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Cheryl stared at me, her mouth wide. "How do you know?" she asked.
I looked at her gravely for a moment and then said.
"I need you to listen to what I am going to tell you. Please let me finish and I'll tell you everything I know, and how I know it. Once I have told you everything you can ask any questions you have then. Will that be ok?"
She nodded with some obvious trepidation.
I told her my story, How I had come home to hear her and Sheila talking, and decided to try and see what was going on. I told her about the cameras, about the listening device in the Twins' Games console, and played some of the clips for her. When she saw Sheila putting something in her drink she put her hand to her mouth in horror. I played her all the soundtrack recorded on the listening device at Bob and Sheila's including where they talked about Jeremy getting her pregnant, and also the recording from the week before the meeting where the plan to induct us was laid out. I also told her about my visit with Gerald Sykes and what he had told me, and then played the tape of Sheila telling Bob that she was going to introduce Cheryl to "Ramone" as she had Stephanie. I explained how I had come up with the IRS audit to interrupt this plan and to also ensure that Cheryl wasn't alone for the rest of the week, showing her the tape of Sheila once again trying to give her drugged wine.
After I finished my tale I sat waiting for her to assimilate all the information I had given her. This was possibly the most scared I had been. I knew I had crossed the line in spying on her but even now I felt it was justified, given the circumstances. I didn't do it to invade her privacy, I did it to protect her, and us.
"Where are the cameras?" she asked.
"One in here, one in the living room, one in the office, one on the deck, and one in the bedroom," I said softly.
"The bedroom?" she asked her eyes going wide. "Then you saw..." She blushed scarlet.
"I saw my beautiful wife doing something selfless thinking that it would make our love stronger. And if you enjoyed the experience then where's the harm?" I said to her. Her blush deepened.
She was silent for a few minutes after. Then suddenly she looked dead in the eye and said.
"You BASTARD!!!"
I recoiled but she followed me.
"Three FUCKING DAYS!!" she yelled "THREE FULL FUCKING DAYS I sweated on that tax audit and now you tell me it wasn't real??? All that work was for nothing?"
I couldn't help myself; I began to laugh.
For a moment she glared at me, then I saw the corner of her mouth twitch up, and then we were both howling with laughter. The total absurdity of the situation released all the tension that had accumulated in us both over the previous weeks. We laughed until we cried, and then we just sat holding each other, emotionally drained but content. I knew we would be ok.
Six months later.....
We had had to move offices. The business was still growing, and we had employed two more techs, and also we had decided that Cheryl needed to work at the office and needed a desk to work from. As the demand for our services increased there was more for her to do and she was relishing being a part of it.
We had each packed a bag on that Sunday afternoon and moved into a room in a long-stay motel until we found ourselves somewhere more permanent to rent. We listed the house and when we found ourselves another place, had movers go and pack up everything from our old house and put it into a storage unit. We would use another company to move it into our new place and ensure that it would be as difficult as possible for them to find out where we had moved to. I didn't think they would try to follow us, but I wanted as clean a break as possible from them as I could. We changed our cell phone numbers also.
This particular morning, we were happy as we had just received an offer on the house, which was nearly 20k over what we paid for it. So we came out of it financially quite well. It didn't hurt that it was a couple of gay guys who were moving in. I wondered idly if they would be asked to join the cabal.
"There's someone here to see you" one of our techs announced and I looked up.
A beautiful young redhead came into the room, and I stood to meet her.
"Cheryl who was sitting at her desk looked on shocked as this woman dashed over and threw her arms around me crying."
"Umm," I said intelligently, patting her awkwardly on the back.
I saw movement at the door and Gerald Sykes walked in, smiling. Everything clicked into place.
"Cheryl," I said "This is Gerald Sykes the person who owned the house before us. And I am hoping that this is Stephanie?" I tried to disentangle myself from the sobbing woman. Cheryl stood up, came over, and helped to extricate me.
"We were walking down the block and saw your new offices. I pointed them out to Steph, and she wanted to come in and say hello and thank you." Gerald said.
"Well." I said "Hello Stephanie" I handed her a paper towel. While beautiful, a face full of tears and snot was not doing her look any favours.
"I'm so sorry" she sniffed. "When I saw you and thought of how you had saved me, the thoughts of what had happened hit me once again and I lost control. Even now I still wake up thinking that the last six months were a dream and that the nightmare of the previous year is still the reality. I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't helped us"
Cheryl put her arm around Stephanie and led her to the couch we kept in the office. She gestured for Gerald to sit and we sent one of the techs to the coffee cart (we had found a new one near the new offices) to get us all coffee.
While we sat drinking coffee we told them what had happened to us, and how we had, by the skin of our teeth and with a great deal of luck, managed to escape. They both laughed when we told them we had sold the house to a gay couple.
"You never know," I said "maybe that is what they need to strengthen their relationships" everyone laughed.
15 years later...
I can hardly believe how time has flown. The business took off so well that I franchised it and now there are 15 stores with my company name on them. I don't need to work anymore, I just keep a weather eye on the business and make suggestions.
