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have it wrong. I fucked you, I didn’t make love to you,” I say and I’m sorry but I can’t think of a way to get her up. I see her face change. I see her warmth for me disappear behind her pretty face and turn cold and hard. Her eyes turn down ward and then they shut tight for a few moments, and before I can tighten my grip on her wrist, she pulls away from my arms.
    She jumps up and rushing gathers her clothes in her hands and asks, “Where’s the shower?” I point to the far end of the loft. She stays in the bathroom for fifteen minutes and then she returns fully dressed.
    “Are you going to eat something?”
    “No,” she says and she walks to the sofa and sits looking behind her away from me and gathers her purse in her hand. The incessant noise of her phone ringing and ringing disturbs her. She reaches in her purse and turns it off. I dress in my dark suit and stand in front of her holding out my hand. She doesn’t take it.
    “Why are you being so difficult Lilly? Don’t you see this can’t happen between us?”
    “But it has happened and nothing you say or do can undo this feeling I have for you and the one you are trying to deny for me. Remember I felt you. A woman knows when a man desires her and no amount of you saying that I have a husband, such as he is, will erase this feeling you have for me.”
    “You know your husband will want to know where you’ve been. It’s nine o’clock.”
    “Tell him we were shopping. It’s the truth isn’t it?” I glance at her. If you’re so big at telling the truth, then tell him you took his wife to bed because he didn’t want to. Tell him it was only going to be this one time. See if he believes you. You don’t even believe you.”
    “You promised me that it would be this once. Today. Not tomorrow, not ever again,” I say to her. My heart isn’t in this.
    “If that’s the way you want it, then let’s go.” She slings her purse over her shoulder. “You have made your decision. I can’t make you do or feel something that you don’t.”
    “You don’t understand, Lilly.”
    “I understand perfectly.”
    We walk to the car without Lilly talking to me. I try to get near her but she jerks away from me. We arrive at the mansion without Lilly saying another word to me.
    When we enter the front door, Randall is standing in the hall. Lilly passes him with me behind her. He watches at us and then he sees all the boxes in my hand. I carry them into the living room, he gives a satisfactory grin to me. He doesn’t question Lilly in front of me. She stands at the stairs after I drop the boxes under the staircase. She glances over at Randall and then to me, “I’m going to bed,” she announces, and then she saunters up to her room.
    I watch as Randall walks up the stairs behind Lilly, catching up with her, and stopping her by reaching for her arm before she enters her room. Then he glances down at me and kisses Lilly on her cheek. Was he doing this for my benefit? And if so why did he go out of his way to be affectionate to her in front of me.
    I walk through the kitchen and to my room outside in the guest cottage and lay in bed. I feel uneasy and get up and look up at Lilly’s window. I see her standing in the open window and staring down at me watching her. She’s wearing a see through gown and I get hard watching her and I try to get some sleep.
    I don’t know what to say or do about her. I hope this job is over soon so I can resume my once quiet life. No complications and no woman I care about to complicate it further. But who am I kidding, I don’t want to walk away from her and leave her to that man. I don’t want to face it that I’m captivated with her, and I can’t let her go.
    She’s married to Randall Seaborne, and I have no rights on her. There is no way Randall will let her go if she wants to leave him. Lilly is a big influence on his political future. I hear what he really wants is to run for United States senator. If this rumor is