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Limerence | Episode 5— continued from here
Cheating — Then I Kissed Her
I punched the air like a twenty-year-old rather than a forty five-year-old husband and father
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…