"Say it again," Will pleaded, breathlessly. Karen rolled her head forward to look down at him. A smile played on her lips as she increased the speed of her thrusts on top of him. Her hands were entwined with his as he held her hips and guided their circular motion over his pelvis. She moved her hands, fingers still laced with his, up to rest on the pillow on either side of his face. She had him pinned and used this new position to get more leverage to the movements of where their bodies were joined.
"I love you," she whispered, her face inches from his. Will craned his neck up to kiss her deeply before rolling them over so that he was on top.
Two minutes later, and they were yelling out each other's names in a fit of pleasure and moans. Will didn't move from his position between Karen's legs as they laid still for a couple of minutes and caught their breath. He buried his face in her hair as Karen wrapped her arms up around his shoulder blades, holding him close and kissing the sweat from the crook of his neck.
"Is this a dream?" Will asked as he rolled off of her. She laced her fingers with his once again and turned to face him.
"I hope not."
With his free hand, Will reached over and pushed back a strand of sweaty hair off of Karen's face. His hand lingered on her cheek as he relished the feeling of her warm skin.
"Remember how we used to tell each other our secrets?" Will asked, sliding his hand down from her face to her waist to pull her closer to him. She snuggled into his arms.
"Yeah?"
"I don't want to keep any secrets from you," he told her. His voice was so honest that she could have cried. Stan never told her things like that, never thought about the fact that it was the little things like this that rounded out the feelings of attraction between two people.
"I don't want to keep anything from you either, Will," she told him. "You know, I think Stan has a lot of secrets."
"Like what?"
"I don't know, exactly…he just always seems so distant," Karen explained, drawing invisible hearts across Will's chest with her index finger. "We never do this- we never just enjoy each other's company and talk."
"Do you think he's still cheating on you?"
"Probably."
"I don't get it," Will said, "I thought you guys worked things out."
"If by 'worked things out' you mean agreed to pretend nothing had happened, then yes, we worked things out."
"Well no wonder you guys are still having problems," Will told her, looking down at her face on his chest. "You have to talk about these things to get them cleared up."
"Don't tell me that," Karen replied. "By the time we came back from the villa last year, Stan was so tired of - what did he say? 'Playing games' with me that all he wanted to do was have make up sex and promise it wouldn't happen again."
"And you were ok with that?"
"Well, then he started talking about trying for a baby again and…I don't know, I guess I was just glad to have things back the way they were."
Will leaned down and kissed her lips.
"But isn't this so much better?"
Karen smiled and rolled on top of him, kissing again.
"Mmmm it is," she purred.
Will shot a glance at the digital clock on the bedside table. It was 2:14 a.m. He wrapped his arms around Karen's waist and flipped them over so that he was now on top of her, staring down into her laughing eyes.
"I love you," he told her again, circling her nose with his. "Why would Stan ever want to leave someone as amazing as you?"
Karen scoffed and rolled her eyes. Will chuckled and leaned his face down to nibble her ear. Karen sighed and closed her eyes, surrendering to the moment.
As Will continued kissing and murmuring into the soft skin behind Karen's ear, she extended her arm to grab a new condom off of the nightstand. As she guided it into his hand, Will moved his lips down her jaw, her neck, her shoulder. She reached down and tangled her fingers in his hair, her breathing becoming heavier.
Without warning, Stan's face flashed through her mind. She wondered how much more time she would have like this with Will. She knew it wouldn't be much longer, so she decided to close her eyes and dive right in. She had never felt more alive than she did at this moment, and she was going to do all in her power to make it last.