Rob and Lori Ch. 04

"I realized I'd screwed up as soon as I saw the expression on your face when I told you what I intended to do. I didn't expect the reaction I got when you left the room and then packed. Then you accused me of cheating on you with Randy and left and I knew from your actions and tone of voice that you did not intend to come back and talk in the morning. I panicked and started to chase after you, but Randy grabbed me and said to let you go and that you would cool down and be back the next day. By the time I pulled away from him you were already driving down the street. I tried to call your phone but you wouldn't answer. Since then I have tried and tried to get someone to tell me where you were so I could talk to you. I'm sorry Rob; I'm sorry and I want you to come home. Things haven't been right for me since you left."

I sat there and looked at her for several seconds before saying, "There wouldn't be any sense for our getting back together Lori. The trust is gone and in any case there is no way that I would move back into this house after you fucked Randy in it."

She turned pale and said, "I didn't Rob, I didn't do it. After you left I told Randy to leave, but he kept trying to pull me back down on the couch and I finally had to grab that blue flower vase on the end table and smack him in the balls with it. Then I told him to leave before I called the police. I swear to you Rob, Randy did not touch me."

"Even if I were to believe that what about all the other times you were with Randy? All those times that you were with him after telling me you were with your girlfriends."

"It was only twice Rob. Both times it was because I had opera tickets and you wouldn't go with me. Randy works in the build across the street from me and we both eat lunch at Estaban's and if we were both alone we would sometimes share a table. One day I was telling him I couldn't get anyone to go to the opera with me and he told me that he loved the opera and that he would be happy to go with me. I didn't tell you I was going with him because I didn't want to cause problems. I remembered what you said about my dating him way back when. I swear Rob, I was never intimate with Randy.

"I don't know how you know about the motel room, but nothing happened there. Randy's apartment was being painted and so he checked into the motel until it was done. I met him there and we left my car and drove to a restaurant where were had dinner and then we went to the opera. After the opera we drove back to the motel and I went inside to use the bathroom. I wasn't in there five minutes. Honest to God Rob I have never been intimate with Randy or anyone else since the day we took our vows."

"As highly sexed as you are you expect me to believe that you have been living the life of a nun the entire time I've been gone?"

"It's true Rob; it hasn't been easy, but it is true. I have been praying that you would come back and I knew that if I was to have any chance of getting you back I'd have to be as pure as the driven snow. But to be honest about it I did have a deadline. At the end of three years I was going to go for a divorce to release me from my vows."

I sat there looking at her and thought about what my sister Ellen, Harley and the waitress at Clancy's had told me and wondered if Lori was actually telling the truth. But given that line of thought did it really matter? She might have stayed true to her vows after I left, but I sure hadn't. I did know she was telling the truth about her trips to the opera because I had watched them both times, but I still had a major problem with what had happened.

"That isn't all of it Lori. There is still the fact that you thought so little of me that you took what Betty said as the gospel and accepted that I was cheating on you. You say that you love me, but just not enough to come to me and say that you think there is a problem? You had so little trust in me that you were ready and willing to believe it. And what about Randy? By your own admission he has been after you for years and you should have known that he would use whatever he could to split us apart so he could get you.

"Randy had to have made up his lie on the spur of the moment after you told him that you thought I was cheating. A spur of the moment lie means he just went with it. Why didn't you ask for details? You could have used hose details to confront me and then I would have been in a position to defend myself. I could have been in a meeting with a half dozen witnesses. I might have been out of town on one of my trips that day. Who knows? Certainly not you because once again you thought so little of me that you just took what was said and believed it. I don't know that I can ever get by that lack of faith and trust Lori. I don't see how you can profess your love for me and yet be willing to think that poorly of me."

