I woke up the next morning a few minutes before Alice. I quietly called in to work and told them I would be a few hours late getting into the office. Alice woke up not long after I hung up. She looked over at me and smiled. I smiled back.
"I called in to work," I said. "I'm going in a bit late today."
She smiled again.
"You want some breakfast," she asked.
"Sure."
"Let me go freshen up," she said.
She climbed out of the bed and slipped into a robe.
"You know," I said, watching her, "I already saw every inch of your body. There's no need to cover up."
She smiled back at me and let the robe fall to the floor, and walked to the bathroom naked.
***
After breakfast, I went into the office, but my concentration was not there. I could think of only two things: Alice and how bad things would be if Todd ever found out.
I knew Alice wanted to see me again. We'd already made plans to get together Wednesday night. I had a feeling getting through Tuesday was going to be difficult when she was constantly on my mind. I had told her I felt I should at least wine and dine her, but she said there would be plenty of time for that in the future. Right now, she wanted simply to get laid as much as possible while her husband was out of town.
"Why not Tuesday night, then, instead of waiting until Wednesday," I had asked her over breakfast.
"Because," she had said. "I have a book club meeting, and if it ever comes out to Todd that my schedule was out of the ordinary, he might get suspicious."