the photo’s ‘this is how we reward the feminized bitches that work for us.’

It brought back to memory the times my wife, her best female friend Tara, and I was getting to know each other. We were trying to figure out why some women picked out their prospective mates because of their ability to mold and feminize them. It seems in their dorms at that time it was an ongoing subject of discussion. Being a bit naïve it had been an eye-opening experience for me.

The one riding his ass with the huge double-ended strap on she was wearing was holding his ponytail in her right hand. Her facial expressions clearly showed the extreme joy and power she was getting out of the sexual act she was committing while dominating him. The way the photos’ came together there was no doubt that she was the one controlling the situation as it was unfolding.

Both were females who were getting extreme pleasure in treating or rewarding Jesse for what they both were getting. She had the mask that would have hidden her eyes sitting upon her head above her brow wearing it as if it were her crown.

Even with the mask on I would have recognized the image being presented to me. The woman making Jesse her submissive bitch sing a new song was my wife Adera. Feminizing male lovers seemed to be part of her new kink.

Based on what the photograph was showing I now understood why my wife thought I was a sexual prude. What they were caught doing was well beyond something of which I would ever have considered doing.

I gathered up the photos to return them to the envelope and that was when I discovered the tiny blue ONN stick. I took it to my office door and plugged it into the computer. When I opened the file, I knew where the pictures had come from.

The sexual conduct of the three had been captured from start to finish. The sounds of their voices I could still hear in my ears if I thought about it. The three of them were definitely into it. Jesse had even decided what he was going to wear and how he was going to present himself to his feminine lovers before the session had begun.

Each time it appeared that Jesse was ready to spurt the ladies slowed down letting him know by their actions quite plainly that they would deny him a release until they were both worked up to a heated frenzy. A few of the words Adera said I would remember until the day I died.

“Jasmine, your pet is progressing quite well. It will not be long until she will be ready and willing to taste and take real cock. When she reaches that point, Jesse will truly be feminine in every way. You will have to award him with the perfect feminine breasts designed for her frame when were in Japan.”

“Adera,” Jasmine asked, “Do you still plan to stand beside me when I make Jesse my wife when your training of her is done?”

“On two occasions the one to make him your husband,” Adera said. “And the second one when as a female she becomes your wife.”

I watched in shock as I digested the knowledge that what they were making Jesse into was deliberate. He was being trained to be the perfect switch.

Jasmine pulled out of his throat and mouth and asked, “Jesse who do you love?”

Adera stopped ravishing Jesse’s rear.

Jesse replied, “Only you now that Adera has gifted me to you.”

“What is your primary job when we are not working?” Jasmine asked.

“Loving you and servicing anyone you asked me to. “ Jess said without hesitation.

With that said Jasmine again brought her double-ended strap onto his mouth. I watched as Jesse moved his mouth in over it. That was when the action resumed with a faster tempo than before. Before the two ladies were done using his body, he was squealing like a pig begging for release.

I put the envelope and all the pictures through a shredder and locked the stick in the office safe. In their own words, they had proven this relationship had been going on for a while.

Adera had deliberately milked the pleasure from Jesse for all it was worth until she was ready for her ultimate release. Afterward, Jasmine had made him clean up his own cum and clean off the sexual aids with his tongue.

As further proof of their domination of him Jess had to bring them to another organism using only his tongue while Jasmine made love to Adera’s breasts with her mouth. Adera was deliberately helping Jasmine in turning Jess into the perfect switch.

I knew that day that what was left of our marriage was nothing but a façade. It also explained why she was deliberately finding ways to keep herself away from home for long periods. After viewing everything I called her best friend Tara because she was the go-to divorce lawyer for the rich and famous.

For the next few days, it seemed to my family that I was walking on burning lava rock. I did everything I could to make sure that what I knew remained a secret.

My children could not understand why I was so quiet at home but questioned my conduct when I was giving the house staff instruction but stopped when they came into the room.

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The party was almost starting to wind down. It had been a huge success. The band hired by my wife’s parents had just taken a break before they started their third and final set. My loving wife Adera and I had always been the complete opposite in everything we thought, believed, and how we lived. Many who had known us most of our lives thought that it would never work.

I had met her the summer I had hitched hiked through Europe before the modern-day restrictions had clicked in. I met her outside a Hungarian Church that I was photographing because of the architectural value I saw in it. It was so old that it had some of the old traditional Christian symbols that had long ago lost its value carved by hand into the stone. Like the name of God written in its native equivalent carved into the stone above the church doors.

Most in our society today would have no clear understanding of what those letters meant because even in the bible the tradition of not using his name was being taken to the extreme. Modern versions had deliberately removed all traces of it. The elites were starting to remove God’s name from mankind's minds.

She was there on vacation with her best female friend who was also in attendance. They were both free spirits back then and to a degree still were today. Both were spirited with thinking more inclined with those of the drug culture and hippy style of the seventies. Neither were virgins when I met them, but neither was I.

Both had nice packages that made them quite attractive, and they dressed a little too abrasive for my style. Adera flaunted her sexuality constantly with her huge globes partly exposed and bouncing freely. I found that to be a bit of a turnoff. To me, she came across as a cheap low-class whore instead of a lady who came from money.

I on the other hand had grown up in a family that did not have the blessing of coming from money. Everything I had accomplished in life I had to earn on my own or borrow through student loans to put myself through school. It had taught me to be more reserved and quieter in everything I did. I did not go out of my way to become the center of attention like they always did. Back then I had watched every cent as I still did today.

My wife believed I still had the first nickel I had ever owned. Even today I was considered by many to be a private man even though the business I had built from scratch was now worth millions.

My architecture firm now has seven offices throughout the country and was one of the ‘prestige’ in the North American continent. At least twice a year one of the buildings we had designed was featured in one of the field's monthly magazines. Yet little was known about me as a man because I learned fast that I achieved more by keeping my image and personality out of it. I let our designs speak for themselves.

Adera found that I disclosed very little about myself when she knocked me over as I was kneeling lining up for an angled shot on the church they had come to tour. It had been her best friend Tara that had caught my attention because of how she conducted herself when Adera was trying to straighten out the mess she had created.

