She lay completely nude on the bed, unaware that I was watching her. Her eyes were closed and she looked so peaceful, so sweet. Her firm full breasts rose and fell softly with each breath. Her nipples were puffy but not erect. Her skin looked like the finest satin and my eyes were drawn down her taut stomach to the small patch of dark hair above her sex.
Her legs were together and her most intimate parts were withheld from me. Her thighs looked strong and toned even in their relaxed state and her calves curved sweetly down to her feminine feet with the toenails painted pink. Her arms were crossed above her head and her long blonde streaked hair was tousled around her.
I wanted so badly to touch her, to caress her soft skin, to kiss her cupid bow mouth, to have her ache for me as I did for her. I knew that she would no longer long to feel me inside of her, that soft secret smile that she reserved for only the most intimate moments would never again be turned towards me.
I once again felt the hard knot of pain well up within me and I turned away and shut her door softly. I walked back to the guest room which had become mine until I could move out. The apartment that I was going to be renting would be ready in a week. I didn't want to leave but I knew that I had to. I had committed the ultimate transgression, after 10 years of marriage I had taken another to my bed.
It had been the biggest mistake of my life and I still wasn't sure why I had done it. I loved my wife more than anything. I had been on a business trip that lasted for 3 weeks. It had been my job to get a new division up and running in a different state. I missed Karen and the kids and I went out and got drunk the beginning of the third week.
The hotel waitress had helped me to my room and had followed me in. It had been mechanical and the entire time I had pictured Karen. The waitress looked so much like she had when we had married. It was a drunken mistake, but one that I took full responsibility for. The moment I walked in the house when I returned home she had known. That night, before I confessed, she practically raped me, riding me long and hard and cumming with tears running down her face.
Afterward we lay together on the bed her back to me not touching as I recounted my crime. We both cried and she told me that I would have to leave, she could no longer be with me. I didn't fight I knew that if she let me stay it wouldn't be the same and it would be hell for her. We told our 3 kids that we loved them and still loved each other but I was going to live somewhere else. We worked hard to keep things semi normal for them. Day to day we had lived together for the last month without really being together.
I sighed and slid out of my clothes and under the sheets. Tomorrow was Saturday and I had to go furniture shopping. We were all going as a family and I dreaded it.
**
I knew that Jake had been watching me sleep, yet I wasn't really sleeping, as soon as he'd cracked open the door I had awoke. That's the way it was with us, we had a deep almost psychic connection.
That is why I had truly believed that we would always be together. The last month had been the hardest of my life. The man I loved more than anything had betrayed me, himself, and our children. I still yearned for him to fill the hole that had wormed it's way inside of me.
At night I dreamed of him and the way that it used to be but when I woke up I pictured him with the woman that had replaced me for a night. I knew in my heart that it had meant nothing to him but I also knew that I wasn't prepared to spend my life worried that this would happen again.
The last weeks had been hard but they had also provided me with some time to step back and really analyze our relationship. Jake had been the model husband every day except for that night. Even now when I knew his pain was phenomenal he stayed strong for me and the kids. I had done a lot of thinking and praying and was sure that the decision I had come to was the right one. Now I had to put my plan in motion.
I slid out of bed and looked at the clock, it was a little after 2am. Jake should be sound asleep by now it had been several hours since he had been looking at me. I slid on my silk robe and fluffed my hair. I applied a bit of perfume on my wrists and behind my ears and went into the attached bathroom and quickly brushed my teeth.
I looked at myself in the mirror, for some reason my heart was beating so fast. I liked what was reflected back at me though admittedly not as much as I once had.
I worked out daily and my body was sleek and toned. The years though had taken their toll in other ways. My breasts sagged and faint stretch marks had etched their way onto my stomach, thighs, and breasts from 3 pregnancies. Jake had always loved to trace them as we lay in bed and he had told me over and over that they were a sign of our love, of our family.
I turned out the light and padded quietly down the hallway to Jake's room. I could hear him snoring steadily and smiled to myself. I had missed him so much. I knew that no matter the transgression we would be able to work through it. He was my soul mate and I was his. I could not imagine being with anyone else. It hurt so much that he had been but it hurt worse thinking about us not being together.
I took a deep breath and pushed open the door.
**In my dream Karen slid into my bed pressing herself against me and laying her head on my chest. βI love you,β she whispered softly and kissed my neck. I could feel her tears burn hot against my skin. I inhaled her fragrance and reveled in having her with me.
Tears filled my own eyes as my arms surrounded her and pulled her tight to me. I slowly realized that I wasn't dreaming at all. My beautiful perfect wife, WAS laying against me crying softly.
βBaby, oh God don't cry,β I whispered brokenly tears spilling down my cheeks. I stroked her silken hair and held her trembling body as sobs broke forth from me as well.