5


The Plan


“I thought you were going out with Emily today?” I said to Jacqui as I walked into the kitchen one morning.

She was sitting on the bed with her phone in her hand. “I was but I’m cancelling it,” she said, then she put the phone to her ear.

The two sisters hadn’t spoken much after their big argument six months ago but just recently, Jacqui had offered Emily an olive branch; a spa day at a nearby hotel. Originally, Jacqui was going with one of her other friends but when they cancelled, she’d made the decision to try to patch things up with her elder sister. The day had gone well and they’d been out for coffee since then and today was going to be another girly day out for the two of them.

“Cancelling?” I whispered. “Why?”

Jacqui waved the question away as Emily answered the call.

“Hey Em,” she said in an unhappy voice. “I hate to tell you this, but I just had a call from work. They’re demanding I come in today. There’s some sort of emergency meeting going on and I need to be there. I’m really sorry. Is there someone else you can go with?”

I frowned at her while Emily replied. Jacqui’s phone was pressed against her ear so I had no idea what she was saying, even when I sat next to her.

“I know it’s really short notice but I can’t do anything. I feel terrible. I’ll make it up to you, I promise. We could meet for a coffee this weekend.”

Jacqui eventually hung up after several more apologies then turned towards me. “You’re going to think I’m evil when I tell you this, but I need to tell someone.”

“Evil?” I was confused. “What’s going on? Do you have an emergency meeting at work?”

“No,” Jacqui shook her head. “I’m not working today. I told you, I have the day off.”

“Right…” I shrugged. “So what’s so evil about whatever it is you’re doing?”

“Two weeks ago, while we were at the spa,” Jacqui shuffled, as though getting comfortable to tell me something important. “Emily mentioned about it being Paul’s birthday soon. She said she was stuck for something to get him, so I came up with the idea of a boudoir shoot.”

“A boudoir shoot?” I echoed Jacqui’s words. “Emily? I thought she was Miss Prim-and-Proper?”

“Exactly.” The corners of Jacqui’s mouth twitched upwards slightly. “I apologised for calling her that - and everything else that I’d said - but I suggested that a photo shoot like that might be something different for her and for Paul. I told her how you loved our pre-wedding boudoir shoot and that I was sure that Paul would love something like that too.”

“Okay,” I nodded slowly. “But I’m not seeing the ‘evil’ in this, so far.”

“She was interested, so then last week, after we’d had coffee, I took her to meet Eddie.”

“You went to see Eddie?” I said, suddenly sitting up straight and feeling a jolt of concern over my wife going to see the man whose dick she’d sucked, back before the wedding.

“Stop worrying,” Jacqui put her hand on my knee and squeezed it. “I didn’t suck his dick again or anything. I just introduced Emily to him and said that she was interested in maybe having a private shoot done for her husband as a surprise birthday present.”

“I surprised you even got her that far,” I said. “Carry on. So what happened? Was she interested?”

“Yes,” Jacqui smiled. “Eddie’s very persuasive, as you know. He put her at ease and I told her I’d go with her - because she’d be nervous - and he ended up selling her a package right there and then.”

“But you just cancelled.”

“Wait, there’s more,” Jacqui shuffled in her seat again. “This is the evil bit. Please don’t judge me.”

“Will you hurry up and tell me,” I said impatiently. “What have you done, Jacqui?”

“I called Eddie after we came back from the studio. And I spoke to Liu.”

“Liu?” I shook my head. “He hasn’t mentioned anything.”

“I told him not to because I knew you’d think this was a bad idea.”

“What bad idea?” I said, beginning to feel frustrated by this conversation and Jacqui’s weird behaviour. “Just spit it out.”

“You know Eddie does glamour photography, right?” Jacqui’s eyes were intent on mine. “You’ve seen the photos in the studio. He does full nudes. He does shoots with couples, female models and male models. He does hardcore shoots. He does it all.”

“I know.” We’d discovered this a while ago. Jacqui had been looking at his website and noticed that it said ‘erotic photography’ and out of curiosity, I’d asked Liu, who confessed that it was true, reminding me that I should have looked at the website ages ago. Eddie did all kinds of photography from innocent family portraits to the kind of erotica that you’d see in top-shelf magazines and on the internet.

“I asked Eddie if he’d try it on with Emily,” Jacqui’s hand was on my knee again, squeezing harder. “I told him I’d love it if he could get her to suck his dick or something like that. I pointed out that he owes me for nearly breaking us up - not strictly true, but anyway - I told him about my sister being Miss Prim-and-Proper and some of the nasty things that she’d said about me when we had that argument a while ago.”

“I thought you’d forgiven her?”

“I have,” Jacqui tilted her shoulders, “Just not completely. I told you, it’s a bit evil, what I’ve done. I’m just hoping she doesn’t cancel. I don’t think she will. I think she’ll go on her own. That’s the plan, at least. Paul’s birthday is next week. There’s no time to reschedule.”