While Adera was shooting her mouth off trying to apologize Tara had knelt to help me gather all the lens that had fallen out of the carrying case, I had set down beside me. I found that to be one of the things that I found attractive about her. When we made eye contact a mutual interest was born. We even took the time to make sure there was no permanent damage before introducing ourselves to each other.

By the end of the day, we had shared a meal at one of the outdoor cafés in the City of Budapest and learned that the three of us were attending different universities in the city of New York. Once we were back in school, I looked Tara up. We had gone out on quite a few dates before Adera found out.

Adera took that as a personal challenge because in her eyes her best friend had gotten one up on her and that could not be allowed to remain. That is how our lifelong relation started. It was not until a year after Adera, and I was married because she was carrying that I realized that she had from day one had been manipulating everything between the three of us to give her an advantage.

Because of what I was now learning I was starting to believe that Adera had deliberately gotten herself pregnant and informed me first so that I would step up and marry her because of my strong sense of obligation. Tara and I were now fairly sure that Adera and I were not sleeping together when Debbie was conceived.

We had brought three children into the world and until the last four years, it had been a perfect marriage. Everything had worked out great until her latest promotion which she had accepted because our children were getting older.

Now we were like two ships passing in the darkness of night and with a sex life to match which had allowed her to develop those new tastes and relationships that were more inclined to the new lifestyle she had created for herself as the globe trotter she was.

I was now eternally grateful to my father in law because of the prenuptial agreement he had coerced me into signing. It would forever leave me in the driver’s seat going forward. In a way, I was pissed off at myself for keeping my marriage vows when Adera did not.

Our three children, two girls, and a boy had taken the mike during the band’s break to express their warm greeting and birthday wishes. I had even said a few words to thank my children and my wife’s parents for their arranging the surprise for Adera. I congratulated my wife for reaching another milestone in her walk of life.

My wife took the mike already slightly tipsy, “ I want to thank Mom, Dad, Debbie, Deanna, and David for throwing me this surprise. I wonder how you were able to get it past my husband's objections because he is and always has been a stick in the mud. Raymond is so mentally old that he is just a relic because he refuses to keep up with what is considered normal in our ever-changing society.”

That had been the first words she had directed towards me all night. Knowing it was headed downhill fast I tuned her out.

That was the moment, I comprehended completely just how little Adera cared about me or us as a married couple. I was just the one needed to look after the kids while she was off being an active member in the mile high club of the sexually liberated.

The love she had for me as her partner in life at one time was now long gone. There was no love, desire, or will left in her for me because of her new lifestyle. Her utter contempt of who and what I am was coming through to all present loud and clear.

Even my children who were usually blind to everything beyond what was in front of them had a look on their face that proved they had gotten her thoughts registered in their minds. Debbie, our oldest who had just turned sixteen a few months earlier had walked over beside me to take my hand into hers. As we glanced at each other I caught the tears in her eyes. I knew that Debbie had realized that she was watching the end of her parents’ marriage right before her eyes.

I hadn’t changed, but her views of who and what I was had drastically over the last four years. I knew it was because of who and what she now associated herself with regularly and their views of life, in general, that had changed her.

As my wife continued to speak, I used my cellphone to call our house staff to make sure that all of her personal items were packed and ready for transportation as soon as they were informed where to send them. Surprisingly, I found myself in a state of complete peace because I saw what was about to happen as a release of a burden I had carried for too long.

The very things about my personality that had originally attracted Adera to me were now the very things she hated. This one little impromptu speech she was making made me see just what my faults were in her eyes. Believe me, I knew there were many.

You see I am proud of who and what I am. I am proud of my moral values and that truth and honesty still mean something to me. I believe in accountability and that the words a person says out of their mouth still stands for something. I am proud that I believe in no harm to all mankind even those I consider my enemies.

All my building design awards had been because of how friendly the structure was to the environment that surrounded them. Each was designed to leave as little carbon imprint as possible. According to my reputation, I was a leader in the field.

My beliefs are that which allow me to stand up for what I believe and defend them no matter what the cost is. I still believe in an honest day pay for an honest day’s work and that everyone should pay their way.

I believe that if you make your bed that you and you alone should deal with the circumstances you create. I still believed in our father and his son Jesus Christ whom many now claim is a figment of an uneducated man’s imagination that the elite had picked up on and used to create a fictional book as a way to socially engineer the masses. After all, you must be a complete moron to believe and hold onto the false teaching and morals that the bible preaches.

I still believe it's what's on the inside of me that makes me the man that I am. Not the shell of my body which so many judges me by. I am proud to call all humans regardless of their race or the color of their skin my brother or my sister because we all have the same father.

Sad to most of the educated the bible cannot be true because we have evolved from the fifth and slime of the earth and as humans, most have the morals to prove it. That is why in their eyes there was nothing morally wrong or right. After all, they are just acting out like the animals they are and following their basic instincts.

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I am still thankful that I don’t hate those who have condemned me because in their eyes I don’t have the right point of view. I guess they are like my wife who sees that my morals, principles, faith, and standards, in general, mean nothing in our society.

Most people like her believe that if they're old enough to bleed then they're more than ready to breed and were hoping that pedophiles would soon be part of regular society. After all, if your able to train them how to act, perform, and to service your particular sexual tastes when they are young it ensures you of some very pleasurable and self-serving very erotic moments. After all its what's in it for me is the only thing that matters to most.

A lot of animals in the animal kingdom have no problem killing their young. Most of society had found a legal way to bring that same right into human society even though all felt life should be protected. Even those who claimed to have some intelligence that was superior to the animal kingdom were proving by their ongoing conduct that they had none.

During this time Tina and Tara were by my side. Tara was pleased that we were accepting of the other.

“I guess I better go get the paperwork and get prepared for the show,” Tarra said with a smile. “Tina, you want to come because people are beginning to wonder what's going on.”

Tina leaned over and kisses me on the cheek and whispered, “Thanks Dad for making this an evening I will never forget.”

Janice Yelland walked over to me, and said, “Raymond, your handling Adera’s comments very well. I would be fuming if Jess were saying some of the things, she said about me.”

“Janice before we got married Adera’s father had us sign a prenuptial agreement,” I explained. “Tara, Adera’s best friend at my request will be taking the mike to reveal to all who Adera’s long-term lover is.”

