The Night She Needed a Real Man

Adrián was sitting in the bedroom chair, his wrists tied behind his back and his body completely naked. They had talked about it so many times, in low voices, after making love, that it seemed impossible it was finally really happening. The rope didn’t bite too hard. It didn’t need to. He wasn’t planning to move from there even if he could.

Renata walked back and forth in front of him, barefoot on the rug. She was a short woman, with large breasts that contrasted with her height, and she had that habit of biting her lip when something made her nervous and aroused at the same time. That night she was biting her lip nonstop.

—Are you sure you want this? —she asked, stopping in front of him.

—I want it —Adrián replied, and he noticed his voice came out rougher than usual—. I want it more than anything.

It wasn’t entirely a lie. They had spent months circling the subject. It started as a stray comment one ordinary night, watching videos in bed, the kind where a husband watches and doesn’t touch. Adrián discovered that far from bothering him, it turned him on in a way he couldn’t explain. And Renata, who knew him better than anyone, discovered it before he did.

—I need to feel something different, just once —she had said days earlier, carefully, weighing every word—. It’s not because of you. It’s for me. And I want you to see it.

He had swallowed and nodded. That word, see, stuck in him.

***

Ivanna arrived after ten. She was Renata’s best friend from university, a woman of average height, with long dark hair falling down her back, and a way of moving that made any room revolve around her. She had a body many had wanted and very few had touched. Renata always joked that her friend was the kind of woman men fantasized about on the subway.

She came into the bedroom already out of her street clothes, wrapped only in a short silk robe that she let fall without ceremony. She looked at Adrián tied to the chair and smiled crookedly.

—So this is the famous spectator —she said, circling him slowly—. Poor thing. Staying still is going to be hard for you.

—It’s what we agreed —Renata murmured, and there was in her voice a mix of shyness and desire Adrián had never heard before.

—Relax —Ivanna said, caressing her friend’s cheek—. I’ll make sure you enjoy yourself. And he can learn to watch.

Renata undressed slowly, as if Ivanna’s presence made her more aware of every gesture. Then she got onto the bed on all fours, right in the center, facing the chair where her husband sat. She wanted him to see everything. That was the condition.

Ivanna adjusted a harness with a dildo and knelt behind her. Before starting, she spread her legs for a moment, deliberately, showing Adrián what was between them. Pure provocation, for no reason other than to remind him that this wasn’t for him either.

—Do you like what you see? —she asked, without waiting for an answer.

Adrián didn’t answer. The words wouldn’t come. His heart was pounding in his throat, and a mixture of shame and arousal had him frozen.

***

—Do it already, please —Renata begged, pushing her hips back—. I can’t take it anymore.

—Look at you, so impatient —Ivanna said, giving her ass a soft smack—. Now you’re going to feel something real.

She started at the tip, calmly, sliding in little by little. Renata was so aroused there was barely any resistance. She let out a long moan, burying her face in the pillow for a second before lifting it again so her husband could see her expression. Ivanna held her by the hips and began to move, first slowly, then with a firm, steady rhythm.

—Don’t stop —Renata gasped—. God, I’ve never felt this full.

The words lit Ivanna up, and she sped up without taking her eyes off Adrián from the corner of her eye. Every time she did, he felt heat rising up his chest. His body betrayed him without mercy, reacting to the two women’s little laughs, to the complicity between them, to how utterly alien he was to all of it.

—I don’t know how you put up with it for so long —Ivanna told her friend, panting too—. You kept this hidden and nobody gave it to you.

Renata’s moans filled the room. A sheen of sweat covered her back, and Ivanna’s hair stuck to her forehead as she drove in again and again. Adrián, tied up, could do nothing but breathe deeply and endure.

***

The bedroom door opened exactly when they had planned. Tomás walked in without saying a word, also naked, just as the four of them had agreed in advance. He was Ivanna’s husband, a man with a well-built body and calm manners, one of those who don’t need to raise their voice to fill a room.

Renata turned her head at the sound of footsteps and was left breathless for a moment. Tomás approached her from the front, unhurried, and stopped at the level of her face.

No words were needed. She understood what was expected and accepted it without hesitation. Tomás closed his eyes for an instant and let out a low sound of pleasure while he held her head with one hand. Adrián watched the scene from his chair, caught between humiliation and a desire he had never felt with such force.

—She’s so good at it —Tomás said with a half smile, stepping away for a moment—. Let me take care of her for a while.

—All yours —Ivanna replied, withdrawing and unfastening the harness.

They changed positions with a naturalness that left Adrián even more out of the game. Ivanna lay back on the bed and Renata buried her face between her legs, while Tomás positioned himself behind her.

When he thrust into her hard, Renata’s eyes flew wide and she went still for a few seconds, every muscle tense. A shiver ran from her feet to the nape of her neck, and an orgasm shook her before he even moved. She took a deep breath two or three times, recovering, then lowered her head again to keep going with her friend while Tomás set the pace.

***

Adrián watched everything in disbelief. The fantasy they had whispered so many nights in the dark was now unfolding in front of him, real and shameless. His wife was coming like he had never seen her come, and he, tied to a chair, was little more than a witness. He felt his groin about to explode without anyone even having touched him. The mere image of Renata surrendering like that had him at the limit.

—I’m going to come —Tomás announced, increasing the speed.

—Me too! —Renata shouted, just an instant before burying her mouth against Ivanna again.

All four came almost at once. The bodies tensed, trembling for eternal seconds, and the room filled with a chorus of gasps and half-spoken names. Renata felt Tomás empty himself inside her. Ivanna arched under her friend’s tongue until she was voiceless. And Adrián, without putting anything anywhere, without anyone touching him, finished alone, defeated and happy, staining his legs with an orgasm that blurred his vision.

For a long while no one spoke. Only the ragged breathing of the four of them and the distant hum of the air conditioner could be heard.

***

Later, when they caught their breath, the four of them went out to the small pool in the garden. The water was cold and laughter broke the night’s silence. Renata, Ivanna, and Tomás were kissing and splashing one another, lighthearted, as if none of what had come before had carried any weight.

Adrián was the last to get in and the last to get out. When he did, the icy water left him shivering, and the two women didn’t miss the chance to laugh at him once more, one on each side, reminding him with their eyes of the role he had played that night. He wasn’t offended. On the contrary. Humiliation had a flavor he would never have dared confess out loud.

Renata finally came over, slipped an arm around his shoulders, and gave him a slow kiss on the temple.

—Thank you —she whispered in his ear—. You have no idea what this meant to me.

—I do —he replied, and for once his voice didn’t shake—. I saw everything.

Before going in to get dressed for dinner, someone suggested a photo. The four of them stood together, wet and smiling, with Adrián in the center, embraced by his wife. He looked at the camera and smiled for real.

At last, after imagining it for so long, the fantasy had come true. And it turned out to be exactly what he had always wanted without daring to ask for it.