And now I am sitting on the deck of my home. Cheryl is swimming lazily in the pool, a young man pacing her. I have a beautiful young woman curled up in my lap snoozing after her swim.
Get your mind out of the gutter!!!
The young woman is Jodie, our 8-year-old daughter, a real daddy's girl who loves to snuggle up, especially when she is tired. The young man in the pool with Cheryl is our son, Jamie who is 12. He loves to swim and keeps both Cheryl and me fit by almost constantly challenging us to race him.
We kept in touch with Gerald and Stephanie and became good friends. They were due to come over in an hour or so with their three kids.
Of Jeremy and Beth, Dave, Tracey, Bob, and Sheila we heard nothing. They never tried to contact us, nor us them. As far as I know, the two gay guys are still living in the house but more than that I couldn't say.
We don't really care!
- COMMENTS
Anonymous3 months agoSo, they didn't get any payback on Jeremy and his crew, leaving them to potentially hurt others? Ughhh!
Anonymous4 months agoI agree with Rapierwit; this story should be rated higher, and I enjoyed it very much much. *****
Anonymous5 months agoGreat buildup of tension: the discovery of something off, careful monitoring, and execution of the plan! Very fun read!
And can everyone give the characters a break? A wife loves how hard her husband work that she feels she’s not doing enough. So she gets groomed by an experienced woman with nefarious intent, who is skilled in manipulation. Then she is drugged. MC isn’t sure whether Cheryl has bought in and is loyal. He interrupts the drugging sessions and gives Cheryl words of affirmation frequently. He’s paranoid because someone’s out to get him!
desecration8 months agoThis is wonderfully creepy. A cult like Judeo-Christianity, Apple products, or the Democrats.
Anonymous8 months agoDislike
Had to inform on community so other innocent people didn't get drugged!!!!
Many ways to do it
Anonymous8 months agoSorry but the cunt wife cheated on her innocent husband. Plus the wife if she truly loved her husband would have told the other bitch who was talking shit about her husband to show some respect and leave the house. Also the video shows the wife getting drugged,and even though there is no blood evidence,the local police can still turn up the heat on the swinging assholes,and make them sweat. Just another cuck b.s. story!
Rapierwit2460110 months agoAnother outstanding story deserving of a far better score, but what can you expect when you publish a story in this LW viper’s nest, where they regularly eat their own.
I have a mind to write a story set in Newcastle upon Tyne about a centuries old family. I would have them spout constant US idioms and use US spelling. How long do you suppose it would be before UK readers came after me with pitchforks and torches!
Your Caleb stories began particularly peppered with UK idioms and spelling, but eventually you shed most, but not all, of your Brit-speak. Not so much here.
I taught British Lit for decades, have probably read more of it than 90% of UK citizens and watch BritBox and BBC America regularly.
Since I’m 100% Irish American with family killed in “the troubles” I refuse to call myself an Anglophile - but others have.
Anonymous10 months agoHigh intensity thriller. I thought that the plotting and pacing were very good throughout. Good use of the dark underbelly literary trope and the common swinger/cult type situation in LW.
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Of particular note, I enjoyed there being both a reconciliation and a thwarting of evil plans. The swinging crew had their playbook down lock, stock, and barrel and a military wife is particularly prone to loneliness and stress. Good for Gerald and Stephanie.
Anonymous11 months agoA brilliant little story that was sound entertainment. The seducer was clever, trying to get the wife she was inadequate in order to manipulate her. Unfortunately most people believe others think tee way they think. We don't, and that is why the evil plot failed. Definitely a 5 for the clever plot, but characters, writing style etc. sealed the deal.
On of the commentators said the wife loved him so much she did not want to share her husband. Balderdash! That is not love but selfish possessiveness. The love was her willingness to unselfishly do whatever she could for here true love.
Careful readers will note:
"The bedroom?" she asked her eyes going wide. "Then you saw..." She blushed scarlet.
"I saw my beautiful wife doing something selfless thinking that it would make our love stronger.
Anonymous11 months agoIf I was Cheryl, I would see it as almost unforgivable that my husband witnessed me get drugged, and a 2nd attempted drugging, and not say a single thing to me about it until after all was said and done.
EastCoaster1about 1 year agoInteresting take on the swinger-recruitment theme, but probably better-handled than most.
Five stars from here on Part 1... on to Part 2 to see what it holds...
Anonymousabout 1 year agoWow! A Loving Wives story where the wife loves the husband so much that she does not want to share him.
Sadly, too many people are too easily convinced that their lives are less than they think they are, that their spouse can’t possibly be completely happy with them, if their lives are not chock full of sexual partners, anal sex is not offered, etc.
By then, they are too insecure and intimidated to actually ask their partner if their needs are being fulfilled and what else they might enjoy. Somebody else starts pulling the strings. And these people were masters at controlling the situation.
Well done!
Anonymousabout 1 year agoGood read. Found the MC actions frustrating at times. He had full knowledge but refused to derail the train putting his marriage and emotional life at risk for no reason. He “ needed more information “. Such a LW trope. WHY would you go to the party ??? I know we need a story but he just tied this whole situation in knots when he could have easily ended all of it with his marriage intact and further unthreatened.
