Steamy

Fernando sat up on the bed and took of his shirt. He placed it beside him on the bed and rested his head against the pillow again. He eyed the spot where his shirt was, the same spot where Lia used to sleep when Janet wasn't around. He wants nothing more than to have her in his arms, like it used to be. He still didn't understand why they had to deny themselves for a woman who left him at the altar.

Lia was really the only reason why he hadn't acted out to Janet because she was having all these ideas in her head about them getting back together. So much time had passed, did she really think he would wait? Was he supposed to?

If he had met and married some other woman, would he also have to pretend? Couldn't Janet see Lia as some other woman and not her daughter?

He couldn't sleep anymore because Lia wasn't in bed with him. Before, just knowing she was lying beside him gave him peace but now that she was downstairs in that guestroom with Janet, he was restless.

As he closed his eyes to force sleep the way he had been doing since Lia stopped sleeping in their room, a memory of one of their times together came to his mind.

"Favorite color?" Lia asked, holding her spoon up. They were planning a game of twenty questions with a twist. Lia would ask Fernando a question about herself and if he didn't get it, he'd take one spoon of ice cream and take off one item of clothing. So it was twenty questions strip poker style.

Fernando huffed and closed his eyes. "How am I supposed to know that?"

Lia glared at him, muttering under her breath. Was he really asking her how he was supposed to get it? Men!

"Uhm babe, we haven't talked about it before. But¯" - he added when she glared at him. "I'm going to try to guess. You won't be mad if I don't get it right, right?"

"Fernando, you are wasting time. Do you want to strip either way?"

Fernando shook his head and gulped. "Your favorite color, actually colors because you have more than one are, pink, blue, black and red."

He reached for the ice cream tube prepared to take a scoop but she stopped him. Frowning he looked up at her and his eyes grew wide when he saw that she was crying.

"Babe? Did I say or do something wrong?"

Lia shook her head and laughed, sniffing. "I should take a scoop and strip for doubting you." she leaned on him and reached for the tube.

Fernando pushed it away and held her up, looking into her eyes. "You were right to doubt me. I didnt know it, that was just a lucky guess."

She snorted and rolled her eyes. "Now you're just mocking me." She eyed him for a while an then he leaned down to peck her lips.

She blushed when he pulled away and sighed. She didn't want him to stop.

He winked at her and patted her thigh. "Don't worry, after the game."

"I will hold you to that."

And she did. He also didn't disappoint her either.

It was crazy to imagine how far they had come from being mere strangers. He opened his eyes and groaned, running his hands through his hair.

Guess tonight would be another sleepless night amongst many others so long as they kept pretending they weren't a couple.

He slid off the bed and walked to the bathroom, shutting the door behind him. Perhaps a cold shower would cool his body enough and get him to sleep, although he didn't believe it would.

Lia couldn't be replaced.

**

He walked out of the bathroom some minutes later and stopped in his tracks. Lia was sitting on their bed in nothing but the teddy that had changed the dynamics of their relationship. He sighed and rubbed his eyes. Was he missing her so much that he was even seeing her in their bed?

Why would she come to see him! Janet would suspect when she wakes up and can't find her on the bed. He sighed and walked towards their bed with a towel wrapped around his neck.

"Hey, you okay?" She asked and he gasped.

She was real and it wasn't his imagination playing tricks on him. He held a hand to his heart and sighed. He could cry but then that would scare and confuse her. She would think she had done something wrong.

"I am now." He hugged her closely to him, burying his nose in her neck and taking a long whiff of her shampoo.

Lia chuckled and hugged him back, closing her eyes. Janet was having her evening bath which would buy them some time. It was risky, completely and utterly stupid but she wasn't thinking rationally. She had missed Fernando so much and being apart from him was wreaking havoc on her senses.

She couldn't wait for the day when they could tell Janet everything and she could hold Fernando's hand without arousing suspicion. That minute when they told Janet everything, she would hug Fernando so tight until he couldn't breathe and even then she'd continue to hug him. All this sneaking around wasn't ideal for them.

