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A Wife's Gift A Halloween Romance

A Wife's Gift: A Halloween Romance <*> {Redman}

(c) October 2000

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Authors Note: The lack of story codes for this work is

an intentional device of the author. An author's note

at the end explains my reasoning. If you think that

might offend you, please accept my invitation not to

read this story. I would be interested in any comments

or corrections that readers might care to share with

me. I can be reached at redman@seductive.com.

If you're a minor or it is illegal where you live to

read erotic literature with frank sexual themes,

please to not read this work of fiction.

A Wife's Gift: A Halloween Romance

When I was a boy it was hard to even think about

being married, much less married for twenty years. I

was only a young man when I met Janet, just

nineteen. I had gone to a party with a friend on

Halloween, but I didn't know anyone. It was an older

crowd than I was used to. My buddy was dating the

hostess's younger sister, so as soon as we got there

he split on me to be with her.

A girl dressed as a pirate asked me to dance. Even

though we were both masked, there was something about

her that I found alluring. She was forward enough to

ask me to dance, but she was shy and elusive too.

The pretty pirate was Janet. From that dance on we

were together. We left the party with her sister and

her sister's date to get some coffee. We talked for

hours, learning about each other, shyly flirting with

one another.

She was 23 and fresh out of college, working on her

first real job. I had quit school after three

semesters and was a bookstore manager at the mall. It

was my first real job too. The pay was lousy and the

hours were long, but I thought I was doing something

special.

Neither one of those jobs lasted in the long run,

but our relationship did. On the third night I knew

her, janet took me to her apartment. It was mostly

empty because she spent almost all of her time at her

parent's house. I remember looking in her refrigerator

and there was nothing but a carton of orange juice and

a jar of honey.

That night I willingly lost my virginity, but I

unintentionally found the love of my life. The one

woman that I wanted to grow old and gray with.

We lived together for a year and a half. We were

never apart. We married.

Three years later we had our only child. I was in

the delivery room when they induced labor. I saw Lisa

being born. I held her in my arms and she was quite

small. It was one of the best days of my life - of our

young lives.

It wasn't always easy, those twenty years. We went

through ups and downs, but through everything we had

each other. We worked. We raised our daughter. We

lived simple lives that were centered on our mutual

love and respect.

Shortly after our twentieth anniversary, janet

began experiencing discomfort during intercourse. We

had always had an active sex life. I can't say we were

the most adventurous couple, but we both most enjoyed

pleasing the other. We fulfilled each other's physical

needs as easily as we fulfilled each other's emotional

and spiritual needs. We had always just seemed to -

fit- together.

Her OB/GYN ran test after test. A week or so later,

they did a biopsy. janet had pre-cancerous uterine

cells. In June she had minor surgery, scrapping the

lining of the uterus and removing a few polyps that

concerned her doctor. They put her on medication. She

recovered gradually. In September, the symptoms

recurred. Janet's doctor told her that the only

course of action was a hysterectomy.

We were worried, of course, but it's a common

procedure. We thought we were happy with just Lisa,

but in the days before the operation, janet began to

mourn all the children she had never born and now,

never would. After a while though, we laughed uneasily

about it together. We were both in our forties.

Neither one of us had wanted children that late in

life.

I was holding janet in our kitchen several days

before her surgery, silently expressing my love for

her. Lisa was in the dining room where we could see

her, gathering her books for school. She is long and

willowy like her mother used to be. I never knew janet

at seventeen, but at twenty-three she had looked

a lot like Lisa looked right now. She was tall,

thin and graceful. Lisa could have been a dancer but

had chosen to play piano and take voice lessons.

"I think the one we had turned out pretty nice. She

reminds me of her mother, don't you think?" I asked

Janet, both of us looking at our daughter.

"I don't remember being that thin, and I don't think

I was ever that beautiful," janet replied. Her body had

changed over the years, but she was always that beautiful

to me. janet had gone from a 34B to a 38D as she had aged

and gained weight, but I loved her body and her breasts

through all their changes. She was a lovely, passionate

woman and she was my wife.

I remember sitting in the waiting room with her

family. I hate hospitals and was nervous about janet

being in surgery, but everything was fine so far. I

had seen her as they were giving her the initial

injection to put her under. I had kissed her gently.

Her last words for me were not to worry. That was

funny for both of us. janet was always the worrier.

One moment everything was fine, there in the

waiting room. Then I felt it. It was like a sudden

wave of sadness and loss washing through me. The depth

and abruptness of it overwhelmed me, like a sudden

punch in the midsection. I knew, without knowing why,

that something was terribly wrong.

As I began running to find Janet, the nurse that

had administered her injection was coming toward me.

She grabbed my hand and led me to a set of doors to a

surgery room and told me to wait outside. The doctor

had to talk to me.

