Sam's sheets are pale blue (this makes her giggle like a schoolgirl until she realizes that he is still fast asleep) and rough under her skin.

His mattress is too soft, enough to make her back ache and she can feel the springs in her back, the foam and fabric that are supposed to separate her from the coils is almost worn through from age (or way too much sex. She still wonders if she is the only woman he has had an affair with, he swears that she is but the very fact that he had an affair in the first place… just makes her wonder, that is all.)

He is uncomfortably close to her, the mattress dips in the middle and forces her to be close to him, he is sweaty and hot and his breath smells like garlic and wine, she can taste it too. It makes her want to gag.

Yet she still fells more comfortable (and happy) than she has in a long time, maybe it is because she is just like Lily and she needs a man to feel safe or maybe it is simply that she is tired of waking up alone.