The shrill bleating of the smoke detector woke me from a deliciously salacious dream. Of course, as my syrup-thick brain swam up through a deep sleep, I didn’t immediately realize the sound was a fire alarm, and not the enthusiastic cries of my REM lover.
My husband didn’t believed that my nocturnal ecstasy was purely unconscious and not a nightly replay of some day time tryst. He was convince he knew who my secret paramour was, and would lie awake at night in expectation of me uttering a name in my sleep.
I didn’t cuckold him. There was no flesh and blood affair, my romance was with a phantom. The same dream, the same man, every night for months. So intense, and so physical, I lingered as long as I could in bed. As I drifted off, I would hold his face in my mind, and feel his hands on my body.
If I had known the old man would pluck me from my second life with such heated malice, I would have set his bed on fire a long time ago.
Thin spiral notebook 
Wow! Powerful stuff, Tara. Thanks for linking up. Don’t forget to vote!
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This is great work.
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Excellent! Well done!
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Whoa! That ending was gasp inducing. Nice one!
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Ha! The last line is priceless. Thanks for sharing.
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Intriguing and well written, Tara! Loved that delicious last line :)))
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Yikes! He must have been areal suspicious type ey? I loved cuckold Such a great word.
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Well obviously, the mistake was in sharing to the point that the “old man” became jealous.
Nicely done, Tara. Well written with a great kick at the end.
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Love that last part. well done
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Spoilsport!!!
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