“But if she’s Miss Prim-and-Proper, she’s not going to let Eddie talk her into doing anything, is she?” I shrugged. “Remember, this is Emily we’re talking about.”

“I don’t think she is that prim and proper,” Jacqui replied. “Not really. I think she’s just uptight. I honestly think that if she had the chance to do something with a sexy guy, in the right situation, maybe with some Champagne in her system, she’d be tempted.”

“So you’ve set her up to cheat on her husband,” I said slowly. “Her husband, Paul, who is a really nice guy and loves her to pieces. Have you thought about this, Jacqui? This isn’t right.”

“I might have set her up but it’s up to her if she does it or not,” Jacqui said, her eyes considering me coolly. “I’m not forcing her to do anything. The only times I’ve ever been… slutty… as she so kindly put it, is when I was in a certain situation and temptation got the better of me. I never went out of my way to sleep with anyone. I never went looking for one night stands. I didn’t go to Eddie’s studio with the intention of sucking his cock. That’s why I told you, Karl. I’m not a bad person. I just make bad decisions sometimes. I fuck up.”

“I know all that,” I replied. “You don’t have to prove it to me.”

“I’m not proving it to you,” Jacqui smiled. “I’m trying to prove that Emily is no better than me. The only difference between her and me is that I’ve been in those tempting situations more often than she has. So, to find out if my suspicions are right about her, I’ve put her in such a position that we can find out.”

“I don’t know about this,” I said, standing up and pacing around the room. “It doesn’t feel right. You said you spoke to Liu. Was he on board with this?”

“I also told him about the argument. I told him what Emily had said.; that she called me trash and a slut. He didn’t like that, so yes, he’s on board. He and Eddie are going to try and seduce my big sister. My morally perfect sister. The not-trash one.”

“Now I wish you hadn’t told me.” I looked out of the window and let out a big sigh. “I’m not one for keeping grudges, Jacqui. You know that.”

“I know, but this is between Emily and me.” Jacqui came over and wrapped her arms around my waist. I could feel the warmth of her against my back as she kissed me lightly on the neck. “There’s one more thing. Do you want to know?”

“I might as well, seeing as I already know too much already.” I turned around in her arms so that she was facing me.

“If all goes to plan - if she doesn’t cancel - then, if Eddie gets her to do something… something naughty - he’s going to record it.”

“Don’t tell me you’re going to blackmail your sister,” I said, moving to take her arms from around my back. “That’s going too far.”

“No! I said evil but I’m not that evil,” Jacqui squinted at me in disbelief. “He’s going to photograph it to prove it to me. Otherwise, he could just say something happened and I’d have to take his word for it. Plus, if I ever want to let my perfect big sister know that I know her little secret, she could just deny it. Whereas if I had a picture or two…”

“Jacqui, I really don’t know about this. It feels bad.”

“If gets pictures,” Jacqui planted a soft kiss on my lips, “I’ll let you see them.”

“What?”

She kissed me again. “Don’t pretend you don’t find Emily good-looking. I’ve seen you checking her out, Karl. Your eyes always betray you. They always go to her tits. Every single time she’s around, your eyes can’t help themselves.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Karl, quit with the innocent expression. It was Liu’s idea. He said you wouldn’t be happy with this. He said you’d be totally against it so I said, ‘What about if he got to see Emily’s pictures?’ and that made him think. He told me that you’ve confessed to him that you think she’s hot. He says you feel bad about fancying your wife’s sister but you do and if I’m honest, Karl, I’m fine with it. It’s cool. Whatever. I’ve never expected you to not look at another woman. You’re a human being. You’re a man, you’re going to look. Any woman who expects her husband to never look at another woman is a fool. No, as long as you don’t touch, it’s okay with me. Besides, you’re not Emily’s type.”

“And she’s Miss Prim-and-Proper, don’t forget,” I added, trying to take in all this new information while figuring out what this all meant for the future.

“Absolutely,” Jacqui agreed. “So all we do now, is wait and cross our fingers that Emily goes to the shoot alone and that Eddie manages to work his magic on her. Like he worked it with me.”

“I really thought you and Emily had patched things up,” I said, gazing into Jacqui’s eyes and trying to read her. “I didn’t think you were so devious as to come up with something like this.”

“We have patched things up,” my wife replied. “If anything, this might bring us closer. It might make her realise that I’m not some cheap trash after all; that she’s not better than me. I don’t know. Have I got it all wrong, Karl? Have I made a mistake? Another fuck up?”

The sudden change in her tone and expression pulled at my heart. I loved Jacqui. I loved her with every single fibre of my being. Her sister’s attack on her had hurt, I could see that now. I understood. She wanted to level the playing field with Emily. This was something she needed to do, even if it wasn’t the most morally correct way of doing it.

“I don’t know if it’s a mistake or not,” I answered simply. “I just know that I love you… and that I’m now slightly wary of your evil genius.”

“Good,” she grinned wickedly, pulling me towards the bed. “Let me show you some of my other evil skills.”

I wasn’t going to say no to that.

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