For the time being, this thread is closed to little_golden and myself, though we'll need other players soon. Gentlemen are welcome to drop me a private message stating their interest -- then wait for an invitation, please.
The allure of younger women is college teaching’s greatest perk and its greatest danger. A pretty student visits her professor’s office. Suddenly he’s on the fulcrum between opening her mind to the wonders of his academic discipline and opening himself to a sexual harassment suit.
And yet, Brad – silver haired in his forties – had walked that perilous tightrope with a coed half his age. If theirs had been an affair merely of poetry and picnics, it would have been risky enough. But he had led her to dark places; places that could have cost him a job; her, a reputation. The sex was scorching, dangerous, a catalog of erotic extremes.
Bold, edgy physicality anchored them both before and after the wedding. The heat of black trysts rendered them immune from whispered May-December criticisms. But sex was a single dimension of something richer. He wrapped her in a lover’s passion, a father’s protection, provision’s security, authority’s power, and the primitive animal appeal of a survivor.
Brad wasn’t trying to catch her at anything. Nothing in the two years they’d been married sounded warning claxons. Indeed, she aroused in him everything but suspicion.
He’d simply come back for his reading glasses. And overheard her end of a damning conversation. As he understood more of the call’s content and meaning, heartsplintering shock froze Brad to the middle of the kitchen floor. She walked in, the wireless phone against her cheek. A male voice in the earpiece called her name into the room’s heavy silence: “Mona? Mona? You still there, baby?”
Moments passed with only the clock’s loud ticking. As the second hand swept the face of the dial, Brad’s mind zoomed down a dozen corridors: jealousy, anguish, revenge. But where he lingered last and longest was the surprising avenue of… leverage.
“Who was that, darling?” he smiled in a calm baritone. First, he was in a place to demand details. Then, he was in a place to use them.
The allure of younger women is college teaching’s greatest perk and its greatest danger. A pretty student visits her professor’s office. Suddenly he’s on the fulcrum between opening her mind to the wonders of his academic discipline and opening himself to a sexual harassment suit.
And yet, Brad – silver haired in his forties – had walked that perilous tightrope with a coed half his age. If theirs had been an affair merely of poetry and picnics, it would have been risky enough. But he had led her to dark places; places that could have cost him a job; her, a reputation. The sex was scorching, dangerous, a catalog of erotic extremes.
Bold, edgy physicality anchored them both before and after the wedding. The heat of black trysts rendered them immune from whispered May-December criticisms. But sex was a single dimension of something richer. He wrapped her in a lover’s passion, a father’s protection, provision’s security, authority’s power, and the primitive animal appeal of a survivor.
Brad wasn’t trying to catch her at anything. Nothing in the two years they’d been married sounded warning claxons. Indeed, she aroused in him everything but suspicion.
He’d simply come back for his reading glasses. And overheard her end of a damning conversation. As he understood more of the call’s content and meaning, heartsplintering shock froze Brad to the middle of the kitchen floor. She walked in, the wireless phone against her cheek. A male voice in the earpiece called her name into the room’s heavy silence: “Mona? Mona? You still there, baby?”
Moments passed with only the clock’s loud ticking. As the second hand swept the face of the dial, Brad’s mind zoomed down a dozen corridors: jealousy, anguish, revenge. But where he lingered last and longest was the surprising avenue of… leverage.
“Who was that, darling?” he smiled in a calm baritone. First, he was in a place to demand details. Then, he was in a place to use them.