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I got home for dinner a little earlier than expected.

When I walked through the front door, Mateo was stretched out on the sofa still playing Battlefield. He'd showered after the gym and changed into something considerably more comfortable than what he'd been wearing earlier, looking like he'd already started settling into our house.

I walked over, gave him a fist bump, and asked if there was anything else he needed.

“Nah, man. I'm good,” he said. Then he nodded toward the stairs. “Erica's been more than helpful.”

Something about the way he emphasized more registered with me.

Only for a second.

I knew Erica. If somebody needed something, she'd bend over backwards trying to make them comfortable, especially if they were one of my friends.

So I brushed it off.

I headed upstairs and found Erica getting dressed after her own post-gym shower.

I came up behind her, kissed her cheek, and told her I loved her. She leaned back into me almost automatically, and before long our innocent greeting turned into the kind of teasing we'd always done with each other.

Erica had complained for years that I enjoyed winding her up far more than I enjoyed giving her what she wanted immediately.

That night was no different.

Eventually she turned around, giving me that half-annoyed, half-amused look I'd seen hundreds of times.

“You're such a dick.”

I laughed.

“You always have to tease me and then leave me hanging.”

“Aw, baby, I have no idea what you're talking about.”

She rolled her eyes because we both knew that was complete bullshit.

I kissed her again.

Then I nodded toward downstairs.

“You sure you're okay with it just being you two tonight? I know you literally just met him.”

“Baby, shut up.”

She laughed.

“What do you think we're going to do, burn the house down?”

For just a second, her eyes drifted upward like some private thought had crossed her mind.

At the time, I didn't even register it.

“We'll be fine,” she continued. “If anything, you better check on him. I think I hurt his pride with my Battlefield skills.”

We laughed again.

As I walked out of the bedroom, I glanced back and saw Erica checking herself in the mirror.

Again, completely normal for her.

She liked looking good.

She liked feeling attractive.

Still, looking back now, there were details I remember differently.

She adjusted her clothes twice.

Fixed her hair.

And she'd put perfume on after her shower even though, as far as I knew, she wasn't leaving the house.

None of that meant anything to me then.

Mateo was still on the sofa when I came downstairs.

Erica followed me to the front door.

She kissed me goodbye.

“Don't get yourself into any trouble,” I joked.

She smiled that same big smile I'd seen at the gym earlier.

“Oh, don't worry. I'm sure Mateo can keep me out of trouble.”

Those were basically the last words she said to me before I left.

In hindsight, the irony is almost ridiculous.

What I didn't know was that sometime during the next few hours, both of them were going to start testing exactly where the lines were.

Everything I'm about to describe obviously happened after I'd already left. Erica told me most of it much later, after everything finally came out. Mateo filled in a couple of details himself eventually.

Apparently, after dinner, they went right back to Battlefield.

Erica opened a bottle of prosecco and poured them each a glass.

Then another.

They talked shit to each other while they played, and according to Erica, she was still absolutely destroying him.

At some point Mateo finally laughed and said something that changed the tone of the entire evening.

“For somebody who apparently thinks I'm the good-looking one out of Brad's friends, you're showing me absolutely no mercy.”

Erica told me later that she immediately felt her face getting hot.

“What?”

Mateo laughed.

“Come on. Brad told me.”

“Told you what?”

“That little comment you made when he showed you our old pictures.”

She immediately became defensive.

“I didn't say anything like that.”

“Sure.”

“I just said you're probably more attractive than most of his other friends.”

Mateo stared at her.

She stared back.

Then she laughed.

“Okay, fine. You're definitely the most attractive one.”

He smiled.

“But that doesn't mean anything.”

And that easily could have been where it ended.

It probably should have been where it ended.

They both laughed, blamed the prosecco for making the conversation weird, and went back to playing.

But Erica told me later that she couldn't stop thinking about the fact that Mateo now knew she found him attractive.

That awareness changed something.

Suddenly every glance felt more deliberate.

Every joke had a second meaning.

And less than a game later, Erica was the one who pushed things a little farther.

“Well,” she said, “it's not like I haven't caught you looking either.”

Mateo apparently went quiet.

Erica continued.

“I've seen your eyes wandering.”

Mateo could have denied it.

He didn't.

“Hold on,” he said. “You can't entirely blame me for that staircase stunt yesterday.”

According to Erica, she immediately smiled.

The fact that he'd noticed mattered to her more than she'd expected.

