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A Little Christmas Guilt
Date: 12/20/2014, Categories: Cheating, Author: NorthernFlicker, Rating: 13, Source: LushStories
lighting in the living room. My wife was sitting there and when I entered she got up and slowly came to me. She stopped a few steps from me and I could see she had been crying. I immediately thought “Oh god, she’s found out somehow!” In an attempt at staving off what I felt was inevitable I asked, “Darling, what’s wrong?” She threw herself at me, wrapping her arms around my neck, and burst into tears. “I can’t keep this from you,” she sobbed. “Something happened yesterday. Something that you must know about. Something that I’m so ashamed of.” If I was in turmoil before, now it was magnified tenfold. “Tell me. Tell me please! What is it?” I said as I walked her to the couch where we sat down. She looked at me directly in the eyes, and with tears running down her face, said, “I’ll just tell you straight. Yesterday we had an informal Christmas party after work. There were perhaps ten of us, and we went to a bar a couple of blocks away. I ended up having too much to drink, and one of the guys offered to drive me home. I was grateful for his offer, but he didn’t drive me home though. He drove to his place and I was stupid enough to go inside to have another drink with him. One thing led to another and I ended up in his bed.” I was stunned. My mind was spinning as I tried to make sense of all that was going on, with myself and now with her. “My god, what’s happening to us?” I finally said. “Oh please.” She was sounding panicky. “I don’t want anything to happen to us. What we ...