When he walked out, there was so much blood. At

first, it reminded me of the day that Lisa was born,

but this was different. He said something about

complications. They were still trying. Don't give up

hope.

As he walked back through the doors, I slid down

the wall until I couldn't slide any lower. The doors

to surgery swung back and forth three times until they

stopped.

I remember it more clearly than a million other

more important facts that I have forgotten over the

years. The doors swung back and forth three times

before they stopped.

Whatever the doctor thought he was working on, it

wasn't Janet. janet was gone. It was as clear and as

profound a thought as I had ever had. Wherever she

was, she wasn't here. And a part of my soul went with

her.

I held together for a while. I arranged the Mass. I

bought the plot. I spoke to the lawyers that Janet's

sisters wanted to hire. They said someone had screwed

up. There would be damages. I got mad for about a

minute and a half and broke some things. Then the gray

numbness returned. Nothing that lawyers could do would

bring janet back. I told them to do whatever they

wanted. They could do anything except ask me to

care.

I wasn't a very good father just then, I suppose.

Lisa and I mourned together once. I held her that day

and for just a moment, I cared about someone else. Her

hair was a rich black, her dress a deep, royal blue

and her nose was as red as mine from the tears. But as

soon as the moment ended, all of the color drained

from my life again and the gray numbness returned.

Lisa stayed with a friend one night and I drank

myself into a stupor. But it didn't help. Neither did

the sleeping pills. My doctor prescribed anti-

depressants but somehow it seemed wrong to take them.

They couldn't fill the emptiness in my soul.

On October 31, our parish had a Mass in preparation

for All Saints Day on November 1. The priest had made

a special point in inviting me. It was a Mass to honor

all those that had died this year. We had never been

particularly devout, but janet had gone to Mass more

often, especially on holidays. It sounded like

something she would have gone to. I felt I needed to

go in her place.

But there was no consolation there. Even when they

read her name, I didn't feel anything. janet wasn't

there. Nothing that the priest said brought her back

to life for me or filled the emptiness. It was worse

than being numb. I left, vowing to never go back.

I went home and Lisa was preparing to go to a

Halloween party. She asked me if it was alright if she

went. I should have cared I suppose, but I couldn't.

I sat in our den as the sun set, watching the

shadows cross the floor as night fell. The sounds of

her preparation floated through the house: a bath

running, a hair dryer and an occasional fragment of an

aria in Italian that she would sing. I heard without

listening. I sat without thinking.

She came bounding down the stairs on her long legs

and as soon as she saw me she started fussing that I

was sitting in the dark. It was too much like

something her mother would have done. My grief

threatened to overwhelm me once more, but I pushed it

back. My daughter didn't need to see it anymore. Not

when she was finally going out again. I realized I

hadn't heard her singing since before janet died.

Lisa hugged my neck in the darkness and told me not

to wait up. I wish I could have given her more. I had

been such a terrible father lately. But I felt too

empty to give anything else.

I should show some interest in her life, I thought.

At least I could fake it, for her mother's sake.

"Will you be late?"

"Not too late, Dad. Mary will drive me home."

"What are you wearing to the party?"

"The only thing I could throw together at the last

minute. I didn't know if I would feel like going. Turn

the light on by your chair and tell me if it looks

OK."

It wasn't an exact match. She had on the same black

leotards and the same type of black body suit. She had

made the hat a little different, but the felt eyepatch

was about the same.

The pirate that stood before me could have been the

same one I had met twenty-two years before. If she had

asked me to dance, it might have been more than I

could have borne. Somehow I choked out that she

looked lovely and turned the light out as quickly as I

could.

As soon as she was gone, that same wave of grief

swept over me again. More grief than I could abide. I

lay on our bed and I cursed God. I cursed the whole

universe that would take away the one person I cared

about more than anything else in the world. She

deserved to live more than I did. Why not me, instead?

I had grieved for a month. Tonight, I felt the last

full measure of grief.

I slept, exhausted. When I awoke, I was naked on

the bed. One instant I had been overwhelmed by

sadness. The next, everything changed.

There was dim light coming through the blinds of

the window. I could see well enough to know that I was

alone, but I had a sudden sense I was not. The LED

clock read 11:58.

For the first time in a month, the overwhelming

emptiness was gone. Even through my stuffy nose, I

could smell Janet. I had lived with her for more than

twenty years. I knew her as intimately as any man had

ever known anyone. I couldn't see her, but she was

here. It didn't make sense, but she was here. The

emptiness that was in my soul was filled. She was

here.

The air thickened and swirled. I felt janet touch

me, first, lightly on the cheek. I tried to grab her,

but there was nothing. Then I felt her hands and lips

on my chest, moving sensuously over my body. When they

reached my groin, I was instantly erect. All the

passion of our twenty years together seemed to fill me

in a moment.

