We continue emailing and flirting. I find out she’s been getting abused by her husband and is filing for a divorce. She knows I’m engaged,... but not totally happy.The new semester starts up, we’re still emailing and I’ve started going in to her office a little here and there. I’m bringing her coffee. Within a couple weeks, I’m going in every Tuesday and Thursday to see her, bringing her coffee. She’s looking forward to seeing me each week and I with her.. "Where is your wife? Is she home?" Not married anymore," Ken said with a half-smile. "We got divorced four years ago." "I'm sorry I shouldn't have asked." Betty said blushing slighly."She didn't want much,she just up and left." Ken put the first burger onto Betty's plate. "Ladies first." He said with a bow. "I don't thnk about her these days, she wanted out and so she is out." After a brief pause he asked Betty how long she had been married to Dave."Five years and three months," she said as she. We both climbed in and were totally relaxed enjoying our wine with no conversation. We relaxed about half an hour, got out and as we were drying Diane asked if she could spend the night? I told her, sure. We climbed into bed and her warm naked body snuggled up to me and we fell asleep.The morning arrived and I woke before Diane and I was just looking at her beautiful chestnut brown hair while she slept. I can't tell you how long I was looking at her but she finally opened her eyes, looked at. Though the world was becoming more accepting with respect to ‘alternative’ sexual practices and ‘alternative’ relationship dynamics, we both felt that our colleagues might still harbour suspicions as to the true nature of an ‘open’ relationship. Would they truly understand that neither Aubrey nor I looked upon additional sexual partners as posing a threat to our own love and affection, or would they see it merely as an excuse for me to sleep around, and to indulge some strange perversion by.