“Did you know,” Janice asked?

“I suspected but I did not know who,” I replied. “The proof was provided to me earlier this week from someone I do not even know. When Tara saw the proof that had been supplied to me, she volunteered to become my lawyer. For both of us, that’s when reality hit us both in the face in a brutal way. Since this had already been planned, we felt it was the perfect place to serve them both.”

Janice gave me a look that made me think I should explain further so I added, “Tara and I now believe that Adera has been manipulating the two of us since we first met back during our university days. It forced us to see things in a different light. As a result, a lot of truths have come out. Tarra, her daughter Tina, and I are both looking forward to a life without Adera’s influence in it.”

Leaning into her I quietly whispered so no one could hear. “Tara and I went back through all our history to discover that I was sleeping with her when Debbie was conceived.”

I will never forget how the look on Janice’s face changed as what I had said sunk in then she said, “Brilliant! Tara’s known to be the best divorce lawyer in certain sections and is the lawyer working out Jesse and my separation. You came tonight expecting Adera to do what she is doing. You are giving her a last hurrah before she takes the fall. Everyone here will feel that they have been set up by you to be made into Adera’s fools.”

It was during that period I had learned that Tara whose daughter was seventeen had never married because she still carried a torch for me. It seems that both of us had learned too late what Adera had been doing to all of us. For both of us, this was the moment we had both been looking for because her conduct freed us from the bonds, we had created. Tonight, the past and present were going to hit Adera hard.

After leaving my office Tara and I had taken a long leisurely stroll in the nearest state park. We discussed all the major events the three of us shared seeing it all from a different point of view. That was when I learned of her true feelings towards me. After discussing the pros and cons of starting a new relationship with each other we decided to take the chance to see if it could develop into something further down the road.

We were still walking when a couple with children asked us if we would take a photo of them against the railing that allowed one an unending view of the Appalachian Mountains. We agreed.

I took a few, the last one was of the father and his two sons. The wife asked us if we had children.

Tara answered saying “We have four, three girls and a boy aged thirteen to seventeen, and we are trying to decide if we want to raise a couple more.”

“My parents are doing that,” the husband said. “They feel that they are now better parents because their life as it currently is, allows them much more time to be just a parent.”

That was when we got into a discussion about us having children if we got together. We were both surprised that the other was open to it.

That was when I got a shock that would forever change my life as Tara said, “Besides it's time that Tina begins to get to know the man who helped to conceive her if you are open to it.”

I stood there in shock, unable to speak as I grasped the information. If my memory was correct that was when Adera had told Tara that we had been sleeping with each other. It was not true, but it caused our breakup.

“Why didn’t you tell me back then?” I asked Tara while looking directly into her eyes.

“She was my best friend and until that point, she had never lied to me,” Tara said. “I had no reason not to believe her until I saw her conduct this morning. What we watched together forced me to look back. I’ve realized that there quite a few things she has to mislead us both on.”

At that point, we found a bench and went into a long discussion about the history of the three of us from the holiday trip where we first met until today.

As we said goodbye, we shared our first emotional kiss since before Adera and I had gotten engaged. It left us with a taste of what was to come and a new understanding of what was before us. It would be interesting to learn who we were without Adera's presence in our lives.

“He’s here,” Janice said as she looked around to see if she could tell by facial expressions who Adera’s lover was. “I told Jesse that I believed he was involved with another woman and when I found out who she was I would kill the bitch. I have already purchased the gun I will use.”

I watched as Tarra walked towards Adera and I was grateful that she had never married. I had always thought that she would have made some lucky man’s life complete. For a woman more inclined to be a wild child Tara always did things in moderation. It hadn’t taken long for me to understand that Tara had always had to be pushed into doing some of the wild things my wife and she had done.

I didn’t notice that Janice had picked up the look between Tara and me. To her, it said a lot even though to us it may have been completely just an act of normal friendship.

Everything Tara did came across as an innocent getting caught up in a situation that went too far. Adera you just knew by her personality that she had done it to see if she could pull it off and get away with as little repercussions as possible.

Tara had now reached where Adera was, and I watched it with my eldest as she asked my wife if she could be given the use of the mike. The look of puzzlement on Adera’s face because of the excitement Tara showed made me smile.

I noticed that Tina was watching me closely as she stood with the rest of my kids. David and Tina were in a serious chat. Debbie had just come over to stand by me. Adera’s Mother whom I loved was not a happy lady as she was upset by the conduct of her daughter.

“Debbie you might want to go to your sister and brother to be by their side because of what’s about to happen.”

“If what I am thinking is right,” Debbie responded. “Tara’s your divorce lawyer and Mom’s about to be served.”

I nodded my head and said softly, “and so is her long term lover. It’s time we put the façade of what's left of our marriage behind us.”

“We all thought she might of being having an affair,” My daughter responded. “With her busy work schedule, she is never home. It gave her the perfect storm. My siblings and I are not impressed with this new version of our mom. It seems the virus has been a mixed blessing for her because it allowed her to keep up appearances by having an acceptable excuse.”

“Let your brother and sister know I will explain everything once we get home,” I said before Debbie walked over towards her grandparents and her siblings.

As Tarra introduced herself to all attending I walked out to the center of the room. I wanted to face my wife and her lover directly as they were being served. That was when everyone got the idea that something else was going on.

I got a smug look on my face when Tarra asked Jesse Yelland to join them.

Janice looked at me and mouthed, “is Jesse as her lover?”

I nodded my head in the affirmative. I knew that I had to keep an eye on her because Janice’s face went white.

Once Jesse joined them, it took Tarra less than a minute to serve both Adera and Jess with the paperwork.

“Congrats Adera you are being served with divorce papers on the grounds of marital abandonment and adultery,” Tara said. “It also means that our lifelong friendship has come to an end.”

Turning to Jess Tara said, “You are served and are being sued for marital interference.”

Tara said, “Adera when Raymond showed me his proof, we both realized that you have been playing with our lives since our university years. It is time for you to pay the price with this game ending move.”

Both had been taken by surprise. I think neither one of them had believed they would be caught. Glancing around the room I notice the look on a bunch of people’s faces. Some were apparently in shock. All appeared to have changed their view of me quite quickly.

