Love Me Tender - Please Pt. 01

Karen knew she was a wife and a mother and that was what was making her nervous. She was not sure she could fit into the business world after being out of it for so long.

A stab of anxiety hit her when her mind fast-forwarded to Monday morning and projected her first day at her new job. She had a visual of herself walking into the office and everybody staring at her. Shaking her head at her depressive thoughts, she became aware of the need to empty her bladder. Sighing, she slid out of bed and padded into the bathroom, backed up to the commode and let her stream go.

"It was good," she reflected while gently wiping herself with a pad of toilet paper and wincing a little when she touched her swollen and sore pussy. "It hasn't been that good in quite a while. We haven't been that wild in a long time."

Wiping herself made her realize that her hair was sticky with their fluids so she dampened a washcloth and using gentle pressure she cleansed her groin. Standing up she decided against flushing the toilet so as not to wake Ray. Taking her nylon nightgown down from its hook, she paused when it uncovered the full-length mirror and her mature body was reflected back to her.

She looked at herself with a critical eye. Tossing the nightgown towards the vanity, she stood straight and pulled her shoulders back. Her breasts were not real saggy but they were not as firm as they used to be. Cupping them with her hands she lifted them and moving closer to the glass she intently studied them. She could detect a little redness near the right nipple where Ray's teeth had gotten a little too aggressive.

Ray's easy acceptance of her decision to work outside of their home was a little surprising to her. She expected more of a hassle from him but he sounded like he was supporting her all the way.

"Maybe he wants something to change as much as I do. We've been together for so long that we finish each other's sentences and anticipate each other bowel habits."

Turning sideways she craned her neck to study her ass.

"Not bad for two kids," she muttered.

Placing her palm flat against her butt cheek she shook it and watched it jounce more than she wanted.

Not wanting to look anymore she turned away.

"I'm going to have to do something about that."

Karen slipped her nightgown over her head and turned out the light before opening the door. She slid gently back onto her side of the bed and stared at the ceiling with a thousand thoughts roiling around in her mind. She was excited about her new life and was looking forward to meeting new people with new ideas. She suddenly remembered that she had not told Ray that she would have to work some Saturdays.

Turning towards him, she touched his shoulder.

"Ray? Honey?"

Ray's answer was a soft snore so she cuddled up to his back and let herself drift off to sleep.

Chapter 03

Melody was almost as excited as Karen was at the thoughts of her mother getting out into what she called "the real world." Friday was a teacher's workday so she volunteered to help Karen pick out her new clothes. She steered her towards business suits with just a few separate skirts and blouses that she could wear in various combinations. They spent hours going from store to store deciding on which shoes to buy. In the end they decided on three high-heel styles and two pair of flats.

"You're going to need some new underwear," Melody told her mother as they walked through the mall. "I see yours when I do the wash and they're all old and yucky."

"They're not that bad!" Karen retorted. "I haven't had the need for any fancier ones in a while."

Karen refused to go into Victoria Secret's but she did allow Melody to help her pick out some new style bras and some high cut panties but she drew the line at thongs.

"I don't like anything rubbing up against my butt," she said.

"OK, we'll go with the bikini cuts. You won't be able to see panty lines as much with them," she told her mother.

Melody couldn't convince her mother to start wearing thigh-high stockings instead of pantyhose. She had been wearing them for several years but Karen still felt more comfortable with the control top pantyhose that helped slim her body.

"You feel like you are wrapped in a sausage casing if anyone rubs up against you," she told her mother.

"Why would anyone rub up against me," Karen argued. "I'm going to stay with what I've been wearing. They make me feel more comfortable."

The only downer to the whole shopping trip was that Karen had to settle on size 16 and 18s depending on the style of the clothes they chose. One designer's brand even moved her up to a 20. The business style jackets helped a little by hiding her belly and slimming her hips but she definitely was not happy with her looks.

"I guess I'll just have to live with it until I lose some weight," she sighed into the mirror outside of the dressing room.

