He had gotten off hours before she expected him, so he was pleasantly surprised to see her car in front of the house. He opened the front door expecting to see the glass doors leading to the backyard open and her working in her garden. Instead the doors were closed. Pausing in the doorway, he listened for the sounds of her doing laundry or cleaning, but the house was silent -- not even the kitchen radio was, as it was so many times, playing top radio hits to an empty room. He looked down the hall to find the bedroom door closed. He smiled contentedly.
She only closed the door when she went to bed. Instead of working in her garden or cleaning the house she had taken a mid-afternoon nap. Naps were a luxury that neither of them took very often. He found them deliciously decadent -- like he was getting away with something. The small amount of guilt was assuaged by the knowledge that taking a nap wouldn't actually get him in trouble with anyone. He had arrived from work, hoping to find her still home and was rewarded with the chance of taking a nap with her. He knew that the unusual heat would lull him quickly to sleep. Lightly touching her side or leg would give him pleasant, soothing dreams. He sighed to himself in perfect happiness as he carefully opened the bedroom door and silently entered.
Instead of the normal pile of blankets, she was covered only with the thin top sheet. The permeating heat even warming her perpetually chilled bones. She lay on her side and he looked at her as she rarely allowed him to look. Self-conscious and deprecating towards her own classic beauty she was too shy to allow him to just look at her. As he quietly undressed he watched her intently, drinking in her features. In sleep, she was relaxed and open. There was a delicate air of vulnerability and softness that she rarely showed while awake. It didn't make her more beautiful, but something inside of him wanted to protect and defend that mixture of innocence and shyness that was normally so absent.
After dropping the last of his clothes on the floor at the foot of bed, he crawled up on to the bed, trying to not disturb her sleep. When he was next to her she stirred and murmured -- the sheet slipping down over her shoulder to reveal that she wasn't wearing her normal bundle of bed wear. He couldn't help himself as he gently pushed the sheet further down her body, until her breasts were revealed to his suddenly hungry eyes. Her eyes fluttered open and she looked at him with an unfocused gaze.