âYouâve blinded me.â She took the little soap, greatly used, and made him turn around and rubbed it between the two muscular cheeks of his ass, like sheâd done to her daughter when she was a baby. He jumped and told her to stop, but she knew he loved it. Outside the shower, he wanted to comb her pubic hair so some of the hairs would be there in the morning. She couldnât believe it, but she let him. It tickled. He commented on the fact that she was a real redhead, causing her to take one of his nipples and twist it hard. âBecause you doubted me,â and because she just wanted to, had always wanted to do something like that. Afterward, he gave her the only clean towel and walked naked, dripping water onto the carpet, to the living room, where they now stood and talked.
He moved behind her and put his arms around her. âDo you want something to drink? I donât have any tequila, but I can find something else.â
Her head ached at the mere mention of tequila. âNo, thanks, I have to go, you know, and soon.â She had already decided that his wife no longer lived there. She wanted it to be true so badly that she couldnât ask. âI hate to do this to you, but you realize youâre going to have to drive me back to my car.â
âI donât mind, Lily,â he said, his voice reflecting the beginning of a letdown. âBut do we have to end it so soon? Canât we just stay here a minute and relish it?â He held her face in both of his hands. âThis was much more than just an office fuck and you know it.â
She sighed deeply. âI know.â
Lily picked her clothes up off the floor and put them back on. She turned away from him when she hooked her bra in the front and turned it around, shaking herbreasts into the cups. She put on her blouse first and then her panties. They were plain white comfortable panties, and she was ashamed they were not French-cut lace.
He was still looking out at the city as he spoke. âMy wife left me for someone else, Lily. While I was at work, she came with a moving van and moved most of the furniture out.â
âIâm sorry, Richard. Did you love her?â
âSure, I loved her. I lived with her for seventeen years. I donât even know where she is now. Sheâs here in the city somewhere, but she doesnât want me to know where. Our son is with her.â
âDo you know the man?â Lily asked, curious about the whole thing, wondering how she could want him so badly while someone who had lived with him for seventeen years no longer wanted him at all.
âItâs not a man, Lily. My wife left me for a woman.â
âHow is your son handling this?â
âGreg doesnât know and I would never tell him. He just thinks the woman is her roommate.â His face was bathed in shadows. He was facing Lily now, but he quickly turned back to the window. âI mean, I donât believe he knows.â
âYou might be surprised, Rich. Kids know a lot more than we think. He may know and have already accepted it. He is living with his mother, right?â
âHeâs a strange kid, off in his own world.â He glanced at Lily over his shoulder and saw that she was dressed and waiting. âGreg used to be an honor student and now heâs a surfer. Instead of studying, the kid surfs. Heâll be lucky to get into a junior college. I always dreamed heâd be an attorney, that maybe someday weâd have our own law practice. Dreams . . . things donât always turn out the way you planned them.â
She saw his need to talk but knew she had to go. âCan we talk in the car? I wish I could stay and we could talk more, but I am married. Itâs not a good marriage,â she paused, âobviously, or I wouldnât be here with you. It may end soon, for all I know, but I donât want it to end badly. Can you understand