"You've been saying that for a long time now, mom. Maybe this time you'll do it."

Ray was not too interested in seeing everything she bought. He looked at the selections and complimented them on their taste. Karen knew that he was more concerned with how much she had spent, but to his credit he didn't complain when she admitted the total. He flinched a little but quickly smiled when she reminded him that she would be earning a salary and she could pay her own bills. He told her she was worth it and if it helped her in her new career, he was all for it.

"I love that he's supporting me," she thought as she hung her new purchases on her side of the closet.

Karen had plans for her and Ray when they went to bed that night. The evening dragged by and both the kids stayed home so she went upstairs and took a shower while the family watched television.

"Would you like some wine, honey?" she asked when she came down from her shower.

"Yes, please," he replied without looking up from the program they were watching.

"Is your homework done?" she asked Melody.

"I'll do it after this program is over."

"No, but I'll do mine tomorrow," Brian offered.

"Why don't you get it done tonight and then you can have tomorrow free to do what you want," she suggested.

Brian grunted in agreement and the kids were gone when she came out of the kitchen carrying two glasses of wine.

Ray looked up at her when she handed him his glass and crossed in front of him to sit next to him on the sofa.

"Is that a new nightgown under your housecoat?" he asked.

"Yes. Do you like it?" she smiled.

"You know I like green on you but all I can see is the bottom of it. Why are you wearing heels?"

"I'm going to be wearing them to work every day and I thought I would start getting used to them so my legs won't ache. Do you like them?" she asked and extending one leg she twisted her foot back and forth so he could see.

"You realize the kids are just upstairs?" he grinned. "They're going to think we're sex maniacs if we keep this up."

"They won't be back down. You didn't answer me. Do you like them?"

"Yes, but aren't they higher than you usually wear?"

Karen stood and walked over next to his legs.

"They make my legs look nice don't you think?" as she pulled the hems of her robe and gown up over her thighs.

Ray pushed himself to the edge of his seat and running his hands up her legs from her calves to her thighs, he pulled her towards him. Karen could feel her body getting warmer. She had been aroused ever since they got home from the mall in anticipation of what was going to happen and it was happening now.

Burying his face into her belly he inhaled and looking up at her he grinned again.

"You smell nice!"

The pressure of his face against her belly kicked off a little twinge in her groin.

"What are you trying to say? Don't I always smell nice?" she kidded.

"Something that smells as nice as you must taste good too. Can I have a taste?"

"Maybe, if you're a good boy," she murmured and pulled his head tighter against her belly.

Untying the bow holding her robe together she pulled the edges apart to expose her gown to his eyes. Ray leaned back to allow himself a better look and Karen almost laughed when his eyes literally bugged out.

"Beautiful, just beautiful!" he exclaimed.

"I bought it just for you," she told him.

Karen backed a step away from him and walked to the middle of the room. She shrugged off her housecoat and dropped it onto a chair. Standing there she slowly turned in place and then posed with her shoulders back and her left leg exposed from her pointed toe up to her hip showing through the opening in the side of her light, green gown.

"Better?" she giggled.

"God, you're gorgeous!" he whispered.

The satin gown was cut so low in the front that it almost went down to her navel. The back was nonexistent and he could see the beginning of the swell of her ass. It was trimmed in black lace that crisscrossed her breasts and continued down over her waist to the bottom of both edges of the slit.

A black lace rose held the apex of the slit together. The spaghetti straps holding up the top pulled the silken fabric so that it puckered around her erect nipples. The design of the bodice heightened the effect that just enough of her breasts were being offered to his view to cause him the pleasurable torment of expectancy.

Karen could feel the moisture gathering in her pussy as she gently tensed her thighs to tease herself. She smiled and ran her fingertips across her shoulder to her throat then down the front of her gown to her navel.

"Come here," he said in another whisper.

Glancing towards the stairs to check on the kids, Karen wet her lips and slowly walked towards him. Ray couldn't wait for her to reach him and he stretched out his hands and gathered her to him. Karen looked down at him with his lips kissing her thigh through the slit in the gown. She could see the blush on her chest and feel the heat as her body reacted to his touch.

