I am my husbands secret Affair

Five: Recruiting the gigolo ~°~°~°~°~•

Delilah

I was thinking about my marraige. I saw the card from Antonio Valentino on the table.

Picking it up, I tapped it in my hand. I wanted to ask him about men.

I needed to get into Brandon's head.

I put on a sun dress and hat, then walked outside and started walking down town.

I was enjoying the Southern California sunshine.

I made it to the same restaurant that I had met Seraphina.

I got a table in the back and called Sera.

Sera told me that she had the baby.

"She's so beautiful, Delilah. Blazey doesn't even mind that she's not a boy. He said he knew it all along."

I laughed.

Sera told me," We named her Lilah."

I smiled,"Like me?"

"Yes, after you my pretty friend."

The baby was crying now, as she made soft mewling noises .

Sera had to go, she told me to come by soon.

I promised that I would do so. I'm so lonely.

I looked for Antonio and found him at the bar.

Sitting down beside him, I smiled brightly.

" My Bella, you came back!" He kissed my hand and up my arm. He was so charming. I blushed.

I asked him to join me at a table in the back.

He raised one eyebrow.

"Of course my love, are you sure?"

I leaned back, "It's not like that!"

He frowned and held his chest,

" My heart, first it swells with joy, then cushed like a grape in the field!"

I took his hand and pulled him up. He wobbled a little. I took him to a private table.

I ordered us some drinks. Iced tea for me, and his usual, hard liquor for him.

I asked him a few questions.

"Say you were a man?"

He raised both eyebrows and looked down at himself.

"No, I mean, say you were my husband and you grew tired of me."

He kissed my mouth softly, "Never say it my Bella!"

I pushed him off me.

"What would a real man want from his wife?"

He raised his brows again, and huffed." I am a real man!"

I laughed." I'm serious, what do I need to do to seduce my husband back?"

He pet my hair. "How can a man be so blind.

You are so perfect as you are. I want to take you home with me right now."

He leaned in close to my ear and said, "Here's what I would like to do to sweet Bella, you come home with me, I ply you with charm, I talk sweet nothings in your ear and then carry you off to my soft bed."

I frowned, "Okay, I could try to do all that, not sure I could carry him though, I mean he's like 6 foot 3."

Antonio sighed.

He wasn't getting anywhere with me. He ordered another drink.

I had a new idea.

"What if I set up the scene and you told me what to do, will you come to my house?"

He stood up and yelled," Check please!"

He paid the tab and then called a taxi.

I took Antonio home with me.

I needed to check on Brandon to see if he was coming home anytime soon.

I texted him as Lilly.

" He sweet baby, are you up to a little s*x talk, or is wifey around?"

He resonded," Uh, working now, later tonight? I'll meet you at my hotel?"

She replied,"Send me the deets!"

He told her he was at the Regency in Los Angeles.

He wouldn't be home tonight.

I offered my new best friend a drink.

He took a vodka and coke,"I gotta add a little sugar in there for fuel!"

I took a quick shot of Vodka myself.

" Okay, tell me- what experience do you really have as a gigolo?"

" Ah Bella, I told you that?"He looked embarrassed.

I nodded," It's on your business card."

" Well, then Bella it must be so, he winked."

I made him another drink.

"Let's go outside," I gestured to the patio.

"Why do you call me Bella?"

He smiled,"You are Bella, beautiful."

He looked away.

"What is it Tony?"

He frowned, "My Bella, my wife used to call me Tony.

I am Antonio to the world now."

I tilted my head," Oh, I had the impression that you were never married."

Antonio held my hands, he had tears in his red eyes.

"I met an actress once, when I was working on the set of an Italian filmed movie. I was just an extra. She was the most beautiful creature. We became lovers, I was madly in love. Of course I was just 19 then."

I nodded and poured myself another shot.

"This creature, this beautiful actress, we made love every night. She was some sort of a siren. I was so blinded by her beauty."

" So you married her?"

" No Bella, it was all an act, smoke and mirrors. She was using me as, how do you say? Research? It was one of her best performances.

When the movie was done filming she vanished back to America. I never really saw her again."

I rubbed his arm.

" Who was your wife then?"

" Ah, that was my true Bella, she was a feisty one.

I was doing pretty much what I do now, drowning my sorrows in my cups....

I saw this young tourist looking woman come into the bar. She was radiant. She had long brown, no... sable hair.

She had on a white flowery sun dress.

She sat down and ordered a wine.

I looked at her, but knew I had no chance, she was way out of my league." He grinned.

" My future wife, she got up from the table and had left her purse. I grabbed it and followed her. She was fast.

I caught up to her at the orchards.

She turned and yelled at me, you know, "quit following me." I smiled and shrugged.

I put her purse over my shoulder and walked away. She saw her purse and ran after me."

I laughed.

" Her name was Maria Bella. She was the love of my life. I was her Tony, I married her the next year.

My work led me here to California. We made a life here. Until".....

Antonio drifted from the conversation.

I crossed my legs. "Did she leave you?"

" Yes, yes she left me."

I rubbed his arm. "Did she cheat on you or you on her?"

He sat up and put his hand to his poor heart. "I never cheated on her a day in my life. She died of the cancer, here." He touched my womb.

" Oh, cancer? I'm so sorry. So no children?"

He shook his head, "no, we were never so blessed."

I looked at this shell of a man.

He was just acting now. He played the part of a fun drunk. He was just playing the part, like the actress in his story.

"I want to hire you." I said, surprising him.

He raised his sexy brows.

"Gigolo?" He smiled.

"No! Well sort of. I want you to teach me how to get my husband back. Make me sexy."

He shook his head, "Might be too late, Bella. If a man shows you who he is, you really should believe him."

I got mad."And your Maria Bella, would you give up on her? Would she fight for you?"

He stood up and yelled," Never give up !"

I kissed him tenderly on his lips. Lovingly as a friend would.

I took his hand. "Come my Tony, we will win back Brandon together!"

I pulled him up and showed him to the attic.

He was looking around to see something special.

He saw a table and a lap top. There was a trunk in the corner.

I opened the trunk and pulled out a silky sheet.

Pinning it up as a back drop, I took out a faux animal fur rug and layed it in front of the back drop.

I pulled out the lingerie and the toys that I had purchased.

He smiled asking, "This is our sexy studio then?"

" I need help, I don't know what Brandon wants me to do. I have written a script, I want you to play the part of big daddy, her bad husband."

He read this script.

"Frigid, slut, ugly, cheater? I could never say these words to you my lovely Bella."

I nodded. "You can and will "

I turned around. "I want him to see what it's like to be me."

" I want him to see that if a man treats a woman this way, she will be destroyed by this." I'm destroyed by him...

He nodded then said quietly, "Slut, b***h!"

He shook his head and pulled me to him. "You are so beautiful, just like my Maria Bella. I saw her in you, your kindness, your determination. He doesn't really deserve one such as you."

He touched my soft hair.

I looked up at him."I always thought he was way out of my league. I just need to steal his purse. Maybe that's a metaphor for his heart, actually."

He laughed,"Hey, I didn't steal her purse!"

I found it very easy to be around this sad sad man. We needed eachother.