Adera’s face went white. I was laughing until I saw Janice opening her shoulder purse as if she were reaching for something. Her face showed her pure rage. I quickly ran over to stand in front of her.

I was fairly sure I knew what she was going to attempt to do. She was just reaching in to grab the small revolver when I pulled her hand back from it by grabbing on to her small wrist.

“Let me go,” Janice said in a loud very upset voice, “I have to do it I gave my word.”

Pulling her face forward and tight against me I whispered in her ear, “Grow up, they are not worth you losing your freedom over because of the hurt, anger, and rage you are feeling. Believe me, Janice I have thought about killing the two of them myself.”

That is when her tears let go. I drew Janice into my arms holding her tight. Partly to make sure that she did not have a way to go for her gun. Looking around the room I could tell that we now had become the center of attention. My wife’s parents and our three children were still in shock but realized I had stopped Janice from doing something.

I started slowly start backing Janice towards the exit doors knowing I had to get her away from what was going on. There was no way I was going to release her until we were out of the conference room.

Janice is an exceptionally beautiful lady in her own way. Her soft complexion allowed her to get away naturally by using less makeup than most. To me, that made her more beautiful and desirable. Her red natural curly hair gave one the impression when looking at her facial features that there was a natural loving gentleness to her.

With a frame that included a set of thirty-four double c breasts, a twenty-six-inch waist with a thirty-six set of hips you knew she was not the wham bam thank you mam type but a keeper. She had the frame that a good man could willingly get lost in for years.

I realized that for both of us our emotions and sensitivity were at a heightened extreme. Until we both got them under control it was best that we spoke as little as possible.

As we slowly inched past Adera’s parents I said, “Mom, Dad can you make sure the kids get home. I will be home as soon as I get Janice settled and calmed downed. Then I will answer your questions as much as I can.”

“Fair enough,” said Adera’s Mom. “Raymond just so you know from what's been revealed we don’t blame you, but we do have a lot of questions.”

Adera's dad mouthed while looking at me “what was in the purse?” I replied to him the same way saying, “a gun.”

The look that came over his face said it all.

Holding Janice’s soft warm body tight against mine in close contact caused our legs and bodies to touch repeatedly as I kept leading her towards the exit doors. As she gathered herself together as I kept pushing us forward. With our bodies naturally rubbing against each other, that stimulation along with her inviting sweet-smelling scent flowing into my nostrils caused me to become quite aroused despite what was going on. Hopefully, her frame was protecting me. Thankfully, I got her out of the room without anyone noticing my growing condition.

We had just got out of the rented room to the hallway when we separated so I could close the doors. At that point, there was no way I could hide my erection. It was clear I had a small tent sticking out in the front of my suit pants.

Janice still a bit emotional said, “thank you for stopping me from digging myself a hole I could not get out of.”

With that said she leaned into me and planted a soft gentle kiss on the side of my cheek before adding, “that’s for reaffirming naturally that I am still a woman that an honest man finds attractive. You don’t know what your hardon was saying to me.”

We walked down the hallway to the main entrance. I gave the parking attendant my ticket stub for my car, and he quickly went to retrieve it.

“I took a taxi service to get here,” Janice said. “Can you drive me home?”

“Gladly,” I said, “But we need to make a couple of stops first if that’s okay?”

It was. The first stop was to the office where I had left the ONN stick. I made two copies before putting the original back in the safe. I did it so that Janice had her own proof to use in her divorce from Jesse. When I gave it to her, I explained that what on it would explain too much but would provide more than enough evidence needed for her to take Jesse to the cleaners. Then it was off to the police station.

As we pulled up Janice said, “You want me to go in and turn in my gun. Don’t you?”

“For the next little while I think its best that you don’t have the temptation in front of you,” I said. “An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of the cure.”

I watched her walk into the station wearing the long full-length body tight white gown she had arrived in. I felt sad that life in general didn’t allow us to always appreciate what we had. Janice from behind had a tush that a lot of men would die for. The natural wiggle she had when in heels was a turn on. I just wished that in time that she would find the right man for her because of the right reason.

It took her about fifteen minutes before she returned to my car. When she got situated and the car door closed, she slid herself over to sit right beside me. It brought back memories of when I was young.

“I hope that no one who was not there tonight sees us,” I said, “because it would leave them with the wrong impression.”

“Why do you always have the right thing to say,” Janice said with a smile. “When one seems to need to hear it.”

I started the car and headed out. Janice got as tight as she could to my body. I must admit I was flattered by her attention.

“I explained everything to the female officer before handing her the revolver,” Janice said. “She congratulated me for being proactive and said that they would give me a month to reconsider before sending it out to be destroyed. She pointed out that it took a lot of love and respect for me as a person for you to step up and do what you did. I have to admit she is right.”

It took us about forty-five minutes to get back to her estate. During the whole ride, Janice kept her head resting on my shoulder. Neither one said much because we were both lost in our thoughts. As we drove past my place, I noticed that no one had arrived home yet. After parking the car, I escorted Janice to her front door to make sure that she was able to get in.

“Ray, could you please come in for a moment,” Janice asked?

No sooner was her front door closed that Janice surprised me by turning around to face me. Without saying a word, she attacked me aggressively with quite a few deep long tender tongues exchanging kisses. Each one was stronger and more demanding than before.

We were both so into it that I was automatically exploring the softness of her inviting tush. It was soft, warm, and pliable in my hands. It had been a long time since a woman had been aggressive with me as Janice was. I knew that if I did not get out of there I would be lost.

When we broke our kisses off to catch our breath there was no doubt or regret. I could see the passion of desire burning in her eyes. She could tell my friend was standing at attention harder than ever because she had to have felt it pressing against her.

Janice looked directly into my eyes as she said, “I know you love me as I love you and that we are not in love with each other. But it’s with love that I am going to lead you to my bedroom so that I can undress you and ravish you into exhaustion.”

I guess I hesitated just a little too long because Janice tossed her purse and reached up behind her shoulder blades and undid the button at the top of the zipper of her long sleeveless gown and then pulled the zipper down. It fell to the floor leaving her dressed just in her white lace panties. She came across as sweet, innocent, and willing. Seeing her almost nude only encouraged my hard-on. Janice then began undoing the buckle of my pants.