But Mateo also seemed to realize exactly where the conversation was heading.

He set the controller down for a second.

“Look, Brad's my friend.”

That immediately sobered the conversation.

“I'm not touching any of this. Let's just focus on the game.”

And this is one of the things I struggled with the most when Erica eventually told me what happened.

Because Mateo gave her an exit.

A clear one.

They'd acknowledged the attraction.

He'd acknowledged that he'd noticed her.

And then he deliberately tried to put the boundary back where it belonged.

All Erica had to do was let him.

She agreed.

They went back to the game.

But the conversation stayed in her head.

After another round, Erica got up to refill their glasses.

She told me later that she was standing in the kitchen thinking about what he'd said.

Brad's my friend.

I'm not touching any of this.

She knew exactly what he meant.

She also knew she should probably finish her drink, go upstairs, and call it a night.

Instead, she poured them both another glass.

When she came back into the living room, she walked over to Mateo and handed his drink directly to him instead of setting it on the table beside him.

She leaned in just slightly as she did.

According to Erica, she knew exactly what she was doing.

That was one of the harder things for her to admit to me later.

She could still tell herself she hadn't crossed any real line.

She hadn't kissed him.

She hadn't touched him inappropriately.

She hadn't said anything she couldn't technically explain away.

She had only handed him a drink.

But she wanted him to look at her.

And he did.  His eyes lingered for a couple seconds too long at the cleavage in front of him, his friends wife’s large natural breasts hanging freely inches in front of his face.

Eventually he looked away.

Erica noticed.

She also noticed him shift uncomfortably and pull one of the sofa pillows across his lap.

That was the moment, she told me later, when everything became real.

Until then, she could pretend she was just enjoying some harmless flirting.

Now she knew.

Mateo wasn't simply being friendly.

He wasn't just humoring his buddy's wife.

He wanted her.

And for the first time that night, Erica had to admit something to herself that she definitely wasn't ready to admit to me.  Her body betraying her loyal instincts as she felt a sudden warmth and wetness spread from between her thighs.

She wanted him to keep wanting her.

What I didn't understand until much later was that this was the moment Erica stopped wondering whether Mateo was attracted to her.

From that point forward, the question became what she was going to do with that information.

I think enough time has passed that I can finally share this story. Names, locations, and a few identifying details have obviously been changed, but I’m going to tell it exactly the way I experienced it.

At the time, I—Brad—had been serving in the Army for just shy of twenty years. I’d made Sergeant First Class and was perfectly content with retiring at that rank. I’d accomplished most of what I wanted to accomplish, survived more than a few questionable decisions along the way, and had finally reached a point in my life where things felt settled.

A big part of that was Erica.

We hadn’t been together for decades or anything like that. I’d only met her a few years earlier, after getting stationed closer to home near a National Guard installation, but somehow we developed the kind of trust that I’d never experienced in any previous relationship.

I never checked her phone.

Never worried about who she was talking to.

Never wondered where her loyalties lay.

And Erica was just as open with me.

That honesty extended to our pasts too.

It was no secret that Erica had always had a weakness for men in uniform, which certainly hadn’t hurt my chances when we first met. Early in our relationship, she’d told me stories about her younger years—including more than a few questionable late-night
adventures involving Soldiers passing through the nearby installation.

Some of those stories probably would have made other husbands uncomfortable.

For whatever reason, they never bothered me. If anything, I found them fascinating.Over time, that openness allowed us to become more adventurous
together than I had ever been in a previous relationship. Erica loved attention. She loved knowing men noticed her. And, to my surprise, I discovered that I enjoyed knowing they noticed her too.

There was a difference, though.

They could look.

She was still coming home with me.

That was how I saw it.

Then I got orders back to Europe.

Erica had a major say in where we tried to go, and when Italy became an option, she didn't need much convincing. Not long after we arrived, I found out that an old buddy of mine named Mateo Rojas was getting stationed in the same area. Mateo and I went way back.
We’d deployed to Afghanistan together years earlier, and we'd experienced the kind of things that tend to permanently bond
people. We’d also done our fair share of celebrating once we got home—bars, cookouts beside the barracks, questionable pregame decisions, and plenty of nights that ended much later than originally planned.

By the time Mateo was coming to Italy, he was in his mid-forties, a little older than Erica and me, and his career had gone farther than mine. He was about to put on the diamond and become the First Sergeant of an airborne infantry company.

I was genuinely excited to have him nearby again.
Before he arrived, I showed Erica some old pictures of us.

