Chapter Twenty-Six
Awakened at Midnight Once More
Finally, at long last, there came an occasion when Brad woke beside his sweetly betraying wife in the middle of the night and yet somehow it was not to the insistent, rhythmic pounding of another man’s lovemaking that the poor husband had been half expecting as a matter of course. He blinked confused in the darkness for a moment, still haunted by the swirling scraps of the crazy erotic dreams which could not help but be engendered in his vulnerable, sleeping mind by the evocative feel of the mattress creaking beneath him, by the sighs and murmurs of illicit pleasure so close beside him, by the salty-sweet musk of his wife’s hairy, overexcited womanhood filling his dilated nostrils.
At first he did not even realize precisely what had awak