“If you think that you might be taking advantage of me because I’m in an emotionally weak point,” Janice said. “Get it out of your mind right now.”

With my pants unbuckled, the zipper pulled down she slid her hand between the fold in my underwear and gripped my swollen member.

I gave in and said, “Lead the way.”

And that was what she did.

We didn’t even make it under the sheets before I was lost exploring her young undiscovered country. It did not take long for me to remove her panties. Nor for her to strip me of my clothing.

The more I searched out as much about her willing flesh that I could the more turned on we got. Let me tell you that Janice is a real redhead. I don’t know how long I showed her my appreciation of all parts of her body with tender kisses before we committed to giving our bodies fully to each other.

Our first joining had her on top. Man, I discovered how she was tight she was as she lowered herself down on me while drawing my soldier into her. Her heat was intensive. Our eyes locked on each other as her body adjusted to me. I felt like I had died and gone to heaven.

I was learning that Janice had an aggressive side when she needed it. It took every fiber in my excited body to make sure I put her needs and wants first. It had been so long for me that I was afraid I wouldn’t last.

She leaned down towards me so that her pert breasts pushed into my chest to share a few kisses with me as my manhood pulsated inside of her. Two bodies that come together would rarely make one feel that between the two you were one. We just seemed to naturally fit together as if were where we belonged.

I don’t know how long we were lost in giving the other what we needed. When she started, I could feel each mini organism as she edged towards the big one. When it came boy did, she ever cum. Her juices flowed out of her soaking my lower parts.

She was amazed when I went down and started cleaning the remnants of our lovemaking up. Janice, we learned that night was one of those women who could lactate when her body was sexually overstimulated.

She was embarrassed but I drank the milk from her breasts willingly, she lovingly accepted my attention with grace. She in a loving manner held my head gently as I eagerly took the protein, she was offering me. Little did we realize that our shared unique intimacy would create a special bond between us for life.

We ended up falling asleep feeling completely at peace with our nude bodies intertwined with the other.

I awoke to discover Janice laying tight against me watching me wearing a smile and a look that showed she was content and at peace. When I got up to use the bathroom she crawled under the sheets and waited for my return.

Within seconds we were again lost in the charms of each other. Every second we were together was pure joy and excitement. We made love twice before we said a word and again, I drank the milk she lactated as she held my head. I kept a little of her warm milk in my mouth and shared it with her before starting to work on the other one. We dosed and awoke in that position. After having a shower together ended up back on her bed in a sixty-nine.

Even though she was a lot younger than I was that didn’t seem to bother her. The whole time we were together we were no more than inches apart.

We were resting savoring the pleasure of the afterglow. Janice had her hand on the tool that had provided us both with so much pleasure when she said, “What I shared with Jesse was just sex. No man has ever been able to stimulate my body so that my breasts leaked.”

“Your milk has a different taste as to what my ex- wife’s had when she was breastfeeding, “ I said. “Your milk is richer, thicker, and sweeter than anything I have tasted. It’s a reward I could get used to.”

Janice’s eyes lit up as if they were sparkling in delight. I guess my acceptance of what she might have thought was weird meant something. She raised her head towards mine and we shared a few tender kisses. It was nice just to relax and be with each other as we cuddled.

“Ray, you have shown me what it means to make love with someone who truly loves you and accepts you as you are. With a true emotional bond and the natural desire to put the needs of the other first you have shown me what making love is all about. Thanks to you I will never accept less.”

We spend quite a while just cuddling sharing the moment as if we had no rush in the world. I found it very hard to stop playing with her soft tush. I couldn’t help but wonder if Adera found Jesse’s just as appealing.

We were dressed and drinking our first cup of coffee when Janice’s cellphone went off. It was hard to believe it was almost one o’clock in the afternoon. It was her mother’s driver who was calling from the gated entrance. She had flown in to be with her because she had heard the news.

After opening up the gate to her estate Janice said, “Mom’s timing is perfect you can tell all concerned that I was so distraught that you stayed with me until we could find someone to give me the moral support I needed going forward.”

“I guess I should finish my coffee and get out of here,” I said. “Just remember if you need anything, I’m next door.”

“Plan on me needing more of your special comforting at least until the divorce is over,” Janice said with a giggle. “Or until you and Tara figure out where your common interest is going whichever takes longer. That’s if you are willing.”

I had just placed the empty coffee cup in the kitchen sink. I turned to Janice who was standing beside me took into my arms giving her a kiss like the one that had started it all. Janice responded like she had the night before. We both knew that if her mother were not coming, we would have ended up going back upstairs.

We both understood that we couldn’t get enough of each other. After we broke it off Janice with a smile a mile wide said, “That’s the kind of answer I like. Ray call me later so I can let you know what's going on.”

She was seeing me out the door when her mother pulled up. Janice quickly explained who I was and why I was there still dressed in a suit.

With that done I headed for my home next door knowing what I would be facing. I knew I had to hide what I was feeling. I could not remember a time I had been so turned on or tuned in to a woman. Janice and our loving making had made what I had gone through during the last four years’ worth it.

Here I had just left her bed a few hours ago and already I wished that I were back on that bed between her legs embedded in her warmth.

********

When I got home the first thing, I learned was that Janice had called to inform them that I was on my way because her mother had arrived to give her the emotional support, she needed to get through it.

Adera’s parents Elizabeth and Richard Drury had stayed the night. As soon as I got over the welcome home stuff, I handed Richard the stick and told him to go look at it privately in my home office.

In the family room, the rest of us gathered. I explained what Janice had considered doing and explained that after she had calmed down a bit, we had dropped the small revolver off at the police station.

When Richard returned, he handed me the stick which I put in my pant pocket.

“Mom, Dad, Kids. From what I have learned Adera’s affair with Jesse began about six months after his family requested, he join the company to help find ways to make the merger between the two families conglomerates smoother,” I said. “Records will show that even in quarantine they were sharing the same living space even though they retained separate residences.”

My mother in law and children seemed to accept my explanation of what had been going on until my father in law opened his mouth.

“Ray’s trying to be protective of you all,” Richard said. “Their conduct is worse than that. I think I can honestly say that with what I have just seen. If I had known what Ray knew before last night. Ray would not have been able to stop me.”

