Behind Closed Doors

Limbs intertwined. Breaths intermingled. Their movements were hard, fast, slow, sensual, and erotically rhythmic. Sheets tangled around them, clinging, hindering. Impatient hands pushed away fabric to expose more skin.

She never heard the door open. He did, but didn't hesitate. Patiently, competently he brought her to her complete fulfillment, and her guttural moans were the voyeur's undoing.

"You're mine," he said.

"I'm yours," she said.

This time she heard the door slam shut.

Fifteen minutes later, after she closed the door on the news she'd dreaded hearing, Helen Plum began to iron.