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Cheating — Then I Kissed Her

I punched the air like a twenty-year-old rather than a forty five-year-old husband and father

Juniper Less
Mmm Mondays — Life Matters
3 min readJul 17, 2024

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An attractive young woman with red hair and freckles
Ginny froze — Photo by Olena Bohovyk on Pexels

Without considering the consequences, I leaned in and gently kissed her.

I’d just got back from a tennis progress meeting with the PE department at the local boys private school, when a note on the fridge caught my eye. It was from my wife, Mary:

Hey Handsome. Emily has asked me to stay for a few days. She has boyfriend problems as usual. You can binge that serial you like on Netflix x

I stared at it for a moment. My mind in overdrive. Emily was Mary’s oldest friend. She’d never settled down and seemed to like it that way.

The kids were also away. Camping trip with the local Out-of-Bounds company, leaving the house strangely quiet.

A rare opportunity.

Ginny’s lessons were going well. It had been a few weeks since we’d had a beer in town, and I’d struggled to keep her image from my mind’s eye. I appreciated Mary deserved better than a lecherous husband. But it didn’t stop me obsessing about my mate’s daughter. How had she turned out so beautiful…

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Juniper Less
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Written by Juniper Less

Writing a bit of this, and a bit of the other... "Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved." Less is More https://medium.com/juniper-berries

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