"I have no excuse Rob. I don't know why I just believed what I was told. I do know that I didn't confront you after talking with Betty because I was afraid that it might be true and I didn't want to start anything that might have driven us apart. When Randy told me what he did I accepted it because I then had two independent sources so to me it meant that there to be something to it. My off-the-wall plan as you call it was the only way I could think of letting you know that I would not stand still for being cheated on. My saying that we would sit down and talk about it in the morning was to let you know that we would still have a marriage if that is what you wanted

"Looking back on it now I can see that it was a pretty bad idea, but I'm only human Rob and I have a lot of the faults that go with being human. One of those faults is being head-strong and sure that what I'm doing is the right way to go and another is jumping to conclusions. I knew that I had screwed up bad when I saw your face when you came out of the bedroom with packed bags. If you would just have answered your phone before leaving town we could have worked it out. I'm sorry Rob. I screwed up and I know it, but I love you and I always have. I want you back with me Rob; I need you back with me. Please Rob."

"I don't know Lori. I am not at all happy with the way things went down. I need to think some on it." I got up to leave and then said, "Maybe we can get together again on Friday and talk some more."

"Promise Rob? We will talk again on Friday?"

"I promise Lori."

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I got in my car and headed for my apartment, but on the way I stopped at The Wagon Wheel for a beer. I sat there at the bar and nursed the beer and thought about my talk with Lori. Did I really have to waste a lot of time thinking about anything? I had loved Lori since we were basically just kids. We'd had some bad times, but what couple didn't? I doubted that during the time I'd been gone there had been a day when I hadn't thought of Lori. My sister, Harley and the girl from Clancy's said that Lori stayed home and didn't date and could a woman who had cheated on her man do that? Especially one who loved sex as much as Lori did? I honestly had nothing other than two trips to the opera and the fact that Lori dated Randy so much before we got married to go on so I could have been way off based to believe that they were lovers. Pissed at her after what she had done? Yes, and mightily so, but I still felt the stirring in my belly whenever I saw her and that had to count for something.

I finished me beer and looked at my watch. It was early yet and Lori could still be up so I finished my beer and left the bar. I was almost to Lori's place when I thought that I'd better call ahead and let her know I was on the way back. I pulled over and flipped open my cell phone. The lights of a car came in my back window and I've no idea why I looked over as the car went by me, but I did and I caught a glimpse of Randy as he went by. Why would Randy be in this neighborhood is what I thought. I pulled out and stayed about six car lengths behind him. He drove past the house and then turned the corner onto the side street just past the house. I saw his brake lights come on immediately and I drove by the street and then hung a quick u-turn and then pulled over and parked. I walked to the corner and got there just in time to see Randy go into the alley that ran behind the house.

I quietly followed along behind him and peered around the corner of the garage at the end of the alley and saw Randy go in our back gate. I moved along the alley until I could see the back of the house and Randy was on the back porch knocking on the back door. I saw the door open and then Lori step back to let Randy in. The door closed and I knew why my sister and Harley were able to tell me that Lori hadn't gone out with a man in all the time I was gone. No need to go out; she just stayed home and her lover snuck in the back door.

Curiosity got the better of me so I went up on the back porch and looked in the window, I could see into the kitchen and through the dining room into the family room and I saw Lori and Randy on the couch with their arms around each other as they kissed. I tried the door and found that it wasn't locked and I quietly let myself in. I moved through the kitchen and stood just inside the door to the dining room and listened in on Lori and Randy.

"...understand it baby. First you tell me that I can't be here because Rob is going to be here and then you call me and tell me to hurry over."

"You don't want to be here?"

"Of course I do baby and you know it."

"Then what is your problem?"

"I just don't understand baby. I've never understood. I don't understand why you won't marry me. I don't understand your waiting for Rob to come back. I don't understand why you say that even if he does come back to you that you are still going to keep on seeing me. I don't understand why if you feel that way you don't just divorce him and marry me. Hell baby, I've never understood any of it. Why you married him and kept on seeing me after I begged you to marry me in the first place."

"How many times do I have to tell you Randy? I love Rob and I don't love you. I love sex with you, but I do not and never have loved you. I told you a long time ago that "like" and "sex" were all you were ever going to get from me. Speaking of sex sweetie, are you ready for a trip to the bedroom?"

"Have I ever said no to that?"

I was just about to step into the room and say a few choice words when I suddenly thought of a better way to handle things. I quietly left the house and headed on back to my apartment.

