Unknown - Sally_s Secret Lover

any doubt, Ray still dared to think he might get the loan, after all! ;

In fact he spent most of the Labor Day weekend working on his presentation for Mr. Quigg. He was going to the bank on Tuesday morning and Sally became increasingly nervous as he talked to her about it. Yes, she nodded, it was a good time … the first day of school … fall at last in the air, a new season … a perfect psychological moment.

«For God's sake, pay attention!» Ray snapped at her suddenly, and she jumped. Hadn't she been paying attention? «You don't want to stay here at all, do you?» he continued accusingly. «You don't like Tennessee – you want to move to a city – why don't you come right out and say so?»

«Oh, no,» she said, seating herself in her husband's lap, «I do want to stay here, darling. All our plans … and there's our lot in Hickory Acres … I want exactly what you do. I-it's just that I'm afraid you'll be so disappointed if -« she broke off, tears in her lovely gray eyes.

«I'm sorry, honey,» he groaned, «I'm trying to take out my own doubts and frustrations on you. Sometimes I even wonder if we should have got married at all … your parents were right you know, you could have done a lot better.»

«Ray Denham, you stop that silly talk! I could never in this world have done any better. I love you.»

They clung to each other wordlessly, but even as their lips were meeting the inevitable question was drumming through Sally's brain, what should I do? Suppose that she did let John Blodgett come here … that she permitted him to make love to her … it was only a half-hour or so out of a lifetime, and then he would be committed to keep his promise because once they had done it they were equally guilty and she could tell his wife. Innocently, Sally believed that Lauralee must be the reason for driving John Blodgett to proposition another woman. His wife was beautiful and aristocratic, but perhaps there was something lacking sexually. Only why did he want her, then, when she couldn't even satisfy Ray, her own husband! No, she couldn't go through with it, not even for Ray's sake. Just the idea of it turned her stomach … another man, inside her … no, no, no.

Ray went to the bank and was well received by Lee Quigg, who immediately passed the news on to Blodgett after the visit. Ray was told the loan would be taken under consideration, although Quigg looked rather grave when Ray admitted his only assets were $2800 in his savings account.

«What about your folks?» Lee questioned, «haven't any of 'em got some property or something they could put up for you?»

«The only property my folks have already has a mortgage on it,» Ray admitted. «Everybody's not rich like your family, you know.»

«Well, I want you to know that I'm going to do the best I can for you, Ray,» Quigg said, shaking hands. «I'll be in touch with you.» He ushered Ray to the door of his luxurious office as if he were the bank's most valued depositor and the gesture made the young pharmacist feel somewhat better about his prospects … not knowing, of course, that his wife's assets – namely, her appealing young body – were going to be the deciding factor.

And so they waited to hear from the bank, with both Ray and Sally growing more edgy every day. John Blodgett was disappointed that he had not heard from the young Mrs. Denham, maybe she was going to be tougher than he had figured. God damn, he did hate to lose a bet!

Lee Quigg was pestering him about it every day. «I have to tell him something soon, John. What do you want me to do?» It looked like a little push was needed to get things moving in the right direction again and so he instructed his brother-in-law to stall just a few more days and in the meantime to invite the Denhams to the party that was being given at the Country Club on Saturday night. Although they were not leaving for Florida for at least another month, the party was in the nature of a going away affair for John and Lauralee. Accordingly, Lee telephoned Ray at the drug store and gave him the invitation and Ray took it to be a good sign that he and his wife were being included.

To his amazement, Sally did not share this enthusiasm. She did not even want to go, and they quarreled again before she abruptly gave in and agreed. Ray felt he would never understand his northern wife, particularly when she began to take great pains in getting ready for the party, getting her hair done and shortening an old long formal that she'd had in college into a cocktail dress. It was simply made of light green lace, sleeveless and with plunging necklines in both front and back, a great deal more sophisticated than the styles she usually wore.

Quiggville was too small to support a country club, but many of the local people were active in the one at the county seat and for this evening, at least, Quiggville natives seemed to dominate the crowd so that the Denhams saw more familiar faces than they had expected. Several tables had been pushed together in one comer of the large main room and they were welcomed into a group that was already quite lively when they arrived at nine-thirty.

Sally's eyes were drawn irresistably to the table where the Blodgetts sat. Oh, God, he'd seen her and was staring back! John Blodgett's light blue eyes ran all over her figure appraisingly. Then he nodded and raised his glass to her in a mock toast. Sally sat down, her cheeks blazing, and tried not to look again. Lee Quigg had seen her entrance, too, and he leaned over to whisper in his brother-in-law's ear, «Still think you can fuck her?» Blodgett smiled and made a little circle of his thumb and forefinger. Shortly afterward he got up and made his way to where the Denhams were sitting, greeted Ray effusively and asked Sally to dance. She got up stiffly and joined him.

«You're lookin' mighty pretty tonight, Sally,» he commented, immediately pulling her close in an intimate dancing position. «All the local girls are jealous.»

«I am a local girl,» she pointed out coldly.

«Well, 'course you are, and I hope you stay one … but I forget that sometimes. You haven't been really initiated as a local girl yet,» he chuckled. «How come I haven't heard from you? I though we were going to get together.»

«Mr. Blodgett, please,» Sally fought to retain her composure. «My husband is here, your wife is here – how can you go on that way?»

«Why, honey, they don't know we aren't talking about the weather and the football game same as everybody else! Don't push away from me like that … I like to feel those tits of yours right up against me. First time I ever saw you, I noticed what a pair of beauties you had.»

Sally stumbled and missed a step, but he held her so tightly that no one even noticed. She felt as though her whole body was dissolving in shame … good God, she had to go on dancing with him and listening to the flood of obscenity … she couldn't make a scene here!

«Wait till I get you alone,» the husky voice went on, «and get your clothes off. I want to suck those tits … I bet they taste just like honey!» To her absolute horror, Sally found that the very shocking lewdness of his words was arousing her breasts, she could actually feel them swelling and the nipples stiffening, right through the filmy lace of her dress. In her entire life no one had ever spoken to her as he was doing, certainly not her husband, Ray! «And you got something else that's just like honey …»

The music went on and on and the numb girl allowed herself to be guided along in the loathsome arms of John Blodgett, braced for whatever filthy thing was coming next. Her whole body tingled from the stunning surprise of hearing words she had seen only on lavatory walls and which could not help but arouse erotic thoughts in the most chaste girl by their very lewd suggestiveness.