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Sandy’s marriage has been suffering from a lack of passion. At first she attributes this to a new deal her husband is working on at his place of work. However, at a company party she finds out that he has a new voluptuous assistant and it’s soon clear to her that the long hours haven’t been completely due to the business.
However, instead of giving up she vows to remind him why he married her in the first place, and to prove that youth is no substitute for experience.
Written by Odette Haynes
Published by AmorBooks
Sandy was sitting at the dinner table staring down at the plate of steaming food. She rested her cheek against one hand while the other was holding the fork, idly playing with the peas on the plate. As the metallic edges caught against the enamel of the plates it made an uncomfortable scraping noise, one which sent an unnerving chill surging down her spine. Candles were flickering in the middle of the table and in the dim light she glanced over to the clock that was hanging on the side of the wall. Moment by moment the seconds ticked by in an increasingly depressing manner. She sighed, and then looked at the empty seat on the opposite side of the table.
‘I’ll give him five more minutes,’ she thought, but they ticked by too and there was no sign of her husband. She checked her cell phone one more…