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First thing in the morning I called my sister and asked her if she was sure that the house was still in my and Lori's names and she told me that Lori had ripped up my power of attorney right in front of her. I grabbed the yellow pages and an hour later I was sitting in the office of a detective agency. Since the house was still in my name I was able to authorize the placing of surveillance devices in the house. I met the men from the agency at the house while Lori was at work and two hours later the house was wired for audio and video and a recorder was placed on the phone line. I told the agency to call me immediately as soon as they had something. They called me that evening and told me that the telephone tap had a call from Lori to Randy telling him to come over. Randy also visited on Wednesday and Thursday.

Friday morning I called Lori and told her that I wouldn't be able to make it that night like I had promised, but I asked her if she could meet me at the IHOP for breakfast. She said she would be there and then said:

"Please have good news for me Rob."

I had no way of know whether Lori had called Randy from work to give him the all clear, but I was betting that she would. I was parked on the side street when Randy came to call and I gave him time to get into the house before I went up on the back porch. Through the window I saw Lori on her knees sucking Randy's cock as he sat on the couch. I got my key out, but the door was unlocked so I quietly let myself in and moved to where I could hear what was going on in the family room. I heard Randy crooning:

"That's it baby, just like that. Damn, but you are one hell of a cock-sucker."

"Enjoy it while you can sweetie; it is going to have to last you for a while."

"Why? You said we were going to keep on going?"

"Yeah sweetie, but not for a while. When I get Rob back I am going to spoil the hell out of him. I won't have any time for you until after I get him settled in and that could take months."

There were some sucking and slurping noises and then Randy hissed, "God, but you are good at that." More noises and Randy moaned, "I'm coming baby, I'm coming" followed by "I love it when you swallow." There were a few more noises and then Lori said:

"You want to go bounce on the bed?"

"Why do you always ask me that? You know I do."

"A girl never takes things for granted."

I had intended to wait until they were hot at it on the bed before making my appearance, but that line was just too perfect for me to pass up so I stepped around the corner into the dining room and said:

"Well Lori, there is one thing that you can take absolutely for granted and that is the fact that you and I will never be anything except divorced from each other."

I turned and walked toward the back door as Lori yelled out, "Wait Rob, please wait."

I didn't!

I made it to my car as Lori came running down the alley and drove past her as she tried to wave me down.

I drove to Clancy's and took a stool at the bar and as I sipped my beer I looked over the place to see if Sarah was working, but I didn't see her. I did see an old buddy sitting at a booth along the south wall and I got up and walked over to her.

"Hello there sexy lady. Alone or waiting for some lucky dude?"

Sue looked up at me and smiled as she said, "I don't really know. Maybe the one I'm waiting for just got here."

I looked around and didn't see anyone heading our way so I smiled back at her, sat down and said, "Maybe he did."

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I sued for divorce using infidelity as grounds and then I sued Randy for alienation of affections. Lori was going to fight it until I showed her the tapes the detective agency had gotten for me. I told her if she fought me I would see to it that everyone in the world got to see them. I also suggested that her talking Randy into settling the suit I had against him would go a long ways toward seeing that the tapes were destroyed. I don't know what she said to him, but he settled. As far as the divorce was concerned the judge we had was old school and had no use for cheaters. He dictated that the assets be split 65/35 with me on top. I wasn't mean about it. I paid the attorney fees and court costs and I let her have the house. Only fair since I had given it to her when I left town.

The biggest surprise was for me and Randy both. As soon as the divorce was final Lori dropped Randy like a hot potato. She calls me every two weeks or so and tells me that she really does love me and begs me to give her another chance, but this boy ain't going there. Once burnt twice shy, right?

Sue hadn't changed any. She was just out of a relationship and told me that I could probably get at least a year out of her before she started getting antsy again. I told her I could live with that. Hey; at least with Sue you knew where you stood. Who knows, maybe I would develop a kinky side by the time she was ready to wander and I could maybe be the guy she said she needed. Wouldn't that be a kick in Lori's teeth if that happened? She could sit around and wonder if it could have worked out that way with Randy, her and me.