“She’s ready for takeoff,” said Germaine, Tony’s flight instructor. He motioned toward the waiting Cessna.
“What, already?” Tony’s voice cracked a little. Apparently some of Martha’s fear of flying had rubbed off on him over the years.
Germaine laughed at him. “I’ll be right next to you you at the controls. It’s okay to be nervous.”
That cinched it. Tony was not going to be timid in front of Germaine. He liked Germaine; Germaine was a nice person, an honest person and with a great confidence about him, for such a pup. Tony was more than twice his instructor’s age and that fact shamed him into action.
“Let’s go,” he said, barely stopping himself from adding, “young man.”
This was such a lot of work to do to simply cheat on his wife. But it was important to Tony’s ego that he take an equally astonishing and magnificent lover as Martha had already found for herself. Fair was fair. (more…)