I pleaded to see her - to hold her. There was

nothing but the gentle swirling air and the fragrance

of my dead wife in the air.

Then as suddenly as the air had stirred, it

stopped. Her fragrance lingered, but began to fade.

Even so, she was still here. I could still feel her.

In the sharp quiet, I heard footsteps. I could hear

her. janet was coming. I could feel her presence,

walking toward me in the darkness. Then I saw her,

beautiful and naked, walking toward the end of our

bed.

janet looked at me with those wonderful eyes that

always read my soul. I could feel her love and her

passion for me. She began to crawl on the bed toward

me, her bottom sticking high into the air as it always

did.

When janet reached my waist, her head dipped

familiarly toward my shaft, engulfing me in a moment.

She took me deeply in her warm mouth, like she always

did to tease or reward me for some pleasure I had

given her. Then she pulled back and her tongue

lavished the head in recognizable ways, licking the

surface lovingly. She had done this a thousand times

and a thousand times it had made me shiver.

But I had missed her too long for even this

delight. The next time she engulfed me, I put my hands

deep into Janet's hair and drew her up toward me. I

needed to hold her so badly.

I grabbed her fiercely, pulling her toward me and

holding her as firmly as anyone who has felt so great

a loss can hold. I tasted her sweet breath and those

lovely, familiar lips and the tongue that knew my own

so intimately. janet always loved to kiss and we

shared a kiss like I have never shared with any other

woman except her.

She raised her leg, taking my penis in her hand

with practiced ease, placing the head at the entrance

of her sex. She slowly eased herself down on me,

smiling that same hungry smile she always gave me on

first penetration. Before she took it entirely, she

let me reach down and spread her labia gently with my

thumbs like we both enjoyed so much. Then she set down

firmly until we fitted together perfectly once more.

We held each other. The warmth of her, the smell of

her, the feeling of being buried inside her was all I

needed to feel whole. For the first time since Janet's

death, I felt alive. We were suddenly both crying. But

there was no sadness - only a bittersweet sorrow that

it had been so terribly long.

We began to move together with the practiced ease

of long familiar lovers. Each touch was not just the

sensation of flesh on flesh; it was also the memory of

every time we had touched like that before. It was

twenty years of passion and love. It was twenty years

of intimacy and pleasure.

Our longing rose together, perfectly matched in our

need for completion and yet with the same strong

desire to make this moment last forever. Her hips

began to slow from exhaustion so I grabbed them and

thrust myself into her more forcefully. When she

leaned backward and took her nipples between her

fingers and her thumbs, as she liked to do, I knew she

was very close. Each thrust became more precious. Each

movement brought us closer to an end.

We arched together like two bows straining and

quivering, vibrating in tandem until the aching arms

of the archers can bear no more. Then we sprang

together in release, her warmth flooding over me, my

warmth spurting into her. We stared wide-eyed,

overwhelmed by the sensations of mutual ecstasy.

It was my daughter Lisa's body that raised up off

of me. It was my daughter Lisa's body that lay on my

left side, nuzzling in to me.

But it was my wife janet that took my nipple in her

mouth and suckled it, just as she always did when she

wanted to be comforted after sex.

And it was janet that spoke to me with Lisa's

sleepy voice.

"I can't come back again, Robert. You have to keep

on going. Lisa needs you now."

"I know Janet, but I've been so lonely. You just

don't know."

"I know, love. Don't you think I felt it too?"

"I didn't know you could. If I had just had a

chance to say goodbye. That's all I really wanted."

"It's not goodbye, love. It's never goodbye for you

and me. I'll always be with you."

I held her for a time in silence, wanting it to

last forever.

"Thank you for coming back. Thank you for giving me

this one last chance."

"I wouldn't have missed this for the world,

Robert. You're my one true love."

"Janet, what will I do without you?"

"You'll go on. You still have Lisa. She's shared

this with us willingly, Robert and she'll want more.

Don't deny her."

"I can't do that Janet, she's our daughter!"

"You better do it, or I'll come back to haunt you!"

she said, chuckling. "It's only for a while and as much

for her as you. She's promised to another, even though

she doesn't know it. He's almost as special as you

are. But only almost."

"Will I be with you again, eventually?"

"You're always with me, my love. But it will be a

while yet."

"All right Janet, I'll do what I have to do. But I'll

never stop loving you."

"I know, love. Now sleep. I have to go."

************

Author's note: I hope no one is offended by the lack

of story codes. For my own part, I feel as though they

should be {MF rom}, but some people might well be

offended by that and want a {Mf inc} code. Such coding

would not only offend the spirit of the story (pun

intended), but it would give away what little surprise

I didn't foreshadow too obviously. I would be

interested in any feedback on this subject. I can be

emailed at redman@seductive.com.