Elizabeth looked at her husband as if she were studying his face and after a couple of seconds said, “You are serious.”

“Yes, I am,” Richard said. “Her conduct has not only brought shame and reproach to the family but to the corporation itself. The woman I saw participating in the sexual contact I saw on the video file was not the daughter we raised.”

I excused myself explaining I needed to shave and change. Deanna walked with me as I headed to my bedroom.

“We all talked last night,” Deanna said. “We all were worried about you and what you were dealing with.”

“How are you, your sister and brother handling it,” I asked.

“I guess we all learned that knowing is better than not knowing,” Deanna said, “because a lot of questions have been answered. After a heated discussion, we all agree that Mom did not leave just you but all of us.”

I stopped took my daughter into my arms and said, “ I had suspected something was going on for quite a while and it was just this week that I got the proof. Denna, it still hurts and is going to hurt for a while until we find a way to live with the outcome.”

With those few words the pain, the tears, and the emotions she was holding in let loose. It's moments like this when we learn how much damage is done when one's conduct tears a family apart. I held my middle child until she had calmed down.

“I was the one that answered the call when Aunt Janice called,” Deanna explained. “We talked for a few. She told me what the police officer said when she turned in her gun. Grampa and Grandma said you had put yourself at risk to protect our mother after what she did.”

“What I did was no big deal, “I said. “Any good friend would have stopped their friends from doing something stupid because they had lost control as I did.”

“Maybe, but in Janice’s eyes right now you walk on water,” Deanna said, “and perhaps you always will.”

I smiled and thought about our lovemaking before responding further.

“Any word about your mother?” I asked.

“Jesse and she left right after you did,” Deanna explained. “Grampa found out from the limo driver that they returned to the airport and took the first flight out.”

“Why?” I asked.

“Grandma told everyone that you had stopped Janice from pulling out a gun,” Deanna said. “A lot of people came up to us and asked us to forward their apologies for their conduct towards you.”

I smiled and explained “No one needed to know that. Your grandmother should not have disclosed it.”

“But it was the truth!” Deanna said.

“Yes, but in the big picture, it does not matter,” I said. “It rarely does. Most likely it’s been spun by gossip into something that it never was. That is how the tabloids we see at grocery stores make so much money. They spin the truth into something it’s not yet most who read it will believe it.”

“Just like Mom did to all of us, Right Dad?” Deanna said in sadness.

“What even sadder is the fact that her conduct shows that in her eyes none of us were worth being told the truth,” I said. “Yet out in society, there was nothing wrong in their conduct.”

“When grandpa said you were protecting us all,” Deanna asked, “was he telling the truth?”

“You are still too young to be told of every detail,” I said. “But what your mother was doing with Jesse would make what the movie called fifty shades of grey portrayed look tame.”

“Grandma won’t even talk about or watch that movie,” Deanna said. “According to her it's degrading, demoralizing, and nothing but pornographic porn.”

“And the difference between one's views on that movie depends on their personal view of morals,” I said. “Some believe in them and live with them some don’t.”

“Anything else I should be aware of,” I added.

“Tara and then Tina called wanting to know if we had heard from you,” Deanna added. “Both were showing their concern.”

“Do me a favor, call one of them so that they know I am alright,” I said, “and inform them that I will call them this evening.”

“Tina has been asking a lot of questions about you, first to David last night and Debbie when she called earlier,” Deanna said. “So much so that it’s kind of getting us wondering.”

“I think I know why, and I promise you will get the answers to explain everything,” I said. “When things in front of us have settled down.”

********

It had been quiet since I arrived home on Saturday. I was grateful because it gave my children and me time to adjust. Janice and I had touched base with each other a couple of times and she had gotten me to promise I would come over as soon as her mother left.

Tina and I had arranged for a private luncheon for Friday because it was only half a day at school, and I was looking forward to it. I could not help but wonder how our lives would have turned out if Adera had not interfered.

Making love to Janice was going to be one of my favorite memories for a long time. Janice in a way restored a part of me I thought I might have lost. My faith in myself.

I had taken the first two workdays off to make sure I was there for those who needed me at home. Each of my children had needed some private time. I was thankful that I was wise enough to be able to help them sort their emotions out. This morning I had called a general meeting with the staff so that I could catch up on things which had just broken up.

“Ray there is an Isobel Rausing who wishes to talk to you if you are available?” my receptionist asked after sticking her head through the door.

“Give me a minute to tidy up and get to my desk before escorting her in,” I replied.

I wondered who she might be because I had never heard of the name before. So, when I heard them walking down the hallway I stood up. As soon as the lady walked in, I recognized her as Janice’s mother.

If you looked at Janice and her mother, you would know they were related. Even though their hair colors were different there were enough features that made the statement true because their build, looks, and mannerism left no doubt about it. Both were very desirable women in their own way.

“Nice to meet you again,” I said as I offered her my hand.

She took it and said, “Thank you for seeing me and for what you did for my only daughter. I am on the way to the airport to catch the private plane I had called in and wanted to talk to you before I boarded.”

“How is Janice doing?” I asked with interest. “I have not talked to her since late Sunday.”

“She has come to terms with it all and is adjusting nicely. She was in a better state of mind when I arrived than I expected,” Isobel revealed. “Primary because you took the time to make her realize she was not a failure or was at fault for what happened.”

“Thank you for your kind comments,” I said. “What can I do for you today.”

“First of all, Janice and I watched the file you provide her. To be frank and honest we were both shocked, disturbed, and upset by what it revealed. It will serve her well in her divorce. Janice wondered if she had been too blind to see what Jesse wanted and wondered if the reason, he married her was because he had needed a shield. It led to a long discussion between my daughter and me. We talked about everything from her life going forward to her relationship with you and it has drawn us closer than we have ever been since she was a teenager.”

I guess my face showed my response because she said, “Relax Mr. Wright we're both adults. Let me put a few things in perspective. I have three children, two sons, and my only daughter; all have the same father who I have never married. We started our relationship as friends with benefits. Their father and I are still in a loving relationship that works for us. He too is about ten years older than me.”

It was beginning to get interesting, figuring it was going to be a long conversation, so I asked the receptionist to bring in coffee.