EdgeOfSundownabout 1 year agoWhy is it necessary to make the husband do all the "work" in keeping his wife faithful? It's fucking ridiculous.
slowhand21over 1 year agoDon’t know why they felt they had to escape. A 12 gauge in Jeremy’s crotch would have sufficed to convince him of the error of his ways. Part two is even better though.
Anonymousover 1 year agoPlenty of angst but with a happy ending. Agree should have included retribution for the cult members.
AllNigherover 1 year agoNice but seems they should have don't a way to inform the police. This isn't a simple case of seduction... they're drugging people without their knowledge.
Otherwise great tale. Thanks
Anonymousalmost 2 years agoGreat story. The MC did everything right. Right on done the line. Glad they escaped. Felt bad dor Stephanie and Gerald. Glad they reconciled. Jeremy and Beth and Sheila are monsters. The dlow "drip" was insidious. The truth of their cult was scary. My only beef is that why did Sheila not get charged with attempted rape by Cheryl and Alan? They have all the evidence dead to rights. It is a slam dunk, though the listening device information in the console is not admissible. But the drugging is a criminal act. And Sheila talked about what she planned to do that Friday night to Cheryl, except she was saved by his brilliant IRS audit hoax. Personally as soon I saw her drink was drugged the first time, I woukd have confronted my wife and shown what was happening. He had some of the conversations by then. Not all the pieces. But he had enough to know they were in danger. Cheryl is a true loving wife who got turned around and deceived and drugged. She would have supported them fleeing. Or going to the police. Drugs last in the system for days. As soon as Cheryl was drugged. Take her to get tested and get out of there. Why risk it? Still made for a taut emotional thriller. Just I would have been too cowardly to wait. If instead of being terrified and supportive, Cheryl prevaricated or hesitated, them would know that she wants something else, but an attempted rape and being drugged is no small thing. Sheila at the very least would have been hit with a felony with the nonconsensual drugging. Doubt the rest would have been hit with charges, but would have made for a heck of a newspaper story! Would have brought the cult into the light.
sdc97230about 2 years agoThey had video of Sheila drugging Cheryl, and of the whole cult plotting to drug Alan. Criminals act on both state and federal levels. Somebody needed to be perpwalked out of their house.
Anonymousabout 2 years agoThat is a very sharp , clearly defined story line . For those qho say it can't happen here, I beg to differ. I know that there is a man in CO who has been building a similar community structure to what is described here. The difference rhat he is a Pilygamist , not a Swinger . The difference in function is that all males over the age of 13 are under contract to work a minimum of 70 hours per week on projects assifned by the landiwner . They do not have time or resources to build housing for their families . It is impossible for them to generate an income to provide food, water or energy . In the company store business model at this property , default on debt is punished by banishment . In short , male familiy members are culled from the herd . When a prospective family is considered for inclusion , one of the conditions forcapproaval of residency is that Lwgal Guardianship of female minor children must be ceded to the owner . The guest quarters used during the evaluation process is wired for audio and video recording . People are living in the film 1984.
Anonymousabout 2 years agoHow did this happen, or even get past the lw police. We have a main character who is not an idiot. Must be harbinger of the apocalypse. Vey hard to grasp.
ZippityDoDaDayabout 2 years agoI'm a little surprised the grammar was off in several spots but I've never used grammarly. Overall, a good story.
Anonymousabout 2 years agoIt was well told but they should have closed on the sale and then told the gay guys about their new neighbors! It would have been fun to see them blow up the supposed cult in some clever fashion.
cruzer1955over 2 years agoI did like this tale. The end was not how I would have wanted, but it isn't my story.
26thNCover 2 years agoI thought it was a very good story that would have been great with some justifiable retribution. I still gave it a *5.
NYcastawayover 2 years agoI have read this story before from a different author. Are you reposting this? It was well before 2022
MisterMordinover 2 years agoWhy didn't he just burn down the neighbors house as soon as he realised what was happening. That's what I would have done.
inka2222over 2 years ago... and before you say it (OK, OK, you already sait it in pre-word to the sequel - In didn't yet read the sequel though) - I wasn't expecting the husband to deal out the retribution alone or at that time. BUT... he had access to his technical expertise AND a highly trained armed services retiree with far more motivation for revenge than him. I can't possibly believe they couldn't have caused a major pain together.
inka2222over 2 years ago4 stars because it is a happy ending. No 5 stars because the evil criminals (and yes they commit rape by drugging people) were not punished in absolutely any way.
FlynnTaggartover 2 years ago4. Enjoyable and well written with a thankfully happy ending. The only real problem I have with the story is like other similar stories of people trying to "trap" someone the person being trapped willingly walks into it rather then shutting it down once they hear about it. Too many variables I would think dealing with known predators.
BlueEyd2over 2 years agoNice job but the ending did not resonate with me. Why weren't the cops involved since he had legally obtained videos of his wife being drugged at home? That would have helped insure that Sheila, Jeremy et al didn't do this again and to another couple? They did not get what they deserved.
