I could understand… Steven was gay or at the very least, bi. He’s hidden it for so long, it had to frustrate him to not be able to be him.
But, Jane knew… at least now she knew, and she was just about to embrace it.
“I’m sorry.” Jane said and retreated.
I moved quickly, as I heard my bedroom door open and Roger walked out.
“Hey…” Roger said looking at his phone. “I got a call from Russ… we might get the Halton contract. I’m going to have to head back today to work on it with them.” He walked over and kissed me. “I’m sorry babe.”
“Are you kidding me, that’s great news! You need to get on the road.” I pushed him.
Within 20 minutes, Roger had left the three of us here to fend for ourselves.
I was happy for him. It was a new build that they’ve been trying to get for the last year.
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I had gone back to preparing dinner, and had just gotten out all the makings for a salad when Steven walked out.
“Hey hunny.” I greeted him, maybe a bit awkwardly.
“Hi.” He said. “Did you look at my laptop today?” He questioned.
“Umm no. Why?”
“I don’t know. File was open. I made sure to lock it.” He shot back.
“The file?” I asked him.
“Yes.” He was agitated.
I put the lettuce, carrots, and cucumbers into the colander and washed them really well, keeping myself from looking at him.
I finally turned toward him. He had on some sort of work out shorts and a sweatshirt.
“Why don’t you tell her?” I asked him.
“Shh… Jesus mom.” He hushed me. “She dozed off but damn… I don’t want her to hear.”
Frustrated, I ignored him and turned and began cutting up the lettuce and carrots.
“I’m sorry.” He started. “She was trying to be all…” he searched for words, “kinky I guess. She was trying to be sexual in a kinky way… it’s just not her… so I don’t know if she found it and was testing me or what.”
I laughed and turned toward him, cucumber in my hand. “Testing you, Steven? Really… how so?”
He got closer to me, keeping his voice low. “She wanted to rim me, play with my… backdoor. Like massaging her finger into me.”
“Look, what happened the other night… I’m sorry…”
“Mom don’t start that, it was a one…”
I cut him off, “let me finish. What happened the other night shouldn’t have happened, but it did. Do you think she’d ever guess that? Ever guess that you… or me for that matter, are that dark? That taboo?” I held my finger up to my lips, “shhhh… don’t answer. Of course she wouldn’t guess it, not in a million years. But, let me ask you this… what about her? Maybe she has just as kinky taboo fantasies, and she’s too nervous to tell you.”
“She doesn’t…” he shot back. “Trust me… she’s not kinky.”
“Maybe she says the same thing about you…” I shot right back at him. “When she’s talking to her friends… she says ‘my husband is a prude.'” I paused thinking. “Let me ask you this, Steven… you like men, their sex, their scent, their bodies… but you have a wife. Why?”
He shrugged, “I love her…”
I laughed, “are you turned on by women or not, Steven?”
“It depends I guess…” he answered back nervously.