We’d been together for over a decade, teenage sweethearts. It’d gone from hot and heavy to once a month repeatedly then when I was pregnant it stopped completely even after our kid was born. We settled into a family routine and our sexlife was barely an after thought in our sleep deprived minds. It was when our kid was a year old that we finally admitted our relationship felt stale so we began having day dates just the two of us. And it was on those dates that we discovered a new kink, well kinks, plural.
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“Can I start you off with a couple of drinks?” The waiter that had escorted us to the table from the foyer asked once he’d seated us in a back booth. I nodded my agreement, I didn’t trust myself to answer him without asking if he was old enough to drink himself, he looked barely 18 but he was peppy and efficient so who cares. I slipped my jacket off leaving my shoulders bare apart from the thin white straps of my sundress, my husband slid into booth with me, his knee pressing against mine as he always did, he took the two menus offered to him and passed one to me. “Two buds for now.”