ERICA The wait was excruciating with my skin buzzing and sight compromised. But I could hear the shower going on in the bathroom and more than that I heard the silence when the shower eventually stopped. And as I anticipated his return, the anticipation turned out to be something I wasn’t prepared for, the wait left me feeling adrift and lost. I didn’t know how much time passed but I knew one thing that with each waiting moment my desire for him increased and I was about to give up and call out his name but before I could I felt him. He was close, the fresh scent of him, just out of shower, enticed me and I unknowingly arched up on the bed. The soft exhale of his breath didn’t escape me as my hearing was sensitive with my eyes closed and I knew that he noticed the slight movement of