Afghanistan photos.

Pictures from cookouts.

Group shots from nights out.

She listened to stories about things Mateo and I had done years before, occasionally shaking her head at how stupid we'd apparently been.Then she made a comment that caught my attention.

“Wow. I didn’t know you actually had an attractive friend.”

That was a running joke between us.

Erica had always claimed that I somehow managed to be the most attractive guy in every group of friends I'd ever had.

Normally she'd dismiss my buddies immediately.

Mateo was different.

I could hear it in her voice.

She legitimately thought he was attractive.

And it didn't bother me in the slightest.

If anything, I found it amusing.

Our trust was so strong at that point that there simply wasn't room in my head for jealousy.

When Mateo finally arrived, he knocked on our front door and I opened it to see essentially the same guy I remembered, just older, broader, and clearly taking his role as an infantry First Sergeant seriously.

Erica came up beside me to introduce herself.

I still remember her expression when she shook his hand.

Her eyes widened just slightly.

Not enough that Mateo necessarily would have noticed.

But I did.

Mateo had always been confident without needing to announce it.

He wasn't one of those guys who walked into a room desperately trying to be the center of attention. He didn't have to.

He shook Erica's hand, smiled, and spoke to her exactly the same way he would have spoken to anyone else.

If anything, I think that made her more curious.

We showed him around the house.Erica was wearing one of her favorite loose green summer dresses. She'd never exactly been shy about her body and enjoyed
the occasional second glance from strangers.

At one point we headed downstairs toward our second living room. Erica stopped halfway there.

“Wait. I forgot something.”

She disappeared upstairs and returned a minute later carrying a folded blanket.
I was standing beside Mateo at the bottom of the stairs when she came back down.

Something about the way she descended caught my attention.

Maybe it was nothing.

Maybe I was projecting because she'd already admitted she thought Mateo was attractive.

But she suddenly seemed very aware that both of us were watching her.

And when she reached the bottom, there was a tiny smile on her face.

A knowing one.

At the time, I dismissed it.

Erica liked attention.

That wasn't new.

Months later, she would admit there had been a little more intention behind that walk down the stairs than I realized.

But I didn't know that yet.

We eventually showed Mateo the guest room where he'd be staying for a couple of weeks while his household goods arrived and his lease went through.

At the time, having one of my oldest Army friends staying under our roof seemed perfect.I had absolutely no idea how important those next few weeks were
going to become.

That night, after we'd gone upstairs and Mateo had settled into the guest room a couple floors below us,

Erica and I were lying together talking.

One thing led to another, and the conversation eventually drifted back toward Mateo.

I teased her about the staircase.

“If I didn't know better, I'd say you came down those stairs like that because you knew I was watching.”

She smiled.

“I have no idea what you're talking about.”

I laughed.

Then, mostly joking, I added:

“Or because you knew we were watching.”

That changed something.

Only for a second.

But I noticed it.

A pause.

A different smile.

The kind Erica got when I'd accidentally touched on something she wasn't ready to admit.

She immediately played coy.

“I don't know what you're talking about, baby.”

I let it go.

At the time I honestly thought it was nothing more than Erica enjoying the idea that another attractive man had noticed her.

That was normal for us.At least, I thought it was.

The next morning Erica made coffee and pancakes before I headed into work.

Mateo was technically still on leave, so he didn't have anywhere he needed to be yet.

Which meant the two of them spent most of the morning at the house together.

Apparently they played Battlefield for a while, talked, and generally got to know each other.

They met me at the gym around lunch.

That was when I noticed it again.

Erica's eyes wandering toward him.

Her smile getting noticeably bigger whenever Mateo walked over.

The way she seemed just slightly more animated when he was talking to her.

Almost like she wanted his attention.

Again, I wasn't worried.

My wife was beautiful. She turned heads almost everywhere we went, and I'd always enjoyed it.

There was something strangely validating about seeing another man look at her and knowing she was mine.

And Mateo was my friend.

Someone I'd trusted with far more serious things than my marriage.

So when my phone buzzed later that afternoon with a last-minute notification from work, I didn't think twice about what it meant.

I'd somehow missed that I was scheduled for overnight duty.I called Erica and told her I'd still be home for dinner, but afterward I'd have to head back to work and wouldn't be home until around 0600 the following morning.

She complained a little.

I complained a lot.

Then we hung up.

At no point did it occur to me that I had just told my wife that I would be gone all night.

