When her eyes fluttered open, Derek was sitting next to her, wiping her forehead with a damp face cloth.
"What happened?"
"You fainted."
"I did?"
"You did."
"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to."
Derek leaned down and kissed Emma's wet forehead. "Hush. It was the most wonderful thing you could have done."
"How come the bed is all wet?"
"That's you, too, I'm afraid. That last orgasm was a wet one. You squirted again. A real gusher."
Emma was completely embarrassed and hid her face behind her hands, causing him to laugh as he pulled her hands away.
"Did I ruin your mattress?"
"It will dry out. That was one of the most sexy things I've ever experienced."
"It was?"
Derek now kissed her softly on her mouth. "Oh, yes. Women have told me I've sent them to the moon, but this is the first time I've made one swoon."
She yawned. "I feel like I could sleep for a week."
Two strong arms lifted her from the bed as if she weighed no more than a feather.
Derek carried her to his spare bedroom, shifted her weight to one arm, and opened the bed with the other, laying her gently down. The room was cool and dark.
"Sleep now."
"But I'm all sticky."
"We can shower later."
"What time is it?"
"There is no time right now."
Reality flooded back. Peter. Peter was going to call her around 6:00. What had she just done?
Emma struggled to sit up, but Derek's hands on her shoulders pushed her inexorably back.
His head came down, kissing her cheeks and around to one ear. "Emma, now is the time to sleep. What's done is done. We can figure out later where this is all going. Sleep now. Sleep," he kept whispering.
Derek's voice was almost hypnotic in its effect and she felt herself relaxing and drifting away.
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Emma could see from the light leaking in around the shades that it was still broad daylight. Disoriented at first, she realized she wasn't in her own bed waking up from a very nice dream. This was Derek's house and she'd just made love to him.
Her eyes flew open and her hand went to her mouth as the reality of what had taken place, hours? moments? before sank in. She had completely dishonored her marriage vows. Tears flowed down her face. Emma was indeed now a fallen woman.
Ten minutes later, she crawled out of bed, sticky all over, but especially between her legs where Derek's semen flowed down freely now that she was standing. Clapping one hand over her pubic area, she scurried for the bathroom she knew she'd find at the end of the hall. She didn't want to use the one in the master bedroom in case Derek was there.
No matter how much she scrubbed herself in the shower, Emma could not make herself feel clean. Her head throbbed and her body "down there" ached even though she knew Derek had been gentle. She felt between her legs, checking, and discovered that her vagina was open and loose. How could she ever hide this from Peter? He would
know
immediately upon entering her that she'd been with someone else. Where had her brain been this morning?
She began to cry again as the shower water flowed down over her, unheeded.
The shower door opened and Derek began to step in.
"Please leave me alone, Derek. I need to be alone."
He got quickly out. "Sure. Absolutely. I'll be downstairs."
Fifteen minutes later, she had collected her clothes from Derek's room, dressed and was walking down the stairs.
"I'm in the kitchen," he called out.
Emma found him at the kitchen table, drinking coffee and staring out at the back yard. He turned to look at her, his expression unreadable.
"Feeling better now?" he asked as he got to his feet.
"A bit."
"Want some coffee?"
"Sure," she answered sitting down.
He sat down again and pushed her mug across the table. Instinctively, he knew enough not to get any closer.
"Care to tell me what you're thinking?"
She shook her head.
"Care to let me try to guess?"
Emma's voice sounded wary when she answered, "Okay."
"Is it guilt? The fact that you've sinned with me against your husband? That you're worse than worthless now? Not fit company for decent human beings?"
She kept her eye's steadily downwards. "Something like that."
"Did you not enjoy what we just did? Was it not done freely and lovingly?"