When my cousins were here, I didn’t realize who they were, but I know exactly who this is. He’s just standing there, why? Eventually I lift my hea...d and we make eye contact. I smile half halfheartedly, but realizing he knows what happened, and that it wasn’t my fault, I’m sure he does. He doesn’t smile back but stares at me. I begin to feel self-conscious when he doesn’t acknowledge our friendship. At that moment a 10-second timer starts. Then he lifts his hands palms up in a what gives gesture.. She glanced at the time on the small alarm clock next to the couch. Midnight.She stirred, meaning to go to bed and realized the cat was missing. She sat up and threw the covers back, feeling a draft from her half open robe. She reached down to fix it."Leave it."Shaia jerked back, staring around the room to find the source of that voice.He stepped forward into the light and let her look her fill.And look she did. He was tall and golden, thick ink black hair falling needle straight to past his. “I don’t know about you baby, but I love what just happened. I don’t know if I can resist you after this.”He pulled her close and uttered, “Don’t try then. Let me call you again in a week to see if you’re free, because I have to do this again.” After that encounter, they met every week, for sex.Start hereAs he carried her to the bedroom she remembered the first time she saw him, half naked. It was the day he was helping her husband with the new garage. She was walking toward the men to offer. She lifted her chin defiantly at the form in front of her."My devoted…" the form's voice was a shrill whisper, a shout and a sigh all at once, it's arm reaching out to caress Paige's jawline."Take what's given…"Paige didn't know what the figure wanted from her, but Paige knew that she wanted to lay down and take what the figure would give to her. So she did, knowing to open her legs and pull them up to eagerly allow egress to her deepest reaches. The form came up and knelt, the shadow of a.