Hidden Desires: A Love Story

Chapter 2

Lauren Jauregui was a successful attorney who specialized in family law. She had been Mani's closest friend since college and loved the woman as the sister she never had.

She was accustomed to Mani being a strong individual; in all the years they had been friends she had never seen her fazed by anything. To see her weeping and trembling was disconcerting and Lauren's heart broke.

She held her friend in her arms but was at a loss for how to help. All Mani had managed to say, was that she found out Michael was cheating on her.

It took a full half hour before Mani had calmed enough to speak. She was curled up on Lauren's small office sofa, her head in Lauren's lap, her eyes swollen and red.

"Are you feeling a little better now?" Lauren asked. Normani nodded and croaked out a yes. She sat up and wiped her face. Lauren got up and went to her cabinet. She poured a large scotch and wordlessly handed it to Normani.

Normani downed it in one gulp and hissed as it went down her throat. When Lauren sat back down, Normani saw the large wet spot on the front of her blouse where Mani had buried her face while she cried.

"I'm sorry, your blouse," Mani said. Lauren waved her apology away.

"I didn't mean to break down like that."

"Oh don't apologize, you needed it. Are you okay enough to tell me what happened?"

"Oh Lauren, that bastard," Mani started, her voice becoming hard.

"I left a contract at home and went to get it. I walked into my house and found him and his bitch whore in my bed and they were, God, they were..." she couldn't go on.

"Oh, honey, I'm so sorry." Lauren said sympathetically, sensing what Mani had walked in on. Though she had never been married nor had a lover cheat on her, she had had many cases where one spouse had cheated on the other and saw all the hurt and pain it caused.

"I'm done with him Lauren; I'm divorcing him immediately. I don't want anything more to do with him, not after what I saw them doing."

"It's alright. I know you'll never be able to look at your bed or the house for that matter, the same way again. You can stay with me if it'll help until you figure things out."

"Thanks, but I need to pull myself together and I don't want to hide from it. Those tears were the last I'll shed over this," Normani said with steel in her voice. This was the Normani Lauren was used to seeing.

"Alright, no beating the bushes then, I'll start the paperwork. Do you think he'll want to contest?"

"Oh he'll think twice before he tries, I have some very damaging evidence," Mani said acidly.

"What kind of evidence?"

Mani took out her phone and pulled up the video she took.

"I was shocked and hurt but I have never been a fool," Mani said as she handed Lauren the device.

"Oh Mani," was all Lauren could say. She shook her head and looked up at her.

"Did you have any idea at all?" she asked.

"No. I mean how could I? We were fine; at least I thought we were. I didn't know he wanted to take it up the ass either."

"Well sadly I can't say that this is a unique situation. I've had other cases like this before."

"You're joking?"

"No, not at all. Anal sex for men is a very taboo subject. The stigma is that if you want that, then you're gay. However just like anal is pleasurable for women, it is for men too and more so because of the prostate thing. Many are ashamed and they don't tell their wives for fear of ridicule, so they go out and get it on with someone where there are no judgments."

Normani looked at her friend with narrow eyes.

"How do you know so much about this?"

"As I said, I've had cases in the past. I can't discuss details but I can tell you in broad strokes about what I found out while in the process of these cases," Lauren said simply.

Normani nodded. "So, this is a normal sexual thing, but he didn't want to come to me with it," Normani thought aloud.

"Well think about it," Lauren said, "If Michael came and said 'Normani, sweetie, I want you to strap a dildo on and fuck my ass with it', what would your reaction be?"

"I would have thought he was crazy. I mean strap-on toys and such are for lesbians, not for guys."

"Well that's only half correct but I understand your thinking. Now tell me, you love Michael don't you?"

"Yes, of course."

"And if he didn't want a divorce and wanted you to forgive him and be with him, could you?"

"I..." Mani paused in mid-speech. Did she want Michael after what happened? Could she be with him after knowing that he was with another woman, that he wanted sex in the ass?

"Mani?" Lauren's voice brought her back from her thoughts. "Could you put on a harness and fuck your husband if that's what it took to stay happily married to him?" Lauren asked.

Normani tried to picture herself in the blonde's place. A few moments later, she knew the answer.