“Our family originally had its roots in Sweden now we are like most families spread around the world,” Isobel explained. “Because of a disastrous first marriage and our family's net worth I decided it was best not to ever remarry.”

One can understand that” I replied. “Especially when you’re dealing with something like your daughter, and I are.”

“We both live individual lives which are multi-layered and complicated but are not all relationships like that in their own way?” Isobel asked.

“You won’t get any argument for me,” I said. “I’ve always believed what you do behind closed doors is nobody’s business except those living behind those doors.”

I guess my words seemed to please Janice’s mother because I could see by her body language that she was starting to relax and become comfortable being with me.

“To thank you properly the family decided it would be best to have your background checked out. Let me say by the reports they received on you that they were extremely impressed. Both professionally and personally you have a stellar record,” Isobel explained proudly. “Expect a phone call within the next week with a request that your firm submits a proposal for the designing of a new museum for the city of Stockholm that we are sponsoring.”

“Thank you for the honor and please call me Ray,” I said as the receptionist brought the coffee tray in. “I’m sure when I receive the request that they will give me some general details in what it will be used for.”

Once we were served and she had left closing the door behind her it got interesting.

“The other woman from the video file is a distant third cousin that Janice has never met. I was able to identify Jasmine from the sound of her voice. Let me make it clear that she will be handled accordingly by the family once they view the file, I emailed them,” Isobel stated. “It will be done in such a way that she should never be a problem for my daughter, or you as you are going forward.”

After pausing Isobel went on. “Even with those who are considered elitists, there is a pecking order. There are not things that are not considered acceptable once they are brought into the publics' eyes. As a result, there are some pretty harsh ways of dealing with those deemed undesirable.”

Thank you it’s nice to know,” I said. “To be honest I have not given Jasmine a second thought other than her being another advantage for me in the custody battle.”

Isobel got a smile about that because I guess she realized that my focus was and would always be on my children’s needs first.

“Janice has come into her own and I think that’s primarily because of your long term evolving relationship with her,” Isobel honesty said. “I’m immensely proud of how she is turning out. Her confidence in herself has come to the fore during this time and it shows.”

“She a very nice lady who I am fond of, even my three children love her,” I said. “Janice knows that she is a close friend to me and my children. So much so that my children refer to her as an aunt.”

“I am very aware of that and what had transpired before I got here, including the status of your relationship,” Isobel said. “Even to the point of your helping her deal with the shock, she found herself in when over-stimulation caused the lactating of her breasts.”

I blushed. Isobel smiled and said, “Janice said you were a private modest man. I see that she is right. It just reaffirms in my mind how well the two of you know each other. This is my way of informing you that I approve of whatever kind of relationship my daughter and you work out.”

“Thank you that means a lot,” I replied.

“If it works out the way I want it to,” Isobel said with a smile. “I look forward to her visiting in the future with a full-time nanny and a couple of young ones that you have fathered following behind her quite closely.”

I laughed because the lady could be brutally frank and that was refreshing. I found myself liking the lady, so I asked her, “do you have the time to squeeze in an early lunch with me at the club?”

“The pilot is used to waiting for me to get there so I’ve got all the time in the world,” Isobel said. “An hour or two is not going to add much to the cost.”

I quickly called the club's restaurant to get a reservation for a table and off we went. While Isobel was instructing the limo driver, I called Janice and asked if she wanted to join me. Janice was waiting for us when we got there.

“Mother!” Janice said with a bit of attitude. “I asked you to stay out of it.”

Isobel laughed and smiled before saying, “I just stopped to let Ray know that he was going to be offered the chance to take his firm international.”

“Sure, you were,” Janice said. “If I ask Ray if the two of you talked about kids, what is he going to say.”

“Not a word,” I replied. “Because I am not going to be dragged into the middle of this.”

Both Janice and Isobel laughed.

“Mom I told you what he was like,” Janice said with a smile. “He’s very careful in everything he says.”

“Most thinking men are,” Isobel said. “When things go to hell in a handbasket it's men like him that will be the ones still standing. You will always know where you stand with him because whether you like it or not, he will be straightforward and honest.”

With that said we headed into the club after Janice, and I shared a few tender kisses under her mother’s watching eyes. Isobel seemed thrilled to death with the attention we were publicly displaying towards each other.

Lunch surprisingly was a huge success. Isobel loved the quality of the food and the restaurant's atmosphere. Janice was pleased to see that her mother and I were starting to develop a relationship with each other.

Just before she left to go through the security after kissing us goodbye on the cheek Isobel said, “I expect to see the two of you when Ray is doing spot checks on the building of the museum. Janice let me know in advance so that I can arrange to have your father there.”

We went back to the club to get her car and I followed her back to her place.

As soon as we got through the front door Janice said, “I sent you the program that will open and close the gate. Your house key is sitting on the kitchen counter. Mom and I had everything changed while she was here. All of Jesse’s personal belongings have been placed in public storage.”

As soon as we reached the kitchen, I put the house key on my keychain. I started to rinse the coffee pot and together we started it brewing. While I sat down at the end of the kitchen table Janice warmed the coffee cups. She had unbuttoned her blouse and pulled it out of her dress slacks.

Since I had turned the chair to the side she came over and sat on my lap after slipping out of her shoes.

“Thanks to you Mister,” Janice said after kissing me, “My mother is going to be calling me weekly to see if you have gotten me to the point that my body is changing its shape.”

“Is your father exclusive in his relationship with your mother?” I asked thinking about what Tara, and I had agreed to.

“My father is married,” Janice explained. “He was my mother’s first husband’s older brother. That is why everything is done discreetly. Like my mother, his family comes from old money too. He is a member of the House of Bernadotte and is part of the Swedish Royalty. I believe he’s tenth in line for the crown.”

“That explains a few things,” I said. “I told your mother that what happened behind closed doors is nobody’s business except to those living behind those doors.”

Janice got up and poured us a coffee. After preparing them she returned with them then proceeded to sit on my lap.

“Mom and I did some online researching about my breasts lactating and learned that for some females it could be started at the moment conception takes place,” Janice explained with a big grin.

“You’re not on birth control,” I said.

“Not since Jesse and I split,” Janice said with a giggle.