"I love you," he said into her belly and pushing aside her gown he moved both of his hands to her legs.

Karen could hear herself breathing almost in a pant as she waited for him to discover her little secret. She felt his fingers caressing her thighs and heard his gasp when he realized she was nude under the gown.

Her legs were starting to tremble and her knees felt weak but she managed to separate her feet to encourage him to further investigate between her legs. She steadied herself with her hands on his shoulders and arched her groin towards him.

Ray's right hand cupped her ass cheek as his left hand crept slowly up her inner thigh. She felt the tickle of his fingers on her pubic hair an instant before they made contact with her engorged pussy lips. He was barely touching her but the sensations she was feeling were as intense as if his fingers were already inside of her.

Karen gasped and her body tensed when he gently spread the cheeks of her ass and teased her as she waited for him to touch her naughty place.

"Mom! I'm going to bed now. Good-night!"

Karen shuddered and let out a low moan when Melody's voice, from the upstair's hallway, broke through her passion. Whirling around she teetered on her heels as she hurried to her housecoat and threw it over her shoulders while searching for the armholes to hide her gown from her daughter's eyes.

Ray stood and strode towards Karen with the front of his sweats poked out from his erection.

"Goodnight, honey," Ray answered. "Your mother's in the bathroom. See you tomorrow."

"Night, daddy!"

Taking Karen in his arms he groaned and nuzzled her neck where it met her shoulder. Karen could feel his frustrated passion and extending her neck she tilted her head so he could tease her with his lips. She loved the touch of his beard on her skin and the feel of his lips and the tip of his tongue on her sensitive neck. It sent shivers through her body and she felt little tingles move down over her chest and belly to creep into her groin. Her vaginal area was already swollen with anticipation and its lubricating essence was seeping out and down her legs.

"Let's go up to bed," she whispered through a giggle. "There are too many kids wandering around in this house."

By the time that Ray locked the front door and turned out the lights she was lying on her back on their bed still wearing her pumps.

"Hurry," she ordered. "Or I'll start without you."

Ray dropped his sweats and pulled them and his socks off with his feet while struggling to get his shirt off over his head.

Her legs were trembling with desire as she held her arms out to welcome him into the cradle formed by her body. Karen treasured the feeling that she always felt when she surrendered herself to her husband. She allowed herself the excitement of feeling safe in the ultimate expression of vulnerability and confidence in her lover by completely opening her body to him.

At this moment she was not concerned with any doubts that she usually held about her body's shape or beauty. She knew that, in his eyes, she was the most beautiful being on earth and he knew that she was his.

Her tongue passed over her dry lips as she watched him lower his erection towards its home inside of her. Raising her knees, she tilted her pelvis so that he only bumped against her one time before he paused with the head of his cock pulsing between her pussy lips.

"Now!" she whispered and closing her eyes, she waited for the exquisite sensation that she knew would come when he first penetrated her.

Delaying the inevitable and building the tension, he waited a few more moments and lovingly watched her face melt into total desire as she held her breath in anticipation. The head of his cock felt burning hot against her wetness and forcing herself to wait she imagined what she could not see when he gently pressed himself slowly into her.

Widening her thighs as far as they could go, she felt her labia spread at his nudge against them. Willing her muscles to open up, she passively accepted his penetration until she could wait no longer. Hunching her pelvis up to capture his length entirely inside of her, she expressed a long, low moan of pleasure. She paused for a moment to let the sensations wash over her body, and then she came.

Ray could do nothing but hold himself rigid above her while her thighs whipped up and down his ribs as she fucked herself on him to extend her long-awaited orgasm. They had teased each other's bodies to the point where they both reached a peak of passion that allowed no retreat. Emitting a continuous stream of sound, he jetted shot after shot of semen into her through the clenching muscles of her vagina.

"I love you, I love you, I love you," she repeated in a gasping rhythm that soon died away into a whisper and finally a long, breathy sigh.