"I was just thinking about you and I remembered one game we played with ice cream not so long ago. Why do we have to keep pretending? Don't you think your mother will be happy for you when you tell her we're madly in love?" Fernando asked, pulling away to stare at her face.

Lia bit her lip and shook her head as tears filled her eyes. Fernando was quick to wipe them off with a frown. She chuckled at his actions and kissed his hand. "I hate pretending as much as you do Fernando and it's killing me not being able to sleep beside you every night but you know why we're doing this."

"Actually I don't."

She glared at him. "She was in a coma and in a hospital for a long time. It's been hard for her. What if she goes into shock when we tell her? What if she faints and goes from there? You and I know very much she still loves you."

Fernando opened his mouth to protest but she grabbed his second hand and held them against her cheeks.

"Please, please do this for me. I really really wish things were different but they are the way they are now. I can't lose my mum again, Fernando, the first time was hard enough."

Fernando shook his head and pulled his hands out of her grip, running them through his hair instead.

"Please Fernando, please."

"Fine," he caved in, throwing his hands in the air. "But I swear I'm at my breaking point. I need you here with me, every night, every minute, every hour "

He trailed kisses on her neck as he said every word and she gasped, her body shaking. How long had it been since he made love to her?

She couldn't even remember the date. How crazy was that, they were married!

"I need you babe, everyday-kiss" "every hour-kiss"

Lia could feel herself melting away but she didn't dare pull away. She needed this, needed him. Janet would still be in the shower. At the thought of her mother, she pulled away and rose to her feet, searching for her nightgown.

"Is something wrong?" Fernando asked, also rising to his feet. There was a frown on his face and a look of confusion in his eyes.

"Janet must be done with her shower by now. What if she finds us here together and-" she trailed off and Fernando sent a prayer to heaven.

Please give me patience. How could his wife be thinking about her mother at a moment such as this? The mood was set so why was she dulling the mood?

"Babe, Janet is in your room downstairs. She won't suddenly think you're here just like that." Or she might. He didn't really care. He couldn't tell Lia that anyway.

"I know but what if she does?"

Then we'll give her a show. He thought but smiled and patted her shoulder with one hand as the other hand pulled her close. "We'll be done before she can get here babe. I promise."

Lia looked skeptical, biting her lips and her hand on her head. He peppered kisses down her throat and down to her cleavage. Lia moaned and threw her head back, scratching his back.

"We'll have to be quick and quiet so she doesn't hear us and so she doesn't catch us. Do you think you can manage that? I mean quiet?" He asked, smirking and she blushed.

They both knew Lia was a screamer and didn't know squat about being quiet. He loved that about her because it gave him pride that he was the one making her feel that way but in their current situation, she couldn't afford to be too loud.

"I will try." She whispered as he tore the teddy off her body and pulled her closer, turning her so her back was facing him. Lia sighed in pleasure as her ass connected with his dick. He was hard and big. Oh she had missed him.

"Alright." He guided his dick to the entrance and entered her without hesitation. Lia bit her lip, fighting back a scream at the sudden intrusion.

Fernando groaned as well and leaned down, burying his nose in her hair. "Be quiet baby, you can do it." He started thrusting, slow at first and then he picked up pace.

"Oh God." Lia moaned, closing her eyes and biting her lip. She didn't want to be quiet, Fernando was doing delicious things to her. But the thought of her mother finding them-

"I can feel your brain working on auto drive babe, just focus on me, on this." He increased his pace and she grunted as he hit her gspot.

Lia's eyes rolled to the baxk of her head and she moaned, scratching his back with her nails. Fernando winced in pain and moaned as he felt his release coming. He could feel her nearing hers as well.

"Fernando please." She begged, rubbing her ass against him. Fernando groaned and slapped her ass, the sound filling up the space between them.

"Come with me baby. That's it." He urged and she fell apart in his arms with a moan and a scream that he swallowed into his mouth when he leaned down to kiss her.

Lia rested against him after her release, her body limp and rubbery. Despite the tiredness, she felt energized in some way and whole.

"If you're not too tired, how about another round in the shower? Besides you can't go back to Janet smelling of sex."

He drove a hard bargain. She sighed and nodded. "Alright but if I hear the door opening, I'm zooming out of here."