Janice looked into my eyes, and I could see how excited she was about the possibility of us creating a love child. I pulled her deeper into my body and gave her a long deep tender but demanding kiss.

“You’re not wearing a bra,” I noted.

“I can’t,” Janice replied. “My breasts are swelling and since they were tight before the bras were starting to leave red marks. Mom said her breasts acted the same when she became pregnant so with her second and third, she knew before it was confirmed.”

“What are you hoping for if it is confirmed that you are?” I asked.

“Mom wants a girl since both of my brother's wives have boys,” Janice said. “I don’t care as long as it’s healthy.”

“We will have to decide what its last name will be before its born,” I said.

“No, we won’t because when I talked to my divorce lawyer, I learned I can legally change my last name to anything,” she said. “So, I am going to change mine to Wright.”

I smiled because I knew that she was not looking at marriage and for now neither was I. We both had a lot of things to sort out.

“Just between us the reason that Tara’s daughter was spending so much time with me Friday night,” I said. “Was because earlier that week Tara revealed that I am her father.”

Janice paused for a few minutes as she digested the information and said, “If you had not gotten the proof of Adera’s and Jesse’s conduct you would never have known.”

“True because it took Tara seeing that video to realize that she had been lied to by Adera back during our university days,” I explained. “It led to us spending the day reviewing everything to reveal all her deceptions throughout the years.”

“That explains the look I saw between you,” Janice said. “Does that mean that Tara wants to reconnect after all these years?”

“Not sure yet,” I said,” because emotions are still too raw. Tara and I have a friendship still but not sure what it will be like until everything is settled.”

“Where does that leave us? Janice asked.

“Right where we are,” I said. “Our relationship was formed because of what Adera and Jesse were doing to us. Our love, friendship, and trust in each other is strong and gets stronger each day.”

I guess I said the right thing because Janice got up off my lap and headed us towards our bedroom as she put it. Where she showed me my new closet and dresser for my clothes.

“Thanks to cable tv the social value’s in American are changing,” Janice pointed out. “Promise me that you will be opened minded when it comes to what both Tara and I want because we both want our children’s father in their lives.”

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It had been a month since Adera was served and in the morning's paper, the announcement of the successful merger was published in the New York Times. What was noticeable to me was that Adera’s and Jesses’ names were not listed as being in the new management team.

When I called to congratulate my father-in-law, Richard told me that Adera and Jesse were still employed in the conglomerate but had been assigned to manage one of the subsidiaries. That told me that their careers and future had been dead-ended.

During this time, it had been confirmed that Janice was indeed carrying our first child. Tina and I were drawing closer, and she was going to become an intern working in the local office over the summer. Tara had already figured out what was going on between Janice and me because Janice asking her about changing her last name.

Tara and I honestly tried to build a relationship but soon learned that we carried too much baggage from being involved with Adera for so long. She wanted another child, so she got impregnated through her doctor using my semen which pleased Janice very much because our relationship had become exclusive. It was during that process that she met her future husband. He was the single doctor that inseminated her.

As per state law, all my three children had been interviewed by state services. All three would be remaining with me. It had been during a family meeting that I revealed to my parents, the in-laws, and Adera’s and my children that Tina was my daughter.

It led to me having to explain how it all came to be. It was hard for all of them to learn that Adera’s deception had been going on for that long.

Richard and I were taking a walk on the estate. He wanted to learn what was happening with the divorce and if there was anything, he could do to get his daughter to speed it up. That was when he learned that there was a very strong possibility that my eldest Debbie was not my daughter.

It took three months for Janice’s and my divorce to be completed I think Richard and Jesse’s family stepped in. Both of us ended up with the advantage as a result we had put both of our estates up for sale. We both felt it was time for a fresh start. Thankfully, she was not showing because we were headed to Stockholm.

My in-laws would be watching the kids for a month while I oversaw the start of the construction on the museum. Mine was not the cheapest but it was chosen because the design complimented the city and left the least carbon imprint.

Richard promised to watch over the construction of our new home. Before starting on this trip, I had taken the kids aside to get their blessing. All three were thrilled to death with what I wanted to do.

We flew in and were met by Isobel and her two sons. We were there about a week before we got the chance to take a stroll down along the Crown princess Victoria’s and Prins Daniel’s karleksstig. It was a walking trail on the western part of Isbladskareet, between the Djurdardsbrunn Canal and the pump house at the south of Isbladskarret. As we were enjoying the afternoon, I got down on one knee and asked Janice to marry me.

Janice was not expecting this but thankfully she did not hesitate. I think it was less than ten seconds for her to scream yes. Let us be honest with her it was an emotional moment. As soon as I slid the ring on her finger, she was smothering me in kisses.

At seven that night local time using my cellphone we called the kids in front of Janice’s parents. The way we broke the news to them all was perfect.

Debbie had put the speaker on so we could talk to all three of them like I had on my end.

“Your dad and I were wondering Debbie and Deanna if you would honor us,” Janice said. “By agreeing to be my bride maids.”

Isobel and Swen were caught so off guard that Isobel started to cry. Of course, it led to a thousand questions from all that we had no answer to so we had to promise that we would inform them once we had decided on a few things.

After things had calmed down Janice told Isobel that she was getting the granddaughter she always wanted.

It was while we were in Stockholm that we learned that Adera Wright, Jasmine, and Jesse Yelland were lost at sea and that the authorities were looking for their plane. I was reminded of Isobel’s promise to me.

We would learn that Adera survived but had ended up spending a month on a local fishing boat. We don’t know what happened, but she came back a broken person and retired to live life quietly in the keys in Florida.

It was fall in the last half of September when Janice and I wed. Tina, Debbie, and Deanne were her bride's maids. David my son and two of my brother’s sons both a little older stood at my side.

Isobel, Swen, and all of her side of the family were in attendance. Isobel held Issi her month old granddaughter the whole time. The marriage took place on a section of the lawn on our new estate. Adera attended. I overhead Debbie and Denna talking about their mother who now had to regularly use a cane.

“Mom made decisions in her life, figuring she could have it all,” Deanna said. “She never thought that karma would have its say.”

“True but when you compare both our parents,” Debbie replied. “Karma gave back to them what they both deserved.”