Chapter 5

Rea's eyes fluttered open the next morning as the sun flowed through the French doors in the bedroom. Slowly a smile crept on her face as she remembered what had happened many times the night before, Rae rolled onto her back and turned her head slightly hoping to catch Dave sleeping beside her only to find herself alone in the bed. Her smile quickly turned into a frown as she slowly she sat up and leaned her head back against the headboard closing her eyes.

I should have known he wouldn't be here when I woke up. It's not like he has to be, I was just a good time last night it's not like I'm his wife or anything. Well it was good while it lasted, maybe the memories of last night will help me when I need some personal time with my vibrator. No wonder Mel is so happy when he's home they probably never sleep.

Rae's thought were interrupted by a pair of lips touching her shoulder, lifting her head she looked at Dave with a half smile.

"You thought I left didn't you?" Rae nodded her head in response as Dave placed his hand on her side. "I'm not that kind of guy Rae you should know that I don't just leave the next morning. Besides I couldn't leave I have no clue where it is we are going next." Rae let out a little laugh. "You okay about last night?"

"Yeah, I know that it was just a one night thing but I'm glad that it happened. The sexual tension that was building between us was getting to be too much and now maybe we can just move on and get past all that." Rae sat up straight and pulled the covers tight against her.

"You can't possibly mean that Rae." Dave moved his hands to the top of the sheet and began to lightly pull at the satin material. "What happened last night was so much more then just a one night stand. There was so much passion between us, I really care about you Rae and I know that you care about me too last night made me more aware of how I really feel about you. I don't know about you but I can't just walk away from what happened between us." Dave placed a kiss to her lips.

"Dave what happened last night can not happen again. You're married there can not be any feelings between us." Rae pulled the sheet tighter against her as she began to get up from the bed; Dave grabbed her by the waist and pulled her back down on the bed trapping her against the Bed and his body.

"You say that now but you were not saying that last night you kept begging me not to stop." Dave kissed her again this time opening her mouth with his tongue and pulling the sheet down. "Give in Rae you know you want to. You can't resist this and neither can I." Dave spoke soft as he broke the kiss and looked in her eyes. "Please Rae." Rae turned her head slightly to the side and looked at the clock sitting on the night stand then lightly pushed against Dave and stood from the bed.

"We have to be out of here in two and half hours and I need a shower." Rae walked toward the bathroom and stopped in the door way letting the sheet fall to the floor she looked back at Dave who was still laying on the bed. "Are you going to join me?" Dave smiled at her and rid himself of his shorts then followed her into the shower.

Nearly three hours Dave and Rae were sitting in the rental car and headed to the next town. Dave began the trip driving and Rae sat flipping through her collection of CD's looking for something good to listen too. Dave looked over at Rae for a second then turned his attention back to the road, wondering how it is that he has known this woman for so many years yet he barely knew anything about her another then that her grandparents took care of her since she was a little kid and that they were killed in a car wreck the year after she began working for him. He had a feeling that she hiding something since every time someone brought up her past she would change the subject and it was killing him not knowing what it was. Dave reached over and turned the radio off and took the book of CD's from her lap and laid it on the floor at her feet.

"I really don't want to listen to the radio or a CD." Dave answered her confused look.

"Then what do you want to do?" Rae leaned back in her seat and looked over at him.

"I want to talk or rather listen to you tell me about you. I've known you for years yet I have no clue where you come from, where you used to live, what you used to do, if you got good grades in school, I don't even know you parents names. I want to know all of that stuff."

"Why do you want to know about my past? What's so special about it?"

"Because it's what made you, you."

"Dave there's really not much to tell." Rae looked out the window and watched the scenery pass by.

Dave reached over and took her hand in his giving it a little squeeze. "Please talk to me Rae. I want to know all there is to know about you."

Rae looked over at him and seen that he was sincere in what he said he really did want to know all about her life. Slowly taking a breathe Rae placed her hand on top of his and looked back out the window.

"I was born in the worst part of Las Vegas there is. My mother, if you want to call her that, is Lane Beldel and I have no clue as to who my father is he could be one of many men that she slept with. You see Lane was a hooker, she didn't necessarily stand on the street corner like most do but she did pay her rent by sleeping with the landlord and whoever else he wanted her to sleep with." Rae paused and looked at Dave then out the windshield to the road. "Things weren't always bad and I never hated my mother for sleeping with those guys to keep a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back. She loved me and did what she needed to do keep me healthy and safe. Then she met Jason when I turned eight and that's when things started to go downhill. She stayed out late and passed out on the floor every morning, she quit caring about me and could have cared less if I lived or died. Jason got her hooked on every drug out there and when she didn't have the money to pay for them she did whatever she had to, to get them, I went to bed scared every night that one of the guys down the hall would come to my room for a payment. I could hear her every night screaming for the guys to stop, I never knew what they were doing to her exactly, I just stayed in my room and hid under my bed."

Dave couldn't believe what he was hearing this sweet, caring woman sitting beside him had a horrible life.