With Mateo staying in the house.

The same Mateo I'd caught her watching at the gym.

The same Mateo she'd admitted she found attractive.

And the same Mateo she'd deliberately shown off for less than twenty-four hours earlier.
At the time, none of those things seemed connected.

Looking back, they obviously were

While I was in the military and having just moved to a new duty station, I was in need of a place to live so I was going around to all different apartments in the area trying to find one that fit my wallet as well as upheld the lifestyle I have gotten used to living. I am not a particularly social person, I am somewhat withdrawn and an introvert so going from place to place being forced into meeting new people and holding conversations wasn’t the easiest or most enjoyable thing for me to do.

One day, after going to two apartment complexes, I went to a pretty upscale part of town to a building that I was sure was going to be out of my price range, but I thought what the hell why not check it out anyway.The typical leasing agents weren’t present at the time so the property manager had to give me a tour herself, which I was not complaining about. She was a thick and curvy Latina woman, with eyes that gave away all her intentions and a devilish smile just as alluring, but her greatest feature, and one she was not afraid to flaunt, were her breasts. I know she caught me a few times losing to that internal struggle not to look directly at the cleavage she was showing off which caused her to flash an approving smile. I am sure me being in my uniform wasn’t helping qualm her desire and curiosity.

During the tour she asked about who would be moving in with me, I let her know my wife would be up eventually, and the moment she heard ‘wife’ her eyes lit up and seemed to flash having just heard what she would consider a challenge. During the tour she took me to different floor plans, the gym, the rooftop pool, the more we talked the more her eyes seemed to give her away and express she was losing control.During what would end up being the last room we stopped at, on close to the top floor, she walked me through the 2 bedroom apartment, showing me the bathroom and how it has glass sliding doors explaining how ‘roomy’ it was. I don’t know if she meant to let me see, but I could see her reflection in the bathroom mirror and as she mentioned how much space was in the shower I caught her biting her bottom lip, which is a huge weakness and trigger of mine.

We headed back out to the main area, and before exiting she pointed out the island in the kitchen, sliding her nails across the top explaining how they just had all the kitchen islands in the building refurbished into these granite-style slabs. I nodded and mentioned how ‘sturdy’ they looked to be.She took my comments on its sturdiness to be a lead in for more than what I had intended and almost instantly hopped up onto it. As she did I couldn’t help be be entranced by her large breasts as they bounced from her hop and in keeping with her direct actions she let her thick thighs part just enough for me to see her black underwear peeking out. Unable to form a coherent thought let alone verbalize any I felt my pants grow tighter requiring I reposition myself very obviously and right in front of her. With that one adjustment I saw her eyes light up with a confidence and desire that no doubt convinced her to do what she did next.She slid the shoulder sleeves of her dress down over her shoulders and reached into her bra-less top getting a handful of each breast and pulling it out, dropping each one so I could watch their natural bounce. My eyes went wide and my jaw dropped unable to say anything. Her nipples were already hard and calling for my touch.

When she saw my reaction she smiled a cocky smile, leaned back on an arm, her breasts falling and swinging with gravity, she propped her one leg up on the counter and slid her hand in her underwear and I could see her circular motions. “Mmmm gosh I love a man in uniform” she said in a soft sensual voice.“I-I-I can’t do anything” I managed to get out holding up my finger with my wedding ring on it.She lifted up her hand with her wedding ring as well “nobody said anything about touching” her eyes dropped to the clear bulge in my uniform and her mouth let out a soft moan followed by her biting her bottom lip again.I didn’t know what else to do, I felt so helpless, so with my eyes transfixed into hers I slowly undid my pants. Her eyes were so expressive, it’s like I could feel her pleasure just by looking into them and before I knew it my hand was wrapped around my cock stroking, a stream of precum already dripping from my head down towards the hardwood floor below. Her eyes moved from mine down to what I just revealed and I watched as her hand stopped moving and her jaw dropped this time.I’ve never been told I was small, and I know I’m not the largest guy out there, but I have been told i have a good looking cock. At about 7 inches and thickness to match, when I get as hard as I was then there is a very prominent vein that shows on the side of him. And a nice steady curve upwards that usually drives my wife wild.She closed her mouth, biting her lip again and now now moving her underwear aside I could see her juices glistening on her fingers and between her petite lips up to her prominent clit. When she saw me look at her she spread her lips with two fingers almost inviting me in and I could tell her tightness would struggle in the best way.To be continued….