She lay in bed and listened to his muted tones, and then she heard the receiver being softly replaced. She half expected him to take his car and leave, but he didn’t. Anna must have rejected his offer to come and spend some time with her. Instead, Em listened to the sounds of him going to bed, in the room right beside hers. The sensation was so strange it seemed surreal. Jonas Lunn, sleeping in her house! She’d have to get used to it, she told herself. She might have three months of it. Whew! And then came the thought, slipping in when least expected. Maybe she could have an affair! The thought was like lightning, forking at her out of the darkness. It had been Lori’s suggestion. Lighten up and have an affair? She let the thought drift through her tired mind. Let her sexless, overworked life become, for these short few months, just a little more exciting? Could she do it? She wasn’t an affair sort of girl. And Jonas wasn’t an affair kind of guy, she told herself crossly into the dark.