They lay still.

"So nice, so nice," she finally whispered into his ear. "I love you."

Ray rolled from between her thighs and flopped down on his back.

"Whew! That's what I call making love," he groaned.

"We're getting pretty good at it after nineteen years. Aren't we?" she said through another giggle as she rolled over towards him and rested her leg and her arm across his body.

He kissed her.

"Whoops, I think we got my new gown all wet!"

"I think we got the whole bed wet. Let me up and I'll get a towel," he offered.

"No, that's OK. I don't want to sleep in this. I don't want it ruined since it turns you on so much. Take my shoes off for me, please."

Ray reached down and pulling her leg towards him he slid her shoe off of her foot and immediately kissed her sole. Karen giggled again and raised her other leg so he could reach the other one. Repeating his actions, he held both feet together and licked across all ten of her toes.

"That's enough of that! Let me up you pervert!" she laughed and rolled out of bed to dry herself and hang up her gown.

Chapter 04

Today was Karen's second Monday on the job. Her nervousness had quickly evaporated after just a few hours on that first Monday morning. She had no idea that she would be this busy and she wondered how Becky was able to handle it all by herself. The telephones never stopped ringing and she transferred call after call and took message after message for the agents.

Most of the agents were women but she quickly found out that all of them, men and women, were all "Type A" personalities. They were constantly in motion and carrying on several conversations while juggling forms and listings.

This was only one of three offices that Mike owned and there was a constant flow of agents from the other offices coming and going as they exchanged leads and arranged for their commission splits. She found she couldn't even begin to remember their names or which office they worked in, but she tried to help them in any way she could.

"Does it ever slow down?" she asked Becky during one of the rare moments when they were not both doing something.

"November and December are slow months and sometimes January as well. It starts picking up by the end of February and we are at full speed-plus in the spring. Most of our business is relocation referrals from our franchises in other cities. The military as well as the government and the big corporations try to make their personnel transfers coincide with the end of the school year. It makes for happier employees if their wives or husbands and kids are happy."

"Well, I guess I'll get used to it."

"You never get used to it, you just go with the flow," she laughed. "What time do you want to go to lunch?"

"Jackie asked me to meet her for lunch if that's OK with you? I owe her one for getting me this job. I'll see you in an hour. Can you handle it?"

"Take your time. Mike won't mind if you take a long lunch once in a while. He's really impressed with your work and if he asks I'll let him know where you are. Don't worry, he probably won't even know you've been gone. I've been handling it by myself for a long time now. Just because I'm pregnant doesn't mean that I'm slow. See you later."

Karen sat on a bench in front of the office enjoying the warm southern sun while she waited for Jackie to pick her up. Things had been going pretty well, a lot better than she had expected them to go. Ray didn't seem to mind her sometimes being a little late getting home from work and he often had already started dinner for her.

The kids lived in their own little world and they didn't seem to even know that she was working. They asked no questions and she didn't bother them with too much information. Melody was looking forward to graduation in late May and Karen knew that she was going to spring a plea for a month in Europe as a graduation present. Brian was so involved with his sports that he barely acknowledged either his mother or his father. His only concern was that he had clean uniforms and socks.

Up until this time, the only part of their relationship that had really suffered was their sex life. She worked hard and was still not used to it. She was used to taking an afternoon nap when she was at home and now she was too tired to do much at night. She sympathized with Ray's habit of falling asleep after dinner. She found that she dozed right along with him most evenings.

She had tried to continue her practice of dressing up for him at least one night a week but that had only lasted through the first week. She was so happy to get out of her business clothes and into her sweats when she got home that all of her promises to herself had evaporated.

Ray never said anything directly to her but she knew that he was missing the intimacy that they once shared.

"I'll do it tonight!" she promised herself and looking up she spotted Jackie pulling into the parking lot.

"How's your new job going?" Jackie when Karen settled herself in the car.

"A lot busier than I thought it would," Karen replied. "And it's all your fault."