Chapter 15: Building Tension
After Don and Felicia's made what was considered to be some the greatest love in a long while, they both fell asleep with Don's arms around her. Although she was comfortable in his embrace, she woke with Dave on her mind. She looked over at the clock and it read 2:07 A.M. She slowly crept out of bed, heading downstairs with her cell phone. Quietly, walking into one of the guest rooms, she called Dave.
Lying in bed and thinking about Felicia, Dave tried to turn his mind off and fall asleep. But it was no use. She had him. And whether she knew it or not, he had her. He grabbed his cell to check the time. While looking, it rang. He scanned the number and smiled.
"Hey you." Dave sexily said.
"Hey." Felicia responded sweetly.
"Were you sleeping?"
"No, I couldn't sleep. I had a beautiful woman in my head, keeping me from it.
"Really, did you?"
"Yes." Dave answered. "What are you doing up?"
"I was thinking about you."
"Is he home?"
"Yes."
"So why aren't you with him?" Dave asked. "As much as I hate to think about you with him."
"My thoughts weren't with him." Felicia paused. "They were on you."
Dave listened to her. He couldn't deny that he missed the hell out of her. It was all that he could do not to fly to New York and take her over and over. But he knew he couldn't do that. He turned his attention back to her.
"I miss you, Lisha."
"Dave."
"No, I mean it." Dave began. "I do miss you...more than you know."
"You know something." Felicia smiled. "I miss you too."
"I just wish that you were with me now."
"Me too."
They both sat in silence for a few seconds before Felicia broke it.
"I need to go." She said. "I just wanted to call."
"Okay."
"Well, goodnight."
"Goodnight."
She closed her phone and quietly crept back upstairs and back in bed with a still sleeping Don. She pulled the covers over her body as Don instinctively woke to feel his wife's slender, curvaceous body beside him. He wrapped his arms around her to pull her closer to him.
"I love you." Don whispered in Felicia's ear before kissing her shoulder.
Felicia heard what Don had just said to her. She could feel the air escape her lungs. She bit her lip while she felt the ducts of her eyes began to fill with water. Part of her wanted to break down and confess her sin to her husband. She never thought of all the things in the world, she would be having an affair. But this was not just any affair – this was with Dave. A man that she loved more than even Don at one time in her life. She wiped the tears from her eyes, brought his back of his hand up to her lips and kissed it. "I love you too."