"I pretty much stayed to myself after a while and that's how Lane and Jason liked it, I fixed my own food and got up for school on my own and cleaned the house but I could only do that when no one was in the house the people that hung out there freaked me out. No matter what happened I always made sure to keep my grades up so I could go to collage and get the hell out of that place and away from them people. When I turned ten things started to get better Jason was locked up for selling drugs to undercover police and Lane started to realize what she had been doing and began to clean herself up. She got a job at a super market and saved money and bought us a house out of the bad neighborhood, soon after that she met this guy Anton he owned a bank lived in this huge house. A few months after they began dating he moved Lane and I in with him and he helped Lane get back into school and told her to quit her job and stay at home. He was great, bought us whatever we wanted. I think I got something new every day when he came home from work he cared about me and took over the role of father." Rae closed her eyes and took a shaky breath. "For my twelfth birthday he had this big party planed and a sleep over for some of my best friends which were kids of people that worked for him at the bank or lived around the neighborhood. My mom went to school that night after the party and my friends and I were in the living room watching movies when Anton was great he made jokes and ordered us late night pizza all my friends loved him." Rae smiled at the memory of the only man she knew as a father.

"Couple days after that mom my left for school and didn't come home afterwards, the next morning Anton called the police and filed a missing persons report, he took a week off from work and I stayed home with him and we sat and waited by the phone for any news on her. She came staggering in the house she looked sick, her hair was ratty and her clothes were nasty and she looked like she wanted had a bath the whole time she was gone. I took one look at her and knew that she was high and she had been for a while. Anton sent me to bed and I heard him and her yelling at each other then the police showed up to take her to jail for internal possession. Anton came upstairs and woke me up told me what was going on and asked me if I wanted to tell her goodbye since she was my mom. When I got downstairs she slapped me and she said she wished that I had never been born because I screwed up everything good that ever happened to her. I stayed with Anton and finished school, when I was old enough he gave me a job at the bank but no one there liked me really because I was just given the job, so I quit and told him that I wanted to get a job on my own. The only job that I could get was a stripper. Anton was less then thrilled about that and my grandparents were about as thrilled as he was, but it gave me money for an apartment and food and paid all my bills plus extra money to save back for college. Now that was fun, I went to school during the day and then worked during the night. I always wanted to be a doctor so went to school for that and just put my past and everything bad that had happened behind me. I got good grades, made great money and had the best of friends. Plus my grandparents and Anton were there and helped me when I needed it."

"So what happened after that? Why didn't you finish collage?" Dave asked as he pulled into the parking lot of a local diner.

"I fell for one of my professors, a married professor although I didn't know that when we started sleeping together, his wife showed up at my apartment one night and said that I should just get the thought of him out of my head because he loved her and there was no way that he would leave her for one of his students. I told that I didn't know that he was married and I that I would drop his class and stay away from him if she wanted. Appently that wasn't enough for her because she found out from one of the guy students that went to the club that I worked at that I was a stripper she had that spread around that campus and then she told the dean of students about my affair. I wasn't kicked out or anything since I already dropped the class, but every one found out about the whole stripping thing and my life was once again a living nightmare. So I quit school and my job and moved and got the job of taking care of you making my life even worse." Rae laughed at the last part.

"Are you saying that I have made your life worse?" Dave asked as they got out of the car.

"Sometimes you can be the worst person to work for, yelling at me because you don't have cold water in your locker room or because the hotel beds aren't soft enough. I swear some days I think I'm working for Hitler himself." Dave laughed and grabbed her by the waist pulling her against him placing a soft kiss on her lips. "However working for you does have it perks some days." Dave gave a little laugh taking her hand in his and they walked into the diner.

After being seated in a booth towards the back they ordered their drinks and started to look over the menu they were given.

"So this isn't the first time that you had an affair with a married man?" Dave asked as he sat his menu down.

"When it started I didn't know that he was married."

"So how did it start?"

"I was having trouble in that class so I stayed after one day for him to help me on term paper that was due the next day, one thing led to another and before I knew it I was meeting him every Friday night for dinner and a little something afterward. I never really thought anything about it, he didn't wear a wedding ring and I would meet him at his house and stay the night so I had no reason to think he was cheating." Rae picked up her drink and took a sip.

"How long were you two together?" Dave asked as the waitress sat his drink down then walked away.

"Four months. But this is different then before because I know that you're married and that this is just a one time thing. I could stand to go through all of that again and I don't want to put Mel through that, that's why this can't go any further then today."

"I understand Rae and after today we can act like nothing happened between us. I hope that what has happened doesn't make you think any less of me, I love Mel with all my heart I just needed to…"

"Get me out of your system." Rae finished for him.

"Exactly. I still want you to come over and hang out like you do and I promise not to make any more moves on you I will behave myself."

"Good. Now that all of that has been settled can we get some food I'm starving over here?" Just then the waitress walked back by and they ordered their food and sat back talking about what was coming up in the next couple days for Dave, all the while Dave kept thinking in the back of his mind about the events that had taken place the night before. He couldn't help but think of how right it felt to touch Rae's skin, to have her calling his name, and how right it felt to have her lay in his arms after the love making snuggled up against him and with her hair sprawled out on his chest and arm. It's been a long time since Dave felt this way about a woman, he told Rae that he loved his wife but he was really starting to think that he was falling out of love with her and in love with Rae. He wasn't sure that he could keep the promise that he had just made to her a few minutes ago, he defiantly wasn't going to be able to keep that promise if they shared a hotel room.