The Office Whore – Part 54

Reina woke up to the scent of her favorite Constant Comment tea. She peeked open her eyes and saw a tray with not only the tea, but two slices of her homemade English muffin bread toasted perfectly.She sat up and saw Chad sitting next to the bed and asked, “Is there some holiday I have forgotten?”Chad smiled, “No, it’s just me trying to make up for being such a jerk still.”Reina sighed, “Well, this is a nice start.”Chad looked at her pensively. She’d forgiven him already, but she wasn’t going to easily forget that he’d gotten stupid drunk with Bill, his college roommate, Friday night and had called her a bitch. He’d never done anything like that before, which is probably why she forgave him, but it bothered them both that it came out because he was completely inebriated and out of control.“Reina, I want to make it up to you. Please tell me how. What can I do or say to make you happy again?” Chad asked.“It’s not about making me happy, Chad. It’s about respecting me. I’m not mad about you having one drunken night with a buddy. I was disappointed, sure, but I understood. It was knowing that you told him I was your Office Whore and giving him the impression that he could treat me like one,” Reina said quietly.He started to protest, but then stopped. She wasn’t wrong. “I don’t know why I said it, I’d like to think that if Bill hadn’t added Xanax to our already strong drinks that I would have realized that was a shitty thing to do. But I guess I also didn’t think about it being derogatory. I’m proud to have you as my wife and thrilled to have you still as my Office Whore. But I am so sorry that I made you feel humiliated.”“I went to sleep in the guest room because I didn’t want to be anywhere near you. It makes perfect sense that you’d allow Bill to sleep off the high in our guest room, but imagine how it felt to have him come in the room, find me Ümraniye Escort in the bed and then try to grab my breasts because I was in his bed. Do you even remembering him asking you if I came with the room and if he could fuck me?” Reina asked, trying not to raise her voice.Chad ran a hand through his dark, wavy hair. “No, I don’t remember that, I’m sorry,” he admitted. “To be honest, I don’t even remember calling you a bitch, but both you and Bill said that I did, so I know that I said it. I just hate myself for allowing myself to get out of control and that I hurt you by doing so.”Reina looked up at Chad, “Don’t hate yourself, just ask yourself what you should have done differently?”Anger rose quickly into his eyes, “Don’t use that line with me, okay? I heard it enough from my aunt growing up. Before she sent me away to boarding school, that is.”Reina took a deep breath. “You know, I get that your childhood was shitty. But at some point, you need to learn to let some of that go. I’m just saying, in the future, you need to figure out when you should have gone left instead of right. When you felt yourself getting totally wasted, that would have been a good time to stop drinking. When you saw how hurt I was by Bill’s comment about my being a whore, you could have tried to wrap up the visit with him. When Bill asked if I came with the room, you could have called him a cab or asked me to. So, I’m sorry if my asking you to think about what you could have done differently dredges up unpleasant memories from your past, but it’s what fucking grown-ups do, Chad.”“So, if you’re still pissed at me, why did you let me fuck you yesterday, Reina?” he asked, his tone matching hers.“I’m not still pissed at you,” she explained. “I’m trying to help you understand why I’m not willing to just say I forgive you and move on. I Ümraniye Escort Bayan needed the comfort of closeness yesterday, you offered it in the form of really good sex. I took it. But I’m still hurt by your actions and I am just asking you to consider how I feel in the future. I’m not your keeper, I can’t tell you how to act or what to say, but I can tell you as your wife, your lover, and your best friend, you can’t drive a nail into the fence, remove that nail, and not expect to find a hole there.”Chad looked at her, unsure of what to say next. All of sudden, he felt like he did back when they first met, and he struggled to find the right words to say without pissing her off. It was uncomfortable to feel that way again. But if he said nothing at this moment, it would be worse.“Look, I realize that I hurt you and I know I acted like an ass. But I did say I was sorry, and we had what I thought was amazing makeup sex. So, yes. I know I need to do things differently in the future. I just need to know how long you plan to hang this over my head?” he said tersely.Reina looked at him and said, “I’m not holding anything over your head, Chad. I am simply requesting that my husband takes care to think of my feelings the next time he wants to announce to his friends that I’m a whore!”She left the room in tears, leaving Chad feeling frustrated by the lack of closure to the argument. Fine, let her cry it out. Maybe that would help her stop being so angry and hurt.He’d never felt so at odds with her. He felt so conflicted. Should he let her have space? Or should he go after her and fight this out?The truth was Reina had always been the one to fix things or smooth them over whenever they’d had an argument or a misunderstanding. She was good at that. But it was clear she wasn’t doing that this time, so it would be Escort Ümraniye up to him. That seemed fair since he was the cause of this rift. So, all he needed to do was figure out what would Reina do?Reina sat on the sofa bed on the third level, looking out the window. Her stomach hurt at the thought that they didn’t seem to be able to get past Friday night. Well, at least, she couldn’t. Why couldn’t she? What did It matter if Bill knew she was one of Chad’s Office Whores? Was that what was really bothering her? Or was it the cavalier attitude that Chad had exhibited that night? And why didn’t the make-up sex help make this all go away? It always had in the past. She lay down and cried softly.Chad was halfway up the stairs to the third level when he heard her crying. He stopped and sat down on the step. He had two choices, turn around and make Reina feel like she didn’t matter, or head up those stairs and figure out how to fix this. Then he had an idea. He finished climbing the stairs and said a silent prayer that it would be enough.He took a deep breath and said, “Hey, we’ve been putting off setting up the dungeon because we’ve been so busy. It’s a bit overwhelming for one person. Would you mind helping me today?”Reina looked at Chad incredulously. So, he’s just going to pretend everything is fine? Then she looked into his eyes and saw what she might have missed if she had been too stubborn to notice. Genuine remorse. He wasn’t just sorry that she got upset, he was sorry that his actions were the cause.It would have been so easy at this point to take him into her arms and comfort him. He was truly miserable. But maybe that was okay for a bit longer, so he would understand that what he did was not just a minor offence, but a major hurt. However, she did really want to get the dungeon set up, so she nodded, “Yeah, sure, that’s a good idea.”Chad let go of the breath he didn’t realize he was holding. “Thanks, I’d really like your input on where things should go. I want to make it ours,” he said. “I want this to be a space that is decadently appealing.”Reina couldn’t help but grin, “You sound like one of those hosts on an HGTV show.”